by Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE The Duke University Police Department has released the names of the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of an uniden- tified man early Saturday morning. The incident occurred at about 1 a.m. outside Duke University Hospital’s main entrance on Erwin Road and Fulton Street. DUPD Chief John Dailey said the shooting resulted from an “altercation” between the man and officers Larry Carter and Jeffrey Liberto. Carter has worked for DUPD for 23 years and Liberto has served for two. “This is a tragic thing, it’s tragic for everybody that was involved,” Dailey said in an interview Saturday. “Absolutely our thoughts are with this person’s family.” Dailey would not comment Sunday on the events leading up to the altercation or the incident itself. He declined to say how many shots were fired or whether the vic- tim was armed, citing the pending inves- tigations by the department and the State Bureau of Investigation. DUPD officials identified the officers involved in a statement Saturday at about 5 p.m. Carter and Liberto are now on paid administrative leave in accordance with procedure, a Duke official announced in The Chronicle THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, ISSUE 110 WWW.DUKECHRONICLE.COM Lady Blue Devils win ACC Tournament, SW 11 Check out photos from the UNC game and bon- fire, Pages 8-9 ONTHERECORD “I wrote a letter to every major league baseball office, and got back 20 we-don’t-think-so’s,” —ESPN President George Bodenheimer on his early career. See story page 3 SEE SHOOTING ON PAGE 7 Man shot and killed at hospital DSG election calendar undergoes reshuffling by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE When candidates running for Duke Student Govern- ment president or executive vice president start campaign- ing Wednesday, they will be running their campaigns “with less risk,” according to an August executive order. In the past, the election of executive positions—pres- ident, executive vice president and four vice presidents—was held on one day, followed by the election of senators two weeks later. This year, however, students will elect the president and executive vice president March 30 and the vice presidents and senators April 15. The change will “allow highly quali- fied candidates who run unsuccessful campaigns for president and [executive vice president] to run for a [vice presi- dent] position,” according to the executive order, which DSG President Awa Nur and her cabinet signed Aug. 25. Nur, a senior, said the cabinet discussed these changes after her election last year. The change should also in- crease voter turnout for senator elections, which will be paired with vice presidential elections, she said. “The [vice presidential] candidates have a vested inter- est in getting out the vote that day,” the executive order states. “We already have excellent turnout in freshman Senate as well as president elections… but Spring Senate election turnout lingers around 25 percent.” Last Spring, voter turnout for executive positions was 38 percent, down from 40.5 percent the previous year. DSG Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior who is running for DSG president, said he sup- ports the change. “I think that it’s a good change because it increases the flexibility of options because it keeps qualified people in DSG,” Morrison said. Former DSG President Elliot Wolf, Trinity ’08 and a for- mer Chronicle columnist, said the change will probably have a minor impact, but added that allowing candidates who lose races to run for vice presidential spots can be helpful. “When I was elected there were a number of highly qualified people who didn’t win the executive vice presi- dent or vice president spots and I thought that was unfor- tunate enough that I actually appointed some of them to certain spots in DSG,” said Wolf. “When you have a lot of very qualified people, if the loser leaves the organization then that’s bad for the organization.” Former DSG President Jordan Giordano, who was in of- fice last year, said his cabinet discussed a similar change. He added that senior Chelsea Goldstein and junior Mike Lefevre, who were unsuccessful presidential candidates last year, would have made strong vice presidential candidates this year, if given the opportunity to run. “Chelsea and Mike did a great job in their vice presi- dent positions and I was disappointed that both of them could not hold their positions, and hopefully this [ex- ecutive order] will alleviate this,” said Giordano, Trinity Awa Nur DUPD officers involved face state investigation Singler, Scheyer carry Duke to gold DUKE 65 GT 61 IAN SOILEAU/THE CHRONICLE Junior Kyle Singler cuts down the nets for the second time in a week after Duke’s four-point defeat of Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament title game. Singler shot poorly from the field but put up 20 points. ACC TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP • NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET REVEALED SEE DSG ELECTIONS ON PAGE 11 by Sabreena Merchant THE CHRONICLE GREENSBORO, N.C. — It wasn’t al- ways pretty Sunday at Greensboro Coli- seum, but when the going got tough, Duke came through. The top-seeded Blue Devils (29-5) appeared to have the ACC champion- ship in the bag with three-and-a-half minutes to go and a 10-point lead over No. 7 Georgia Tech (22-12). Duke was in the double bonus, and all the team had to do was trade baskets with the Yel- low Jackets the rest of the way. All of a sudden, Derrick Favors slammed the ball home and the Blue Devils were nursing a one-point lead with under a minute remaining. Enter Jon Scheyer. Scheyer struggled shooting throughout the Tournament, hitting 13-of-40 shots in three games. He had a particularly difficult SEE ACC FINAL ON SW 9 • Find out what Kyle Singler did to earn ACC Tournament MVP honors • Check out the full NCAA Tour - nament bracket, and a breakdown of Duke’s path to the Final Four inside:
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by Lindsey RuppTHE CHRONICLE
The Duke University Police Department has released the names of the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of an uniden-tified man early Saturday morning.
The incident occurred at about 1 a.m. outside Duke University Hospital’s main entrance on Erwin Road and Fulton Street. DUPD Chief John Dailey said the shooting resulted from an “altercation” between the man and officers Larry Carter and Jeffrey Liberto. Carter has worked for DUPD for 23 years and Liberto has served for two.
“This is a tragic thing, it’s tragic for everybody that was involved,” Dailey said in an interview Saturday. “Absolutely our thoughts are with this person’s family.”
Dailey would not comment Sunday on the events leading up to the altercation or the incident itself. He declined to say how many shots were fired or whether the vic-tim was armed, citing the pending inves-tigations by the department and the State Bureau of Investigation.
DUPD officials identified the officers involved in a statement Saturday at about 5 p.m. Carter and Liberto are now on paid administrative leave in accordance with procedure, a Duke official announced in
The ChronicleThe independenT daily aT duke universiTy
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Lady Blue Devils win ACC
Tournament, Sw 11
Check out photos from the UNC game and bon-fire, Pages 8-9
onTherecord“I wrote a letter to every major league baseball office,
and got back 20 we-don’t-think-so’s,” —ESPN President George Bodenheimer on his early career. See story page 3
SEE shooting ON PAgE 7
Man shot and killed at hospital
DSG election calendar undergoes reshufflingby Matthew Chase
THE CHRONICLE
When candidates running for Duke Student govern-ment president or executive vice president start campaign-ing Wednesday, they will be running their campaigns “with less risk,” according to an August executive order.
In the past, the election of executive positions—pres-ident, executive vice president and four vice presidents—was held on one day, followed by the election of senators two weeks later. This year, however, students will elect the president and executive vice president March 30 and the vice presidents and senators April 15.
The change will “allow highly quali-fied candidates who run unsuccessful campaigns for president and [executive vice president] to run for a [vice presi-
dent] position,” according to the executive order, which DSg President Awa Nur and her cabinet signed Aug. 25.
Nur, a senior, said the cabinet discussed these changes after her election last year. The change should also in-crease voter turnout for senator elections, which will be paired with vice presidential elections, she said.
“The [vice presidential] candidates have a vested inter-est in getting out the vote that day,” the executive order states. “We already have excellent turnout in freshman Senate as well as president elections… but Spring Senate election turnout lingers around 25 percent.”
Last Spring, voter turnout for executive positions was 38 percent, down from 40.5 percent the previous year.
DSg Executive Vice President gregory Morrison, a junior who is running for DSg president, said he sup-ports the change.
“I think that it’s a good change because it increases the flexibility of options because it keeps qualified people in DSg,” Morrison said.
Former DSg President Elliot Wolf, Trinity ’08 and a for-mer Chronicle columnist, said the change will probably have a minor impact, but added that allowing candidates who lose
races to run for vice presidential spots can be helpful.“When I was elected there were a number of highly
qualified people who didn’t win the executive vice presi-dent or vice president spots and I thought that was unfor-tunate enough that I actually appointed some of them to certain spots in DSg,” said Wolf. “When you have a lot of very qualified people, if the loser leaves the organization then that’s bad for the organization.”
Former DSg President Jordan giordano, who was in of-fice last year, said his cabinet discussed a similar change. He added that senior Chelsea goldstein and junior Mike Lefevre, who were unsuccessful presidential candidates last year, would have made strong vice presidential candidates this year, if given the opportunity to run.
“Chelsea and Mike did a great job in their vice presi-dent positions and I was disappointed that both of them could not hold their positions, and hopefully this [ex-ecutive order] will alleviate this,” said giordano, Trinity
Awa Nur
DUPD officers involved face state investigation
Singler, Scheyer carry Duke to gold
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Junior Kyle Singler cuts down the nets for the second time in a week after Duke’s four-point defeat of Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament title game. Singler shot poorly from the field but put up 20 points.
gREENSBORO, N.C. — It wasn’t al-ways pretty Sunday at greensboro Coli-seum, but when the going got tough, Duke came through.
The top-seeded Blue Devils (29-5) appeared to have the ACC champion-ship in the bag with three-and-a-half minutes to go and a 10-point lead over No. 7 georgia Tech (22-12). Duke was in the double bonus, and all the team had to do was trade baskets with the Yel-low Jackets the rest of the way.
All of a sudden, Derrick Favors slammed the ball home and the Blue Devils were nursing a one-point lead with under a minute remaining.
Enter Jon Scheyer.Scheyer struggled shooting throughout
the Tournament, hitting 13-of-40 shots in three games. He had a particularly difficult
SEE Acc finAl ON SW 9
• Find out what Kyle Singler did to earn ACC Tournament MVP honors• Check out the full NCAA Tour-nament bracket, and a breakdown of Duke’s path to the Final Four
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results from last week’s parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is courting allies in hopes of forming a new governing coalition that will allow him to keep his job.
Maliki, a divisive figure many politicians would like to unseat, and his State of Law slate made a strong showing in Baghdad—a key battleground with many parliamen-tary seats—and the large, mostly Shiite population center of Basra, the southern
gateway to Iraq’s oil wealth. Maliki is ahead in five other provinces out of 18, giving him a narrow overall lead in partial returns.
Iraq’s electoral commission has strug-gled to tally votes because of technical problems and the complicated nature of the ballot. The results so far have been too incomplete to show who will capture the most seats in parliament.
Maliki, a Shiite, has been talking to Kurd-ish officials, Sunni Arab candidates and leaders from the Shiite coalition he was in.
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WAShINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. attor-ney’s office in the District of Columbia has found more than 100 cases since the mid-1970s that need to be reviewed be-cause of potentially falsified and inaccu-rate tests by FBI analysts.
The report, filed in D.C. Superior Court late Friday, stems from an internal investigation by prosecutors after the exoneration in De-cember of Donald Gates, who was falsely im-prisoned for 28 years for the 1981 rape and slaying of a Georgetown University student.
The review was launched to examine 20 cases in which Justice Department offi-cials questioned the validity of statements made by six FBI forensic analysts who were identified in a 1997 report by the depart-ment’s office of inspector general.
FDA reviews spice safetyWAShINGTON, D.C. — The Food and
Drug Administration is re-examining the safety of a culinary staple found in every restaurant, food manufacturing plant and home kitchen pantry: spices.
In the middle of a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness linked to black and red pepper—and after 16 U.S. recalls since 2001 of tainted spices—federal regulators met last week with the spice industry to figure out ways to make the supply safer.
Jeff Farrar, the FDA’s associate commis-sioner for food safety, said the government wants the spice industry to do more to pre-vent contamination. That would include using one of three methods to rid spices of bacteria: irradiation, steam heating, or fu-migation with ethylene oxide, a pesticide.
Hundreds of old FBI cases under attorney’s scrutiny
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Sia Rosias, a 79-year-old blind Haitian woman, is bathed by workers at the Azil Communal home in Port-au-Prince. Elderly Haitians are rare in a country plagued by AIDS and other problems. After the earthquake, their already terrible situation has worsened.
TUESDAY FRIDAYTHURSDAYWEDNESDAY‘Sampling Soul’ Class Open To The
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St. Patrick’s Day Celebration with Rince Diabhal
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Artist Talk and Book SigningNasher Museum, 4 - 6 p.m.
In his talk, “Revolutions and Art,” car-toonist Peter Kuper discusses propa-ganda and political graphics effectively
used by artists around the world.
Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn
Perkins rare Book room, 4- 5 p.m. Presentation by soprano Penelope Jens-en and R. Larry Todd, Arts and Sciences
Professor of Music at Duke University.
This week at Duke . . . .
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Bodenheimer details ESPN’s riseby Carter Suryadevara
THE CHRONICLE
The Fuqua School of Business hosted george Bodenheimer, president of ESPN, Inc. and ABC’s sports division as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series in geneen Auditorium March 5.
Named the most powerful person in sports by The Sporting News in 2003, Bodenheimer discussed his climb from a mailroom clerk in 1981 to being named ESPN’s president in 1998 and also Presi-dent of ABC Sports in 2003.
Bodenheimer graduated from Denison University in 1980 and joined the mail-room at ESPN shortly thereafter.
“I wrote a letter to every major league baseball office, and got back 20 we-don’t-think-so’s,” Bodenheimer said in his speech, laughing.
Bodenheimer picked a time to visit when sports was on most Dukies’ minds—the eve of last weekend’s basketball game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kevin White, vice president and director of athletics, is a friend of Bodenheimer’s and he assisted Fuqua in bringing him to campus.
“george Bodenheimer is an incredibly consequential human being who, I think it is fair to say, has redefined all of our lives in some significant way and he has an amazing story,” said Fuqua Dean Blair Sheppard in introducing Bodenheimer.
During Bodenheimer’s time at ESPN, the company has grown globally. It now op-erates in more than 150 countries around the world. Its newest venture has been in the United Kingdom, investing more than $400 million dollars in European football rights. ESPN owns 30 percent of broad-
casting rights in Canada, which included coverage of the recent Winter Olympics, Bodenheimer said.
Bodenheimer encouraged the audi-ence to consider business ventures outside the United States, suggesting that Fuqua’s curriculum and expansion with schools
in India and China has endowed students with the skill set to compete in a global economy.
“graduating from Duke University, you will all have options,” Bodenheimer said.
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ESPN President George Bodenheimer speaks as a part of Fuqua’s Distinguished Speaker Series March 5. In his speech, Bodenheimer described his rise from a mailroom clerk to the sports network’s top post.
State jobless rate climbs to 11.1% in Jan.
The state unemployment rate climbed to 11.1 percent in January, according to the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina.
The jobless rate had held steady at 10.9 percent since August 2009. The increase in the unemployment rate comes despite job gains in January.
“North Carolina gained 8,000 jobs in January,” ESC Chairman Lynn Holmes said in a March 10 news release. “However, we must be cautious and realize that we have a long way to go to get back to pre-recession employment levels.”
The North Carolina labor force—con-sisting of those who are either employed or unemployed and actively seeking jobs—grew by more than 15,000 people in January after seasonal adjustments. The number of employed people increased by nearly 7,000 workers, while more than 8,000 people join the ranks of the unemployed. Nationally, the unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January from 10 percent in December.
Trade, transportation and utilities saw the largest gain of any economic sector, adding 8,000 jobs, while the largest de-crease belonged to the construction sector, which lost 5,000 jobs.
Despite job growth across several sectors in January, the North Carolina economy has lost 114,200 jobs over the past year, with only education and health services and the government sector adding employees.
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Work permits prevent minors from working illegal jobs, but may fail to protect them from working more hours than they are supposed to, according to a recent study by a Duke researcher.
The study, based on a survey of 844 high school stu-dents in North Carolina, found that work permits kept students out of dangerous jobs, but many students re-ported working more hours than state law allows.
“It’s important to evaluate work permits because the work permits are supposed to protect teens from working illegal hours,” said Janet Dal Santo, a research scientist at the Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center at Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy. “From that aspect, I thought it was very important to study work permits to see if their permits had any pro-
tective effect and try to project these findings to other states.”
North Carolina law prohibits individuals younger than 16 from working later than 7 p.m. on school nights and individuals 16 and 17 years old from working later than 11 p.m. The law also restricts minors to working no more than 18 hours a week when school is in session and 40 hours a week when it is not. Individuals 16 and older can work more hours during school weeks with the permission of their parents and a school official.
The research began in 2005 with Dal Santo and her co-authors, J. Michael Bowling, research associate pro-fessor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s gillings School of global Public Health, and Tom Harris, chief of staff and general counsel of the North Carolina Employee Association.
Dal Santo and her team began their research by ran-
domly selecting 16 different high schools throughout North Carolina, located in both urban and rural ar-eas. Eight hundred and forty-four students from those schools were surveyed about their work hours.
Dal Santo’s report showed that although work per-mits protect children from illegal jobs, the permits offered little to no protection against working illegal hours.
Harris said the primary purpose of youth employ-ment certificates, as work permits are known in North Carolina, is to keep minors from doing unsafe work, and thus they do not include information about how many hours minors are eligible to work.
“The purpose of the study was to see if the certificate process was doing what it was intended to do,” Harris said. “The study shows, in fact they were effective. But there were still violations found. One of the major ar-eas where the work violations [were found] was in limi-tation on the hours youth can work. The big reason the certificates didn’t screen those out is they did not ask for that information.”
Because the survey was anonymous, the researchers had to trust that the information gathered from the surveyed students was accurate.
“We had concern because these are reports by stu-dents,” Dal Santo said. “There is always the issue of re-call. Students may not really remember certain parts. We also felt some students would not want to partici-pate because they would be afraid to lose their jobs.”
Duke study finds N.C. minors overworked
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ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
INTERNAL AUDITS
Regular reviews of senior administrators of the University are conducted by a committee that completes a performance review and submits a confidential report to the President. Such a committee has been appointed by President Brodhead to review Executive Director of Internal Audits Michael Somich, who has served in his post since 2004. Pam Bernard, Vice President and University Counsel, will serve as committee chair. Other members of the committee include: Jim Cox (Law School), David Epstein (Ophthalmology), Richard Riddell (University Secretary), and Susan Stalnecker (Trustee.)
An important part of the review process is the gathering of input from the University’s many constituencies. Comments on performance and suggestions for the future are important to the committee’s work. The committee invites you to share your thoughts by email or letter, or communicate orally to any committee member. Communication should include the nature of your interactions with Mr. Somich in order to understand the context of your comments as fully as possible. The committee will discuss responses and a summary will be included in the written report to the President. All communications will be kept in confidence by the committee.
The Committee would appreciate receiving your thoughts by March 26.
Thank you in advance for your participation in this important process.
blinkeredA man was reported driving a truck with its flashers
on down the wrong side of Oregon Street early Friday morning. Duke Police officers found the truck stuck in a ditch across from Devil’s Den on Central Campus. Police determined that the driver was drunk and ar-rested him.
please don’t stop the musicA visitor reported a vehicle with a smashed window
on Anderson Street Thursday night. The owner was contacted and discovered that the car stereo had been removed.
look who we got our hanes on nowA briefcase containing a laptop and other electronic
equipment was stolen from an office in Hanes House on
Trent Drive Thursday afternoon.
keys to the crimeAn employee reported his 1990 Chevrolet Lumina sto-
len at 1:09 a.m. Thursday. The car was parked in Parking garage II and the keys may have been left inside.
check’s in the mailA student’s father reported Tuesday that $50 was sto-
len from her mail some time between Mar. 1 and Mar. 4.
mobile computingAn employee told police that his Duke-issued comput-
er was stolen from Smith Warehouse Tuesday afternoon.
chargesA woman reported that her cell phone and char-
ger were stolen by two individuals at Duke Hospital North just before midnight Tuesday. Two suspects were found near the hospital entrance, but police did not find the woman’s property. Both suspects had pre-viously trespassed at Duke. One was cited for trespass-ing and the other was arrested on several outstanding warrants.
time for changeA man was spotted taking coins from the fountain
at Duke Hospital North around 1 a.m. Monday. The man returned the change and was escorted off Duke’s campus.
crazie crimeA student reported last Sunday morning that his tent
was stolen from Krzyzewskiville.
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Once the data was collected and ana-lyzed, however, Dal Santo and her team found their results to be consistent with findings about employed minors in oth-er states.
The report, now available online, will be published in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Dal Santo hopes this will help forward her findings to other states, and raise aware-ness about child labor violations.
Since having uncovered the data, the team has proposed two suggestions to al-leviate the issue—education, and height-
ened preventive penalties.“There should be more training, both
for those involved in the [permit] pro-cess, and to educate the youth and their parents and the employers, so they can be self enforcing,” Harris said.
Harris also said the upper limits of penalties for work violations, which had previously been relatively light, have recently been raised. This summer, the North Carolina general Assembly passed a law increasing the penalties for busi-nesses that violate child labor rules.
“Assessing higher penalties for ne-glecting to obtain [permits] should... prevent students working in illegal situa-tions,” he said.
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by Brady DennisTHE WASHINgTON POST
WASHINgTON, D.C. — Senate bank-ing Chairman Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., will try to strike a delicate balance Monday as he introduces a new measure to overhaul the nation’s financial regulatory system, including provisions aimed at shoring up support among fellow Democrats but also incorporating compromises he reached with Republicans.
“It’s a bit of a high-wire act,” Dodd said in an interview Sunday.
Staff members labored throughout the weekend to piece together the far-reaching legislation, trying to find language that would please Democrats on Dodd’s com-
mittee but would preserve the hope of eventually winning gOP support.
People familiar with the bill said that Dodd plans to include provisions that would allow shareholders of public com-panies more of a say on executive pay and in nominating directors, an idea that has faced fierce opposition from Republicans and many financial firms. He also might in-clude language that could force big banks to abide by certain state consumer protec-tion provisions.
On the other hand, they said Dodd will propose housing a new consumer regula-tor in the Federal Reserve, a compromise that has garnered Republican support but is anathema to liberal Democrats and con-
sumer advocates who argue that the Fed failed miserably in protecting consumers in recent years. Such groups have insisted on an independent, standalone agency like the one the Obama administration pro-posed and the House passed last year.
Dodd’s bill also would be much kinder to the Fed, a significant departure than the version he proposed last fall, when he said he would strip the Fed of its oversight authority. Under the plan, the Fed would retain supervision of bank holding compa-nies with more than $50 billion in assets, according to people familiar with the bill, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the draft was not complete. The agency would stand to lose oversight of thousands of bank holding companies that fall below that threshold, as well as hun-dreds of state-chartered banks.
Dodd said Sunday that his legislation will incorporate many of the compromises he reached in recent weeks with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., with whom he had been negotiating before announcing Thursday that he would forge ahead alone. Still, he acknowledged that key elements will re-main controversial.
He called the latest version “a roadmap,” and said that because of the limited num-ber of legislative days remaining in the year and with the health-care debate looming large, he felt he needed to move as quickly as possible. “I’ve got to act now,” Dodd said. “It really is time to put down a product and begin the process of making decisions.” Still, he said, “I’m not shutting the door to compromise. The door is open.”
Republicans on Dodd’s committee have urged him in recent days not to push a bill through too quickly, insisting that doing
so could thwart any hope of a bipartisan agreement. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the ranking Republican on the panel, reit-erated that view Sunday.
“Proceeding with care is more impor-tant than proceeding with haste, especially on something of this magnitude and com-plexity,” he said.
In an interview Sunday from his home in Tennessee, Corker agreed but said he understands why Dodd feels pressure to move forward.
“From his perspective, I think he did what he needed to do. It’s obviously very disappointing to me,” said Corker, who has said he thought that he and Dodd were on the verge of an agreement when Dodd pulled the plug last week.
Corker, who said he spoke with Dodd over the weekend, said he expects the Democrat to introduce a bill that will be “a little to the left” of the compromises they reached. In particular, he said, he expects Dodd to propose giving the new consumer regulator more enforcement power over banks and non-bank lenders than Repub-licans have been willing to grant. People familiar with the measure said Dodd would seek to give the regulator enforcement pow-er over banks with more than $10 billion in assets, as well as over some large nonbank lenders, such as mortgage brokers.
“He’ll move to where he can pick up all the Democrats,” Corker said. “He’s got to go his own way on that one, we understand.”
Corker said Dodd’s new bill almost certainly would not get his and other Re-publicans’ support. Still, he said it will be “a huge improvement” over the initial pro-posal that Dodd released last November.
Dodd seeks to overhaul financial regulatory system
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Tuesday, March 16Film: Self-Made Man(dir. Susan Stern, 2005)Panel with Dennis Clements, Allen Verhey, and Susan SternPart of the Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights fi lm series co-sponsored with the Duke Human Rights Center, Archive for Human Rights, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Archive for Documentary Arts, and Arts of the Moving Image7:00pm, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Wednesday, March 17Performing Truth and ReconciliationCatherine Cole, UC Berkeley; Yael Farber, Farber Foundry; Anne-Maria Makhulu, Duke; cast members from Molora12:00pm, 240 Franklin CenterPresented with Duke Performances, the Concilium on Southern Africa, and Duke Human Rights Center
Wednesday, March 17Sharing Knowledge, Practicing Democracy: The Promise of University-Community Collaboration in Troubled TimesSeth Moglen, Lehigh UniversityAn Innovating Forms seminar program4:30pm, 240 Franklin Center
a news release Sunday afternoon. Dailey declined to say whether both officers fired their weapons.
The victim, who has not been identified, was taken to the Office of the Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill, accord-ing to Sunday’s statement.
Dailey said Saturday there is no evidence the victim was a patient, employee or visiting family member. He added that there is no evidence the incident was gang related, but said “everything is under investigation at this point.”
DUPD’s incident report is expected to be released “some-time next week,” according to the statement Sunday.
Patient care services and regular operations were not disrupted by the Saturday morning shooting. The hospi-tal’s main entrance was secured and blocked after the in-cident, and a mobile command center was assembled out-side until between 8 and 9 a.m., Dailey said. The Durham Police Department provided additional officers to help DUPD secure the scene.
Dailey said one of the DUPD officers was treated for “a minor injury” in the Emergency Department and was re-leased Saturday morning. He declined to say which officer was injured or what kind of injuries the officer suffered.
In addition to the SBI’s investigation of the incident, DUPD will also conduct an internal administrative investi-gation as is standard procedure in officer-involved shoot-ings, Dailey said.
“We have officers who are trained in investigating these types of things,” Dailey said Saturday. “That is standard protocol for most agencies in North Carolina is to have the SBI come in. They are an objective, outside agency with a lot of expertise in investigating officer-involved in-cidents like this.”
Dailey said the department is working to make sure all officers, particularly Carter and Liberto, receive neces-sary support. He said the officers are receiving support through the employee assistance program.
“Although they realize this can be part of the job, part of the responsibility, when it happens, it’s extremely trau-matic,” he said.
According to N.C. general Statutes, an officer is autho-rized to use deadly force “to defend himself or a third per-son from what he reasonably believes to be the use or im-
minent use of deadly physical force.” All DUPD officers are trained in when to use deadly force, Dailey said. He added that police-involved shootings are rare nationally but not unprecedented, citing an incident March 2 in which Uni-versity of Florida police fatally shot a doctoral student at an off-campus apartment.
It has been almost 28 years since Duke officers shot someone, according to searches of several newspaper archives. The last time Duke officers were involved in a fatal shooting was Oct. 21, 1982, according to Chron-icle archives. Two officers shot Danny Lee Winstead about a block from the entrance to Duke Hospital af-ter he attacked the officers with a wooden board. A grand jury later decided not to press charges against the officers.
Nearly 10 years later, a Durham Police sniper fatally shot escaped convict Ricky Lamont Coffin when he held
four people hostage at gunpoint in Duke Hospital.Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs
and government relations, said the University will look into Saturday’s shooting.
“Our first concern always is for the safety of our officers, our staff, our patients, our visitors and others who might have been in danger, and ensuring their safety will always be our first priority,” he said.
Doug Stokke, assistant vice president of commu-nications for the Duke University Health System, de-ferred comment on hospital procedure in the incident Saturday to David Jarmul, associate vice president for University news and communications. Jarmul deferred comment back to Stokke, who did not respond to a sec-ond attempt that afternoon or to additional requests for comment Sunday.
The main entrance to Duke University Hospital was barricaded after a man was shot dead by a Duke Police officer at 1 a.m. Saturday morning. DUPD identified the officers involved as Larry Carter and Jeffrey Liberto, but has yet to announce the identity of the individual who died.
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Bodenheimer attributed the success of ESPN to the culture it maintains within its work environment. He characterized the company as one where people work hard but where it is OK to make an honest mistake.
“Honestly, we’ll lose a contract or get a contract, we’ll be in a sport or out of a sport, we’ll be up or down, and the global economy will always oscillate. We can’t con-trol those things, but we can control our culture,” Bodenheimer said.
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Wolf said the changes will not have a large impact on voter turnout for Senate elections. If anything, he said students may be less inclined to elect senators and vice presidents because students are mostly fo-cused on the presidential election.
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Students aren’t the only ones cutting classes this se-mester. According to Lee Baker, dean of academic af-fairs for Trinity College, ap-proximately 25 students were affected by ad-ministrators’ c o s t - c u t t i n g decision to cancel 20 courses with low enrollment this year.
The University’s course offerings are integral to its fundamental educational mission, and it is disquiet-ing that something so es-sential has been affected by the immediate need to trim the Trinity College operat-ing budget. But tough times call for tough decisions, and slightly scaling back the schedule of courses—if en-acted in a careful, concerted and transparent manner—
could be a prudent way to rein in spending.
Admittedly, there is no plain and simple formula to decide which classes, if any at all, should be eliminated.
Although it would be easy to cut courses
solely based on poor enroll-ment numbers, such a policy would be misguided. The University’s course offerings should not be driven primar-ily by market demand, but rather the desire to provide students with a breadth and depth of engaging and mean-ingful academic experiences.
Administrators must adopt a comprehensive ap-proach to canceling classes that takes into account im-portant factors aside from enrollment figures, including
the frequency with which the course is offered, whether it meets a major, minor or cer-tificate requirement, its over-lap with the content of exist-ing classes and the ability of the course the be taught as an independent study.
Determining which courses are worthy of being offered and those that must be canceled is a difficult and complicated process that must be carried out with due diligence. Thus far, however, it is not evident that Trinity administrators have upheld this standard, as the decision to cut classes has been imple-mented without any commu-nication to students.
Baker himself admits that Trinity College has been try-ing to keep course elimina-tions “under the radar.” This
is unacceptable. The direct product the University of-fers in exchange for student tuition dollars is the opportu-nity to study in the classroom with distinguished scholars. If that product is being altered in a significant way, students should know.
It is also problematic that Baker has described the ef-fort to cut courses as an “ex-periment” that will be evalu-ated at the conclusion of this semester. If this is the case, he should communicate to faculty members and the stu-dent body the criteria he will use to evaluate this budegtary measure. In the absence of in-formation, we cannot be sure that such decisions are being enacted through a systematic and sensible approach.
In all of this, administra-
tors must keep in mind that even though tinkering with the course schedule may save money, it is rife with conse-quences in the long term. Jeopardizing the future of smaller classes eliminates the University’s competitive advantage over large, public institutions. And putting too great an emphasis on course enrollment might compro-mise the integrity of existing courses by pressuring profes-sors to change content and academic standards to attract new students.
No matter the circum-stances, cutting classes will be a painful exercise. But by do-ing so with transparency and thoughtfulness, administrators can maintain the quality of the academic experience and re-gain a balanced budget.
LMFAO and Lil Jon ask in “Shots,” their spring break anthem, “All of the alcoholics, where you at?” After a week in the Florida panhandle, I’d venture to say that they were in Pana-ma City, where wet T-shirt contests, all-night foam par-ties and the verve to wash off one’s scruples in the nippy ocean were motivated by shots shot shots and more shots.
Spring break was extreme, but its participants and the media like to claim that this happens ev-ery weekend across American college campuses. Despite ample populations of teetotalers at their respective schools, the college drinking culture becomes defined by the few who play hard.
Actually, alcohol-fueled debauchery is frequent-ly bloated out of context. Drinking is often used in the college student’s vocabulary as a method of re-lating to one another and not necessarily reflective of the amount one actually wants to consume.
This means that statements such as “I can’t be-lieve how drunk I was last night,” which Reynolds Price overheard on campus and recounted in a 1993 Founder’s Day Speech, shouldn’t be taken as a definitive alarm for Duke’s drinking practices. Such playful claims are more often fiction than fact.
When students are perceived as heavy drink-ers, those outside the Duke bubble are led to believe that the drinking culture is a greater evil than its reality. Students on their part, run the risk of fulfilling the prophecy.
Indeed, Duke freshmen are socialized into a version of campus culture inundated with my-thologized images of binge drinking and immor-al behavior, where the concept of fun is portrayed as naked without the qualifier “free kegs.”
Some are immediately drawn to the forbidden fruit, while others react by keeping a wide birth and throwing value judgments into the resulting schism created between drinkers and non-drinkers.
Either way, alcohol becomes a fulcrum of mor-al contention. Students regard it as a demon, an excuse and a weakness just as often as they glorify it. And in the slim years between matriculation and legality, many tango with the stigma of the bottle whether they drink or not.
What we lose when we create and fall victim to the vilification of college drinking culture is forgetting the value and practice of drinking as a simple, uncomplicated pleasure.
We forget that frat boys aren’t the only ones
who drink. Spanish sheepherders, gypsies on Bourbon Street, farmers in Madagascar drink. We drank under Caesar, and we’ll drink when we move to Mars.
We forget that alcohol brings people together whether or not everyone drinks. By increasing so-cial interaction, alcohol increases the chance for personal connection, which is why many events use it as a strategy to attract crowds. Certainly drinking is not the only way to attain social interaction, but like it or not, it often gets the job done the fastest.
Instead, we often judge alcohol consump-tion in its worst light. Dukies are guilty of cov-eting over-achievement, and drinking is another sphere where one can do that. When the habit becomes a manifestation of something that is not actually about play, but reflective of one’s insecu-rities, alcohol becomes a crutch or weapon rather than a tool to unite and have fun. Although this does happen, drinking at Duke can be too easily portrayed as competitive when it is not.
So how do students avoid the negative hype and enjoy alcohol?
As long as the legal age remains 21, the Uni-versity’s hands are tied. We as students need to be more proactive in our responsibility towards self-education: We need to get really comfortable with drinking.
By this I mean non-drinking students need to overcome the conception that alcohol univer-sally degrades college campus culture. Alcohol must not be regarded as the cause of Duke’s so-cial problems and a harbinger of inevitable im-morality, but accepted as a fact of life that can be enjoyed for harmless fun if harnessed.
We must regard alcohol and those who use it in a more open-minded and honest way so that we are able to answer not only “why do I drink?” but “why do my peers drink?” This way, students will be more likely to see early on that the reality of drinking in college is most often tamer than what we are warned.
And the sooner we see this, the more quickly we can accept that fun is not measured by the number of drinks we’ve consumed or the parties we’ve attended, but by the value each has added to our college experience. Indeed, by becoming comfortable with the idea of drinking, we can learn how to use alcohol as a tool instead of a crutch and make drinking decisions without guilt or moral ambiguity.
In these last bill-less, job-less, responsibility-less years, we’ll be able to enjoy ourselves with or without shots.
Courtney Han is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a crisis on our hands.No, I’m not talking about health care, the chic cri-
sis of today’s news. Although that is definitely a calam-ity in its own right (Dear Washington, D.C., please, please, PLEASE let me stay on my parents’ health care plan un-til I am 26), there is another catastrophe that is having a more direct impact on our young, 20-something-year-old lives: the rising cost of higher education.
In case you missed the announcement due to an early case of March mad-ness or a diagnosis of spring break fever, the Board of Trustees recently voted for a 3.9 percent increase in under-graduate tuition for next school year. That means it will now officially cost more than $50,000 a year to attend Duke. Fifty-one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars to be ex-act. Now, that is an astronomical number, one that must be put into more practical terms to understand—allow me.
The 2009 federal poverty line for a family of four is $22,050. So, for what it costs to send one bright young scholar to Duke for one year, you could instead single-handedly lift two families out of poverty and give them each $3,880.50 in extra spending money. Or you could buy 518 kegs of Bud Light from College Beverage in Raleigh. If you wanted a different kind of bever-age, you could use your $51,865 in tuition money for 3,769 cups of the most expensive coffee Starbucks makes (a 13-shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel). Or if one week of spring break was not enough, you could leave Raleigh-Durham International Airport today at 3:53 p.m. and take yourself and 50 of your closest friends to Madrid for a week for the $51,865 you will spend in tuition next year. This numbers game could go on for all eternity, but no matter how you divide it, it always adds up to the same thing: a whole bunch of money.
It was just five short years ago, in the 2005-2006 school year, that tuition hurdled over the $40,000 mark. That is a 25 percent increase over the past five years for those of you without a calculator or a mathematics major. If tuition con-tinues to increase by 25 percent every five years and I have my first born child at age 28 and want to send him/her to Duke in the year 2035, it would run me $158,279.42 for just the First-Year Experience. Yowzers.
Now before you tell me that my calculation reeks of that from an English major, consider that higher education has ris-en more than 400 percent in the past 25 years ending in 2007, according to a March 13 Wall Street Journal editorial. I don’t need to knock more dust off my calculator to demonstrate that this trend is unsustainable in the long run. Like I said, the state of the cost of higher education is in a full-blown crisis, and its effects are being felt everywhere, not just at Duke.
It’s true that virtually all of Duke’s peer universities are rais-ing tuition for next year as well and many of them by more. But in our Gothic Wonderland, this year the habitual tuition hike will not be accompanied with an increase in financial aid. It will,
however, be accompanied with cuts to the smallest-sized Trinity classes (something every institution brags about being able to offer) and a promise from Michael Munger, chair of the politi-cal science department, that “next year will be the worst year” as far as feeling the effects of the economic downturn. Great.
So what are a Duke student and family to do? Well, choices are obviously limited. If you live in California, you could go to a University of California school for $10,300 next year, a number that has caused young Californians to protest in outrage.
The Wall Street Journal bemoans that, “Now a year at a UC school can cost students as much as at many private schools.” Cheer up, California. You still are $41,565 behind us. Take that money and take your family of four to Madrid for the week along with 200 kegs of Bud Light and 1,277 cups of 13-shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramels. Maybe then you can escape the black hole that is financing higher education.
Laura Keeley is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.
Tailgate is all mixed up. The pre-football party and Krzyzewskiville are highly debated topics on Duke’s campus, but the most crucial problems
are the frequency and length of time both take up. This is a clear
embarrassment to our University’s adminis trat ion. These beer-fueled gatherings are infinitely more popular than our academics. And we only allow Tailgate six times a year? What does this look like, the 1920s? I mean, what college prevents their students from getting drunk on a Saturday? And I thought my jokes were bad.
Here’s the situation. No, I’m not talking about Mike from Jersey Shore. Duke’s administration should wholeheartedly support Tailgate. You kids get up early on Saturday, dress in ridiculous and cre-ative costumes, travel in droves to a faraway parking lot, get your drink on, perhaps accidentally attend some of the football game and then nap for the rest of the day. Ah yes, I see how this treacherous tradi-tion is destroying Duke’s precious reputation.
So, let me get this straight. Students are going out-side, drinking communally and socially, dancing to to-day’s hottest tunes, all in broad daylight with security personnel standing at attention. Not only is all this bac-chanalia happening in the middle of the day, but the en-tire student population is invited to attend. You end up socializing with people you never would have interacted with outside of class. On top of all that, the intricacies of gas law and air flow are elucidated when viewed in light of shotgunning a beer. Outside of Tailgate, when would you and your chem TA find such meaningful conver-sation pieces? These scientific discussions find literary juxtaposition with more childish comments, “Dude, did you see that? That gal ate it: TAILGATE!”
This sweaty, beer-soaked, drunken euphoria is what college is all about. If you didn’t have Tailgate, kids would just down shots within the confines of their rooms. When the University attempts to shut down Tail-gate, the only possible conclusion we can make is that your prestigious faculty and administration are opposed to community, safety and happiness.
Furthermore, Tailgate only happens on home foot-ball gamedays that aren’t during breaks. Some years, there may be only three or four Tailgates! To solve this absurd lack of revelry, we need to have Tailgate on Satur-days that don’t have football games, on occasional Mon-days and at least every other Wednesday. Why should there be a limit to how often students from all walks of life can gather together and enjoy each other’s compa-ny? We really need to expand Tailgate to other sports, as well. That lacrosse tailgate had some potential.
Isn’t the basketball program looking for a way to make the student section rowdier and more creative? Anyone who’s been to personal checks knows that an egregious amount of alcohol is the answer. How much more annoying do people get when they’re convinced everyone cares about their opinions? Not to mention the number of “WOOOOOO”s that each plastered Crazie will feel compelled to shout.
Maybe Duke, in all its snobbery and self-righteous-ness, forgot what made it such a popular school: athletics. When Coach K came and started building up the basketball program, Duke started to attract the brightest and most fun students from across the country. If we give up Tailgate, and in turn abolish a large part of Duke’s social scene, Duke is going to have a less talented applicant pool to choose from. I have a dream, that one day, this administration will rise up, and allow students to exercise their God-given right to consume whatever they choose.
College is about learning to deal with freedoms responsibly, but if you don’t have freedoms to experi-ment, you’ll never learn. And hey, maybe one day, some student will drunkenly start a cheer that draws a smile from Coach K’s forever stern visage.
Let’s get this University back to what made it great: Really loud and creative students insulting other schools and degrading other teams to the point of drawing national attention.
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lettertotheeditorMarch 6, 2010: A bonfire night to remember
As the flames soared high into the night,It was a scene of pure delight.We shouted and cheered with jubilant glee,And erased the distant memory of Psycho T.So many years we yearned,So many benches left unburned,A winter so cold and brutal it seemed,To tease us with the hope of fiery dreams.
Jon, Zoubs, Jordan and Lance,Crushed Carolina on their final chance,And secured their place in the Big Dance.
The record in Cameron makes us proud,Seventeen wins in front of the home crowd.We will always remember the season 2009-2010,I saw a sign that said, “Welcome to Zoubekistan!”
The Blue Devils will now continue on their quest,To bring home the trophy that marks the best.A hunger in our hearts is what is clear,To brave the test and have no fear.
Let us build on this momentum!Our time has come,To show the worldA fourth banner ready to be unfurled!And leave nothing to doubt or thought,For we know our golden Coach K has a Duke Blue heart.
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After tough back-to-back con-ference losses, the Blue Devils bounced back Saturday with an 8-5 win at No. 9 Loyola, giving the Greyhounds (3-2) an unpleaseant housewarming gift in their first game at the new Ridley Athletic Complex in Baltimore.
No. 8 Duke (3-3) found itself in an early hole when Loyola at-tackman and former Blue Devil
player Col-lin Finner-ty netted the game’s first goal
at the 5:03 mark of the first pe-riod. Duke would equalize min-utes later when midfielder Mike Catalino scored with 1:41 left in the first. But with heavy rain in the area yielding sloppy playing conditions, goals were hard to come by until Blue Devil mid-fielder Steve Schoeffel scored off a Ned Crotty assist with 7:43 left in the second period, spark-ing a five-goal Duke run that gave the visitors all the breath-ing room they would need to pull out a win.
With a goal by Crotty followed by three consecutive scores by senior attackman Max Quinzani, the Blue Devils led 5-1 before Loyola could muster its second score at the 9:27 mark of the third period. Loyola’s scoreless streak of 30:30 was the longest goal drought that Duke has held an opponent to all season.
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Senior Max Quinzani’s four goals were enough to seal Duke’s win over No. 9 Loyola Friday.
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offense ran the show at Durham Bulls Athletic Park Friday and Satur-day as Duke and No. 11 North Caro-lina split the first two games of both teams’ ACC opening series. Yet it was the Blue Devils’ two greatest assets—
p i t c h i n g and de-fense—that gave Duke (11-4, 2-1 in the ACC) its second straight se-ries win over its greatest rival.
A f t e r giving up a
whopping 32 runs in the first two games of the series, Duke got a wonderful pitching performance from its Sunday starter, junior Dennis o’Grady, and an equally solid relief effort from sopho-more Ben Grisz that shut the door on any hopes North Caro-lina (12-4, 1-2) may have had for a late comeback.
Duke waited just about as long as it could, though, to pull ahead Sunday. The Blue Devils fell be-hind early and trailed 3-2 in the bottom of the eighth inning be-
fore a double from eric Brady tied the score at three. And in his only at-bat of the game, Brian Litwin—who had come on as a pinch-runner earlier in the game—knocked a two-out single through the infield to pick up two RBis and give Duke a lead it would not relin-quish.
on the mound, o’Grady hit his only rough patch in the third inning, when the Tar heels put two runs on the board. other than that, it was smooth sailing for Duke’s pitching staff. o’Grady gave up seven hits and struck out four in six effective innings of work despite his no-decision, and Grisz allowed just a single hit in three innings to get the win.
The Blue Devils’ efficient fielding was another main contributor to the win. Duke committed two errors in each of the first two games of the se-ries, yet committed none in the rubber game.
North Carolina’s pitching kept Duke’s bats quiet as well, es-pecially in the game’s first seven innings with starter Colin Bates on the hill. Bates gave up just two
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Quinzani led all scorers with four goals, while Crotty notched a goal and four assists, three of which came on Quinzani’s goals. The four-goal effort stretched the senior attackman’s scoring streak
to 52 straight games and was the sixth time this season that Quin-zani has recorded a hat trick or better. Finnerty led Loyola’s scor-ing effort with three goals.
—from staff reports
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A 7-0 defeat to then-No. 9 Florida in Gainesville two weeks ago—Duke’s most recent match before this weekend—raised some serious questions about this Blue Devil squad’s chances of repeating as NCAA
champsions, but a convincing 5-2 win over No. 3 Notre Dame Friday puts No. 7 Duke right in the mix.
Playing in humacao, Puerto Rico, the Blue Devils (11-2) were thoroughly beaten in doubles play by a strong Fighting irish squad that has already recorded impressive wins against No. 1 Northwestern and No. 12 Tennessee this season. in doubles, Duke’s top team of ellah Nza and Amanda Granson went down 8-2, and third-seeded Monica Gorney and Jessica Stiles lost 8-3 to give the point to Notre Dame (12-2).
Singles play, though, was a different story, and showed the depth and talent level that Duke possesses even without its star of 2009, Mallory Cecil.
Senior elizabeth Plotkin, who missed all of last year’s championship run with a knee injury, kept her
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After winning the ACC Tournament championship Sunday, the Blue Devils were granted a No. 1 seed in the South region of the NCAA Tournament.
Duke is the third overall seed in the postseason, and the se-lection committee tabbed it for a top seed ahead of teams like
Syracuse, West Virginia and ohio State. The orange were ranked No. 1 in the country heading into their final game of the season, but dropped their regular-season finale and fell in their first round of the Big east Tournament. The Mountaineers and the
Buckeyes also figured to be in contention for top seeds after winning their respective conference tournaments.
The Blue Devils will face the winner of the play-in game between Winthrop and Arkansas-Pine Bluff in Jacksonville, Fla. Friday in the first round.
With a win, Duke would advance to the Round of 32 to face ninth seed Louisville or No. 8 California. The Cardinals upset
Syracuse twice this season and are coached by hall of Famer Rick Pitino, while the Golden Bears won the regular season title in the Pac-10, the weakest of the big six conferences. Jamal Boykin, a former Duke forward who transferred to California after a single season as a Blue Devil, has become an effective player for the Golden Bears.
Also in the Blue Devils’ half of the regional are Texas A&M, Siena, Utah State and Purdue. The Boilermakers were in the discussion for a No. 1 seed but lost star Robbie hummel to an ACL injury for the season several weeks ago and have strug-gled since. in the team’s most recent game, Purdue put up a meager 11 points in the first half against Minnesota.
if Duke gets to the elite eight, it could face two powerful Big east teams: Notre Dame and Villanova—the team that knocked the Blue Devils out of the Tournament in 2009. The Wildcats faded down the stretch, but their athleticism posed a significant challenge to Duke last season and this year’s Villanova squad is equally quick on the perimeter.
The other three No. 1 seeds in the Tournament are Syr-acuse, Kentucky and Kansas—the top overall seed.
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Junior kyle Singler and Duke president Richard brodhead celebrate on the Greensboro Coliseum court after Duke’s ACC tournament victory Sunday.
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by Taylor DohertyThe ChRoNiCLe
GReeNSBoRo, N.C. — Kyle Singler saw the ball in the air and dove straight at it: right over press row, right into the lap of eSPN commentator Dan Shulman and nearly into the second row. With momentum and no way to slow himself down, Singler knew that he was headed for a crash.
While up in the air, out of con-trol, he was still thinking about the ball. his team couldn’t afford to lose possession.
“The main thing was, ‘i hope i saved the ball and that guys got it,’” Singler said. “once i left the ground, i knew i was going into the stands. i know i broke some things, and i kind of got some scratches. i’m fine, and i hope i didn’t hurt anyone.”
“i think he forgets it’s basket-ball, not football, but he’s as tough as it gets,” senior Jon Scheyer said. “he’s done that since he’s been here. he’s the toughest player i’ve ever played with.”
During three games between Friday and Sunday, Singler played arguably his best basketball of the season and earned Most Valuable Player honors for the Tourna-ment. he shot 41 percent from the field on 18-for-44 shooting, in-cluding 7-for-14 from long range, and pulled down 25 boards.
Against Miami Saturday, the Blue Devils trailed by three at halftime. immediately after the break, though, Singler came out and scored eight straight points. it wasn’t just that he had 27 points in the contest—it was the timeliness of those points, which gave Duke con-fidence when it needed it most.
And in the final when the junior’s shooting touch seemed to suddenly disappear, he still found a way to make an impact. Singler shot just 3-of-15 from the field but found his way to the charity stripe for 16 free throws. To put that in context, Georgia Tech’s entire team combined for 16 free throws.
Duke needed Singler in a path to an ACC championship that proved difficult. Teams on the bubble of the NCAA Tournament
were eager to pad their resumes, and teams whose chances of post-season play were all but lost had a final opportunity to secure a bid.
After defeating Virginia by 11 points Friday, the Blue Devils won in the semifinals and finals of the ACC Tournament by a combined seven points. A focus on the de-fensive end paid off—in two of Duke’s wins, their opponents didn’t score more than 61 points.
As the team’s leading scorer—but certainly the quietest out of the trio that includes Nolan Smith and Scheyer—Singler leads his team by example. Things like diving into the stands—it actual-ly happened twice in the final—set the tone for the entire roster. But as Singler acknowledged af-ter the game, he’s willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that his team builds upon its current 12-1 streak.
“Whatever i have to say, i usually say,” Singler said. “i think guys respond to what i say because i usually don’t say a lot. When i do speak, it usu-ally means something, so the guys listen.”
earlier in the season, Singler struggled at times to meet high expectations that outsiders of the program had for him. Since this year’s Blue Devils are the program’s tallest squad in re-cent memory, head coach Mike Krzyzewski decided to move Sin-gler to the perimeter because it best fits his skill set. initially, though, Singler struggled mak-ing the transition and fell into a shooting slump.
on Feb. 4 against Georgia Tech—finally—it seemed that Sin-gler broke out of the slump. The junior had 30 points, hitting eight of his 10 3-point attempts, and led his team to a 86-67 victory over the Yellow Jackets at home.
Duke is set to begin its NCAA Tournament play Friday in the South region with its best offen-sive option playing his best bas-ketball of the entire season. But if Singler continues these diving antics, Smith is a bit worried for his teammate’s safety.
“he’s gotta be careful,” Smith said with a laugh. “i’m going to get him a helmet to wear during games.”
Fearless Singler’s dive into stands, solid shooting lead Duke to title
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After his game-clinching shot, Jon Scheyer was interviewed by former Duke great Mike Gminski, now a Raycom broadcaster.IAN SOILEAU/THE CHRONICLE
Junior Nolan Smith drives to the basket—a path impeded by four Georgia tech defenders—in the ACC tournament championship game Sunday.
ACC Tournament Notes:
• Duke defeated Virginia, Miami and Georgia Tech—the eigth, 12th and seventh seeds in the conference—en route to the Tournament championship.
• Miami provided the biggest surprise of the weekend. The hurricanes, the ACC’s worst team according to the regular-season standings, upset Wake Forest by 20 and snuck past Virginia Tech to reach the Tournament semifinals. There, Miami pushed Duke to the brink be-fore falling by just three points.
• High seeds like Florida State and Wake Forest set themselves back in terms of NCAA Tournament seedings with poor showings in Greensboro. Nei-ther team won a game in the ACC Tournament—the Seminoles lost in the 3-11 game to N.C. State—and both received No. 9 seeds in the Big Dance instead of more favorable draws.
• Georgia Tech very nearly became the first team in ACC history to win four games en route to a confer-ence tournament championship. The Yellow Jackets did not recieve a bye because of their seventh-place finish, and thus were forced to play North Carolina in the opening round to make it into the main draw.
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time Sunday against Georgia Tech, but he wasn’t shy when a big moment presented it-self. With 18 seconds to go and Duke in need of a score, the senior co-captain drained a 3-pointer from the elbow—just his fourth bas-ket of the day—to put his team up four and all but secure the win. Scheyer finished with 16 points, but shot 2-of-9 from beyond the arc.
“i knew it was nothing but bottom,” se-nior Lance Thomas said about Scheyer’s shot. “i knew it was going in. Jon wants the ball in his hands at the end of the game. i had no doubt in my mind and i didn’t even go for the rebound.”
“There’s something about Scheyer that pro-duces wins,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
With the victory, the Blue Devils won their second consecutive conference tournament, 65-61, and their ninth in 12 years. it was also the 18th tournament title in program history, breaking a tie with North Carolina.
The Yellow Jackets had their chances, namely the 3-pointer from Maurice Miller that seemingly grazed every inch of the iron before rimming out. That shot would have tied the game, but Duke never relinquished the lead from start to finish. The team built an early advantage that didn’t dip below five until the final minutes. even when Georgia Tech made its run by pressing and aggres-sively trapping the Blue Devils, Duke made its free throws, hitting 24-of-28 on the day.
“We don’t get tense,” Scheyer said. “our team showed a lot of toughness making some stops and hitting a couple shots.”
Junior Kyle Singler epitomized that swag-ger on the court. Singler led the team in
scoring for the fourth straight contest with 20 points and was named ACC Tournament MVP. he took several hits throughout the game, none more noteworthy than when he dove into the stands to save the ball and knocked over eSPN’s Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale, breaking Shulman’s headset in the process. Singler earned 16 shots from the line for his efforts, making 14 to overshadow an otherwise poor shooting night in which he converted just 3-of-15 shots from the field.
While Scheyer and Singler struggled, No-lan Smith and Andre Dawkins carried the Blue Devils early in the game. Smith scored 11 points in only 10 minutes in the first half in a variety of ways: off of curls, in the lane and from long range. The junior was hampered by foul trouble and never quite found his rhythm in the second session. he still finished with 16 points, and, along with Scheyer and Singler, was named to the All-Tournament first team.
Dawkins chipped in seven points in the first half, his highest scoring total in the calendar year. The freshman saw extended playing time when Smith was relegated to the bench, and he injected life into the crowd with a thunderous dunk when he took off in front of the free-throw line.
But it was the composure down the stretch that paid dividends for Duke. heading into the NCAA Tournament, when every contest figures to come down to a few scores, the Blue Devils’ veteran leaders know they have the experience to make plays late in the game.
“Previous teams i’ve been on, i don’t know if we would have been tough enough to pull it out,” Scheyer said. “i thought we did a good job of staying poised and executing.”
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Junior Nolan Smith drives to the basket—a path impeded by four Georgia tech defenders—in the ACC tournament championship game Sunday.
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kyle Singler’s quality play, including a 27-point outburst against Miami, earned him the tournament MVP award.
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With Duke up just one point and only 20 seconds remaining, senior Jon Scheyer hit a tough three-pointer from the wing with Georgia Tech’s Glen Rice, Jr. in his face to give the Blue Devils a two-pos-session lead and an ACC championship. Scheyer shot just 2-of-9 from deep, but his late basket allowed Duke to preserve a lead it looked in danger of losing. Just as he has in tight games all year, Schey-er came through when it mattered most despite an off night otherwise.
SINGLER’S LAUNCH
In a play that encapsulated his tough attitude and Duke’s desperation against Georgia Tech, junior Kyle Singler jumped over the front row of broadcasters to save a loose ball—and in the process, bowled over ESPN’s Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale and broke a headset. Sin-gler was scratched up but stayed in the game, and his 20 points were critical in what turned out to be a close one.
ACC Tournament Notes:
• Duke defeated Virginia, Miami and Georgia Tech—the eigth, 12th and seventh seeds in the conference—en route to the Tournament championship.
• Miami provided the biggest surprise of the weekend. The hurricanes, the ACC’s worst team according to the regular-season standings, upset Wake Forest by 20 and snuck past Virginia Tech to reach the Tournament semifinals. There, Miami pushed Duke to the brink be-fore falling by just three points.
• High seeds like Florida State and Wake Forest set themselves back in terms of NCAA Tournament seedings with poor showings in Greensboro. Nei-ther team won a game in the ACC Tournament—the Seminoles lost in the 3-11 game to N.C. State—and both received No. 9 seeds in the Big Dance instead of more favorable draws.
• Georgia Tech very nearly became the first team in ACC history to win four games en route to a confer-ence tournament championship. The Yellow Jackets did not recieve a bye because of their seventh-place finish, and thus were forced to play North Carolina in the opening round to make it into the main draw.
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Despite having fewer shots in the game and scoring fewer goals than No. 5 George-town in the second half, No. 6 Duke came out victorious 10-8 Saturday at Koskinen Sta-dium, bringing the Blue Devils their third consecutive win within a week.
“obviously i’m thrilled with the win,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Georgetown is a great team. over-all, [we had] a great team effort and a
tough effort. That’s what i care about.”The Blue Devils exhibited strong de-
fense, forcing the hoyas (2-2) into 21 to-tal turnovers while only committing eight themselves in each half. The victory brought Duke to a 7-1 record and helped prepare the relatively young team for its critical matchup with ACC foe Virginia Tech in an away contest Wednesday.
After losing most of the team’s top scor-ers to graduation, Duke has been looking to rebuild its offense, as well as figure out its de-fensive alignments with a new goalie in net. With injured sophomore Mollie Mackler out, freshman Katilin Gaiss has stepped in.
The newcomer did not disappoint in Sat-urday’s game. Gaiss made eight saves and col-lected three ground balls for Duke against the hoyas.
“i can’t say enough about how proud i am of Kaitlin Gaiss,” Kimel said. “i’m so proud of the way she performed today, com-ing in as a freshman and having not com-peted all year.”
And with a victory over another highly-ranked team, the Blue Devils seem to be
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Christie kaestner’s three-goal effort helped push Duke past Georgetown despite being outshot on the day.
runs—both on a homer by Will Currier in the fifth frame—but was let down by his bullpen. Tar heel reliever Greg holt was responsible for Duke’s three-run outburst in the eighth and got the loss Sunday.
The Tar heels pounded the Blue Devils Friday at DBAP, churning out 21 hits in a 21-9 victory. But Duke respond-ed well the next day and matched North Carolina’s offensive output hit for hit in a 15-11 win. Junior Jake Lemmerman and sophomore Will Piwnica-Worms both hit three-run home runs in front more than 2,000 fans, the biggest crowd Duke has drawn at home in head coach Sean McNally’s five years at Duke.
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Jake Lemmerman scored the tying run in Duke’s come-from-behind win over North Carolina Sunday.
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gaining momentum and increasing team cohesion and communication to accom-plish their goal of becoming regular season ACC champions.
Before the season is over, however, Duke hopes to win a title the right way—by keeping possession, dictating tempo and not turning the ball over, something the team appeared to do in the game
against Georgetown.“We had a great first half, [and] our de-
fense was fantastic,” Kimel said. “our sec-ond half could’ve been a lot cleaner, but what you saw was the fact that [we’ve] played three games in seven days. We could have done a much better job of executing offen-sively in the second half, which is something we’re going to work on.”
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great season going with a straight-set win over Shannon Mathews at the No. 2 slot. Plotkin is now 12-1 on the season.
And on the other end of the age spec-trum, freshman Mary Clayton made her presence felt at No. 6 singles with an easy 6-3, 6-0 win. The shutout in the sec-ond set helped Clayton become the first Duke player to finish her match and give the Blue Devils momentum in the rest of singles action.
“We got off to a good start at singles,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We talk-ed about before singles that we have to be
willing to pay the price to stay on the court. We need to chase down every shot and be patient and make Notre Dame come up with shots. And when the opportunity came to finish points, we did a really good job.”
Senior Reka Zsilinszka gave Duke an even bigger advantage at No. 3 as she over-whelmed Chrissie McGaffigan, 6-1, 6-0. Zsi-linszka, the No. 45 player in the country, has been playing further down the order lately after starting the season as Duke’s top seed, and wins like this one will give her, and her teammates, confidence as they en-ter a crucial stretch of their season.
The Blue Devils now get another week off to prepare for a visit from No. 1 North-western March 24.
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Freshman Mary Clayton’s easy win set the tone for Duke in singles play as the blue Devils swept aside Notre Dame.
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Duke survived a scare from Maryland in the first round of last week’s ACC tournament and went on to take down both Georgia tech and N.C. State to claim MVP Jasmine thomas’s first tournament title.
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