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Duke will review Curriculum 2000

Global health major awaits faculty approval

by Ashley WongTHE CHRONICLE

Faculty are revisiting Curriculum 2000 to identify potential areas for improvement.

The Arts and Sciences Council will review the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences cur-riculum during the 2012-2013 academic year to identify strengths and areas in need of re-vision. This is the latest in a series of periodic revisions since the curriculum went into ef-fect. Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College, said faculty are concentrat-ing on how to best address learning in the classroom and beyond.

“What I think we need is a way to better recognize the way students learn in the class-room and outside the classroom, to better align and integrate the experiences between curricular and cocurricular activities,” Baker said. “We’re thinking about ways to do that, whether it’s certificates, scholars programs, minors or concentrations.”

Some potential changes would create ways to fulfill requirements outside the class-room, Baker said. For instance, one revision would empower students to engage in social inquiry research opportunities with faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Another idea would be to allow students to fulfill language requirements through pro-grams like DukeEngage.

Baker also noted that some modes of inquiry—particularly cross-cultural inquiry and science, technology and society —may be in need of updating to provide clearer definitions.

The revision process will begin when an ad hoc committee convenes to make a rec-ommendation to the curriculum commit-tee, which then makes a recommendation to the Executive Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council. From there, it will go to

by Georgia ParkeTHE CHRONICLE

Duke students may have the option to major in global health as soon as next year.

A proposal to make the major available to undergraduate students is currently be-ing considered by the faculty Curriculum Committee in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Council, said Gary Bennett, director of undergraduate studies for the Duke Global Health Institute. The pro-posal, which includes outlines for both a global health major and minor, would re-place the global health certificate program currently offered.

“This will show Duke’s seriousness in global health, its independence and its ability to be flexible,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education.

With about 100 students currently en-rolled, the global health certificate is one

of the largest certificate programs offered. This popularity was one of the reasons for proposing the new major, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs and associate vice provost of undergraduate education.

“A lot of students are interested and should be,” Nowicki said. “Duke has the re-sources to make this happen.”

The proposal was written by a team of faculty who spent many months planning and consulting with both faculty and stu-dents, Bennett wrote in an email Friday.

If approved by the committee, the pro-posal will be presented to the Arts and Sciences Council to make a formal recom-mendation to faculty members. Following committee approval, the new major needs to be approved by the council and Trinity Dean Laurie Patton.

“The proposal is moving along very well.

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Paul Teller, Trinity ’93, is the executive di-rector of the Republican Study Committee, a con-

servative caucus in U.S. House of Representatives. The RSC has about 165 representatives who aim to

advance conservative constitutional principles, like limited government. As its head staffer, Teller has been described as one of Washington’s most influential conservative aides. The Chronicle’s Maggie Spini sat down with Teller to discuss his politics and work on Capitol Hill.

The Chronicle: It seems like you have somewhat of an unusual background for a conservative—growing up in Long Island, receiving a liberal education. What forces contributed to the cultivation of your con-servative ideology? Did your time at Duke impact your political convictions?

Paul Teller: Mom is liberal, Dad used to be more right of center, but... he’s more left of center now. Honestly, I wish I had a great answer for you.... In seventh grade public school, they did this political simu-lation and gave everyone a questionnaire. Based on your answers they grouped you into these ideological groups, and I was in the most far-right group even in seventh grade....

Duke helped me sharpen some ideas but also helped me basically build tolerance, meaning there were a lot of people who would say not-so-nice things at the time if you were wearing a Bush/Quayle button or sticker. Also, it sharpens your pencil when you’re surrounded by people who disagree with you. That was educational, how to de-fend your ideas even if a professor and half of the class is disagreeing with you. It makes you realize you also have to have reasons. When you’re out there by yourself, people are going to challenge you so you can’t just say ‘I feel that way.’

TC: You have said in the past that the RSC values its conservative principles over Republican ideology. Can you talk more about that?

PT: This is a group that sees its role as trying to advance conservative constitution-al principles like liberty and limited govern-

ment, government doing less, private sector doing more. If that happens to align with what certain Republicans are pushing at a given moment, great. But if not, we’ll call it as we see it. During the George W. Bush years, when he was sending budgets to the Hill that would show increases in spending and in the number of government employ-ees, we would express very strong and very public disagreement. That was our mem-bers saying, ‘Yeah I’m a Republican, but not to the point of going against what I believe my principles are.’

TC: What is it like to be a leader in a more behind-the-scenes political power-house? How did you cultivate your own leadership skills?

PT: We’ll think of something like a bill or amendment, and we’ll just work behind the scenes. We’ll give it to a member and tell them to introduce it as their own.... Other times we do things that we brand, so

it just varies. Generally we’re looking to get more well known as a player—we’ve done a lot of coalition outreach and outreach with state governments and embassies....

The organization itself has been around since the early to mid 1970s.... When I came to the Hill and was networking to try to find my first job, I came in touch with this group, and they didn’t have a job for me at the time.... I knew this was a place I would want to work and would be a good fit for me. I stayed in touch with them, and they created a new position and just put me right into it. That was back in 2001. Because we’ve also grown in membership over the years, and members pay dues, we’ve been able to hire more staff. That just allows you to do more stuff.... You can think of things and make it real because we have so many members who would be interested in some-thing and good staff relations all over Wash-ington and outside Washington.

TC: In your opinion, have there been positive changes since Tea Party candidates were elected in the 2010 midterm elections? Do you think more conservative candidates will prevail in the 2012 election?

PT: It’s now cool to cut spending again. Not that much has been cut—we’re still working on that. It’s at least more socially acceptable to say you’re going to cut some-thing. In the past, even in Republican circles, say under George Bush, you talk-ed more about controlling the growth of something.... It’s been more of a long-term shift within Republican circles to say we re-ally have to talk about how much we’re cut-ting, what we’re cutting, not whether we’re cutting. That wasn’t the case even just a few years ago.

TC: Do you think the RSC’s frequently extreme stances on issues create pragmatic solutions, especially when they lead not only to partisan feuds, but also to division within the Republican Party? During the 2011 debt ceiling crisis disagreements got so severe within the Republican camp that several more moderate House members even called for you to be fired.

PT: Debt is increasing, spending is in-

creasing, size of government is increasing, poverty is increasing.... We probably just can’t play around the margins anymore. For example, this year we have more than a trillion dollar deficit, so there have to be some big reform ideas. Our members feel like those big type of ideas tend to come out of the more ideological wings of both parties, not so much the moderate wings who maybe wouldn’t be as comfortable with bolder solutions.

[The Republican Party is] almost like a family. If you think about it, who can you get angriest at in the world? Your own family or your closest friends because they have the biggest ability to disappoint you. Intraparty fights can be really contentious because you’re supposed to be family and that’s who can most disappoint you, that’s who you thought was working on the same side as you. That’s where some of that came from last year, some conservatives in the Repub-lican party feeling like either we shouldn’t be raising the debt ceiling or if we’re going to raise it, let’s at least get something good from it, some real cuts to systemically im-prove where we’re going.

TC: The RSC frequently pushes for pri-vate sector solutions for social problems. Do you think these proposals allow for equal ac-cess? For example, an impoverished family living next to a church could benefit from that organization’s aid, but a family living in a rural area would not be privy to the same help. What types of incentives would your plan provide to private sector entities?

PT: We’re definitely not pretending we have all the answers or even that all the an-swers are out there, we just figure it’s a little bit of a public-private partnership.... At this point, our initiative would try to highlight and point to the positive benefits of free en-terprise, the moral and economic benefits you get out of that and just using that pulpit to highlight great ideas. Not necessarily do-ing it ourselves, but saying if you do it you’ll have your efforts amplified by folks who have a mouthpiece. For now it’s less finan-cial incentives and more social incentives.

A longer version of this article can be found at dukechronicle.com.

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I expect it to be approved this year,” No-wicki said.

Upperclassmen who have already completed some requirements for the global health certificate would be able to convert those credits towards the global health major, Baker said. Students close to completing the certificate would be al-lowed to finish even after the major was implemented.

Nowicki compared the proposal to that of the neuroscience major three years ago. A significant number of stu-dents were enrolled in the neuroscience certificate program and were on track for the major—these students were easily able to convert to the major once it was introduced.

He also noted the similar interdisci-plinary nature of both programs, which provides opportunities to collaborate

with departments outside of Trinity. For the global health major, the department partner will be DGHI.

Because it would not be a traditional department, Trinity and DGHI will have to partner in funding the new major, Bak-er said.

Nowicki noted that the new proposal would allow Duke students to study global health in tandem with other disciplines such as biology or public policy. This flex-ibility distinguishes Duke from competing institutions, and could attract prospective students in the future.

Baker said the addition of the major could significantly change the way Duke undergraduate education is viewed.

He noted that the curriculum commit-tee will be looking for funding to support models of the department in the next month.

“It’s a very compelling proposal,” Bak-er said. “Now we must find how we are go-ing to pay for it.”

Joline Doedens graduated from Duke (T’12) with high honors in Women’s Studies. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on psychoanalysis and international law, and was the recipient of the Chester P. Middlesworth Award for her original work in the archives of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke. Now a first-year law student at Duke (Law 2015), Doedens is pursuing a dual JD/LLM in international and comparative law. She will speak about how her major in Women’s Studies taught her to read for what is underneath and beyond the page.

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the full council. The implementation of the original Cur-

riculum 2000 was overseen by history profes-sor William Chafe, then dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, who believed students were not being sufficiently exposed to the full val-ues of a liberal arts education.

“We sought to correct all of these [weak-nesses] by making three courses in the hu-manities, social sciences and math and science compulsory, by requiring competency in a for-eign language, ratcheting up the writing pro-gram to require three courses and creating a brand new writing staff and introducing new categories of courses such as cross-cultural in-quiry and ethical inquiry,” Chafe wrote in an email Oct. 9.

Nearly half of all undergraduate students were taking no courses at all in one of the Ar-eas of Knowledge when Chafe assumed his role as Dean, he said in a speech to faculty in

1998.The curriculum drew criticism from stu-

dents, namely due to its confining nature and pressure on students to enroll in courses they might not want to take in order to fulfill the requirements.

In 2004, a modification of the curriculum added a fifth Area of Knowledge, Quantita-tive Studies, and reduced the total number of required courses in the Areas of Knowledge from 12 to 10.

The most recent adjustment, approved this February, requires students to fulfill one of their Quantitative Studies requirements in either the mathematics, statistics or computer science departments.

These refreshments of the curriculum are natural products of a constantly improving curricular structure, Dean of Arts and Scienc-es Laurie Patton wrote in an email Oct. 11.

“We need to ensure that the best traditions of liberal arts learning are preserved even as we respond nimbly and creatively to these new environments,” she said.

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Throughout this week, prospective DukeEngage stu-dents can explore our international group programs (listed below by site) taking place in summer 2013 as well as learn more about designing and submitting an independent project by attending independent project student panels. (Note: DukeEngage Week - Domes-tic will be held in early January.) Meet DukeEngage faculty and staff leading programs, hear from students

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Apparently, every employer who wants to help women break through the glass ceiling just needs to go out and look for female can-

didates to put in their binders. That’s what Mitt Romney did when he was putting together his cabinet as governor of Massachusetts.

According to Mr. Romney, once you have successfully hired these high-powered women, all you have to do is make your work schedule woman-friendly. As long as you make schedules fl exible enough to fi t around dinner times and teacher workdays, you can be assured that you’re providing your female em-ployees with equal opportunities for success.

But this whole notion of binders full of women and specialized schedules for female professionals still rests on several unstated assumptions and ste-reotypes. Why do there have to be separate binders for male and female candidates? Is Mr. Romney ad-vocating a gender-based, private affi rmative action program? And why do only female professionals deserve exceptionally fl exible schedules and an un-contested reason to leave the offi ce before dinner? Shouldn’t fathers have the right to eat with their kids?

If we had gender-based, private affi rmative ac-tion for hiring, we would be admitting that there is some fundamental difference in the quality of work that men and women do. Or at least a difference in men and women’s professional abilities. If your gender and sex were truly irrelevant to your abil-ity to be a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, cabinet member or any number of other types of profes-sionals, then legislation like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act should fl y through Congress with only the smallest of bumps. Instead, women are still paid less than men, and not because we’re dropping out of the labor force left and right to have babies. In-stead, we are judged and evaluated on the basis of our gender. Instead, we’re evaluated based on our likely fertility.

This fertility analysis may be subconscious, but it remains true that successful professional wom-en, and particularly those in the public sphere, adopt a distinctly masculine persona. We admire (or despise, depending on our political leanings) the likes of Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as forces of nature, women who have overcome the odds of their gender to stand strong among some of the world’s most powerful men. Presumably, these are the women Mitt Rom-ney would put in his binders. At the other extreme of the (potentially subconscious) fertility analysis is the stereotypical secretary. Although we no longer

live in the age of the highly sexualized offi ce space of Mad Men, an “executive assistant” applicant is still evaluated on the basis of her sex appeal, in ad-dition to considerations of secretarial skills.

So if employers really want to help women break through the glass ceil-ing, they should make a conscious effort to combine and coalesce their separate male and female applicant binders.

Of course, some examination of an applicant’s family situation is per-fectly reasonable. It is not sexist or misogynist to recognize that a single mother with three kids will probably need a more fl exible schedule and

will probably use more vacation days during school breaks than a single male applicant without any children. Family responsibility should not automat-ically be associated with women, though. Not only do children and their parents both benefi t from increased “family time” such as family dinners, but the division of parenting roles has also begun to change. Certain employers, including Duke, have even recognized this trend by instituting general paternity leave policies. So instead of looking for binders full of women to balance out the sexes, em-ployers should begin by categorizing applicants by skill level and, where time commitment is an issue, personal responsibilities.

That way, every professional can choose to make certain sacrifi ces for the benefi t of his or her career. If you want to work from nine to fi ve, fi ve days a week, maybe you shouldn’t choose to become an emergency room doctor or a corporate attorney, or go to work on Wall Street. As much as ’90s babies love to have everything as soon as humanly pos-sible, Google and Facebook and Twitter can’t help you Instagram your way to the best of your personal and professional worlds. No matter how you fi lter it, you can’t have everything.

Most of all, it is essential to remember that we cannot just rely on employers to be gender-blind and responsibility-conscious in their hiring pro-cesses. This is only one element of a much larger puzzle. We need to legislate equal pay for men and women. We need to change popular conceptions of gender roles. We need to reorganize the fi ling sys-tem we use to categorize people every day. The post-structuralist in me wants to throw all those binders in a nice big recycling bin and evaluate each person as an individual, but unfortunately that approach is practically ineffi cient.

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

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A few short years ago, the idea of a packed student section at Wallace Wade Stadium cheering on a Blue Devils team competing for bowl eligibility would likely have elicited laughter. But now, for the first time in 18 years, the football team has the last laugh. Saturday’s hard-fought victory serves as an inspirational reminder of values that have character-ized Duke athletics for gen-erations. Specifically, we are struck by the efforts of the team itself, a communi-ty that was willing to give it a chance and the continued contribution of athletics to our campus culture.

First, we must congratu-late Coach David Cutcliffe

and the football team on commanding the respect and admiration of the en-tire campus community. Needless to say, this did not come easily. Just five

years ago, the football team won exactly

one game over the course of a whole season. In the end, it was not a new tail-gating policy or some sort of team marketing effort that got fans to pack the stadium for Saturday’s victory. Instead, it was an inspirational turnaround in team performance that could only have been the result of determination on the part of its players and coaches.

But the victory would have been far less mean-

ingful without the re-sounding support offered by the campus community. In the face of several years of teams that came close to bowl eligibility only to suf-fer consecutive defeats at the end of the season, cyn-ical fans could have been forgiven for thinking that this year’s squad would suffer a similar fate. But, by showing up in spades Saturday night and creat-ing an atmosphere unseen in Wallace Wade anytime in recent memory, fans demonstrated their will-ingness to believe that this year could be different. Cutcliffe has repeatedly pointed to increased fan participation as a key ele-ment in the recent uptick in team performance, and

our community has good reason to be proud of hav-ing now created a new tra-dition in Wallace Wade.

Finally, we would be re-miss not to recognize the enduring contribution of athletics to our school’s sense of self. Of course, a single win does not change the relative importance of athletics in relation to other facets of campus life, whether it be academics or arts. That is a discussion for another day. But the sight of fans packing the stadium and then storming the field in support of a common cause was a certain remind-er that athletics and school spirit remain an integral component of what makes Duke what it is.

There are lots of things

to be cynical about at Duke. But we note that a whole host of recent community triumphs—the football team, a Nobel Prize, chang-ing administrative policy and greater global aca-demic recognition—came as the result of persistent hard work. In some cases, success was almost unthink-able a short while ago. But perceptions change quickly. No one ever got anywhere at Duke by harp-ing on the (relatively few) things we do poorly. The winners here are the ones who ignore the cynics and press on.

And for reminding us of this important lesson, we thank and congratulate the now bowl-eligible Duke Blue Devils football team.

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My dearest readers, I come to you with unfortu-nate news. I believe I am going through early-stage fits of dementia. I’ve begun to have these

visions of campus, ones that I know are divorced from reality as much as I am di-vorced from all three Van-derbilt sisters. (Some things run in the family, I’m told. In their case, it was I, and an unfortunate predilec-tion for venereal disease.) Yet, even as I understand how delusional they are, I cannot stop seeing these things.

My afflictions began late last week. Somehow, as though in a dream, I got this notion in my head that President Brodhead referred to Duke basket-ball as a “foolish” endeavor that ought not be a major factor in coming to the Uni-versity. I ought to have immediately realized that no school president would publically dismiss a major focal point and revenue center for his University, especially when unprovoked. It would be a tremendously foolish PR move, and if there’s one thing the Brodhead ad-ministration has time and again proven, it is that they understand how to run an impeccable public relations campaign.

Yet this vision persisted, I was powerless to stop it! Ghostly figures echoed meaningless words, repeat-edly chanting “interdisciplinary,” “interdisciplinary.” I yelled back, “But that word, I don’t know what it ac-tually implies, cruel specter! Will it not just decrease each student’s desire to actually master their disci-pline, to capitalize on trends in academia instead of improving the institution’s fundamentals?” Yet all they could say was “interdisciplinary” in return. The only thing that ever changed in my vision was the en-try of a chinaman who yelled “global Duke” whilst taking money out of Duke’s pockets. It was haunting, truly haunting.

I was caught in an existential hell, where everything around me lacked for meaning of any sort. For unless “interdisciplinary” means allowing the biology depart-ment to once and for all disprove the validity of the women’s studies department (it is common knowledge that estrogen clouds the brain function of women as much as reefer does for the pickaninnies, and women already must function with smaller craniums as is), I cannot fathom it being anything worthwhile.

But my strangest visions were yet to come. The stu-dents, by and large, were totally apathetic about the entire issue! Editorial Boards touted “Duke’s growing academic prominence” as symptomatic of the need for campus change, even though our U.S. News and World Report ranking has decreased over the last de-cade. College students thought that they were right to shame one another for going to parties on Thursdays instead of consistently studying, and implicitly asked for larger crackdowns on social activities that seem totally distinct from the grander academic projects. I knew I was dreaming, but the absurdity still over-whelmed…

And then my vision drifted into the future President Brodhead imagined. One in which students centered their Duke life upon some sense of academic collabora-tion, where the purpose of the house model as the ex-tension of some grander academic plan becomes clear. One where students were intended to do projects that bridge the gap between science and the humanities, but are instead incentivized to do mediocrities that use half-baked combinations of both.

Luckily, I woke up from this dream at this point. The world began to make sense again. I thought my delu-sions had vanished, and that the grand old Duke was back to the traditional order of things. That was, until I opened the newspaper today, and saw the headlines. ... “Duke Football Bowl Eligible, Beats UNC 33-30 in dramatic fashion.”

The Grumpy Trustee is out of bad jokes, and simply says: GTHC.

Same as it never wasI chose not to watch the fi rst presidential debate. I

did so because I was angry that no third-party can-didates would even be given a shot despite Phillips

and the YWCA pulling out from sponsorship. I missed the vice-presidential debate because I was busy and cannot multitask to save my life. I had assumed the debates were largely unproductive and mostly about pandering, but I felt bad making this assumption with-out even seeing a debate. To that end, I watched the second presidential debate, in all of its town hall glory.

In a typical debate, each candidate stands behind a podium. The podiums are separated by a reasonable width and elevated on a stage. The moderator sits facing the stage but with his or her own larger desk and is close enough to the candidates for effective communi-cation. The moderator reads off ques-tions about the big issues of the day and each candidate gets two minutes or so to respond to the question. There are usually some other rules for rebuttals, admissible content, conduct, etc., but this is the general idea. It’s a highly imperfect format, and the time limits and civility are only as useful as the moderator enforcing them.

The second presidential debate threw aside this apparently elitist, pedantic setup and organized a true debate for the people. No more podiums; the candidates sat in high chairs, with one of their legs on the ground and the other on their chair’s cross-beam. This forced them to slouch considerably, which is preferable because ... okay I don’t have a reason. No more stage; the new “stage” was a 10-foot radius circle of red carpeted no-man’s-land separat-ing the candidates from the moderator. This way the candidates have to get up, walk toward the audience to answer the question (and pace while doing so), and then sit back down. If the other candidate wants to respond, he does the same thing. The candidates often looked like two sail boats coursing near each other but never colliding; they even got to point at each other WHILE walking past each other. … Again, I have no idea what purpose this could pos-sibly serve other than maybe some good photos and video footage. No more pre-selected questions that the campaigns opted for beforehand. Now the ques-tions are pre-screened (which I suppose is technically somewhat better) and either asked off Twitter (that’s right: Twitter) or asked by an audience member. Hav-ing an audience member ask a question, though of-ten adding a more personal element, doesn’t actually change the substance of the question at all. In fact, it is likely done entirely for ratings purposes.

On paper these changes seem mostly stylistic and arguably detract further from the substance of the

debate in the name of ratings and good sound bites. Indeed, this is exactly what happened with the de-bate. Both candidates looked incredibly unprofes-sional, the moderator Candy Crowley looked feeble while trying to maintain civility, and the audience members’ questions came off as stiff and robotic, adding nothing to the debate. The debate was a total fi asco; nobody really “won,” and the natural question

to ask is: Why?It is fair to point out that President

Obama was perceived as weak during the fi rst debate and he may have been trying to gain some ground by being more aggressive. Though this would explain some of the interrupting and bickering, I believe that the format contributed heavily to the problem. When two arguing people are sepa-rated by podiums and a set distance (by being expected to stay behind said

podiums), tempers fl are relatively slowly. When two people who are accustomed to winning are allowed to move right next to each other, get into each oth-ers’ faces and accuse each other of being anything from a liar to incompetent, tempers fl are rapidly. This problem is exacerbated by pre-screened ques-tions that are pointed in nature. One question, in essence, was “How are you different from George W. Bush?” When one candidate has been president for four years, it’s fairly obvious that the question is meant entirely for Romney. It’s the sort of jab that proves frustrating in a debate, and shouldn’t be com-ing from a supposedly neutral party.

The format issues could have easily been correct-ed with a decent moderator. Crowley proved to be an ineffective moderator who lacked the commanding presence necessary to keep either candidate from go-ing way over time. The necessity of a skilled modera-tor is pretty much common to any format short of a Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” feature, and Crowley failed miserably in the role of moderator. The good news is that Bob Schieffer will be moderating the third debate. He did a good job in 2008 with Mc-Cain and Obama. All I can say for certain is this: If the third debate proves as insulting as the second, we may have to (gasp!) consider that a third-party candidate may inject some intellectual seriousness into the debate. We may have to consider that the Commission on Presidential Debates only consists of Republicans and Democrats, and that they are ulti-mately invested in maintaining this status quo.

Or we can keep on pretending these debates are useful. Your call.

Michael Cook is a Pratt senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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Duke starts the season ‘together’MEN’S BASKETBALL

by Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

To bring the Countdown to Craziness fes-tivities to a close Friday night, Duke basket-ball head coach Mike Krzyzewski introduced a new tradition for the Cameron Crazies.

After urging the crowd at Cameron In-door Stadium to imagine the possibilities for this season, Krzyzewski asked the fans to stand up, put their fists out and help break the huddle with the team.

“And let’s count to three, and when we break together and then we come back here next Saturday afternoon and start the journey… let’s see what we can imag-ine together,” Krzyzewski said. “One. Two. Three. Together.”

Following the annual Blue-White scrimmage, Krzyzewski began his speech by introducing a three-minute video of past Blue Devil teams.

The montage provided a compilation of the highlights of the Duke program that emphasized the team’s values. Although Krzyzewski reminded the audience that Duke cannot live in the past, the clip pro-vided a reminder of what made past years so successful.

Explaining that the Blue Devils break the huddle with “together” rather than “win” or “get ‘em,” Krzyzewski emphasized his team’s philosophy of “five guys playing as one.”

“This is a theme we’ve been saying since the summer,” freshman guard Rasheed Sulaimon said. “Together. It’s not just the team. It’s the coaches. It’s the managers. It’s our fans. It just represents that every time we put on this jersey we’re playing for something bigger than ourselves. We’re representing a lot of people—our families and all the Duke fans across the nation.”

After a year in which Duke finished 202nd nationally in assists per game, play-ing well as a unit will be very important to the team’s success.

In the scrimmage, the Blue Devils al-ready appeared to have a strong team dy-namic. In the 20 minutes of scrimmage, the Blue and White teams combined for 19 assists, with returning point guards Tyler Thornton and Quinn Cook recording five and four assists, respectively.

For three of his assists, Thornton con-nected with Sulaimon as part of an 8-2 scoring run.

“My teammates put me in great, great positions to score the ball in the second half,” Sulaimon said. “Fortunately I just knocked down shots. I credit all this—all this goes to my teammates Tyler [Thornton and] Mason [Plumlee]. All those guys made great plays to get me in a good spot.”

Although the importance of team unity is a fundamental part of the players’ philosophy, Krzyzewski emphasized that for the program, the sentiment of working together does not end at the sidelines. The players agreed that the Blue Devil fans play a vital role.

“They are what makes Cameron, Cam-eron,” senior Mason Plumlee said. “Plus, winning is a part of that, but they’re just as important because they create the atmo-sphere that’s famous. People want to come to our games. Opposing teams don’t want to play here. And without them, we don’t have that. They had great fan support in all those [film] clips, so we’re looking for the

same thing this season.”After student attendance numbers had

dropped during the last five years, the team hopes that emphasizing the fans’ im-portance to the basketball program may help to recreate the level of support expe-rienced by previous teams.

It certainly did not take long for Duke’s student fans to incorporate Krzyzewski’s tradition into their arsenal.

A day later, the Blue Devil football team, having given up a 14-point lead, trailed North Carolina 30-26 with a little more than three minutes remaining. With its first bowl berth since 1994 and an eight-game losing streak to the Tar Heels on the line, Duke faced fourth down, still five yards out of the end zone. As the Blue Devils lined up for the snap, the Duke students raised their fists in unison.

Showing their faith in the team, the students kept their fists high in the air as the clock wound down, only breaking pose to cheer as Jamison Crowder caught the game-winning touchdown.

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The Blue Devils and head coach Mike Krzyzewski stressed togetherness at Countdown to Craziness.

Breaking down the Craziness

The 2012-13 Duke basketball season may only be a few days old, but after Count-down to Craziness it is already apparent that there are some noticeable differences in this year’s squad. Here are some observa-tions from the season’s kickoff event.

A bigger, better perimeterHead coach Mike Krzyzewski has sig-

nificantly upgraded his perimeter with true freshman guard Rasheed Sulaimon and redshirt fresh-man small forward Alex Murphy. The two newcomers fin-ished with 14 and

nine points, respectively, on the night.Replacing injured senior Seth Curry

for night, Sulaimon looks to be the most athletic guard on the roster due to his ex-ceptional lateral quickness and ideal size at 6-foot-4. The Texan is also a dual threat offensively with his long-range shooting prowess and ability to get into the lane off the dribble.

Hitting back-to-back three-pointers in the second half, Sulaimon appeared to get better as the game wore on.

“I had some jitters at the beginning,” Su-laimon said. “But as the game started to get going I started to feel more comfortable. Once I got comfortable, I got into a groove and everything went smoothly.”

In his second year at Duke, Murphy is leaps and bounds ahead of where he was a season ago. Noticeably bigger and stronger, the 6-foot-8 small forward was active defen-sively all night and had a team-high three blocked shots. He made his presence felt on the glass too, grabbing eight rebounds on the night, which was the most of any player. Even though he did not shoot the

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Duke takes out its offensive frustrationsWOMEN’S SOCCER

by Jay SullivanTHE CHRONICLE

Duke’s offensive potential has been highly touted throughout the season and it was certainly on display Sunday as the Blue Devils wrapped up regular season play with a non-conference match. After an offensive barrage against Francis Mari-on, Duke feels confident heading into the

ACC tournament. The No. 6 Blue

Devils (12-3-1) de-feated the Patriots (6-9-1) 4-0 at Koski-

nen Stadium Sunday afternoon.Duke controlled possession through-

out the game, capitalizing four times on 37 shot attempts to earn the win. From the opening play, the Blue Devils com-manded the flow of the match in Patriot territory.

Duke scored the lone goal of the first half in the sixth minute off the head of midfielder Kaitlyn Kerr, who scored her fifth goal of the season off a powerful cross from freshman midfielder Cassie Pecht.

“What I’ve been trying to work on more is getting the ball more and getting involved in attack,” Kerr said. “I’m try-ing to be a playmaker, that’s what I am, [and] that’s what I do. I haven’t been as involved as I like but this is a great start to the postseason for me and for the team.”

The Blue Devils relied on unselfish play from their attacking players, espe-cially in the second half, to score the team’s four goals.

Midfielder Kim DeCesare and forward Laura Weinberg continued to feed off each

other and tied the Duke single-season re-cord for a goal-scoring duo with 27 com-bined goals, on a header from DeCesare. Forward Kelly Cobb also scored her first goal of the season on a through ball from Pecht, who had two assists in the match, with a scorching shot in the upper corner of the net. The final goal came off the foot of Katy Colas, who was assisted by both Mol-lie Pathman and Callie Simpkins.

“I think we’ve been getting better and better,” Kerr said. “In the beginning we started off playing more as individuals, but as the season has progressed we have defi-nitely gotten into a team mindset more. We’re prepared for the postseason and we’re looking forward to it.”

Duke, despite notching 13 fewer shots than in the first half, created more qual-ity goal-scoring opportunities in the sec-ond half and converted three of them.

“We had three nice goals in the second half,” said head coach Robbie Church. “I thought we were more dangerous in the second half. We had better movement off the ball overall. That’s what we’ve got to do as we move forward into the ACC tourna-ment. We have opportunities, but we’ve got to find people with better opportunities.”

Church stressed to his team the impor-tance of unselfish play that characterized Sunday’s match for the Blue Devils going into the postseason.

“The main thing I think is we have to keep sharing the ball,” Church said. “We’ve got to keep passing the ball and play unselfishly by taking unselfish cross-es and shots. We’re in good shape going into the tournament. I’m very excited for this team.”

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Kaitlyn Kerr gave the Blue Devils the first of their four goals with a header just six minutes into the game.

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All it took was a perfect strike to send the Blue Devils bowling for the first time since 1994. Duke gained bowl eligibility by defeating arch-rival North Carolina in dramatic fashion Saturday night at Wal-lace Wade Stadium, prompting the fans to storm the field as the clock displayed 0:00.

After seeing Tar Heels take a 30-26 lead with around three minutes to play, the Blue Devils’ storybook ending looked as though it might not come to fruition. Quarter-back Sean Renfree, however, refused to let that happen. Conducting arguably the best drive of his career, Renfree heroically led the team down field and connected with sophomore wide receiver Jamison Crowder for the game-winning touchdown on a fourth down with 13 seconds left in the game to give Duke a 33-30 win against North Carolina.

“The main thing that was going through my head was just hold on to the ball,” Crowder said. “When I realized I had it, I just wanted to get to the sideline and cel-ebrate with my team.”

Having the lead for a majority of the contest, Duke (6-2, 3-1 in the ACC) seem-ingly lost its control of the game late. In the fourth quarter, North Carolina stormed back from a 14-point deficit with its second-straight scoring drive, going 75 yards in 10 plays to pull within three.

Soon after that, the Tar Heels regained possession, and on the wildest play of the night, quar-terback Bryn Renner hit an open Erik High-smith, who fum-bled at Duke’s 22-yard line. Blue Devil cor-nerback Ross Crockell had an opportunity to jump on the loose ball but was unable to do so. The ball squirt-ed forward toward the Duke end zone, where sophomore running back Giovani Bernard scooped up the fumble and scored from four yards out, giv-ing the Tar Heels a 30-26 lead with 3:12 remaining.

“It just shows the kind of team we are,” senior wide re-ceiver Conner Vernon said. “Old Duke teams would have just laid down [after North Carolina took the lead].”

The epic conclusion to the To-

bacco Road rivalry was matched by an equally stellar atmosphere. With a raucous crowd of 33,941 on hand at Wallace Wade Stadium, the 2012 battle for the Victory Bell saw North Carolina (5-3, 2-2) move the ball quickly on its opening possession. A 39-yard screen pass to Bernard led to a 30-yard field goal for the Tar Heels to give them the early lead.

Duke answered by making a statement on its opening possession with a methodical drive down the field. From the onset of the contest, the Blue Devil offense was predi-cated on the running game, which the Tar Heels’ 4-2-5 defense was gashed by much of the night. Led by running backs Josh Snead, Jela Duncan and Juwan Thompson, Duke’s ground attack accounted for 234 yards on the night, marking the most rush-ing yards ever by a David Cutcliffe-coached Duke team and the most rushing yards giv-en up the Tar Heel defense all year.

“We thought we had a chance to run the football,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “Our offensive line believed that we could, and they came off the field and told us, ‘We can get this done.’ We didn’t run the ball very well at any time against Vir-ginia Tech…. This is what we had dreamed, hoped and envisioned.”

Sophomore quarterback Anthony Boone capped off the Blue Devils’ first drive with a three-yard touchdown run to give the Duke its first lead of the night at 7-3. Extending the Blue Devils’ lead to 10, freshman kicker Ross Martin connected

on field goals from 35 yards and 30 yards, respectively.

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game—bend, but not break, forcing the Tar Heels to settle for a 23-yard field goal.

In addition to establishing the running game, Duke’s offensive

line gave Renfree adequate protection the entire game,

allowing the redshirt senior signal caller to finish with 276 yards. Vernon was on

the receiving end six times for 124 yards, several of which came on clutch third-down conversions.

“The offensive line did a phenomenal job giving us protection against a very good front seven,” Renfree said.

Narrowly avoiding costly turnovers on offense, the Blue Devils leaned on the run-ning game as the first half drew to a close. Duncan’s two-yard touchdown run up the middle extended the Duke lead to 20-6 at halftime.

To start the second half, the Blue Devil defense came up big again. The secondary, in particular, played perhaps its best game of the season by shutting down North Caro-lina’s big and talented receiving corps. Con-sequently, the Tar Heels could only muster three points on their first possession of the second half through a 28-yard field goal by kicker Casey Barth to make the score 20-9.

Momentum quickly shifted though in the final quarter of play with Duke clinging to a 23-9 advantage. Opting to fake a punt on a fourth-and-one, Duke was unable to keep its drive alive to start the fourth quar-ter. The questionable decision almost cost the Blue Devils the game.

“I helped [North Carolina] a little bit with the decision to fake the punt, so I felt on the hook the whole time after that,” Cutcliffe said. “Not because it did not work, it just wasn’t the right time to do it.”

Taking over at midfield, North Caro-lina’s offense found a new rhythm. Renner found a wide-open Eric Ebron for a 34-yard gain to move inside the Blue Devils’ 10-yard line. A few plays later, Bernard leaped into the end zone, cutting Duke’s lead to 23-16 with around 13 minutes to play.

Martin’s fourth field goal of the contest, a 43-yarder, extended Duke’s lead to 26-16 with 9:22 remaining. The Blue Devils’ lead quickly disappeared though.

Rallying back, the Tar Heels seemed poised to steal the game after their wild go-ahead touchdown by Bernard in the clos-ing minutes of the game.

Instead of the back-breaking play lead-ing to Duke’s undoing, the Blue Devils re-siliently answered by performing one of the program’s most memorable game-winning drives, giving Duke its first victory over North Carolina since 2003 and its second win in the last 22 Victory Bell matchups.

“It’s impossible for me to describe,” Renfree said. “There’s been so many frus-trating times in my career here… for us to come together as a team like this and do something special, I’m just lucky to be a part of this.”

The historic feat prompted students to storm the field in celebration of new heights for the Duke program.

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Duke has always seemed to find a way to lose big games. Saturday night, a mas-sive reversal of fortune sent the Blue Devils to its first bowl game since 1994.

The Blue Devils played three domi-nant quarters against North Carolina. Duke’s rushing attack showed up for the

first time this season as the trio of Josh Snead, Jela Duncan and Juwan Thompson carried the ball a total of 48 times. The team’s total of 234

yards on the ground was a season-high. The Blue

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pressure situations, holding the Tar Heels to 4-for-15 on third downs.

Despite taking a 23-9 lead into the fourth quarter, Duke’s bad habits resur-faced, and it appeared this might be the type of loss we had become accustomed to in recent years. Missed tackles, busted coverages and ill-advised penalties al-lowed North Carolina to march down the field on consecutive touchdown drives.

And as the lead deteriorated, memo-ries of Duke’s haunted past continued to

grow. We began to remember why North Carolina had taken 21 of its last 22 match-ups against the Blue Devils. We thought back to the 20-point first quarter lead Duke blew at Virginia Tech last weekend with its bowl eligibility on the line.

With one of the flukiest touchdowns you’ll ever see, the continuation of Duke’s bowl drought seemed to be noth-ing short of divine intervention.

Clinging to a 26-23 lead in the game’s closing minutes, North Carolina wide receiver Erik Highsmith caught a pass from quarterback Bryn Renner and found space in the open field. High-smith was met in by Duke safety Walt Canty, who made a remarkable defensive effort to punch the ball out at Duke’s 22-yard line. Cornerback Ross Cockrell was poised to pounce on the loose ball and seal the victory for the Blue Devils but allowed the fumble to squirt away to-ward his own end zone. North Carolina’s Giovani Bernard picked it up at Duke’s 4-yard line and scored one of the most improbable touchdowns in the history of the battle for the Victory Bell to give the Tar Heels a 30-26 lead.

“I thought I blew the game to be hon-est with you,” Cockrell said. “I thought I blew it.”

He wasn’t the only one. With a capac-ity crowd on hand at Wallace Wade Sta-dium, 33,941 fans were left in utter dis-belief at the scene that was playing itself out on the field. With just 3:06 remain-ing in the game, the Blue Devils had to go 87 yards to score the game-winning touchdown. After settling for four Ross Martin field goals throughout the con-test, three more points would do them

no good—they had to go for six.But Duke did not respond like a team

that always seemed to find a way to lose, but rather a team that always knew it could win with the ball in its hands on the final drive.

“What I went down and told the of-fensive line right then was, ‘You know what, they blew it. They scored with too much time left on the clock. This is ex-actly what we want, right here. Exactly where we want to be. This is one you’ll remember.’ And they took care of the business,” Duke head coach David Cut-cliffe said.

Quarterback Sean Renfree and the Blue Devil offense answered the call and cemented their legacy with a drive for the ages. With its back against the wall, Duke relied on its most dependable weapon, the ACC’s all-time leader in receptions. Despite being neutralized for much of Saturday’s contest, wide receiver Conner Vernon was just where he needed to be on Duke’s final drive, converting on two crucial third downs.

But the third time the Blue Devils faced third down on the game’s ultimate drive, a draw play to Duncan fell two yards short. With 19 seconds left on the clock, Duke hit a fork in the road—it was win or go home.

And after 18 consecutive years of call-ing bowl week the offseason, this team found itself on the right side of history. Renfree delivered a strike just between the linebacker and the cornerback, and sophomore wide receiver Jamison Crowder created a moment that will echo throughout the cavernous confines of Wallace Wade for decades.

Some may say you couldn’t have scripted a better ending for a game between Duke and North Carolina, or that the underdog Blue Devils were de-serving of a Hollywood ending to break a drought that spanned nearly two de-cades. Although both of these things may be true, Crowder’s last-second he-roics signified that a new era of Duke football has arrived—this team is finally playing with a winning mentality and has a bowl bid to show for it.

As Gatorade showers flowed and a spraypaint mist of royal blue hung over the battlefield, it was hard to believe the shot to the gut this team had taken just three minutes earlier. The lowest low led to the highest high.

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um, the atmosphere at Saturday’s 33-30 win against North Carolina was an unfamiliar one for Duke football.

Partylike1994On Nov. 28, 1994, the Hall of Fame

Bowl offered a bid to the Duke football team, which was subsequently accepted. Bowl games worked differently then—unlike now, when six wins guarantee a bowl berth, bowls had to extend bids to the teams they wanted.

Duke was 8-3 in 1994 when the Hall of Fame Bowl extended its offer. On that same day—Nov. 28, 1994—infamous serial killer and rapist Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered in jail. More than half of the Duke freshman class was born in 1994. In case you can’t remember back that far, here are some of the top things from the last time the Blue Devils made a bowl game:

The Winter Olympics take place • in Lillehammer, Norway.March 1, 1994: Justin Bieber is • born.April 22, 1994: President Rich-•

ard Nixon, Law ’37, passes away.June 17, 1994: The O.J. Simpson • car chase takes place.Brazil wins the World Cup.• The 1994 MLB playoffs and World • Series are cancelled due to strike.Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of • Philadelphia” wins a Grammy for song of the year.Forest Gump is named the Best • Picture of the Year at the Academy Awards.Pope John Paul II is named the • Time Person of the Year.Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and • Yitzhak Rabin win the Nobel Peace Prize.Current Duke basketball assistant • coaches Steve Wojciechowski and Jeff Capel are players on the Duke team.Nannerl Keohane is Duke’s presi-• dent.

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artin went 4-for-4 on field goals e, none bigger than his 43-yard in the fourth quarter.

Giovani Bernard gave North Carolina the lead with 3:12 remaining, collecting a fumble after Ross Cockrell whiffed on it.

Jamison Crowder’s five-yard touchdown catch with 13 seconds left on fourth down gave Duke the final score and the win.

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Close losses continueby Lopa Rahman

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The Blue Devils dominated possession. They controlled the run of play. But they made one mistake, and that’s all it took to find themselves on the losing end of the game.

Duke (5-7-1, 2-4-1 in the ACC) dropped a 1-0 contest to Boston College (8-4-3, 3-1-

2) Friday night at Koskinen Stadium. All seven of the Blue Devils’ losses this season have been by

only one goal.“I’m not disappointed in our perfor-

mance,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “I thought we played a brilliant game to-night. We had one lapse, and they capital-ized. Soccer is a cruel game that way.”

On a breakaway in the 71st minute, Eagle senior Kyle Bekker served a through ball to classmate Stefan Carter, who beat Blue Devil goalkeeper James Belshaw one-on-one to give Boston College a 1-0 lead that it would not relinquish.

“[The Eagles] are one of those counter-punch kind of teams where they just wait and wait and hit you when you’re not look-ing, and that’s what they did to us tonight,” Kerr said.

Duke bested Boston College in shots 16-8 and corners 6-3. Blue Devil junior Will Donovan led the way in shots with six.

“[Will] is putting himself in great posi-tions,” Kerr said. “This is the best he’s ever played.”

Both teams generated quality looks on goal in the opening half, but Belshaw and Eagle senior goalkeeper Justin Luthy came

up with saves to keep the game scoreless. Five minutes after the opening whistle, Bekker took a free kick for Boston College, but Belshaw made a diving save to keep the Eagles off the scoreboard.

In the 18th minute, Duke sophomore Riley Wolfe got in the penalty box and fired a shot at goal, but Luthy stopped the at-tempt. Carter took the final stab at goal in the half just two minutes later, but Belshaw made his second save of the night to keep the score 0-0.

Boston College junior Chris Ager head-ed the ball over the goal for the first shot of the second half. In the ensuing 12 min-utes, the Blue Devils took four shots and earned two corner kicks but were unable to capitalize.

“We’re obviously really threatening on corner kicks when we get the service right,” Duke freshman Ryan Thompson said. “Right now, we’re a little bit inconsistent, myself especially, on getting the service right.”

After the Eagles’ game-winning goal in the 71st minute, Duke pressed forward in search of the equalizer. The Blue Devils took six of the final eight shots, includ-ing on-target attempts by junior Sebastien Ibeagha and freshman Zach Mathers that Luthy punched just over the crossbar.

“We had several chances in their penalty area to score, but we just can’t find a way to the back of the net right now,” Kerr said. “I’m not unhappy at all with the effort, but just disappointed for the boys because they played their hearts out tonight.”

Duke returns to action this week against Davidson and Virginia Tech, which is win-less in the ACC.

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Duke edges Golden Bears in overtime

by Danielle LazarusTHE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils had yet to win in over-time this season. Junior defender Paula Heimbach had yet to score a goal in a Duke uniform.

Friday, both those things changed.No. 24 Duke (7-9) beat California (5-

10) 2-1 in overtime at Jack Katz Sta-dium. Nine min-utes into overtime, Heimbach scored

to propel the Blue Devils past the Golden Bears.

“I feel great,” Heimbach said. “It’s my first goal ever, so I’m so excited it hap-pened in overtime. I saw the ball there, and I just went for it.”

Duke and California were evenly matched throughout the first half. The Golden Bears held an 8-7 shot advantage against the Blue Devils, while Duke sopho-more goalie Lauren Blazing and California sophomore goalie Courtney Hendrickson each made four saves. Duke, however, had only three penalty corners while Califor-nia had eight, including five back-to-back. On the fifth, California sophomore mid-fielder Caroline Struijk converted to give the Golden Bears a 1-0 lead, with assists from senior midfielder Kendra Bills and junior midfielder Shannon Elmitt.

At the close of the second half, Blue Devil junior forward Emmie Le Marchand scored on a penalty corner, with assists

from junior midfielder Grace Christus and senior defender Abby Hassinger. This was Le Marchand’s team-leading 11th goal of the season, and it was one of her most important, as it shifted the flow in Duke’s favor going into the second half.

Statistically, it appeared as though Cali-fornia dominated Duke offensively in the second half—the Golden Bears led the Blue Devils in shots, 8-3, corners, 5-2, and saves, 4-1. But, as Duke head coach Pam Bustin pointed out, the box scores have no way of measuring momentum.

“I think the momentum started two-thirds of the way through the second

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Junior defender Paula Heimbach scored her first career goal to give Duke an overtime win.

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The Blue Devils are currently searching. For some consistency, that is.

Duke (12-11, 3-8 in the ACC) finished 1-1 on the road this past weekend, defeating Virginia (7-15, 1-10) and losing to Virginia Tech (13-8, 6-5) Friday and Saturday nights, respectively. The Blue Devil lineup might vary game to game, mixing and matching with the team’s deep crew of players.

“The lineup is constantly changing,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We haven’t

The proof of a Blue Devil loss is made clear by the stat sheet. Duke’s hitting per-centage in set one was -.054 and increased slightly in the second set to .108. Then, in the third set, which Duke won, the Blue Devils recorded a .325 hitting percentage. That was short lived, however, because Duke finished with a rate of .098 in the fourth set, conceding the match (16-25, 18-25, 25-22, 19-25).

The Blue Devils return to Cameron In-door Stadium as they take on Triangle rivals North Carolina Friday and then N.C. State Saturday. The last time the Blue Devils took the court with the two teams, they picked up two losses. Duke looks to take advantage

of playing host this time, where they are 8-3 so far this season.

Nagel is encouraged about the growth her team has undergone in the last month since it last faced the Tar Heels and Wolfpack.

“I definitely think we have grown,” Nagel said. “We will be playing [these] teams that aren’t as unfamiliar to us. We have a better idea of what to expect. As much as a coach can make sure we are working hard everyday and that the team is making the effort, we need to keep things fresh going into the second part of the season [where we play most ACC teams for the second time].”

found a magic potion or combination yet. What we can do as a coaching staff is make decisions as best we can… it is the consis-tency that we are trying to find. If it’s not happening, we have other people that de-serve to get out there and have the oppor-tunity.”

The Blue Devils took the floor against the Cavaliers Friday night in what Virginia hoped would be its first conference win of the season. The Cavaliers’ hopes, however, were batted down in large part because of Blue Devil Megan Hendrickson’s play. The senior amassed a season-high 13 kills and 19 digs in the team’s third conference win.

“[Megan] has been playing defense this year for the most part,” Nagel said. “She hasn’t necessarily gotten the opportunity to play at the net this season. We wanted to go with her experience and leadership [this weekend]. She is passionate about her team and really cares that we are success-ful. We wanted to give her that opportunity. She did really well.”

Duke hit .257 on the night while limit-ing Virginia, the lowest-ranked team in the ACC, to just .167 hitting. Sophomore Jeme Obeime and junior Chelsea Cook both recorded 10 kills on the night and senior Christiana Gray compiled eight kills and no attack errors on 25 attempts. Sophomore setter Maggie Deichmesiter dished out 41 assists to help seal the victory (25-19, 24-26, 27-25, 25-15) for the Blue Devils.

The Cavaliers were led by freshman out-side hitter Natalie Bausback, who totaled 20 kills on the night.

From Charlottesville, Duke headed south to Blacksburg to take on the Hokies, who were coming off of a 3-1 win against Wake Forest the night before.

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Jeme Obeime continued her strong play against Virginia, notching 10 kills.


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half,” Bustin said. “It forced Cal to call a time out, and it really gave us a chance to identify that we had them, and the energy just spread. I think from that point on, whether we scored in regulation or if we were going to have to do it in overtime, that we had the game in our hands.”

In overtime, the Blue Devils outshot California 5-0. In the 79th minute, Heim-bach pounded a rebound off Hendrick-son into the far post of the goal, leading Duke to victory.

“I think Paula just wanted to go home,” Bustin said. “But it was a beautiful goal. She swept it wonderfully. It was right on point. She was wide open and did the right thing.”

The Blue Devil victory was not pretty, but it was important. Duke is winless against ACC opponents and faces No. 5 Virginia at home next Saturday. The win against the Golden Bears, however, showed the Blue Devils’ persistence in a tight match.

“I think this was a tough game for us,” Bustin said. “I think we’re still coming out of some tough losses over the last few weeks that we’re still learning from.... In terms of toughness—mentally and physi-cally—I’m really proud of what we did to-night. It’s good to face Virginia with a win on your back. It’s going to be a heck of a battle next weekend, there’s no doubt about it, but I think with a week of build-ing on this energy, we have a fair shot.”

ball particularly well, Murphy’s presence at the small forward position should make Duke a more complete team this year.

Established leadershipSenior big men Mason Plumlee and

Ryan Kelly were impressive in their final Countdown to Craziness.

“It’s hard to believe,” Kelly said. “Things fly by fast. I just want to make this year something special.”

Being assertive offensively and scoring early and often in the post, the two co-cap-tains will seemingly be the go-to-guys this season.

Kelly led all scorers, netting 15 points, despite shooting 0-for-6 on 3-pointers.

Spurning the NBA to return to Duke for his senior season, Plumlee finished with 12 points and six rebounds. The preseason first-team All-ACC selection looked more polished on the block and showed some added diversity to his low post game.

The duo’s greatest asset to this team may be their leadership in making the team a more cohesive unit, a dynamic that was lacking last season.

“Coach [Krzyzewski] talks about being together,” Kelly said. “And I think we cer-tainly are more together.”

Hood impressesMississippi State transfer Rodney Hood’s

debut was perhaps the most anticipated of the evening, and he did not disappoint in his only outing for Duke this year. The 6-foot-8 swingman finished with 13 points and five rebounds, showing off his silky smooth mid-range game and slashing abil-ity.

Hood going against Sulaimon was easily

the most entertaining one-on-one matchup of the game.

“[Sulaimon] hit shots, and I hit shots,” Hood said. “It was competition, and we were at there competing. He is going to help me a lot. He is a very good player and just to go against him every day pushes myself.”

With Hood on board, the future is bright on the wing for the Blue Devils. The versatile and springy left-hander from Mis-sissippi should be an All-ACC caliber player next season for the Blue Devils.

Recruits take in the festivities A host of five-star recruits from the class

of 2014 were on hand for Countdown to Craziness—point guard Tyus Jones, power forward Jahlil Okafor and small forward Theo Pinson. Combo forward Karl Towns—

the top-ranked player in 2015—was also in attendance, as well as Harry Giles, who is one of the top forwards in the class of 2016.

The Cameron Crazies loudly chanted at the group as they walked across the court at the start of the event.

On Friday night during the game, Jones tweeted, “Duke fans showing me too much love out here!! It’s great lol.”

Similarly, Okafor tweeted, “Duke fans are crazy! Loving it though. Students going nuts. Ayyyyye.”

With assistant coaches Jeff Capel, Chris Collins, Steve Wojciechowski and Nate James coaching the Blue and White teams for the scrimmage, Krzyzewski did not do much coaching Friday night. Rather, much of Krzyzewski’s time was spent talking with the recruits during the scrimmage.

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Five-star recruits Theo Pinson, Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor, Karl Towns and Harry Giles take in Countdown to Craziness.

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