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After scoring Duke’s final eight points in the win against Louisville, Quinn Cook was named the Battle 4 Atlantis Most Outstanding Player.

Pitchfork Provisions toserve alcohol

by Maggie SpiniTHE CHRONICLE

Beer and wine will soon flow more freely in the basement of McClendon Tower.

The 24-hour restaurant Pitchfork Pro-visions will begin serving beer and wine within the next few days, said co-owner Sam Clowney, who is also co-owner of Bella Union and La Dolce Vita and a partner at the Faculty Commons. In doing so, it will become the sixth on-campus facility to serve alcohol.

Clowney said that even though he and co-owner Chris Holloway want food to be the focal point of their restaurant, they have planned to serve alcohol since Pitchfork Pro-visions’ Fall 2011 opening. The process was slowed by “hoops” they had to jump through in order to secure a license from the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Com-mission, but University administrators have always been supportive of the idea.

“If serving beer and wine can supple-ment the experience here on campus, we’re all for it,” Clowney added.

The owners will initially offer a selec-tion of two or three brands of beer, in ad-dition to one red and one white wine in what Clowney calls a “soft opening.” Selec-tions will be based on a survey that has been distributed at the restaurant since before

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Same person, different uniformJunior Ashley Brigham is both a cadet and a cheerleader

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Junior Ashley Brigham lives a split life—spending half her time as a Duke Cheerlead-er and the rest training with Army ROTC.

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The Robertson Scholars program will discontinue its free bus service between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effec-tive next semester.

According to an email sent to the Robertson Scholars Wednesday, the Robertson Express Bus will begin charg-ing $2.50 for a one-way ticket starting January 7, 2013. The change comes in response to a shift in operator from Duke Transit to Triangle Transit. Students will still be able to ride for free if they present a GoPass.

Robertson Scholars will be

given GoPasses by the schol-arship program. All Duke students are eligible to apply for a free GoPass through the Duke Parking and Transpor-tation offices. UNC students who are eligible registrants of the Commuter Alternatives Program can also receive a free GoPass.

The Robertson Scholars website describes the bus, which runs half-hourly, as a resource “for all university af-filiates, encouraging them to take full advantage of the edu-cational, cultural and social offerings of both campus com-munities.”

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Junior Ashley Brigham wears two different uniforms—one with combat boots, the other with pompoms.

Brigham trains with Army ROTC in the mornings and heads to cheerleading practice at the end of the day. Brigham came to Duke on the ROTC scholar-ship, but did not know she would cheer for the Blue Devils until af-ter she arrived.

“It’s extremely interesting to have two groups of friends who are so different and share a lot in common with them,” Brigham said.

Brigham said the most valu-able aspect of both ROTC and

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by Tom GierynTHE CHRONICLE

NASSAU, Bahamas—“A leader has to look strong before he is strong.”

Those were the words of Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski late Saturday night, as he discussed sophomore point guard Quinn Cook Saturday night.

Cook played as strong as he looked in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis, scoring the final eight points against Louisville to claim a 76-71 vic-tory and the Blue Devils’ sixth straight November tournament title.

Cook, named the tournament’s most outstanding player, finished with 15 points and six assists on the night, but none were more crucial than a high-arching floater in the lane with 29 seconds on the clock to give Duke a late two-possession lead against the Cardinals.

“Everyone talks about a kid get-ting confidence,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s when a team has confidence in its point guard that you can take off. This team has great confidence in Quinn, and he’s earned it. And they’ve been very vocal about it.”

The floater was one of several clutch shots down the stretch that the Blue Devils (6-0) made, in what became a hallmark of Duke’s championship weekend. Although the Blue Devils

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Central Campus will undergo a makeover this summer that could make the apartments more attrac-tive to students.

University administrators have begun planning the final stages of Central Campus renovations, which began four years ago. Although the proposal previously incorporated the additions of non-residential structures, such as Devil’s Bistro and Mill Village, the continuation of the final plan will focus on the apartments themselves, noted Joe Gonzalez, dean for residential life. The plans include refurbishing the kitchens and bathrooms, as well as replacing the carpet flooring with wood laminate.

Currently, residential buildings are comprised mostly of doubles or singles, but Gonzalez said the Uni-versity is also considering a design that would more evenly distribute both types of rooms across build-ings.

He added that he hopes the im-proved living spaces will encourage upperclassmen to live with their selective living groups, fraternities and sororities until graduation.

“Sophomores would have the double rooms, juniors and seniors would get the [single rooms] and people would want to stay in their houses,” Gonzalez said. “[Students]

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Black Friday sales go up 13 percent

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American shoppers spent 13 percent more during the four-day Thanksgiving weekend from last year, heading to stores and jump-ing online to push Black Friday be-yond a one-day extravaganza.

Spending rose to $59.1 billion from $52.4 billion last year, the National Retail Federation said in a statement. The jump occurred even as Chicago-based researcher ShopperTrak observed a 1.8 per-cent decline in sales on Black Friday, the traditional start to the shopping season.

Retailers have turned Black Friday into a week’s worth of deals and discounts, with ever-ear-lier openings and online offers. Thanksgiving Day, once reserved for family gatherings, saw more than 35 million shoppers buying in stores and online, up from 29 million last year, the NRF said. Even so-called Cyber Monday is losing its distinction, with Best Buy and J.C. Penney starting some web-based deals on Sunday.

“Retailers have now integrated the entire shopping experience,” Matt Shay, president and chief ex-ecutive officer of the NRF, said on a conference call Sunday. “Every day is Cyber Monday. Every day is Black Friday.”

Customers spent $423 on aver-

age this weekend, up 6.3 percent from last year, the Washington, D.C.-based NRF said. The 13 per-cent jump in total spending sug-gests some sales may have been pulled from December and that retailers will have to keep up the promotions to avoid a lull.

“Retailers are going to have to get creative, such as price discounts or special events, to keep the cus-tomer engaged,” Patricia Edwards, chief investment officer for Bel-levue, Washington-based Trutina Financial, said by telephone. Her firm owns Wal-Mart and Starbucks among more than $300 million in assets.

Online shopping on Black Fri-day rose 26 percent to exceed $1 billion for the first time, research firm ComScore said Sunday. On-line sales rose 16 percent in the first 23 days of November to $13.7 billion, with sales on Thanksgiving Day itself increasing 32 percent to $633 million.

The NRF said Sunday it may revise its forecast for the season once more is known about wheth-er the U.S. Congress will avert the so-called fiscal cliff of budget cuts and tax rate changes set to take place in 2013. It predicts holiday sales, including online, will rise 4.1 percent to about $586.1 billion this year, compared with a 5.6 per-cent gain in 2011.

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But it remains uncertain whether these renovations will af-fect students’ perceptions of Cen-tral. Sophomore Catherine Henry noted that any freshmen who may have been discouraged from join-ing an SLG because of its Central Campus housing would likely not change their minds due to the renovations.

“I doubt that the improve-ments will alter people’s deci-

sions,” Henry wrote in an email Nov. 14.

She added, however, that it will be good to see some positive changes. Current residents have voiced concerns about problems they have faced in their apart-ments.

Hannah Colton, a senior in Ubuntu, an SLG on Central, noted that mold has been a sig-nificant issue within her SLG’s

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Hank the Cat’s senate campaign draws few votesby Ben Pershing

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WASHINGTON — Hank the Cat ap-peared to have all the makings of a successful U.S. Senate candidate: a compelling biogra-phy (“born to a single mother living on the streets”), a snazzy website and plenty of free media coverage.

What he didn’t have, aside from opposable thumbs, was a place on the Virginia ballot. So on the advice of his owner, Springfield, Va. freelance photographer Matthew O’Leary, Hank ran as a write-in candidate.

It has never been easy for political hope-fuls, feline or otherwise, to run a successful write-in campaign. But in Virginia’s Fairfax County at least, residents used to be able to get an exact tally of all the names voters penciled onto their ballots. Election officials painstakingly recorded all the names of those real and imagined, from Donald Duck to Darth Vader.

But the county no longer performs that time-consuming ritual. Virginia’s State Board of Elections does not add up how many write-in votes any individual candidates get, nor do other county and city boards. Some don’t record votes for nonhuman or nonexistent candidates.

But a Washington Post review of records from Hank’s own Springfield District, which covers 29 precincts in Fairfax, found that the kitty got at least 13 votes—and possibly 20 more—out of 155 total write-in votes and 54,000 cast overall in the Senate race. Eight of the votes came from Hank’s home precinct— Pohick. (For the record, Democrat Timothy Kaine won the Senate seat and Republican George Allen came in second.)

If Hank got the same 0.0006 percent of the statewide vote that he did in his home dis-trict, which seems unlikely, then he received

roughly 2,000 votes overall. O’Leary origi-nally estimated that Hank might have drawn thousands more.

“We’re still happy with it,” O’Leary said when told of the results in Springfield. “I think it’s great to see that he’s had such sup-port. I also know that supporting Hank and actually writing him in are two different things.”

Although write-ins are considered by some a waste of time, they are also part of a broader, long-standing American tradition of expressing dissent at the ballot box.

In Georgia this year, Charles Darwin re-portedly got 4,000 write-in votes against Rep. Paul C. Broun, a Republican, who made pre-election news by saying that evolution and the big-bang theory were “lies straight from the pit of hell.” In Tennessee, David “None of the Above” Gatchell—his legal name—has run unsuccessfully for several offices.

And in Nevada, voters have the option of choosing a line that says “none of these candidates” on their ballots, despite legal ef-forts by the Republican Party to remove it. That option drew more than 45,000 votes in this year’s Senate contest, in which Sen. Dean Heller, a Republican, defeated Rep. Shelley Berkley, a Democrat, by fewer than 10,000 votes.

Then there was the Maryland man who changed his name to Santa Claus and ran as a write-in for president. He got 625 votes this year.

Some write-in campaigns have been known to work. Anthony Williams won a write-in campaign for the District of Co-lumbia’s Democratic mayoral nomination in 2002. Though he was the incumbent, his campaign had failed to file enough valid sig-natures to make the primary ballot.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, managed

to wage a successful one in the 2010 general election after losing in the Republican prima-ry. Murkowski was helped by the fact that she was the incumbent senator and the daughter of a former governor and senator. Plus, she is an actual human being.

In Fairfax County, election workers are not required to record “invalid” votes (de-scribed on official forms as “None of the above, Mickey Mouse, etc.”) on older optical-scan machines. But some precincts record them anyway, and touch-screen machines do provide a record of whatever voters choose to type in as their choice.

Aside from Hank, retiring Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., got a handful of nods in Springfield. Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Bart Simpson, Scooby-Doo and Mr. Peanut also got votes, as

did rocker Henry Rollins and pop diva Lady Gaga. “Me” was the choice of one voter, while another suggested “Communist.”

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, who is not old enough to serve in the Senate, got two votes, and that was before his four-touchdown performance against the Philadelphia Eagles. Former Redskins quar-terback Joe Theismann also got a Senate vote, while another ex-Redskin signal-caller, Sonny Jurgensen, got one nod for president.

A handful of Virginians cast congressional ballots for politicians from other states (Gary Johnson, Chris Christie) or eras (Theodore Roosevelt). Jesus Christ got at least one vote for president, perhaps in response to a “Vote for Jesus!” petition that circulated online and sup-posedly got more than 2 million signatures.

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cheerleading is the people she is surrounded by. She values the time spent on the road traveling with her cheer teammates and the bonding associated with hours of ROTC training.

Brigham’s friend and cheer teammate Cindy Choi, a junior, said Brigham has demonstrated her commit-ment to both squads.

“She is so giving and loyal to her friends,” Choi said. “She always puts her team’s needs first before her own.”

The army is not something new to the Brigham family. Ashley said her decision to apply for the ROTC scholarship was heavily influenced by her family. Many relatives on her mother’s side have joined the Army, but Brigham said she was inspired most by her cousin who currently serves as a nurse in the Army.

“I applied for the ROTC scholarship before I knew I was applying to Duke,” Brigham said. “I made sure Duke had an ROTC program.”

Brigham made the decision to cheer at Duke dur-ing her first semester of freshman year when she decided she wanted to do more than just ROTC. Although both organizations have large time com-mitments, Brigham said she is able to juggle both be-cause they rarely overlap.

One important skill she has gained from being in-volved in both cheer and ROTC is time management, she said.

“I have to stay on top of things,” Brigham said. “I can’t let anything fall behind.”

If Brigham is ever stressed, her ROTC “battle buddy”—a partner assigned to every soldier in the U.S. Army—Alex Schade has not seen it.

“She’s achieved so much at Duke between cheer and ROTC,” said Schade, a junior. “She’s at the top of our ROTC class, and I admire her.”

After graduation, Brigham is obligated to complete four years each of active and inactive service in the army. She also said she hopes to find time in the future to coach a middle school cheerleading squad.

“She is a much quieter leader than most people think ROTC kids are,” Schade said. “She handles every-thing with grace and poise.”

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The author of the email, Beth Owen, associate di-rector for finance and administration for the Robert-son Scholars Program, could not be reached for com-ment.

The change has not yet been officially communicat-ed to the Duke and UNC communities outside of the Robertson Scholars. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said on Sunday that he had not been informed of the adjustment. Sam Veraldi, director of Parking and Transportation Services, and Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, could not be reached for comment in time for publication.

The bus route’s schedule and stops will remain un-changed.

Students have voiced disappointment in the added fees and how they might affect travel between the cam-puses.

“The entire point of the Robertson bus is to facilitate greater collaboration between two of the best schools in the United States. This doesn’t just hurt some ab-stract vision of collaboration, but it also hurts students, too,” said UNC freshman Joe Calder.

Freshman Hailey Diaz, a North Carolina native, agreed.

“It’s disappointing and prevents me from wanting to use the bus more,” she said. “I have tons of friends at Carolina, and the bus system made it really easy and convenient to visit them and explore Chapel Hill.”

Fedor Kossakovski, a freshman Robertson Scholar at UNC, said the change was understandable but worried that the fees would dampen student exploration.

“It’s so easy to just jump on the bus right now if sud-denly you want or need to go to the other school, so without this consistent and free option many students will have trouble experiencing the other campus as eas-ily as students before them used to,” he said.

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It might be the nature of the fi eld, or maybe just the nature of the curriculum, but studying law feels completely impersonal. Names are fi xed to

the top of each case, but between the courtroom and the casebook, the editors man-age to strip the case clean of every scrap of humanity, leaving nothing more than the bare bones of legally signifi cant facts. Our textbooks pres-ent a condensation of what is im-portant; unnecessary details are jet-tisoned in order to guide students to what matters before the law.

The apparent implication of the dearth of human detail in our books is that those kinds of things are not important in administering the law and therefore, should not be important to us in studying it. In the classroom context, this makes perfect sense. I don’t think I could handle any more details in the cases we read, and learning to distinguish the relevant from the extra gloss helps me think like an objective problem solver. By the time law stu-dents get to exams, we’re supposed to be able to take a complicated real-world problem, strip out everything that doesn’t matter and apply legal principles to the facts that survive the initial gut-ting to come up with an answer.

As I have gotten better at this skill, I began to build a mental wall to block out what isn’t legally important. You can take even the most personal details of a person’s life and try to push them through the gate, but by the time the wall has done its work, each scenario will be edited down to the barest of bones. I didn’t understand how strange this mindset was until I hit a moment when the wall I had built began to fall apart.

Last week I spent a day writing a letter to a man in prison, the client of my team for the Innocence Project. And when I say writing, I don’t mean typ-ing out on a computer. I mean writing out by hand. It might have been that the act of writing out a let-ter felt so personal. It might have been the knowl-edge that the same pages I had before me would be in our client’s hands, in his cell, that made it feel real. But what I think really did it was that the letter, in my handwriting, on paper from my notepad, felt like a tangible little piece of me that was going to go off in the mail to him that would break a little bit of the professional veil that I had expected to hide behind. Thinking I would be a little more real to him made him so much more real to me.

My team has spent all semester working dili-gently on our client’s case, reading court docu-ments and looking at exhibits, listening to inter-views and thumbing through photos … looking for a chink in the armor of a conviction. I’m cer-

tain we could all tell you more about the day of the crime in question than we could about any single day in our own lives. Our client’s life is open before us. Yet, when I turned something that felt

personal over to him, something as simple as a hand-written letter, suddenly I felt the wall between the academic bones of the case and its human element fall apart.

I would urge every student, no matter whether in undergraduate or graduate school, to seek out an experience where they see how their future choices are actually go-ing to impact people. Especially at a school like Duke, where so many stu-

dents will end up in fi elds like banking, consulting and law, where the distance between practice and real people can become so great so easily. Under-standing the human element of your profession will make you a more conscientious practitioner with a better understanding of the responsibility that comes with an education and infl uence.

Don’t just participate in the big-ticket civic en-gagement opportunities on campus like DukeEn-gage, take the time to seek out a position where you are directly involved in the way most people are going to interact with your fi eld. For those con-sidering law, seek out a legal aid or immigrant’s rights project, a teen court program, the Duke In-nocence Project or any number of other programs that focus on the humanity behind the law.

But don’t just do those kinds of programs as a check mark on a list. That isn’t enough for you to get the real benefi t. To really break down the divide between academic thinking and human empathy, you have to take a big step outside your comfort zone. I made it through an entire intern-ship in immigration law, where clients’ most per-sonal information and secrets were laid out before me everyday, without ever breaking through the barrier. I hid behind my status as an intern, com-forted in the knowledge that those more knowl-edgeable than I were responsible for the clients’ welfare. Brave might not be the right word, but be bold enough to take the extra step to think about the things you are trying to solve as human problems, not just academic ones. To be at Duke you are the benefi ciary of incredible privilege, the least you can do with that privilege is to make yourself the most responsible and compassionate practitioner of your skills.

Meredith Jewitt is a fi rst-year law student and the for-mer editorial page editor of The Chronicle. Her column runs every other Monday. You can follow Meredith on Twitter @mljewitt.

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In the Duke Student Gov-ernment meeting on Wednes-day, student leaders took a strong stance opposing any possibility that administrators might eliminate freshman parking on East Campus. Although Duke Parking and Transportation Services has not made any offi -cial statements, the possibility of such a change certainly wor-ries many freshmen who value the convenience and freedom that on-campus parking pro-vides. Given that Duke has fi -nite parking space and a high demand for it, the removal of freshman parking has been discussed by administrators for years. However, before DSG and the larger student body go up in arms, both sides of this complicated policy issue must

be considered.The benefi ts of freshman

parking are real. East Campus parking spaces afford fresh-man immediate and conve-nient transportation. Whether

this transporta-tion is used to explore Dur-

ham, visit local family and friends, pick up groceries or make the long drive home for breaks, parking has signifi cant benefi ts for freshmen. It opens up social opportunities beyond campus, strengthening fi rst-year bonds. It also promotes engagement outside the Duke bubble by facilitating access to service opportunities, local events and performances.

Although the benefi ts of freshman parking are clear, they must be weighed against the real costs. With limited

parking across all campuses, Duke faces pressure from graduate students, staff and faculty who commute to cam-pus. This vehicle overfl ow in-curs a fi nancial burden when Duke is forced to rent satellite parking lots and run shuttles that bring these individuals to campus. In addition, the goals for carbon neutrality in-centivize a reduction in single occupancy vehicles by mak-ing parking less accessible. Furthermore, reduced or eliminated East Campus park-ing does not mean preclude freshmen parking on West or Central campuses.

Freshmen must realize that their current parking situa-tion—often right outside their dorms—is incredibly conve-nient when compared to oth-er schools. For example, at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, freshmen are not allowed to park anywhere on campus. Upperclassmen often have to walk 20 minutes to get to their cars.

In light of all these salient considerations, we must truly weigh the costs and benefi ts of removing freshman parking. Data must be collected. How often do freshmen drive their cars and for what purposes? Does the number of single-occupancy vehicles accurately measure carbon footprint, es-pecially if freshmen primarily use their cars to return home? Could eliminating freshman parking even provide a perma-nent solution to Duke’s park-ing shortage? Perhaps other creative policy solutions could be more effective, from mak-ing cheap satellite parking

spots available to students or increasing the number of We-Cars? Data will help to clarify the tradeoffs at stake. We can offer an informed solution only after collecting and ana-lyzing it.

We must work to thorough-ly understand the East Cam-pus parking situation before we take a strong stance on it. Parking is vitally important to the undergraduate student ex-perience, employee transpor-tation and sustainability goals, and there are important con-siderations on all sides There-fore, we should eschew panic and anger in favor of openness and creativity. DSG should be fl exible in their talks with ad-ministrators as stubborn and one-sided lobbying may risk productive policymaking con-cerning this and future issues.

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It is the editor’s unfortunate duty to inform you that the Grumpy Trustee passed away last night at the age of 68-103, depending on what is dramatically convenient. Re-

ports indicate that he suffered a heart attack upon walking in on his grandson Theodore engaging in a fraternity drinking practice known as “boofi ng.” What follows are excerpts from

his last will and testament.Hello. If you’re read-

ing this, it means that I, the Grumpy Trustee, have de-parted from this good earth, probably because of the so-cialist failure that is Obama-care and/or what my doctor described as a “disturbing, but perversely impressive, array of STIs for a man your age.”

I would beseech the readers of this will to not shed a tear, but I suspect that’s unneces-sary: My column has brought about as much humor to this campus as, hypothetically speaking, a blackout-drunk

14-year-old in a port-o-potty. And oftentimes, I have been equally coherent.

But I have come not to insult myself, but to bury, um, myself. I leave this world much different than I entered it. I have witnessed the fall of European evils like Hitler’s Third Reich, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Satan’s worst creation, ABBA. I also am readily horrifi ed by changes I see everyday, like the ability for women to get abortions readily on their iPhones (if I understand my weekly viewing of Hannity cor-rectly) and socialist expansions of the medical coverage that simultaneously create death panels.

Personally, I have accomplished a tremendous amount. I have received the sacrament of marriage nearly a dozen times, which should be a sure ticket into eternal salvation. I have been president of one of the most profi table consulting fi rms out there (I won’t say which one, but it’s not the one founded by that potato-eater Sean McKinsey), in addition to seeing my investments in **** Energy triple thanks to won-derful, environmental-friendly strategies like fracking.

I have very few regrets. Would I have fancied one more night with any of my prime-numbered wives? Absolutely. Could I have done a better job raising my male children, Ste-ven, Linddorf, Crumholdt and the other two? Possibly. Was my use of pygmies to scuba-dive for uranium off the coast of Nova Scotia unethical? Who’s to say? No man is perfect, and I make no such claim to such a state of grace.

But I suppose I should say something about the Univer-sity that has been at the centre of my life. I’ve always been an ardent supporter of the school’s wiser policies, like the de-facto racial segregation of Central and West Campus the house model has provided. (And if you don’t believe me, check out the numbers. Do I actually have those numbers? No. But coming up with a nuanced opinion is a liberal strat-egy anyhow.)

I’ve also aired my grievances with the school, many times, throughout this column. But I do want to stress one thing: I love this institution, warts and all. Through all the PR scan-dals over the last few years, and despite all the times Mr. Moneta and Dr. Brodhead gave public statements that had the nuance and tact of a brick to the head, I have supported this school. And even from beyond the grave, I will continue to support it.

But I encourage the school to be wary moving forward. It’s easy to leap onto trendy things, like “Globalization” and “Interdiscplinarity” whilst simultaneously ignoring what ac-tually gives the school character. It’s easy to destroy older institutions without considering the intangibles lost in doing so. But it is also easy to let old men like myself make deci-sions for the students of a school, when, I must now concede, it is their world to make, as they desire.

It’s diffi cult to let go of a life spent at this University. I have so many cherished memories. I hesitate to make sense of it all, because it’s a bit messy and sort of defi es concise explanation. Still, I certainly enjoyed it. I think I should end my time here with a simple thought: I hope that all those who are just beginning their time at Duke are as fulfi lled by their experience as I was.

The Grumpy Trustee encourages absolutely none of his readers who did not understand the reference to Google Image Search “boof-ing” in response to this column.

Once more, with feeling

“Oooh my God, how amaaaaazing was abroad?!” “Was it just sooo amazing?!” “Ah I bet you had such ad-ventures!” “I’m soooo jealous!” “Oh my God, was it

life-changing!?” If you’re anything like me or many current juniors and

seniors, you’ve both experienced and overheard these questions thousands of times. If you were abroad yourself, I’m guessing you uttered the following responses a simi-larly outrageous number of times: “Oh my God, it was SO incredible. School was way easier, going out was SO differ-ent and the food was amaaaazing! I miss it SO much!”

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve become great at compart-mentalizing my abroad experience. After all, I did have some truly amazing highlights, see many breathtaking sights and greatly improve my language-speaking abilities. I am in no way discouraging girls from studying abroad, but the honest truth is my abroad experience was nothing like I’d hoped it would be. For one, my host family was wretched, my program was not stimulating and my clos-est friendship came crumbling down around me. More signifi cantly, I got raped. And unfortunately, I’m not the only one hiding this experience behind the “Oh my God, I miss it SO much” response.

If you’re anything like my best friend Jenny your excla-mation of “It was amazing!” is covering your memory of that cool, local “friend” who pushed himself on you when you were too drunk to stop him. If you are my sister, it is a front for the humiliation of being treated like a prosti-tute in the emergency room following the rape and the months you spent having to interact with your rapist—a close friend of your host mom. The response is a cover up for, simmering just below the surface, anger over the fact that you are now living with the STD he gave you or over your host mom’s denial and insistence that you should be “fl attered” by his affections. If you are like me, you are hiding six, agonizing months waiting to learn if you’ve been infected with HIV after a very high-risk exposure. Six months of having to hold your expres-sion steady every time someone mentions “AIDS work in Africa,” or their class on “AIDS and Emerging Diseases.”

You see, this was never supposed to happen to me. Af-ter all, I take women’s studies classes and am considered “a huge ball buster” back at Duke. I’ve never had issues articulating “NO” when hooking up. I have never had casual sex, and I’m known by most of my Duke friends as confi dent and empowered. While I’ve had several close calls at Duke after drinking more than planned or end-ing up with someone for whom consent is grossly one sided, I’ve always been so clear about my “No! Stop!” that date rape or “accidental sex,” as some jokingly call it, is something I’ve been fortunate enough to avoid. More than all that, however, this wasn’t supposed to happen to me because my older sister was raped studying abroad, sending her and my entire family into a dark, painful pe-riod of trauma and grief. When my sister returned from abroad, she was not the same girl who left, having lost the sense of self-worth, personal security and powerful spirit that I had never before seen her without. At the time, I was a freshman in college, and it killed me to see my fi ery, sassy older sister breaking down and degraded to such an extent. I vowed to never let something like that happen to a friend, and of course, to never let some-thing like that happen to me.

I could go on about what happened to me, and why it wasn’t fair, but I think we all understand that rape sucks. I’m certainly disturbed by the messed up gender dynam-ics of our culture that enable so many of us to deal with this total shit situation, and I do NOT mean to blame victims, but I would like to offer some practical advice. The following are some very pragmatic reminders for girls studying abroad that may save them from suffering what I and so many other girls have suffered. I strongly advise anyone reading this list to take it personally. It’s easy to dissociate oneself from foreign scenarios like this, but what I now know, and wish I’d realized before, is that no one is “supposed” to get raped. They just do.

Rule One: Beware of the YOLO mentality. I know studying abroad is all about adventure and spon-

taneity, and I don’t mean to discourage this approach, but sometimes being too carefree is a problem for girls. By all means, try that mysterious food, ride that camel and be open to all types of people. But when it comes to going home with him, getting separated from friends at night or drinking heavily, carefree can easily be what leads to

rape. For me, I was at the beach with an American friend and two local guys we’d known in the city. They were good guys, one the boyfriend of my American friend, and the other his cousin. Because I was not interested in the cousin, when the couple focused on one another, I would wander around, talking to random guys, dancing and thinking, “You know what? YOLO!” Our second night at the beach a handsome, local man began pursuing me ag-gressively at a club. Coincidentally, the bartender gave me a free drink. I will never know what was in that drink, but I felt I was in another world, with no concern for reality. I felt listless and disconnected from myself. I didn’t want to bother my friend and her man, so when he asked me to take a walk on the beach I thought, “Oh why not make out with a local hottie? YOLO!” Needless to say, the aggres-sion he demonstrated on the dance fl oor presented itself elsewhere, and my YOLO spontaneity meant months of trauma and possible exposure to HIV. My sister warned especially against the YOLO mentality. After a couple too many drinks at a party, she wanted to leave, and her host mother insisted that a family friend drive her. The fam-ily friend escorted her to her apartment, and she said, “Goodnight,” and went to bed. Next thing she knew, the family “friend,” a man twice her age, was forcing himself on her.

Rule Two: Don’t drink like you’re at Duke.Obviously rape is a huge issue at Duke, where it is

often associated with alcohol consumption. However, there’s something particularly dangerous about combin-ing intoxication with a total lack of familiarity with your environment. In the case of my sister, were she back at college she’d never have allowed someone she did not know personally to drive her home. She knows better. Unsure of her surroundings, she had no choice but to

trust her host mother and her “friend.” In my case, I don’t typically take boys back to my room or go to theirs after drinking at Duke. But in an unfamiliar setting, agreeing to go on a walk landed me in

a secluded area. Being drunk almost always makes girls more vulnerable to rape, and being drunk in an unfamil-iar setting increases that vulnerability enormously.

Rule Three: Hold yourself to the same logic you use in the United States.

As highlighted in the two previous rules, it’s easy when abroad to adopt a different logic. This can lead to tragic consequences. If you wouldn’t leave a club in Durham with a random man, then don’t think that fol-lowing a hot Spaniard, Italian, French or any other man is any different. You don’t know his turf, and you can’t possibly trust someone you just met. If you wouldn’t trust a random acquaintance to take you home in the U.S., then don’t trust him in a different country either. Call your friends, fi nd a safe place to ask for a taxi, talk to a policeman or go somewhere safe to collect your thoughts. Finally, if you get a creepy feeling from a guy, trust your instincts; don’t write it off as “cultural” just be-cause you’re in a different country. It’s always better to potentially offend someone than to risk being sexually assaulted. Better safe than sorry.

Rule Four: Have a buddy system. We all know it’s a huge pain to be the sober friend

taking care of everyone, especially in a foreign country. It’s an annoying job, but it’s also the safest way to protect yourself. Buddy systems are key. I suggest having one or two people in any group take on this duty each time you go out. You should alternate to be fair, but make sure there is clear and consistent communication between people in the group, so that no member gets left behind. I think having a partner may be the simplest approach. This is not Durham, so chances of getting lost and be-coming vulnerable are much higher. If my sister had been with a friend who was keeping tabs on her, some-one would have noticed her leaving with a stranger and seen that she was in no state to be taken anywhere. In my case, though my friend couldn’t do anything once I wan-dered off, she spent hours looking for me afterward and was ready to take action if I didn’t show up soon. I know going out is supposed to be carefree and adventurous but make SURE you have these adventures with friends who have your back and will look out for you. Simply put, if you don’t have friends like this, don’t drink. It’s just not worth it.

The author of this piece has chosen to remain anonymous.

A college girl’s guide to not getting raped abroad

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Thanksgiving Break, asking re-spondents to name their favorite light, domestic, international and local or craft beer.

Pitchfork Provisions was deemed a good place to offer beer and wine due to its proximity to residential buildings off the main West Campus Quadrangle, Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of student affairs for housing, din-ing and residence life, wrote in an email Monday.

Johnson said he sees McClen-don Tower as a “satellite” of the Bryan Center for students residing in Edens, Keohane and Wanna-maker Quadrangles, and should

therefore offer similar ameni-ties. McClendon Tower already has study, meeting and lounge spaces, in addition to a coffee café and 24-hour restaurant. The availability of alcohol to students of age is simply another step in making McClendon Tower more comparable to the Bryan Center, he said. The Tower, the restaurant formerly in the space Pitchfork Provisions now occupies, served beer and wine.

Senior Alex Mariakakis, who said he currently eats at Pitchfork Provisions once or twice each week, said he is looking forward to the convenience that will come with the restaurant serving beer and wine, and consequently may go to the restaurant more frequently.

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Pitchfork Provisions’ beverage options will soon include beer and wine. The eatery recently received an ABC alcohol license and approval from Duke Dining.

“If I want my alcohol on food points, I go to Central now, to Food Factory,” he said. “Here it’s just more convenient, especially since I live in Edens.”

In order for an on-campus facility to serve alcohol, it must request approval from Duke Din-ing, which evaluates the request. If Duke Dining approves the ap-plication, the restaurant must then apply to the ABC Board to obtain a liquor license, Johnson said. Currently, the Food Factory, Nasher Café, Plate and Pitchfork and Twinnie’s have licenses to serve beer and wine, and Armadil-lo Grill has a full liquor license.

The bar at the Washington Duke Inn also serves alcohol that can be purchased with food points.

“While we believe that students can have a good time and build community without alcohol, the fact that some facilities are al-lowed to serve alcohol is simply a recognition that in today’s society, students of age and others may want a glass of beer or wine with their meal,” Johnson said.

Although Clowney said Pitch-fork Provisions is happy to offer beer and wine, he is also cogni-zant of the liability that comes with selling alcohol on a college campus.

“Things can get kind of unruly down here, and we don’t want to see it get any worse,” he said. “We’ve anticipated this and put the right procedures in place—we don’t want this place to become a watering hole.”

Some precautions may in-

clude stopping the sale of alco-hol at 1:30 a.m., although it is legal to sell liquor until 2 a.m. in North Carolina, Clowney said. Additionally, the establishment will only advertise its new alco-hol offerings by word of mouth, seeking to avoid a reputation for being a bar. Owners still want Pitchfork Provisions to be pri-marily known as a place to get good food, Clowney said.

But Mariakakis does not think alcohol will change the culture of Pitchfork Provisions. Because it is already a 24-hour establishment, it’s common for the facility to be filled with partygoers late at night on the weekends.

“I think it will still be dinner time at dinner, but late-night a bunch of drunk people will come get more beer,” he said.

Sophomore Martine Obieta-Chichizola said that although she is not of legal age, she supports having alcohol more readily avail-able on campus.

“This is a very popular loca-tion as it is, especially on nights out like Friday and Saturday,” she said. “If anything, it will just bring more people and help keep that culture. I don’t think it’s going to change anything dramatically.... If anything, it will be a positive as opposed to a negative.”

Pitchfork Provisions does not have the proper licensure to op-erate a full bar, but depending on demand, it may increase its offer-ings Spring 2013, Clowney said.

“If we see that the volume is enough, we may think about do-ing kegs at a later date,” he said.

housing.“In Ubuntu SLG section alone,

10 people reported disruptive aller-gies and health problems related to the unclean condition of their apartments,” Colton, a columnist for The Chronicle, wrote in an email Nov. 14.

Gonzalez said the original apart-ment renovation project was divid-ed into three construction phases, each to be completed in one sum-mer. The first began four years ago, but the remaining two phases are now tentatively scheduled to begin this summer. He declined to com-ment on the exact financing of the project, noting that the plans had not yet been finalized and ap-proved by the University, so they are still a work in progress.

Vice President for Student Af-fairs Larry Moneta said approxi-mately $7 million was allocated for Central renovations at a meeting with leaders of campus organiza-tions Oct. 29.

Some students are pleased with the idea of renovations. Sopho-more Ben Hatt noted that, though he was accustomed to living in his current conditions, he welcomes the change.

“Many people prefer to live on Central because it’s more conve-nient than going off campus, but it’s unfortunate that the apart-ments offer such low quality for the price,” Hatt wrote in an email Nov. 14. “I’m glad to hear the University is finally going to refurbish the rest of Central—students will love it.”

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FOOTBALL:FOOTBALL: LOSES TO MIAMI ON SENIOR DAY LOSES TO MIAMI ON SENIOR DAY •• WOMEN’S SOCCER:WOMEN’S SOCCER: FALLS IN NCAA QUARTERFINALSFALLS IN NCAA QUARTERFINALS

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gave the Hurricanes a 52-38 lead and put the game out of reach for the Blue Devils. Despite a late score by Brandon Connette to draw within a touchdown, Duke was not left with enough time to complete the comeback.

Renfree, who was recently awarded the Pop Warner National College Football Award for his achievements on the field, in the classroom and in the community, noted that the team was not happy with the way it start-

ed game started, or with the final score, calling Miami’s offense “explosive.”

“We just couldn’t muster up enough in the end,” Ren-free said. “I thought we were in the game the whole time… We just couldn’t overcome some of our own mistakes to score enough points.”

Blue Devils lose 52-45 to Miami on Senior DayFOOTBALL

by Lauren CarrollTHE CHRONICLE

Duke had a number of promising moments, but Mi-ami’s explosive offense was simply too much to handle in the team’s final game of the regular season.

The Hurricanes defeated the Blue Devils 52-45 Saturday on Senior Day at Wallace Wade Stadium, handing Duke its fourth-consecutive loss. There was no shortage of offense in a game where the teams combined for 1,229 yards, but ultimately it was too little, too late for the Blue Devils. They did not find their offensive spark until the third quarter and were unable to stop Miami’s explosive plays to have a shot at a comeback. Following the game, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe lauded his seniors for their efforts this season, leading the Blue Devils to their first bowl appear-ance since 1994, but said his team’s performance against Miami—particularly on the defensive side of the ball—left much to be desired.

“Obviously we had some players make some plays,” said Cutcliffe, who this week signed on to coach Duke through 2019. “That’s a sign of a lot of good things. It is—but not to be confused with playing as well as we needed to play.”

Trailing Miami (7-5, 5-3 in the ACC) by 18 points at halftime, Duke’s offense seemed to come to life in the third quarter, coming within one score of the Hurricanes after touchdowns by senior wide receiver Conner Ver-non and sophomore wide receiver Jamison Crowder. The Hurricanes would respond when freshman tailback Duke Johnson scampered for a 65-yard score, eluding a number of would-be Blue Devil tacklers on the way.

After a crucial stop on fourth down in the shadow of its own goal line, Duke (6-6, 3-5) once again seized momen-tum in the final quarter when Crowder caught a 99-yard pass from redshirt senior quarterback Sean Renfree—the longest play in Duke football history.

But the Blue Devil defense simply could not record a stop when it needed it the most. On the first play of Mi-ami’s next drive, freshman wide receiver Herb Waters turned a screen pass into a 65-yard touchdown when he evaded a Duke defender with speed to burn. Waters’ score

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In his final home game, Duke wide receiver Conner Vernon caught 11 passes for 109 yards, including two touchdowns.

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Duke misses postseason for first time since ‘05by Zac ElderTHE CHRONICLE

Duke’s season came to an end last Tuesday as the Blue Devils dropped their final regular season match to Wake Forest.

With no ACC postseason play to look forward to, Duke (15-17, 6-14 ACC) will not have a chance to play its way into the NCAA Tournament. The Blue Devils have not missed the tournament since 2005.

“It’s very disappointing that we weren’t selected,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “It’s a great honor when a team is se-lected. That’s something that our teams haven’t had to experience in a long time, that disappoint-ment. I think it’s important that the team understands that it is re-ally difficult to be one of those 64 teams selected.”

The Blue Devils closed the season losing five of their last six matches, including Tues-day’s defeat versus the Demon Deacons (34-32, 18-25, 25-20, 25-27, 11-15).

Duke jumped out to a 2-1 lead against Wake Forest (11-21, 5-15 ACC) thanks to strong of-fensive play from several of its younger members. Sophomore Jeme Obeime and freshman Em-ily Sklar combined for 14 kills on .542 hitting to give the Blue Devils the opening stanza, and freshman middle blocker Elizabeth Camp-bell knocked down five kills with-out an error to help Duke capture

the third set.Recording eight errors and a

hitting percentage of just .122, the Blue Devil attack faltered in the fourth set, which Wake Forest captured to even the score at 2-2.

After pulling ahead to take an 8-5 lead in the fifth frame, Duke allowed the Demon Deacons to go on a 6-1 run and eventually take the set and the match.

Five Blue Devils reached dou-ble digit kills on the night, led by Sklar with 17. Campbell and Obeime each posted 15 kills, and junior middle blocker Chel-

sea Cook added 11 kills and six blocks. Sophomore setter Mag-gie Deichmeister, filling in for the injured Kelsey Williams, fa-cilitated the offense and dished out 64 assists.

In her last match as a Blue Dev-il, senior middle blocker Christi-ana Gray tallied 13 kills and eight blocks. Gray finished the season just three kills behind the Duke leader, Obeime, and three blocks behind Cook, the Blue Devils’ blocks leader on the year.

“Christiana has had a tremen-dous year,” Nagel said. “She has

been very consistent out there of-fensively for us, and her blocking has been much improved. We’re going to miss her intensity and her drive. She has been intimidat-ing to opponents because of what she can do offensively and defen-sively for us out there. She’s a big loss as we build up to our next season.”

Junior libero Ali McCurdy con-tinued her fantastic play against the Demon Deacons, recording 18 kills and increasing her school single-season digs record to 672. With a year of eligibility left, Mc-Curdy sits at second on Duke’s all-time digs list with 1,945 digs dur-ing her first three years as a Blue Devil.

“She has continued to improve her game since freshman year,” Nagel said. “She has continued to get better each season with little touches to her game.”

For Duke, the 2012 campaign did not end quite how Nagel or her team might have expected—the Blue Devils have not had a los-ing record since 2004.

Several personal records and All-ACC selections highlight a sea-son ending without a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament.

McCurdy broke her single-season digs record, which she al-ready set in 2011, and was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight sea-son. McCurdy also received her third straight selection to the All-

ACC team.Gray also received her third

All-ACC selection after leading the Blue Devils with a .308 hit-ting percentage. Gray finished the season with 491 blocks, the fourth highest total in school his-tory, and 1,112 kills, making her one of only 21 players in the his-tory of Duke volleyball to reach four digits in kills.

Nagel also etched her name into the collegiate volleyball his-tory books this season, recording her 500th career win in Septem-ber against Northeastern. Only three active coaches in the ACC have reached the 500-win mark.

“Being at a place like Duke you attract the best and the brightest,” Nagel said. “I would trade all [the wins] for our team to be going to the NCAA Tournament right now and have the opportunity to com-pete for an NCAA championship. The reality is that we’re a great institution that attracts great peo-ple, as well as great students and really accomplished athletes.”

Nagel will have a strong group of returning players next year to help add to her impressive win total.

Graduating only three se-niors—Gray, outside hitter Megan Hendrickson, and libero Nailah Waterfield—Duke will have a strong returning cast for the 2013 season.

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Senior Christiana Gray concluded her career against Wake Forest and earned an All-ACC selection after leading the team with a .308 hitting percentage.

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Request for input to the regular review ofTracy Futhey

VP for Information Technology and CIO

University senior officials are subject to administrative

reviews at regular intervals by a broad-based committee of

colleagues. This is Tracy Futhey’s second review since her

appointment as Vice President for Information Technology

and Chief Information Officer in 2002.

Members of the review committee are: Leslie Collins

(Pratt), John Gallagher (Fuqua), James McPherson (Human

Resources), Lynn Smith-Lovin (Sociology), Dan Sorin

(Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science),

Billy Willis (DHTS), and Tim Walsh (VP for Finance and chair

of the committee).

The committee invites all members of the Duke

community to provide comments on Futhey’s leadership

effectiveness in regard to technology support and innovation

as well as whether the role remains appropriate for facing

future opportunities and challenges.

Your thoughts may be communicated orally or in writing

to any member of the committee. Information provided

to the committee will be held in confidence but may be

reported without attribution as part of the report that will

be submitted to Executive Vice President Tallman Trask III.

Your comments are welcome.Please send comments by December 10 to:

tim.walsh@duke.edu or

Futhey Review CommitteeAttn: Anne Light

Box 90028Durham, NC 27708

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Once again the Blue Devils lost by one goal. This time the one score was a cruel one: a penalty kick.

Losing 1-0 to top-seeded Penn State (20-3-2) Friday night, third-seeded Duke (15-6-2) was eliminated from the NCAA Tourna-ment in the quarterfinals.

“Congratulations to Penn State, Eri-ca [Walsh] and her staff,” Duke head coach Rob-bie Church said in a press release.

“They do a fantastic job. I don’t think we could have executed our game plan any better. We created a number of opportuni-ties, but the name of the game is to be able to finish on your opportunities, and we didn’t do that.”

The Blue Devils outshot the Nittany Lions throughout the game, ending with 19 shots to Penn State’s seven. Duke ju-nior Kaitlyn Kerr, who had a hat trick in the Tournament’s first round, fired the team’s first three shots. She could have put Duke up after a one-on-one oppor-tunity against Nittany Lion goalkeeper Erin McNulty, but McNulty was able to record the save.

After the Blue Devils could not capital-ize, Penn State capitalized from the penalty spot. Christina Nairn was fouled in the box and stepped up to convert against Duke’s Tara Campbell. It was the first time in the tournament that the Blue Devils trailed.

Both teams had chances to score as the first half progressed with Campbell denying the Nittany Lions’ Maya Hayes and Duke’s Ni-

cole Lipp hitting the crossbar on the volley.The second half started with Penn State

in control, but with the season on the line Duke went on the offensive and put pres-sure on McNulty’s goal. The Blue Devils had 11 shots in the second half, but could not score the equalizer.

“I don’t think we did a good job of fin-ishing,” Church said. “The opportunities we had, we played them up high where [McNulty] could get to them. She’s a good player, she’s an experienced player. She came out and covered angles really well, but we didn’t do a great job of fin-

ishing. But she caused that too.”The Nittany Lions advance to the semifi-

nals to face Florida State, with North Caro-lina and Stanford in the other matchup. For Duke this meant a loss in the quarterfi-nals, falling one step short of a second con-secutive trip to the College Cup.

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#YesYouu: Bahamian Rhapsodyrarely dominated in any of their games, they came up with points at seemingly every crucial juncture to earn three wins in three days.

The first major shot against Louisville (5-1) came earlier in the contest from Cook, after an 18-6 Cardinal run had converted an 11-point Duke advantage into a one-point deficit. Senior point guard Peyton Siva—the emotional leader of Louisville’s second-ranked squad—drained a 3-pointer from the top of the key to cap off the run, putting momentum squarely in the Cardi-nals’ corner.

But Cook answered 20 seconds later with a long-range jumper of his own to re-store the Duke lead.

A frenetic stretch of play followed the Cook 3-pointer, with the only points in the next three minutes for either side com-ing on a put-back from Louisville forward Chane Behanan, tying the game at 61. Fol-lowing three consecutive turnovers—two giveaways by Louisville bookending a Pey-ton Siva steal—Seth Curry came out of a minor shooting slump to nail a 3-pointer from the corner and put Duke ahead 64-61 with 4:30 to play, a lead which the Blue Devils would hold the rest of the way.

Curry shot just 3-for-11 from the field on the night, but made 6-of-6 free throws to join the other four Duke starters in scoring 14 or more points apiece. The Blue Devil attack was balanced throughout the game, as Curry, Ryan Kelly and Rasheed Sulaimon finished with 14 points each, Cook had 15, and Mason Plumlee added 16.

The distributed scoring was encourag-ing for Duke in a game where Plumlee rarely got chances to dominate inside, as he often has during the team’s early games. Louisville was expected to take a hit on the interior when it was announced in the ear-ly afternoon that 6-foot-10 starting center Gorgui Dieng would not play, but a trio of Cardinal bench players stepped up in Di-eng’s absence.

Junior Stephan Van Treese and sopho-more Zach Price—who entered the game collectively averaging 1.1 points and 3.9 re-bounds per game—combined for 12 points and 11 boards, including five offensive re-bounds for Van Treese. Freshman Montr-ezl Harrell also chipped in a 10-point, five-

rebound effort.“We had a very big injury to our basket-

ball team, but it didn’t affect us at all,” head coach Rick Pitino said. “We may not have had as many blocked shots as we would have had if Gorgui was there, but these guys stepped up and did a tremendous job.”

Sulaimon was the leader for Duke in the first half, showing aggressiveness off the dribble—especially in transition—to register 11 points on 5-of-10 shooting be-fore halftime. Then the early second half was the Ryan Kelly show. The senior scored eight of the Blue Devils’ first 16 points of the half, as his midrange game proved a perfect antidote to the 2-3 zone defense that Louisville employed at times.

“We just tried to mix it up as much as possible,” Pitino said of the shifting Cardi-nal defense.

But after that, Cook took control as the game entered its final stages. He got a late hand from the Cardinals as well, who made just 2-of-6 free throws in the game’s final three minutes, including three misses by guard Russ Smith, blemishing an otherwise

excellent 17-point, seven-rebound effort.“I thought if we make our free throws

there, we win the game,” Pitino said. “Russ is a very good free throw shooter, but he was working his ass off so much defensively, so much on pick-and-rolls—I don’t even know if I could have hit the rim.”

Smith’s backcourt counterpart Siva chipped in 19 points of his own, but need-ed 15 shots to reach that number, and com-mitted six turnovers to his four assists. Still, it took quality performances from all five Duke starters, plus key contributions from the Blue Devil bench, to take down Siva and the Cardinals.

And even more than that, Duke need-ed every ounce of its chemistry and poise to emerge victorious from a taxing three-game tournament.

“I told them after that game that it was an honor to coach them,” Krzyzewski said. “They responded to everything, and the main thing they responded to was the pressure of the moment. And when kids re-spond to the pressure of the moment like they did, it’s a beautiful thing to watch.”

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Scoring Duke’s last eight points against Louisville, Quinn Cook secured the Most Outstanding Player award.

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In the three games in the Bahamas, Mason Plumlee averaged 17.7 points and 11.3 rebounds per game and was named to the All-Tournament team.

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95% Seth Curry keyed Duke’s strong free throw shooting in the Battle 4 Atlantis, hit-ting 21-of-22 free throws.

10 blocks Although Ryan Kelly strug-gled from deep in the Bat-tle 4 Atlantis, he stepped up on the defensive end with 10 blocks.

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Why a tournament in the Bahamas?by Tom Gieryn

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This is part one of a two part series looking in-depth at the non-basketball aspects of Duke basketball’s trip to the Bahamas. Today’s exam-ines the program’s decision to attend the early-season tournament in Nassau.

The density of the NCAA rulebook has become something of a punch line among athletic officials and sports fans alike in recent years, and one of the myriad regu-lations placed on college basketball teams limits them to 29-game regular-season schedules.

That limitation stands, except for so-called “exempt events,” which allow programs to participate in multi-team, multi-game early-season tournaments and count them as just one game. In the late 1990s, the NCAA tried to limit teams to two such events every four years, but a judge struck down the restriction in a lawsuit brought about by several organiz-ers of such tournaments.

So, since December 2000, teams have been permitted to play in one exempt event each year, with the caveat that they can only play in a particular event once every four years. Duke has taken full advantage of these opportunities, participating in events like the Maui Invitational, the NIT Season Tip-Off and the CBE Classic. But this year, the Blue Devils opted to try a new event, the Battle 4 Atlantis at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas.

“The exempt-event world is always twist-ing and turning, and [the scheduling] goes out many years,” said Mike Cragg, senior associate director of athletics. “We’ve got a pretty good cycle of ones we want to do ev-ery year, but things come up along the way. Things shift, and it ended up we had an opening relatively soon, and so we jumped at the chance.”

Cragg has handled these sorts of sched-uling issues, in tandem with head coach Mike Krzyzewski, for nearly 20 years. He said it was about three years ago that he was first approached by the Battle 4 Atlan-tis organizers.

The Bahamian tournament is the brain-child of George Markantonis, who cur-rently serves as president and managing di-rector of Kerzner International Bahamas,

the firm which operates Atlantis Paradise Island. The resort leadership was in search of a way to boost occupancy during the Thanksgiving period.

“People are off, kids are off from school,” said Paul Burke, chief operating officer of Kerzner International Bahamas. “It’s an opportunity for us to get people to come down and experience the resort. So what’s hot these days? What moves people?”

With the increasing popularity of com-petitive early-season tournaments and the long-standing success of the Maui Invita-tional, which has been held since 1984 in a resort setting similar to Atlantis, Markan-tonis’ answer to those questions was college basketball.

Burke said that Atlantis was particularly well-suited for such an event because of its “multi-generational” attraction, with activi-ties such as a spa and golf for adults and a 141-acre water park for their children and grandchildren.

The Atlantis orga-nizers then set about searching out programs with successful alumni bas-es with track records of trav-eling well.

Burke stated that Atlantis, located in the Bahamian capital of Nassau, lies within a two-hour flight of approximately 140 million people, and programs close to direct flights from the U.S. were especially attractive to fill out a potential tournament field.

As it turned out, the Atlantis lead-ership was not the first to conceive the idea of replicating the Maui setting clos-er to the Eastern seaboard.

“On one of the flights from Maui, Coach [Krzyzewski] and I were talking about how it’d be really good if there was an East Coast version of Maui,” Cragg said. “So I talked to a couple of promoters… and actually we had some people do some leg-work into that. Long story short, it didn’t materialize.”

The long journey to Maui played a sig-nificant factor in Duke’s season last year, as the Blue Devils battled a six-hour time change coming back from Hawaii and pro-ceeded to get blown out by Ohio State in their first game back.

The chance for an East Coast Maui-style tournament finally arose when Atlantis approached the Blue Devils about partici-pating in a new tournament on Paradise Island. At that point, Atlantis had never hosted a basketball game, though they were used to putting on concerts and other spectator events.

In 2010, they invited four teams—Mis-sissippi State, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Richmond—to play a mid-December doubleheader as a dry run for the Impe-rial Arena, a 3,900-seat venue that Atlantis constructed in its 60,000-square-foot con-ference center.

The inaugural eight-team, three-day tournament was held last year, with then-No. 22 Florida State representing the ACC and then-No. 4 Connecticut as the other ranked team in the field. Both of those

teams were upset in the semi-finals, though, and Central Florida defeated Harvard for the tournament title.

The organizers learned a lot from their first

time hosting such an event, and Cragg vis-ited the facility to view its potential for himself. The organizers also of-fered a reported $2 million payout to each team that

participated in the tournament.

“They’ve got a different rewards system, there’s no

doubt about that,” Cragg said. “I told them a couple years ago, ‘I’m not sure you really need to do that, but we’re not going to turn it down.’”

The money goes di-rectly into the athletic

department’s fund which endows stu-dent-athlete scholar-ships,” Cragg said.

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Duke has yet to find a significant chal-lenge early this season.

In two games, against Valparaiso at Cam-eron Indoor Stadium Friday and at Xavier Sunday, that trend continued. Duke defeat-ed Valparasio 90-45 and Xavier 82-59.

Head coach Joanne P. McCallie has stressed to her team the importance of hus-tle and effort on the court above traditional metrics such as points and assists. Rebound-ing and physical defensive play helped to separate No. 4 Duke from its opponent in both contests.

“We have emphasized and we’ve talked about, you’ve got to do the dirty work. It’s kind of substance over style,” McCallie said. “We’ve got a lot of style points be-cause we’ve got a lot of great players, but that’s not what’s going to take you to the promised land, substance is. Having that many offensive rebounds in the second half indicates what we can do. And once you start doing those things, it becomes a habit.”

Early in both games, the Crusaders and Musketeers matched Duke’s scoring un-til the physical disparity between the two teams shifted control of the contests to the Blue Devils (4-0), who went on a 29-4 run against Valparaiso and 19-2 against Xavier in the first half.

Against Valparaiso, Duke’s 24 offensive and 33 defensive rebounds created second chance opportunities that the Blue Devils capitalized on. Despite only shooting 40 percent from the floor during the second half, Duke maintained its lead through ag-gressive rebounding and defense, which in-cluded 15 steals and no Crusader scoring in

double figures.“[We] got after some things we needed

to get after, relative to being aggressive on the boards,” McCallie said. “We’re working on things. I thought there was great leader-ship out there.”

Guard Tricia Liston grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds and scored 17 points for her second career double-double. In addition to Liston’s contributions, forward Elizabeth Williams continued her recovery

from a stress fracture in her foot with 18 points and eight rebounds in 17 minutes off the bench.

Despite the improvement in rebound-ing, the intensity from Friday’s game did not translate directly to the Blue Devils’ first road game of the season against Xavier. Foul trouble and a lack of strong rebound-ing hampered Duke’s ability to pull away from the Musketeers early.

The Blue Devils’ depth, however, at mul-

tiple positions proved overwhelming for Xavier, which had only one player, guard Ashley Wanninger, score in double figures.

“We didn’t do a great job of making contact and getting the ball rebounded,” forward Haley Peters said. “It was good to play against some post players that were bigger sized for us to start to work on boxing out.”

Guard Chelsea Gray led Duke in scoring with 22 points and and 10 assists, impress-ing both her coach and teammates.

“[She was] very poised, very experi-enced, very veteran. Chelsea was in control of that game, and I think that was impor-tant for a point guard,” McCallie said.

Gray’s backcourt partner, freshman guard Alexis Jones, had a strong perfor-mance in the first road game of her career at Duke, scoring 14 points and pressuring Xavier’s guards. In the post, Williams was a stronger presence than against Valparaiso, notching 16 points in 26 minutes of play.

“I was happy how this team prepared overall. I thought we had some really good leadership, and the team was ready to go,” McCallie said.

The Blue Devils next contest against Michigan in the Big 10/ACC Showdown will be another early test for McCallie and her team. The games this weekend highlighted some areas that Duke plans to focus in on heading into Wednesday’s away game.

“I think we have stuff we can sharpen up, defensively and with rebounding, and those are the things we have talked about all season but are going to be really impor-tant as we start to get closer to conference play,” Peters said. “We just need to be sharp and be physical and be able to dictate in the paint and on the boards.”

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Elizabeth Williams continued to play well in limited time as she recovers from a leg stress fracture.

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The Blue Devils were a little deflated after watching Miami’s numerous quick scores and one-play drives in the first half, Crowder revealed. However, the team was able to relax at the half and come out of the locker room with renewed determi-nation, leading to a better performance on the field.

“I wasn’t nice, I wasn’t consoling,” Cutc-liffe said of his halftime talk with the team.

Cutcliffe noted that the Blue Devils’ performance has gone south since its win over North Carolina not only because of the talent of their opposition, but also be-cause they haven’t been playing well.

“I want a signal sent to everybody in-volved with Duke football—it isn’t about being close, it’s about winning,” Cutc-liffe said. “Winning has got to become important.”

Duke’s all-time leader in both recep-tions and receiving yards had another opinion of what was plaguing his team.

Vernon pointed to a lack of execution and an excess of penalties as the reasons for the Blue Devils’ losses over the past four games. Though penalties may be a problem, the team committed just five penalties in the game, which pales in comparison to the 11 the Hurricanes committed.

Though the team’s losing streak has left a sour taste in the mouths of fans and play-ers alike, Cutcliffe wants to highlight the accomplishments his club, especially his seniors, has achieved this season, includ-ing winning the program’s most games since 1994.

“I want those young men to be proud of what they’ve done,” he said. “There’s a lot to celebrate. Not celebrating losses to Miami, but there’s a lot to celebrate.

With the regular season in the rearview mirror, the team’s seniors say they are look-ing forward to another three or four weeks of practice, and to ending the losing streak by winning their bowl game.

“It’s a legacy we want to leave and set the bar for the next class,” Vernon said.

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All-ACC freshmen team selections Sklar and Campbell proved vital to the Blue Devil offense this season, finishing the year second and fourth in kills, re-spectively, for the team. Sklar and Camp-bell also bolstered the Duke defensive ef-fort. Sklar finished the year second only to McCurdy in digs, and Campbell posted .74 blocks per set, the third-highest total on the team.

McCurdy and Cook, both juniors, will anchor the Duke defense next year. Cook led the Blue Devils with 1.09 blocks per set and also added 247 kills. McCurdy will look to break Duke’s single-season digs record for the third year in a row and be-come the Blue Devils’ all-time career digs leader.

“I think there are some great things to come,” Nagel said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I’m very optimistic about how we’re going to be able to make that happen.”

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Ali McCurdy, a junior, broke the Duke single-season record for digs, which she previously set last year.

Duke 89, Minnesota 71

>>Duke’s fi rst contest at Atlantis Para-dise Island was far from a laid-back affair. Especially in the fi rst half, Duke met a physical and athletic Minnesota squad in a fast-paced, hectic fi rst-round game at the Battle 4 Atlantis. Though the Golden Gophers regis-tered a number of highlight-reel plays attacking the rim and the boards, the Blue Devils answered almost every momentum play with a key basket of its own en route to an 89-71 win.

>>And the Duke game ball goes to … Seth Curry. As crucial as Mason Plumlee’s contributions were, both in scoring and on the glass, his points came in bunches inside against some-times questionable defense. Curry’s 25 points lent energy to a noisy Duke crowd and to his teammates, since they were frequently contested shots and came at several key junctures in the game.

>>And the Minnesota game ball goes to … Maverick Ahanmisi. There were a couple of junctures early in the game where it appeared as though the Blue Devils were prepared to completely run away from the Golden Gophers and never look back. But point guard Ahanmisi came off the bench with energy and a 10-point performance without missing either of his fi eld goals or any of his six free throws. It was Ahanmisi who drew the foul on Sulaimon that might have been huge were it not for Cook’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer. —Tom Gieryn

Duke 67, VCU 58

>> As expected, VCU didn’t let Duke have an easy time trying to get to the fi nals for the Battle 4 Atlantis. The Blue Devils needed a big shot from Quinn Cook to put them ahead at halftime before giving themselves a little bit of breathing room in the second half. VCU kept the game close the entire way, but Duke didn’t let down and hung on to win 67-58.

>> And the Duke game ball goes to … Quinn Cook. After another impressive game it’s time to declare Quinn-sanity in the Ba-hamas. Cook doesn’t have the scoring numbers that Plumlee and Curry have, but turns this Duke offense into a well-oiled machine whenever he’s on the fl oor. For the second time in the last three games Cook recorded nine assists and would have had more if not for the Blue Devils’ struggles from beyond the arc.

>> And the VCU game ball goes to … Juvonte Reddic. The North Carolina native was tasked with the near impossible job of cover-ing Mason Plumlee, and despite giving up some size to Plumlee, out-rebounded the Duke forward 12 to 10. Reddic also shot 8-for-15 from the fi eld for 16 points. Perhaps most impressively, Reddic only committed one foul against the Blue Devil big man.

—Bobby Colton

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