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students hate more things together....” —Monday, Monday in ‘Not our rivals.’ See column page 6

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Loss to Maryland shows success is fragile

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Mason Plumlee scored a season-low four points in Duke’s loss to Maryland while Terrapin center Alex Len racked up 19 points and nine boards to lead his team to victory.

by Tom GierynTHE CHRONICLE

COLLEGE PARK, Md.—College basket-ball success is fragile. Ask Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon.

Last weekend, his team dropped its sixth game out of 10, an 80-69 decision at home to Virginia. Just two weeks after a group of Maryland students began affectionately dressing like Turgeon—right down to the gray patch in his hair—for every game, Ter-rapin fans heckled Turgeon so badly that his 13-year-old son Will was forced to leave the Comcast Center.

“It’s been a hard week on my family,” said Tuergon Saturday, fighting back tears after his Terrapins upset No. 2 Duke 83-81. “It was hard on my son. Last week he had to leave the gym because the fans were so hard on his dad.”

Following the Virginia loss, he stripped his captains of their titles and suspended point guard Pe’Shon Howard—who out-ranks even prolific distributor Quinn Cook in assists per 40 minutes—for an undis-closed violation of team rules.

None of this sounds like the sort of week a Terrapin coach would want to have in ad-vance of a game against Duke, which had long since tipped the balance of power be-tween the two schools back toward Durham by winning 13 of the last 14 matchups dat-ing back to 2008.

But success in college basketball is frag-ile. Ask Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski,

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Chronicle staff elects editor for 109th volume

by Emma BaccellieriTHE CHRONICLE

The Chronicle staff elected sophomore Danielle Muoio to serve as editor-in-chief

of its 109th volume.In a staff-wide elec-

tion Friday evening, Mu-oio, currently a Health and Science editor, was appointed editor of The Chronicle and president of the Duke Student Pub-lishing Company, Inc., which publishes the in-dependent student-run

daily newspaper. She will succeed junior Yeshwanth Kandimalla for a one-year term beginning in May.

As editor, Muoio will be responsible for determining the content of the newspa-per and serving as the public face of The Chronicle. She will lead a staff of approxi-mately 200 student reporters, editors, pho-tographers, layout designers and additional contributors.

In her platform, Muoio emphasized the need to balance a high quality of content with a strong online presence—working both on producing more investigative, analytical content and on making the news available in the most effective manner pos-sible.

“I’ll be working with all of the sections to make sure that they’re achieving their goals to reach their audience in the best way,” Muoio said.

Muoio, an English and history major from Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., began her career at The Chronicle at the start of her fresh-man year, writing chiefly for the Health and Science department. She became a staff writer for the section that December, and Kandimalla promoted her to its leader last March.

“I’ve been really impressed with her work this year,” Kandimalla said. “She’s grown tremendously as a journalist and a leader. I’m really confident that she’ll be able to do a great job.”

Members of the Health and Science de-partment, both past and present, expressed support for Muoio.

Junior Ashley Mooney, current sports managing editor and last year’s Health and Science editor, noted that Muoio has been an eager and dedicated reporter since the beginning of her freshman year.

Sophomore Andrew Luo, Muoio’s Health and Science co-editor, noted that she has always been enthusiastic and driven

SEE MUOIO ON PAGE 4

Danielle Muoio

Following the announcement of the 2013 Last Day of Classes lineup at midnight Friday, students shared their thoughts on the scheduled list of artists, which currently includes rapper Kendrick Lamar, DJ Steve Aoki and hip-hop trio Travis Porter. LDOC is April 24.

“I vaguely recognize the names, but the more I hear of them, the more excited I get.” —sophomore Stephanie Laughton

“I’ve never heard of any of those people.” —freshman David Rieder

“I thought that Aoki was the sauce that you put on sandwiches but now I know that it’s a singer guy”—junior Hannah Naughton

“They’re both the level Macklemore was last year when they brought him, but he wasn’t the headliner. There’s no B.o.B.”—freshman Ryan Burns

“I am excited to show Travis Porter how I bring it back. I would like to let him know that I am a top-notch b**tch, and I will let him hear me holler”—junior Lillie Reed, former columnist for The Chronicle

“I kind of like Aoki but I probably would’ve preferred Avicii.” —freshman Johnny Salinas

“I don’t listen to music.”—junior Taylor Elliott

“Personally, I’m a huge Kendrick Lamar fan and think he’s the best rapper of the current day. I think it’s awe-some that the LDOC Committee got him.” —freshman Lee Weisberger

“I just want to say I was really excited about Kendrick Lamar because I was trying to go see him at Wake Forest so me and my friends were really happy about that. I think it’ll be better because B.oB. was kind of disappointing last year.”—sophomore Kate Macadam

“Personally, I’m excited about Kendrick Lamar because I have a lot of friends who like him, but I could see how that would be disappointing. There’s not a wide variety in artists.”—freshman Hannah Hewitt

“I love Steve Aoki but I don’t know who the other artists are. I don’t know how they managed to get him,

he’s very in demand.”—freshman Jacqueline Samy

“I think it’s a diverse group of performers and I think they’ll do a great job.”—freshman Neel Desai

“My brother gave me rave kandi—you should all wear it to the concert. But it’s spelled k-a-n-d-i.”—junior Bridget Meaney

“The LDOC committee did a great job getting a group of big name performers that will appeal to a wide vari-ety of musical tastes on Duke’s campus. I’m so excited!” —sophomore Mary D’Amico

“Steve Aoki is the man! More than anything, I can’t wait to see him live!”—freshman Sarey Hamarneh

“I’m really excited about Steve Aoki. He’s really freaky, re-ally weird, and his music’s really good. His performances are always really good, lots of lights and everything. It’s going to be crazy, plus, with the atmosphere on LDOC, people are going to be so psyched. It’s going to be insane. The other two guys I’m not really excited about.”—freshman Carl Cedarholm

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Nat. park advocates fight funding cutbacks

by Lisa ReinTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Advocates for the vast numbers of visitors to America’s national parks are pressuring Congress to prevent deep automatic spending cuts that would re-sult in reduced hours and services across the country, from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Yellowstone.

Few corners of the federal government directly touch the public as do the 398 parks, monuments and historic sites, which draw 280 million visits a year. The system would feel the effects immediately of a $110 million slash should budget cuts take effect March 1 — from a three-week delay of Yellowstone’s spring opening to save money on snow plow-ing, to shuttered campgrounds and visitor centers along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

And 20 days before the cherry blossoms begin blooming on the National Mall, $1.6 million would be slashed from the park’s $32 million budget, cutting into law enforcement, tree maintenance, rangers and other services park employees provide for one of Washing-ton’s biggest tourist attractions.

“We’re going to have 1 million people in D.C. [for the cherry blossoms], whether se-questration happens or not,” said Diana May-hew, executive director of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the extravaganza scheduled for March 20 to April 14.

The White House began sounding alarms last week about the threat to military readi-ness, border security and humanitarian aid of $85 billion in reductions known as a sequester. Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis is review-ing detailed contingency plans he ordered ev-

ery superintendent to submit last week. With talks on Capitol Hill to resolve an impasse over how to reduce the deficit, federal agen-cies are kicking their austerity planning into high gear.

The prospect of dirtier restrooms, sporadic grass mowing and litter pickup, and a short-age of rangers to answer questions and patrol has set off a furious campaign by a coalition of park advocates, tourism officials and busi-nesses from to Maine to Wyoming.

Their plea: The reductions would not just set back conservation efforts but undermine local economies around the parks that rely on tourism.

“The economic foundation the national parks provide for our businesses and commu-nities is jeopardized by political maneuvering,” says a letter the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association plans to send to ev-ery member of Congress this week, signed by dozens of businesses.

The advocates are finding that many of the most popular parks are in districts rep-resented by conservative lawmakers, who say that while they love the parks, spending must be kept in line.

“The reality is that we have an escalating debt crisis,” freshman Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said.

The sequester would have repercussions across the government, including delays to medical research and defense jobs, and scal-ing back air-traffic controllers.

But the cuts to the parks, whose mission of preservation and recreation has changed little

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Write(H)ers seeks to train Duke’s feminist bloggers

by Marianna Jordan THE CHRONICLE

A new media activism program at Duke aims to help young women excel in writing about gender issues.

This Spring, senior Samantha Lach-man, media activism intern at the Duke Women’s Center, worked with Women’s Center Director Ada Gregory to launch Write(H)ers, an initiative to create a community of feminist-oriented writ-ers. The 23 members of the program will participate in personal blogging and workshops with professional jour-nalists to discuss gender issues in soci-ety and on campus.

Senior Sarah Van Name, a mem-ber of Write(H)ers and a contributor to Duke’s feminist blog Develle Dish, said the program serves to train young women and better equip them to be ac-tivists when they need to be.

“This program was a dream come true for me because I read a lot of fem-inist blogs and several of the women who write these blogs now have the op-portunity to come to Duke and explain to this new community how to follow in their footsteps,” Van Name said.

Each participant in the Write(H)ers program must attend workshop dinners with four visiting journalists and femi-nist bloggers including Jill Filipovic, Irin Carmon, Heather Havrilesky and Rebecca Traister. Lachman said Tra-ister was the most famous of the four visiting journalists. In 2011, she wrote “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” which discusses

gender politics in the 2008 U.S. elec-tion.

Each student must also contribute three blog posts over the course of the semester to either the Women’s Center blog or Develle Dish.

“[The Women’s Center] wanted to create a space for students to write about their personal relationships with gender issues to dispel stereotypes and help diffuse the tension around gender on campus,” said Lachman, who also writes a column for The Chronicle.

The program received more than 40 applications and accepted 23 students, including one male student. The goal, Lachman said, was to find writers who were feminist in outlook and already published in different capacities on campus.

The students did not have to be in-volved with the Women’s Center or in gender violence prevention program-ming—which has become a large focus of the center in the past several years—but needed to show interest in discuss-ing gender dynamics on campus, she said.

Senior Nathan Nye, the only male student who applied to the program, expressed his excitement for being giv-en the opportunity to participate.

“This will be such a positive experi-ence because it gives me a small win-dow into the perspectives of several women involved in fields that still deal

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as a journalist.“She’s very proactive, always on top of

everything,” he said. “I’m excited to see what she’s going to do.”

David Graham, Trinity ’09, a former

editor of the paper and current vice chair of the Duke Student Publishing Company board of directors, said the board is confi-dent that Muoio will succeed as editor.

“She’ll be a great steward of the paper and continue The Chronicle’s tradition of path-breaking journalism,” Graham said.

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Starting next Fall, sophomore Danielle Muoio will lead The Chronicle as editor-in-chief for one year. She was chosen in a staff-wide election Friday.

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Colbert likely to support sister’s SC campaign

by Aaron BlakeTHE WASHINGTON POST

From the moment she announced her special-election campaign, Democrat Eliza-beth Colbert Busch has been viewed as something of a novelty candidate.

That’s the downside of being the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.

The upside, of course, is that her broth-er is probably going to help her raise lots of money at consecutive fundraisers next weekend and by mentioning her campaign on his Comedy Central television show.

And despite many people dismissing her chances in a pretty conservative South Carolina congressional district, nobody should count her out completely.

The 1st Congressional District, formerly held by Tim Scott, R-S.C., who was recently appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat, went overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney last year, 58 percent to 40 percent. It also gave Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a big win in 2008, 56 percent to 42 percent.

Although that suggests a Republican will be favored, there are some factors that could well make Colbert Busch, director of business development for an environmen-tal research institute at Clemson University, a competitive candidate.

Typically candidates of the minority party in such districts are unable to raise enough money to compete, but that shouldn’t be a problem for Colbert Busch. She’s also lock-ing down the support of organized labor and was endorsed Saturday by House Mi-nority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C.

The electorate in special elections is notoriously hard to predict and will be far

different than it would be on a normal elec-tion day.

Colbert Busch is one of two Democrats running in the party’s primary for the seat; the Republican primary has attracted 16 hopefuls, including Mark Sanford, the for-mer governor whose political career was tarnished by his affair with a woman in Ar-gentina.

Although he is considered a frontrun-ner for the seat, Sanford may not be the GOP’s best option. A poll from Demo-cratic automated pollster Public Policy Polling in December showed his favorable rating at just 30 percent statewide, with 53 percent viewing him unfavorably. Sanford represented the district before he was gov-ernor, so voters there might be more for-giving than the rest of the state. He has also built inroads over the years with black voters, who comprise 20 percent of the district.

Sanford said when he launched his campaign that his favorable rating in the district was higher than his unfavorable rat-ing among Republicans, but it’s not clear whether that’s the case among all voters.

Stephen Colbert, who is scheduled to host a fundraiser for his sister Friday in New York and attend a private fundraiser for her Saturday in Charleston, told the Associated Press that the race is about his sister, not him.

“I want people to know this is her own thing. It’s not me doing anything,” he said.

Colbert Busch should at least have the funds to compete, and her brother could have a lot of power in helping build a move-ment around her candidacy.


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Dear Dookie,I’m a line monitor, and I’m worried that

since the UNC game is over, people will stop caring about Duke basketball. How do we keep stu-dents excited about the Blue Devils?

—Concerned CrazieDear Crazy,It’s strange to me that line moni-

tors would have trouble convincing anyone to do anything. I mean, y’all get upwards of a thousand people to forfeit their $56-a-night housing fee to sleep in mud. Still, I understand your concern. At some point every year, the Duke administration inevi-tably starts to fuss over game atten-dance—which, as leaders of an institute of higher learning, is obviously their primary concern.

But that’s where I come in. A few disclaimers: I may not be the best person to give this advice, as I’ve never tented—in part because I’m allergic to tarp, but mostly because I’m not an idiot. Additionally, these tips will not work if the Duke basketball team gets any whiter, becomes a regular NIT-attendee or if you watch women’s basketball. Because let’s be real, who outside of the Women’s Center cares? It’s not like THEY’VE ever beaten UNC.

So how can we modern Machiavellis manipulate Dukies into caring about sports now that the UNC game is in the past? For starters, engineer more ri-valries. As everyone at Duke is from New York, New Jersey or Asia, approximately none of us cared about the Duke-UNC “rivalry” before we came here. Yet within weeks of our arrival, we all know that people who go to UNC are baby-hating, goat-banging, hash-slinging slashers. Is this reality? Of course not. UNC students are just like Duke students, except with lower IQs, less money and better-looking faces. So why do we hate them? Because when freshmen ar-rive on campus, everyone thinks it’s cool to make jokes about how much UNC sucks—mostly because they’re too awkward to think of much else to talk about. As O-week goes on, they fi nd that their new “hatred” of Carolina is one of two things that they have in common with their classmates—the other thing being excruciating diarrhea as their body adjusts to the food at the Marketplace. Our rivalry with Carolina does not exist because we hate UNC, but because it unites Duke. Crazies don’t go to the UNC game to watch sports—they do it to engage in a three-hour student section group hug.

If line monitors want to increase game atten-dance, they should just try to make students hate more things together. Perhaps a fi rst step would be Maryland or N.C. State, as the schools are con-vinced (and agonizingly so, from our perspective) that Duke cares about them at all. But it’s not like

we ever lose to them, so … what rivalry? This being the case, it would probably be easier to get Duke students to hate an inanimate object than to hate schools so irrelevant. I suggest we encourage Dukies

to hate basketballs themselves. Then, they’ll attend games simply to see those orange bastards take a pummel-ing. YEAH, TAKE THAT BASKET-BALLS. THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR CONFUSING BLIND PEOPLE WHO TRY TO READ YOU.

Another way to make students go to basketball games or anything else is to make it diffi cult. There’s no better way to get people to think that something matters than to make

it hard to attain. Add the scent of competition to something and Dukies will be there, ready to be the best at it. I mean, what did you think Tailgate was? NOT a bonding experience where all of Duke got together to celebrate good friends and a school they loved, that’s for sure. Like most things at Duke, it was a ruthless competition, seeing who could accu-mulate the most beers on and in their person and still make it to a football game (or, you know, not, because football sucks).

Pre-basketball game rituals are the exact same. Es-pecially for those students who aren’t succeeding in any other realms at Duke (I’m looking at you, engin-erds), tenting is an outlet to feel social or something. You may not be able to work out your problem set, make friends or fi nd someone who’ll handle your Vi-enna sausage, but goddamnit you CAN sit in the cold for six hours without a pee break. If we add a competi-tive nature to other games throughout the year, they too would become high-status and fully attended. I say we “Hunger Games” it. Compete and win basketball tickets, or we’ll take away all your food points. This way we not only guarantee full attendance, but we also get to include all the girls out there who are already playing the hunger games. If there’s one thing this campus is good at, it’s anorexia. Keep doing what you do ladies—none of us have any idea.

And that’s really all it takes. With the simple mixture of directed hatred and competition, these otherwise-intellectual Dukies can be entertained by “student”-athletes bouncing a ball around for an hour in exchange for free tuition. If you get the students ex-cited enough, maybe they won’t ask why Duke spends millions of dollars to make semi-professional sports teams and academic institutions the same thing.

After “Space Jam” set an early-childhood precedent, the Dookie will only watch basketball games if they involve aliens. Until the Duke program becomes more inclusive, the Dookie is boycotting. You can follow the Dookie on Twitter @DearDookie.

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The right question to askFinancial aid is an easy

policy not to question: Through fuzzy rhetoric like “100 percent need-blind” and “improving affordabil-ity,” colleges and universities often skirt close scrutiny of their programs. The reality is more complicated: While fi nancial aid is impor-tant to Duke and its peers, the decisions behind it are complex and, in many in-stances, controversial. In this two-part editorial, we explore some salient and divisive questions regarding fi nan-cial aid. Today, we look at im-plications for international students, and Tuesday we will explore impacts on different socioeconomic classes. While we do not claim to have any clear solutions, it is impor-

tant to crystallize the deci-sions being made and what they imply about the Univer-sity’s priorities.

Like many of its peers, Duke maintains a need-blind

admissions pol-icy for Ameri-can citizens

and permanent residents but not international students. The chances of admission for international students who apply for aid are markedly lower than their American counterparts. Six schools, including Amherst College and Princeton University, of-fer universal need-blind ad-missions. Director of Finan-cial Aid Alison Rabil offered two justifi cations for Duke’s policy. First, she argued that thanks to federal funding, it is cheaper to provide aid

to Americans than interna-tional students. In addition, Rabil claimed the University had a commitment to pri-oritizing American admits in order to support the coun-try’s economy and system of higher education.

It is tough to fi nd fault with the fi rst argument. If it is less expensive per head to pro-vide need-blind admissions for American students, that means the University through prioritizing Americans is able to provide a college education to more students. Since a pri-mary metric of success of the fi nancial aid system ought to be to help as many students—domestic or international—as possible, it seems fair to make this tradeoff, even if it means international students are not treated equally.

But Rabil’s second justifi -cation caused some debate. On one hand, Article 1 of our University bylaws contains a commitment to serving the state and the nation. Similar-ly, Duke receives federal fund-ing, so it could be argued that taxpayer contributions should primarily be used to benefi t American students. The idea that an American university has a commitment to priori-tize American students in the admissions process, just as it does students from North Carolina, is key to this argu-ment.

On the other hand, Duke has made a point of priori-tizing diversity in its student body, and international stu-dents play a key role in fos-tering a more interesting and lively student commu-

nity. If we take diversity in its broadest sense, treating the vast majority of the global population differently in admissions than a select na-tionality may run counter to some important institutional goals. It is diffi cult to recon-cile Rabil’s view that Duke should increase its mix of in-ternational students with the idea that fi nancial aid should prioritize Americans.

All told, we were im-pressed with the efforts of the fi nancial aid offi ce to clarify its policies and allocate un-certain resources wisely. But we should not refrain from questioning some of the as-sumptions behind fi nancial aid, and the discussion re-garding international need-blind admissions is not at all a bad place to start.

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A dangerous new precedent is being set in modern warfare. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or

drones, has reached dizzying new heights, threatening the integrity of our foreign policy and the safety of our constitutional rights. The New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank based in D.C., estimates that between 261 and 305 civilians have been killed in targeted drone strikes since 2004. These strikes cross borders and span several combat zones from the wilds of the Pakistani tribal re-gion to the shores of Yemen. American offi cials have remarked on the useful-ness of Predator drones in the war on terror, yet their legality remains opaque. In May of last year, The New York Times reported, “Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret ‘nominations’ process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical.” In 2011, the process killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an Ameri-can citizen turned radical Islamic terrorist in Yemen. In effect, our president ordered the assassination of an American citizen. He ignored due process and the tenants of our constitution. Anwar al-Awlaki was a dangerous man whose teachings have been connected to several terrorist plots, including the shooting at Ford Hood in Texas and an attempted explosion in Times Square. But he was still an Ameri-can citizen, with all the rights that entails.

Frequent attempts to uncover the legal justifi cation behind the Predator strikes have been stonewalled by both the Bush and Obama administrations. NBC obtained a Justice Department memo on Feb. 6, which concluded, in the words of an NBC correspondent, “that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be ‘senior operational leaders’ of al-Qaida or ‘an associated force.’” While the memo clarifi ed some of the thought pro-cess that has dictated American policy for the last six years, it is simply not enough. There must be a national dialogue on the use of UAVs and their place within the armed forces. A frank and honest discus-sion must occur about the legality of such measures and the ability of the president to maintain a “kill list”—surely President Obama can understand the need for such a measure. The precedent set by the un-warranted killing of American citizens

and foreign civilians is simply un-Amer-ican. We cannot continue to blindly ac-cept a policy without even hearing the le-gal rational behind it. Ben Franklin once

wrote, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little tempo-rary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Knowl-edge of the law and of our government’s justifi cation for its own action is one of those essential liberties. Critics argue that reveal-ing such measures would jeopardize the operational

effi ciency of our armed forces, but I fail to see how justifying these strikes through our countries legal framework could limit their effectiveness.

Our country’s strength partially stems from the openness of our institutions. To arbitrarily restrict such information is a dangerous step in the wrong direction. This is a direction that threatens our mor-al credibility in a geopolitically dangerous world. How can we criticize totalitarian re-gimes when we refuse to justify processes like this to our own citizens? What right do we have to protest the jailing of political protestors in Russia or the religious pros-ecution of the Falun Gong in China when we systematically place civilians in dan-ger? The scale of our misdeeds is certainly smaller but no less justifi able.

This policy creates problems on the ground as well, the Living Under Drones Project found that the “capacity of the U.S. to strike anywhere at any time led to constant and severe fear, anxiety and stress, especially when taken together with the inability of those on the ground to ensure their own safety.” Such condi-tions are ripe for the breeding of a new wave of terrorists and religious fanatics. Some academics have questioned the utility of drone strikes. Charles Krautha-hammer of The Washington Post, for ex-ample, wrote that drone strikes yield “no intelligence about terror networks or ter-ror plans” because “dead terrorists can’t talk.” It seems ridiculous for Obama to legitimize targeted killing but shun the enhanced interrogations of the Bush age. All this is to say that the American public deserves an explanation: a legal explana-tion grounded in the traditions of this great country rather than the secrecy and oppression we are fi ghting against.

Colin Scott is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

Why drone strikes matter Last October, Savita Halappanavar,

was admitted to an Irish hospital with severe back pain. She was 17 weeks

pregnant and in the process of miscarry-ing. A little over a week later, she died from blood poisoning. Doctors maintained that their “hands were tied” by Ireland’s strict anti-abortion laws. However, the leaked draft report by the Irish health ministry indicates that doc-tors failed to diagnose the infection for three days and, furthermore, that medical staff should have considered performing an abortion procedure even before Dr. Halappanavar asked for one.

Abortion is illegal in Ire-land under all circumstanc-es, except where there is a “real and substantial” risk to the mother’s life. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2010 that this law violated Ireland’s own constitution as well as the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to specify an effective procedure to determine whether a woman was suffi ciently endan-gered for termination to be legal. Even if a termination of Dr. Halappanavar’s preg-nancy was not technically illegal, her doc-tors were at least hesitant to subject them-selves to the possibility of criminal liability.

Compared to its situation in Irish law, the legality of abortion in United States law couldn’t be clearer. If there is one Supreme Court case that reigns supreme in popu-lar knowledge of American law, it is Roe v. Wade. And regardless of an individual’s opinion of the decision, its message is clear: Abortion is legal. Moreover, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last month, 70 percent of Americans op-pose overruling Roe v. Wade.

Yet pro-life activists received an unex-pected windfall in insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act. States that choose to set up their own ex-changes are allowed to dictate the rules for insurers who participate. At least 21 states are now developing regulations that would prevent health insurers from covering the cost of an abortion, thereby effectively restricting a woman’s ability to make health care decisions.

Since the Hyde Amendment already prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, additional state-specifi c re-strictions on insurance coverage of abor-tions make the procedure practically in-accessible. According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2009 the median charge for a surgical abortion at 10 weeks was $470, with the average being $451, since the ma-jority of abortions are performed at facili-ties with lower charges. In 2008, 60 percent of women paid out of pocket; most women

now pay the costs out of pocket because they are afraid that their employers or their spouse will fi nd out. That’s the equiv-alent of almost one month’s rent at several apartment complexes just off of Duke’s campus. And since poor women are more likely to terminate their pregnancies than their middle class peers, this $450 cost

falls disproportionately on women who do not have the money to spend.

This may be cause for joy among pro-life activists, but as long as Roe v. Wade remains good law, it is true that the cost of an abortion effectively restricts these women’s ability to make health care decisions. If the purpose of the Affordable

Care Act is to provide access to quality, af-fordable health care for all Americans, then why should abortion, as long as it is legally recognized as a private medical decision to be made between a patient and her doctor, be excluded from this aim? Why should states be entitled to dictate to insurance providers what they can and cannot cover?

Most importantly, the increasing number of restrictions on access to abortion must be evaluated in light of the steadily increasing maternal mortality rate in the United States. The U.S. currently ranks 50th in the world for maternal mortality, despite the almost $98 billion spent every year on hospitaliza-tion for pregnancy and childbirth. Over the past two decades, the rate has more than doubled, from 6.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 16.1 per 100,000 live births in 2009. Perhaps most shocking is the fact that black women are 3.2 times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than white women.

Dr. Halappanavar’s tragic story may be particularly infuriating because of her doc-tors’ explicit argument that the illegality of abortion prevented them from taking the necessary steps to save her life, but sev-eral states in this country are in danger of moving in effectively the same direction. By severely restricting insurance compa-nies’ ability to cover the cost of abortion, these states are restricting access to abor-tion itself. Such constraints simply do not align with the larger purpose of the ACA to provide quality, affordable health care to all Americans. Dr. Halappanavar’s case illustrates the danger of near prohibition of abortion, and, in light of the increasing maternal mortality rate in this country, we should take steps to ensure that economics does not determine a mother’s life.

Joline Doedens is a fi rst-year law student. Her column runs every other Monday. You can follow Joline on Twitter @jydoedens.

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with huge gender disparities,” Nye said. He said he initially became interested in gender is-

sues because of inequities in the media. “I am fascinated by how women are portrayed and

how different this portrayal is from the women I’ve known my entire life,” he said.

Lachman said she has noticed gender inequities through her own personal experience with relation-ships and power dynamics between men and women in high school and college. She went to an all-girls high school but did not realize she was a feminist until col-lege.

Lachman credited her experience at Common Ground as being formative in her development as a feminist. After that, she looked for somewhere at Duke to apply both her interest in the media and her femi-nist outlook.

“For a lot of women, becoming a feminist is about realizing that discrimination does exist and you can do something about it,” Lachman said. “It doesn’t neces-sarily take much to make that leap, it just takes think-ing about ways that you can overcome the patriarchy that exists in our society.”

Although Write(H)ers is primarily for those who openly identify as feminist, another goal of the pro-gram includes reaching out to people who might be allies to the feminist movement but have never talked about gender issues openly, Van Name said.

She added that day-to-day activism is about trying to look at the world in a different perspective.

“There are a lot of people here who have never considered what it’s like to be a woman in that you’re constantly told that you have to be on the watch when you’re walking home by yourself, or watch what you’re drinking and wearing when you go out,” Van Name said.

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since President Ulysses S. Grant made Yellowstone the first national park in 1872, have made the deficit battle very real for millions of Americans.

“They’re a crown jewel, for crying out loud,” said Bill Berg, a business owner in Gardiner, Mont., with a popu-lation of 857 at the northern edge of Yellowstone, which would lose $1.8 million.

“The parks go across party lines,” Berg said. “They’re an affordable destination. They’re the most compelling reason Congress ought to get its act together.”

The Park Service’s dryly worded “Instructions for Se-questration Reduction Planning Template” calls for drastic measures if Congress does not avert the cuts.

“We expect that a cut of this magnitude, intensified by the lateness of the implementation, will result in reductions to visitor services, hours of operation, shortening of seasons and possibly the closing of areas during periods when there is insufficient staff to ensure the protection of visitors, em-ployees, resources and government assets,” Jarvis wrote in a memo obtained by the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, which is working to rally the public against the cuts.

The memo instructs park officials to plan for furloughs and eliminate most of the 9,000 seasonal employees who staff most visitor operations.

“Everything would be reduced from what visitors expect when they come to a national park,” said Joan Anzelmo, former superintendent of Colorado National Monument. “We’re not an office that answers phones.”

Even the White House visitor center and 82 acres sur-rounding 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would be affected.

The Park Service’s $2.2 billion budget would be sliced by 5.1 percent. The effect would be severe, former park of-ficials and budget experts say, because the cuts would be made over the seven remaining months of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

With salaries making up 80 to 90 percent of their costs, parks have very few discretionary expenses. Few have been able to squirrel away money to prepare for sequestration. By March they will have spent more than 40 percent of their yearly budget.

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It’s not often that the Cameron Crazies fall silent, but they did just that when Duke standout point guard Chelsea Gray col-lapsed to the floor.

The No. 5 Blue Devils (24-1, 14-0 in the ACC) narrowly escaped a motivated Wake

Forest squad (11-15, 4-10) Sunday in an 81-70 win, but the victory came with a heavy price.

With 8:07 remaining in the first half, Gray moved to attack the basket after an offensive rebound and drew contact from Wake Forest forward Dearica Hamby in an awkward fall.

Several minutes passed as Gray writhed in agony before she could leave the floor with the assistance of team medical staff members, who took her to the locker room on crutches. Struggling off the court to an ovation from fans and players alike, the junior guard was careful not to put any weight on her right leg.

After the game, Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie announced that Gray, who en-tered the game averaging 13.1 points per game and leading the ACC in both steals and assists, will miss the remainder of the regular season with a dislocated kneecap. If there are any ligament complications, she could miss even more time.

“We’ll find out [more] after the MRI,” McCallie said. “It’s been dislocated, and they don’t know what that involves relative to ligaments. What we do know is that she’ll be out for the rest of the regular season.”

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by Lopa RahmanTHE CHRONICLE

After a last-place finish in the ACC and the resignation of head coach Sean Mc-Nally last year following a seven-year ten-ure, Duke baseball underwent a facelift, overhauling the entire coaching staff. And when the unranked Blue Devils (1-2) took down No. 13 Florida (2-1) in Gainesville, Fla. Friday, the shake-up paid off.

Duke defeated the Gators 4-3 Friday be-fore falling 4-2 Satur-day and 16-5 Sunday in the three-game series at McKethan Stadium.

“We got a tre-mendous start from Trent Swart,” Blue Devil head coach Chris Pollard said of Friday’s game. “He pitched six really strong innings and

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ils. Wake Forest center Sandra Garcia led the Demon Deacons from the opening tip, scoring six quick points as Wake For-est took an early 8-0 advantage. Both Gray and Elizabeth Williams had slow starts for Duke, including several missed layups and some defensive lapses.

“We weren’t ready out of the get-go,” McCallie said. “Wake did a great job com-

ing out of the gates.” Duke clung to a 22-20 lead as Gray was

helped off, and the Demon Deacons looked poised to earn a rare win in Durham.

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The doubles point came down to Annie Mulholland, left, and Marianne Jodoin, right, who secured the win for the Blue Devils.

Duke upsets and sweeps No. 2 Florida

by Olivia BanksTHE CHRONICLE

The No. 4 Blue Devils knew they would be in for a long match, going up against No. 2 Florida Sunday. In a re-match of last year’s NCAA tournament semifinal, in which the Blue Devils lost 4-3, Duke could hardly have asked for a more satisfying win.

After a heartbreaking loss to North Carolina in the semi-finals of the National Team Indoors last week, the women were eager to redeem themselves. The 4-0 win was Duke’s first-ever sweep against the Gators and only its fifth overall win against Florida in program history.

Head coach Jamie Ashworth was extremely proud of the way his team played and believes it says a lot about Duke tennis.

“So many teams play Florida and go out on the court and roll over because it’s Florida,” Ashworth said. “I told them if we go out there and fight and put pressure on them and make them come up with shots, we’d be in a good position because teams don’t do that to them. Other teams play the ‘Florida’ on their jersey rather than the ball.”

On court three, the doubles team of junior Hanna Mar and sophomore Monica Turewicz took care of business quick-ly against Florida’s Danielle Collins and Olivia Janowicz. After breaking serve to open the set, Mar and Turewicz cruised to an 8-4 victory and put Duke’s first win on the board.

Duke’s No. 1 doubles team of senior captain Mary Clay-ton and sophomore Ester Goldfeld showed their endur-ance in a loss to Florida’s Lauren Embree and and Sofie Oyen. After being down 4-1, Clayton and Goldfeld fought their way back 4-5 with aggressive net play and strategic ball placement. But despite their efforts, the duo could not manage to hold off the Gators, losing 8-4.

The doubles point came down to sophomore pair Mari-anne Jodoin and Annie Mulholland on court two. After be-ing down 6-4, Mulholland recorded a powerful overhead smash down the middle of the court to tie it up at 6-6.

Florida’s Brianna Morgan and Alexandra Cercone showed off potent net play, but Mulholland and Jodoin managed to hang on for a tiebreak at 8-8. After being down a mini-break, a forehand volley from Jodoin put the ball just out of Florida’s reach, clinching an 8-7 victory and the doubles point for the Blue Devils.

“After watching Marianne and Annie compete so well and fight and win their doubles match, it gave us all so much confidence,” Goldfeld said. “I think that definitely carried over into singles and helped all of us.”

No. 45 Goldfeld won her singles match against No. 9 Sofie Oyen in straight sets and Turewicz gave Duke a second


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Duke falls short against the Terps

60% FG The Terrapins entered play making 47.2 percent of their shots from the field, but had no problem making easy buckets vs. Duke.

40-20 rebsMaryland dominated Duke on the boards, out-rebounding the Blue Dev-ils 40-20. The Terrapins capitalized on those sec-ond-chance opportunities en route to the victory.

by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE

COLLEGE PARK, Md.—In what might be the final ACC game Duke plays against Mary-land on the road, the Blue Devils made their exit from the Comcast Center amid a sea of rowdy Terrapin fans.

Unable to handle Maryland’s size and in-tensity on the glass, No. 2 Duke lost to the Terrapins 83-81 in what was likely the penul-timate conference matchup between the two teams and potentially the Blue Devils’ last trip to College Park.

The Blue Devils (22-3, 9-3 in the ACC), who did not hold a lead in the second half, made a late run, trailing by just two points with 38.7 seconds remaining. The Terrapins (18-7, 6-6) led by as many as 10 with 3:39 re-maining, but Duke finally knotted it up at 81 with 17 seconds left when Rasheed Sulaimon nailed three free throws after getting fouled on an attempt from deep.

But Quinn Cook fouled freshman guard Seth Allen with 2.8 seconds on the clock. Allen—who finished with 16 points playing the minutes vacated by suspended Pe’Shon Howard—made both free throws and Cook missed a last-second heave, prompting the Maryland faithful to storm the court.

“Quinn took a great shot. I thought it was in, but sometimes it just doesn’t bounce your way,” Sulaimon said. “Maryland played a great game and I’m really proud of our team and how we fought, especially in a hostile en-vironment like that, to have a chance to win the game.”

Maryland held a decisive edge on the glass throughout the game, capitalizing on Duke’s smaller lineup and building a 40-20 rebound-ing advantage.

“It’s one thing to play Duke close, it’s another thing to beat them,” Ter-rapin head coach Mark Turgeon said. “I thought our big guys were domi-nant, physically. Forty-to-twenty on the boards—that’s pretty good.”

Maryland dominated the inside, shooting 60.0 percent from the field and converting on easy opportuni-ties inside the paint.

National Player of the Year can-didate Mason Plumlee was no match for the Terrapin center Alex Len. The 7-foot-1 Ukrainian dominated Plumlee on both ends of the floor en route to 19 points and nine re-bounds in just 28 minutes of ac-tion. Maryland, utilizing a rotation of nine players, kept its big men rested by rotating them through the lineup, leaving the Blue Dev-ils’ shallow frontcourt rotation exhausted in the second half.

Plumlee managed just four points and three boards on the evening. Plumlee spent sig-nificant portions of the second half on the bench, yielding minutes to Josh Hairston and Alex Murphy.

“There’s so much pressure on Mason to play outstanding,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyze-wski said. “That wears on you as the season goes along. He didn’t look fresh tonight and Len played really well.”

Seth Curry made his first six shots of the contest on the way to 14 first-half points for Duke and finished with a game-high 25. He did not attempt a 3-point-er until the 3:06 mark of the first half, but capitalized on jump-shooting opportunities from the

wing and drove to the bucket for runners and easy layups.

Despite Curry’s hot shoot-ing to start the game, Mary-

land closed the first half on a 5-0 run to seize the

game’s momentum and added an 8-0 run early in the second

half to put the game firmly in their control.

Maryland held a 49-41 advantage after forward

Jake Layman converted on a transition layup and forward

Shaquille Cleare added two free throws from the line.

One of the bright spots of the first half for the Blue Devils was the play of Hairston, who was assertive down low and finished with 11 points—just two short of his career high—despite tearing a ligament in his right thumb in practice Friday. He showed strength in the post and on the defensive end where he drew three offensive fouls.

The Terrapins struggled to take care of the ball, especially in the second half. The Blue Devils forced 26 Maryland turnovers, 16 of which came after halftime. This was the first time Duke had forced 26 turn-overs in a game and lost since Jan. 10, 2007, when the team forced 28 turnovers in an 11-point loss to Georgia Tech. The Blue Devils have accomplished this feat eight times since then and won those games by an average of nearly 34

points.After Hairston picked

up his fourth foul with 7:42 remaining in the game, the

Blue Devils’ small lineup got even smaller. Just as it had in

the late stages of its win against North Carolina Wednesday, Duke featured four guards on the floor down the stretch against a much bigger and stronger Mary-land lineup. The Blue Devils finished the game with Murphy playing center after Hairston and Plumlee fouled out in the game’s final minute.

“We had five guards out here for a lot of the time. This has been an exhausting sched-ule for our team since N.C. State and we’re playing on fumes,” Krzyzewski said. “The lineups that we play, Murphy never plays cen-ter for us.... We don’t even have enough guys to practice with to try it.”

Although the Blue Devils kept the game within reach throughout the second half, the Terrapins always seemed to answer. Maryland’s ability to get to the free-throw line helped to keep its lead safe. After at-tempting just three free throws in the first half, the Terrapins were 23-of-31 from the charity stripe in the second period. They were the beneficiary of 17 Duke fouls in the second half and were in the bonus for the game’s final 9:49.

“There was a stretch in the second half where almost every possession, if they didn’t score they were getting fouled,” Su-laimon said. “They got in the bonus and every time we fouled them they were shoot-ing two free throws and they did a great job at making their free throws. It was definite-ly tough but we just have to fight through it and learn to adjust to how the game is being called.”

After a quiet start to the second half, Curry nailed back-to-back 3-pointers to trim Mary-land’s advantage to 80-78 with 57.4 seconds remaining, but missed a jumper from the el-bow early in the shot clock with a chance to tie the game.

Layman converted the back end of his two free throws after Plumlee fouled out, leading to the final sequence in which Sulaimon’s three free throws ultimately proved too little, too late.


Quinn Cook heaves a last-second attempt that ultimately rimmed out in Duke’s 83-81 loss to Maryland.

—>After the game, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski disclosed that junior forward Josh Hairston—who fi nished two points away from his career high against the Terrapins—tore a ligament in his right thumb during Friday’s practice.

“He got hurt yesterday and tore a ligament in his thumb. He can play the rest of the year, but it will have to be taken care of after the season,” Krzyzewski said.

—> Following his team’s loss, Krzyzewski had some choice words regarding conference realign-ment and the Terrapins’ decision to leave the ACC

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26 TOsThe Blue Devil defense harassed Maryland’s back-court all evening, forcing 26 turnovers. Duke scored 27 points off those mis-cues.

The fragility of basketball success

who gave Turgeon’s squad the praise it de-served after Saturday’s game at the Com-cast Center in College Park.

“We’re not this great basketball team,” Kryzyzewski said. “Our team has found a way to win with Ryan being out. And we have to continue to find that. It’s very frag-ile—you can see that tonight.”

Perhaps the best definition of elite sta-tus in college basketball today is the abil-ity to win even when a team fails to find that delicate balance in any given game. Duke looked like that sort of squad early in the season when Kelly was on the floor to lend a hand in many different facets of the game, but Saturday’s loss showcased the challenge that the Blue Devils face in getting all cylinders firing at once.

Defensively, the Blue Devils did a fan-tastic job forcing turnovers against Mary-land, racking up 12 steals—including four apiece by point guards Quinn Cook and Tyler Thornton—and converting the Ter-rapins’ 26 giveaways into 27 points.

But their efforts wreaking havoc with Maryland ball-handlers were counteracted by subpar efforts protecting the rim.

Turgeon used nine players against the Blue Devils. All nine took at least three shots, and only one—guard Logan Aron-halt, whose three shots were all 3-point-ers—made fewer than half of his attempts. When point guard Seth Allen was able to avoid turning the ball over, he penetrated with ease, shooting 4-for-7 from the floor and earning eight trips to the free throw line, including the game-winning pair with 2.8 seconds to play after blowing by Quinn Cook close to midcourt.

Allen’s critical free throws were two of 34 that Maryland earned in the game, a consequence of personnel mismatches—which Maryland exploited to greater ef-fect than Duke—as well as whistle-happy officials who called 49 fouls in the game, including one on each of the last four pos-sessions.

“You just want to play,” senior guard Seth Curry said. “It seemed like both teams were playing well the whole game, but the game changed when they were stopping play every possession, so it’s frustrating. It’s not fun.”

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On offense, Curry brought his top shooting form, especially in the first half, when he swished numerous off-balance jumpshots en route to a 7-for-9 showing be-fore halftime.

But as unstoppable as he was at sev-eral key moments, Duke’s interior game weighed down Curry’s winning effort. A visibly exhausted Mason Plumlee managed just four points and three rebounds—season lows in both categories—against a smorgasbord of big Terrapin defenders. Plumlee struggled to establish consistent position in the post, and came up short on several hook shots when he did get the ball down low.

Josh Hairston gave perhaps his best ef-fort of the season, scoring 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting and drawing three offen-sive fouls, but Plumlee emphasized that the team cannot rely on others to keep its bal-ance intact.

“I’ve just got to show up,” Plumlee said.

“I didn’t think I showed up to play today, and I let my teammates down.”

With a winning balance so difficult to come by, there comes a point in the sea-son—especially in the ACC—where strat-egy and talent more readily take a backseat to emotion and fatigue. Challenges arise for every team, but the champions will be the teams that can keep the low points each game from getting too low, that can prove flexible and versatile and that can recover quickly from setbacks.

Saturday, the Terrapins were better in those areas than Duke was, but for his part, Krzyzewski thinks he has the neces-sary ingredients in his own locker room as well.

“I’ve got a bunch of winners in there. They don’t have positions,” Krzyzewski said. “There’s no strategy really in this. You’re trying to survive. You’re trying to get five guys out there to fight. There’s a lot of improvisation done in this game.”


Success is fragile, as evidenced by the ups and downs of Maryland head coach Mark Turgeon, Gieryn writes.

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“I have a great deal of respect for Maryland. If it was such a rivalry, they’d still be in the ACC. Obviously they don’t think it’s that important, or they wouldn’t be in the Big Ten. I respect their basketball program and the job their coaches have done and their play-ers have done over the years. We’ve had some great games with them, but we have great games against a lot of people. A lot of people want to beat us, and they’re one of them,” Krzyzewski said. —Daniel Carp

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Seth Curry scored 14 first-half points en route to a game-high 25, but said the game was difficult because the referees called the game so tightly.

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Duke struggles on both ends in loss to NDby Jacob Levitt

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Saturday the weather was cold, but Duke came out even colder, surrendering the game’s first six goals to No. 3 Notre Dame (1-0) en route to an 8-1 halftime deficit and a 13-5 defeat.

Although the No. 4 Blue Devils (2-2) mustered more fight in the second half,

drawing within four less than seven min-utes into the third quarter, the Fight-ing Irish scored the next four goals to quell any chance of a comeback.

Duke looked en-tirely out of sync right out of the gate, com-mitting unforced turnovers and failing to move the ball into position for good looks at the goal. The Blue Devils did not even attempt a shot until more than 11 minutes into the game. After the first period, the Fighting Irish led 2-0 while outshooting the Blue Devils 10-3.

“We played a lot of defense in that first quarter,” head coach John Danowski said. “And even though we played a lot of de-fense it was only two-nothing, and we thought maybe we dodged a bullet.”

The onslaught continued in the second quarter, and Notre Dame scored two more goals just over three minutes into the pe-riod. Danowski turned to backup goalten-der Ben Krebs to provide a spark, but to no avail.

The defense and goaltending, however, was hardly the only problem. For the half, the Fighting Irish outshot Duke 23-7, as the

Blue Devils tallied their lowest shot total for a half since a loss to Penn in February 2011. Although Danowski credited Notre Dame’s strong defense for forcing turn-overs and preventing Duke’s penetration, he admitted that the team looked tentative on offense.

“I think we were disappointed with our effort the first half,” Danowski said. “Notre Dame is a terrific team, terrific defensively, but we thought we were tiptoeing around a lot in the first half.“

The Blue Devils appeared to shift mo-mentum by scoring with just 39 seconds

left before halftime, but the Fighting Irish scored twice more in the final 13 seconds to build the lead to seven and effectively end the game at the half.

Duke opened the second half with Wigrizer back in goal and showed some of the playmaking ability that led to a pre-season top-10 ranking. Junior Jordan Wolf scored just 19 seconds into the quarter on a transition play, and the Blue Devils’ next goal came after they worked it inside to Josh Offit for a good look at the net.

“When we scored that first goal [of the second half], it gave us a lot of life,” Danows-ki said. “I thought we got a lot of energy off of that. We created a bunch of turnovers and picked up a bunch of ground balls. It was a huge lead that Notre Dame had at that point for us to try to come back, but at least we fought to the end.”

The brightest spot for Duke, though, was the play of Brendan Fowler, who was named last week’s ACC Defensive Player of the Week. Fowler won 15-of-22 faceoffs for the Blue Devils while collecting 10 ground balls.

“Brendan is one of those young men that provides this real toughness,” Danows-ki said. “Now two weeks in a row he has re-ally provided a spark and really been con-sistent for us.”

Sunday the Blue Devils carried over some of the fight they showed in the sec-ond half against the Fighting Irish. Duke leapt to an 8-0 lead in the first half against Mercer (1-1) before cruising the rest of the way to a 15-3 blowout. Wolf and se-nior David Lawson scored four goals each to lead the Blue Devils against the over-matched Bears.

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Duke goalie Dan Wigrizer spent some time on the bench after surrendering a number of early goals.

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righty Andrew Istler took the mound in the eighth inning and finished the game, retiring all four batters he faced.

At the plate, junior Mike Rosenfeld led the Blue Devils, going 3-for-5 with a double and triple, earning an RBI and scoring a run. Duke third baseman Jordan Betts added the game’s only longball, a two-run shot in the fourth inning.

“We were opportunistic offensively,” Pollard said. “We

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took advantage of a couple mistakes that [Florida] made. Our guys competed really well.”

Saturday, Marconcini recorded a two-run home run in the fifth inning, but the Blue Devils could not overcome their slow start. The Gators took advantage of Duke’s slug-gish opening innings, knocking a three-run home run in the bottom of the first that proved to be the difference in the game. Duke went scoreless for the first three frames, and the Gators never trailed, adding an insurance run in the sixth inning.

“[Marconcini] didn’t have a great first at-bat in Sat-urday’s game,” Pollard said. “But then he adjusted, got a pitch he could handle at a big spot and put us right back in the ball game.”

In the final game of the set, Duke had a 3-2 lead at the bottom of the sixth inning. The Blue Devils’ hopes of earn-ing another signature win were dashed as they fell apart in the final innings of the game, allowing 14 runs.

“I give Florida credit for scoring 11 runs when they had two outs,” Pollard said. “They got key hits when they needed them.”

Duke junior Matt Berezo provided an offensive spark for the Blue Devils in the series finale, going 2-for-3 with a single, double and two RBIs.

“Matt is a great example of being patient until your number is called,” Pollard said. “You don’t have control as a player over when your number is called. All you can do is be ready....and Matt waited patiently, came in today and had really good at-bats.”

The game wasn’t as lopsided as the score suggests, Pollard said.

“We were just a pitch or two away from having a chance to win that ball game,” he said.

The Blue Devils hope to build on the momentum of Fri-day’s success as they prepare to open their home slate this weekend against Bucknell for a three-game series.

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Mike Rosenfeld keyed Duke’s season-opening win against No. 13 Florida, going 3-for-5 with a double and triple.

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Despite No. 9 Duke (10-2) looking good after winning the first doubles match against No. 1 Virginia (4-0), its lead was brief as the top-ranked Cavaliers went on to take a 4-0 victory in the semifinals of the ITA National Team Indoors.

The tandem of freshman Michael Redlicki and soph-omore Jason Tahir recorded the first win of the night at the No. 2 spot against Virginia’s Justin Shane and Julen Urlguen by a score of 8-3. Shane and Urglen rank No. 15 nationally while Redlicki and Tahir check in at No. 18.

The Blue Devils were unable to capture the doubles point, however, as No. 2 Henrique Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler proceeded to drop their match, as did No. 33 Chris Mengel and Fred Saba.

The loss for Cunha and Hemmeler snapped a streak of

16 consecutive victories. Cunha, who has been fighting injuries, was unable to

compete in singles, bumping Redlicki up to play at the No. 2 spot behind senior Fred Saba at the No. 1 position. The 6-foot-7 freshman was defeated 6-3, 6-1 by Virginia’s Alex Domijan, who currently ranks No. 1 in the nation. Redlicki’s classmate Bruno Semenzato was able to take his competition with Cavalier Justin Shane to three sets but ultimately dropped the match 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 at the six position.

Virginia’s Jarmere Jenkins took down Saba in three sets, and once those three matches were finished, play on the other three courts was cut short as the Cavaliers had al-ready clinched the match.

The Blue Devils have a few weeks off before they return to the court Tuesday, March 5 when they take on Virginia Commonwealth.

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An injured Henrique Cunha suffered his first doubles defeat in 17 matches with partner Raphael Hemmeler.


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singles victory against Collins. On court six, No. 102 Jodoin dropped

the first set to Janowicz 6-1, but managed to fight her way to a 6-4 victory in the sec-ond. Going into the third, all Jodoin was thinking about was playing her best to help her team win, and she clinched the fourth match for the Blue Devils with a 6-2 third set victory.

“We played with so much emotion,” Jodoin said. “We gave it everything we had on every single court and the score tells it all.”

Before Jodoin’s victory ended play, No.

not taken over the game. The sophomore sharpshooter tallied a career-high 29 points, including five 3-pointers. Wake Forest head coach Jennifer Hoover had high praise for the Illinois native’s contributions.

“Obviously, Duke is a phenomenal bas-ketball team,” Hoover said. “They’ve got a lot of balance, a lot of different weapons. When one goes down they have somebody step up and try to take over.… Tricia Liston did that today.”

In addition to Liston’s exceptional pro-duction, Alexis Jones and Chloe Wells were key in filling the void left by Gray, combining for 14 points in 60 minutes of action. Com-ing off the bench, Richa Jackson also contrib-uted eight points to the winning effort.

“Richa plays fearless,” McCallie said. “She’s a smart player in that she loves to play and attack…. When she came into the game late she hit that three—which was a really important three—on the right wing.”

Despite some streaky long-range shoot-ing from guards Chelsea Douglas and Lake-via Boykin, the Demon Deacons were not able to keep pace with Liston and Duke’s supporting cast down the stretch. Liston and her fellow Blue Devils were urged on-ward throughout the second half by an in-jured Gray, who sat on the bench with her leg elevated, clapping and offering words of encouragement.

“I love playing with Chelsea on the court, and [it was awesome] off the court to see her there cheering on,” Liston said. “In the timeouts I’d walk over there right before I went out, and she’d tell me some-thing that I needed to do or look for on the court. She was there the whole game, and I think everybody felt her presence in the game, especially her coming out in the sec-ond half and being as strong as she was.”

With several tough conference games remaining including a home game against North Carolina, Duke will have to find a way to win without Gray.

“We’re going to keep doing what we do,” McCallie said. “It’s a great opportu-nity for [our players] to step up like you saw today.”

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64 Clayton had match point on her racket against No. 116 Cercone, to whom she dropped a three-hour marathon match in the NCAA semifinals last year. After dropping the first set 6-4, Clayton broke serve early in the second and went up 2-0, eventually tak-ing the second set 6-1 and leading the third set 5-2.

“She just kept fighting,” Ashworth said. “Never for a second did she shrug her shoulders or put her head down, the same as our entire team.”

Beating the No. 2 team in the country required the all-out effort the Blue Devils put forth on all courts Sunday.

“I was really proud of this team today,” Ashworth said. “We’ve had good results in the past couple years, but today, I was just proud of the way they handled themselves and happy for each one of them.”


Mary Clayton was in the middle of a hard-fought match before play was stopped in Duke’s win.

Liston steps up in Gray’s absenceW. BASKETBALL from page 2


Tricia Liston scored a career-high 29 points off the bench in Duke’s victory against Wake Forest.


Chloe Wells has been key off the bench for Duke and will now play a bigger role with Gray injured.


Alexis Jones starts alongside Gray in the Duke back-court and will now assume more responsibility.

Feb. 18, 2013 issue of The Chronicle

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