by Patricia LeeTHE CHRONICLE

FRESNO, Calif. — Caught in hostile territory against the home-state team, the battle-tested Blue Devils finally found themselves facing a deficit they could not overcome this season.

Despite a strong second-half performance, No. 2 seeded Duke could overcome its first-

half deficit Monday night, run-ning into its third straight loss in the regional final, 81-69.

“It was a good basketball game, and I appreciate our team’s fight and how we played,” head coach Joanne P. McCal-lie said. “I’m very proud of our team. This is a team that has overcome adversity in an incred-ible way, a team that has fought

through so many things outside their control.”

The Blue Devils got off to a poor start and found themselves down 15 points by the end of the first half, as they were unable to hold down Cardinal star Nnem-kadi Ogwumike and her younger sister Chiney.

by Shucao MoTHE CHRONICLE

Student perceptions of ethics and integ-rity in academics, civil and social issues vary, according to a recent Duke report.

The Academic Integrity in Undergradu-ate Life study surveyed 2,000 undergradu-ates over five years with the goal of rectify-ing misconceptions about students’ sense of integrity and conduct on campus. The report, commissioned by the Academic In-tegrity Council and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, found a significant decrease in aca-demic dishonesty but an increase in prohib-ited collaboration on class assignments in the last five years. The report also showed drunk driving and romantic cheating to be considered the most unethical social be-havior, and students consider downloading illegal music the least offensive.

“As a young honor code school, Duke has been a leader in identifying and ad-dressing issues related to cheating,” Noah Pickus, head of the Academic In-tegrity Council and Nannerl O. Keohane director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, wrote in an email Sunday. “[The report gives] the entire community a more holis-tic and student-driven understanding of the whole student, not just the one in the classroom,”

Perception is not reality

The report also found that students believe more of their peers are guilty of unethical behavior than the number of stu-dents that self-reported guilt.

“The gaps between perceived and

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Chelsea Gray led Duke with 23 points and four rebounds, but the Blue Devils fell in the NCAA tournament to Stanford, 81-69.

GOP candidates push higher ed cuts

by Jack MercolaTHE CHRONICLE

Potential cuts to higher education after the presiden-

tial election could result in reduced federal funds for U.S. uni-

versities—including Duke.Although higher education

has not been a prominent is-sue in the Republican primary, several candidates have recom-mended cutting back on federal dollars supporting financial aid and research. Former Massa-chusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he supports the House Repub-lican budget, which would cut Pell Grant funding by at least 25 percent. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas and Medicine ’61, proposed completely phasing out federal funding for both research and student aid, said Edward King, national youth director of the Paul campaign.

Romney, former Pennsyl-vania Sen. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives, have not articulated specific positions on higher education funding on their campaign web-sites. Santorum, however, has recently criticized President Ba-

rack Obama for suggesting that all Americans should attend a four-year college.

Duke students’ aid packages would not change in the face of more reduced federal aid policies proposed by some GOP candidates, said Alison Rabil, as-sistant vice provost and director of financial aid.

“The federal aid programs wouldn’t affect our student contributions directly,” Rabil said. “If we lost Pell Grants… we would have to make that money up to keep packaging at full need. When federal aid decreas-es, Duke uses its own funds.”

If Pell Grants—received by about 11 percent of students—were eliminated, the University would find a way to compensate the difference in aid packages, Rabil added.

Public universities would need to greatly restructure their aid programs if federal aid was decreased, because they have a higher dependency on govern-ment grants, Rabil said. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, had to eliminate a tuition grant pro-gram in favor of a program that only awards packages to its most

Blue Devils ousted in Elite Eight

Journalist kicks off Global Health Week

by Julia NiTHE CHRONICLE

World leaders must coordinate their efforts in order to address issues in global health, journalist Laurie Garrett said.

Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Re-lations, addressed issues surrounding global health policies and funding at the Sanford School of Policy Monday. The event kicked off the fifth annual Duke Global Health Week, which is spear-headed by Duke Partnership for Ser-vice, with participation by more than 20 student groups. In her talk, titled “The Future of Global Health Policy,” Garrett

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Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, speaks at Global Health Week.

Study identifies students’ moral compass, integrity

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The Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute houses this 200-ton cyclotron. The gadget is part of the proton cancer therapy process, used to deliver precisely targeted blasts of radiation. This minimal-izes side effects and earns the machine its nickname of “death star of American medical technology.”

KABUL — An Afghan soldier killed two British troops in southern Afghanistan and a member of a U.S.-trained militia turned his weapon on a third NATO sol-dier in the east, officials said, the latest in a string of incidents that have under-mined trust between allies.

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Afghan soldiers kill three NATO troop members

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An energetic Su-preme Court launched its historic review of the national health care overhaul Monday and gave every indication that it will issue an election-year verdict on President Barack Obama’s controversial signature domestic achievement.

In the first of three days of arguments, the justices sharply questioned three law-yers who came before them, and they appeared ready to cast aside procedural obstacles that might keep them from reaching an ultimate decision on the 2010 health care law.

The health care law, which was passed by congressional Democrats and widely de-nounced by Republicans, prescribes finan-cial penalties for people who fail to purchase health insurance by 2014.

That insurance mandate, the heart of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be the subject of Tuesday’s two-hour oral argument.

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“Turning the attention to the class of 2013, Tyrone Outlaw of Roxboro, North Carolina is a new name rumored to be on Duke’s recruiting radar. Outlaw is a 6-foot-6 small forward who predicates his game on defense and rebounds at a very high level for his position.”

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Sophomore Hanna elected to lead DPS next year

by Kelly ScurryTHE CHRONICLE

Sophomore Andrew Hanna, president-elect for Duke Partnership for Service, pledges to con-tinue the organization’s focus on social justice around campus.

Members from dPS, the umbrella organiza-tion for student-led service groups and oppor-tunities, elected Hanna to serve as president for the 2012-2013 academic year. Hanna, who also currently serves as president of the Sophomore Class Council, was chosen March 19 after an ap-plication process and debate.

Hanna envisions his role as a bridge between student life and civic engagement at Duke. He divided his goals for the organization into three words—connect, support and inspire.

“Everyone at Duke has a strong desire... to make an impact on the lives around them,” he said. “Once they are paired up [with an orga-nization], they will realize the value of service earlier.”

Hanna noted that his position as class presi-dent will help him in this new role, as both ex-periences involve working with a diverse group of students.

“With Class Council, we did a good job as a team and brought different types of people to-gether,” Hanna said. “I want to take that momen-tum and use it with dPS.”

Sophomore Andrew Rotolo, vice president of Sophomore Class Council, said he was not surprised by the results, given Hanna’s amiable character and leadership abilities.

“[Hanna] has a big heart for service and [is] very good at mobilizing students for the greater good,” he said.

Current dPS President Sanjay Kishore, a ju-

nior, added that Hanna’s extensive involvement and passion for service in the Duke community would further the goals of dPS.

Hanna has been active in promoting civic engagement since his freshman year. His ser-vice experiences include working for Campus

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Patchett’s ‘State of Wonder’ chosen for summer reading

The Class of 2016 will read Ann Patchett’s novel “State of Wonder,” as their official sum-mer reading book.

A 15-member selection com-mittee chose the book out of 70 nominated works, which was narrowed down to five final-ists, according to a Duke news release. The committee, which consisted of students, faculty and staff, said the novel was chosen because it draws on a variety of issues, such as anthro-pology, medical ethics and stu-dent-teacher relationships.

A combination of a scientific thriller and a personal adventure narrative, the novel discusses the life of a 42-year-old pharmacolo-gist whose profession leads her to a Brazilian jungle. The work was selected in order to give the incoming class a shared experi-ence and prompt a conversation and debate.

Sophomore Madison Moyle, a committee member, said “State of Wonder” was chosen because it provided more topics for discussion in comparison to the other four finalists.

“[I] can foresee great con-versation associated with the

novel,” Moyle said in the re-lease.

The summer reading pro-gram was started in 2002 as a way to facilitate discussion for the incoming students. As part of the orientation week activi-ties, the class will be broken into smaller groups to discuss the novel. It is also possible that Patchett will visit the campus during orientation.

In the release, Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergradu-ate education, added the novel will act as a “touchstone” for the incoming class over the next four years.

The other finalists included “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave, “Little Princes: One’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Chil-dren of Nepal” by Conor Gren-nan, “The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University” by Kevin Roose and “Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America” by Paul Tough.

A special edition of “State of Wonder” will be mailed to in-coming freshmen early July.

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TSA losing millions on unused scannersby Alan LevinBLOOMBERG NEWS

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some of the body scanners that peer through passengers’ clothing at U.S. airport checkpoints often go unused, wasting millions of dollars, a government report has found.

Scanners at a portion of the airports were used as little as 5 percent of the days after they were installed by the Transportation Security Administration, Stephen Lord, di-rector of homeland security and justice issues at the Gov-ernment Accountability Office, said in testimony prepared for a House hearing Monday.

“The limited use of some of these machines may indicate that there was not a clear need for them at the time they were acquired at the locations in which they were deployed,” Lord said in testimony at a joint hearing of the House oversight and transportation committees.

The scanners, made by L-3 Communications Hold-ings and OSI Systems’s Rapiscan, were deployed after the unsuccessful bombing attempt on Dec. 25, 2009, of a Northwest Airlines flight near Detroit. A suspected ter-rorist smuggled explosives onto the flight in his under-wear past airport metal detectors. The bomb failed to detonate.

The TSA considers imaging technology “a critical com-ponent” of airport security and plans to increase scanning capacity, according to written testimony prepared by Chris McLaughlin, assistant administrator for security opera-tions, and Stephen Sadler, assistant administrator for intel-ligence and analysis.

Lord’s testimony doesn’t say how many scanners aren’t being used or identify the airports.

Some scanners are used less than 30 percent of the time, according to Lord’s testimony. At one of 12 airports that GAO investigators visited, the TSA deployed three scanners in a terminal that typically handled one flight a day with about 230 passengers.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the California Republican who is chair-man of the Oversight Committee, called the TSA “bloated” and likened U.S. airport security to a leaky ship.

“TSA must deliver value to the American people,” he said.

Rep. John Mica, a Florida Republican who leads the Transportation Committee, compared the implementa-tion of some agency’s programs to “a high school class project.”

“It’s just a very expensive and disappointing operation,” he said.

Lord, in his testimony, also questioned the effectiveness of a TSA program intended to detect suspicious behavior.

“Questions related to the program’s validity will re-main” until the agency demonstrates conclusively that it can identify terrorists and improve security, according to the GAO testimony.

The TSA has about 3,000 officers trained to detect sus-picious behavior at about 160 airports, according to the testimony.

An April 2011 study concluded that the program was more effective than random screening “to varying de-grees,” the GAO reported. The TSA acknowledged that the study was flawed and couldn’t be cited to say whether the program works, according to the GAO.

So-called chat-downs—in which TSA officers engage passengers in brief conversations before they’re screened—are being tested at Boston’s Logan International and De-troit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport as part of the program, known as Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, or SPOT.

There have been 2,273 people arrested after TSA of-ficers questioned people under the program, according to the agency’s written testimony. TSA officials told the GAO that they weren’t aware of any terrorist or person planning to engage in terrorist-related activities who had been arrested under the program, Lord said in his writ-ten testimony.

In a May 2010 report, the GAO found that people in-volved in six terrorist plots had gone through airports where behavior spotting was in place at least 23 times with-out being detected.

The TSA has yet to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the behavior program as the GAO recommended in 2010, Lord said in his testimony.

Sterling Payne, a TSA spokeswoman, said she could not immediately comment on Lord’s testimony.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two senators want the Justice Department to investigate whether employers who require job appli-cants to hand over confidential passwords to Facebook and other social networking sites are violating federal law.

Charles Schumer, of New York, the Sen-ate’s third- ranking Democrat, and Rich-ard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Sunday that they will ask the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to examine the practice as well.

Facebook, the world’s biggest social net-working site, has described as “alarming” reports that some businesses ask potential employees for passwords to view private posts and pictures as part of the job-appli-cation process. The two lawmakers said the practice could violate federal anti-hacking statutes.

“Employers have no right to ask job ap-plicants for their house keys or to read their diaries. Why should they be able to ask them for their Facebook passwords?” Schumer said in a press release.

Blumenthal said that by requiring job applicants to provide login credentials, em-ployers could gain access to protected in-formation that would be impermissible for them to consider when making hiring de-cisions. Those include religious affiliation and sexual orientation, which are protected categories under federal law.

Facebook said Friday that accessing such information also could expose busi-nesses to discrimination lawsuits and that

it might ask policy makers to take action to stop the practice.

“An investigation by the Department of Justice and Equal Employment Opportu-nity Commission will help remedy ongoing intrusions and coercive practices,” Blumen-thal said in the senators’ statement.

Laura Sweeney, a Justice Department spokeswoman, had no immediate comment Sunday on the lawmakers’ request.

Facebook and other websites are already used by some potential employers seeking additional background on job applicants because of the personal information posted there. As Facebook has given users addi-tional ways to protect that information from public view, reports have surfaced of em-ployers asking job applicants to voluntarily give them access by providing personal log-in credentials.

The Associated Press first reported the growth in the practice last week. Elliot Schrage, a Facebook spokesman, didn’t im-mediately respond Sunday to an e-mail re-questing comment.

In a copy of the letter sent to Attorney General Eric Holder and provided to re-porters, Blumenthal and Schumer asked the department to investigate whether the practice is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the primary federal anti-hacking statute.

The lawmakers also asked the depart-ment to investigate whether the practice violates the Stored Communications Act, which prohibits intentional access to elec-tronic information without authorization or in excess of authorization.

noted that strides in global health are impeded by the failure of world leaders to collaborate on initiatives and a gen-eral lack of guidance regarding the way funds are managed.

“It’s hard to get the leaders of the world to focus on global health,” Garrett said.

She noted that political leaders are often distracted by domestic issues, such as natural disasters, war and uprisings, and may not always prioritize global health efforts. This lack of coordina-tion by world leaders, coupled with the global financial crisis, has reduced the amount of funding previously invested in global health.

Private donors have also cut down on financial contributions. Total private donations—excluding funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—have fallen from about $2 billion in 2008 to $1 billion in 2011, Garrett wrote in a March 6 article published by the Coun-cil on Foreign Relations. The United States government is responsible for 52 percent of all public giving, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is respon-sible for 68 percent of all private giving for global health.

“We have recreated the entire archi-tecture of global health,” Garrett said. “It’s all about the donors on the field and where they throw their money.”

In the United States, Garrett noted that Sept. 11 and nationwide anthrax scares drew attention to global health issues and further highlighted the gov-ernment’s failure to understand and address problems surrounding public health.

Garrett added, however, that the U.S.

government allocates less than 1 percent of the federal budget to global health. Funding has also been declining sharply from European countries, as well as or-ganizations worldwide.

The budget of the World Health Or-ganization, for example, has declined $5.4 billion in 2006-2007 to its current 2012-2013 budget of $3.9 billion—a de-cline of $1.5 billion. In addition, the WHO’s voluntary donations have fallen 50 percent since 2008, according to Gar-rett’s article.

Health care workers are in short sup-ply, and many Third World countries lack the basic infrastructure necessary in healing and medicine, Garrett said. Gar-rett urged world leaders to set politics aside and focus on coordinating their ef-forts in global health.

“We need to get out of our current box of thinking about global health and start thinking about lasting permanent change,” she said.

Michael Merson, director of the Duke Global Health Institute, intro-duced Garrett and emphasized her in-fluence as a Pulitzer Prize-winning jour-nalist and author.

“She’s one of America’s most knowl-edgeable authorities and one of the most respected in the field,” Merson said. “She is a true leader… [who] sought an-swers that were far ahead of her peers.”

Senior Braveen Ragunanthan attend-ed the event and said he interpreted Garrett’s talk as a call to action.

“Her ability to sound the alarm at the seriousness of the situation is im-portant for society to understand, but now we need to react to be the voice for global health,” Ragunanthan said. “We have a moral obligation to take action if we truly believe in global health.”

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needy students after recent state legislation decreased state-granted aid.

“There are other institutions of higher education serving a much lower-income clientele—think community colleges or ‘for-profit’ colleges—where changes in fi-nancial aid policy could threaten the very existence of the institution,” said Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and eco-nomics and a specialist in higher education finance policy. “Duke doesn’t really have to worry about that.”

‘Pretty broad’ education consensusAlthough Republicans have not put is-

sues of higher education at the forefront of their campaigns, none of candidates are “anti-education” or opposed to making col-lege more affordable for low-income fami-lies, Vigdor noted.

“While there’s rhetoric around the evils of federal dollars going to universities, there is pretty broad bipartisan support for those efforts when the rubber hits the road,” added Chris Simmons, associate vice president of federal relations. “Most people understand that investing in students and research is a huge economic and societal priority.”

Looking at the congressional record of some candidates can provide insight into their approach to higher educa-tion, Simmons noted. Santorum, as Senator, advocated to increase the max-imum Pell Grant and to direct research dollars to Pennsylvania institutions. Gingrich, as speaker of the house, vo-cally supported research in universities. Romney, however, has no experience in the executive branch or Congress, so it is unclear how he would treat higher education as president.

King noted that Paul—a strong oppo-nent of federal spending—will end gov-ernment subsidies for student loans and research.

“When a government subsidizes educa-tion through loans, it dramatically drives up tuition costs by guaranteeing endless money to institutions, who can raise their price as they so please,” King said. “Regard-ing grants, government bureaucrats deter-mine what research is funded, and that’s not nearly as effective as letting scientists who understand the specific needs in their respective fields of research make the deci-sions.”

The Romney, Gingrich and Santorum cam-paigns could not be reached for comment.

Research on the rocksDuke’s student aid program would be

resilient to conservative policies but the University’s research funding would be in peril, Vigdor noted. Duke is far more re-liant on federal research funding—about $500 million each year . Under Republican governance, funding for basic research is more likely to be on the chopping block than federal student aid.

“Both Romney and Santorum have pledged to cut non-defense discretionary spending, which is about 15 percent of the federal budget in total,” he said. “Research support is one of the biggest items on the list.”

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together comprise a larger portion of the federal budget than all federal financial aid pro-grams combined, Vigdor said. Duke is a significant recipient of those funds—although Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin have more than 10 times the number of Pell Grant recipients, Duke receives more than twice as many NIH dollars as OSU and nearly

six times as UT-Austin.Vigdor added that research grants from

the NSF, NIH and other federal agencies create opportunities for undergraduates and help pay the salaries of many of Duke’s best classroom instructors.

“Your outstanding chemistry or bio-medical engineering professor might

one day be lured into private industry if federal research funds dry up,” he said. “Cuts in financial aid would make places like Duke—which have the resources to provide their own aid to students —more attractive relative to their competitors. Cuts in research support would do the opposite.”

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Austin Rivers, who became the first freshman since Johnny Dawkins to lead the Blue Devils in scoring this season, will hire an agent and enter the NBA Draft, Duke confirmed Monday.

Jeff Goodman of CBSSports.com first reported the news Friday, citing un-named sources.

“I would like to thank the coaches, my teammates and the fans for helping make this past year at Duke so special,” Rivers said in a press release. “Coach K and the rest of the staff really helped me develop and improve in all areas of the game. It was a difficult decision to leave Duke, but I am excited about chasing my dream of playing in the NBA.”

Rivers recorded 3.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game to go along with his team-high 15.5 points per contest. He turned it on down the stretch, scoring in double fig-ures in every game after a four-point per-formance against Clemson Jan. 15.

The ACC rookie of the year is the fourth Blue Devil freshman ever to declare for the NBA Draft, along with Corey Maggette in 1999, Luol Deng in 2004 and Kyrie Irving in 2011.

Rivers is projected to be selected in the middle of the first round.

“Austin [Rivers] had a terrific year as a freshman and has put himself in a position to pursue his dream of being a great player in the NBA,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the release. “He is an outstanding young man with an even more impressive family. We are in total support of Austin, his family and his decision. We look for-ward to watching him continue to develop and excel at the next level.”

—from staff reports

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Austin Rivers is the fourth Duke freshman ever to declare for the 2012 NBA Draft.

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Blue Devils look for strong finish

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Michael Manley and the Duke defense will aim to solve their fourth-quarter woes against Brown.

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Last Saturday against then-No. 18 Georgetown, Duke won its fourth straight game. But in three of those games, the No. 8 Blue Devils (7-3) near-ly coughed up large fourth-quarter leads before hanging on for the victory.

Against Brown (3-3) today at 3 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium, that should not be a problem. The Bears’ three wins have come

against teams that are a combined 5-18, and they sur-rendered 20 goals in a blowout loss to Hartford, which currently sits at 3-6.

Although this is a game Duke is expected to win

without trouble, as it did against Dart-mouth—the one game in the win streak that was never in doubt—the game is vital to the Blue Devils’ development in other key areas. With only four games remain-ing before the ACC tournament, includ-ing a showdown with No. 14 Syracuse in the Big City Classic looming this Sunday, Duke does not have much time to figure out the issues that have prevented this team from reaching its full potential.

The Blue Devils were ranked second nationwide to start the season, but have struggled to close games. Duke has been outscored in the fourth quarter by a margin of 26-18 on the year, including a 17-3 deficit on its latest four-game win streak. So far, this disparity has not had an effect on the wins column, but the team is concerned nonetheless.

“I thought we lost poise,” head coach John Danowski said of Georgetown’s 5-0 fourth-quarter run Saturday. “We did the same thing against North Carolina

and against Harvard. We don’t know why. You can have theories, but until you can climb into somebody’s head, you’re not sure.... We talk about perhaps the psycho-logical reasons. We try to get the guys to be really honest with themselves and to ad-mit if they’re afraid or scared or nervous or tight or whatever.”

The team’s inconsistency quarter-to-quarter has mirrored the merry-go-round in net for the Blue Devils.

While junior Dan Wigrizer leads the team with a cumulative save percentage of . 533, he has saved fewer than half the shots he faced

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Senior center fielder Will Piwnica-Worms posted a career-high five RBI in Sat-urday’s 13-0 win over the Hokies, and he also knocked in his team-high third home run of the year.

Davidson split two games against the Blue Devils last year, with each team win-ning on its home field. Wildcat then-senior Drew Gadaire was the hero of Davidson’s 9-7 win over Duke last April, hitting two homers in the game—the second was a go-ahead, two-run shot in the bottom of the seventh.

The Blue Devils will look to control the long ball this time around and put together a successful nine innings be-fore next weekend’s series against Geor-gia Tech.

—from staff reports

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in three of the five games he has played. Although he was playing on short prac-tice time in his return to the goal against Loyola, his worst outing, he saved only 45 percent of the shots he faced in the team’s most recent match against the Hoyas.

Mike Rock, the team’s next option in net, has been more consistent than Wigrizer at protecting the goal—he saved at least half the shots he faced in five of his six games—but he has not

M. LACROSSE from page 7had any spectacular performances and has struggled clearing the ball.

Freshman Kyle Turri is at the opposite extreme. He has no turnovers on the year, but he has saved just 42 percent of the shots he has faced. For now, the job remains Wigrizer’s to lose.

“Danny didn’t really do anything to lose his job except get a concussion,” Danowski said. “We can win with all three of them.... I’ve never had a season in my coaching life-time where I’ve won with three different goalies... so it’s unusual. [But] if that’s what we have, then so be it.”

“They’re a really strong group, and if one doesn’t have a strong shot, the other does,” said sophomore Chelsea Gray, who was named to the Fresno All-Region team. “They possess a lot of leadership qualities for their team, so credit to them. They’ve worked hard for their team.”

Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored 15 points in the first half and her younger sister notched 10 rebounds, but Duke’s problems did not end with the Ogwu-mikes’ dominance.

The Blue Devils struggled on the offensive front in the first half, too, shooting 40.7 percent from the field—Stanford made 51.7 percent of its shots in that span—and making only 1-of-4 of their attempts from beyond the arc. On defense, they were outrebounded 18-11.

“Coming into halftime, coach talked about how we only had three offensive boards and to attack the glass more and be more aggressive,” said Gray, who fin-ished with a team-high 23 points and added four rebounds.

Urged on by McCallie’s words, Duke emerged from the locker room looking like an entirely different team. The Blue Devils began to play like the team they had been all tournament—the team that dominated St. John’s just two nights be-fore, and Vanderbilt and Samford the week before.

The team was able to claw back from the deficit by doing what it could not do during the first 20 minutes—slow down the Ogwumikes. Freshman and All-Region player Elizabeth Williams held the elder Ogwumike to four points during the first 13 minutes of the second half before she got her fourth foul with 7:05 remaining. Ogwumike finished with 14 points in the

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“I think Elizabeth is a warrior… and I think what you saw there was a senior with experience playing her game, and a first-year student-athlete learning about some things defensively,” McCallie said. “Again, [Nnemkadi] is a really, really good player, and she was the difference in the first half, and if you take away her 15 points, you have a tied game.”

While Williams contained the Stanford star, Duke trimmed the Cardinal’s lead to single-digits, narrowing the margin to eight points before Stanford broke loose with about five minutes remaining.

“I tried to encourage everybody to get after it, box out, rebound, because I knew that would lead to a better offen-sive side, but unfortunately we couldn’t bring everything together,” said senior Shay Selby, who finished with 11 points and five rebounds. “It was very frustrating to do all of that hard work and get a stop and then they get an offensive rebound… it just kind of sucks the air out of you, and they did that multiple times.”

Adding to Selby’s frustration was that the loss marked the senior’s last appear-ance in a Duke jersey and the Blue Devils’ third straight Elite 8 exit.

“I’m upset, but it was a good run,” she said. “I think this will probably hurt the most because when you’re a sophomore or a junior, you think you have next year, but I have no next year.”

The veteran had encouraging words for the younger players on the team, however, and McCallie’s post-game remarks reflect-ed that sentiment, too.

“This will be a teaching moment, a learning game for the returning players,” she said. “When you don’t end the way you want to, when you don’t end on your own terms and on somebody else’s terms, it stings.”

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Last semester, in a course entitled “Race, Ge-nomics, & Society,” I learned that there are no biological grounds for races. Apparently,

the facts are conclusive. The jury is out. Before us stands the verdict: your race, my race and every race out there is fi ctitious, invented, a mere social construct. Based on this break-through, some scholars and scientists have suggested that we should do away with races altogether, because they can no longer explain the taxo-nomic differences among human populations, nor justify attitudes, ap-titudes, essences or identities associ-ated with a particular race.

Black people (my race) have suf-fered greatly, and continue to struggle, on account of race. I should feel vindicated by this discovery, but I don’t. This DNA-backed evidence doesn’t ex-onerate me: It only exonerates everyone. And I am not everyone. I am black. It’s just a pardon from and for the scientifi c community, who charged my people with inferiority and sub-humanity, forcing them to spend centuries in prisons of slavery, colo-nialism, bigotry and all sorts of oppressions.

Oh, no! This is just a pardon, not proof of in-nocence.

Are scientists trying to cover things up or what? The criminal is still out there. If black people are in-nocent of the crime for which they spent lifetimes in chains and lost millions of loved ones in hell, then who is the actual perpetrator? Or perhaps this crime of inferiority was never committed? If so, then we have a bigger problem. The judges and the juries—almost everyone in the Western world, through ignorance, indifference or silence—man-ufactured this crime. What shall we do about that?

And black people are among the few innocent convicts that survived this unjust incarceration. What are we going to do about the genocides that Western empires carried out against those they deemed less than human? These empires are very much alive. Are we going to hold them responsible? Are we going to administer justice? Or are we just going to organize truth and reconciliation commissions, do some soul-searching and try to fi nd forgiveness in our hearts? Are we just going to sing “Amazing Grace?”

Perhaps, the judges and the juries were then truly lost and blind, and now are found and can see, but what does their sudden epiphany and thirst for redemption have to do with those whose lives they ruined? Those who were forced to cross the Atlantic in chains and sickness and shit saw plenty. The Arawak people of the Bahama Islands, the fi rst people Columbus encountered, did see that the strange people on their shores were human beings,

so they exchanged goods with their soon-to-be an-nihilators. Clearly, not everyone was blind or lost. Perhaps, Africans, Native Americans and other vic-

tims later found out the true inten-tions of the Europeans the hard way, with the destruction of indigenous civilizations.

The colonization of Africa, for instance, was planned in Berlin, the same city in which Hitler and his psy-chopaths calculated the Final Solu-tion to “the Jewish Question” several centuries later (what is wrong with you, Berlin?). European monarchs and princes convened and divided “the magnifi cent cake of Africa” amongst themselves, each accord-

ing to his power and appetite—how insatiable was their greed! My ancestors, thousands of miles away, had no idea that Europeans were scrambling the map of Africa, as if the continent were just an unin-habited and resource-rich plat of land.

But why am I even getting ahead of myself with this search for a way for the West to explain or re-deem itself? It is not like the West is that interested in singing “Amazing Grace.” It was only four years ago that the United States House of Representa-tives passed a resolution apologizing for American slavery and subsequent discriminatory laws. This resolution mentioned nothing about reparations, yet we have people who complain that affi rmative action should be abolished. And then we have ex-colonial European countries, which owe a large degree of their economic power to the resources they looted from Africa during colonialism—when are they going to recognize the injustice that be-got their wealth and do something about it?

Some would argue that race wasn’t the reason the colored peoples of the world were (and are) oppressed and exploited. That race was only used to justify overt discrimination. And I would say, yes. That’s my point. Race proved that these popula-tions were inferior, which legitimated their crushing and exploitation by the “master race.” So to render race invalid now does not solve the crime or rectify the injustice. It does not stop what is happening (among other things, racial steering, racial profi l-ing and the unjust U.S. criminal justice system) and what is likely to continue happening (the current rise of xenophobia in Europe, for example). In my opinion, this belated, careless correction, devoid of justice, is no less injurious than explicit racism.

As Plato warned, “Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

Nyuol Tong is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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The recent decision to institutionalize and expand Black Student Alliance Invita-tional funding is a fl awed but understandable response to the ongoing debate regarding the recruitment weekend and minority issues on campus. We believe the tim-ing and structure of this partic-ular decision misreads both the real nature of the campus de-bate about BSAI and diversity.

The decision to increase BSAI’s funding is in response to demands by the Black Stu-dent Alliance in January, fol-lowing outcry related to a study on race and academics by Duke professors.

From a public relations standpoint, this sets a troubling precedent. Rather than engag-ing in an inclusive dialogue

and drawing input from across campus on a sensitive issue, the administration seemingly capitulated to a set of demands without really explaining why.

The structure of the de-cision is also troubling. In extending and

expanding funding uncondi-tionally, the University fails to address the two main drivers of the debate on the existence of BSAI: why the weekend exists, and what it actually achieves. More than anything, the pro-cess by which this occurred represents a missed oppor-tunity. Discourse about BSAI is, understandably, steeped in emotional language. The arguments about BSAI rely on opinions that are intuited but not empirically proven —counterfactual statements

that just “seem” true—and are made on both practical and philosophical grounds.

We would have liked to see the administration use this mo-ment to enhance rather than stifl e debate.

We believe BSAI refl ects legitimate and important needs—combating a legacy of institutional hurdles while highlighting aspects of cultural life unique to the University.

We also acknowledge that the existence of BSAI is not the primary vehicle for address-ing issues of race relations on campus. Legitimate questions remain about the purpose and structure of BSAI that need to be addressed, like whether it promotes self-segregation and how accurately the weekend refl ects life on campus.

The administration was

right in securing BSAI week-end’s funding in the near term. Current discourse on BSAI is untenable, and the group’s desire for security from the, at times, prevaricating Brodhead administration is eminently reasonable.

However, expanding fund-ing from $7,000 to $20,000 without explaining why the money currently allocated to BSAI weekend is insuffi cient is puzzling, at best. Consider-ing the range of opinions on BSAI weekend, and the needs of other less prominent minor-ity recruitment programs like Latino Student Recruitment Weekend, the scope of this expansion requires concrete justifi cation.

A compromise should have been considered. The adminis-tration could have guaranteed

funding for a set period of time—10 years, for example—during which the University thoroughly investigates how BSAI weekend’s continuance fi ts into diversity and race rela-tions on campus.

If, after this set period, the administration fi nds BSAI to be an effective recruiting tool and a positive representation of the University, then funding should be extended. Contrari-ly, if BSAI itself fails to live up to its stated goals—or if campus conditions evolve to the point of making the weekend super-fl uous—then funding should be reevaluated. At the very least, the administration will be enhancing an important dialogue by providing context and facts—rather than unilat-erally trying to end an impor-tant debate.

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What does it mean to believe that health is a human right?

The topic is controversial. Many would vehemently argue that health is not a right, but rather a privi-lege—an earned state of physical, mental and so-cial excellence. Such is the belief that people are the prime controllers of their own health. It is hard for us, however, to entirely jus-tify this perspective amid the enduring disparities that persist in cold reality.

Duke alum Dr. Paul Farmer once said, “For me, an area of moral clarity is: You’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.” Dr. Paul Farmer, who has also written ex-tensively on health as a human right and a social justice paradigm for medicine, is an inspiration to many undergraduates at Duke and elsewhere. For many, his con-tributions to global health seem unattain-able; little do we realize, however, that we just have to look in the mirror to discover the next Paul Farmer.

To what extent do we as Duke students believe in the right to health with the same indignation, fervor and intensity as Paul Farmer? Will we go to any length to sacrifi ce our own comfort for those whose voices are stifl ed? Are we empowered by DukeEngage or other fi eldwork experi-ences to attempt to alleviate suffering and minimize health inequities in this world?

When we internalize the right to health as fundamentally necessary and summon the courage to act without reserve, we put principle into practice. This is the differ-ence between an interest and a passion.

This week over 20 student organiza-tions are collaborating to celebrate Duke’s fi fth annual Global Health Week. On Fri-day at 5 p.m. in front of the Chapel, we will have an open mic rally to allow stu-dents to voice their views on health as a human right. Global Health Week has al-ways aspired to raise awareness and foster spirit, but this year we especially hope to inspire action. Action through fi eldwork, research and fundraising. Action requir-ing unseen levels of resistance against deep, widespread complications resulting from political and economic systems. Ac-tion epitomized by boldness, guts and will against seemingly insurmountable chal-lenges.

Why? Because we must. Students must mobilize to fi ght against health inequi-ties, and importantly, we have the power to do so. Where? One place to start is the current global health funding crisis.

Yesterday Laurie Garrett, senior fel-low for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, gave a Global Health Week lecture discussing the future of global health policy and funding. The last decade has seen enormous investments in international initiatives through mecha-nisms such as the U.S. President’s Emer-gency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. But waning commitments

from donors, along with the fi nancial cri-sis, have forced the Global Fund to can-cel its next round of funding. President

Obama’s FY 2013 budget proposal calls for a slight increase in funding to support the dying Global Fund—but only at the ex-pense of cutting over $550 million from PEPFAR. Such a move is equally terrible. It makes no fi scal sense when global health is already only 0.25 percent of U.S. federal spending and when America allo-cates less than 1 percent of its entire annual budget

to foreign aid. There should at least be maintenance of historical investment lev-els, given the unquestionable evidence of successful programs by PEPFAR and the Global Fund.

Cutting funding for global health will only unravel the progress that the world has achieved together. The White House and Congress have no excuse for ignor-ing this resoundingly bipartisan issue.

In response, several Duke students have been pushing the boundaries by call-ing political offi ces, signing petitions and lobbying on Capitol Hill. These efforts go beyond typical levels of student engage-ment and tackle pressing global health is-sues head-on. Our peers at Harvard, Yale and other institutions have been working in even larger numbers to support the Student Global AIDS Campaign.

Universities Allied for Essential Medi-cines—at Duke and nationally—has also proven for over a decade how students can stand up and infl uence the distribu-tion of medical innovation. Just recently, students succeeded after years of work to convince the University of California system to prioritize global access licens-ing for medical research. In other words, drugs and technologies invented in these laboratories will be now accessible to mil-lions of people in middle- and low-income countries.

But where are Duke laboratories and the administration in this fi ght? When will Duke be next?

Regardless of our professional aspira-tions, we as students should be advocates for change if we genuinely care about the health of society and the right to health for all. Studying in Perkins for a midterm is important, but advocating for health in some capacity should also be personally necessary.

We do not have to be doctors, policy-makers or other professionals to make a change. As students, we have no con-fl ict of interest stopping us from fi ghting against health disparities—today. Let’s start making a systemic difference now.

Braveen Ragunanthan, Trinity ’12, is the undergraduate chair of the Duke Global Health Institute’s student council. Ruvi Chauhan, Pratt ’12, is the vice president of global health for the Duke Partnership for Service. This col-umn is the 10th installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written by dPS mem-bers addressing civic service and engagement at Duke. Follow dPS on Twitter @dukePS

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How to respond to hateIt has been an eventful couple of weeks

to say the least. The national and in-ternational headlines were full of soul

crushing events both at home and abroad. Just to mention a few: An Ameri-can soldier named Robert Bales walked into the midst of an Afghan community and in cold blood shot 16 people dead, including nine children and three women, one of whom was pregnant. A 17-year-old black high school student, Trayvon Martin, was tragically shot and killed by a racist in Florida. A terrorist in France killed seven people in a nine-day shooting rampage against paratroopers, two of whom were fellow Muslims, and innocent Jewish schoolchildren. Last, but not least, Shaima AlAwadi, a California resident of Iraqi Muslim background and mother of fi ve children, was beaten to death with an iron bar in her own home. According to the police reports, there was a note left on her body, which read: “Go back to your country, you terrorist.”

Hate, violence and human-infl icted pain manifested themselves in many dif-ferent colors, shapes and forms ... pump-ing fear and hopelessness into the hearts and minds of many. Needless to say, these events are utterly despicable, reprehensi-ble and disgusting. They all challenge our trust in the innate good of humanity. And again, I state the obvious: They all need to be condemned with the strongest possible words, loved ones need to be remembered in thoughts and prayers and most impor-tantly, the lessons that these tragic events teach us need to be learned so that similar disasters can be prevented in the future.

Often, however, these lessons, regretta-bly, are not properly discussed—let alone used as powerful wake up calls or forces of change for a better future. Often, we put the blame in the wrong place and/or marginalize these events in our individual and collective minds. We dismiss them as the works of a few rotten souls and dis-tance ourselves from them as if we have nothing to do with it. They quickly disap-pear from our news headlines and our discussions until hate and violence show their ugly faces again.

This column is an invitation to engage with these events in two major ways before they are forgotten:

First, one of the biggest lessons we need to learn from these events is that we (humanity in general, American soci-ety in particular) are not as enlightened, open minded, pluralist, compassionate or progressive and welcoming as we think we are. Our recovery from racism, hate and exclusion is a long and ongoing process. We are nowhere near declaring victory or total immunization from these grave dis-eases. On the contrary, we may very likely regress and relapse as the hateful and ex-clusionary voices rise here at home and

around the world. These events clearly tell us that our relative achievements in combatting hate and violence are still

fragile and that more sub-stantial work needs to be done in order to eliminate hate, prejudice and vio-lence from our societies.

These kinds of events also teach us who we are and help us improve our self-awareness for those who pay attention. Our individual and collective responses and reactions

to these heart-wrenching events serve as important clues about the fabric of our personal and social souls. They tell us what we are made of and who we have become. I invite myself and others to check our hearts and see if our reactions to these events are morally and ethically consistent. Can I/we point out the very many hypocrisies and double standards in the way these events are covered and discussed in our media? Do I/we feel and give the same innate gut reactions to each of these events or do we treat them differ-ently? If my reactions and responses are different, then why is that? What do these differences in reactions tell me about who I am as a person and who we are as a soci-ety? Does the murder of innocent people pain me/us equally regardless of who the heartless perpetrator is and regardless of the victims’ race, nationality or religion? Do I/we discuss these tragic losses in simi-lar language and with similar standards or do I/we apply different criteria based on who did it and who the victims are? If dif-ferences and inconsistencies are obvious and undeniable, as I believe is the case, can I/we look in a mirror and be proud of what I/we see? I don’t think so.

Second, I hope and pray none of us, as members of the global human family, and especially none of our political, religious and civic leaders will dismiss these events as individual, episodic instances. Rather, we will take these events as the symptoms of much larger, much deeper social, ethi-cal and moral pathological diseases that cripple our individual and collective souls. I hope and pray these disturbing symptoms alarm us and that we become motivated to take a constructive set of actions. Each and every one of us has an ethical and moral responsibility to com-bat hate—no matter who we are or what we do with our lives. Every single one of us has numerous things that we could do to silence hate, stop it before it darkens hearts. Ultimately, I believe it is not a few rotten souls who are solely responsible for these atrocities. It is our personal and collective inaction, our selfi shness and greed, our ethical and moral failures that keep producing these kinds of monsters.

Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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self-reported dishonest behavior are so large that it’s likely that students have a wildly inaccurate picture of how dis-honest their peers actually are,” Pickus noted.

According to the report, students esti-mate that twice as many students have fabri-cated lab data, three times as many exagger-ate qualifications and four times as many are unfaithful to romantic partners than compared to the self-reported evidence.

Senior Nick Valilis, chair of the Honor Council and member of the Academic In-tegrity Council, noted his surprise at this disparity between perception and reality of ethical behavior.

“To me, it says that Duke students, for the most part, do behave ethically,” Valilis wrote in an email Sunday. “As a commu-nity we continue to put too much stock in stereotypes and media characterizations of our student body.”

Collaboration stationThere was an increase in academic

dishonesty in two areas of collaboration: receiving unpermitted help and working on an assignment with others when the in-structor asked for individual work. Academ-ic dishonesty in these areas increased by 20 percent and 15 percent respectively.

These rates are higher at Duke than at peer institutions that have an honor code, according to the study and data from 2005.

The study suggests an explanation for this apparent growth in unethical conduct. Students reported feelings of uncertainty regarding collaborative assignments as to what is ethical and what is not. Technology and social media encourages networking and sharing among students, which may be blurring the line of ethical integrity and

dishonesty. The Honor Council is helping to clarify

any misunderstanding through a house course and an orientation program specifi-cally geared to toward students in the Pratt School of Engineering, where collabora-tion occurs frequently.

“We have some work to do in terms of communicating what ethical collaboration looks like at a university where so much of what we do is collaborative,” Valilis said. “This is particularly important in engineer-ing where coding and problem sets are in-herently collaborative.

Prevalent behaviorMore than 50 percent of students re-

ported downloading copyrighted music without permission, 40 percent of students have knowingly disclosed information im-parted in confidence and 35 percent have faked an illness.

Students reported that they differenti-ate between perceived victimless behaviors, such as pirating music, and behaviors af-fecting others, like romantic cheating.

Students also act consistently, the study shows. A student in an exclusive and com-mitted relationship is less likely to cheat on a romantic partner than cheat on a test.

“This is significant because it suggests a holism—whether for good or bad—rather than a view that ethical behavior varies by who or what is involved,” Pickus said.

Witnessing unethical behavior does not mean students will report it, according to the research. For example, 44 percent of students have witnessed other students posting anonymous disparaging comments online, but only 24 percent took any sort of action and only 10 percent called public attention to it.

Pickus noted the high proportion of students who report they did nothing when confronted with behavior they saw as wrong

as a cause for concern. “Is this because of a healthy sense of tol-

erance or a lack of concern for and commit-ment to each other?” Pickus asked.

Students reported that the primary rea-son for their hesitance to act against certain crimes is that it is “not my business” and it “violates social etiquette.”

For incidents that directly affect stu-dents, however, more reported the behavior. When an individual slacked off in a group project, for example, about 56 percent of students took action. Students referenced a personal code of ethics and self-respect as primary considerations in ethical decisions more so than religious beliefs or respect for others.

Time to act Pickus said he hoped that the Duke

community will actively engage in interpret-ing and building a more ethical community from the report.

“No one ‘owns’ integrity, and there’s lots to puzzle over in analyzing the report and lots to do in further strengthening Duke’s culture of integrity,” he said. “So rather than create a separate infrastructure for integrity issues, Kenan’s goal has been to produce a report that others will want to embrace and take ownership in.”

Pickus and Steve Asher, professor of psy-chology and neuroscience and lead author in the recently published Duke Social Rela-tionships Project, will present their respec-tive results to Duke Student Government this Wednesday.

“[It is] a valuable opportunity to reflect on the role of ethics inside and outside of the classroom and, in particular, to think about how one’s values in each of these two spheres are part of the same whole,” senior Kaveh Danesh, Academic Integrity Council member and DSG vice president for aca-demic affairs, wrote in an email Monday.

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Crusade for Christ—an interdenomina-tional Christian ministry—and founding the IGNITE Peer Mentoring program, implemented in public high schools in the Triangle area.

Hanna said he would continue dPS’s focus on issues pertaining to social jus-tice, which Kishore also considered a priority.

During his term, Kishore added new programming for dPS—including host-ing events such as the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and celebrating Duke’s history of activism through a sit-in.

Hanna said he plans to improve the organization’s ability to connect stu-dents with service organizations and support existing groups in achieving their goals. For example, he hopes to in-crease interaction among the leaders of the service organizations that compose dPS by planning a retreat.

In order to accumulate interest in civic engagement, Hanna noted that it is important to highlight the role students play in advocating against injustice.

“One of the best things about Duke is that it’s a diverse group of people, but the one thing they can get behind is serv-ing and fight[ing] injustice,” he said.

Hanna also plans to focus on transpor-tation issues and their effect on students.

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