Now Open 607 Broad St Right Behind Mad Hatters And A Few Steps From East Campus Serving Lunch and Dinner Daily 10 percent off w/Duke Id (excluding alcohol) The Chronicle THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012 ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH YEAR, ISSUE 40 WWW.DUKECHRONICLE.COM CAROLINE RODRIGUEZ/THE CHRONICLE Members of the Duke community line up to cast their ballots on the first day of on-campus early vot- ing. Early voting will take place in the Old Trinity Room through Nov. 3. Cast away Bowl berth take two for Duke Duke students make final election push by Ryan Zhang THE CHRONICLE In a swing state like North Carolina, student volunteers serve as the vanguard for the presidential campaigns. The campaigns of President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney have each sought the youth vote. Given that college students are often apa- thetic in elections, it falls to the work of recruiting offices and dedicated volun- teers to get students to the polls, said Tori Bragg, director for the North Carolina Young Americans for Romney. Both Duke Democrats and Duke Col- lege Republicans have, nonetheless, se- cured a steady number of volunteers to increase election awareness. “In North Carolina, the volunteer hours go a long way,” said sophomore David Winegar, president of Duke Demo- crats. “The race is still really close—every single vote counts.” The upcoming election is a critical one for young adults due to the issues at stake, said Charly Norton, spokesperson for Obama for America. She cited health by Daniel Carp THE CHRONICLE Hoping to rebound from a horrific col- lapse against Virginia Tech last weekend, Duke will need to take down a familiar foe to seal its bowl eligibil- ity. But to make history this weekend, the Blue Devils will first have to break a longstanding drought with their To- bacco Road rivals. Duke will square off with North Carolina Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium at 7 p.m. in the annual bat- tle for the Victory Bell. The team’s mantra—back to business. “Obviously, [the loss] was like a slap in the face. Just to get us back grounded, I think we were getting into the clouds a little bit with all the success we were hav- ing,” defensive end Kenny Anunike said. “We’re definitely back to where we need to be. We’re still 5-2. That’s a great re- cord right now especially in the state, in the conference and in the nation. A lot of Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News and World Report, has led the magazine’s sig- nature education rankings soon af- ter their inception in 1983. He now manages the entire higher educa- tion rankings, including those for national universities, liberal arts colleges and graduate and profes- sional schools. The Chronicle’s Yeshwanth Kandimalla spoke with Morse about his work, the impor- tance of the rankings today and Duke’s place over the years. The Chronicle: How did the rankings originate, and how did you become involved in devel- oping and compiling them? Robert Morse: They origi- nated in the early 1980s from a simplistic survey. I didn’t work on them for the very first year or two years. Doing them origi- nally was not my idea. When we were a newsweekly magazine, we thought of doing a small feature, using a very simplistic methodology. From the first year in 1983, it evolved from a simplistic methodology to be- coming the more sophisticated one we have right now. It has taken a life of its own way what we originally envisioned. TC: If you were a senior ap- plying to college, how would you use the rankings? RM: If I were a senior, I would use them depending on how much I achieved in high school and my academic profile.... Let’s assume that I wasn’t a top per- forming student with only pass- ing interest in the rankings... The scope of where I go may be limited to regional universities, and it would be smart to look at the data and get some concep- tion. But I probably wouldn’t be that focused on the rankings. If I had really top credentials, I’d probably care about the rank- ings. But I’d want them to be just one factor. Hopefully I wouldn’t make my decisions just based on the rankings. TC: What is the most signifi- cant shortcoming in the rank- ings methodology? RM: The most significant shortcoming is that what we can’t measure is important. Duke is a very complex institution. The rankings can only measure a few things. They simplify a school into one number. Those vari- ables are what’s available. That it simplifies complex institu- tions into a number is certainly the biggest shortcoming. I don’t think the public understands false precision because schools that are close in their rankings aren’t that different. TC: Have the rankings con- tributed to increased application SEE MORSE ON PAGE 4 CAROLINE RODRIGUEZ/THE CHRONICLE Robert Morse, the man behind the U.S. News & World Report rankings, spoke with The Chronicle about the publication. SEE VOLUNTEER ON PAGE 5 SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 16 Saturday 7:00 p.m. Wallace Wade vs. On college rankings: Q&A with Robert Morse FOOTBALL
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Members of the Duke community line up to cast their ballots on the first day of on-campus early vot-ing. Early voting will take place in the Old Trinity Room through Nov. 3.
Cast away Bowl berth take two for Duke
Duke students make final election push
by Ryan ZhangTHE CHRONICLE
In a swing state like North Carolina, student volunteers serve as the vanguard for the presidential campaigns.
The campaigns of President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney have each sought the youth vote. Given that college students are often apa-thetic in elections, it falls to the work of recruiting offices and dedicated volun-teers to get students to the polls, said Tori Bragg, director for the North Carolina Young Americans for Romney.
Both Duke Democrats and Duke Col-lege Republicans have, nonetheless, se-cured a steady number of volunteers to increase election awareness.
“In North Carolina, the volunteer hours go a long way,” said sophomore David Winegar, president of Duke Demo-crats. “The race is still really close—every single vote counts.”
The upcoming election is a critical one for young adults due to the issues at stake, said Charly Norton, spokesperson for Obama for America. She cited health
by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE
Hoping to rebound from a horrific col-lapse against Virginia Tech last weekend,
Duke will need to take down a familiar foe to seal its bowl eligibil-ity. But to make history this weekend, the Blue Devils will first have to break a longstanding drought with their To-bacco Road rivals.
Duke will square off with North Carolina Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium at 7 p.m. in the annual bat-tle for the Victory Bell.
The team’s mantra—back to business.“Obviously, [the loss] was like a slap in
the face. Just to get us back grounded, I think we were getting into the clouds a little bit with all the success we were hav-ing,” defensive end Kenny Anunike said. “We’re definitely back to where we need to be. We’re still 5-2. That’s a great re-cord right now especially in the state, in the conference and in the nation. A lot of
Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News and World Report, has led the magazine’s sig-nature education rankings soon af-ter their inception in 1983. He now manages the entire higher educa-tion rankings, including those for national universities, liberal arts colleges and graduate and profes-sional schools. The Chronicle’s Yeshwanth Kandimalla spoke with Morse about his work, the impor-tance of the rankings today and Duke’s place over the years.
The Chronicle: How did the rankings originate, and how did you become involved in devel-oping and compiling them?
Robert Morse: They origi-
nated in the early 1980s from a simplistic survey. I didn’t work on them for the very first year or two years. Doing them origi-nally was not my idea. When we were a newsweekly magazine, we thought of doing a small feature, using a very simplistic methodology. From the first year in 1983, it evolved from a simplistic methodology to be-coming the more sophisticated one we have right now. It has taken a life of its own way what we originally envisioned.
TC: If you were a senior ap-plying to college, how would you use the rankings?
RM: If I were a senior, I would
use them depending on how much I achieved in high school and my academic profile.... Let’s assume that I wasn’t a top per-forming student with only pass-ing interest in the rankings... The scope of where I go may be limited to regional universities, and it would be smart to look at the data and get some concep-tion. But I probably wouldn’t be that focused on the rankings. If I had really top credentials, I’d probably care about the rank-ings. But I’d want them to be just one factor. Hopefully I wouldn’t make my decisions just based on the rankings.
TC: What is the most signifi-
cant shortcoming in the rank-ings methodology?
RM: The most significant shortcoming is that what we can’t measure is important. Duke is a very complex institution. The rankings can only measure a few things. They simplify a school into one number. Those vari-ables are what’s available. That it simplifies complex institu-tions into a number is certainly the biggest shortcoming. I don’t think the public understands false precision because schools that are close in their rankings aren’t that different.
TC: Have the rankings con-tributed to increased application
SEE MORSE ON PAGE 4
CAROLINE RODRIGUEZ/THE CHRONICLE
Robert Morse, the man behind the U.S. News & World Report rankings, spoke with The Chronicle about the publication.
SEE VOLUNTEER ON PAGE 5 SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 16
Saturday 7:00 p.m.Wallace Wade
vs.
On college rankings: Q&A with Robert Morse
FOOTBALL
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Democratic candidate Walter Dal-ton, the current lieutenant governor, served as a county attorney for 20 years before turning to the North Carolina Senate where he served six terms. In offi ce, Dalton led the educa-tion committee, where he advocated
for raising teach-er standards and pay, reducing class sizes and providing more funding for com-munity colleges and universities
across the state. He authored the Innovative Educa-
tion Act, a program where students can receive their high school diploma and two years of college credit in fi ve years. The New York Times called the program a “model for the nation.”
He also established the Joining Our Businesses and Schools com-mission—a nationally recognized program that partners businesses and schools to retool education pro-grams.
Dalton is a fi rm believer in in-creased funding for community col-leges and universities and increased teacher pay.
“The state’s economic success will depend on how well we align our public education system with our job needs,” he states in his education platform.
To improve the quality and afford-ability of higher education, he will establish a loan program that as-sists working students as they take one to two college courses, and will fund public colleges based on per-formance—how many degrees are obtained—rather than the number of students enrolled.
On jobs, he plans to support busi-nesses that produce goods in North Carolina rather than overseas and promote job training in growth indus-tries like nursing and allied health, biotechnology and military contracts.
On social issues, he supports legal abortion and same-sex civil unions.
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POn the DocketOct. 19 — Green Bay, Wis. Bill Clinton will campaign for Barack Obama at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin.
Oct. 20 — Belmont, OhioPaul Ryan will attend a rally.
Oct. 22 — Boca Raton, Fla.The third and fi nal presidential debate will take place at Lynn University.
“Pat [McCrory] can help himself with a few specifi cs. If he gives specifi c answers to even a few questions, then the vague platitudes on the big questions won’t be so noticeable.”
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Oct. 16—Obama and Romney faced off for the second time at Hofstra University in the second town hall style presi-dential debate on foreign and domestic policy.
Las Vegas, Nev.
Oct. 18 —Biden urged supporters at the Culinary Academy in Las Vegas to vote. In his 33-min-ute speech, he said “Gov. Romney has changed his position on so many things, you just don’t know.”
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Oct. 18—“The best way to save Medicare is to repeal Obama-care,” Paul Ryan told a crowd of supporters during a “vic-tory rally.” He focused on the future of Medicare under a Romney-Ryan administration.
The 2012 NC gubernatorial electionJust 18 days are left until Election
Day, when Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory will go head to head with Walton Dalton.
McCrory served as mayor of Char-lotte for an unprecedented seven terms, where he tackled issues such
as economic deve lopment , infrastructure, transportation, public safety and education. Under his leadership, the city saw a re-
duction in the property tax and crime.Chair of the Republican Mayors As-
sociation and appointed as the presi-dent to the Homeland Security Advisory Committee, McCrory is recognized as a leader in economic, transportation and homeland security issues.
Fixing the state’s economy is a priority on McCrory’s agenda, which he plans to do by modernizing the tax code to spur job creation, productiv-ity and innovation; reforming educa-tion; establishing a long-term vision for transportation and infrastructure to support economic expansion and making government more responsive to business.
McCrory is also a fi rm advocate of educational reform and establishing more charter schools, online educa-tional options and a required reading level for fourth graders. If elected, he plans to improve higher education by helping students acquire the skills—whether through liberal arts or tech-nical training—to complete degrees and lead successful careers. He will also integrate resources across col-lege campuses and expand tech-nological use to make college more affordable.
On social issues, McCrory opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. He opposes Obama’s recent health care plan and supports a lower personal income tax. McCrory advocates for energy independence and an in-crease in investment in energy re-sources.
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Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won Pakistan’s first Oscar for her 2012 documentary Saving Face, which received the honor for Best Documentary-Short Subject. The film chronicled acid attacks on women in Pakistan. Chinoy’s films, focus on issues affecting women and children. Chinoy spoke to The
Chronicle’s Kelly Scurry prior to a viewing of her upcoming film “Ho Yaqeen” Thursday, which was spon-sored by the Pakistani Student As-sociation.
The Chronicle: How would you describe your work?
Sharmeen Chinoy: I’m a so-cial justice documentary film-maker that focuses on human
rights, gender inequality and minority rights. I’ve worked in over 10 countries and made six films. All of my films have been on stations in the United States, Britain, Canada, France and Germany. I did a lot of work on PBS Frontline, HBO, Discovery Channel and Channel 4 [in the United Kingdom].
TC: Why did you choose to focus on women’s and chil-dren’s issues?
SC: I’m partly driven to mar-ginalized groups that don’t have voices. Women and children voices often get brushed aside, and I think there are issues we must discuss. If we never have the difficult conversations about these problems, we will never find the solutions.
TC: What led you into docu-mentary filmmaking?
SC: I was a senior at Smith Col-lege when 9/11 happened, and I was writing for a variety of papers in the United States and Canada, and I noticed there were not many voices going into Afghanistan and Pakistan that knew little about the issue. In December 2001, I went to Pakistan and the first thing that struck me was the number of chil-dren that were Afghanis. Many
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numbers at certain schools?RM: There have been studies that
have shown that, to a limited degree, they do. Other events at certain schools have more of an impact. When a school—some schools that aren’t well known—do well in basketball, such as George Mason Uni-versity, they are not highly ranked in our rankings, and they get a surge of applica-tions. When schools go from not using the [Common Application] to using it, they see a surge because it’s easier for students to apply. I think there are external factors, but in some cases it can have an impact.
TC: Do these surges in applications in-crease a college’s selectivity and boost its ranking?
RM: No, the acceptance rate counts only 1.5 percent in the final score. You would have to see a 30 to 40 percent
change in the acceptance rate to change the rankings. I’ll pick on George Mason or Butler University. If the applicant pool changed in the sense that their av-erage SAT and high school class stand-ing changed, then the ranking would change. If it’s more of the same type of applicant, then it wouldn’t really change the rankings.
TC: Does the magazine receive a big revenue boost from the rankings? If so, how much?
RM: It’s certainly the most visible prod-uct that U.S. News does. A vast percent of people are seeing them for free online, so the revenue is not from people paying to see the national university rankings. It’s the companies or people or schools that are buying ads—there is a surge in spon-sorships and banner ads online. It gets half the web traffic. It’s the company’s big-gest brand—it’s what people most associ-ate U.S. News with.
TC: Is there a qualitative explanation for Duke’s pattern in the rankings?
RM: The fact that Duke has been able to stay in a relatively narrow range of the top-10 schools shows its consistency over the years. Certainly the third place [in 1997] is a peak, but I’m not sure why. It’s hard to make the top 10, from a statistical perspective. When your numbers are that high with retention or your classes sizes are so small, it’s hard to have that much higher of a reputation. Thus, schools in the top 10 maintain it, and it’s very dif-ficult for a school in the 20th range to break into the higher ranks.
TC: What is the vetting process for data you receive from schools? Has it ever been adjusted after major revelations of misleading data provided by the school—most recently at Emory University?
RM: We have a vetting process, but with Emory or Claremont McKenna [Col-
lege], they did it in the way that couldn’t be cross-checked. They were smart enough that they had to report the same falsified data to multiple agencies. U.S. News checked against the federal govern-ment website, and we check a lot of the data external resources. [But] we don’t have the reach to audit. It would be im-possible to cross-check if you found the same falsified data.... We’re hoping that people get to a point where they decide that it’s not worth it.
TC: Is there a difference in reporting requirements between public and private institutions?
RM: There are lot more reporting re-quirements for public schools. There are many reports that they have to file for the state. At the federal level, if you received Pell Grants, you have to do mandatory fil-ings. The private schools don’t have to do that.... [The University of Illinois College of Law], which is a public school, was fal-
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Students express themselves through art installments, poetry and other creative outlets at “I like to say beautiful things,” the Pecha Kucha Night held at the Arts Annex Thursday night.
Pecha Kuchasifying data. The recent ones related the U.S. News rankings, such as Emory, Clare-mont McKenna and Iona University, have been all private. In general, institutions are betraying themselves if they preach high ethical standards. But there are individuals in the process, and they—for whatever rea-son— may not have those standards. Some of this is human weakness.
TC: Are there discernible differences in student experience between schools that are close together in the rankings. such as Duke compared to the schools above it in the top 10?
RM: There are only slight differences in schools in the top 10. There are mean-ingful differences between a school that’s ranked 10 and 25. If you’re getting be-tween 10 and 15 places, you’re getting a meaningful difference.
There is a more recent phenomenon, with the surge of Chinese students com-ing to the United States. Rankings matter in East Asian countries. They really care. We’re actually more popular as a product in China because of the importance of rankings. If you’re an international stu-dent, you’re paying full and probably not getting any aid. You want to make sure you’re going to a good school for that money.
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care reform, the Pell Grants and the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as especially relevant to college students and recent graduates.
Junior Taylor Imperiale, pres-ident of Duke College Republi-cans, noted that enthusiasm for Obama among young people has decreased since the 2008 campaign, when the president enjoyed a substantial advantage in the youth vote.
“There is a lot of momentum on our side,” Imperiale said. “Conservative and indepen-dent students are volunteering because they’ve been disap-pointed by the results of the last four years and are looking for a change.”
Recruitment for the Obama campaign has also been suc-cessful by involving students in leadership roles through fellow-ship programs such as the Fall Organizing Fellowship, Norton said. Obama for America has volunteer organizing teams on 22 college campuses in North Carolina.
Bragg noted that regional offices also play a major role in organizing and mobilizing local volunteers for the Romney cam-paign.
The liberal views held by
many college students have not posed a major obstacle to re-cruitment for the Romney cam-paign, she added.
“There’s actually been a sig-nificant rise in interest in a more conservative tax plan,” Bragg said. “Students have seen their friends and family lose jobs or not be able to find jobs after graduation. They’re excited to see a change in the administra-tion.”
Volunteers on both sides find themselves increasingly busy as the election draws nearer. Ap-proximately 20 Romney volun-teers will be going into Durham to make phone calls and knock on doors this weekend, Imperi-ale said, adding that the group will participate in three public discussions about the election, including a debate with the Duke Democrats Nov. 1.
In addition to their recent rally on the plaza, volunteers for Obama plan on hosting a num-ber of on-campus events in the weeks leading up to the elec-tion, Winegar said.
“Most of the people at Duke right now didn’t get to vote for President Obama in 2008,” Win-egar noted. “Now in college, as they’ve become more politically aware, people have started to want to get involved. They want to win this thing.”
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parents had sent their children to Pakistan after the U.S. invasion in October. I felt the story about the impact of the war on the next gen-eration of Afghans had not been told. I went back to the United States and wrote a proposal that I sent to 18 news organizations soliciting support. I got a lot of nos. Then I heard about the new president of New York Times Television, which had started a new venture online. Next thing I knew, The New York Times had hired me, and I was on my way to Pakistan.
TC: What about your life prepared you for your career?
SC: I was a person of two worlds—I was born in Pakistan but educated in the United States. It gave me a window into the developed and developing world that I could bring stories from one part of the world into the other
TC: How did your films at-tract an Academy Award and an Emmy?
SC: I think over the course of my career I won some big awards—the Alfred DuPont-Columbia Award and the Liv-ingston Award for International Reporting. I felt my work has highlighted work that hasn’t been seen before and the fact that I bring views from a dif-ferent part of the world, such
as Children of the Taliban, that were brought to television for the first time [led to the awards].
TC: Have any of your films been shown in Pakistan?
SC: The films I have done recently have aired in Pakistan. The reason is that there isn’t a market for documentaries in Pakistan, and I make films around the world, not necessar-ily in Pakistan.
TC: How has your work been received in Pakistan?
SC: It’s been fairly positive because it was Pakistan’s first Academy Award. Of course there were some right-wing voices that said I should focus on other countries with simi-lar issues rather than Pakistan. Whenever you have a conversa-tion about difficult issues there will always be voices that say no.
It has given me a platform to bring issues to Pakistan in films for the first time. After winning the Academy Award, I part-nered with Coca-Cola to make six shows about pressing prob-lems in Pakistan for television audiences. Coca-Cola bought airtime on sixteen channels.
TC: What is your mission?SC: I think my mission is to
bring awareness, make people uncomfortable to know they live in a world with these issues and to start conversations because people will know how to solve
those issues.
TC: Do you think U.S. view-ers have learned about Afghani-stan and Pakistan through your films?
SC: I think it’s fairly success-ful because my work has gained prominence and I have been for-tunate to see my shows on prime-time and after airing I have re-ceived emails and questions that show people are listening.
TC: Have you begun think-
ing about future projects yet?SC: I am doing several
projects. One is about people around the world who gave up violence and what prompted them to do that and how they convince others to do the same. It’ll take another year and a half to complete it.
TC: What do you want to see as your legacy?
SC: I think I really would like people to look back and say I provided daylight about issues affecting the [Middle East] today.
TC: Do you have any advice for aspiring filmmakers?
SC: It’s so easy today in the digital world to make a film. You don’t even need a distribu-tor because you have YouTube. Many young people worry that they don’t have the funding to make a film. All you need is a point and shoot camera and a good story.
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IT’S TIME TO GET CRAZYTop recruits visiting campus highlight the festivities for the annual season-opening event
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Each year, Countdown to Craziness is one of the grandest stages of the season, allowing the program to sell itself with a rock-show-like performance.
The magnitude of this season’s kickoff ceremony, however, separates itself from most years. The Blue Devil coaching staff will host one of its most star-studded recruit lineups in recent memory—Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor and Theo Pinson of the 2014 class, as well as sophomore Karl Towns.
Since all of the nation’s other top pro-grams held their Midnight Madness cel-ebrations last Friday, Duke has the luxury of less competition for hosting five-star re-cruits in its season-opening event.
Jones—the No. 1 point guard and No. 2 overall player in the class of 2014 according to ESPN.com—is making his first trip to the Duke campus. The 6-foot-1 point guard possesses an uncanny feel for the game, a unique ability to make his teammates bet-ter and is capable of taking over games himself with his diverse scoring arsenal.
Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has been in hot pursuit of Jones for quite some time and even opted to forgo recruiting 2013 point guards altogether in hopes of bring-ing the Minnesota product to Durham to be the team’s lead guard of the future.
Jones’ close friend, Okafor—the top-
ranked power forward and No. 3 overall player in the class of 2014—will make his second unofficial visit to Duke this week-end. At 6-foot-10 and 270 pounds, the Chicago native is one of the premier post players in all of high school basketball due to his NBA size, impeccable low-post foot-work and great shooting touch around the basket.
Usually package deals in recruiting rare-ly transpire, but Jones and Okafor might be the exception to the rule. On numerous occasions, the two have publicly stated their desire to play with one another at the next level, further illustrating the importance of the two’s time together this weekend.
“There’s been some talk about these two kids legitimately having the kind of re-lationship where they might go to school together,” ESPN senior recruiting analyst Dave Telep said. “If you get Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor, you have two key components to winning a national championship.”
From nearby High Point, N.C., Pin-son— the No. 2 small forward and No. 8 overall player in the class—rounds out the juniors attending. Living in close proxim-ity to the school has allowed the versatile 6-foot-6 wing to visit campus multiple times throughout his high school career. The athletic slasher is also strongly considering local rivals N.C. State and North Carolina.
Last, but certainty not least is Towns—
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Sitting one game below a .500 winning percentage in overall and ACC play, Duke re-sumes conference play against a strong Boston College squad, which has seen success both in
and out of conference play this season.
The Blue Devils (5-6-1, 2-3-1 in the ACC), hoping to build off solid performances against No. 1 Maryland and Presbyterian, will face the Eagles (7-4-3, 2-1-2) in a crucial home match at Koski-
nen stadium Friday night.Boston College defeated Duke 2-1 last year
in the semifinals of the ACC tournament.Duke goal keeper James Belshaw, who
earned his third shutout of the season against Presbyterian, ranks second in the ACC this season with an .807 save percentage. He will play an integral role against the Eagles, who rank third in the ACC in shots with 72 so far this season. Boston College forward Charlie
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the No. 1 overall player in the class of 2015. The sophomore is as seasoned as an un-derclassmen could possibly be and Krzyze-wski knows that first-hand after coaching against the 6-foot-11 combo forward a few months ago. Playing for the Dominican Republic national team this summer gave Towns the unique opportunity to face off against Krzyzewski’s U.S. national team in a July exhibition game with the Americans preparing for the Olympics. Against the NBA’s best, the 16-year-old Towns finished
with three points, two rebounds and an as-sist in 9:24 of action.
This weekend will be Towns’ second un-official visit to Duke since August, which seemingly puts the Blue Devils in an ideal starting position to court the New Jersey product in the coming years.
Getting these four highly touted pros-pects to visit Friday night promises to be a pivotal step in the recruitment of each.
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This will be the Crazies only chance this season to see Rodney Hood, who is redshirting after transferring.
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This was not how it was supposed to end. For the seven Blue Devils recognized on senior night, this final conference game was supposed to be Duke’s first win against No. 7 North Carolina since 2005.
But a goal early in each half by the Tar Heels condemned the No. 6 Blue Devils
to a 2-0 loss at home against their To-bacco Road rivals. North Carolina (9-3-4, 5-2-1 in the ACC)
has never lost at Koskinen Stadium.“I’ll take the blame on this myself. I
didn’t inspire my team like Carolina. I thought Carolina was much more inspired. They played much harder. I thought the best team won today’s game,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “Our seniors played extremely hard, but some of our kids didn’t play as well as we’re capable of playing. My job is to get them to play at the highest level that they’re able to, and today we didn’t play at that level.”
Although Laura Weinberg, the ACC’s leading scorer, was on the bench with all seven members of the senior class starting the game, the Blue Devils (11-4-2, 5-3-2) came out controlling the possession early in the game. Redshirt Junior Callie Simp-kins, who started after being honored as part of the senior class, had Duke’s first shot but her header was easily claimed by Tar Heel goalkeeper Adelaide Gay. In the
10th minute, however, North Carolina had the game’s first breakthrough.
On a counterattack, the Tar Heels’ Ka-tie Bowen broke down the right flank, and she was able to put in a cross towards the center of the box. Maria Lubrano beat her defender to the ball and laid if off to Meg Morris, who strode up to rifle the ball into the bottom corner of the Blue Devil goal with Tara Campbell well beaten.
“They got the goal against the run of play, and Meg did a great job. She took it and finished it very well,” Church said.
After that, North Carolina pressured Duke and stopped the Blue Devils from playing their possession game. The Tar Heels’ speed posed a threat on the break throughout the game, yet most of North Carolina’s nine shots in the first half were from distance. The Blue Devils would not register another shot in the period.
Duke had a strong penalty claim turned down soon after Morris’ goal, but the shouts for a handball were disregarded by
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The Blue Devils are back in Durham for the rest of the season, and it couldn’t come at a better time.
The No. 24 Blue Devils (6-9, 0-4) will face the California Golden Bears (5-7) in their second-to-last game of the season
Friday at Jack Katz Stadium.
“We’re looking forward to returning home after a couple of weeks on the road,” head coach Pam Bus-tin said. “We’ve been playing some good hockey. Now we really just need to put it all
together so we can get the result we want.”The result Duke is looking for—postseason
play—has a greater chance at coming to frui-tion now that they are playing on home turf.
The Blue Devils face the Golden Bears after splitting games against James Madi-son and Old Dominion last weekend. After beating James Madison 1-0 on sophomore forward Martine Chichizola’s first goal of the season, Duke fell to the Lady Monarchs 3-2 in a tight contest. Despite the split weekend and tough loss to Old Dominion, Bustin emphasized that the Blue Devils are ready to build on the “good hockey” they have been playing as of late.
“We’ve had some moments of great stuff,” Bustin said. “But we really need to lock down the things we’ve been working on in practice and bring [them] into the com-petition and into the match this weekend.”
The Golden Bears travel to Durham after
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Much of the hype surrounding Count-down to Craziness this weekend centers on the four elite men’s basketball recruits visit-ing Duke for the festivities. But they will be joined by four of the top women’s basket-ball recruits, who will soak in some of the crazy Friday night.
Class of 2013 recruits Oderah Chidom and Kianna Holland will make their way down to Durham and will be joined by 2014 prospects Brianna Turner and Azura Ste-vens. Holland, a 5-foot-9 point guard and the No. 22 recruit in the nation according to ESPN, has already verbally committed to the Blue Devils, and is joined in the class by Rebecca Greenwell.
Chidom, the nation’s No. 10 recruit, is a 6-foot-3 forward from California touted for her ability to effortlessly run the floor and finish near the hoop. This will be her official visit.
But the gem of the weekend might be cur-rent high school junior Turner, the No. 2 re-cruit in her class. Another 6-foot-3 forward, she is visiting unofficially and is thought to have the highest upside in the class of 2014 due to her length, strength and speed.
Stevens, also making an unofficial visit, is the tallest of the players visiting at 6-foot-5, and is from nearby Cary, N.C.
splitting games against Pacific last weekend. In a 5-0 win Friday, freshman goalkeeper Jo-elle van Hoorn notched her fourth shutout of the season, while sophomore midfielder Lara Kruggel scored all five goals. California played Pacific again Sunday, falling 2-1 on Kruggel’s sixth goal of the weekend. Krug-gel leads California with 15 goals on the season—11 more than any other Golden Bear—and was named last week’s NorPac West Offensive Player of the Week.
“California will be a great matchup,” Bustin said. “They have some newcomers on their team, and they’re starting to find their rhythm as well.”
Duke will counter with sophomore goal-keeper Lauren Blazing, who notched her
first shutout of the season last Friday. In five games since returning from the Junior Pan-American Games, Blazing has only given up more than two goals once, when she gave up three against Old Dominion last Sunday. History appears to be on the Blue Devils’ side as well—Duke holds an 85-9-4 record against NorPac opponents, and has beaten the Golden Bears each of the three times the teams have faced each other in the past.
“We need to make sure we stay alert as a team,” Bustin said. “We need to be aware as to what we need to adjust and what we need to continue to do in order to secure the win. I really think this will be a great game and a great opportunity to earn a win at home this weekend.”
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“Midnight Madness is something that Duke makes a prior-ity,” Telep said. “And it’s worked well for them in the past.”
Recruits and fans alike will have much to look forward to Friday night. The intra-squad scrimmage will be the first and only chance this season to see Rodney Hood, who transferred to Duke from Mississippi State this sum-mer and will be forced to sit out the 2012-13 season due to NCAA transfer rules.
Additionally, freshmen Rasheed Sulaimon and Amile Jefferson will make their career debuts. After redshirting last year, Alex Murphy is another player that the Blue Devil
faithful is anxious to see in action. And the Cameron Cra-zies will get their first glimpse of a healthy Quinn Cook at the starting point guard position.
After suffering a stress fracture in the second left metatarsal of his left foot last week, Marshall Plumlee remains in a walk-ing boot and will not play in the scrimmage. Senior guard Seth Curry, who is dealing with a leg injury, will be limited.
As a fanfare spectacle, Countdown to Craziness will like-ly have little, if any, influence on the outcome of this sea-son for the Blue Devils. It does, however, provide quality entertainment, dunks galore and the celebration of a new season. And even though tonight’s event may not impact hanging banners in Cameron Indoor Stadium this season, it could very well do so in years to come.
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Looking to rebound after a tough loss to Wake For-est Tuesday, Duke faces two ACC opponents on the road this weekend.
The Blue Devils (11-10, 2-7 in the ACC) will face Vir-ginia (6-14, 0-9) Friday at Memorial Gymnasium before taking on Virginia Tech (11-8, 4-5) Saturday at Cassell Coliseum.
Although Duke has struggled in ACC play this sea-son, the team has experienced much success against both Virginia and Virginia Tech in recent memory. The Blue Devils have won 13 straight matches against the Cavaliers dating back to October 2005 and are 24-2 all-time against the Hokies.
Virginia snapped an eight-match losing streak Tues-day with a 3-2 victory against James Madison. The Cava-lier attack is led by junior Tori Janowski, who has re-corded a team-high 177 kills on the season. To counter, Duke will rely on the defensive prowess of libero Ali McCurdy, who is the ACC’s leader in digs and totaled 27 in Tuesday’s loss to Wake Forest.
The Hokies have cooled down considerably since their 11-4 start, dropping four consecutive matches in ACC play. They will face Wake Forest Friday before taking on the Blue Devils. Virginia Tech will rely heav-ily on sophomore middle blocker Kathryn Caine, who ranks third in the ACC with a .420 hitting percentage.
Following the road trip, Duke will return to Cam-eron Indoor Stadium next weekend for home matches with in-state rivals North Carolina and N.C. State Fri-day and Saturday.
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The No. 6 Blue Devils (11-4-1) will look to bounce back from a disappointing senior night loss in their final game of the season against non-conference opponent Francis Marion (6-8-1) 2 p.m. Sunday at Koskinen Stadium.
The Patriots are winless on the road and the break from the grueling ACC schedule will allow Duke to build some confidence and momentum in antici-pation of the conference tournament the following week.
This non-conference match is late in the season due to the Blue Devils’ con-secutive byes at the end of the regular season conference schedule.
Although this game will not affect Duke’s seeding in the conference tournament, the Blue Devils cannot afford anoth-er loss, especially one against an unranked opponent, if they hope for a high seed in the NCAA tournament. Duke’s previ-ous losses have all been against ranked teams.
Francis Marion has scored a mere 25 goals this season, just over half of Duke’s 48 goals for 2012. The Patriots are led by Elizabeth Asare and Yasmin Bunter with six goals each. Francis
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Laura Weinberg, the ACC’s leading scorer, will look to get the Duke of-fense back on track after a scoreless output against North Carolina.
Marion also has conceded 32 goals compared to the 23 that the Blue Devils have let in.
After the loss on her senior night, Blue Devil forward Kim DeCesare spoke of how the emotions after the game against the Tar Heels will light a fire under the team and they will come out stronger in future games. Francis Marion may be a chance for Duke to take out its frustrations.
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Rugg, who leads the Eagles in goals and points with five and 14, respectively, will be the focal point of Duke’s defense.
Sebastien Ibeagha and freshman defender Zach Mathers have combined for five goals and five assists, bringing offense from the defensive end. Mathers is the only Duke player to play every minute of the season.
Duke has a perfect record this season when scoring two goals in a game as compared to scoring just one with a record of 1-4-0. For Duke to score more than one goal, the front line will need to improve, which could happen with the return of freshman forward Luis Rendon to the lineup.
The Blue Devils have relied on strong play in set pieces to score. Duke has scored five goals off corner kicks this season due to strong service from players such as Mathers and mid-fielder Ryan Thompson. The Blue Devils will look to diversify their offensive repertoire to beat Eagle keeper Justin Luthy, who has four shutouts.
The Blue Devils were able to control possession against Presbyterian and tally 23 shots throughout the game. Defender Alex Saucuic netted his first career goal in the game, helping Duke rebound from a 2-1 loss to the top-ranked Terrapins.
referee Andrew Chapin.“There’s no question it was [a
handball],” Church said. “The refs have a tough job, they have to make a quick judgment…. It would have been nice to have that opportunity, but we didn’t get the call. There was still a lot of time left on the clock. That didn’t cost us the game.”
The second half began with a tacti-cal change from the Blue Devils, play-ing both Kelly Cobb and Kim DeCesare at the forward positions. This change produced more shots in the half, but quality chances were few for Duke.
With eight minutes played in the second half, the Tar Heels doubled their lead. A lofted free kick from the center of the field was not cleared by the Blue Devils and Summer Green centered the ball from the goal line
for Kealia Ohai to tap in.“I think they really exposed our
weaknesses: they spread us apart, they got between us and they were able to finish the few chances that they had,” redshirt junior Kim DeCesare said. “We both had few chances but with them being able to finish those chances and us not really creating enough was how they got to us.”
At that point, Duke went on the offensive in search for that first goal to get back in the game, but the Tar Heel defense held firm to deliver Duke its third blank sheet of the sea-son. It was also the first time the Blue Devils have been outshot this year.
“I didn’t think we were really dangerous. I didn’t see a lot of ex-plosiveness in some of our players especially on the attack. I thought we slowed it down instead of re-ally going at them when we had a chance to. It’s a disappointing per-
formance. I’m disappointed in my-self, not getting our team to play at the level we’re capable of playing,” Church said. “The bottom line is that when we play a team like this we’ve got to be motivated and we’ve got to play better.”
The result drops Duke out of a certain home game in the ACC tour-nament quarterfinals, and the Blue Devils now wait for the remainder of the league to complete their confer-ence schedules to find out their seed-ing in the conference tournament.
“We never want to feel like this again. So with that in mind we’re go-ing to come out for every game that much harder. Every loss I think adds a little to the edge we have on us,” DeCesare said. “We played tough to-day, we played hard but there are still things that we need to do better in order to come out and win the ACC tournament.”
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At my parents’ wedding, my father pulled a pair of blue and white, polka-dotted boxer shorts out from under my mother’s dress
instead of a garter.They are an amorous combination of all the
beautiful things from northern New Jersey and Long Island—an ideal amalgamation of assertiveness and jest. They are supportive and forgiv-ing, as my brothers and I have dili-gently and sometimes mistakenly tested. They loved us even when Dan got ejected from an Amateur Athletic Union baseball game for launching a helmet into the dug-out. They loved us even when they found a tattoo on Chris’ bicep as we prepared dinner one Christmas Eve. They loved us even when my brother tackled me through our basement wall.
When I was growing up, I was a fraction of this family, a part of the whole. I was in both the fore-ground and background, sometimes by choice and sometimes by default. But no matter the circum-stance, we always assumed a certain togetherness that I naively understood as a matter of default.
My parents’ near-impeccable grip on reality and distinctly optimistic demeanor seem entirely natural—an innate and uncomplicated vision of the world that is unwavering in its positivity and clear in separating the petty from the profound. They constantly remind me to put my concerns in perspective, challenging me to distinguish the things in my life that will continue to matter from those worth leaving to collect dust. Their percep-tion of me is a better evaluation than my own. They have an uncanny and all-too-uncommon ca-pacity to enjoy life and ensure that those they are surrounded by do the same.
But what has constructed the optimistic vision my parents are so adamant about sharing was not a life of handouts or unparalleled privilege. There wasn’t ever the slightest rose-colored tint to their glasses. They were tested and tried. They were forced to determine matters of import from those of excess, and it is oft a challenge to imagine how they did. I imagine myself in their shoes—in a pair of my mom’s loafers or my dad’s perfectly polished patrol boots from his career with the New Jersey State Police. I couldn’t do what they do, and I couldn’t do what they’ve done. Of this I am sure.
My mother was married in a beautiful and tra-ditional white gown to a man she loved dearly. Soon after, two would become three with the birth of their fi rst son, Christopher Wayne. It was 1983, and her future plans were as big as her fashionably
styled hair. She was elated and she was eager. And then, she was a widow.
It is almost unfathomable to envision my mother in the wake of tragedy. She is an impec-cable 5-feet-7-inch combination of strength and
compassion. She became a single mother who did not waste a mo-ment lamenting the unsanctity and unfairness of human life. She did not have to love again, but she did have to live. And in her characteris-tic and unquestioning morality, she did both.
My father is a member of the 95th Class of the New Jersey State Police Academy, donning a badged uniform of blue and gold through
his 25 years on the force until he retired as a lieutenant. He worked days, sometimes nights or overtime or weekends or holidays. His commit-ment to honor, duty and fi delity has overfl owed into our home, and his ability to meet and love my mother and the son she had been raising is a testament to his exuberance. He is built of sheer grit and muscle, hardened by his career and what he’s witnessed—but he is softened and lighthearted from it just the same. He too has ex-perienced an inability to control the ways of the world. He lost a brother to cancer in his youth and both parents to the same in due time. My parents have been forced to face fate in unfavor-able ways, but have been remarkably united by the same power.
Fate might form family, but family isn’t fueled by fate. Family takes work and trust and a pragmat-ic approach to reality. I struggle to wipe away the proverbial sweat from the small stuff that I contin-uously embroil myself in, and I often lack even the tiniest measure of sense. Breakups. Breakdowns. Minor falsehoods, failures, faults and malfunc-tions. The overarching, ever-present truth exists in the miniscule impression of these inconsequential instances down the long road. More than anything we must remember not to live, but to be alive.
From outside the fi shbowl, my family and pre-sumably many, many others seem untouched by tragedy and bound by an assumed and uncontest-ed understanding, but this is often merely half of the story. Those with the greatest grip on reality today are the ones who had to face it in days past, learning that moments of hardship are merely moments, and there is an innumerable lifetime of moments worth living for beyond those.
Ashley Camano is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday. You can follow Ashley on Twitter @camano4chron.
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Registering for classes might not be the most excit-ing aspect of the Duke expe-rience, but it is certainly the most ubiquitous. Every stu-dent utilizes the same ACES site to pre-se-lect and then register for classes every semester. While the process generally func-tions smoothly, a few small tweaks to the way courses are listed and the ACES interface would benefi t both profes-sors and students.
Currently, there are sever-al sources of confusion with ACES registration. First, a re-confi gured course number-ing system is disorienting for upperclassmen used to the old system. Also, course titles, often creatively worded to at-tract more students, often do
not refl ect the course’s true content. And although the drop/add period allows for some fl exibility, realistically the signifi cant workload of Duke courses right off the
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many of the most popular courses mean many sched-ules do not deviate far from what was selected during bookbagging.
ACES does provide some means of circumventing this information defi cit in the form of student evaluations and links to professors’ syn-opses and syllabi. However, as we have discussed previously, the utility of student evalua-tions as currently confi gured is limited, and many profes-sors do not take advantage
of the opportunity to post information about their own courses.
This latter omission is par-ticularly problematic. In an ideal world, students would be able to access both a syl-labus for the course and a synopsis—written by the professor in his or her own words—prior to registration. This lack of information makes it especially diffi cult for students to fi nd classes that match both their intel-lectual interests while fi tting within the greater framework of their schedule.
Students enrolling in courses that in content drift far from their expectations may lose interest in the mate-rial, detracting from the pro-fessor’s ability to maintain in-tellectual engagement. When
there is a chasm between the student’s expectations of the course and the reality, profes-sors are faced with unneces-sary complaints and students who feel overburdened or under-challenged. Students implicated in the cheating scandal at Harvard during this past year cited their mis-perception of their course’s diffi culty as motivating their decision to cheat—an ex-treme scenario to be sure, but refl ective of how precon-ceptions inform the way stu-dents engage with the classes they register for.
Professors may not be able to post a syllabus that will be accurate for a course they will be teaching but are still adjusting. But it is in the interest of both professors and students for a synopsis
written by the professor to be made available. In the in-terests of fostering the best academic experiences for all, ACES should include a standardized form on ev-ery course page, with space for the professor to outline content, expectations, struc-ture, workload and grading. Completion of this form should be mandatory before the course is made available for registration. Ideally, this would be supplemented by a paragraph or two written by the professor describing the intellectual purpose of the class. At the very least, the presence of this informa-tion for every class will give students the broad contours necessary to direct their course selection and position their expectations.
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It’s been years since I’ve done it, and yet I can re-member it like it was yesterday. The paper. The pen-cil. The dots.
I am talking about connect the dots, the game that was the staple of my obsessive-compulsive childhood. For me, there was nothing more satisfying than sitting down with a warm glass of milk, adjusting my perpetu-ally lopsided glasses, and opening up my big book of connect-the-dot games. I would carefully lead my pencil from numbered dot to numbered dot until the jumble of dots turned into a beautifully outlined im-age ready to be colored in. Chaos into order. Life was a simple and lovely thing.
As I’ve grown up, I’ve realized a few disappoint-ing things that frustrate my inner control freak. First, life is kind of unpredictable. Second, I am not psychic (though … really I am). And third, I can’t control other people’s thoughts and beliefs (but I sure can try! Mua-haha).
In all seriousness, it makes me extremely uncomfort-able not knowing how my life will play out based on cer-tain decisions that I make. I’d love it if someone could just tell me how my life will be affected by my choices. There are so many potential realities, and my decisions and actions determine which diverging path I take. Will I be a famous author? Will I be a hobo? Will I take the right path? Make the right choice? So. Much. Anxiety.
So by now we’ve established a couple of things: I have control issues, and life is a foggy abyss that we must constantly navigate using only a match. That’s depress-ing, and this is supposed to be a column on happiness. Worry not, I’m getting to it.
In 2005, Steve Jobs delivered an excellent and in-spiring commencement speech at Stanford University (available on YouTube). In it, he gave graduates several valuable suggestions for navigating the abyss that is life. The piece of advice that resonated most with me was his analogy of a game of connect the dots. He said that it is impossible to connect the dots of life looking forward; you can only connect the dots looking retrospectively. It is only through this lens that we are able to see how all the dots—or events, choices, actions, etc.—connect-ed perfectly to lead us to where we are today.
In Mr. Job’s speech, he gave an example of how this idea applied to his own life. When he was in college, he randomly took a calligraphy class out of sheer curios-ity. Because of this class, he was able to have an eye for aesthetically pleasing fonts that he later applied to his Apple computers.
It may be too early to connect too many dots at this point in my life, but I can see how making good grades in high school allowed me to be accepted to this school, or how taking an interesting English class last year led me to enroll in a similar class this semester.
People are even better dot connectors. How many times have you thought about the fact that if you had never met a certain person, you may not have met one of your best friends? Well, think about it. It’s nuts.
The answer to making the best possible choices that result in the best possible outcomes lies not in our abil-ity to be great planners, but in our ability to listen to our intuitions and act on them. No amount of planning in the world will guarantee a certain reality. Sometimes, things are just out of our control (and trust me, that statement gives me the heebie-jeebies more than any-one). All we can do is make decisions based on what our gut tells us is the right thing for us as individuals, and then just trust that all those choices made through intuition will lead to something great. Someday, we’ll get to play a giant connect the dots game with our lives and see how everything built upon each other in just the right way at just the right time to bring us to the present moment. I can’t wait!
And to borrow a bit of wisdom from one of my favor-ite Pinterest quotations: Everything turns out okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
Addie Navarro is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.
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lettertotheeditorNov. 6 is coming
Despite the fevered pitch at which it seems all campaigns have been running for a year now, the election is actually coming. Soon. That also means all of the associated deadlines are com-ing too. I consider myself a political student, and I have been following the contests since the beginning of the Republican nomination pro-cess. I’ve also followed the debates about voter identification, but I did not realize I might be affected.
My first taste of this came when I returned from my DukeEngage project and found a new voter’s registration card on my dresser. My mom explained that Florida, my home state, had cleared the voter rolls and re-registered me. Then last week, I went online to order my ab-sentee ballot. After filling out the online form, an error message appeared on my screen saying that my voter’s registration could not be found. I was holding my two-month-old card, and read-ing a message telling me I was not registered. The whole process to correct the mistake took
five days, and as it turns out, I was, in fact, still registered to vote.
To be sure, Florida is not known for having a stellar electoral system, but voting laws and policies are changing throughout the country. The current climate is bad enough that my high school architecture teacher sent out an email encouraging all of his former students to vote, included relevant deadlines, and advised stu-dents to update their registrations if they have had any changes of address or names. He closed the email encouraging us to ask him any ques-tions we may have.
In a Sept. 27 article for Towerview, it was reported that 36 percent of 18- to 30-year-old voters polled responded that they were “very ex-cited” about voting in the upcoming election. Please visit your county’s Board of Elections website to find out about relevant deadlines. No matter how, or where, you plan to vote, vote.
Sarah BartlesonTrinity ’13
When I was growing up, I spent a large part of my summers glued to the chair in front of the TV, anxious to catch up on all the
quality American programming I missed during the school year. My interests were confined mostly to Nickelodeon, when it had “Leg-ends of the Hidden Temple,” “All That” and “Kenan and Kel”—back when it was actually, you know, good. Occasionally, my focus would stray to the Tour de France, and I would end up watching a stage or two. This wasn’t because of any great love for cycling or the French countryside, but because I had heard about this guy named Lance Armstrong who had beaten cancer and then came back to win the Tour again and again. I watched the Tour to watch him dominate. He was an inspiring figure. He was someone to look up to.
This week, Armstrong’s contract with Nike, which had lasted more than a decade, was terminat-ed. (Nike is actually only one of over half a dozen sponsors that have dropped Armstrong in the past week.) Additionally, Armstrong stepped down as the chair of Livestrong, the cancer foundation that has raised about half a billion dollars for cancer research. His departure came in the wake of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s disclosure of evidence implicating Armstrong in the use of performance enhancing drugs during all seven of the Tours that he won. Although Armstrong denies ever having cheated, he has already been stripped of his Tour titles and his name has joined the lengthy and igno-minious list of professional cyclists who used drugs to get ahead in their sport. One example of how prevalent cheating is in cycling: Tour officials are unsure which racers they can present Armstrong’s vacated titles to, as nearly all of the seven runners-up to Armstrong during his championship run had inspired suspicions of drug scandals of their own.
To be honest, I can’t say I was surprised. In the past few years, I’ve seen numerous professional athletes exposed as cheaters. To say that the use of performance enhancing drugs isn’t a part of our sports culture is to deny the reality of the world we live in. Heroes become villains overnight. Legacies become tarnished forever.
As a kid, I never really expected my heroes to let me down. The athletes I saw on TV and the stars that I saw in movies seemed like the coolest people ever. I always had the expectation that they were too noble, too skilled, too good to fall victim to the temptations and flaws that undermine normal
people. As time passed and I grew older, that ex-pectation faded into a hope that they wouldn’t dis-appoint me, even though I had a nagging fear that they eventually would.
My favorite athlete growing up was Michael Jor-dan, a choice I’m sure was shared by many other children of the ’90s. I knew he didn’t have the greatest personality, but I was willing to over-look it because of his incredible, in-imitable skills. But when he used his Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech as an opportunity to call out everyone who had ever wronged him, mock his own children for their in-ability to live up to his legend and ex-pose his insatiable ego to the world,
the nagging fear in my mind was realized. His tran-scendence on the basketball court was no longer enough to hide his personal shortcomings.
I hoped that Armstrong would be different. I hoped that this man who had suffered from cancer was actually able to be a clean champion in argu-ably the dirtiest sport in the world. It wasn’t easy to accept the truth that finally emerged, but there was no point in denying it either. It’s true that he has made an undeniable impact in the fight against cancer, but it’s also true that his efforts were due in part to things other than his own blood, sweat and tears.
Luckily, my heroes aren’t limited to the people I read about on ESPN or watch on “SportsCenter.” I try my best not to forget about the people that make my life better on a daily basis just by being who they are, like my parents, my siblings and my friends. Those are the types of people worth look-ing up to, and luckily we all have them in our lives, despite what we may occasionally think. Our fami-lies and friends and other normal, unassuming people we encounter who do great things are just as worthy of being put on the pedestals that ath-letes and celebrities currently occupy, if not more so. Lance Armstrong let a lot of people down, in-cluding me. But maybe this was just another sign that it’s time to stop looking to people like him to be our heroes. As kids, we didn’t know any better than to watch him race and marvel without ques-tioning how he did it. Now, as adults, we have the power to make sure that the people that we look up to actually deserve our admiration.
Jordan Siedell is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday. You can follow Jordan on Twitter @JSiedell.
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teams can’t say that. We know that we still have a very good team. We had a minor setback but we need to come back this weekend and take it to North Carolina.”
The Bell has found a comfortable home in Chapel Hill in recent memory—the Blue Devils (5-2, 2-1 in the ACC) have not defeated the Tar Heels (5-2, 2-1) since 2003, which is the only Duke victory in the teams’ past 22 matchups.
“When you play a team as talented as North Carolina you are going to have to play extremely well fundamentally or they’ll make you look bad quickly. You have to block, you have to tackle, you have to do the little things because they have some great weapons on offense and some outstanding talent on defense,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “It’s a big game. It’s a big game to our players and I’m sure that it more than likely is to theirs as well.”
After being burned for four touch-downs of 40 yards or more against Virgin-ia Tech, the Blue Devil defensive unit will be wary of North Carolina’s quick-strike capabilities on offense. As always, the Tar Heels are a threat to score through the air behind the play of junior quarterback Bryn Renner, who has thrown 15 touch-downs and just five interceptions through seven games.
But the biggest addition to the North Carolina offense has been the emergence of the running game behind sophomore running back Giovani Bernard. He is the ACC’s leading rusher this season despite missing two games due to injury, averag-ing 130.4 rushing yards per game. He has rushed for seven touchdowns this season, adding two scores on receptions.
Bernard is undoubtedly the key to the
Tar Heel offense—they are 5-0 when their star tailback plays and 0-2 without him. He was instrumental for North Carolina in its past two conference wins against Virginia Tech and Miami, notching 50 carries for 439 yards and three touch-downs. Bernard will be priority number one for the Duke defense, which allowed true freshman J.C. Coleman to run for 183 yards and two scores last week in its
worst performance of the season.“He’s definitely somebody we have to
prepare for. He’s a great back, power-ful and a good runner. But we’re going to have some answers for him,” Anunike said. “The defensive line‚if we secure our gaps and the secondary is where they need to be—we can make sure we have a handle on him and help us win that game.”
Duke and North Carolina have been
squaring off on the gridiron since 1888—back when Duke was Trinity College—but the teams are not used to battling for the Vic-tory Bell this early in the season. Saturday’s matchup marks the 99th meeting between the two schools, but is just the fourth time since 1965 the game has been played before the season’s final weekend. This weekend’s game is the earliest in the season the Blue Devils have faced the Tar Heels since 1926.
Although many ACC coaches have voiced that they prefer rivalry games to be played out in the season’s final week, Cutcliffe welcomes this year’s scheduling change. Playing the game before the fi-nal week of the season, which takes place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, allows Duke students to attend the game against its fiercest rival.
“I know that traditionalists don’t like that, but I’m all about getting an oppor-tunity to play in front of a home crowd,” Cutcliffe said. “I really don’t care what weekend we play. There’s going to be other good things that happen Thanks-giving weekend.”
Cutcliffe hopes the intensity of the rivalry, combined with the Blue Devils’ opportunity to become bowl eligible on their home turf, will create an electric home atmosphere for a difficult confer-ence tilt. The coach hopes a bounceback performance coupled with the home crowd’s energy will bring the Blue Dev-ils their first home victory against North Carolina since 1988.
“We’re looking forward to being back home in Wallace Wade,” Cutcliffe said. “I would expect we have an outstanding crowd and with circumstances like they are, I’m looking forward to our students seeing their first North Carolina-Duke game. I want to see them come out in big numbers and would love to see a lot of Duke blue in the stadium.”
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North Carolina has beaten Duke 21 of the last 22 meetings, including a 37-21 win in Chapel Hill last year.
