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As of today, licensed gun owners who are in public college in north Carolina are al-lowed to conceal their handguns in locked vehicles.

The legislation — passed as a provision of house Bill 937 in July by Governor Pat Mc-Crory — applies explicitly to public univer-sities and colleges in north Carolina. Duke University officials responded by issuing a statement several days ago prohibiting guns

on campus whatsoever, an avenue granted by the new bill for private institutions.

“Duke has had a very long history of not permitting weapons on campus,” said

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Judy Woodruff talks women in workplace

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Food cart sales have nearly frozen over as a result of location changes in anticipation of West Union renovations.

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by Emma BaccellieriThe ChroniCle

Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff, Women’s College ’68, spoke about the changing role of women in the workplace at the Campus Club Centennial luncheon Monday.

Woodruff was recently named co-an-chor and managing editor of PBS news-hour, following years of covering politics and national news for Cnn, nBC and PBS. She served on the Board of Trustees from 1985 to 1997 and has taught at the Sanford School of Public Policy. earlier this year,

she was announced as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Charlotte-based Duke endowment.

“Women today have more choices than they have ever had, more opportunities,” Woodruff said. “At the same time, we rec-ognize the trade-offs to take advantage of those choices haven’t really gotten a whole lot easier.”

Woodruff cited prominent examples of female professional leadership in her speech—such as the recent bipartisan push by Congressional women to end the government shutdown. She noted that al-

though the workplace has become signifi-cantly more accepting of women over the past few decades, women in management positions are still the exception and not the rule.

“Women continue to confront a glass ceiling as they get closer and closer to the highest, most powerful jobs,” Woodruff said.

She discussed the challenges she faced as a working mother, recalling how she re-ported from the White house the day she

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Rik Vandevenne, director at River Cities Capital Fund, said the volume of venture funds have decreased over time.

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research Triangle Park may have trou-ble attracting venture capital.

The MoneyTree report by Pricewa-terhouseCoopers and the national Ven-ture Capital Association showed that 402 deals totaling approximately $4.3 billion were made in California during the third quarter of this year, whereas north Caro-lina had 11 deals, totaling just under $34 million. Despite its notability as a locus of innovation, research and development, a lack of major corporate success, higher risk aversion and an inconvenient location might be barring rTP from access to more venture capital.

“There was a time when there was ven-ture capital here in north Carolina,” said eric Toone, director of the innovation and entrepreneurship initiative. “We had in-tersouth [Partners]…we had Pappas [Ven-tures]…But remember, that venture capi-tal has really undergone a retrenchment.”

rik Vandevenne, a director at river Cit-ies Capital Fund and Fuqua ’04, noted that the volume of venture funds that could be found 15 years ago simply is no longer available.

“A number of them have failed and aren’t around anymore,” he said. “At one point during the peak of the bubble, north Carolina got about 5 percent of ev-ery dollar invested into the iT industry, and today, that’s consistently less than 1 percent.”

Toone said that rTP has not become a hub of investment similar to places like Palo Alto, despite containing the neces-sary elements.

“Somehow, all of the ingredients should have been here in the Triangle, but somehow, it never became a sum of its parts,” Toone said. “i mean, you’ve got three great universities, research Triangle Park, a spectacular place to live. Why did it never take off?”

‘Success begets success’According to robert Taber, senior advi-

sor for global strategies at Duke’s office of licensing and Ventures, influx of venture capital has often been attributed to a posi-tive feedback-loop that arises from major

corporate success in a given area, some-thing that rTP has historically lacked.

“There’s no question that success be-gets success,” noted Mitch Mumma, a gen-eral partner at intersouth Partners and Trinity ’81. “in the long litany of venture-backed companies, all the way back from intel [to] more recent ones like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, [it’s] very telling of a culture of entrepreneurship that prin-cipally exists in the Silicon Valley and, to a lesser extent, in Boston and new York City.”

even in the scientific industrial compa-nies on which rTP typically focuses, there has been a lack of major biotech names, said Taber.

“Take Genentech on the West Coast [for example],” Taber said. “i mean, half of the companies that were started out there were ex-Genentech guys. Same in

Boston with Biogen. here was a real suc-cess that people spun out and started oth-er companies. And that hasn’t happened here. We’ve never had a big success.”

The lack of historically successful en-trepreneurs in the area may also be deter-ring high-quality executives from rTP.

Art Pappas, founder and managing partner at Pappas Ventures, said that as the San Francisco and Palo Alto area gen-erated many venture start-up companies, they were able to retain many of the ex-ecutives that were successful from those companies, as well as those that failed. As a result, a natural ecosystem formed that fostered continued entrepreneurship in those locations.

“That continuum drew not only ven-ture capital dollars, but also other entre-preneurs that had been successful while starting other companies and also had the

wherewithal to invest in other start-ups,” Pappas said. “in California, the well known one is when iber-Tech closed down in San Diego, the number of executives who came out of that and stayed and wanted to build companies was significant.”

Pappas noted that a high concentration of entrepreneurs and opportunities cre-ates an environment that makes assuming risk safer.

“if...[my] company fails just as an early stage company might, then i have places that i can go…that further fosters and stimulates entrepreneurship,” he said. “it helps mitigate the risk that one takes to ei-ther move into that area or leave an exist-ing company to start a new one.”

rTP’s lack of this entrepreneurial suc-cess may have, therefore, contributed to lower risk tolerance in the area, limit-ing the distribution of venture capital to north Carolina, said David epstein, chair of the ophthalmology department. he be-lieves Stanford University, as a compara-tive reference in the Palo Alto area, was a stronger entrepreneurial presence with less risk adversity than Duke.

“if Steve Jobs got fired in rTP, i don’t know whether he’d have started another company here,” epstein said.

‘Out of the way’even the location of rTP may prove to

be a deterrent for some venture capitalists, who are often limited in the geographic scope of their investments.

“Venture capitalists aren’t going to fly three time zones unless it’s something un-believably special, because venture capi-talists need their own networks,” Mumma said. “What venture capitalists do to help build value is the mentorship and the con-nections and all those things that come in addition to money, and particularly for early stage capitalists, [these things] are doable in a finite geography.”

Although investors in ventures still keep rTP on their radar, the location could be preventing the relationship between inves-tor and entrepreneur from developing fur-ther, Taber said.

“Twenty years ago when i came here,

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An online music marketing company in Durham has grown to have more than 3 mil-lion users, but Duke’s music scene will not likely be employing it anytime soon.

reverbnation, a company that provides online marketing tools for musicians, started in Durham in 2006. Marketing director Shelly Weitz said they started the business in Durham because the location was convenient for the founders and the environment was very con-ducive to the needs of a startup. Further, four of its founders of the company resided in Dur-ham.

“As Durham has grown and downtown has become more and more vibrant, we’ve settled in even more and truly love our location,” she said. “There are many tech companies in the research Triangle Park. it’s not unusual.”

reverbnation was founded by five people as a software startup in response to the advent of iTunes and other online music distribution services and platforms for editing and shar-ing music such as Garageband and Myspace, Weitz said. now, they have more than 80 em-ployees, 70 percent of which are developers.

“The very large music labels have to change and are still trying to change their model to ac-commodate a music world where a musician can record, produce and distribute their mu-sic themselves, and to a certain extent, com-municate with their fans on their own,” Weitz said.

even though iTunes and Garageband have changed the dynamics of creating music, Weitz said that independent artists still need help managing their online presence—which

is where reverbnation comes into play, by providing a digital equivalent of a manager.

Most of the 3.1 million artists reverbna-tion serves are in north America, she said, and many do not have labels. Their audience is pri-marily between the ages of 18 and 35 and are worldwide. The company provides resources such as email templates and tools to create ad campaigns, as well as driving traffic to their Facebook pages to promote the bands they represent.

“These ads are sophisticated. They are good-looking. We run analytics on them. And they are very affordable for artists. We also provide a really important thing—all of these industry professionals who are looking for the next big artist. They can connect to reverbna-tion,” she said.

Although the company has vastly expand-ed its reach since its founding, it may not crack into the Duke music production industry. Shariq iqbal, studio manager at Small Town records, explained that they will work to es-tablish an online presence, but the platforms that they currently use to distribute the artists’ music are mostly free. reverbnation usually charges artists a fee for their services.

“We try to work with our individual artists on how they want to distribute their music,” iqbal said. “But, generally we use mostly free distribution sites like Soundcloud.”

Junior Christina lan, lead singer of Sti-na—an all-Duke student band—has been with Small Town records since her freshman year. Up until now, they have not been using online tools to promote the band’s music.

“i’d say right now we are not doing this

Durham-based marketing company sees user growth

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researchers have found that the way rodents process sensory information at signaling pathways, previously thought to be linear, is intermixed.

The study was conducted by a number of neurobiology researchers under Fan Wang, associate professor of neurobiolo-gy at the School of Medicine. Wang’s lab focuses on neural circuits and sensation processing, examining how rodents re-spond to their environments. The recent results have disproven a widely accepted idea about how the nervous system re-lays sensory information—the “labeled line theory.”

The labeled line theory implies that the same type of sensory information is relayed to a specific station within the neural pathway, said postdoctoral researcher Katsuyasu Sakurai, lead re-searcher of the article published in the october issue of Cell reports.

The lab has demonstrated that sec-ond order neurons receive at least two different kinds of sensory information, neurobiology postdoctoral fellow Jun Takato said. The study reports a “one-to-many and many-to one” connectivity scheme for how tactile information is processed. The researchers found that sensory information is mixed at the first relay station to the brain in the mouse trigeminal system, which closely resem-bles the sensory system in primates.

Transgenic mice were used in the re-search because of the ability to geneti-cally label the different types of neurons and visualize the wiring diagram of the whisker touch sensory system, Sakurai said.

“in our study, two different kind of sensory neurons, slowly and rapidly adapting neurons, are tagged with two different genes,” Takato said.

Takato added that the researchers next take thin brain sections and immu-nostain the tags then analyze the images and examine the overlap of the different fluorescent labels. By visualizing differ-

ent sensory neurons, the group was able to examine whether single second order neurons receive two different kinds of sensory information.

The nicolelis lab of the Duke Uni-versity Medical Center also investigates sensory signaling as an integral part of its neuroprosthetics research. Postdoc-toral fellow eric Thomson, who works in the lab, said that the nicolelis lab has found similar results without the same level of molecular and anatomical detail that Sakurai’s paper shows.

“Their study shows that the brain is much more messy, that from very early levels it is mixing different sources of information into a more integrated pic-ture of what is happening in the world,” Thomson said.

The recently published research was supported partially with grants from the national institutes of health and has ap-plications for the general public.

Takato said the findings can be ap-plied to the generation of better arti-ficial sensors for people with certain handicaps.

“it would be wonderful if handi-capped people can feel what they touch through their prosthetics,” Takato said.

To allow people to touch and feel with artificial limbs, prosthetics would need to be designed with sensors that provide virtual tactile feedback to the brain of the user, Thomson noted.

“learning about the architecture of the tactile processing system should be very helpful for determining how best to construct such feedback systems,” Thomson said.

Sakurai said the study focuses solely on the organization of two different types of mechano-sensors, but it is not a holistic understanding of the neuronal circuit. There are also other neurons that help facilitate natural tactile behav-iors.

“i would like to understand how this kind of tactile information is processed within the neural circuit by manipulat-ing those neurons,” Sakurai said.

Duke research gives insight on sensory information

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our endowment was one of the biggest in-vestors in venture, particularly biomedical ventures,” he said. “And they always said that we were going to set up an office in the Triangle, and they never did because it’s just out of the way.”

The range of flights offered through raleigh/Durham international Airport may present a secondary deterrent to ven-ture capital investment.

“rDU used to be a hub,” epstein said. “You used to be able to fly non-stop every-where, and that really has contracted. But that to me is proof that rTP has not been catalyzing growth [as it did] before.”

Moving forwardDespite its current lack of venture capi-

tal, the rTP area’s quality and increasing cost of living has begun to draw start-ups to north Carolina, Mumma said. recently, the research Triangle Foundation has cre-ated a strategic plan designed to stimulate entrepreneurial activity in the Park.

“There’s no question, i meet people ev-ery week who call and say, ‘i’m moving to the raleigh-Durham area to start a com-pany.’ [So i ask them], ‘Well, why are you doing that?’ And they say, ‘We want to live there. i don’t even know what i’m going to do there, but i want to live there,’” Mum-ma said. “lots of those people come from the Silicon Valley, lots of the those people come from the northeast.”

Mumma noted that the best way to fos-ter innovation in north Carolina is to sim-ply continue making the area a great place to live, thereby attracting people here.

“Most of the entrepreneurs in our com-panies got out a map and decided where they wanted to live first, and then started their company, and so that’s the card that

we have to play here,” he said.Toone also stressed the need for great-

er collaboration and integration within the region by working with the University of north Carolina at Chapel hill, north Carolina State University and north Caro-lina Central University, among others. he also suggested collaborating with schools further away, such as Wake Forest Univer-sity and Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University.

“if what we want to do is build out the region, i promise you—i promise you—that nothing i can do that constrained within the walls of Duke is going to move the needle,” Toone said. “Why can’t Wilm-ington be the country’s next San Diego?... That’s the scale we have to build this re-gion from for this to be successful.”

Yet in addition to local cultivation, suc-cess requires global competition, noted Dr. Barry Myers, professor of biomedical engineering and executive-in-residence with Pappas Ventures.

“Underserved [capital] markets [such as north Carolina] tend to be over-valued when local interests interfere with com-petition,” Myers said. “over-valuation is a leading cause of new venture failure. Accordingly, we work locally but engage globally to ensure robust competition and success.”

At Duke, entrepreneurship may likely become a growing presence under the auspices of the innovation and entrepre-neurship initiative, currently directed by Toone.

“The role of the university has always been to teach and to innovate,” said lister Delgado, managing partner at iDeA Fund Partners. “Duke excels in innovation, but like other universities, is not designed to purse the commercialization of these in-novations.”

Toone said he believes the University ‘s

innovation and entrepreneurship initia-tive exists in order to complete the latter half of that job.

“if the University is the engine of gen-erating new ideas, ‘i and e’ is the trans-mission and drive train that gets torque to the rear wheels to move the whole thing down the road, that puts those ideas into action,” he said.

Bringing new ideas and innovations to market, however, is only half the story, said Toone.

“For a program like this to be re-ally meaningful to a university, it has to be more than helping people build cell phone apps and things like that … it has to speak to a much larger audience and have a much greater purpose,” he said. “And i think that the way that we’ve con-strued it does.”

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Despite this, she would not consider re-verbnation as a means to promote her music at the moment.

“i was more interested in reverbnation a couple of years ago, when i was trying to distribute my music myself, and i think it is a great market for artists to develop a page and be more visible to people,” lan said. “But right now i think it is too saturated with all kinds of artists and it is hard for listeners to find new music.”

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gave birth to her first son.“There were plenty of things that i missed

when my children were growing up, that i would love to take a clock and turn time back and do it over again,” Woodruff said. “But you make decisions and you move ahead, and that’s what i did.”

The luncheon was the first of a monthly series that the Campus Club—a group that brings together Duke-affiliated women— will be holding this year to commemorate its 100th anniversary, said Club president Pela Gereffi. The centennial’s theme is “honor-ing Women in a Century of Change.”

“We were looking for women who rep-resent the theme of our centennial,” said Karen Childers, Women’s College ’70 and the chair of the Campus Club centennial committee. “[Woodruff] is the perfect em-bodiment.”

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ate point for reflection about both the gains women have made and the areas for further progress, Woodruff noted.

“As you celebrate your 100th year, as you think about how this club has evolved and changed and about how the role of women has changed—at Duke, in north Carolina, in the United States and around the globe—we can also think about the challenges that still lie ahead,” Woodruff said.

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Redshirt junior linebacker Kelby Brown and sophomore kicker Ross Martin both earned ACC Player of the Week honors after their perfor-mances against then-No. 16 Virginia Tech Saturday. Both Brown and Mar-tin played integral roles in Duke’s 13-10 win in Blacksburg, Va., where the Blue Devils had never won until Saturday’s matchup.

Brown, who also earned Walter Camp Foundation National Player of the Week honors, racked up 14 tack-les and one tackle for loss against Virginia Tech. But Brown’s shining moment came late in the game, with an interception that sealed Duke’s landmark upset.

Down just six points with 5:09 left to play in the fourth quarter, Logan Thomas and the Hokie offense took the field. Starting the drive at its own 44-yard line, Virginia Tech looked poised to score and crush the Blue Devils’ upset hopes.

On the second play of the drive, Thomas dropped back to pass but could not find an open receiver downfield. He tried to dump the ball off underneath the secondary’s coverage, but linebacker David Hel-ton tipped the pass and sent the ball high into the air. Brown jumped up, snatched the ball and came to the

ground, where he was immediately planted by a Virginia Tech offensive lineman. But Brown held on, and Duke would hold the ball for the rest of the game to secure the upset.

“[Duke’s linebacking corps] con-tributed a number of big plays,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Kelby is getting healthier. When you see Kelby playing at full strength, you’re going to see a guy who I think is an All-American football player.”

After a scoreless fi rst quarter, Martin got an opportunity to put Duke on the board early in the second period. The Blue Devils started their second drive of the quarter on their own 45-yard line, but made just one fi rst down be-fore the drive came to a halt. Facing a fourth-and-7 from the Hokies’ 33-yard line, Martin trotted onto the fi eld for a 51-yard attempt. Martin nailed the kick and gave Duke the 3-0 lead.

At the end of the second quarter, Martin would get an opportunity to extend the Blue Devils’ lead. The Duke offense took the field with just 42 seconds left in the half, and moved the ball 37 yards to the Virginia Tech 35-yard line before sending Martin out for another try. With two seconds remaining on the clock, Martin lined up for a 53-yard attempt. As time ex-pired, Martin’s kick sailed through the uprights to give the Blue Devils a 6-0 halftime lead.

Martin is the only player in the nation this year to knock down two kicks of 50-plus yards in one game, earning him ACC Player of the Week honors.

“The other day I tested him on one, and he was able to hit a 59-yarder with

room to spare,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve put him under pressure in practice and he responded in practice. That’s one of the reasons I went ahead and attempted the fi rst kick, was I felt good about him making it. He didn’t disap-point, that’s for sure.”

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Linebacker Kelby Brown (left) and kicker Ross Martin (right) each earned ACC Player of the Week honors after Duke’s upset victory against Virginia Tech.

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CROSS COUNTRY

In a rare moment this weekend, I felt relatively old. Obviously I’m not old (relative is the operative word),

just old in the way that when you’re a freshman in col-lege and go back to visit your high school and think, “Wait, these kids

are in high school? They’re so little! I never dressed like that when I was that age!”

I’m not sure there’s a right way to measure the passage of time. Some cultures use the sun. Others use the moon. Andy Dufresne marked it with rocks while he plotted his escape at Shawshank State Penitentiary. College students can see their growth as they move from freshman to sophomore to junior to senior year.

Like many others, I see it through sports. There’s winter, spring, summer

and fall, but baseball, basketball and football seasons also cover the whole year. Today I know there are 518 days until the next Matt Harvey Day for the New York Mets.

And three Duke sporting events this weekend made me feel relatively old. Like a senior. Like there’s a light at the end of the Duke tunnel called gradu-ation. And this isn’t a tunnel I want to leave yet.

First, Saturday morning I went to the exhibition basketball game with my parents. It was my last parents’ weekend with them and my fi rst time at Cameron Indoor Stadium with them before I (fi ngers crossed) graduate in May.

What really did it, though, had little to do with that. Three of the top recruits in the country—Jah-lil Okafor, Tyus Jones and Justise

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by Ali WellsTHE CHRONICLE

Freshmen Hannah and Haley Mei-er seem to be nearly the same person. The sisters are identical twins, so they are the same height, have the same dark brown hair and even sound the same. But the most striking similarity is that both have been key runners for Duke this season.

Haley jokes that she likes to play the piano and read while her sister likes to watch TV, but the pair share many of the same interests and feelings about their experience running for the Blue Devils.

“At Duke we don’t have a lot of time to do other things,” Haley said. “It’s ei-ther running or school, so we aren’t very different there. But we don’t like all the same things. We just do whatever we feel like. We’re defi nitely not the same per-son, but we do have some similarities.”

Originally, the Michigan natives were

not sure that they would attend the same college. While Hannah was leaning to-wards Duke, Haley was considering No-tre Dame. But when they visited Duke together, they had the same reaction.

“We thought at the same time that this school is amazing, and I want to go here,” Hannah said.

“Once we got here, we fell in love with it,” Haley said. “We just had this feeling that this is where we were supposed to be and where we could really see ourselves. It has turned out to be incredible, and we really love it here.”

The Meier sisters boast an impressive combined high school resume.

As an 11-time Michigan state champi-on—with repeat titles in the 800-meter and 1,600-meter races—and eight-time national champion, Hannah earned six All-America honors in her four years at

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by Daniel CarpThe ChroniCle

Following Duke’s 13-10 upset victory on the road against No. 16 Virginia Tech, the Blue Devils received two votes in this week’s Associated Press top 25 poll. One of the two media members who voted for Duke was Tom Murphy, who covers Arkansas football for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Lit-tle Rock, Ark. Murphy discussed with The Chronicle’s Daniel Carp why he had the Blue Devils in his top 25 this week.

The Chronicle: You were one of two AP voters who put Duke in their top 25. ex-plain to me why you did it.

Tom Murphy: i have a great respect for David Cutcliffe. i got to watch a bit of the Virginia Tech game and they put some pressure on logan Thomas, forcing a lot of turnovers. it was an impressive perfor-mance. i look at the teams that are kind of in the range there right now and i see both of the Arizona teams, notre Dame, teams of that magnitude and i just felt like the ACC is having a pretty good year and Duke warranted a vote there.

TC: looking inside the mind of an AP voter, how much had you seen of Duke this season and what portion of your vote was based off last week’s game at Virginia Tech?

TM: Before i vote, i go back and look at everybody’s result. i saw that they lost to Georgia Tech and Pitt—in a pretty

high scoring game against Pitt. i had not watched a lot of them, but it was an im-pressive road win on Saturday. After their open date in a couple weeks they will have Miami. if they can win a couple of games maybe they can solidify where i have them at this point.

TC: Was any part of you surprised that given the magnitude of this win, consider-ing how long it had been since Duke had beaten a ranked opponent on the road, that more voters didn’t join in and slide the Blue Devils into that 25th spot?

TM: not really. There’s a ton of teams in that range. if you just examine it and you do this week by week, you’ll see that there are a ton of teams there on the cusp getting votes. i happened to watch the game and liked what i saw. i’ll say this, if they don’t get some better offen-sive numbers they aren’t going to last long in the top 25.

TC: Were you at all surprised to see most people still had Virginia Tech ranked ahead of Duke even though the Blue Dev-ils won that game?

TM: i can’t get into the minds of the other voters. really when you start get-ting into the head-to-head part, it gets re-ally complicated. Take a team like South Carolina, who they’ve beaten, i’m sure Missouri is still ahead of them in a lot of polls. There is a direct head-to-head re-sult and i certainly had Duke ahead of Virginia Tech.

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The story behind Duke’s votes in the AP PollTC: having followed what David Cut-

cliffe has been able to do at Duke now in his six years, can you explain from an out-side perspective what you think this win means for Duke football nationally?

TM: i’m aware of some of Duke’s great history from the ‘50s and the Steve Spurrier era, but i just have great respect for David Cutcliffe. he’s got a good pro-gram there.

TC: Do you think after this type of win people around the country are going to start paying more attention to this team?

TM: Possibly so. open date, [n.C.

State] and Miami. That’s going to be their big chance.

TC: Since they have an open date, i’m not sure how you normally approach that from a voting standpoint, but is there a way they can drop out of your top 25 with-out playing this weekend?

TM: Certainly. The teams i had in con-sideration—i remember Arizona State was one, i thought about notre Dame and Texas, a couple of three-loss SeC teams like ole Miss—if one of those teams real-ly blows somebody’s doors off, sure Duke can drop out.

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Tom Murphy, who voted for Duke this week in the AP Poll, said the Blue Devils’ offensive execution will need to improve should they hope to stay in his top 25.