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Duke responds to ASA boycott of Israeli universitiesby Georgia Parke

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To show their support for global aca-demic freedom President Richard Brod-head has joined in opposition to a boy-cott of Israeli universities.

In December, two-thirds of 1,252 members of the American Studies Asso-ciation voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions because of Israel’s treatment of Palestine and its impact on students and scholars. Brodhead was one of 11 university presidents and chancellors who signed a statement Dec. 20 in op-position to the boycott—meaning they believe universities should continue to work with higher education institutions in Israel—because stopping this type of collaboration is a violation of academic freedom.

A statement from the American Stud-ies Association—an organization dedi-cated to the study of American culture and history—explained that the move-ment is to promote solidarity among scholars and students who have been “deprived of their academic freedom.” Additionally, it argues that Israeli uni-versities are party to state policies violat-ing human rights, international law and United Nations resolutions.

The opposing statement from the As-sociation of American Universities—of which Brodhead is an executive commit-tee member—explained that academic freedom is a main principle of AAU members, so they cannot support the boycott.

“Efforts to address political issues, or to address restrictions on academic free-

dom, should not themselves infringe upon academic freedom,” the statement read. “The boycott of Israeli academic institutions therefore clearly violates the academic freedom not only of Israeli scholars but also of American scholars who might be pressured to comply with it.”

Brodhead, who has been traveling and unavailable for interviews, noted in an email Friday that he provided input to the AAU statement and considers it representative of his comment on the is-sue.

“The statement makes a strong, co-gent case and I support it wholeheart-edly,” Brodhead said.

The boycott is the most recent in a line of academic-related protests against Israel starting in 2002, from a variety of

countries across the globe.“Israel is feeling the pressure interna-

tionally from countries or, it sounds like, institutions, who are making statements about what they want to see moving forward,” said U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki.

Members of the Duke community have since responded both to the boy-cott and the opposition to it in a still-developing debate over the issue.

Fred Moten, a former English pro-fessor at Duke and current professor at the University of California at Riv-erside, endorsed the boycott in a state-ment, explaining that intellectuals have a responsibility to not only exercise aca-demic freedom, but also promote it and

by Carleigh SteihmTHE CHRONICLE

Beginning with the Class of 2018, freshmen will have access to gender-neu-tral housing on East Campus.

The details of implementation are still being solidified, but the gender-neutral communities will not limit students from participating in living communities, said Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez. He noted that students can work with housing on a case-by-case basis to have their needs met. In addition, all selective living groups will have the option of be-coming gender-neutral. The changes fol-low months of collaboration among ad-ministrators, Duke Students for Gender Neutrality and representatives of Duke Student Government.

“DSG has always supported a robust and inclusive gender-neutral housing policy that included first-year students,” said senior Stefani Jones, president of DSG. “It’s important that we extend the same rights and privileges to first-years as we do all students on campus.”

The Duke community should be in-clusive of all students, Jones noted.

“The key is not just that first-years now have access to the gender neutral housing program, but that all students do,” she said. “Administrators had treated the individual campus programs as pilots for a larger one, so I think it seemed natural to expand the program after it was successful.”

See HOUSING, page 12

See BOYCOTT, page 9

Gender neutral housing to be on East Campus

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By late February, students will be able to use new ceramics, photography and print-making studios at the remodeled Arts An-nex.

The Arts Annex, which first opened in Fall 2012, has been closed since Thanksgiv-ing break for the renovations. Located off of Campus Drive, the Arts Annex houses practice spaces for dance groups as well as free art studios. The art studios are open and fully stocked for student artists.

The Arts Annex will be opening in stages. Because the dance studio did not undergo renovations, it will open Monday. The new Hue Studios—which will host ce-ramics, photography and printmaking sup-plies—will open in late February.

“The renovations meet the demand for a wide variety of artists who previously had no spaces in which to use their de-sired mediums,” said sophomore Rebecca Brenner, chair of the Visual Arts Commit-tee for Duke University Union. “There are no other open studios for students who are

not enrolled in visual studies classes.”Students led the renovation process as

the annex is completely student run, said Caitlin Shaw, program coordinator for the University Center for Activities and Events.

“Students identified studios and re-sources to add during the renovation, helped design the layout for the new spac-es and provided feedback and guidance throughout the process,” she said. “From the beginning, the Arts Annex has been a

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Students sound off on the first week of recruitmentWith the beginning of the semester come new classes, calendars packed with reunions after a three-week separation, preparations for basketball season and of

course rush. The Chronicle’s Sasha Zients and Raisa Chowdhury spoke to students about how the process has been so far.

“Rush sucks unless you take risks and break some rules. Start a dance party, talk about bad hair-cuts, and don’t be afraid to snort when you laugh. You don’t want a group of girls to like you only at your best, because then they hate you 99 percent of the time.”

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Frothingham talks gender neutral housingQ&A&A&

One semester after the first gender-neutral hous-ing community was established on West Campus, administrators have announced that the program will be expanding for freshmen beginning Fall 2014. Senior Sunny Frothingham, co-president of Duke Students for Gender Neutrality, worked close-ly with administrators to help facilitate the policy changes. In addition to her work with DSGN, Froth-ingham is also the Duke Student Government Direc-tor of LGBTQ Affairs and Policy and the Outreach Chair for Blue Devils United. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm sat down with Frothingham to dis-cuss what the expansion of gender-neutral housing will mean for the Duke community.

The Chronicle: Can you describe how you worked with administration to bring about this expansion?

Sunny Frothingham: While we had many differences of opinion with the administra-tion on the timeline and the scope of ex-pansions during the discussions around our proposal in the 2011-2012 school year, Duke administration has consistently shown a clear commitment to working with us to improve Duke’s housing policies and make Duke a more inclusive place.

This year though, the process was refresh-ingly fast. After writing a detailed proposal with [senior] Jacob Tobia and [junior] Jacob Zionce about our ideas for continued ex-pansion and corresponding rationales, and passing a resolution though Duke Student Government about our proposed changes, the administration was quick to embrace our proposal.

TC: Why do you think it is important for students to have access to gender neutral housing?

SF: For many college students, single-sex housing sections—men living with men, women living with women, male halls, female halls—can feel safe and comfortable, but on a practical level, this system fails to be opti-mal for every student, due to the limitations it places on roommate and bathroom choice. Single-sex residence halls are especially in-adequate for transgender and genderqueer students. In a 2010 study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, transgender and genderqueer students reported 38.1 per-cent more verbal harassment and more fear for their physical safety than people of other gender identities, and when students were asked about the location of harassment, 11.8 percent of harassment occurred in residence halls. The inclusion of gender-neutral hous-ing options and bathrooms helps to ensure that every student, regardless of their gender identity, can find a housing option where they feel safe and comfortable. In these terms, it’s a pretty simple ask.

TC: Can you describe the organization of Duke Students for Gender Neutrality?

SF: Duke Students for Gender Neutrality started as a small student organization lead by Jacob Tobia and myself with the goal of increasing gender-neutral space on campus. The height of the organization was the 2011-2012 school year during which we put togeth-er an 84 page proposal which outlined the need for and the details of a more compre-hensive gender-neutral housing program. In this process we gained endorsements from a wide range of campus organizations, includ-

ing Duke Student Government, Selective House Council, [Interfraternity Council], Panhel, Spectrum, CAPS, The Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity—then known as The Center for LGBT Life—and the Women’s Center. We gathered data on the views of the student body through a survey by Duke Student Government and found broad student support for opt-in gender-neutral housing. In response to our proposal, Duke Administration committed to expanding gender-neutral housing options starting in Fall 2013 by creating gender-neutral space on West Campus in addition to expanding the former gender-neutral options on Central Campus, and by allowing Selective Houses in certain areas to opt-in to the program.

In the 2012-2013 school year, Duke Stu-dents for Gender Neutrality worked closely with the House Model Working Group, Duke Student Government, and Blue Devils Unit-ed to figure out the details of implementing the new program. This year Duke Students for Gender Neutrality is in the process of de-chartering as a student group, and merging more fully with Blue Devils United. We en-vision future efforts relating to gender neu-tral housing space and bathrooms coming together under the leadership of Blue Devils United and through partnerships with Duke Student Government, specifically with the di-rector of LGBTQ affairs and policy and vice president of equity and outreach.

TC: Now that this goal has been accom-plished, what are the next steps for Duke Stu-dents for Gender Neutrality?

SF: When I arrived at Duke, the gender-neutral housing options were limited to a small program on Central Campus, and I am excited to see Duke administration commit-

ting to make opt-in gender-neutral housing available to all Duke students, by expand-ing gender-neutral housing options to East Campus and all Selective Houses. It’s been an amazing opportunity to work on this issue alongside other student leaders and adminis-tration, and to witness so much progress on this issue during my time at Duke.

Looking ahead Blue Devils United hopes to reach out to and partner with students on other college campuses seeking to increase gender-neutral housing options. We specifi-cally hope to support the efforts of student activists at UNC Chapel Hill and other UNC schools following the statewide ban of gen-der-neutral housing at all seventeen UNC system campuses by the UNC Board of Gov-ernors this summer.

Moving forward, we are excited to see the cultural impacts of broad gender-neu-tral housing options at Duke and our peer institutions as gender-neutral housing pro-grams continue to grow and fundamentally transform housing in higher education.

TC: If you could say one thing to mem-bers of the incoming class who identifies as transgender or genderqueer, what would it be?

SF: Realistically, Duke isn’t perfect and you will likely encounter heteronormativ-ity here as much as anywhere. That said, we do have some of the best gender-neutral housing options and trans health benefits in higher education, as well as a beautiful new Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. More broadly, you will be coming to a place where you can enact substantive change with student leaders and an administration committed to making Duke better for each new class.


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work to make it universally available. He wrote that academic freedom should mean unrestricted exchange of speech for all members of the academic com-munity, including Israelis and Palestin-ians alike. He hopes the boycott will re-vitalize people’s capacity to think, speak and act against exclusion.

“ASA’s endorsement of the call for boycott and sanctions of Israeli aca-demic institutions complicit in the ad-ministration of the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands is a significant ad-vance in our assertion and protection of [academic freedom],” he wrote.

Natasha Kirtchuk, a senior and mem-ber of the Duke Friends of Israel who has worked for the Israeli President Shi-mon Peres for the past year, noted that

many Duke students and faculty work and study in Israel, and that the damage of a boycott could reach Duke-connect-ed people as well. She said she hopes the American Studies Association will rescind the boycott, and she supports Duke’s stand for academic freedom.

“Universities are intended to foster and encourage constructive dialogue,” Kirtchuk said. “It’s not acceptable to cut off Israeli academic institutions [be-cause of] political issues…. Is it right for politics to outweigh academic free-dom?”

The boycott is called for because it represents an issue larger than just aca-demic freedom, said senior Anastasia Karklina, a member of Duke Students for Justice in Palestine.

“Palestinian people live under oc-cupation that strips them of not only academic freedom but equal access to

resources, freedom of movement and basic human rights,” Karklina said.

She also noted that the boycott is a non-violent protest.

Sarey Hamarneh, a sophomore and DSJP member, said he doubts that Duke’s decision to protest the boycott was solely for reasons of academic free-dom.

“I do believe theres some kind of pressure or other behind-the-scenes reasons for supporting it,” Hamarneh said.

Hamarneh added that the AAU’s stance is not necessarily representative of all Duke faculty opinions on the mat-ter, and historically DSJP has not had a fair amount of recognition within the Duke community.

“The Palestinian movement here has been brushed under the carpet,” he said, noting an incident in 2012 where

a member of the Jewish Student Union disrupted a DSJP event by flipping a ta-ble and tearing down a display. “No one tried to investigate anything, no one had talked about it after a day or two.”

Kirtchuk said she believes the Duke administration has been well-rounded when involved in Israel-Palestine issues, and though Duke Friends of Israel has not had issues with the administration, pro-Palestine groups on campus have been “openly hostile.” She said she be-lieves that Duke students are not well informed on the issue, and perspectives are often formed by personal upbring-ing or biased media.

“It’s difficult to have a well-rounded understanding of the conflict on cam-pus,” she said. “Students are often very much influenced by who they interact with on campus.”

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Anyway, as we drove through those magical

golden arches that read “Where dreams come true,” each of us was instantly transported back to that golden era of our childhood.

Growing up in Miami, Disney World was always the road trip of choice, especially since the other options were South Beach, where getting your face eaten off by a man on bath salts was a real possibility, or Casey Anthony’s house—neither of which sounded incredibly appealing. Not to mention celebrating Fidel Castro’s death for the sixth time on Calle Ocho was no longer all that exciting. I guess nothing could really beat Disney.

As we made our way to Downtown Disney, one of my friends brought up how cool it would be to work at Disney and how jealous she was of a girl from our high school, Samantha, that decided to leave the University of New Hampshire to enroll in the Disney College Program—an internship that I later found out was a very glamourized title for an often minimum wage job at a Disney theme park. I quickly learned that my friends’ Facebook profiles aren’t the best place for research on the prestigiousness of certain programs.

Still, I’m pretty sure you can add the word “Disney” in front of anything, and it will automatically sound like the most amazing thing on the planet. It definitely seemed that way every time Samantha posted about watching fireworks, hanging out after hours at the Magic Kingdom or meeting Cinderella for the fifth time. (Although Jane is still my favorite, arguably the hottest, yet somehow most forgotten of all the Disney ladies.)

After we parked and began to make our way toward Downtown Disney, just moments after talking about Samantha, we spotted her. Walt Disney World has over 55,000 employees, and we somehow managed to run into the one that we knew.

She didn’t seem too excited to see us though, likely because it was just days after New Years, and she was dressed in a orange neon vest, spending her Saturday night directing visitors where to park. While we spent our holidays snuggled by the air vents trying to stay cold (Yes, I mean cold. Sorry, Midwesterners), she was greeting tourists from all over the world, plastered with a fake smile across her face.

Suddenly, all her Facebook posts on the

“magical experience of working at Disney” didn’t seem so thrilling.

There go my plans to leave Duke for the magical land of $6 bottles of water and talking chipmunks. I would much rather spend my Saturdays dancing on the Shooter bar than showing people where to park until two in the morning.

What bothered me more, though, was just how wrong my perception of Samantha’s “magical Disney life” truly was. It bothered me that her Facebook profile was such a distorted sense of reality, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that we can’t expect people to post every boring or agonizing part of their day. We can’t treat someone’s Facebook timeline like a summary of their life. If we did, we’d literally feel like the only person on the planet who has ever had a bad day.

I think sometimes we forget just how much social media has transformed into such a manicured version of reality. Nobody has acne, it’s always sunny outside and the awkward stages never happened.

The brief moments of reality exist almost exclusively between the hours of 2:00 and 10:00 a.m. when everyone is either too drunk or asleep to efficiently monitor their Facebook persona.

All we can do is accept that social media is not reality. When you start comparing your life to someone else’s on social media, what you’re really doing is comparing your blooper reels to everyone else’s highlights.

We all have happy days, sad days, silly days, depressing days and every other type of day, but social media allows us to filter out those that we don’t care to share with the world.

Whether we consciously recognize it or not, each of us possesses an internal brand: an idealized image of morals, skills and a physical persona that we want others to see. Thus, social media gives us the perfect opportunity to display that “perfect brand.”

I have definitely done my fair share of “personal branding.” According to my 1,281 Facebook friends, I never had braces, I sit (make that stand) front row at every basketball game I attend and I never had that blonde phase in the sixth grade (yeah, that actually happened).

While I know that we can’t change what our friends are posting and obviously might not feel so inclined to start posting about the low points of our days, we can actively try to stop comparing our real lives with other’s idealized ones. I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school … I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy.

Dillon Patel is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Monday. Send Dillon message on Twitter @thecasualdevil.

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Before I rushed, I said: “But I love the diversity of random assignment.” My first-year dorm had all types: jocks, frat bros, quiet kids who rarely left their rooms, geniuses, girls who went

out every night. We were all friends. I felt like I actually knew the Class of 2015. I haven’t felt like I’ve known them since.

Before I rushed, I said: “It weirds me out—it’s like you’re auditioning to be friends with people.” I had spent my life auditioning for plays, and

I was thus well acquainted with this type of terrifying judgment and the possibility of subsequent debilitating rejection. And it was even worse—for shows, there were a myriad of perfectly explicable, painless reasons for rejection. But for rush, it was so simple—it really was nakedly about whether or not they liked you. They deemed which qualities were most important in a friend to them, and then they judged based on a few interactions whether or not you stacked up.

Before I rushed, I said: “But it’s not even about the diversity of the group—it’s about my own diversity.” Sometimes I was shallow, and I liked gossiping and getting pretty and going out and getting attention from boys. Other times I was an intellectual, and I enjoyed puns about the Allegory of the Cave that punctuated 4:30 a.m. philosophy debates. Sometimes I was an activist, and I would find myself barely relating to people whose concerns didn’t expand beyond themselves or their family or even their country. Other times, my own concerns couldn’t even expand beyond the third Lord of the Rings movie. Any group I picked, I felt like I was choosing a single side, or maybe two, and downplaying the rest.

So I didn’t want to rush. But I did want friends. In the end, I rushed a single SLG: Maxwell House.

And I loved them. I related to them with more of my sides than I had anticipated. I wasn’t nervous about getting in because we just clicked—the process of auditioning for a friend group seemed as organic as the simple process of making friends. Even better, I found them to be surprisingly diverse—all types, a group of true weirdos from many walks of life, maybe improved by the fact that we selected each other because we weeded out people with values that were so different that we’d never relate. I’ve never looked back.

But as campus fills with tired first-years who keep losing hours of sleep on both ends due to nerves at night and extended getting-ready routines in the morning, I’m wondering if maybe I should be looking back, at least a little.

Situations in which humans are sorted into categories are inherently difficult for us to judge because, inevitably, the feelings about being selected soon become overwhelmed by feelings about the results of this selection. I almost forgot how I used to feel about rush until I started talking to first-years who were sharing some of my old trepidation.

I couldn’t be more pleased with the results, so it would be confusing to remain so dissatisfied with the process. Moreover, if there’s not an obviously easier way to do it, and if the process is regularly yielding such happy outcomes—most people I know genuinely seem to love their group, and I love the group rush produces for me—why voice any objection?

As I see it, there are two reasons.For one, I do think we need to consider what is lost when we

select ourselves into groups of people who resemble us. Freshman year, beautiful interactions were born out of even the most severe differences. That stereotypical frat guy who used to objectify women? Boy, did we have great, fiery debates. That girl who was so rich she had to insert a location between the words “my” and “house”? I’ll miss her stories, and I’ll miss being surprised by her humility. That varsity athlete whose alarm could be heard at 5:30 a.m. every morning for practice? She made my 9:00 a.m. “run option” alarm seem like the easiest sound in the world.

There’s another reason, too.Facebook shows us universally broad Bid Day smiles, but we’re

deluding ourselves if we think this paints a good picture of what rush does to people. This week, there’s a girl getting a phone call about being dropped from eight of nine sororities in round two. This week, there’s a guy reading his email and seeing that he’s the only one of his friends who didn’t make it past round one in the group they’d all already decided they’d join. This week, there’s a girl who will conclude by Sunday that she simply is not charismatic or pretty. Three years later, she may not have changed her mind.

So even if I’m not calling for reform from my comfy seat in a group I love, I at least think I owe it to these people to say this:

It may seem like we all fully buy in. But we don’t. The process is horrible and unkind and shockingly imperfect. It shows us a tiny sliver of you, and the only reason I’m judging that sliver is that I was born a few months earlier than you were.

So first-years? If you’re inclined to, rush. I’m glad I did. But go in thinking that you’re better than this process, that you’re above it—because we all are.

Ellie Schaack is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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In November of last year, Reinhard Hütter, professor of Christian theology at the Divinity School, wrote an article in First Things advocating for undergraduate theological study at research universities.

Lamenting the segmentation and commoditization of many modern university curricula, Hütter argues that “all academic disciplines in the late-modern research university have become servile arts, and the university an accidental agglomeration of advanced research competencies gathered in one facility for the sake of managerial and logistical convenience.” To counter this trend and restore to academic institutions a more universal, liberal arts education, Hütter suggests the study of theology, “the Science of God, or the truths we know about God put into system.” We heartily concur with Hütter’s diagnoses of the malaise that plagues modern universities, but propose a modified, expanded version of his prescription.

On previous occasions, we have voiced our displeasure with the increasingly vocational nature of university education. In the same vein as Hütter, we would like universities to re-emphasize learning and knowledge as ends in themselves, rather than as mere means to a vocational goal. To this end, we

propose a new curricular requirement focused on philosophical inquiry, broadly understood, to be introduced concurrently with the reformation of the Trinity curriculum, which is likely to occur once the new Provost takes office. We recommend that Duke create a mandatory freshman class that explores the

basics of philosophical inquiry and require students to take, as a part of their major, a class that addresses epistemological questions related to their field. To be clear, we do not suggest that a new requirement be added to the current system—as doing so would unduly burden students—but simply that such a requirement ought to form a central part of a new undergraduate curriculum.

Having a general philosophical foundation is invaluable for students seeking a liberal education. Specifically, a basic understanding of epistemology, the study of knowledge and its acquisition, can be supremely beneficial to academic study in all other disciplines. The freshman course we propose would, for this reason, incorporate theology’s interest in epistemology, but not its belief commitments.

In putting students on common intellectual ground, a philosophy requirement would facilitate the interdisciplinary interactions that Duke strives to promote. It would give students a base from which to pursue their interests and a way to exchange ideas across disciplines with their peers.

Furthermore, a secondary class related to one’s major would encourage the sort of introspection and philosophical reflection that characterizes high quality academic work. Such a course would focus on the methodologies by which particular disciplines produce knowledge and discover truth, while addressing the implications and limitations of those methodologies. For example, an epistemology course relating to the hard sciences would examine how empirical research generates knowledge, while seeking the limits of experimentation and inductive reasoning. The course would raise questions that transcend a specific discipline and force students to contemplate the central questions of human existence.

Through our two-pronged approach, we believe that students will be better equipped to tackle their particular majors, work across disciplines and contextualize their studies in a field of knowledge that is uniquely and universally human.

Finding veritas

Editorial

Dearest Duke,My name is the Right Wing. You can

call me Right for short. I have been sent by the Grand Old Party because of the tragically pathetic representation of Republican ideals

on this Devil’s campus. I first thought that this would be easy since Duke is in the South. So I headed to a Duke Republicans meeting to rally the troops. After leaving the two person meeting, I found that my job would be more difficult than I thought. But then, like a young George W. Bush running for office, I could hear the voice of Jesus turning me in the right decision. Jesus said to me, “If you write, they will come.” So I’ve turned to The Chronicle, and outside of a few past champions of free market values, I’ve found not a drop of true conservatism. So I suppose I’ll have to do this by myself. Although I plan on touching all topics under the Chapel, I think I’ll begin my ramblings of genius with something a bit more political.

Let’s start with the blacks.Imagine you are walking down the street.

You are alone. It’s 9:00 p.m. The streets are quiet. Too quiet. You turn around, and what do you see? A black person. Now, I’m not talking about any black person. I’m talking about a black man. What do you do? You try to run across the street, but you don’t want to come off as offensive. You try to speed up, but there is no way to walk faster than his pure, Sub-Saharan speed. You are trapped by fear and left wing racial tolerance. But never fear, a police officer is near, ready to safeguard you from the negro menace. Many of my fellow Southern brethren may be thinking, “How can I be safe from the darker one? There can’t be some sort of law concocted by the North in order to stop them.” But never fear, Stop and Frisk is here! You may be thinking, “Stop and Frisk? Is that some sort of dance move?” No, my non-rhythmic brother, this is probably the only thing you need more than better dance skills. Stop and Frisk is a law that is used in many large cities such as Chicago

and New York City that allows the police to confront suspicious pedestrians and frisk them in order to prevent possible crimes. Said rubdowns happen without any indication of a crime outside of a person’s physical demeanor (clothes, walk, melanin content, etc.).

Now, some may say this is “an infringement of fundamental freedoms.” To that I give a hearty Ha-Ha, because there is nothing constitutionally wrong occurring. Unlike an arrest, which can be lengthy and demeaning, a stop is just a slight interference with someone’s ability to lead a normal life. Naysayers of the frisk say that this is a violation of their bodies, but the hearty Ha’s keep on coming. A frisk is nothing more than a firm grabbing followed by a patting down of the clothing. It’s kind of like Shooters, but out in the real world and with guns.

Now, some of the stats majors out there may start throwing out numbers like 89 percent of those frisked are innocent and 85 percent of those frisked are black or Latino. But that is where my math major kicks into effect. I ran the numbers and because of Stop and Frisk, we are able to stop the 5 percent of black people that could possibly cause trouble. The lame stream media may say that in theory this persecutes blacks far more than the 1 percent of white people that could commit crimes, but you must remember that the 1 percent have Affluenza. They don’t know what they’re doing. They always wear monocles and don’t have the depth perception to tell if they are carrying a bag of sugar or a bag of cocaine. And they can’t be held to the same standards as the non-1-percenters because they never grew up with the law. Blinded their whole life by white privilege, how are they supposed to be able to tell the difference between a stop sign and a family of four?

Now, don’t be mad at me Blue Devil nation, I’m not racist. Some of my best friends are black. And when they are pressed against the concrete asking me for help, I just quote Fox News anchor and personal hero Megyn Kelly: “Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change.”

Am I Right, or am I right?

Right Wing is aware that people don’t always buy the “I have black friends” response to accusations of racism. He would like you to know that his family’s full-time maid and part-time cook are black, too.

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place that is driven by students and this renova-tion is another example of student vision for the arts at Duke.”

The funding for the renovations came from Student Affairs, said duARTS president Nandini Srinivasan, a senior.

Srinivasan and Shaw declined to comment on how much the renovations cost.

The additions also include a new workshop space, which will allow the annex to host more events and expand the workshop series they hosted last semester, Shaw noted. Registration for the Spring workshops begins this week and is open to students, faculty and staff.

Jennifer Skerritt, a senior, said the annex fills a gap for artistic students looking for an outlet. She first went to the annex at an open house last Fall and goes regularly to paint and to attend events.

“I haven’t had the opportunity to do pot-tery since high school, so I’m very excited to check out the new pottery facilities,” she said.

Brenner noted that the space is not only for experienced student artists.

“We hope that everyone from serious art-ists to casual doodlers will use the space,” she said.

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Housing, Dining and Residence Life first approved gender-neutral housing on Central Campus—in 215 and 221 Ander-son Street, 1914 Lewis Street and 2015 Yearby Street—for the 2011-12 academic year. The opt-in housing expanded to West Campus in houses Kilgo O, P, M, N and Upper Few HH this year.

“When this whole transition started, it was always with the premise that it was

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Gender neutral housing, which already exists on West and Central campuses, will be extended to East

going to be phased,” Gonzalez said. “The plans have always had East in mind, but it was sort of like the last domino. We felt like after what we have experienced so far, we were comfortable knocking over that last domino.”

Previously, selective living groups could only opt to become gender-neu-tral if they had three separate bath-rooms—one male, one female and one gender-neutral. Beginning next year, all SLGs will be able to vote to become gender-neutral, regardless of their bath-room situation. These votes would have to be unanimous in order to pass, Gon-zalez said.

Junior Jacob Zionce, DSG vice presi-dent for residential life, worked closely with HDRL to encourage students to take advantage of gender-neutral op-tions.

“Gender-neutral on West and Central have definitely been successful,” he said. “We have been getting overwhelmingly positive feedback from students living in gender-neutral, and as the option be-comes more well-known I’d expect the number of students opting into gender-neutral to grow.”

Sophomore Daniel Kort, president of Blue Devils United, lives in a gender-neutral dormitory on West Campus with a female roommate, but he noted that he is unaware of another set of opposite-gendered roommates on West.

“Our community could greatly bene-fit from a more cohesive unit of students who both support and take advantage of gender-neutral housing,” Kort said. “I look forward to upcoming years when this option is better utilized.”

Although he said he feels the re-source is not fully taken advantage of, Kort noted it is very important for stu-dents to have the option to live in a gen-

der-neutral setting.“Gender-neutral housing is a great

way for Duke to affirm its commitment to the LGBTQ community,” Kort said. “These halls are the safest places for trans and genderqueer students to avoid harassment. First-year students should not be barred from this opportunity.”

Gonzalez echoed this sentiment, not-ing the popularity of gender-neutral options does not necessarily dictate its success.

“There are some students that are benefitting a great deal,” Gonzalez said.

The number of students with room-mates of different genders is “very small,” he noted, but there were many students who expressed a desire to live in the community.

“Our supply currently meets the de-mand that is out there,” he said. “There is always the possibility that we need more gender-neutral communities in independent houses. We aren’t at that point right now, but that can always change.”

Gonzalez said that in addition to designating a dorm—or a portion of a dorm—as gender-neutral, the HDRL housing assignments team will also be working with individual students to find gender-neutral housing plans that work for them. The plans have not been final-ized, he said, but Wilson Residence Hall is under consideration for the gender-neutral community because of its suite-style bathrooms.

“We would never want to create a situ-ation where a student would feel like they could either participate in a pro-gram—like FOCUS—or have their hous-ing needs accommodated more fully,” Gonzalez said.

Additionally, members of the incom-ing freshman class will have more op-

tions for identifying their gender when applying for housing, Gonzalez noted. Currently, students can choose male, fe-male or transgender. HDRL, however, is looking into providing more options, or even a write-in section, Gonzalez said.

Zionce noted that, though the collec-tive policy change is a major milestone towards making Duke an inclusive com-munity for all of its students, they will continue to strive for improvement.

“In the coming weeks and months I expect the team to reconvene to ana-lyze what steps, if any, should come next,” Zionce said. “Right now, though, I think we are all just reveling in how far gender-neutral housing, and Duke on the whole, have come over the past two years.”


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K.J. McDaniels scored 24 points as Clemson topped Duke 72-59 to drop the Blue Devils to 1-2 in ACC play.

The Duke basketball

panic guideAt first, Duke fans tried to ratio-

nalize and avoid panic mode: The loss to Notre Dame was fluke. The

Fighting Irish are notoriously tough against top teams on their home court and were geared up to topple Duke in the first ACC

matchup between the two programs. Sure Notre Dame had just lost its best player and had already lost to bad teams at home this year, but we could write it off.

But after Saturday’s loss to Clem-son? At 1-2 in the ACC, Duke has been thrown off course just a tad. And we’re also out of coffee!

It seems the Duke basketball world has devolved into a fully-fl edged freak-out. Really, these hiccups shouldn’t surprise us. Losses to Kansas and Arizona were understandable. Narrow home wins against East Carolina and Vermont weren’t so understandable. Losses to weak Notre Dame and Clem-son teams… incomprehensible.

Duke fans, though, clearly aren’t used to hitting the panic button. The last time that evoked these sorts of emotions was the 2012 NCAA tournament loss to Lehigh. The loss ended the season, so there wasn’t re-ally a moment to have a conniption.

Now it’s only January. A No. 1 seed may be improbable, but it’s too early to rule out a get-hot-late-in-the-season national championship run. This hope is why most of the freak outs I’ve seen have been of the, “I know what’s wrong, this is what Coach K must do to fix it” variety. Naturally, everybody with a Twitter account knows more than winnin-gest all-time coach.

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where• Try him! Try him!Ok, everybody wants MP3 to play

more. Maybe it’s because of the team’s porous post defense, or that something feels wrong because there hasn’t been a team without a Plum-lee in the rotation since dinosaurs walked the earth and cars roamed the Tailgate lots.

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Lack of toughness, size lead to demiseby Ryan Hoerger

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CLEMSON, S.C.—Wojo’s floor slaps. Battier’s chase-down blocks. Grant Hill’s emphatic dunks.

These are the types of plays that have come to define Duke basket-ball—all of them predicated on toughness. But Saturday afternoon at Littlejohn Coliseum, that one intangi-ble was noticeably absent.

No. 16 Duke fell 72-59 to Clemson Saturday, the second consecutive road defeat for the Blue Devils to open ACC play. After leading for the first 30 minutes of the game, Duke went cold from the field and struggled to slow down a suddenly-prolific Clemson of-fense. The Tigers finished the game on an 18-5 run, holding Duke with-out a field goal over the final 6:23, an ending eerily similar to Duke’s 79-77 loss to Notre Dame last weekend.

“We weren’t tough enough,” Duke captain Rodney Hood said. “Re-bounds, loose balls, everything. They outplayed us.”

In the second half, Clemson scored

41 points and held Duke to just 22. The Tigers are among the nation’s leaders in most defensive categories, and showed why Saturday with the game on the line, forcing the Blue Devils to take contest-ed, off-balance shots, often late in the shot clock.

“They played great defense,” point guard Quinn Cook said. “They made us make weak moves and weak shots. They did a good job. I thought we were tough in the first half, and after Rodney hit the three in the beginning [of the second half] we just didn’t play Duke basketball, and we deserved [the loss].”

In front of a sellout crowd, the Ti-gers played perhaps their best game of the season against their stiffest compe-tition. But the added motivation of play-ing Duke is nothing head coach Mike Krzyzewski hasn’t seen before.

“Guys play hard. Duke doesn’t own the patent to play hard,” Krzyzewski said. “Everybody’s allowed to play hard and this team played very hard against us. We have to understand that whenever we

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Cavaliers present Duke’s next testby Karl Kingma

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Alarms are sounding for the ACC’s preseason favorite.

Duke has limped out of the gate in confer-ence play with two early losses—both resulting from second-half meltdowns in front of glee-fully hostile crowds.

Concerns with on-ball defense, rebound-ing and interior size have cooled the team’s summer recruiting buzz like an arctic vortex. There will be no rest for the weary as head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils face a quick turnaround, hosting Virginia Monday at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“We are a very young team,” Krzyzewski said after Saturday’s 13-point loss to Clemson. “We get predicted to do something based on me being old, and that is the way it is. And we have to measure up to something that we probably were not good enough to do to be-gin with.”

The Blue Devils (12-4, 1-2 in the ACC) play in a league where only the combination of su-perb talent and maximal effort will yield suc-cess. Even the slightest lapses—missing one box-out, settling for one bad shot, or taking one play off—can shape the difference be-tween win and loss.

“Who in our league does not have talent-ed players? Everyone has talented players,” Krzyzewski added. “We have got to take steps to try to get to be good, because the league is unforgiving.”

Senior captain Tyler Thorton knows

there is no time for wound nursing or soul searching.

“Every ACC game is important,” Thornton said after Saturday’s loss. “Every loss—no mat-ter what time of the season it is—is going to hurt the same. We are trying to build a resume for our tournament, and things can go bad quickly, so we have just go to adjust and get ready for Monday.”

Duke will be preparing for Virginia (12-4, 3-0), a team that has been perfect in ACC play with two conference wins by 20 points or more.

The Cavaliers were able to rest several key starters in the second half of their 31-point blowout victory against N.C. State Saturday. After a light practice and film session Sunday, the team will arrive in Durham looking to continue its ACC success. Even with the early conference wins, head coach Tony Bennett expects a tough contest in Durham.

“Coach K is obviously one of the best the game has known,” Bennett said after his team’s victory in Raleigh Saturday. “[Duke] will come back ready. They have such talent and such energy in that building, so we will have to be ready as we can and be purposeful or it will be tough.”

Bennett will look for his scoring guards to command the offense in front of a raucous crowd. Senior Joe Harris, a 6-foot-6 sharp-shooter who leads Virginia at 10.7 points per game, should get particular attention from

MIKE TOBEY 7.1 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 1.2 bpgAKIL MITCHELL 6.6 ppg, 6.4 rpgJOE HARRIS 10.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 40.7 3FG%

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Jabari Parker bounced back against Clemson, and Rodney Hood continues to play strong. Virginia’s front line is big and physical, but the Cavaliers do not rely on their big men to score the basketball.Joe Harris was picked by some as the preseason Play-er of the Year in the ACC, but hasn’t lived up to those ex-pectations thus far. Rasheed Sulaimon continues to up his play for the Blue Devils.

Andre Dawkins is always a threat to score from long-range, but Anthony Gill pro-vides depth for the Cavaliers in the frontcourt and could be an X factor. Overall, Duke is still the deeper team.

The breakdownThis matchup shapes up just like the Blue Devils’ last contest against Clemson—a great offense against a great defense. Duke will undoubtedly be hungry coming off a crushing loss and playing in front of the home crowd. Expect the Blue Devils to push the pace and ride hot shooting to a bounce-back win.

OUR CALL: Duke wins, 82-70

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DUKE vs. VIRGINIAMonday, January 13 • Cameron Indoor Stadium

7 p.m. Blue Devils (12-4, 1-2) Virginia (12-4, 3-0)

(Projected lineups, statistics from 2013-14 season)

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Jackson’s 17 help Blue Devils top Boston College

See M. BASKETBALL, page 8

by Amrith RamkumarTHE CHRONICLE

Duke’s biggest strength this season was supposed to be the return of its five experienced starters from a year ago, but it was a contribution from the bench that led the Blue Devils to victory Sunday afternoon.

Stepping in for a team hampered by early foul trouble, senior Richa Jackson scored 17 points as No. 3 Duke knocked off Boston College 78-57 at Cameron Indoor Stadium, notching the Blue Devils’ 800th win in program history.

“The team played hard and had some really good contributions from a lot of different people,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I was really proud of Richa.”

After establishing control of the paint early in the game led by junior center Elizabeth Williams, the only thing that slowed the Blue Devils (16-1, 3-0 in the ACC) down was foul trouble, as starters Alexis Jones, Tricia Liston and Haley Peters all picked up two ear-ly fouls.

Jackson and the Duke bench had little trouble carving up the Boston College (10-7, 1-2) zone, racking up 18 points to allow the Blue Devils to take a 43-29 lead into the locker room after senior guard Chloe Wells swished a long 3-pointer with five seconds left in the half.

“We’ve never had that kind of foul trouble in any game we’ve ever played, ever,” McCallie said. “I thought Chloe’s

dagger three was unbelievable—I thought that was worth 10 points. That’s the nature of a team—that’s different people stepping up at different times.”

Jackson was Duke’s leading scorer with a season-high 17 points off the bench. Peters added 15 and Williams notched nine points and 11 rebounds,

including eight offensive boards. The trio also set the tone early in the game with their energy and intensity, traits that became contagious as the game wore on.

“I just wanted to bring a lot of energy [and] do whatever I had to do,” Jackson said. “Rebounding, defense, whatever it was,

I just wanted to bring a lot of energy.”With their aggressive defense the

Blue Devils forced 14 turnovers in the first half and scored 17 points off Eagle miscues. Duke capitalized on its extra possessions from turnovers and six of-fensive rebounds—including four by Williams—by shooting 60 percent from the field.

Both teams struggled mightily shoot-ing the ball early in the second half, go-ing a combined 2-of-22 from the field to start the period. Although they shot just 33 percent from the floor in the second half, the Blue Devils were able to get to the free-throw line and extend their lead even though they were struggling to make shots—Duke finished the game with an 27-9 advantage in free-throw at-tempts.

“You want to get there at least 25 times a game,” McCallie said. “It’s im-portant that we do that and get the ball inside, because if you become a jump shooting team, then you can [only] play even with people.”

Even though the Blue Devils shot just 63 percent from the charity stripe, the attempts slowed the pace of the game down and forced the Eagles to try to score against a set Duke defense, something they were unable to do con-sistently in the second half.

Boston College finally began knock-ing down outside shots late in the

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Senior Richa Jackson scored 17 points off the bench as the Blue Devils fought through some early foul trouble to top Boston College.

See W. BASKETBALL, page 8

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Returns and debuts highlight season-opening winby Lucas Hubbard

THE CHRONICLE

Following winter break, Duke had only six practices to get ready for its first match of the season. As it turned out, that was plenty of time.

The No. 10 Blue Devils walloped William & Mary Sunday afternoon at Sheffield Tennis

Center 6-1, with ap-pearances from new and old faces alike sparking the victory

and exciting head coach Jamie Ashworth.“It was good to get Rachel [Kahan] out on

the court—she hadn’t played a competitive match in almost two years,” Ashworth said. “For [Beatrice] Capra to get back on the court after missing last spring was big, and for us to have some options was exciting from a coach-ing standpoint.”

Kahan, playing in her first match after re-turning from a torn rotator cuff, played third doubles and served out the match for Duke to garner the team’s first doubles victory. Capra, who missed last season due to academic viola-tions, played alongside senior Hanna Mar as the Blue Devils’ No. 2 doubles team.

Whether players were returning or de-buting in a Duke uniform, one theme was constant: seizing control from the get-go. In all eight completed matches, the Blue Devils took the first set.

The first two singles points were clinched seconds apart, as Blue Devils notched the elu-sive double bagel at both the No. 3 and No. 5 singles positions. Marianne Jodoin tallied the first point for Duke in the fifth singles slot, beat-ing William & Mary’s Sydney Smith 6-0, 6-0. Chalena Scholl, the highly-touted Blue Devil freshman playing in her first collegiate dual match, wielded her howitzer forehand with im-punity in a shutout victory against Melanie Roy.

“With Chalena, that was the first singles match she’s played in college…[It was good]

for her to come out and hit to big targets and be smart with her decision-making,” Ashworth said. “She hits the ball so hard—she hits the ball harder than anyone on our team, and if she can control that pace and use that pace to her advantage, she’ll be a great player.”

Duke’s other freshman, Alyssa Smith, clinched the victory for the Blue Devils by cruising to a 6-2, 6-0 win against Julia Cassel-bury in the sixth singles position.

Life at the top of the ladder was slightly trickier for Duke, but its ranked players still claimed definitive victories. Playing at first

singles in place of her doubles partner, Capra, Mar—the 49th-ranked singles player in the nation—cruised against William & Mary’s top player, No. 65 Maria Belaya, 6-2, 6-2. On the court beside her, No. 45 Ester Goldfeld, play-ing second singles, knocked off No. 89 Leeza Nemchinov in routine fashion, 6-2, 6-2.

After playing second doubles earlier in the day, Capra, who enters the 2014 season as the third-ranked singles player in the country, re-ceived rest during singles as Ashworth looked to explore the depth of his roster.

“We’re not going to play the same lineup

every time,” Ashworth said. “We’re going to give different people different opportunities in different positions…and we’re fortunate right now to have a little bit of depth to be able to do that.”

In the most competitive singles match of the day, Duke’s Annie Mulholland and Wil-liam & Mary’s Nabila Farah battled to a stale-mate in the first two sets, with Mulholland winning the first 6-4 before Farah grabbed the second by an identical score. As per the ITA initiative during the 2014 indoor season, the competitors played a deciding 10-point tiebreaker in lieu of a third set. Despite bat-tling back from an early 1-4 deficit and saving a match point while trailing 9-8, Mulholland eventually fell 11-9 in the tiebreaker.

Doubles had been a concern for Ashworth entering the season, but Duke clinched the first point of the season when its first and third dou-bles squads won within minutes of each other. Jodoin and Kahan first polished off William & Mary’s Casselbury and Roy 6-1. The Blue Dev-ils’ first doubles team of Mulholland and Gold-feld, ranked 14th in the country, raced out to a 5-1 lead before holding on for a 6-3 victory over the Tribe’s Belaya and Nemchinov.

Duke’s second doubles team of Capra and Mar was leading Farah and Sydney Smith 4-3 when the doubles point was clinched.

“I think with our doubles we competed well, but I think we have to be more aggressive and hit the ball harder, and not just look to get balls in play,” Ashworth said. “We play a tour-nament out in Las Vegas this week, and I think we have to be more aggressive.”

Although there is room for improvement, Ashworth was certain of one thing Sunday.

“We played against ourselves every day in the last week,” he said. “Tennis players are used to playing a tournament every week or every two weeks and not playing against the same people every day, and so to get out there and be able to do that was definitely exciting for us.”


Rachel Kahan took the court for the first time since tearing her rotator cuff and missing the entirety of the 2013 season.

DUKE 6W&M 1

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Both Blue Devil squads fall to South Carolinaby Ali WellsTHE CHRONICLE

Despite back-to-back wins in the 200-yard medley relays to open the meet, Duke could not keep up the energy to hold off South Carolina Saturday.

The Blue Devils opened Spring se-mester with a 184-116 loss on the men’s side and 167-133 loss on the women’s side to the Gamecocks in Columbia, S.C.

Duke returned to competition eight weeks after a successful performance at Nike Cup Invitational and a productive winter training trip to South Florida, but this weekend the team didn’t compete with the same energy it had shown in November and December.

“This first meet coming off an eight-week layoff from competing always seems to be a roll of the dice,” head coach Dan Colella said. “Today we were flat. The energy wasn’t there like it’s been for the rest of the meets.”

On the men’s side, the Blue Devils faced the No. 25 team according to the College Swimming Coaches Association of America poll. Colella had hoped that

Duke could give a ranked team a tough run for the overall win.

The women’s team had hoped to out-score South Carolina for the first time since 2011 by taking advantage of the Gamecocks’ weaknesses in sprint free-style and breaststroke.

At the start of the meet, Duke seemed to be in good position to achieve these goals with wins in the 200-yard medley relay on both the men’s and women’s sides.

“That’s always an exceptional way to open up the meet,” Colella said. “The medley relay has each team throwing up its best individual swimmers in each of the strokes, so to come out with wins in those is really great to get things started.”

On the men’s side, Kazuma Takaba-yashi, Hunter Knight and Joe Maginnis gave James Peek a slight lead over South Carolina to set up his 19.88-second 50-yard freestyle split and a final time of 1:30.80. The women’s relay of Chelsea Ye, Christine Wixted, Jessica Suther-land and Lauren Weaver led the race

throughout and touched the wall nearly three seconds ahead of the Gamecocks in a time of 1:43.50.

But the Blue Devils couldn’t hold their lead once the individual events began.

South Carolina turned in the top three times in the women’s 500- and 1,000-yard freestyles and 200-yard but-terfly. On the men’s side, the Gamecocks placed two swimmers in the top three in every individual event except the 100-yard breaststroke.

Weaver and freshman Maddie Rusch were able to cut South Carolina’s lead on the women’s side to 12 points halfway through the meet with one-two finishes in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles. Weav-er recorded a time of 23.53 seconds in the 50-yard event and 52.04 seconds in the 100-yards. Rusch finished just be-hind Weaver in the 50-yard freestyle in 23.73 seconds and out-touched her se-nior teammate in the 100-yard freestyle in 51.79 seconds.

Knight’s 100- and 200-yard breast-stroke events were the highlights of the

men’s individual competition. Knight touched the wall in 2:02.93 in the 200-yard race and out-touched Kevin Leithold of South Carolina by 0.07 sec-onds in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 55.78 seconds. Leithold record-ed the 11th-fastest time in the nation in that event in November.

“Hunter continues to do an excep-tional job,” Colella said. “He had some big races on his hands. In both cases, he had to come from behind to get it done.”

Positive individual performances and the team’s dedication to training during the past two months make Colella opti-mistic about the remainder of the sea-son despite this weekend’s loss.

“We are in a better place than we have been before going into this part of the season and are looking forward to the next race,” he said.

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Cavaliers present Duke’s next testby Karl Kingma

THE CHRONICLE

Alarms are sounding for the ACC’s preseason favorite.

Duke has limped out of the gate in confer-ence play with two early losses—both resulting from second-half meltdowns in front of glee-fully hostile crowds.

Concerns with on-ball defense, rebound-ing and interior size have cooled the team’s summer recruiting buzz like an arctic vortex. There will be no rest for the weary as head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils face a quick turnaround, hosting Virginia Monday at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“We are a very young team,” Krzyzewski said after Saturday’s 13-point loss to Clemson. “We get predicted to do something based on me being old, and that is the way it is. And we have to measure up to something that we probably were not good enough to do to be-gin with.”

The Blue Devils (12-4, 1-2 in the ACC) play in a league where only the combination of su-perb talent and maximal effort will yield suc-cess. Even the slightest lapses—missing one box-out, settling for one bad shot, or taking one play off—can shape the difference be-tween win and loss.

“Who in our league does not have talent-ed players? Everyone has talented players,” Krzyzewski added. “We have got to take steps to try to get to be good, because the league is unforgiving.”

Senior captain Tyler Thorton knows

there is no time for wound nursing or soul searching.

“Every ACC game is important,” Thornton said after Saturday’s loss. “Every loss—no mat-ter what time of the season it is—is going to hurt the same. We are trying to build a resume for our tournament, and things can go bad quickly, so we have just go to adjust and get ready for Monday.”

Duke will be preparing for Virginia (12-4, 3-0), a team that has been perfect in ACC play with two conference wins by 20 points or more.

The Cavaliers were able to rest several key starters in the second half of their 31-point blowout victory against N.C. State Saturday. After a light practice and film session Sunday, the team will arrive in Durham looking to continue its ACC success. Even with the early conference wins, head coach Tony Bennett expects a tough contest in Durham.

“Coach K is obviously one of the best the game has known,” Bennett said after his team’s victory in Raleigh Saturday. “[Duke] will come back ready. They have such talent and such energy in that building, so we will have to be ready as we can and be purposeful or it will be tough.”

Bennett will look for his scoring guards to command the offense in front of a raucous crowd. Senior Joe Harris, a 6-foot-6 sharp-shooter who leads Virginia at 10.7 points per game, should get particular attention from

MIKE TOBEY 7.1 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 1.2 bpgAKIL MITCHELL 6.6 ppg, 6.4 rpgJOE HARRIS 10.7 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 40.7 3FG%

LONDON PERRANTES 4.6 ppg, 3.4 apgMALCOLM BROGDON 9.9 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 1.3 spg

AMILE JEFFERSON 6.3 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 64.1 FG%JABARI PARKER 19.5 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 1.2 bpgRODNEY HOOD 18.6 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 47.9 3FG%RASHEED SULAIMON 7.2 ppg, 42.3 3FG%QUINN COOK 13.6 ppg, 6.1 apg, 1.8 spg

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Jabari Parker bounced back against Clemson, and Rodney Hood continues to play strong. Virginia’s front line is big and physical, but the Cavaliers do not rely on their big men to score the basketball.Joe Harris was picked by some as the preseason Play-er of the Year in the ACC, but hasn’t lived up to those ex-pectations thus far. Rasheed Sulaimon continues to up his play for the Blue Devils.

Andre Dawkins is always a threat to score from long-range, but Anthony Gill pro-vides depth for the Cavaliers in the frontcourt and could be an X factor. Overall, Duke is still the deeper team.

The breakdownThis matchup shapes up just like the Blue Devils’ last contest against Clemson—a great offense against a great defense. Duke will undoubtedly be hungry coming off a crushing loss and playing in front of the home crowd. Expect the Blue Devils to push the pace and ride hot shooting to a bounce-back win.

OUR CALL: Duke wins, 82-70

DUKE UVAPPG: 82.7 65.9PPG DEF: 68.9 55.2FG%: 48.4 44.33PT%: 40.8 34.0FT%: 73.6 65.4RPG: 34.5 37.9APG: 15.5 12.7BPG: 3.1 4.3SPG: 6.6 6.1

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DUKE vs. VIRGINIAMonday, January 13 • Cameron Indoor Stadium

7 p.m. Blue Devils (12-4, 1-2) Virginia (12-4, 3-0)

(Projected lineups, statistics from 2013-14 season)

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Jackson’s 17 help Blue Devils top Boston College

See M. BASKETBALL, page 8

by Amrith RamkumarTHE CHRONICLE

Duke’s biggest strength this season was supposed to be the return of its five experienced starters from a year ago, but it was a contribution from the bench that led the Blue Devils to victory Sunday afternoon.

Stepping in for a team hampered by early foul trouble, senior Richa Jackson scored 17 points as No. 3 Duke knocked off Boston College 78-57 at Cameron Indoor Stadium, notching the Blue Devils’ 800th win in program history.

“The team played hard and had some really good contributions from a lot of different people,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I was really proud of Richa.”

After establishing control of the paint early in the game led by junior center Elizabeth Williams, the only thing that slowed the Blue Devils (16-1, 3-0 in the ACC) down was foul trouble, as starters Alexis Jones, Tricia Liston and Haley Peters all picked up two ear-ly fouls.

Jackson and the Duke bench had little trouble carving up the Boston College (10-7, 1-2) zone, racking up 18 points to allow the Blue Devils to take a 43-29 lead into the locker room after senior guard Chloe Wells swished a long 3-pointer with five seconds left in the half.

“We’ve never had that kind of foul trouble in any game we’ve ever played, ever,” McCallie said. “I thought Chloe’s

dagger three was unbelievable—I thought that was worth 10 points. That’s the nature of a team—that’s different people stepping up at different times.”

Jackson was Duke’s leading scorer with a season-high 17 points off the bench. Peters added 15 and Williams notched nine points and 11 rebounds,

including eight offensive boards. The trio also set the tone early in the game with their energy and intensity, traits that became contagious as the game wore on.

“I just wanted to bring a lot of energy [and] do whatever I had to do,” Jackson said. “Rebounding, defense, whatever it was,

I just wanted to bring a lot of energy.”With their aggressive defense the

Blue Devils forced 14 turnovers in the first half and scored 17 points off Eagle miscues. Duke capitalized on its extra possessions from turnovers and six of-fensive rebounds—including four by Williams—by shooting 60 percent from the field.

Both teams struggled mightily shoot-ing the ball early in the second half, go-ing a combined 2-of-22 from the field to start the period. Although they shot just 33 percent from the floor in the second half, the Blue Devils were able to get to the free-throw line and extend their lead even though they were struggling to make shots—Duke finished the game with an 27-9 advantage in free-throw at-tempts.

“You want to get there at least 25 times a game,” McCallie said. “It’s im-portant that we do that and get the ball inside, because if you become a jump shooting team, then you can [only] play even with people.”

Even though the Blue Devils shot just 63 percent from the charity stripe, the attempts slowed the pace of the game down and forced the Eagles to try to score against a set Duke defense, something they were unable to do con-sistently in the second half.

Boston College finally began knock-ing down outside shots late in the

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Senior Richa Jackson scored 17 points off the bench as the Blue Devils fought through some early foul trouble to top Boston College.

See W. BASKETBALL, page 8

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Returns and debuts highlight season-opening winby Lucas Hubbard

THE CHRONICLE

Following winter break, Duke had only six practices to get ready for its first match of the season. As it turned out, that was plenty of time.

The No. 10 Blue Devils walloped William & Mary Sunday afternoon at Sheffield Tennis

Center 6-1, with ap-pearances from new and old faces alike sparking the victory

and exciting head coach Jamie Ashworth.“It was good to get Rachel [Kahan] out on

the court—she hadn’t played a competitive match in almost two years,” Ashworth said. “For [Beatrice] Capra to get back on the court after missing last spring was big, and for us to have some options was exciting from a coach-ing standpoint.”

Kahan, playing in her first match after re-turning from a torn rotator cuff, played third doubles and served out the match for Duke to garner the team’s first doubles victory. Capra, who missed last season due to academic viola-tions, played alongside senior Hanna Mar as the Blue Devils’ No. 2 doubles team.

Whether players were returning or de-buting in a Duke uniform, one theme was constant: seizing control from the get-go. In all eight completed matches, the Blue Devils took the first set.

The first two singles points were clinched seconds apart, as Blue Devils notched the elu-sive double bagel at both the No. 3 and No. 5 singles positions. Marianne Jodoin tallied the first point for Duke in the fifth singles slot, beat-ing William & Mary’s Sydney Smith 6-0, 6-0. Chalena Scholl, the highly-touted Blue Devil freshman playing in her first collegiate dual match, wielded her howitzer forehand with im-punity in a shutout victory against Melanie Roy.

“With Chalena, that was the first singles match she’s played in college…[It was good]

for her to come out and hit to big targets and be smart with her decision-making,” Ashworth said. “She hits the ball so hard—she hits the ball harder than anyone on our team, and if she can control that pace and use that pace to her advantage, she’ll be a great player.”

Duke’s other freshman, Alyssa Smith, clinched the victory for the Blue Devils by cruising to a 6-2, 6-0 win against Julia Cassel-bury in the sixth singles position.

Life at the top of the ladder was slightly trickier for Duke, but its ranked players still claimed definitive victories. Playing at first

singles in place of her doubles partner, Capra, Mar—the 49th-ranked singles player in the nation—cruised against William & Mary’s top player, No. 65 Maria Belaya, 6-2, 6-2. On the court beside her, No. 45 Ester Goldfeld, play-ing second singles, knocked off No. 89 Leeza Nemchinov in routine fashion, 6-2, 6-2.

After playing second doubles earlier in the day, Capra, who enters the 2014 season as the third-ranked singles player in the country, re-ceived rest during singles as Ashworth looked to explore the depth of his roster.

“We’re not going to play the same lineup

every time,” Ashworth said. “We’re going to give different people different opportunities in different positions…and we’re fortunate right now to have a little bit of depth to be able to do that.”

In the most competitive singles match of the day, Duke’s Annie Mulholland and Wil-liam & Mary’s Nabila Farah battled to a stale-mate in the first two sets, with Mulholland winning the first 6-4 before Farah grabbed the second by an identical score. As per the ITA initiative during the 2014 indoor season, the competitors played a deciding 10-point tiebreaker in lieu of a third set. Despite bat-tling back from an early 1-4 deficit and saving a match point while trailing 9-8, Mulholland eventually fell 11-9 in the tiebreaker.

Doubles had been a concern for Ashworth entering the season, but Duke clinched the first point of the season when its first and third dou-bles squads won within minutes of each other. Jodoin and Kahan first polished off William & Mary’s Casselbury and Roy 6-1. The Blue Dev-ils’ first doubles team of Mulholland and Gold-feld, ranked 14th in the country, raced out to a 5-1 lead before holding on for a 6-3 victory over the Tribe’s Belaya and Nemchinov.

Duke’s second doubles team of Capra and Mar was leading Farah and Sydney Smith 4-3 when the doubles point was clinched.

“I think with our doubles we competed well, but I think we have to be more aggressive and hit the ball harder, and not just look to get balls in play,” Ashworth said. “We play a tour-nament out in Las Vegas this week, and I think we have to be more aggressive.”

Although there is room for improvement, Ashworth was certain of one thing Sunday.

“We played against ourselves every day in the last week,” he said. “Tennis players are used to playing a tournament every week or every two weeks and not playing against the same people every day, and so to get out there and be able to do that was definitely exciting for us.”


Rachel Kahan took the court for the first time since tearing her rotator cuff and missing the entirety of the 2013 season.

DUKE 6W&M 1

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Both Blue Devil squads fall to South Carolinaby Ali WellsTHE CHRONICLE

Despite back-to-back wins in the 200-yard medley relays to open the meet, Duke could not keep up the energy to hold off South Carolina Saturday.

The Blue Devils opened Spring se-mester with a 184-116 loss on the men’s side and 167-133 loss on the women’s side to the Gamecocks in Columbia, S.C.

Duke returned to competition eight weeks after a successful performance at Nike Cup Invitational and a productive winter training trip to South Florida, but this weekend the team didn’t compete with the same energy it had shown in November and December.

“This first meet coming off an eight-week layoff from competing always seems to be a roll of the dice,” head coach Dan Colella said. “Today we were flat. The energy wasn’t there like it’s been for the rest of the meets.”

On the men’s side, the Blue Devils faced the No. 25 team according to the College Swimming Coaches Association of America poll. Colella had hoped that

Duke could give a ranked team a tough run for the overall win.

The women’s team had hoped to out-score South Carolina for the first time since 2011 by taking advantage of the Gamecocks’ weaknesses in sprint free-style and breaststroke.

At the start of the meet, Duke seemed to be in good position to achieve these goals with wins in the 200-yard medley relay on both the men’s and women’s sides.

“That’s always an exceptional way to open up the meet,” Colella said. “The medley relay has each team throwing up its best individual swimmers in each of the strokes, so to come out with wins in those is really great to get things started.”

On the men’s side, Kazuma Takaba-yashi, Hunter Knight and Joe Maginnis gave James Peek a slight lead over South Carolina to set up his 19.88-second 50-yard freestyle split and a final time of 1:30.80. The women’s relay of Chelsea Ye, Christine Wixted, Jessica Suther-land and Lauren Weaver led the race

throughout and touched the wall nearly three seconds ahead of the Gamecocks in a time of 1:43.50.

But the Blue Devils couldn’t hold their lead once the individual events began.

South Carolina turned in the top three times in the women’s 500- and 1,000-yard freestyles and 200-yard but-terfly. On the men’s side, the Gamecocks placed two swimmers in the top three in every individual event except the 100-yard breaststroke.

Weaver and freshman Maddie Rusch were able to cut South Carolina’s lead on the women’s side to 12 points halfway through the meet with one-two finishes in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles. Weav-er recorded a time of 23.53 seconds in the 50-yard event and 52.04 seconds in the 100-yards. Rusch finished just be-hind Weaver in the 50-yard freestyle in 23.73 seconds and out-touched her se-nior teammate in the 100-yard freestyle in 51.79 seconds.

Knight’s 100- and 200-yard breast-stroke events were the highlights of the

men’s individual competition. Knight touched the wall in 2:02.93 in the 200-yard race and out-touched Kevin Leithold of South Carolina by 0.07 sec-onds in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 55.78 seconds. Leithold record-ed the 11th-fastest time in the nation in that event in November.

“Hunter continues to do an excep-tional job,” Colella said. “He had some big races on his hands. In both cases, he had to come from behind to get it done.”

Positive individual performances and the team’s dedication to training during the past two months make Colella opti-mistic about the remainder of the sea-son despite this weekend’s loss.

“We are in a better place than we have been before going into this part of the season and are looking forward to the next race,” he said.

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But let’s ignore the 7-foot center in the room on a team that suppos-edly doesn’t have size and address how fans can survive this mid-season freak-out. Trust me, I’m a Mets, Jets and Knicks fan.

Your Duke Basketball Mid-Season Panic Guide:

Stop watching games with loved ones. This team is going to contin-ue to have ups and downs despite its upside. Don’t ruin relationships with close friends and family by showing them your inner-scream-ing-at-the-television rage. They don’t need to hear you yell, “RASHEED, THE GUY IS WAITING THERE TO BLOCK YOUR SHOT!” or, “BLACK UNIS? WHEN WILL THEY LEARN?” over and over again. It gives every-one the best chance to keep their healthy relationships in tact.

Remember that Jabari Parker is awesome. Sure, he hasn’t been spectacular the past few games. But have you forgotten that he was a hu-man highlight real for the first half of the season? He’s the reason why this team still has a chance to win

Blue Devil defenders.Harris’ backcourt mate, sophomore Mal-

colm Brogdon, is the only other Cavalier aver-aging in double figures. Brogdon, tallying 10.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, is a versa-tile combo-guard with the ability to attack the rim. Limiting Harris and Brogdon will be key to slowing down Virginia’s balanced attack.

Anthony Gill, Mike Tobey, and Akil Mitch-ell will anchor the Cavaliers’ post presence. Mitchell, a tireless 6-foot-8 senior averaging 6.6 points and 6.4 boards per contest, is proba-bly Virginia’s best frontcourt scorer. The Char-lotte native threw down a monstrous dunk over Mason Plumlee last year—Jabari Parker and Amile Jefferson will have to be wary of helping off of him down low.

After a frustrating weekend loss, junior Quinn Cook and his Duke teammates will be looking to right the ship and live up to the Blue Devils’ preseason expectations as an ACC contender.

“It is a matter of mindset,” Cook said. “You cannot just talk the talk—you have got to go out there and do it.”

game, led by junior guard Kat Cooper, who finished with 21 points to lead all scorers. But it was too little, too late for the Eagles, as their 26-percent shoot-ing clip in the final period and 9-of-34 shooting from beyond the arc squashed their comeback hopes.

“[Duke] really limited us on the in-terior and forced us to shoot perime-ter shots,” Boston College head coach Erik Johnson said. “The difference in the game was they recover so fast. They [were] getting out to our shooters, so our percentage went down because we [were] rushing.”

The Blue Devils will try to use the lessons learned from their conference home opener when they take on Virgin-ia Thursday. Duke will also need to get its point guard healthy, as senior Chel-sea Gray played a season-low 16 min-utes due to a bruised quad. Gray was effective during her short spurts on the court, finishing with 11 points and four steals.

play, we get that team’s best shot. They didn’t have pom-poms here on Thursday night [when Clemson hosted Florida State]. It wasn’t a packed house.”

Toughness is a mindset problem the Blue Devils should be able to rectify by the time Virginia visits Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday night. But size is a different story.

The Blue Devils were outrebounded 48-30 by the Tigers, one of the worst re-bounding margins Duke has posted all season. Clemson center Landry Nnoko feasted on the undersized defenders try-ing to block him out, pulling down 13 rebounds to go with his 10 points. Six of those rebounds came on the offen-sive end, including two that turned into 3-point play opportunities on put-backs.

”In the first half I thought we did a great job of countering [Clemson’s te-nacity], but their physicality, their ath-

beaton from page 5the title as a No. 3 seed a la Carme-lo Anthony and Syracuse in 2003. He’s a natural small forward who’s slogging through nearly 30 minutes per game as a freshman, guarding an opposing team’s power forward or center all game. If he’s a bit tired, it’s one of the most understandable things going on. Don’t blame him. Or Rodney Hood.

Don’t give up. Everybody is entitled to panic. It’s only natural. In fact, sometimes it’s healthy. And when Duke was in the top-10 every week for more than six years, a streak that just ended last week, these moments are few and far between. Just don’t confuse the need for an oc-casional freak-out with thinking the season is over. (See: Parker, Jabari). Moments like these are when the team needs the fans most. Remember Club Cameron? It beats Shooters, at least five nights a week.

Keep in mind, life could be worse. You could be a UNC fan… they’re 0-3 in the ACC.

Alternatively, you could always just drink away your pains and wake up in February when this blows over. But with fraternity rush still going on, you were probably planning on doing that anyway.

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Many Duke fans believe that more playing time for center Marshall Plumlee is the key to solving the Blue Devils’ woes inside.

leticism and their determination wore on us,” Krzyzewski said. “You have a four- or five-point lead and if you get the defensive rebound, you’ve got a chance to go seven, eight. And instead they get a 3-point play off of an offensive rebound and it’s a two-point game. That’s how games change. They killed us on the boards.”

Playing out of position by guarding the center Nnoko, Jabari Parker strug-gled to move the big man out of the way, giving Nnoko and forward Jaron Blos-somgame—who had 14 points and 14 rebounds, including two game-changing 3-pointers—multiple opportunities for lay-ups. Cook noted that the Blue Devil guards needed to do a better job help-ing the Duke bigs rebound collectively. Cook, Thornton, and Rasheed Sulaimon combined for just four rebounds.

Still, Hood made no excuses for his team’s inability to rebound against the bigger, stronger Tigers.

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Hampered by a quad injury, Chelsea Gray played just 16 minutes against Boston College but scored 11 points.

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“We got to play them. At the end of the day, we can go say ‘We don’t have size, we don’t have a rim protector, we don’t have this.’ We’ve got to get it

done,” Hood said. “We’ve got Virginia, another tough team, a mature team, and if we don’t get it right.... I don’t want to think about it.”

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Point guard Quinn Cook struggled against the Tigers, making just 3-of-14 field goals en route to eight points.

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Toughness has been a hallmark of Duke basketball during Mike Krzyzewski’s tenure as head coach, but it was something the Blue Devils said they lacked in a loss to Clemson.

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