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MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2011 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE 141www.dukechronicle.com

Blue Devils fall in ACC final, Sw 1

Survivor discusses Hiroshima bombing, Page 3

onTherecord“Storytellers, no matter their medium, whether it be words or images, work to tell a captivating truth of what happened”

—Senior Maya Robinson in “Made you look.” See column page 8

Duke falls in ACC tourney final9 duke 11umdFaculty split

over planned China campus by Lauren Carroll and Anna Koelsch

THE CHRONICLE

As administrators release more details about Duke’s China campus, some faculty members have expressed concern that they have not been consulted about the project.

Several professors said they feel they have been deliberately left out of the planning process for Duke Kunshan Uni-versity to prevent criticism of the project. Those professors have begun to voice their concerns, however, drawing scru-tiny to DKU as Duke prepares to submit its proposal for the academic institution to the Chinese Ministry of Education in early May.

Academic Council Chair Craig Hen-riquez said faculty interest is increasing with awareness of details about DKU, but he added that he thinks the concerns stem from a general distrust of decisions made without faculty input. Some professors have also questioned the cost of DKU, par-ticularly in light of budget cuts to programs in Durham.

“What we’re beginning to see is more faculty at large weighing in on Duke in China as the pieces start to come together,” said Henriquez, a professor of biomedical engineering.

‘Second guessing’ DukeHenriquez said a letter to The Chroni-

cle that was highly critical of Duke’s China plans caused a stir among faculty and led to more discussion of DKU.

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

It’s tough to score when you don’t have the ball. The Blue Devils learned that les-son the hard way Sunday.

Duke struggled to gain possession and was forced to play too much defense, re-sulting in an 11-9 loss to Maryland in Sun-day afternoon’s ACC Championship at Koskinen Stadium. The loss is Duke’s first

to an ACC team this year.In the first period, the offense was effi-

cient with the ball, making it seem as if the Blue Devils would cruise to victory. Senior attacker Zach Howell put two early goals away, the second of which was assisted by Jordan Wolf—they lead Duke in those re-spective categories.

Junior Robert Rotanz, who has come on strong toward the end of the season,

added two early goals, and David Lawson put one in to leave the Blue Devils with a commanding 5-2 lead, resembling the of-fensive onslaught they unleashed on Vir-ginia on Friday.

“[In the first period] we had some possessions on offense, we were pretty ef-fective in six-on-six offense and we got a

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Professors raise concerns that faculty members have been deliberately excluded from the planning process on the Kunshan proposal, set to be submitted in May.

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Tombstones in the Blue Zoneby Julia LoveTHE CHRONICLE

Back when the quickest way to get to Duke was by horse and buggy, Miriam Wilson Jacks liked to sleep in a feather bed at the edge of her family cemetery.

The TJ Rigsbee Family grave Yard is now embedded in the Blue Zone, but Jacks’ kin continue to look after the tombstones she loved.

Her daughter, Rosalynde Jacks Robertson, has her finger on the pulse of the nineteenth century. She uses a table that predates the Civil War, fashioned from a fallen walnut tree in the Duke Forest. She has a walnut cradle that has been in her family since 1882, a cozy nook in which she and all her siblings slept as babies.

“If your mother had special dishes or a special piece of jewelry, if it meant something to them and you love them it’s going to have a special place for you too,” said Robertson, 57.

Robertson, who resides in southern Virginia, says this ex-plains why she and several of her relatives devote time and money to tending to the final resting place of ancestors who DaviD chou/the chronicle

The TJ Rigsbee Family Grave Yard, located in the Blue Zone, serves as a re-minder of the family who had owned land that would become West Campus.

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After a poor performance from the faceoff X, Duke fell to Maryland in the ACC championship final in Koskinen Stadium by a score of 11-9.

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the indiscriminate shelling of the stra-tegic port city over the weekend, some of the heaviest since the siege began in late February, killed at least 40 people, rebels said, belying the libyan government’s claim that its army was standing aside to let local tribes settle the issue of Misrata.

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WaShinGton, D.c. — president barack obama said proposals in congress to cut investments in clean energy technology would hurt efforts to stem rising gaso-line prices, which climbed to a 33-month high april 21.

in his weekly radio and internet ad-dress, obama said while “there’s no silver bullet that can bring down gas prices right away” increasing u.S. oil production, investing in clean, renewable energy, and ending $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies each year will help curtail rising gas prices.

“that’s $4 billion of your money going to these companies when they’re mak-ing record profits and you’re paying near record prices at the pump,” he said. “it has to stop.”

obama said that he disagrees with a republican proposal in congress to re-duce clean energy investments.

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“head lacrosse coach John Danowski won acc coach of the year honors yester-day, after leading his young team to the acc regular season title and a 3-0 record. instead of basking in his glory, or even acknowledging the prestige of the award, though, Danowski said: ‘We don’t pay attention to any of that stuff. they gotta pick somebody, so pick the guy that’s 3-0.’”

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Hosokawa gives unique perspective on Hiroshima

by Shane Daly THE CHRONICLE

Duke students had the rare opportunity Friday to learn about the present nuclear situation in Japan as well as Japan’s nuclear history from a primary source: a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.

The presentation, titled “Exploring Ja-pan’s Nuclear past and Future: Surviving the Atomic Bomb,” was sponsored by the Duke East Asia Nexus. The event was held in the Von Canon rooms and featured Hi-roshima survivor Koji Hosokawa, among other professors and speakers, who dis-cussed the infamous nuclear attack and Japan’s current nuclear situation as well as the dangers of nuclear technology.

Simon partner, an associate professor of

history, opened the event with a short talk to provide historical context for the rest of the program. partner discussed Japan’s his-tory and relationship with the United States and questioned Japan’s ability to improve nuclear safety in the future. David Richard-son, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill, also spoke at the event about the effects of radiation in both Hiroshima and Fukushima, home of the damaged nuclear reactor currently leaking radiation.

Hosokawa joined the discussion from Hiroshima via Skype along with Steven Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima peace Culture Foundation, an organization

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BAgHDAD — A makeshift bomb detonated near a church and a firefight broke out in front of another here Easter Sunday, further raising safety concerns for Iraq’s besieged Christian community, although it remained unclear whether worshipers or police were the primary targets.

Iraqi police said the bomb was set to explode when a police pickup truck pulled away from Sacred Heart church, which it did after all parishioners had

been cleared from the area following Eas-ter Mass.

In a second attack not far away, four Iraqi police officers were wounded in a firefight with gunmen outside Mary the Virgin Catholic Church as congregants huddled inside.

“Thank god no one was hurt. Every member made it out safely,” said a church member. The man, who said that Mass was underway when the gunfire erupted, spoke on the condition of anonymity for

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Professors and speakers explore Japan’s nuclear past and future. Joining the event via Skype is Steven Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, and Koji Hosokawa, a Hiroshima survivor.

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Defensive DUI-ingfounded by the Hiroshima city government to promote peace initiatives and educate others. Hosokawa communicated with the help of a translator.

The 83-year-old survivor said that at the time of the bombing, he was about 1.3 kilometers from its hypocenter, but his younger sister was only 700 meters away. Hosokawa, then 17 years old, survived the bombing because he was working inside a large concrete building installing commu-nication lines to prepare for an expected U.S. invasion. His sister, however, was work-ing outside with schoolmates.

“I had just got started working on the fourth floor, when I suddenly saw that blinding flash of light, and I was thrown off my feet and crashed into the wall,” he said. “I temporarily lost my hearing so I didn’t even hear the explosion, and I was cut by fragments of the window pane that came flying towards me and suffered quite a shock from the blow of being thrown.”

Hosokawa said his sister crawled to safety across a railroad bridge and was picked up by military patrol. The nurse who treated her at the hospital later wrote a letter to the Hosokawa family informing them of what had transpired.

The event also featured multimedia from Hosokawa’s young adulthood, includ-ing photographs of his sister juxtaposed alongside images of her school uniform burned and torn by the bomb and other pictures of her school in ruins.

In an attempt to forget what had hap-pened, Hosokawa said he refused to speak out about his experiences until 2000. It was at this time he decided the education of others was more important.

“The thing is the average age of us sur-vivors is over 78—we know that we’re not

going to be here much longer and we feel a responsibility to universalize our expe-riences and hand them down,” he said. “I feel like I was given life in order to tell these stories and convey this message, and this is why I started talking.”

Leeper and Hosokawa spoke as part of HpCF’s A-bomb exhibitions program. The project began in 2007 with 101 exhibi-tions in the United States and aims to raise awareness about nuclear issues. The exhi-bitions later transitioned to video confer-ences, which decreased cost, allowing for greater exposure and decreasing the stress on survivors.

“We are not trying to get an apology or reparations or any of those kinds of things. We are absolutely not trying to talk about if [the bombing] was just justified or not jus-tified,” Leeper said. “We are only doing this as a warning about the future, to say that this problem is not solved. It could jump from our past into our present at any min-ute, and we need to do something about it, and we need to take action now.”

The event also featured a short anime film called “pica Don” that depicted the bombing and a discussion led by artist Elin O’Hara Slavick, distinguished term profes-sor of art at UNC.

DEAN president paul Horak, a sopho-more, said he was excited about the pro-gram and its turnout.

“It was proof that there are people in the Duke community who care about nuclear weapons and the future of nuclear energy,” Horak said.

Attendee Sharif Labban a freshman, said he was impressed by the opportunity to interact with a survivor of such a monu-mental historical event.

“It’s so easy to become desensitized to things like that,” Labban said. “I felt like this was a rare opportunity to understand what happened in a more truthful way.”

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died long before they were born.“It’s a sacred place,” she said. “It’s just

something that the family wants to main-tain. It’s a labor of love.”

Her ancestors’ graves are surround-ed by a three-foot tall stone wall and a sea of parked cars. In the second lot of the Blue Zone, there are about a dozen tombstones dating back to at least 1861. per tradition, the dead were buried with their feet pointing East so they would rise facing the sun, said Jean Anderson, au-thor of the book “Durham County,” who surveyed the graveyard in the 1970s.

Students churn past the cemetery constantly, but few stop to discern what lurks beyond the low wall. Even in 1956, Dukies were bewildered by it. A Chron-icle article from Dec. 18 speaks of “the mystery surrounding the graveyard on the field East of the stadium.”

Even when students stream out of the parking lot, they are still on Rigsbee land. The Rigsbees, a prominent Durham family dating back to 1830, sold several hundred acres of forest and farm land in 1925 to the Duke family for $1,000, pav-ing the way for West Campus.

Family legend holds that James “Buck” Duke once sat on the low stone wall and described his plans to build a university to Thomas J. Rigsbee Jr., before he be-came the last person laid to rest in the graveyard in 1924.

Shortly after his death, the Rigsbees’ stately mansion, one of Durham’s first, was torn down. The place where they had fed their pigs was cleared to make room for Wallace Wade Stadium. But, per the terms of a contract inked nearly a century ago, the graveyard remains untouched.

“The Rigsbee family shall have the

right of ingress, egress and regress over such part of said land as may be reason-ably necessary for burying their dead and for maintaining, repairing and oth-erwise providing for the up-keep of said burying ground,” the deed reads.

Although it has fallen victim to van-dals and tailgaters, the cemetery has fared better than most of its kind. Be-fore Durham became a city, it was cus-tomary for families to bury their dead on their own land, Anderson said. Yet the cemeteries were often ploughed when families lost ownership of their “home places,” a typical southern phrase used to describe a homestead, making the TJ Rigsbee Family grave Yard something of a relic.

The responsibility for caring for the graveyard has fallen to descendants in-cluding Robertson and Jackie Smith, an octogenarian who lives in Durham. Smith’s brother and husband pull weeds and mow the lawn. Robertson tends to the tombstones with a brush, clearing away soft green moss so the inscriptions remain legible.

Swinging open the low wrought-iron gate to enter the graveyard, a passerby can start to sketch the Rigsbees’ family tree, though the job is daunting. Some of those in the ground bore eight to 10 children.

The grave of Thomas J. Rigsbee Jr., is marked by a tall, ornate stone engraved with daisies and the phrase, “Although he sleeps, his memory doth live.” He rests in the shade of his father, whose unadorned tombstone lies some six feet back.

His first wife, Nancy, was buried at his side beneath a small, flat stone. The inscription tallies her time: 31 years, 6 months, 15 days. Her husband remarried twice after she died during childbirth.

Her grave is flanked by a small gar-

den of jagged rocks that mark the burial places of children who died in the late 1870s at two, three and eight years old: Joseph, John and Virginia, respectively. Although their graves are unmarked, Robertson knows where they rest be-cause the information was faithfully re-corded in the family bible by her great-great-grandmother.

But the children account for only a fraction of the rough stones at the cem-etery’s edge. After one of the last skir-mishes of the Civil War, legend has it that the Rigsbees found the bodies of three Confederate soldiers in the woods with no papers to offer clues as to who they were. The Rigsbees supposedly bur-ied the soldiers in freshly washed uni-forms with preachers of all denomina-tions standing by.

A Rigsbee descendant later explained that what they had done “wasn’t any-thing special. They just hoped someone would do the same for their folks,” Doris Tilley, chairman of the Durham County Old Cemeteries Committee, wrote in a letter to the University archivist.

Smith enjoys the story, but she noted there is no way to be sure. For all she knows, those buried there could have been soldiers, slaves or even her own kin.

“There are rumors, but I do not actually know. I’m sorry I never asked,” she said.

Robertson and Smith grew up visit-ing the cemetery. Their cousin, 68-year-old Betty Reiter, learned to drive in the open fields that once surrounded the graveyard. They lost the grassy knoll bit by bit with the slow expansion of the ath-letics complex. By the late 1980s, parked cars ringed the cemetery.

“I was dismayed to see the parking lot go up,” Smith said. “It was a beautiful hillside. But that’s progress I guess.”

Even amid the asphalt, Smith feels at

peace walking in the cemetery, the last of her ancestral home place. Her father used to play all day in the woods that once bordered the cemetery.

Their second cousin, Louis Hazel, 68, grew up without any knowledge of the cemetery—his father, a Rigsbee descen-dant, was never much of talker, Hazel explained.

Always a fervent Duke fan, Hazel ap-plied to Duke twice and was rejected both times. Trying to trace his family tree decades later, he discovered that matriculating at Duke would have been akin to coming home. His great grand-parents rest in the parking lot.

When he visited the grave of his great grandfather for the first time two years ago, “it was informational but not emo-tional,” he said. His ancestors had been in the ground for so long.

For Robertson, the experience is something more. She does not know as much about the cemetery as she would like to, but she uses her imagination to fill the gaps in her knowledge.

“I walk around in there and I try to imagine what their life was like and what they would think of things now,” Robert-son said. “It’s sort of one of those mysti-cal kind of things.”

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In the letter, Thomas pfau, professor of german and Eads Family professor of English, compared Duke’s global ventures to those of a “multinational corporation peddling an increasingly amorphous and empty com-modity.” Additionally, he accused the administration of neglecting academic programs in Durham and actively avoiding faculty input.

pfau said he has heard from many other faculty mem-bers who share his concerns that the administration is excluding them from major discussions about DKU. He acknowledged that administrators have discussed some of the project’s plans with the Academic Council’s executive committee. But he said too few faculty members—partic-ularly those from Arts and Sciences who have expertise in Chinese culture and politics—have been present in these discussions.

“Whoever is not on board tends to be systematically cut out,” he said.

Herbert Kitschelt, professor of political science, said he has not been given enough information to form an opin-ion on DKU.

Kitschelt, who is not a member of the Academic Council, said he would like to see more people “second guessing” the administration. But because some Trin-ity professors do not see tangible benefits in involving themselves in discussions about DKU, they may avoid them, he said

“Watchdogs would be good for everyone,” Kitschelt said. “But will everyone incur the cost? [They will] spend hours and hours debating—that’s essentially time taken away from our core competence and core duties [of re-search and teaching].”

‘Faculty champions’Henriquez said it is important for faculty to step for-

ward and learn more about plans for DKU. He hopes there will soon be “faculty champions” of DKU who are well in-formed and enthusiastic about the venture.

“You want someone who can tell you that this is the most exciting thing Duke is doing for x, y and z rea-sons,” Henriquez said. “There’s always a tendency for faculty to buy into what faculty say, not the administra-tion.”

In an email to council members Tuesday, Henriquez outlined faculty input to this point. He said early dis-cussions about DKU involved very few faculty members, but the eight-member Executive Committee of the Aca-demic Council has since been an active participant in discussions involving potential academic programs. Ad-ditionally, administrators have visited the council sev-eral times to provide updates on DKU. He noted that many aspects, such as financial risk, remain uncertain, and he encouraged faculty members to stay informed

and ask questions.If the Chinese Ministry of Education approves plans for

DKU, Academic Council will be charged with approving all academic programs to be offered there.

In an interview, Henriquez noted that administra-tors have done little to inform Arts and Sciences pro-fessors of the roles they will play when DKU opens in Fall 2012.

In fact, Arts and Sciences programs will not be of-fered in the early stages of DKU, Alvin Crumbliss, in-terim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, wrote in a Thursday email.

Faculty support DkuHenriquez said faculty members in the Fuqua School

of Business and the Duke global Health Institute are more supportive of the venture because they know their disci-plines will have a place on the new campus.

Mary Frances Luce, Fuqua associate dean for fac-ulty affairs, said some faculty members raised con-cerns about the distribution of information, par-ticularly in DKU’s early stages in 2009. Since then, however, many have participated in committees that are developing degree programs and conducting market research, she said.

“The faculty who are involved are because they want to support what [provost peter] Lange and [president Rich-ard] Brodhead and Duke as a whole need,” Luce said.

Luce added that some faculty members were initial-ly worried about DKU’s financial prospects until cen-tral administrators assumed responsibility for financial oversight.

paul Zipkin, R. J. Reynolds professor in business admin-istration at Fuqua, said individual schools should identify their responsibilities. He said many of the decisions being made by top administrators do not require faculty input because they affect Duke as a whole. When discussions have arisen that concern Fuqua in particular, such as plans for degree programs, Zipkin said professors have been able to participate.

“It’s not just Fuqua—it’s Duke that’s going to be over there,” Zipkin said. “[The administration] made deci-sions without discussing with the Fuqua faculty. Well, they don’t have to. It’s not the obligation of the presi-dent to discuss with [us].”

more discussion to comeHenriquez said he has seen the most enthusiasm for

DKU from faculty members at DgHI because they have a good sense of what they will be doing in Kunshan.

Dr. Michael Merson, director of DgHI, wrote in an email Thursday that DgHI faculty have actively participat-ed in planning and approving strategies for the new cam-pus, and a number have even visited Kunshan.

“China is a country in transition and is thus an ideal place to conduct research on health disparities and to en-

able our faculty to make contributions to improving the health of the local population,” he said.

Henriquez said he hopes professors will take advantage of upcoming opportunities to become involved in discus-sions about DKU as the project moves forward.

“A lot of faculty just haven’t paid attention to the dis-cussion [until recently],” Henriquez said. “The more fac-ulty who can weigh in and talk about this and understand where the difficult issues are, the better for the project in the long run.”

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fered shrapnel wounds from the bomb outside Sacred Heart church in Baghdad’s relatively upscale Karrada neighborhood. But a cameraman for Reuters reported seeing three injured officers and four injured civilians at a Baghdad hospital. Four Iraqi police officers suf-fered gunshot wounds in the firefight.

Late Sunday, a police spokesman said an explo-sion near an Iraqi army checkpoint in northern Baghdad wounded seven, though witnesses said there were fatalities.

The violence occurred despite a stifling security presence in the Iraqi capital Sunday, following a string of recent attacks against Iraqi police, army officers and government workers.

There were also mixed reports about whether Iraqi security forces suffered additional casualties Sunday. Iraqi government sources said as many as 10 police of-ficers were killed across the country, but the Ministry of Interior’s Baghdad office reported no deaths.

The blast sent another shock wave through Bagh-dad’s Christian community. In October, 51 members of another Catholic congregation and seven Iraqi security officers were killed when gunmen stormed Our Lady of Salvation Church during a Mass and later detonated suicide vests as police closed in.

Saturday night, Iraq’s state-run television broadcast Mass, allowing many Christians in the capital to wor-ship from home rather than venture out in public.

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by Tom GierynTHE CHRONICLE

CARY, N.C. — In a way, the doubles point seems like a lot of effort for not much payoff. Six players play three

doubles matches, and from that, a team can earn a grand total of one point.

But even though that lone doubles point counts toward the final score only as much one sin-gles match, it can be significantly

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Despite high hopes, the top-seeded Blue Devils saw their ACC title run come

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Duke is currently having its best outdoor season ever.The Blue Devils closed out what director of track field

Norm Ogilvie called the “best meet the program’s ever had” this past weekend, as both the women’s and men’s teams surpassed their previous point totals in the ACC Championships to finish fourth and fifth, respectively.

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The Blue Devils continued their red-hot spring with a respectable finish at the ACC tournament, placing second overall in the team stroke-play event.

Coming off tournament wins in two of its past three tournaments, Duke trav-eled to the Old North State Club feeling good about its chances. The team’s con-fidence and depth paid off, propelling the Blue Devils to second place. georgia Tech won in a landslide, though, shoot-ing 33-under in the tournament, beating the Blue Devils by 20 strokes.

“We did all right—we finished second,” head coach Jamie green said. “But georgia Tech took care of business.”

Julian Suri led Duke with a total score of 209, including two rounds of 69. Suri’s play earned him a T-3 finish in the tournament, two strokes better than Brinson Paolini (211), who finished fifth overall.

On day one, freshman Yaroslav Merku-lov shined, shooting a 69 with a flawless scorecard of 15 pars and three birdies in the midst of heavy rainfall. This round,

in addition to Suri’s one-under 71, paced Duke to second place overall, a position the team would maintain for the remain-der of the weekend.

The team turned to different players on day two for low scores. The Blue Dev-ils were paced by Tim gornik (68) and Paolini (69), in addition to another un-der-par round by Suri (69), making the Blue Devils the only team with three play-ers recording scores in the 60’s.

Suri came into the weekend as the fifth-seeded starter for the Blue Devils, showing the overall depth that Duke has utilized all year long. According to green, with so many consistent players, the Blue Devils are poised for a postseason run.

“The good thing about the lineup is that if we need to make a change, we have someone who can shoot under par any given day,” green said. “Because of the depth and quality of players, it’s about making sure they’re comfortable and [that we] do our homework for any course we play in the future.”

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transition opportunity to go and attack their defense,” Howell said. “We were hitting some shots and that gives you rhythm when you get the ball on offense. We lost that rhythm in the second half because we didn’t see the ball much.”

Even in that first quarter, Duke did not have possession as much as it would like, largely stemming from its inability to collect faceoffs. The team was 1-for-8 on in the first period and 6-for-24 on for the entire game.

“Simply, I think… it was a matter of the face-off game,” head coach John Danowski said. “You know when you win 25% of the face-offs, I thought we played defense pretty well over long stretches, but too much defense.”

That early success proved to be unsustainable due to a lack of pos-session. The Blue Devils seemingly never had the ball in the second period and were outscored 4-1 in that time. grant Catalino, voted the tournament’s most valuable player, led the charge with two goals in the first half for Maryland.

Their dominance in possession continued into the third period when Maryland secured its first lead of the game at 7-6. Although Duke showed signs of life and retook the lead at 8-7, the Terrapins responded with two

goals from which they never looked back. Although Catalino notched a hat trick, the Maryland attack was diverse.

Eight different players found the net for the Terrapins, including senior de-fenseman Brett Schmidt who scored on a fast-break for his first goal of the year on a play assisted by goalie Niko Amato.

“Even though the defense was playing a lot of defense, the offense needs to score more goals than them to win, and we obviously didn’t do that as a team today,” Howell said.

The loss snaps a 17-game home winning streak for Duke that dates back to March of last year.

Even with the loss, it was easy for the Blue Devils to draw positives from their performance. The team was two-for-two on extra-man op-portunities, an area in which they have been inconsistent this season. And even though Duke struggled to initially gain possessions due to poor faceoff play, the team took care of the ball when it had it with only seven turnovers.

“I was really proud of our guys,” Danowski said. “I’m very proud of our guys for fighting and playing as hard as they played for as long as they played. I think this game will serve us really well down the line. I think we’re going to grow and be a better team as a result of today.”

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CARY, N.C. — Amid the rain Friday night, Duke’s offense slipped up.

The Blue Devils scored a season-low eight goals and fell to North Carolina, 17-8, ending their hopes of taking home the ACC conference title.

“We’re disappointed in our perfor-mance,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Unfortunately, this was not a great night

for us to have the kind of game that we played.”

Emma Hamm scored back-to-

back goals in the first two minutes, giving the Blue Devils an early 2-0 lead. The Tar Heels responded emphatically, however, go-ing on an 8-1 run over the next 17 minutes to take control of the game. North Carolina didn’t appear to show any lingering effects from its game the night before, as the team consistently outhustled a fresh Duke squad that didn’t have to play Thursday.

“[North Carolina] did a really great job of playing fast and moving the ball,” Kimel said. “Our defense had a really tough time adjusting to their pace of the game.”

The Tar Heel attack was aided by a couple of badly placed Duke turnovers. Two failed attempts by the Blue Devils to clear the ball resulted in North Carolina steals, which the team converted into easy goals. During the decisive run, the Tar Heels proved lethal at finishing their scoring opportunities.

“We felt like they were capitalizing on our mistakes,” Hamm said. “If we weren’t finishing on our end, they were turning around and finishing their goals off.”

Senior Christie Kaestner managed to tally two consecutive goals to cut the Tar

Heel lead to three with two minutes re-maining in the first half and appeared to give the Blue Devils the momentum head-ing into the break. In the closing moments, however, North Carolina’s Corey Donohoe streaked into the crease unguarded. After receiving a pass from Kara Cannizzaro, Donohoe rifled one past goalie Mollie Mackler to give the Tar Heels both a 10-6 advantage and the momentum.

“Defensively, I felt like we were off,” Kimel said. “We wanted to refocus our game plan and shore up our composure and team defense, which I felt like we struggled with all night.”

North Carolina came out of the break firing, en route to a 5-1 run that effective-ly ended any hopes of a Duke comeback. Becky Lynch and Laura Zimmerman netted four goals, while Donohoe added three for the Tar Heels, who earned re-venge for last week’s 11-10 loss to Duke.

“They were more prepared this time,” Kimel said. “We were trying to limit Corey Donohoe and her touches, and I felt they were ready for it. That threw them off the first time and took them out of their rhythm, but they did a better job of staying in a flow in their offense this time.”

Hamm led Duke with three goals, while Kaestner and Kat Thomas each added two in what was arguably the Blue Devils’ worst offensive performance of the season. Duke came into the game averaging over 15 goals per game, but scored a season-low on 8-of-24 shooting.

“That’s not very typical of us,” Kimel said. “We did not do a great job of capi-talizing on our opportunities at all. We can’t shoot 30 percent in an ACC semifi-nal game and expect to come out on the winning end.”

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despite the loss, duke’s future shined brightly against maryland. freshmen robert rotanz [left] and Jordan wolf [rigHt] scored two goals and led the team in assists, respectively.

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goals from which they never looked back. Although Catalino notched a hat trick, the Maryland attack was diverse.

Eight different players found the net for the Terrapins, including senior de-fenseman Brett Schmidt who scored on a fast-break for his first goal of the year on a play assisted by goalie Niko Amato.

“Even though the defense was playing a lot of defense, the offense needs to score more goals than them to win, and we obviously didn’t do that as a team today,” Howell said.

The loss snaps a 17-game home winning streak for Duke that dates back to March of last year.

Even with the loss, it was easy for the Blue Devils to draw positives from their performance. The team was two-for-two on extra-man op-portunities, an area in which they have been inconsistent this season. And even though Duke struggled to initially gain possessions due to poor faceoff play, the team took care of the ball when it had it with only seven turnovers.

“I was really proud of our guys,” Danowski said. “I’m very proud of our guys for fighting and playing as hard as they played for as long as they played. I think this game will serve us really well down the line. I think we’re going to grow and be a better team as a result of today.”

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In lacrosse, domination of the faceoff circle can give one team a nearly insur-mountable advantage by virtue of nearly continuous possession. Maryland did just

that against Duke Sun-day in the ACC Champi-onship.

Although the Blue Devils were effective on both offense and de-

fense, they could not stop the Terrapins’ Curtis Holmes from dominating the fa-ceoff X. Holmes helped Maryland control 18 of the game’s 24 faceoffs, and Maryland dominated time of possession while keep-ing the ball out of Duke’s sticks. That was particularly frustrating for the Blue Devils, given that they outplayed the Terrapins in many other aspects of the game.

Sophomore goaltender Dan Wigrizer outperformed his counterpart Niko Ama-to, tallying 11 saves to Amato’s nine. After looking lost for most of the first half in Friday night’s win over Virginia, Wigriz-er made several excellent saves to keep Duke within reach of Maryland and was ultimately named to the All-ACC tourna-ment team as a result. The Blue Devils had their chances on offense, too—when they had the ball. That just didn’t happen very much.

“When you win 18 of 24 faceoffs, you have a chance to win any game,” Mary-land head coach John Tillman said. “[Holmes] is a warrior.”

In the first quarter, Duke was able to over-come Holmes’s faceoff dominance by forcing five Maryland turnovers, allowing the Blue Devil offense to score five goals in the first 13:30. But Duke scored only four more goals for the rest of the game, and only one in the following 20 minutes. The Terrapins went on a 5-1 run to take the lead and completely change the complexion of the game.

“That gives you rhythm when you get the ball a lot on offense,” said senior cap-tain Zach Howell, who was also named to the All-ACC tournament team after lead-ing Duke with three goals against Mary-land. “We inevitably lost that rhythm in the second half on offense because we didn’t see the ball much.”

Likewise, the defense struggled to maintain its normal aggressive pressure when forced to guard for such extended periods of time.

“I think if the roles are reversed and we won 75 percent of the faceoffs.... I like our chances if we had the ball that much,” head coach John Danowski said. “They had long possessions—they had two-minute possessions. With those long possessions and wearing you down, it’s hard to focus [on defense].”


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It was another quality start for O’grady as he allowed only two runs and struck out five in his 5.2 innings of work.

“Up and down the lineup they have guys that can hit for power, and when

they get on base they can run,” O’grady said. “I just tried to go out there and throw strikes, mix up four pitches the best I could. I walked a cou-ple people early in the game, but I settled down.”

Even though Bebout was lights-out for the remainder of the game, striking out four and only allowing one Seminole to reach base, gilmartin was completely dominant for eight innings. The junior gave up three hits and one run while striking out 13 Blue Devils.

“I think he’s the best pitcher we’ve seen in the league,” head coach Sean McNally said. “He was really in complete control.... It was a good lesson for our young hitters. We’ve got to find a way to put the ball in play more and put some pressure on their defense.”

Saturday brought more of the same. Duke was unable to generate any offense, but Florida State (31-10, 14-7) brought their bats and clobbered the Blue Devils 10-3.

Starter Marcus Stroman struggled a bit with control. Despite striking out nine batters, Stroman allowed six runs in his five innings on the mound.

Out of the bullpen, Ben grisz and Mark Lumpa didn’t fare any better against Florida State’s potent lineup. grisz allowed two runs during his inning of relief, and Lumpa also gave up two runs, although one was unearned.

In the final game of the series, Duke lost 13-9, but the Blue Devils came out aggressive and jumped out to an early 8-4 lead after just two innings. In the first inning, Chris Marconcini belted an RBI double and Will Piwnica-Worms hit a groundball that scored another run.

While Florida State scored four in the bottom of the first, Duke responded with six more in the top of the second. Jordan Betts and O’grady both hit a double, and the Blue Devils tallied six hits in the inning.

“Early in the game we tried to be really aggressive, swinging early in the count,” O’grady said. “They were throwing us fastballs early... and we put some good swings on it, hit some doubles, drove some guys in with two outs.”

Meanwhile, Robert Huber got off to a shaky start by giving up four runs in the first, but only allowed one more run in his five innings pitched. When he exited the game, the Blue Devils held a three-run lead.

Then Duke fell apart. Florida State picked up a run in the sixth, and then exploded for six runs off Bebout in the seventh. Florida State won thanks to the comeback.

“I think we lost a little bit of our ag-gressiveness,” O’grady said. “In the late innings we started walking guys, made a couple of errors, threw the ball to the wrong bases—mistakes that we can’t make if we want to win.”

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The Blue Devils placed third in the 11th Annual ACC Rowing Champion-ships, held this past weekend on Lake Hartwell in Clemson, S.C.

Duke participated in all four races, coming in third in three of the compe-titions. In the Blue Devils’ best result, the Novice Eight finished in second place in an 11.5-second loss to No. 5 Virginia. The boat did, however, finish 2.6 seconds ahead of No. 14 Clemson, considered the second-best team in the conference.

Two Blue Devils also collected all-ACC honors with their performances—senior Alex Japhet and junior Emily Theys, both members of Duke’s varsity eight. The honor marks Japhet’s third time on the all-ACC squad.

Virginia swept all four races. The Cava-liers were only closely contested in the First Varsity Eight, which they won by a narrow 1.2-second margin. They remain the rowing powerhouse of the conference, having won 11 of the past 12 ACC championships.

Duke’s performance in the ACC Championship this year does imply an upward trajectory for the program. With the program only six seasons old, a third-place finish marks a significant improve-ment over past years.

Duke has two races remaining—it will travel to Ithaca, N.Y. Saturday to compete against Bucknell and Iowa.

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It was a rough weekend at No. 10 Florida State as Duke was swept 3-0 in the conference series. Despite several strong pitching performances, the Blue Dev-ils were overmatched by the Seminoles’ pitching staff and timely hitting.

Duke (20-23, 4-17 in the ACC) lost 2-1 Friday night in a pitcher’s duel. Blue Devils Dennis O’grady and Chase Bebout were superb on the mound against Florida State’s No. 1 starter, Sean gilmartin.


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For much of doubles, the three courts were about as evenly matched as possible. On court two, David Holland and Chris Mengel stayed on serve in a hotly contested match that reached a 6-6 tie. Cavaliers Jarmere Jenkins and Julen Uriguen managed a late break, though, and then held serve to win 8-6. Shortly afterward, Virginia clinched the doubles point with a win at No. 3, leaving the No. 1 match between two top-10 duos unfinished.

That meant the Blue Devils needed to win four of six singles matches to pull off the up-set. Initially, things looked promising. Luke Marchese took a quick set at No. 6, and Fred Saba cashed in an early break against Jenkins to give Duke two first-set wins. A visibly frustrated Mengel fell behind early and couldn’t recover at No. 3, putting a tally in Virginia’s column.

However, the battles taking place at the top two spots rendered the success at the lower positions moot. Henrique Cunha, ranked sev-enth nationally, entered his match with fifth-ranked Michael Shabaz as an apparent favor-ite, since Shabaz had never beaten Cunha through four previous meetings. This time, though, Cunha came into the contest having sprained his ankle against North Carolina the

previous day.Cunha hung with Shabaz to start, but

ceded a late break to lose the set 7-5. Sha-baz carried that momentum over to beat Cunha 6-1 in the second set and give Vir-ginia its third point.

At No. 2, thirteenth-ranked Reid Carleton took on the No. 2 player in the nation, fresh-man Alex Domijan. Carleton gave the 6-foot-7 Domijan everything he could handle, tak-ing the first set to a tiebreak. Carleton took a 5-3 lead in the tiebreaker and earned a set point with a 7-6 advantage, but Domijan won the next three points and the set, taking much of the wind out of Duke’s sails.

“That really changes the momen-tum of that match,” Smith said. “It was one of those weird things where we got down 3-0, but I still—until it got deep into Reid’s match—I felt like we had a good chance of winning.”

With the momentum in Domijan’s fa-vor, the freshman shut out Carleton in the second set to give Virginia its fifth consecutive ACC championship, and its seventh in eight years.

“I thought our energy was actually bet-ter than theirs,” Smith said. “It just didn’t quite happen.”

conference loss of the year.Now, after two losses in a week, Duke

knows it will have to work a bit harder next time to top the Seminoles.

“It doesn’t get personal,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “They have a great group of competitors. FSU doesn’t fear us. We can win some matches because some teams play the name and not the ball. [Florida State] walked on the court and didn’t have fear.”

The Blue Devils fell behind early, losing their first doubles point since tak-ing on Virginia April 3. Ellah Nze and Rachel Kahan defeated Noemie Scharle and Fredrica Suess from the No. 1 spot, but their teammates were unable to de-feat their opponents at No. 2 and 3.

It was the second straight day Duke got off to a poor start in doubles. Al-though the Blue Devils had played well in doubles for the last month, this weekend their doubles play was sub-par, according to Ashworth.

Although the fifth-seeded Seminoles started singles play with the lead, Duke was quick to answer back. Sophomore

Mary Clayton and freshman Kahan, who was named ACC Freshman of the Year last week, took quick straight-set wins over their opponents Amy Sargeant and Seuss, respectively. Ashworth said that, compared with the previous loss against Florida State, everyone played better in singles.

“[Last week] Nadine [Fahoum] lost in straight sets, but today had match point,” he said. “There were improve-ments all around, all against the same people as last week. We put ourselves in good position to win.”

Yet, the improvements were not enough to stop the Seminoles. Nze defeated Francesca Segarelli in three sets, but Reka Zsilinszka, Elizabeth Plotkin and Fahoum each fell to their opponent in the third set.

“Having to rely on [winning] four sin-gles matches—it catches up to you,” Ash-worth said. “We’re obviously disappointed in the outcome. We even had a match point to win.... We have things to work on. [The team is] more in pain that we lost, but they haven’t lost their confidence.”

The Blue Devils now await their seeding for the NCAA Tournament, which begins May 13.

performance, with three winning ACC championships. Both the field and run-ning events contributed large point totals to give the women their finishing score of 81.5 points, and the men theirs of 86.5. The highest previous score ever garnered by ei-ther of the teams occurred in 1973, when the Blue Devils finished with 63 points.

“We were leading the team race for a while, which is something we’ve never done before,” Ogilvie said. “We got people excited—they rose to the challenge. Everyone pulled togeth-er and competed with great intensity. It was simply the best meet the program’s ever had.”

It was also the best meet for a number of individual athletes, including senior Ryan McDermott, who became the only Duke athlete since the 1970s to win a third straight ACC Championship in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Fellow senior Kate Van Buskirk won her first-ever ACC Championship in the 1500-meter run. The Blue Devils’ third first-place finisher was sophomore Andrea Hopkins, who won the javelin with a throw of 47.28 meters.

Other Duke athletes also earned All-ACC honors. Leading the Blue Devils in the weekend’s first event, freshman Erica Brand threw 48.78 meters in the discus to come in second, while junior Carly Seymour placed third in the 10-kilometer race. Fellow

distance runner Juliet Bottorff earned the team some additional points as well, placing second in the five-kilometer race.

Among the men, senior Mike Schallmo became Duke’s top-scoring individual, earning 14 points and finishing in second place in the discus. Also in the field, John Austin, Michael Barbas and Tanner An-derson finished in the top three for the javelin, shot put and high jump, respec-tively. Sophomore Curtis Beach, currently ranked 13th nationally in the decathlon, finished third this weekend to earn All-ACC honors. Senior Josh Lund also broke 14 minutes in the five-kilometer race, plac-ing in the top three.

The rest of the Duke athletes also man-

aged to break records and surprise their coaches with stellar performances. Senior Josh Brewer finished in fifth place in the 10-kilometer race, just behind his classmate Bo Waggoner. Brewer’s time of 29:53.69 represented a 45-second improvement for the senior, who, according to Ogilvie, ran with “passion, guts, and courage.”

The Blue Devils closed out a stellar weekend with 15 athletes ranked in the top 40 in the nation.

“All weekend we were doing a little bet-ter than we thought we could,” Ogilvie said. “It was a coach’s dream. There were so many examples of courageous running.... It was a total team effort for both the men and the women that produced our best result ever.”

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Students and administra-tors have once again turned their attention to the much maligned pre-major advising system. Perennial complaints about the lack of mentorship opportunities and available resources have spurred DSG Vice President for Academic Affairs Kaveh Danesh, a junior, to prioritize an advising overhaul.

We believe that the current system is underutilized and should do more to assist in the transition to university academ-ics. We support efforts to im-prove it. However, it’s also nec-essary to examine the nature of student complaints—and ensure that the right people are mobilized in providing the opportunities students desire.

Narrowly defined, the pre-major academic adviser should

communicate Duke’s academic requirements to new students. Advisers should discuss poten-tial areas of academic interest, outline academic paths and ensure students understand Duke’s registration process and

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students with advisers based on interests could provoke stronger con-nections and more meaningful interactions between advisers and advisees. However, the pre-major adviser should primarily be a generalist. Duke is a lib-eral arts university, and fresh-men shouldn’t feel pressure to commit to a discipline. Advis-ers need dexterity and broad-based knowledge for students who explore and change their academic interests frequently.

Still, student complaints have validity. For students un-

decided about their academic goals, lack of mentorship makes it difficult to gather the information necessary to make informed, confident decisions.

Student complaints also re-flect the broader difficulty of transitioning to academic life at Duke. In general, freshmen don’t know what to expect from their adviser or how to navi-gate their academic journeys. Things upperclassmen take for granted—asking professors about research, approaching faculty for recommendations, understanding classroom ex-pectations—can seem incom-prehensible at first.

Pre-major advisers have a role to fulfill—as established sources of general knowledge and facilitators. But to address these complaints, the pre-major system needs help from a more active peer advising network

that has enhanced connections with academic departments.

Frankly, when it comes to navigating the academic scene, students make the best advisers. Upperclassmen best understand the academic development freshmen will experience and can provide information about translating abstract passions into tangible academic paths.

Duke’s Peer Advising Net-work is clearly underutilized. While some onus is on students to seek advising, PAN should be more proactive in connecting freshmen with upperclassmen who are willing to share their perspectives. The program—which currently has 19 student advisers—should grow to meet demand. And, although stu-dents should initiate advising, established reference points like first-year advisory coun-

selors and resident assistants could help spread awareness of the program.

Pre-major advising should enhance relationships with academic departments. Pro-fessors and advisers could ask recently declared students if they’d share their experiences with undecided freshmen and sophomores. Learning what motivated another student’s de-cision and exposing students to a variety of perspectives would provide undeclared students a more complete understanding of Duke’s academic landscape.

Pre-major advising is a nec-essary component in facilitat-ing the transition to university life. While reform is necessary, students and administrators should also look to other sourc-es to provide the more holistic mentorship experience some freshmen desire.

“You are not a writer.” Every person at The Chronicle has told me this since I stepped into the doors of 301 Flowers my freshman

year and chose the photo hallway instead of the news corridor. However, I would like to defend myself because I am a writer—I just choose to use visuals to tell my story instead of words. Pixels create the eye-catching, front-page photos that make you pick up the paper every day. So no, I am not your typical pen-to-paper writer, but I do help tell each story within the paper. I write with color, I write with depth-of-field, with shadows and emotions. Visuals, even those photos of yet an-other conference podium, enrich the stories flanked by rows of perfectly kerned black text. But now, you are reading my writing and not my photos for one of the first times in the his-tory of my four years behind this paper.

You all learned the ABCs or your native tongue’s equivalent—some in preschool, and some of the more precocious learned their let-ters in the womb. Amid your lessons on letters were lessons on the color wheel (if you grew up outside the borders of California, and if your school had elected to preserve the arts from budget slaughter). By first grade, you all knew that “m,” “a” and “t” spelled mat, 1 + 2 = 3 and yellow mixed with red made orange. But as we grow older we lose focus on the color. Cultur-ally, we put a primacy on reading letters and symbols, yet few of us learned how to read an image.

If you look around yourself today, how many images are you asked to pick apart and decode? Zero. Yet you are only asked to digest thousands of images daily. Think about it. We are con-stantly surrounded by images, in our textbooks and on our computer screens, cell phones and TVs. We are constantly consuming images, yet we don’t do so as critically as we should.

English classes teach us to parse text, but we are not taught to pull apart the interlock-ing threads of an image and understand the nuances of what we observe. History textbooks come laden with images, but we treat them as illustrations rather than as sources. Don’t skip the images; they are there not just to show, but to tell.

Reading images needs to be incorporated into our classrooms, just like reading texts. Vi-sual literacy makes educated, engaged citizens. Who produced the image? Is it a reliable source? Where does it come from? Why was it produced?

What is it trying to say? You ask these questions of the written word. I challenge you to try out these questions on the next Facebook album you peruse during finals procrastination. All im-ages can be interrogated and analyzed, even the

embarrassing party ones you im-mediately de-tag.

I hope the answer is clear: We need more visual literacy in our classrooms, even here at Duke.

No one wants another requirement for gradu-ation, but a visual literacy one should be dis-cussed by the administration.

PowerPoint is a tool for sharing visuals, but so often the visuals linger on the screen behind us, and we don’t call on the audience to read the constituent elements. And we’ve all seen those presentations where someone copies and pastes their paper in size 11 font onto slide after slide.

Please, dear underclassmen, save future gen-erations of Dukies from student presentation boredom: Use some pictures! Ask the audience to read them with you. And don’t just copy and paste from Google—just like for your papers, you need to check your sources.

The simple query: What do you see? If we ask this question more frequently we will see that we all “read” visuals differently.

Some people thrive on visuals. Reading was not fun for me when I was a kid because I saw things visually. That is why the camera natural-ly became my pen, my way of communicating with the world. At Duke, I feared that my visual eye would hold me back. Quite the contrary, I found visual studies, a major that allowed me to explore every discipline visually and ask crit-ical questions about imagery. The classroom even complemented my night job at the news-paper, where, as a sophomore, I learned to pair the daily stories with what the photographers brought in.

Storytellers, no matter their medium, whether it be words or images, work to tell a captivating truth of what happened. Headlines may capture your attention, but I bet it is the image of Scheyer jumping into Thomas’ arms that made you grab the newsprint on April 5, 2010. I ask you to always question what made you look.

Duke made me look at the world differently, and I hope it does the same for you.

Maya Robinson is a Trinity senior. She is the cre-ative director of Towerview Magazine, former photo edi-tor, and former multimedia editor of The Chronicle.

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When I decided to come to Duke, I convinced myself that my choice had nothing to do with basketball or any other sport. Even

though I was a lifelong sports fan, I wasn’t choosing a college to develop a new rooting interest.

Suffice it to say, I was wrong. I have loved nothing more than reveling in Duke’s triumphs on the field and on the court in my time here. I was in Wallace Wade when we took down the goalposts after beating Northwestern. I sat through a storm to watch Duke Lacrosse exact a small amount of revenge on Johns Hopkins, and I even jumped off my couch when Chante Black sent an ACC Championship game into overtime sophomore year.

In many ways, however, my more important con-nection with Duke sports hasn’t been as a supporter. I made the decision to sacrifice total fanhood when I joined The Chronicle’s sports staff. That’s not to say that I haven’t been more invested in the fate of Duke Athletics than almost anybody I know—it’s just that, as any sportswriter will tell you, the games lose a little bit of luster when you have to work af-terwards.

But even as I’ve missed out on some of the magic of being a fan, it’s the experiences I’ve had when the clock isn’t running that have been some of my most memorable at Duke.

On the most superficial level, I’m thankful to The Chronicle for sending me to five states and 10 cities for the first time, even if I spent more time in cabs and stadiums than out exploring. (Although I did witness a spectacular anti-fur riot in front of the Empire State Building on the way to the Izod Center.)

Even though I couldn’t cheer at several of Ger-ald Henderson’s ridiculous slams sophomore year, I relished the moment when I talked to him early in the season and told him that with his bald head and his breakout play, he reminded me of a young Kobe Bryant. He laughed pretty hard, but the next

time I interviewed him, there was a poster of Kobe hanging in his locker.

I covered an NCAA Tournament game two years ago that ended in a lopsided defeat for Duke. I was surprised to hear that several members of that team

still remember the lede of that article, and a player even ripped me a new one for it three weeks ago—one of my prouder and more terrifying moments as a journalist.

I didn’t get to cheer from press row in Houston when the men’s basketball

team got to the Final Four last year, but I did walk alongside President George W. Bush after the game as he went to congratulate Coach K. And I got to pick up a tiny piece of the net after the team left the court.

And after the national championship game, in-stead of living it up on the main quad, I had to be up in The Chronicle office to put out a paper. It was one of the longest nights of my life, but that paper is probably the most appreciated piece of work that I have ever helped produce.

Now that the time has come to wax poetic on my short-lived journalism career, I don’t regret the mo-ments I missed by not being a fan. I think about the postgame questions I should have asked, the stories I could have dug deeper into and the personality of every one of the athletes that I have interacted with—that human element that I will no longer be able to tap into from my place in the stands.

I am forever grateful for the opportunities af-forded to me by being a member of this staff and for the people who have encouraged me to continue working, even though my journalistic ambitions end here. I am forever grateful to have covered not one, but two wins over North Carolina in men’s basket-ball. And I am grateful to now be able to root for Duke, carefree.

Sabreena Merchant is a Trinity senior. She is a four-year sports writer and the former sports managing editor.

Working for The Chronicle for the past four years has provided me a unique opportunity to experience and observe events at

Duke and throughout North Carolina. Here are a few of my memorable images that I’ve captured along the way.

November 2007: A portrait of Gerald Henderson, then a sophomore on the Duke men’s basketball team, in Cam-eron Indoor Stadium.

October 2008: Supporters of John McCain stand against a giant American flag. McCain and Obama traveled throughout North Carolina working hard to swing voters in the 2008 Presidential Election.

March 2009: Record levels of snow fell in the Caroli-nas, turning Duke and the Duke Chapel into a Gothic wonderland.

October 2010: A customer prepares to devour his King’s Sandwich Shop cheeseburger.

Chase Olivieri is currently the photo editor of Towerview Mag-azine. Over the past four years he has covered the ACC Basketall tournament in Atlanta, the presidential election, campus sports and news and big-wave surfing in Tahiti and Hawaii. Check out more of his work online at www.chasefoto.com and follow him @chasefoto.

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A diversity of one?Although it was refreshing to read a gradua-

tion-related article without a “Beer Trucks” refer-ence, I take issue with the arguments posed by Becki Feinglos and Anne Moriarity in questioning the selection of Mike Lefevre as this year’s stu-dent speaker.

Duke prides itself, as it should, on its diverse student body. Promoting diversity as it is typically defined enhances learning, enriches experiences and provides individuals from different back-grounds with equal access to opportunities. That being said, it should not be a factor in the selec-tion of a student speaker for commencement.

Feinglos and Moriarity claim Lefevre’s selection fails to recognize Duke’s diverse graduates. Well, when you find a student who is 51 percent white, 22 percent Asian American, 10 percent black and 6 percent Hispanic, let me know. And then figure out how to address the gender issue. My point is that no single student will ever be demographi-cally representative of a university; there is no such thing as a diversity of one. I understand that Fe-inglos and Moriarity are citing the overall trend of white, male student speakers, but there can only be one student speaker each year and his or her se-lection should not be dependent on who was cho-sen in the past. Assuming the selection committee does its utmost to find the individual best suited for the task, odds are that the student chosen will not be a minority. This is of course not due to any sort of inferiority, but rather the fact that minori-

ties comprise less than half of Duke’s population (see definition of “minority” for clarification). If the Duke community wants student speakers to be more “representative” of the student body, maybe it should increase the number of student speakers and subsequently decrease the amount of time al-lotted to the keynote speaker. (Those of you in Wallace Wade for Muhammad Yunus know that last year would have been a good time to start.) But if we’re sticking with a lone representative, please don’t bring race and gender into the discussion.

Furthermore, Feinglos and Moriarity only dis-cuss race and gender. Too often we look only at the aspects of diversity that are readily apparent: those we can see with the naked eye. What about socioeconomic background? What about person-ality traits? What about—perish the thought—a person’s body of work and life experiences? Are these qualities, of which Duke students repre-sent a broad spectrum, somehow less important than gender and skin color?

If you oppose Lefevre’s selection because of his body of work or, as Feinglos and Moriarity argue, because “his voice has been heard enough,” that is perfectly reasonable. But opposing his selec-tion simply on the grounds that he is or is not a certain race or gender is ludicrous and runs con-trary to the principles of equality.

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