Investigating the plaza mist-ery

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The plaza misters run on a timer from April to October, regardless of the weather. Some people have also complained about the misters running at night, but others say they create a nice ambience in the evening.

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Reactions to the Bryan Center Plaza are a hit or mist.

The Bryan Center Plaza, since its inception in 2006, has featured the scheduled release of mist to offer re-lief during hot weather. Some students, however, question whether the ben-

efits of the mist justify the use of water. Randy Orange, coordinator for projects and building maintenance, said the misters run on a precise schedule every day of the week, from April to October, regardless of the weather.

“The plaza is supposed to be a nice hang-out place for students during hot days, and [the misters] are kind of re-

freshing,” Orange said. “Unfortunately, on days when it rains and cool days in September and October and early April, they are still going to run.”

The process of creating the mist in-volves first deionizing water, a method of purification, Orange said, noting that

Duke sets sight on its fifth win

by Nick MartinTHE CHRONICLE

They say the longer the wait, the sweeter the reward. This season certainly has the potential to produce some sweet rewards for Duke. After breaking a 12-year losing streak against Wake Forest last weekend,

the Blue Devils are off to their best start since 1994—the last time they reached a bowl game.

Saturday, Duke has the chance to take one step closer towards that bowl drought. The Blue Devils only need two more victories before

they become eligible for a bowl bid, and they begin this countdown against the Vir-ginia Cavaliers at 3 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Duke (4-1, 1-0 in the ACC) finally made it over its most persistent hurdle last week in its 34-27 victory against the Demon Dea-cons, whose defense could not contain the Blue Devils’ offense, which racked up 381

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Although outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court more than 50 years ago, segregation in public schools persists across the nation, a study found.

The report “E Pluribus... Sepa-ration,” conducted by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, elucidates deepening segregation for Latino and black students, who attend increasingly more impoverished schools than they have for the past several decades. These findings, based on data from the Depart-ment of Education, show that 43 percent of Latinos and 38 percent of black students attend schools in which fewer than one-tenth of their

fellow students are white. Lead author Gary Orfield,

co-director of The Civil Rights Project, could not be reached for comment.

It has been hard to conclusively prove the educational benefits of diverse student bodies, but the dele-terious effects of poverty on schools are well-documented, wrote Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics, in an email Thurs-day. Vigdor conducts research on education and racial inequality.

“We have stronger evidence to in-dicate that it’s harder to recruit and keep great teachers in high-poverty schools,” he said. “Integration can guard against the development of

by Danielle MuoioTHE CHRONICLE

Duke researchers gathered at the Durham Convention Center Thursday to discuss treating the most common drug addiction—smoking.

The 18th Annual Duke Nico-tine Research Conference fo-cused on decreasing smoking addiction with treatments that are tailored to the individual. Because there is a very limited amount of treatments that smok-ers can use to quit, the research-ers presented new, out-of-the -box approaches that can help

more people break the addictive habit.

Jed Rose, co-inventor of the nicotine skin patch and direc-tor of the Duke Center for Nico-tine and Smoking Cessation Re-search, stressed individualizing treatment—such as tailoring the dosage of nicotine replacement therapies.

“After tailoring the treatment, the idea is to… very early on as-sess markers that predict ultimate likelihood of success,” said Rose, who is also a medical research

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“For 18 months, [Romney]’s been running on this tax plan, and now five weeks before the elec-tion, he’s saying that his big bold idea is ‘nevermind’,” President Barack Obama said in the first debate of the season.

Time and again during the face-off, Obama criti-cized Romney’s $5 trillion tax cut plan, to which his rival

objected profusely.“How we pay for that, reduce

the deficit, and make the invest-ments that we need to make, without dumping those costs onto middle-class Americans, I think is one of the central questions of this campaign,” the president said.

But the accusation is not entirely founded, according to MercuryNews. The plan seeks to establish a simpler, more efficient tax code that still raises the same amount of money. It would reduce federal tax revenues by $465 billion in 2015, which could add up to $5 trillion over 10 years, ac-cording to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group. But Romney said he plans to eliminate tax credits and deductions and exemptions to pay for the cuts.

The question, however, is which tax breaks Romney would eliminate to account for the tax cuts.

Obama struck a sentimental note when he announced his 40th anniversary with his wife, to which Romney added his con-gratulations.

“Congratulations to you Mr. President on your anniversary, I’m sure this was the most romantic place you could imagine—here with me,” Romney said.

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“On the performance level, Romney clearly did a better job. I don’t think it’s a death blow for Obama, but it could be if he doesn’t realize that Romney can be a very skilled debater. “There was a conscious decision to stay presidential and not exploit Romney’s 47 percent gaffe. On the whole it did not work. It was not a knockout blow, but Romney won on points.”

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Washington, D.C.

Oct. 5—The Labor Department released the September jobs report, including crucial un-employment data that could impact the election.

The first presidential debate of 2012“Mr. President, you are entitled

to your own airplane, your own house as president, but not to your own facts,” Republican can-didate Mitt Romney countered as he faced off against President Barack Obama on the national

stage for the first time in the season’s first debate.

He fol-lowed the jab by criticizing Obama’s failed

economic policy, citing one of many inaccurate statistics the two rivals traded throughout the evening.

“The proof of that is 23 million people out of work. The proof of that is one out of six people in poverty,” he said.

But the actual number of unemployed Americans is a little more than half of Romney’s figure—12.5 million. In his cal-culations, Romney included the 8 million people who currently hold part-time jobs but would rather work full time and the 2.6 million who have given up the job search, according MercuryNews.

In another misstep, Romney said the number of unem-

ployed was 23 million when Obama took office in 2008—the number was 12 million, the site said.

Although Romney’s performance in the debate

has been applauded by some, it has also spawned numerous in-ternet memes juxtaposing the Re-publican candidate with Sesame Street’s Big Bird after he said he would cut spending on the Public Broadcasting Company.

“I like PBS, I love Big Bird,” Romney said. “But I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”

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From CNN to the pulpitprofessor of psychiatry. “Then, if the treatment looks like it won’t work, the idea is to revise [it].”

Rose noted that clinical tri-als typically do not alter a user’s course of treatment even if mark-ers indicate it is not helping the patient quit.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking causes more deaths than murders, suicides, HIV, motor ve-hicle accidents, illegal drug use and alcohol use combined. Re-search also suggests that smoking may be as addictive as cocaine or heroin.

Despite its addictive qualities, in 2010 52.4 percent of all adult smok-ers reported that they had stopped smoking for more than one day be-cause they wanted to quit.

Alternative therapiesIn a study currently under

peer review, Rose put more than 500 volunteer smokers who had not yet quit smoking on nicotine replacement therapies—such as the nicotine patch—and tailored the dosage so that heavier smok-ers received greater quantities of NRT. After a week, the researchers measured the amount of carbon monoxide in their bodies to see whether NRT had curbed their cigarette cravings.

Those whose carbon monox-ide levels decreased by over 50 percent continued using NRT, whereas the others were assigned

three different courses of treat-ment. The control group contin-ued using NRT and the others were put on either Chantix or both Zyban and Chantix—aids to quit smoking.

The findings showed that of the three subgroups—NRT, Chan-tix or Zyban and Chantix—NRT was still the most effective.

The study also looked at the demographics of people who used the three types of treatment and saw that women did better on Chantix and men did better on the combination of drugs. Rose noted that one factor that might explain this phenomenon is that men en-joy the respiratory sensations they feel in their throat while smoking more than women do.

He added that the study gives greater insight about treating smokers and the importance of following up on the success of dif-ferent approaches to see if other courses of action are worthwhile.

“The 500 pound gorilla in the room is that, despite all the work we are doing to get people to ab-stain from smoking, the current smoking-dependent population may not succeed with the [cur-rent] treatments,” he said. “So do we tell those people you can quit smoking or die or provide other treatments that reduce the harms they are exposing themselves to?”

Dr. Anne Evins, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, focused on be-havioral treatments for nicotine dependence.

In one of her studies, non-

treatment seeking smokers were shown their neurological activity when they see pictures of smok-ing or things unrelated to smok-ing. Tobacco users gained greater confidence in quitting when they saw that their addiction is con-trolled by their mind.

“They said that... they realized [addiction] has to do with some-thing linked in their brain and maybe they can... control it,” said Evins, who is also director of the Center for Addiction Medicine and the Addiction Research Pro-gram at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Using ‘science not rhetoric’Scott Ballin, former vice presi-

dent and legislative counsel for the American Heart Association, said science must be used to change the public health discus-sion on smoking.

“The government often makes sweeping statements such as to-bacco accounts for the death of over 400,000 Americans per year—a correct statement, but it is the combustible cigarette that is perpetuating disease and death in our society,” he said. “It would be like saying sex causes STDs—it’s a true statement, but we have to get to the heart of the issue when dis-cussing tobacco and nicotine.”

Ballin recommended pro-viding greater clarity as to what products are the most harmful, so users are aware of the differences between tobacco products. The rhetoric regarding tobacco indus-tries as evil does little to advance

discourse, he said, adding that the focus needs to shift from vilifying the manufacturer to looking at the science behind the product itself.

One way to encourage manu-facturers to produce safer prod-ucts is to place greater regulations on those that cause more harm.

This would give tobacco industries incentive to produce less harmful products.

“In order to get the industry to change, we need to give them a way to go down a different road,” he said. “Most of them probably won’t do it, but we want to drive the bad players off of the field.”

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Before the system is activated in April, the water storage tank is sanitized, the water is turned back on, the lights embedded in the plaza are replaced, the gutters are cleaned, and the whole sys-tem is tested, Orange said. Once the system is up and running, it is left untouched until Fall—and cooler weather—sets in, typically around mid-October.

Orange noted that there is not a sensor system in place that can turn off the misters when it is cold or raining.

Orange added that people

have voiced concerns about the misters’ use of water to Facili-ties Management.

“We’ve been asked about nighttime—trying to save wa-ter—but the comments [among administrators] were that the mist looks nice in the lights,” Orange said.

Sophomore Thomas Ka-vanagh said he has no qualms with the misters, adding that he does not think North Caro-lina has any water shortage con-cerns, so the system does not pose an environmental threat.

Senior Sanjay Kishore said he understands why the misters are in place, but he said he does not think they would be missed.

“It does have some aesthetic value, but it should probably be controlled,” Kishore said. “May-be use it for three hours a day.”

Regardless of the system’s in-tent, several students said they are unimpressed and in some cases perturbed by the mist.

Sophomore Lauren Kerivan said she does not see the value in the mister system.

“I don’t know how well they’re utilized,” she said. “I don’t know really what their im-portance is.”

Others, such as senior Ana-mika Saha, think it would make more sense if the system could be controlled so that the misters would only run during the day.

But sophomore Amanda Mey-er is put off by the whole system, noting that it is unnecessary for misters to run at night.

“They’re annoying,” Meyer said. “They definitely don’t need them [to run] at three in the morning.”

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ity students in more impoverished schools thus poses a threat to the quality of education those students will experience.

In Durham, school system does not reflect the racial makeup of the general population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the white population in Durham County makes up 54 percent of the commu-nity, black people 39 percent and Latinos 14 percent.

In the Durham public school system, however, white students ac-count for just 21 percent of the stu-dent population. Black students are the most numerous group with 51 percent of the population, and La-tino students form the second larg-est group with 22 percent.

Robin McCoy, chief communi-cations officer for Durham public schools, could not be reached for comment.

The Durham public school pop-ulation, however, is still less stratified than the national average.

Jacob Vigdor, professor of pub-lic policy and economics, conducts research on education and racial inequality. He said that although the

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national statistics are dismal, the situation may be improving.

“Neighborhoods have been on an integrating trend for 40 years now,” Vigdor wrote in an email Thursday. “We’ll end up on a path to greater school integration so long as neighborhoods keep inte-grating.”

Even with increased racial and socioeconomic diversity, schools will still struggle with high perfor-mance, Vigdor added.

“I don’t think segregation is the biggest challenge facing schools right now. It’s funding,” he said. “We can integrate schools all we want, but if the schools have no budget, then education will suffer.”

The report conducted by the Civil Rights Project also found a significant correlation between schools with high poverty rates and those with high minority popula-tions. When these schools are seg-regated racially and socioeconomi-

cally, they often lack the resources necessary to perform well, a situa-tion neither the Bush administra-tion nor the Obama administration has been able to combat.

The states in which black stu-dents face the most segregation are Illinois, New York and Michigan, according to the study. Latino stu-dents are most affected in Califor-nia, New York and Texas.

The report urges increased awareness, improved government

policies, advocacy and enforce-ment to put schools back on track towards integration.

Freshman Lorena Garcia, who attended a public school in Cali-fornia’s central valley, said that her community, which was 99.8 percent Latino, faced a lack of opportuni-ties and resources.

“I didn’t have great teachers simply because many good teachers didn’t want to teach at my school,” she said.

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With two goals, including one in golden-goal overtime, Laura Wein-berg lifted Duke past Virginia Tech 3-2 Thursday night.

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Blue Devils prepare for the Wolfpack

Reigning national champions loom

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Amid a three match winless streak, Duke will head to Dail Soccer Stadium to take on N.C. State Friday in Raleigh.

The Blue Devils (3-5-1,1-2-1 in the ACC) are coming off a heartbreaking defeat against then-No. 6 North Carolina. Despite leading

1-0 until the 87th min-ute, a couple of late red cards condemned them to a 2-1 overtime defeat.

“We were not disap-pointed at all with re-spect to our approach to the game, and the circumstances were

very unfortunate,” head coach John Kerr said. “We’re looking forward to the game tomor-row night. We’ve had a really good week of

training. It’s been lively, and we have a good game plan organized for the game tomorrow night and we’re excited about the chance to win against N.C. State.”

The Wolfpack (7-4-0, 0-3-0) are also playing through a slump. After starting its season with a run of six straight wins, N.C. State has won just one of its last five.

“They had a great start to the season,” Kerr said. “However, they are 0-3 in the ACC so it’s a pivotal game for both teams and it’s going to be a pressure-packed atmosphere with a lot of fans from N.C. State there, and I hope a few fans from Duke.”

To win, Duke will have to look at shutting down the Wolfpack’s prolific offense.

N.C. State has found the back of the net 24 times this season, compared to the Blue Devils’ 10. The most dangerous player could

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The Blue Devils are off to College Park, Md. to face the reigning national champions.

No. 24 Duke (5-7, 0-3 in the ACC) will play No. 5 Maryland (8-3, 2-1) Saturday in a

rematch of last year’s ACC Championship Tournament semifi-nal. Then the Blue Devils upset the Terra-pins in a tight 2-1 con-test, and this year’s game looks as if it will be just as intense, with Duke looking for its

first ACC win of the year.“We’re playing a national champion, so

you have to prepare with a lot of respect for them,” junior Emmie Le Marchand said. “But we’re thinking about things tactically,

and we’re working out where we can do well against them.”

The Blue Devils are coming off a split weekend, in which they fell 2-1 to Boston Col-lege before crushing Kent State 11-2.

“We were all incredibly disappointed and upset after the Boston College game because it was our first game back with the girls who had just come back from [the Junior Pan-American Games in] Mexico, and we all ex-pected to set the world on fire,” Le Marchand said. “It’s always frustrating to lose that sort of game, but then we came back and scored 11 goals Sunday, and whoever you’re playing against, 11 goals is really impressive.”

Le Marchand helped to contribute to the Blue Devils’ offensive domination, scoring two goals against Kent State. Eight different Duke players added to the score, including redshirt

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Junior Laura Weinberg clinched it for the Blue Devils once again, putting one home in overtime for a 3-2 win.

Coming off its second shutout loss this season, No. 7 Duke (9-3-1, 3-2-1 in ACC) regained control after an early disadvantage to take down No. 15 Virginia Tech

(10-3-0, 2-3-0). Weinberg, who has been on the

rise this season with a career best of 13 goals, took the first shot of the game just two minutes in. The

ball sailed high, and the Blue Devils only took three other shots—tying a season low with only four first half shots.

The Hokies, one of the top defensive teams in the coun-try, took advantage of Duke’s offensive struggles, doubling the Blue Devils’ shot attempts with eight in the first half. With 13 minutes left before the break, Virginia Tech’s Ash-ley Meier caught a rebound off her first shot which con-nected with the crossbar, giving the Hokies 1-0 advantage.

“There were two points we really stressed going into halftime,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We were not playing that badly, but we were shooting ourselves in the foot. We were turning the ball over, we were passing it to them—it wasn’t really what they were doing, it was more about what we were doing.”

After halftime, the Blue Devils came out with a surge of momentum, changing their midfield formation and tak-ing 12 shots to the Hokies’ four. Church said this strategic change in play made the difference—Virginia Tech no lon-ger had one more player than Duke in the midfield. The Blue Devils struggled with the Hokies’ ability to find the extra midfielder in the first half, spurring the change in for-mation. Weinberg came to the rescue in the 67th minute, taking a shot from the top of the box to tie up the score at 1-1. Only four minutes later, junior Kaitlyn Kerr headed a ball off of a cross from junior Mollie Pathman to notch her third goal of the season and give Duke a 2-1 lead.

But the Blue Devils could not hold onto their lead for long. After being unable to clear a corner in the 75th min-ute, Virginia Tech’s Kelsey Loupee tied the match at 2-2.

“We have been there before, we have been in this situa-tion where it is do or die, so we came out with a really fierce mentality,” Weinberg said. “We have been talking about how

this is such a crucial period in our season. Our goal for the weekend was to get six points, starting with tonight.”

Although the game was Duke’s fourth overtime this sea-son, the Blue Devils did not lose the momentum they had built going into the second half of the game, not allowing the Hokies to take a single shot in extra time. Just under seven minutes in off a second shot attempt, Weinberg net-ted her second golden goal of the season off a cross from junior Kim DeCesare—her eighth goal in the last nine contests and her ninth career game-winning goal.

“It was a team effort,” Weinberg said. “We really fought

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Season begins against N.C. opponents

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Football is a game full of misnomers. Even the name of the sport itself is deceiv-ing, as the ball is almost exclusively handled by a player’s hands rather than his feet.

Duke has discovered another of foot-ball’s misnomers this season—its safeties are hardly safe.

As the Blue Devils limp into this week’s contest against Virginia, it is no secret that the team has been plagued by injuries this year. After losing a number of key contribu-tors to long-term injuries during the offsea-son, bumps and bruises continued to pile up during training camp.

These injuries left Duke shorthanded all over the field, though an uncannily high number of these ailments have affected the safeties. Entering Saturday’s contest against the Cavaliers, six of them have missed games due to injury.

“When you go in our training room, you don’t have a place to sit because our secondary is in the way,” head coach David Cutcliffe said.

The physical nature of the position is undisputed. Safeties both take and dish out a number of hits during the course of every

game. Some say the trademark of a game-changing safety is his ability to lay out an opponent with a bone-crushing hit.

The Blue Devils’ injuries at the safety spots are no surprise considering the 4-2-5 scheme the team utilizes. Duke has three safeties on the field at all times, and often uses at least one of them in run support.

“You’re just in the middle of everything. You run a lot, number one, so you always have the potential for fatigue. And then you’re also at times playing like a lineback-er in our system,” Cutcliffe said. “They’re really a select breed. At times they’re glori-fied linebackers, other times they have to play like corners. It’s really a tough position to play.”

For some, the road to recovery will be a long one. Both redshirt junior Taylor Sowell and freshman Corbin McCarthy will miss the remainder of the year after suffer-ing injuries in the season’s opening weeks. Redshirt freshman Chris Tavarez was a key contributor on special teams until he un-derwent surgery to repair a torn left menis-cus two weeks ago. He is out indefinitely.

Others Blue Devils have made full recov-eries. Redshirt senior Jordon Byas missed the first three games of the 2012 season

while recovering from offseason knee sur-gery and has since returned, earning ACC Defensive Back of the Week honors in Duke’s win against Wake Forest.

“It’s unfortunate, but we’re finding ways to get past it,” Byas said. “Hopefully every-body recovers as quickly as they can.”

During Byas’ absence, redshirt junior August Campbell filled his spot in defen-sive secondary until Campbell too went down with an upper body injury. He has since left the team for personal reasons,

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Now healthy, Jordon Byas is one of a plethora of Duke safeties who has been injured this season.

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After three straight weekends on the road, the Blue Devils can finally settle into the comfort of home.

Duke (9-7, 0-4 in the ACC) looks to protect its undefeated home record this season as it takes on Maryland (10-6, 2-3) and Boston College (8-9, 2-3) Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Blue Devil head coach Jolene Nagel is grateful to be back in Cameron Indoor Sta-dium after taking on such tough competition on the road the past few weeks.

“We are really thrilled to have the oppor-tunity to be at home,” Nagel said. “We have had a lot of time away from home. We are excited to be back around our fan base that comes to see us and to play in Cameron, which we love.”

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In the Blue Devils’ opening meet of the season, they hope to ‘pop some swims.’

Duke will compete in the first annual All-North Carolina Invitational this Friday and Saturday. The event, hosted by N.C. State, gives the team an opportunity to scope out the Greensboro Aquatic Center, where the 2013 and 2014 ACC championships will be held.

“[The meet] gives us an opportunity to get our whole team into the facility,” head coach Dan Colella said. “So it’s a great experience—to get to see the facility, to swim in it and to get used to it. Those are the little things that really do help in preparation for the championship meet at the end of the season.”

All college institutions in the state—rang-ing from Division I, II, III and the NAIA—were invited to the meet, and 14 will com-pete. These schools include N.C. State, East Carolina, Gardner-Webb, Davidson and UNC

Asheville, among others. Colella noted that N.C. State and East

Carolina have some great athletes, but the Blue Devils need to watch out for other teams as well.

“Most of the Division I, but even some of the Division II programs, have some really out-standing individuals,” he said. “They may not have as much depth as the Division I programs.However, each team has some exceptional ath-letes that will spice up the meet and definitely present us with plenty of competition.”

Although the team is only five weeks into the 26-week season, Colella said it has been one of the best starts to a season that he has seen. He added that the freshmen this year have bonded well with the rest of the team, and may possibly provide some “pleasant sur-prises” this weekend.

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They rose, they fell and they have begun to rise again.

The Blue Devils got off to a hot 7-1 start in non-conference play, entering their ACC schedule as the No. 2 team in the country. After falling to No. 1 Florida State and No. 6 Virginia and tying No. 9 Maryland, No. 7 Duke defeated No. 18 Virginia Tech Thursday night. The Blue Devils hope to

continue their climb back to the top with a win over No. 23 Bos-ton College Sunday at Koskinen Stadium.

“[The ACC] is an unbelievable confer-ence to play in,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “There

are eight ACC teams in the Top 25, which is an unbelievable number.... You learn from the games in the ACC, and once you sur-vive the ACC and get to the NCAA tourna-ment, then you’re a better team for playing the last seven weeks in the ACC season.”

Church was quick to praise the Eagles (8-3-2, 2-2-0 in the ACC), Duke’s (9-3-1, 3-2-1) next opponent, on both ends of the field.

“They’ve got a transfer goalkeeper from the University of Texas who’s very good in the goal,” he said. “Their back four is really a quality back four. Their midfielders are very strong. They’re good at passing and combination play. Their attack is as good as anybody in the country.”

Boston College boasts the 12th highest-scoring offense in the country with 2.75 goals per game. Senior Kristen Mewis leads the attack with nine goals and six assists on the season. Mewis was named to the Pre-season Hermann Trophy Watch List and the Soccer America Preseason All-America

list after earning first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America honors in 2011.

“Kristen Mewis is an unbelievable player, one of the top players in our conference,” Church said. “From a defensive standpoint we’ve really got to limit her shots on goal.”

Freshman McKenzie Meehan and soph-omore Stephanie McCaffrey, who have notched seven and six goals, respectively, round out the Eagles’ offense.

Scoring at a clip of 3.08 goals per game—good for sixth in the nation—the Blue Devils pose an even greater challenge to Boston College’s defense. The ninth-leading scorer in the country, junior Laura Weinberg, scores at a rate of just under one goal per game.

“Laura Weinberg’s always done a great job against us,” Eagle head coach Alison Foley said. “She has great speed, she’s te-nacious, and she’s really good one-vs.-one. Limiting the outlet ball at the midfield will be the key to slowing her down.”

Aside from containing Boston College’s high-powered attack, Duke’s key focus in Sunday’s game will be finishing on the of-fensive end, a task that the Blue Devils have struggled with in their games against Flori-da State, Virginia and Maryland. The Semi-noles and Cavaliers shut out Duke, which could not convert on its offensive opportu-nities in overtime against the Terrapins.

“At Virginia, we had a segment of 20-25 minutes in the beginning of the sec-ond half that we were all over them, but we didn’t get anything out of it,” Church said. “So when we control play, we’ve got to be able to score goals. It’s going to be im-portant that when we’re doing really good things offensively that we’re finishing that up with goals.”

The ability to finish against the Eagles’ sturdy defensive unit will be the difference-maker in Sunday’s game.

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hard for 90 minutes and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. But I am just so happy with the team right now, we played with so much heart tonight, and it was just an awesome win.”

Duke is currently in a stretch of the season that matters most. With three ACC

opponents in the next four games, Duke needs to build momentum as the end of regular season play draws near.

“The league is vicious,” Church said. “But to get a win over a top team on the road at their place, and at that point in the season too—coming off of a heartbreaking loss from Virginia—it was huge. This was a really key game for us to come up here and get three points.”

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The summer after I graduated from high school, my family took a trip to Zambia and Botswana. More than the beautiful

landscapes and the amazing wildlife that I en-countered during my time there, the people that I met left me with an indelible memory. Every person that I came across was incredibly happy. It seemed that they were perfectly content with their lifestyle and the environment around them. Though Zambia and Botswana are among the most stable African na-tions, people who live there on av-erage make a small fraction of what Americans make. Yet virtually every person I met in the towns that I passed through was in high spirits and was more openly cheerful about their lives than most other people I’ve en-countered before or since.

Though they seemed happy, the Zambians and Botswanians I met did have a fair share of prob-lems to deal with on a regular basis. A man who lived on the banks of the Zambezi River told me that one of his biggest fears was getting so close to a hippo that it would chomp his boat in half (seriously). But overall, I left the continent with the impression that even though life for them was harder and not as luxurious as the life I led, the people seemed to be happy with what they had. The problems they had weren’t as signifi cant be-cause they didn’t let them be.

The fi rst presidential debate on Wednesday brought those memories back to the surface. Not because the candidates talked about U.S. foreign relations with African nations (they didn’t), but because the debate centered mostly on problems. Some of these problems were easily recogniz-able, like the shaky economy and massive federal defi cit. Others were ones that I didn’t even know about, like the possibility that Big Bird might not have a job if Mitt Romney is elected president. (Se-riously, Mitt? Cutting subsidies to “Sesame Street”? That’s my childhood, man. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.)

All joking aside, these problems are real, and we’ll have to fi nd their solutions sooner or later. Yet the problems that Obama and Romney discussed on national television aren’t part of our everyday lives. Yes, the economy affects how many job options our graduating seniors have, and the health care debate may affect how long we can freeload off of our parents, but for the most part, other problems take precedence. Like how boring the food options get only a few weeks into the semester. Or the eter-nally frustrating state of cell reception on campus,

where keeping or dropping a call can come down to a matter of shuffl ing a few inches.

Everybody has problems. Some problems are shared, and some are unique. For the most part,

however, they are problems that are minor in the grand scheme of things. I’m sure the man on the Zambezi would gladly trade the boat-chomping hippos for a deci-sion over which cell phone company offers the best reception. Problems vary based on the their context. It just so happens that in our case, problems tend to stem from dissat-isfaction with an already advanced society. As the comedian Louis C.K.

once said, “Everything is amazing right now, and nobody’s happy.” We’re too willing to overlook the opportunities that we have. Instead, we pay atten-tion to areas in our lives that are lacking. Think about the last talk you had with a friend. Chances are, part of that conversation had to do with some of the problems you were dealing with at that time, whether those were midterms, a bad professor or those drunk guys who decided to do the “Gangnam Style” dance in your hall at 3 a.m. When is the last time any of us made it through a whole day without talking or thinking about small stuff like that?

One of my friends told me a story about a phi-losophy professor who came into class one day carrying an empty jar. He proceeded to fi ll it to the top with golf balls. After his students told him it was full, he repeated the process with pebbles, and then sand, until the jar was well and truly full. In this scenario, the professor explained, the jar consisted of your life, with the objects inside of it constituting your life’s different aspects. The golf balls were the most essential elements to a happy life, namely family, friends, health and driving passions. The pebbles were smaller elements, like jobs, cars, houses, etc. Sand was everything else, the small stuff fi lling up the cracks.

A truly happy life could be achieved even with just golf balls in the jar. The vast majority of us are fortunate enough to also have pebbles and sand to take up the small spaces that remain. I just wonder how those people in Botswana and Zambia were able to be happy with some golf balls and little else, when we too often overlook the golf balls, the pebbles and the sand in order to seek something else. Perhaps that’s just the way we are. But per-haps that’s not the way we should be.

Jordan Siedell is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday. You can follow Jordan on Twitter @JSiedell.

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According to a study re-leased in September by re-searchers at Yale University, both male and female science professors consider female un-dergraduates less capable than their male coun-terparts, even when students of both sexes exhibit the exact same accomplishments and skills. The study asked biology, chemistry and physics profes-sors from six large, unnamed research universities—half public, half private—to evalu-ate undergraduate applica-tions for a laboratory manager position. When identical appli-cations were submitted, except for a gendered name change, professors were less likely to of-fer a job and career mentoring to “Jennifer,” the hypothetical female applicant. If they in-

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These fi ndings are clearly problematic. If women are being subconsciously discrimi-nated against, this will have hurtful consequences for both women and society at large. Not only do these persistent unconscious biases systemati-cally limit women’s potential for professional advancement and fulfi llment, they can also

instill in women an internal sense of inadequacy. Aside from the fairness issue, there are also dramatic implications for society, namely placing dangerous limitations on the pool of scientifi c brainpower when American dominance in the fi eld is being questioned at home and abroad.

If anyone was indulging in optimistic notions of a post-sexist society before, this study assures us this is not the case. Although the sciences pride themselves on their objectiv-ity, this Yale study indicates there are other unjust forces at play. Even at Duke, science majors tout that their depart-ments have a clear-cut and thus seemingly fair grading, especially compared to the humanities. However, a wom-an’s advancement in scientifi c

fi elds is clearly still hindered if she is less likely to be offered a job, mentoring or a fair sal-ary solely based on her gender. Therefore, any assumption of full gender equality is ignorant and dangerous.

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Duke should collect data to in-vestigate whether sexism exists within its own science depart-ments, in either academics or extracurricular opportuni-ties. If such an investigation yielded results similar to the Yale study—and Duke may not be exempt from the well-documented phenomenon of unconscious gender bias—perhaps this would strengthen a case for gender-based af-fi rmative action. We need a Duke-specifi c review before making concrete policy pre-scriptions. The stakes are very high, and we encourage Duke to begin its inquiry as soon as possible. So long as female science students are being discriminated against, neither they nor the societies they live in will be able to realize their full potential.

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This week could have been bad. One day was cold. One day was steaming hot. One day we all had midterms and papers and projects and

mountains upon mountains of homework to complete and emails to respond to. Oh wait, that was every day. But one day, someone I barely knew smiled, waved and greeted me by name. And then I fainted from sheer elation.

Why would this simple act make me feel 10 times lighter, almost giddy? Why would I feel the need to tell all my friends about this person and how I thought she was THE GREAT-EST PERSON I’VE EVER MET IN MY ENTIRE LIFE? Am I really that starved for affection that this small nicety completely made my day? My week?

I. Think. Not.In reality, this person was not the greatest, most

amazing girl I’ve ever met. (That position is held by Michelle Obama.) It was the fact that she actually re-membered me that took me by such surprise.

Clearly I’m not used to being remembered. This could be due to the fact that I’m a brunette, like ev-eryone else in the world. It could also be because I’m a Caucasian American (correction: I’m half Cuban, can’t you tell??) and of average intelligence, interests and physical characteristics. Heck y’all, I don’t even have the charming Southern accent that I’m supposed to have, given the fact that I’m from the South and all.

The truth of the matter is that here at this school, we like to forget people … or at least pretend we do. I’m just as guilty of it as anyone. We meet someone out at night, share a few laughs or a cab and then in the daylight, it’s as if it never happened. Or worse still, we meet someone in a class or in line for the LoYo truck and later when we see that person walking down the sidewalk, we suddenly start reading our text messages as if they were sent from Michelle herself. As if. Mi-chelle doesn’t have time to text; she’s too busy being awesome.

But seriously, what do we think will happen if we start admitting we actually remember people from the night before or those people we have only been in-troduced to once? Will the cold stone walls of West Campus melt into warm, chocolatey rivers rivaled only by those of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory? My an-swer: No, the University will not melt down and pud-dle around your feet. It will just be a happier place to live and work.

Stealing a bit of wisdom from Buddha, happiness is something you can spread from person to person without ever diminishing your own supply of it, much like a candle can spread its light to thousands of other candles without extinguishing its own light. In fact, spreading and sharing happiness can help increase and sustain your own level of happiness and content-ment. And who doesn’t like the sound of a higher level of happiness? Nobody, that’s who.

Being nice and friendly to people does not make you weird or uncool. Opening yourself up by saying hello or acknowledging someone with a smile who may not do the same to you does not make you a loser, it makes you self-confident and mature. Being warm and approachable does not in any way diminish your social status or take away from who you are as an individual; it just makes you more friends. And in my book (also known as the dictionary) that makes you more popu-lar.

We need to be able to smile and say hello to every person we recognize from class, the gym, the library or the Shooters line, especially this week when people walk into Perkins at night and come out looking like zombies the next morning. The simple act of recogniz-ing someone and showing that you remember them with a quick wave or a smile can make a huge differ-ence in a person’s day. And the best part is that there is absolutely no downside to any of it.

P.S. I’m really good at remembering names and faces, so if I ever slip up and pretend not to remember you, just stomp on my foot and walk away.

Addie Navarro is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

Forget me not?

Stefanie Fee sat facing the stage where her brother stood ready to be sworn into the United States Army. She listened attentively as he solemnly pledged de-

fense of the Constitution of the United States and obedi-ence to the orders of the president and the offi cers appointed over him, accord-ing to the Uniform Code of Justice.

She heard her brother Scott recite the Oath of Enlistment, but she didn’t know what the words of that pledge truly meant. She stood, she clapped, she smiled—ap-plauding a string of words that would lead her to moments of taxing pain and hard-ship. She was both overwhelmingly proud and incredibly unsure.

Stefanie is a 2012 Duke University grad-uate, a dear friend and a member of the U.S. women’s national fi eld hockey team, which is currently competing at the FIH Champions Challenge in Dublin, Ireland. She captained Duke University’s varsity fi eld hockey team during her junior and senior seasons, earning individual all-America and all-Atlantic Coast Conference selections after starting all 81 games of her college career. Upon graduation she became a volunteer assistant coach. She is a peer and mentor, a role model and friend, and a true believer in the good of our world. She’s an ordinary col-lege graduate and anything except ordinary.

The Fee family is one of marked sacrifi ce and com-mitment, and their dedication to faith has fueled Stef’s willingness to live a normal life while her brother puts his own on the line. She possesses an irrefutably compas-sionate love of God, and she is unafraid of sharing this with the world in front of her. Her devout belief and un-questioning faith made no assurance or guarantee that Scott would survive his tour of Afghanistan. Death was a looming and uncomfortable possibility. Few things have been certain for the Fees, except faith.

This uncertainty is a feeling far too familiar to mili-tary families. These families are everywhere, and they are unwavering in their support of our nation’s cause. The reliance on religion and the familial support that ex-tends across oceans and borders requires an unparalleled amount of trust and faith. Still, the stinging helplessness can be overwhelming. Stef explained to me her feeling upon receiving a phone call from her brother just mo-ments before sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner.

“Our base is getting attacked, I love you. Happy Thanksgiving.” Click.

She counts eight of these phone calls.The fact that the American presence in Afghanistan

is often considered a forgotten war is disheartening and unacceptable. Too many Americans overlook the con-fl ict unless they either know someone at war presently or have experienced the tragedy of losing a loved one. Stef

promotes the support of the troops and her brother ev-eryday knowing that this war, the men and women fi ght-ing, and those who have fallen can never be forgotten. It is a matter of unbridled support and patriotism that

persists right in front of our eyes.Scott describes Stef in one word: dedi-

cated. Stef describes Scott in one word: hero. They bond over their ability to lead others. Their passions are matters of al-legiance. Dedication is not discretionary. They are defensemen, thwarting attacks from the opposition. Scott combats vio-lent Afghan insurgents; Stefanie defends against elusive and speedy attackers bar-reling toward the goal. They fi ght along-side their teammates, remembering they

are working for them as well. The siblings’ sentiments are synonymous—admiring of the other and proud of their perseverance.

Scott will lace his combat boots soon after receiving orders to be deployed again in 2014, unsure of the fi nal destination. Stef will pray for his safety. She will lace up her turf shoes and boast the letters U-S-A across her chest. Scott will pray for her success. They are two siblings, far re-moved from each other physically but joined permanently at the heart of life and existence. They both passionately work for each other. They are both on America’s team.

The political turbulence that Americans are faced with everyday, dusk until dawn, is a colossal and unavoid-able explosion of media bias. Fox and CNN churn out stories by the minute with drastically different tones. We are too quick to care about the fi rst lady’s clothing line, too conditioned to mind that the president is appearing on late night shows next to Katy Perry or Justin Bieber. We recognize the extremes and we recognize the news-worthy, but we don’t always remember the minutia. We don’t always remember that the people who are most patriotic aren’t going to be the ones whose names are on a ballot in November or whose rhetoric fl ows in a primetime television debate.

The most patriotic are right in front of our noses, right down the street. They are in the pictures hanging on your friends’ dorm room walls. They are the people who will be honored at Saturday’s Duke football game during Military Appreciation Day. They are the people for whom we face the fl ag, place our hands over our hearts and feel our heartbeat during the national an-them before each sports match. Because without them, there is no match. Politics and parties aside, these are our patriots.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity junior. Her column runs ev-ery other Friday. You can follow Ashley on Twitter @camano-4chron.

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junior Devon Gagliardi, who scored her first career hat trick. Goalkeepers sophomore Lauren Blazing and junior Ashley Camano gave up a combined two goals, continuing the Blue Devils’ streak of strong defense. Duke has only given up two goals per game since giving up seven to North Carolina.

The Terrapins, meanwhile, will counter under the guidance of head coach Missy Me-harg who, in her 25 years at Maryland, has won nine ACC Championships and seven Division I Field Hockey Championships—in-cluding five in the last seven years, and the last two years in a row. Meharg’s team is coming off of a weekend in which it defeated Temple 6-0 before losing 3-2 to Princeton. The game against Temple was the fourth shutout of the

season for redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Brooke Cabrera.

Maryland also boasts three girls returning from the Pan-American games, including ju-nior Ali McEvoy, a former ACC Player of the Week. McEvoy has scored seven goals on the season, the second-most goals for a Terrapin behind sophomore Katie Gerzabek’s eight.

Maryland will be a challenge, but Le Marchand knows that Duke is ready.

“I think we bounced back from [Boston College] fantastically well, and I think that’s an exciting thing to build on this weekend again,” she said. “We’ve been focusing on try-ing to continue the goal scoring we had, so hopefully we’ll win a lot of corners and get a lot of shots off and take our chances where we can. We know getting a chance to play against Maryland is really important, and we’re going to have to put it away.”

leaving Duke down yet another safety.Junior Brandon Braxton was the most

recent Blue Devil safety to be bitten by the injury bug. Braxton, who converted from wide receiver at the beginning of the 2012 season, is having a breakout year after switching to his new spot in the second-ary, ranking third on the team in tackles. He was knocked out of last week’s vic-tory against Wake Forest and will not play against Virginia.

Freshman Dwayne Norman stepped up in Braxton’s absence last weekend and turned in the strongest performance of his collegiate career, recording eight tack-les. His performance not only earned the praise of his head coach, but drew a lofty comparison to one of Duke’s NFL-caliber alumni.

“I couldn’t be more proud of Dwayne Norman. He’s continuing to step up and do whatever we ask him to do. He had his best game by far, and it was encouraging to see,” Cutcliffe said. “He’s wearing No. 40 which means something to me because that was Matt Daniels, who’s one of my fa-vorite players of all time.”

As Duke’s depth chart in the defensive backfield continues to dwindle, even its

cornerbacks have stepped up to fill voids left by injured safeties. Starting corners redshirt junior Ross Cockrell and redshirt senior Lee Butler—who was also knocked out of the Blue Devils’ last game and is list-ed as questionable this week—have both rotated into safety spots in the absence of key contributors like Byas and Braxton. As more safeties have continued to go down, Duke’s versatility in the secondary has been its saving grace.

“[Defensive coordinator] Jim Knowles and I sit down every week and look at po-tential rotations of disaster. Because of what’s happened, we do a contingency depth chart,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve got cor-ners that can play safety and safeties that can play corner and safeties that can play different positions. We have a plan—if we lose people, here’s what we do.”

Despite losing new players to injuries ev-ery week, the Blue Devil secondary is flying higher than ever, and has found a way to turn a tough situation into a positive one.

“It’s actually helping to make us better, because we’re all getting a better under-standing of what each safety position is,” Byas said. “It’s getting us to better under-stand the defense and better understand our position, so in a way it’s helping us. It hurts us in numbers, but the safeties are learning more.”

freshmen are going to fit into the pro-gram—in terms of how they’re going to get acclimated to school, to campus [or] to the team,” he said. “This group has just abso-lutely clicked, probably more so than any team I’ve worked with here at Duke for the last seven years.”

While Colella said many members of the team will likely perform well at the meet, he noted that junior Christine Wixted and senior Ben Hwang have done some “amazing things” in workouts this year.

“The things that we’ve seen in workouts in the short period we’ve been training are

some real indicators that we’re going to have some pretty good performances this weekend,” he said. “We’re hoping to see [Hwang] pop some swims.”

Although the team will race hard this week-end, Colella said the meet is more of an indi-cator of the things the team needs to work on as they progress through the season.

“That’s always our philosophy, mak-ing sure that after every race—whether it’s great or not so great—that it’s always a learning experience,” he said. “With so many teams being involved, it should be fun to get all these different schools from different divisions together…. As always we would love for the school spirit, so come on out and watch us.”

be junior Alex Martinez, who has been in sensational form, notching eight goals and five assists in the first 11 games.

“They can hurt you from all over the field,” Kerr said. “They’ve got two really good wide players who like taking guys on, scoring a goal and can score from any angle.”

Duke will likely turn to senior goalkeeper James Belshaw to anchor the defense—who has been in top form this season and has al-ready garnered four shutouts.

“We’re aware of their offense and we need to make sure we’re on our toes,” Kerr said. “We need to help each other. We have to have cover in behind. Basically, we have to be very sharp and make sure we’re staying with our runners.”

If the defense can turn in a strong perfor-mance, the Blue Devils will need their attack-ers to start scoring more after a sluggish start to the season.

Duke’s third-leading scorer last season

Nick Palodichuk has struggled this year, scor-ing two goals from 22 shots for a .091 shot per-centage.

“To be fair to Nick, he’s had surgery in the offseason in spring and he’s not fully a 100% yet,” Kerr said. “He’s been playing with a swollen ankle all season long, and its very difficult for him getting around. So he’s doing the best he can and even though he’s not scoring all the time, he’s still there on the defensive half, and so there’s really nothing to worry about,”

Palodichuk may have the chance to finally break through offensively against N.C. State. Although Duke is averaging just 1.11 goals per game, N.C. State has allowed seven goals in its three ACC contests.

“I think our team’s a talented team but we’ve been hit with a few injuries, a couple of unfortunate cards,” Kerr said. “We have had a number of obstacles to overcome but I think we’re in a good frame of mind, and I think if we get a good result against N.C. State things will fall into place.”

Duke, whose starting lineup has changed many times throughout the season, will un-doubtedly depend on the staple of its de-fense—junior Ali McCurdy. The Tampa, Fla. native currently leads the conference in digs, averaging 5.76 per set.

Nagel praised McCurdy’s consistent defen-sive play, especially her performance against Miami last weekend when she recorded 37 digs in the four-setter with the Hurricanes. The performance was one for the record books—McCurdy’s 37 digs that night tied her for second in the school single-match re-cords. She is the only Blue Devil to ever top 35 digs in a four-set match.

“When we were watching that Miami game last week, she was flying all over the floor and getting to balls,” Nagel said. “She kept us in the match with her digs alone. She is very important to us to be able to transi-tion and score points. She has been huge, and each year she has gotten better…. She was amazing last weekend and I look for that to continue because she is so passionate and driven to succeed.”

On the offensive side of things, Duke will likely look to sophomore Jeme Obeime who currently leads the team in kills with 184 on

the season. The sophomore averages 3.12 per set.

Maryland is led by sophomore Ashleigh Crutcher, who has 202 kills on the season, averaging 3.54 per set, and Boston College by freshman Katty Workman, who leads the conference in kills with 4.07 per set. Despite Workman’s numbers, the Eagles sit as one of the bottom two teams in the ACC in terms of kills per set.

While the Terrapins have dropped two of their last three matches, the Eagles have lost three of their last four. Nevertheless, both teams have two wins in conference play.

In order for the young Blue Devils to win their first ACC contest, they will have to find the right combination of players on the court to keep a consistently high level of play. Five of this year’s 14 players are freshmen, and incorporating the new blood into the lineup has kept things interesting. Although the starting lineup has varied from match to match, Nagel feels confident in any player that takes the floor.

“The nice thing about the personnel that we have is that we can do a lot of differ-ent things with it and be very confident in those things because of the skill and abili-ties that we have,” Nagel said. “On any giv-en night, we could make that adjustment if we needed to.”

yards of total offense. Another landmark that could

be passed in Saturday’s game is an individual one, as wide receiver senior Conner Vernon needs one catch to solidify his spot atop the all time ACC receptions list. He is currently tied with Clemson’s Aaron Kelly, but will almost surely surpass this mark Saturday in front of his home crowd.

“After winning, I’m glad that he has a chance to break that at home,” Duke football head coach Cutcliffe said. “That’s a little more special in that regard.”

Another player making a splash in the conference is redshirt senior safety, Jordon Byas, who was named the ACC Defensive Player of the week after a performance against Wake Forest, in which he recorded a career-high 11 tackles and his first

career interception. Redshirt junior cornerback Ross Cockrell won the award two weeks ago after a two-interception performance against N.C. Central.

Not all news coming out of the Blue Devils’ secondary is positive. Cutcliffe announced Thursday that junior safety Brandon Brax-ton will not play against Virginia due to an upper body injury. Brax-ton was third on the team in tack-les and adds to the list of injured Blue Devils, which includes start-ing redshirt senior quarterback Sean Renfree, who was knocked out of last Saturday’s game with an elbow injury. Redshirt sophomore backup Anthony Boone came in to replace him, but the starter for the Virginia game will be a game time decision.

“He’s been able to practice, lim-ited in reps, but everyday he’s bet-ter.” Cutcliffe said. “I’m following the doctor’s lead on this.”

Renfree and Boone were efficient against Wake Forest, combining for 30 completions in 40 attempts.

Virginia (2-3, 0-1) will be look-ing to get back on track after a 44-38 loss to the 2011 WAC cham-pions, Louisiana Tech. With a win against Duke, the Cavaliers would bring themselves to .500 overall and in the ACC. In past years, Duke has normally been a soft spot in the schedule for Virginia, but with their recent success, head coach Mike London warned against taking the hot Blue Devils lightly.

“They’ve won the games they’re supposed to win... and people say, ‘well, you’re playing Duke,’” Lon-don said. “But coach Cutcliffe has done a great job of coaching this team.”

This season, Virginia has faced difficulties taking care of the ball. So far, the Cavaliers have forced three turnovers in five games, among the lowest in the FBS. Averaging two

more turnovers than takeaways per game, the Cavaliers’ offense and de-fense seem to have put the team in a difficult position.

“If you saw this game, there were two fumbles on the ground that re-ally bounced underneath our guy and into their hands.” London said. “I mean, that’s baffling when the ball doesn’t bounce in your di-rection or in your hands.”

A shining light for the Cavaliers’ rushing offense has been redshirt sophomore running back Kevin Parks. Although he has yet to start a game, he leads the Cavaliers in rush-ing—both yards and touchdowns—and averages 4.1 yards per carry.

The Cavaliers may see the return of sophomore running back Clifton Richardson this weekend, bolstering Virginia’s backfield to a three-deep rotation, also featuring starting tail-back, senior Perry Jones. The Cava-liers have used their rushing attack sparingly so far this season, but the

addition of Richardson to the back-field may be the jumpstart they are looking for.

In the passing attack, junior Michael Rocco has received all the starts this season, but after throw-ing six touchdowns and eight in-terceptions in the first five games, a change has been made. Alabama-transfer Phillip Sims has been see-ing action along with Rocco in the early going, throwing five touch-downs and no interceptions in his limited action. London announced Monday that Sims would be the new starting quarterback this week-end against Duke.

“It does help that you know you’re going to be the guy that’s go-ing out there to take the first snap, but really that’s all you’re guaran-teed,” Sims said.

The Blue Devils will travel to Blacksburg, Va. to face the Virginia Tech Hokies (3-2, 1-0) in search of their first bowl bid since 1994.

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