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No hard line on hard liquor

Brianna Siracuse | The ChronicleDuke is maintaining its policy of barring student events from serving hard liquor at a time when other universities are strengthening their policies.

As peer institutions continue to vary their alcohol policies, Duke administrators stand by the University’s approach.

Dartmouth College imposed a campus-

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wide ban on hard liquor two weeks ago, join-ing the ranks of schools including Bowdoin and Bates Colleges. The ban is among a num-ber of practices adopted in recent years to crack down on high-risk behaviors on college campuses across the country—as Duke con-tinues to support its own policies.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, noted that Duke’s approach to alco-hol is not the responsibility of one office but is instead more multifaceted—enforced and supported through services such as the Well-ness Center; Housing, Dining and Residence

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Ramkumar elected V. 111 editor-in-chief

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Sports blog editor presents vision of diversity and staff development for The Chronicle’s 111th volume

The Chronicle staff elected sophomore Amrith Ramkumar to serve as editor-in-chief of its 111th volume.

In an election Friday night, Ramkumar, currently the editor of The Blue Zone—The Chronicle’s sports blog—was appointed editor of The Chronicle and president of the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., which publishes the independent student-run daily newspaper.

Ramkumar—a political science and statistics double major and Norman, Okla., native—will succeed junior Carleigh Stiehm for a one-year term beginning in May.

“I do not think there is a candidate that could be better for this moment in The Chronicle’s history than Amrith Ramkumar,” Stiehm said.

His experience with running a successful and engaging sports blog for The Chronicle will be incredibly valuable when it comes to shaping future reporting for The Chronicle’s readership, Stiehm noted. She added that Ramkumar truly understands the important role of The Chronicle as the unbiased watchdog of news for the University.

Ramkumar emphasized the importance of making The Chronicle a representative for the diverse voices on campus, serving as a holistic cross section of university life.

“I know that’s a lofty goal and it’s going to be very challenging, but I’m a person that loves taking on big challenges,”

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McCrory push for preprofessional pro-grams leaves lingering concerns over

Two years after N.C. Governor Pat Mc-Crory publicly questioned the employabil-ity of those who major in the humanities, many in academia continue to debate the merits of liberal arts.

Debate over “intellectual luxuries,” a term used to describe majors that don’t ap-ply directly to future jobs, has flourished in the academic community since the term was coined by former-president Ronald Re-gan. McCrory brought the discussion to the forefront of state politics in 2013 with his statement that gender-studies should not be funded at the University of North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill.

“If you want to take gender studies that’s fine,” McCrory said in a 2013 interview. “Go to a private school and take it, but I don’t want to subsidize that if its not going to get someone a job.”

A disconnect between the degrees that students choose to pursue and studies that make students marketable job candidates is a concern for many professors in North Carolina.

Higher education need to ensure it is preparing students to enter the job mar-ket, said John McGowan, Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill.

“I think there’s a legitimate concern that we need to have a better connection between college education and the job market so that students aren’t left out there with massive debt they’re unable to pay,” McGowan said. “We are hearing from the

business leaders that providing some sense of how the business world works is really crucial, and I think the colleges have not done a good job of that.”

The comparison between the jobs avail-able to new graduates and the studies that students choose to pursue does not always paint the full picture of life after gradua-tion. Dean of Academic Affairs Lee Baker pointed on that the job market for humani-ties and social science majors is different than those pursuing business or engineer-ing degrees.

A large portion of students graduating with liberal arts degrees to not immediately enter the workforce, Baker said.

“They go to graduate school. Then, if you’re getting a Masters in Public Health, you’re going to get a job,” he said.

Many engineering majors, on the other hand, find jobs immediately after getting their undergraduate degrees, said Tom Kat-souleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engi-neering.

“The facts are the facts, and the job mar-ket is the strongest for people with engi-neering degrees,” Katsouleas said. “That’s been that way for a number of years. For engineers coming out with bachelor’s de-grees, I think seven out of the top 10 paying jobs last year were engineering related. “

McCrory has taken steps in recent years to emphasize the importance of technical education to the job market. In 2014, Mc-Crory started the NCWorks and “1,000 in 100” initiative, which involved meeting with business partners to learn how to tailor the skills businesses need with the training uni-versities and community colleges provide.

“We’ve frankly got enough psycholo-gists and sociologists and political science majors and journalists,” he said, according

to the Triad Business Journal. “With all due respect to journalism, we’ve got enough.”

He also emphasized the value of “people who can fix things and operate things and repair things, and of people who can drive trucks and are qualified to drive trucks.”

Baker said he agreed with McCrory on the importance of those jobs to the growth of North Carolina’s economy, but he still found McCrory’s 2013 remarks about gen-der studies to be misguided.

“It’s the smaller, regional state schools that work closely with community colleges that perhaps should focus on workforce management and instruction,” Baker said. “There really is a distinction between people who get into UNC-Chapel Hill and those who get into UNC-Charlotte. UNC-Chapel Hill should really be the flagship,

and UNC-Charlotte should really address our needs for workforce management.”

While there have been concerns over McCrory’s perception of higher education, humanities departments have not necessar-ily seen any adverse impact.

“There have been severe funding cuts here, because the state has been withdraw-ing support,” McGowan said. “However, on campus, there is strong support for the liberal arts, so the cuts have been spread evenly. The cuts were not specially targeted at the liberal arts.”

Both the funding for humanities depart-ments and the enrollment in the depart-ments’ classes remain strong at Duke, said Srinivas Aravamudan, professor of English

Special to The ChronicleN.C. governor Pat McCrory brought discussion of the merits of liberal arts into the spotlight in 2013 with comments he made about gender studies at the University of North Carolina.

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Life; the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life; Counseling and Psychological Services; and Duke Reach.

Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of Duke’s Well-ness Center, noted that the Wellness Center’s role in prevent-ing alcohol abuse on campus is to inform students of the risks associated with irresponsible drinking so that students can make wiser consumption decisions.

“High risk drinking can impose many risks to students from

physical injury to death,” Szigethy wrote in an email last Tues-day. “[It’s a] slippery slope of problems at Duke—students may sleep less, trying to get schoolwork done, their stress then in-creases and then sometimes try to cope with the stress by drink-ing, which is not good for their overall wellness.”

Under the Duke alcohol policy, students under 21 are not permitted to purchase, possess or consume alcoholic bever-ages under any circumstances. Serving hard liquor is not permitted at student events. Violations are grouped into four categories—underage possession and consumption, unsafe or irresponsible behavior, violation of community expectations and a general provisions violation.

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Other peer institutions place the emphasis specifically on preventing dangerous behavior. According to its alcohol policy, Washington University in St. Louis “places its highest enforce-ment priority on enforcing violations that are repeated, disrup-tive, dangerous, and/or flagrant” rather than emphasizing all consumption by students younger than 21.

Stanford University operates under what is known by stu-dents as an “open-door policy.” This stipulates that students will not face disciplinary action for drinking in their rooms with their doors open, so that the residential staff will be able to in-teract with residents when needed for safety reasons.

Dartmouth’s ban on hard liquor was announced in combi-nation with a four-year sexual violence prevention and educa-tion program. The ban will accompany a consent manual re-leased by Dartmouth in an attempt to reduce ambiguity about what qualifies as consensual behavior and development of a smartphone app students can use to seek help in emergencies.

Hard alcohol, as defined by Dartmouth, is any beverage containing more than 15 percent alcohol by volume.

The policy was implemented to reduce the occurrence of the negative consequences of hard alcohol consumption—consequences including sexual assaults, missed classes, regret-ted actions and hangovers—according to Diane Lawrence, di-rector of media relations at Dartmouth.

“Alcohol researchers indicate that, to see a substantial im-pact, our policy must be clear and enforcement must be consis-tent,” she wrote in an email Tuesday.

Lawrence said that enforcement procedures will include ad-ditional training of safety and security officers and residential life staff. The role of undergraduate advisors will also expand to include rounds when students are likely to drink in residence halls. Lawrence noted, however, that enforcement details have not yet been finalized.

Duke students expressed skepticism about a similar policy succeeding at Duke.

“I don’t know how they would control that,” freshman Mirko Tancredi said. “I feel like if we were to do that it wouldn’t cut down consumption as much as we would like or think. It might make Shooters more crowded.”

Sophomore Sarah Gorvetzian noted that enforcement would be difficult because drinking hard alcohol is “such a big part of Duke culture.”

“Unsafe drinking can happen anywhere,” Szigethy wrote. “When people drink in order to get drunk quickly, they in-crease the risk of blacking out—drinking games, shots and pre-gaming all add to this risk.”

Neelesh Moorthy, Will Walker and Jenna Zhang contributed reporting.


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Men’s Basketball Men’s Basketball

Xirui Liu | The ChronicleFreshman Justise Winslow recorded his third consecutive double-double, posting 19 points and 11 rebounds to fuel Duke’s 43-7 first-half run.

Notre Dame hit threes on its first two possessions, but from there, it was all Blue Devils.

The Texas twosome of Justise Winslow and Matt Jones combined for 36 points and the No. 4 Blue Devils used a 43-7 first-half run to crush No. 10 Notre Dame

90-60 Saturday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Although

Duke was playing with just eight scholarship players for the third straight game, it shot 81 percent in the first half and went 7-of-8 from 3-point range to take complete control and make fans forget all about the departure of its old sixth man.

Since Rasheed Sulaimon’s dismissal Jan. 29, the Blue Devils have knocked off No. 2 Virginia on the road and dominated the Fighting Irish to get right back into the ACC regular season title race.

“That’s the best half we’ve played this season,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Our defense sparked our offense.... We have not executed that way in a long time on both ends of the court—it was almost perfect. It was so good.”

As Krzyzewski pointed out, Duke’s offensive efficiency was all set up by the Blue Devils’ suffocating man-to-man defense. Senior captain Quinn Cook hounded Notre Dame star Jerian Grant—

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who had 23 points and 12 assists when the Fighting Irish upset Duke in South Bend, Ind., Jan. 28—holding the 6-foot-5 guard without a field goal for the first 24 minutes of the game.

Notre Dame (21-4, 9-3 in the ACC) also had trouble dealing with aggressive

traps in pick-and-roll situations.“We did a better of job just talking and

helping. We got it going and we didn’t let up on the talking,” Cook said. “A lot of the times when we get a lead, we don’t talk as much, but we didn’t do that at all [today].”

DUKE GETS REVENGE For Jones, ‘time is right now’

We read it, we said it, and we lost sleep over it: Who is going to score off the Duke bench now that Rasheed Sulaimon is gone? How can you replace a 6-foot-5 Texan with a solid 3-point stroke and good defensive chops?

How about with a 6-foot-5 Texan with a solid 3-point stroke and good defensive chops?

Yes, the answer to the Duke faithful’s prayers is none other than Matt Jones. And after the sophomore poured in a career-high 17 points in No. 4 Duke’s 90-60 throttling of No. 10 Notre Dame Saturday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium, it doesn’t appear as if Jones will be the subject of much derision any time soon.

Jones has earned his role as the team’s new sixth man. In three games since Sulaimon was dismissed, Jones is averaging an even 12.0 points per game compared to the 11.6 points Sulaimon and Jones averaged combined this season while Sulaimon was on the team. Jones is shooting 51.9 percent from the floor and 41.7 percent from beyond the arc in the post-Sulaimon era, both much greater than his percentages with Sulaimon in the fold.

And due to this recent explosion, fans across the nation are shaking their heads in agreement with Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey when he asks, “Where did Matt Jones come from...?”

The dirty little secret is that Jones has been hiding right under our noses all season. Let us not forget that the DeSoto, Texas, product looked like he might be slated to be a starter in early November, with Quinn Cook coming off the bench behind him through the exhibition season. He earned a start against N.C. State Jan. 11, albeit in a game most Duke fans wish to forget. The truth is, he’s just been quietly paying his dues, waiting for the right time to come. With Sulaimon in the rearview mirror, that time is now.

“I just knew I had to step up,” Jones said. “And I’m starting to get back to my old ways—being more confident in myself and scoring the ball more, and just trying to affect the game in a lot more areas. I’m getting that chance now and I’m just trying to make the most of it.”

It is truly amazing what a little bit of confidence can do for a basketball player. Jones candidly explained to reporters about all the doubts he had about his own abilities over the past year and a half. For a player who was drawing Ray Allen comparisons coming out of high school, it must have been hard for Jones to fathom telling reporters Saturday, “It is like a sigh of relief to feel

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Men’s Lacrosse

Jesús Hidalgo | The ChronicleFreshman Justin Guterding followed up his six-goal debut Saturday with four more scores Sunday against Air Force.

It was a tale of two halves as Duke extended its home winning streak to 18 games in the home opener at Koskinen Stadium Sunday.

After defeating High Point 16-13 Saturday, the No. 3 Blue Devils hit the field against Air Force looking for another win on opening

weekend. A strong second half effort powered the home

team to a 13-7 victory. Once again freshman attackman Justin Guterding and junior midfielder Myles Jones led the assault.

“Nobody in the country does this—plays two games in two days,” head coach John Danowski said. “You can practice all you want but nothing takes the place of games…. [The players] have got to play. At the end of the weekend as long as we’re healthy, it was a great experience.”

With possible fatigue as a result of playing those two tight games, Duke (2-0) could not shake Air Force (0-1) early on, trailing 5-4 at half. But the exceptional play by Guterding and Jones was enough to put the lead out of reach in the second half.

Following a strong six-goal performance Saturday, Guterding was stymied by tight defense in the first half but came out of the locker room ready to light up the Falcons’

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defense. A hat-trick flurry in the third period gave Duke’s offense the boost it needed to pull away from Air Force.

Through the first two games of his collegiate career, the freshman now has 10 points from 10 goals.

“That’s just me catching the ball and finishing. I’m not doing much,” Guterding said. “[My teammates] are unbelievable. They’re the ones that create space for me by cutting through, dodging.”

The first half was shaky for the Blue Devils

after the opening minutes. Despite jumping out to a quick 2-0 lead from on a duo of strong goals from sophomore Jack Bruckner—both assisted by Jones—the Blue Devils could not keep the Falcons on their heels.

Trailing 3-2 in the second period, Air Force went on a three-goal run to take a lead that it would not relinquish easily.

Out of a timeout, sophomore Austin Smith stormed the cage and scooped in a low, lined shot to even the score at three. Within three minutes the Falcons struck again to take their

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first lead of the game on an unassisted goal by midfielder Nate Hruby. With only 4:12 remaining in the first half, freshman Chris Walsch netted another goal through the five-hole of Duke goalkeeper Luke Aaron after several defenders fell to the ground, leaving a clean path to the goal.

Holding a 5-3 advantage, Air Force gave up an unassisted goal to junior Deemer Class, but maintained a slim 5-4 margin

Men’s Tennis

Jack White | Chronicle File PhotoSenior Raphael Hemmeler notched the 100th singles victory of his Duke career in his match Sunday against Michigan.

The Blue Devils continued building on their strong start to the spring season by taking down two opponents in one afternoon to remain undefeated on the season.

In the first contest, No. 6 Duke defeated Michigan 6-1 Sunday at the Sheffield Indoor

Tennis Center before turning to defeat N.C. Central by the same score a few hours later.

“Record-wise, it couldn’t have gone any better,” Duke head

coach Ramsey Smith said. “We’re playing really good tennis, and every single person on the team has stepped up and contributed in some way, and each day it seems like it could be a little different.”

The Blue Devils (9-0) had dropped the doubles point in their most recent matches—victories against Northwestern and Tennessee—sending the squad into singles play already down 1-0. Duke reversed that trend Sunday against the Wolverines (1-4) as the first-court duo of junior Josh Levine and senior Jason Tahir marched to a decisive 6-2 victory. Not long after, junior Bruno Semenzato and redshirt senior Chris Mengel gave their team the 1-0 advantage after a 6-4 defeat of Davis Crocker and Tyler Gardiner.

“We came out with really good energy,” Smith said. “We’ve lost two doubles points in a row, so that was really important that we set the tone from the beginning, and number 1 in particular did a really good job.... Josh Levine came out on fire and really kind of set

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the tone for the dual match.”Duke claimed a 2-0 lead with a milestone

win on Court 3. Senior Raphael Hemmeler claimed his 100th career win in doubles play in the dual opener against Michigan State Jan. 16. Barely three weeks later, he defeated Michigan’s No. 100 Alex Knight for the same marker in singles competition.

Coming full circle in singles play, Hemmeler’s first-ever win as a Blue Devil came against Alex Buzzi of then-No. 32 Michigan during his freshman year. Sunday, the Zurich native topped another Wolverine for his 100th.

“It’s a long journey for those four years, even though time flies,” Hemmeler said. “As a freshman, everything is so new, and you just

try to win every match—or to compete in at least every match—as hard as possible, and I think it’s a really nice outcome for me now as a senior, so it’s awesome to join this club.”

Michigan responded after Hemmeler’s statement win by claiming the Court 6 match in which Crocker defeated T.J. Pura 6-1, 6-4 to make the score 2-1. Although Duke claimed four first sets across the board, the Wolverines continued to fight back.

On Court 5, Mengel continued his momentum from doubles en route to a 6-2, 6-3 singles win against Carter Lin. No. 36 Tahir gave opponent Michael Zhu just one game in the first set but had to fight off a close second set, winning 6-2, 7-5 to claim the match for the

Blue Devils with a 4-1 overall score.“All great teams are going to make a

desperation surge—[Michigan] certainly did that,” Smith said. “We knew singles was going to be very tough. They have a lot of good players up and down the board, and we got off to strong starts...but [it was] certainly closer than a 6-1 score.”

Having chosen to continue play even with the match clinched, the pairings on Courts 1 and 4 continued their fast-paced second-set battles. No. 18 Nicolas Alvarez claimed the first set handily on the top court but lost the second in a seven-point tiebreaker and faced a superbreaker to decide the winner.

Semenzato played a characteristically lengthy match, dropping the first set 7-5 then rallying to take the second 6-4. In two 10-point tiebreakers, Alvarez and Semenzato won by grabbing early leads.

“I really like winning superbreakers, even when the match is clinched,” Smith said. “That could have easily been 4-3 and have two of our top guys coming off of losses, but we were able to get those W’s and be feeling good.”

The squad took its momentum from the early win directly into a decisive win against the Eagles (0-3). After claiming the doubles point, the Blue Devils took three consecutive singles matches and gave up just eight games total across all three.

Freshman Andrew DeJoy and junior Daniel McCall stepped into the lineup in place of Alvarez and Semenzato, earning wins in their first dual contests of the season.

Duke now sets its sights on a weekend of ITA Team Indoor competition to take place in Chicago beginning Friday.

Duke 9-0 with victories against Michigan, NCCUWomen’s Basketball

Nicole Savage | The ChronicleElizabeth Williams finished just shy of Duke’s second triple-double this season, posting 21 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists.

The Blue Devils continued their climb to the top of the ACC Sunday, with a dismantling of the Tigers marking their fifth straight win.

No. 15 Duke dominated Clemson 89-60, as it had its starting center Elizabeth Williams

in prime form. The senior scored 21 points, 12 rebounds,

nine assists, four blocks and two steals—a near triple-double—Sunday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils are now tied for second in the ACC.

“We are in a pretty good place,” Williams said. “Today we did a good job in responding, in that we played hard and still followed our game plan.”

After being held scoreless in the first half the last two games, Williams came out strong against the Tigers as she lead the team in all three major categories with 13 points, five assists and five rebounds in the first 20 minutes of play.

Duke (18-6, 9-2 in the ACC) started the game with an aggressive extended zone that left Clemson unable to get anything started. The Blue Devils caused nine steals and 12 turnovers in the first half, leveraging the forceful defense to a 20-5 opening run. The

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The Tigers (9-15, 1-10) could not hit a shot the first 15 minutes of the game, with only four players scoring in the first half.

The Blue Devils also moved the ball very well. They passed the ball quickly, and before the Clemson zone could rotate over, Duke had an open shot. The quick movement helped the Blue Devils shoot 40 percent from beyond the arc. Redshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell was able to find open shots as she finished with 19 points and shooting 38 percent from three.

“Twenty-four assists [as a team] is a good thing,” McCallie said. “[It’s] good to have assists and lower turnovers.”

Although passing may have created space, the real advantage for Duke was its frontcourt height. The comparatively undersized Tigers could not rebound efficiently, as the Blue Devils had 14 offensive rebounds, which led to 11 second-chance points.

Clemson could also not contain Williams and Azura Stevens, who had 17 points mainly from the post. Stevens also turned in eight rebounds and four assists. Overall, the Blue Devils outscored Clemson in the paint by 32 points, highlighting Duke’s frontcourt domination.

“When Elizabeth plays with that type of energy, I think it bleeds over to the others on the team,” McCallie said.

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In the opening half, the most efficient offense in the nation had as many turnovers as field goals—eight. The Fighting Irish also struggled all game long at the free throw line, going just 6-of-17 in by far their worst performance of the season.

“After a loss like that, I always look at the stat sheet to make sure it only counted as one loss,” Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey said. “That was a thorough beating.”

Blue Devil star center Jahlil Okafor went to the bench with two fouls at the 12-minute mark in the opening period, but it didn’t matter as Duke (20-3, 7-3) went on an 18-4 run without him and eventually built a 50-24 halftime lead.

Okafor’s fellow freshman starters—Winslow and Tyus Jones—picked up the slack with the big man limited by foul trouble, combining for 18 points and eight assists in the opening period. When its leading scorer returned, though, Duke got back to feeding its big man. Okafor finished with 20 points on 9-of-11 shooting and 10 rebounds. Jones had another strong all-around game, posting 12 points, five rebounds and seven assists.

With the Apple Valley, Minn., native attacking off the bounce to create open space for others, the Blue Devils assisted on 18 of their 31 field goals for the game. Even reserves Grayson Allen and Marshall Plumlee had strong games,

good about yourself on the offensive end and not be that liability anymore,” two years ago.

Despite a lot of misfiring from beyond the arc and ill-fated drives to the basket, Jones kept his chin up and kept going to the gym, working harder and harder to be the player he knew he could be, all while refocusing his in-game energy on his defense.

“He’s making a ton of plays all over the court,” freshman Grayson Allen said of Jones. “If you watch him, he’s just all over the place—getting steals, offensive rebounds. He never takes a play off, and he’s been really big for us stepping up. He’s playing a lot more minutes, and he’s been knocking down shots. I think that’s because of all the plays he’s making on the defensive end.”

It’s this dedication that has endeared Jones to his Hall-of-Fame head coach. Mike Krzyzewski has routinely sent Jones text messages after big wins during the course of their time together, telling him to stay ready, and that the team would need him one day. He’d tell him that in the future, Duke will be Matt Jones’ team.

Krzyzewski unabashedly gushed about Jones postgame, which is a stark contrast to how he ever spoke of Sulaimon, even during Sulaimon’s standout freshman season. Krzyzewski called Jones the consummate team player and a great competitor. He spoke of how Jones will do anything the coaching staff asks of him, and how all of his teammates love him.

After Saturday’s dismantling of a top-

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building on the tone set by the starters to help Duke keep its foot on the gas by combining for seven points and five rebounds.

“[We felt like] maybe not everything is going to go right, but if something goes wrong, the next thing is going to go right,” Winslow said.

The Fighting Irish fought back early in the second half, cutting the lead to 18 with 13:25 left in the game after an 11-2 run, but Winslow sparked a quick 12-0 spurt as

the Blue Devils pushed the lead back to 30. The response mimicked the start of the game, when Winslow scored Duke’s first four points after the Blue Devils fell behind 6-0 in the opening minute. Duke went on to score 39 of the game’s next 46 points and build a 30-point lead in the first 15:24 of game action.

The Houston native posted his third consecutive double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds and continued to show why the Blue Devils are a different team

Xirui Liu | The ChronicleJahlil Okafor was saddled with two early fouls but dominated the second half, finishing with 20 points and 10 rebounds in the rout.

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Xirui Liu | The ChronicleMatt Jones scored a career-high 17 points, 15 of which came in the first half.

10 team, the country finally sees the Matt Jones Krzyzewski has been cultivating for years. Fans now get to appreciate the confident Matt Jones and recognize his importance to the team just as much as Krzyzewski does.

“His time is right now,” Krzyzewski said. “And thank goodness.”

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Duke’s height was also integral to its defensive performance. The Blue Devils outrebounded the Tigers 41-29. Duke was also able to pick up eight blocks. Duke’s long arms also clogged up passing lanes, as they were able to pick up 13 steals.

“[Duke is] a very long, lean athletic team,” Clemson head coach Adura Smith said. “They did a very good job disrupting us because of their length.”

Clogging the lane also meant that Clemson had to settle for mid- or long-range jumpers for most of the game. Aside from Shelbie Davenport—13 points on 5-of-13 shooting from the field—and Tiffany Lewis—13 points on 4-of-13 shooting—the Tiger squad could not find the range. As a team, Clemson shot 35 percent from the field.

In the second half, the Blue Devils continued to pull away. The inside-out offensive game the Blue Devils were playing,

Nicole Savage | The ChronicleRedshirt freshman Rebecca Greenwell hit three 3-pointers and scored 19 points in Duke’s 89-60 win against Clemson Sunday.

when their swingman is in attack mode.“He has really learned to play through

his injuries—that’s the sign of a guy really growing up,” Krzyzewski said. “You’ve got to play a little bit sore, a little bit hurt without talking about it—that’s what he’s doing. He let his actions speak for [him].”

After its fourth top-10 win of the season, Duke will look to keep the momentum going on the road Monday against Florida State.

along with lots of second chance points and forced turnovers proved too much, opening up a 30 point lead with five minutes to go in the game. Duke senior Jenna Frush got to play in the closing minutes, which got the home crowd on their feet as she scored two points.

On a less positive note for Duke, it was announced Sunday that sophomore Oderah Chidom is out for the rest of the season with shoulder injury. Chidom had dislocated it multiple times this season and in order to protect it from permanent damage, the team has shut down the 6-foot-4 forward for the remainder of the 2014-15 campaign.

“It’s been a tough year for a lot of reasons,” McCallie said. “There is no decision to be made. [Oderah] cannot play. She’s going directly to surgery.”

The Blue Devils will hit the road Thursday, as they will take on Virginia at 7 p.m. in search of their sixth-straight win.

“It’s fun to play these last couple ACC games on the road,” Williams said. “It’s a good opportunity for us to finish out the regular season really strong.”


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heading into the half.“You have to give Air Force a lot of credit,”

Danowski said. “They basically had a game plan. We were up 2-0, but they stayed with it. Their game plan was simple. They were going to win face offs. They were going to hold the ball.”

While the offense hit its stride out of the locker room, Duke’s defense locked down the Falcons in the second period. After allowing 16 shots in the first period, the Blue Devils only gave up eight in the second half—including only two in the final period.

There was much more hustle apparent in the Duke squad as well, picking up 25 ground balls in the second half in comparison to just 10 in the first.

“Coach [Ben] DeLuca thought we should extend the tempo a little bit and extend the field,” Danowski said. “We tried to pressure them a little bit and we created some turnovers early.”

Another strong performance by Jones in his new leadership role kept the Blue Devils in the game as well. With momentum swinging back-and-forth, the Huntington, N.Y., native launched two goals into the net amidst Guterding’s run in the third period. Two games into the season, he has a team high 11 points off of six goals and five assists working out of the midfield.

Bruckner also provided a spark for the home faithful. In addition to his two opening goals, the Belle Terre, N.Y., native tied the game right of the gate in the second half to get a hat-trick and swing momentum Duke’s way.

“Whenever we had the ball we had to keep possession of it and make sure we stayed poised on offense,” Bruckner said. “We really tried to value the ball in the first half. Then the second half we came out, we just played our game and just slung the ball around, and just played Duke lacrosse.”

Despite its stronger play in the second, the Duke still managed a sloppy game that shows signs of youth and early season rust. With the game being closer than the final score indicates, the Blue Devils will be happy to take the win en route to an early season top-five matchup against No. 1 Denver next week.

“We beat Denver twice last year, so they’re going to be all fired up,” Danowski said. “It’s a great opportunity to measure ourselves up to see where we’re at and what to work on. Beating Denver or losing to Denver is not really going to change our perspective in any way, because we are a long way away from becoming what we are going to become.”

Duke will travel to Kennesaw State University just north of Atlanta, Ga. for the neutral sight matchup Saturday Feb. 14. Faceoff is set for 1 p.m.

Jesús Hidalgo l The ChronicleJunior Miles Jones netted a hat trick and add-ed three assists in Duke’s 13-7 win Sunday.


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The Wisconsin state government’s recent discussion about removing “the search for truth” from the mission statement of its state

university system is deeply misguided but not sur-prising. In most post-modern secular universities, studies are typically limited to the material order of reality. Questions about the transcendent order of reality—the existence of God, the good, objec-tive truth, justice and moral order, and an exter-nally derived meaning of the human person—have been largely excluded from the contemporary curriculum and relegated to the sphere of private judgment and personal opinion.

Such questions, however, have been the subject of rigorous and scholarly analysis for over 2,500 years, and we should not be so presumptuous as to dis-miss them as unfit for academic inquiry for want of “scientific” verification. Questions about how to live a good life and how to service society are eternally grounded in the human condition. They are timeless and provide the unifying lens through which a wide spectrum of knowledge can be assimilated.

As such, the university, by its very definition, has an obligation to consider those questions. Authen-tic knowledge, as Plato conceived it, is to know the good, which transcends all disciplines and resides

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JamesTian ONISM

On the medical school interview trail, I’ve met some amazing people. Their experi-ences, their values and their goals were in-

spiring, especially in the field of medicine. On my most recent trip, I found myself sitting at a table eating hotdogs with three other people who had all taken two gap years.

One had spent two years volunteering with Americorps. Another had spent two years working with a nonprofit that focuses on homelessness in Washington, D.C. The last one had only been doing Alzheimer’s research with the National Institute of Health.

What was I doing at the same table with these people? I felt I couldn’t possibly be worthy to share these Chicago-style hotdogs with these model citizens. They dedicated not one, but two gap years in service to a community.

Duke has taught me how to manage academic rigor and pursue scholarly inquiry, yes, but the most valuable lesson has been challenging me about how I could apply my education to the service of society. Economics? Consider microfinance in developing

countries. Law? Consider working pro-bono cases in the community.

But what about medicine? You don’t have to look far to find a premed saying they are choosing medicine because they want to “help people.” Are physicians automatically using their knowledge in the service of society because they are helping people every day? I’ve had my share of interacting with non-profits, but for some reason, I didn’t view the work of physicians to be as selfless as the service of the people in the nonprofit.

To understand this issue, perhaps we can examine where people first encounter service on their path to be a physician. Premed students across the country are no strangers to service—in fact, it is almost an unofficial requirement for most medical schools. Because we have limited medical training and capabilities, we engage in non-medical service. This exposes us to a variety of social issues such as education, poverty, or racial inequalities.

What’s troubling is that the rates of engaging in non-medical service decline the further these students progress into the profession. According to a recent study, 76% of medical students regularly volunteer during medical school and 84% anticipate doing so as well in their future practice. But the rates of service drop precipitously in residency and another study says only 39% of physicians have volunteered in the past 12 months, and 54% in the previous three years.

There are several possible explanations for this.

Obviously, people become busier, which easily explains the sharp drop during residency. There are also extra pressures and increasing disillusionment as people age, which may not affect students in college as much. But with how busy doctors are every day with treating patients, isn’t the very act of seeing patients considered service to society?

On one hand, there are absolutely brilliant doctors performing mind-boggling procedures or discovering new techniques with high efficiency. Perhaps it could be argued that any time spent on anything other than their work would be a disservice to society. Place such a doctor in a community, and the health of the community would definitely improve.

But don’t physicians need to do more to be classified as using their knowledge in the service of society? Otherwise such a definition would become too easy to qualify. Are firefighters inherently serving their community? Probably. Are restaurants inherently serving their community? Literally yes, but probably not.

The problem comes when physicians focused only on their practice end up caring only about someone

when they enter the hospital walls. After all, there are so many factors affecting health, it seems so narrow-minded to only care about a person’s clinical health. To truly serve society, a physician needs to work for so much more.

At the same time, facing the world’s problems is daunting. It becomes nearly absurd for one person to try to address the violence and poverty that cause health problems. Physicians typically are not short of empathy to give, but they choose to limit what they care about to not become burnt out.

I know of fantastic physicians who have a tremendous positive impact on society with their practice alone. But I also know of equally fantastic physicians who find time to engage in nonmedical service to their community. Is the work of the first type of physician enough, or do they have a responsibility to do something more?

“Am I truly using my knowledge in the service of society?” is a question I can barely answer for my future career, let alone anyone else’s career. However, the very act of asking this question helps guide our actions. Those people I met over hotdogs were brave enough to take a major step into discovering what that question meant for them. Whatever profession we choose, we shouldn’t just ask ourselves if our society is better off because of us, but if we are actually fulfilling our responsibility to society with our knowledge.

James Tian is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other semester.

A physician’s knowledge in the service of society A couple of days ago, someone asked me what type of music

I listen to the most. I told her hip-hop. A couple of hours ago, someone asked me what type of music I could listen to forever. I told him jazz.

I must’ve been about 13 years old when my dad took me to see Chuck Mangione. It was December of 2007 in Greenwich Village, New York and the line outside of the Blue Note looped around West 3rd street. I’d grown up listening to jazz—my childhood a blur of Scooby Doo on TV and Miles Davis on surround sound. “Five minutes! Just five minutes! Come listen to this song,” my dad would always yell as he barged into my room. He’d quickly turn around, race back to the living room and push a CD into our Bose. Whether it was Armstrong, Ellington, Ella, Ray or Coltrane, my dad would sit me down on the couch, press play, point to his ear and tell me to “listen.” At first, I never knew what I was listen-ing for. I appreciated the music of course—smiled and bobbed my head as he studied my reaction. “Lo oiste?” he wondered out loud, fixing his crooked glasses as he spoke Spanish. “Yes, Pa. I heard it.” It wasn’t until that night in New York, however, that I truly listened. It wasn’t until that jam session that I understood why jazz had always brought my dad to life.

The small venue was packed with more people than it was ta-bles. Adults crowded around the bar—ordering their scotch on the rocks and cups of red wines—as I searched for anyone my age. No such luck. Dad and I made our way to a couple empty chairs around the stage and watched as Chuck Mangione wiped

his flugelhorn clean. The close-knit band behind him set up their guitar, bass and piano—“Mic check. Mic check 1, 2. All set.” The electric bass intro to “Feels So Good” hushed the loud audience to a whisper, and Chuck Mangione quickly followed with his in-strumental lead in. No one cared about personal space or elbow room. There was no shoving, no fighting—just appreciation. I sat, wide-eyed, in my chair and overwhelmed. That night, I witnessed magic—a creative, beautiful dialogue between electric, brass and woodwind instruments. I witnessed a band’s process and its lis-tener’s participation. The musicians played the original melody, soon after taking turns improvising their own variations, lifting each other to explore their boundaries, showcasing their musical vitality to a 13 year old girl who would walk out of the Blue Note forever changed.

Their passion, intuition, respect and admiration for the talent-ed musicians beside them helped me understand why jazz is and always will be so successful. It’s a type of music that appreciates both the individual and the collective talent. And that’s the thing about jazz. It will always keep you on the tips of your toes, teasing you with one chord progression and surprising you with another. It is improvisation and self-expression at its finest, unconfined to any meter, style or people—an art of the moment. Today, though often underappreciated, jazz continues to be music’s most time-less genre. It continues to be a safe space—one easily enjoyed by the individual or by a crowd. It connects us to people around the world and right beside us. Jazz is, and always will be, very much alive in this world. My dad passed it down to me. I will pass it down to others. And others will do the same.

Francis Curiel is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Monday.

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Letter to the EditorThe recent decision by HDRL to enforce the “30% Upperclassmen/10% Senior” class distribution for

SLG housing is discriminatory, unfair, and mistimed.Duke administration’s justification is a correlation

of better conduct scores with sections on campus that have a high percentage of seniors. This reasoning is statistically dishonest at worst and misleading at best: correlation does not mean causation. It should be noted that amongst Greek organizations, the top four GPAs in Panhel and three of the top four GPAs in IFC belong to organizations that have the lowest percentage of seniors in section.

Campus organizations (including SLGs) exist

exclusively to add to our undergraduate experience. This rule means taking away off campus housing for a significant portion of SLG Seniors each year. Many Junior class members, who have planned ahead and signed leases for next year, will now suffer significant financial losses to duck out of deposits and move back on campus. My biggest issue is I was told by Duke “three years on campus and you’re free Senior year.” In fact, Duke is still telling prospective Freshmen this (check the website).There was no “SLG clause” to that promise—and there still shouldn’t be one..

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at the apex of reality. Such critical engagement with such fundamental questions, then, is a crucial element of a liberal arts education, no matter what discipline of study. Studying microcellular biology to extend the human life does not realize its signifi-cance, per se, until we understand what the mean-ing of human life is.

At Duke, small pockets of courses explore life’s deepest questions, but too often those questions are considered only as historical artifacts and not examined on their own merits, as first principles fundamental to human meaning. The current curriculum review provides an opportunity to remedy that deficiency.

Students should be exposed to these first prin-ciples and considerations of the transcendent or-der of reality early in their undergraduate careers to frame their course of studies, both inside and outside the classroom. To that end, we propose that the revised curriculum adapt Writing 101 courses—which all students take within their first two semesters at the University—to delve into these questions and engage with writings that take seriously the existence or non-existence of, for ex-ample, objective truth, the moral order, virtue,

justice, love and an infinite God. These courses would incorporate a canon of readings. For start-ers, we suggest Plato’s “Republic,” Aristotle’s “Eth-ics,” Saint Thomas Aquinas’ “Five Ways” proving the existence of God from his Summa Theolo-giae and Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of the “Will to Power.” Such a canon has precedence in other universities like Columbia, where it is part of the required core curriculum.

Engaging with these questions should not cease in the first year. Rather, they should permeate all stud-ies inside and outside the classroom, at Duke and beyond.

The post-modern university explores every last detail of the material order and presumes an intri-cate and comprehensive intelligibility—like “The Theory of Everything.” At the same time, it seems to steadfastly decline to consider the source of that intelligibility. That we are able to explore so much materially, then, suggests the existence of an im-material realm. For Duke to continue to ignore that realm will eventually disqualify us from claim-ing the status of a “university” in any meaningful or authentic sense of that term. Simply speaking, the university without a transcendent foundation fails to

Letter to the EditorWhile I thank the Editorial Board for urging us

to think critically about Me Too’s role on campus, I strongly disagree with their view.

The Editorial Board seems misguided and uninformed on both the original mission of Me Too and the need for space to showcase multi-layered narratives about identity. While race is an “uncomfortable issue,” the board implies that topics of mental health and body image, sexual assault and domestic abuse are not. This notion invalidates the experiences of those who struggle with these diverse issues everyday and who acted with courage by sharing their narratives on the Me Too stage. It also insults the authors who were brave enough to submit this year. All the issues covered in Me Too are uncomfortable. From mental health to sexual assault to suicide to eating disorders to domestic abuse. These topics are no less important to someone’s identity than her race. Implying that those who struggle quietly and constantly with various disorders may not feel on the margins rejects the realities of so many multifaceted individuals on our campus and further tells them that their narratives are not enough. That their strength in seeking help, finding a safe space and finally telling their stories are not enough. That their tales of domestic abuse, manic depression and anorexia are not enough. That their want for love or their attempted suicide is not enough. Me Too reminds others that no matter which identity marker you choose to share with us, you are more than enough.

Duke’s dominant white and affluent culture doesn’t want to admit it has a race problem. It also doesn’t want to admit it has problems with class, sexism, mental health, and heteronormativity. To bring these problems to light, Me Too gives a stage to those in isolation, without passing judgement on whether or not their experience is too “common.”

The board also seems to assume that non-racial issues do not affect or could not be written by students of color. While one monologue this year spoke solely to issues of race, the topic was discussed in multiple

other monologues, highlighting the intersectionality of our experiences. Implying that issues of mental illness and sexual assault only exist in the dominant white culture or were not highlighted by a person of color denies that student the full expression of his experiences. That I, as a black woman, am limited to solely topics of my blackness or of my womanhood because my identity is not also defined by my more “subtle” markers of marginalization. That those in communities of color, marginalized communities, and low-income communities do not face a higher stigma concerning issues of mental health, topics often deemed as “white” issues, designed to discredit individual experiences.

I understand that Me Too is not a perfect project. There needs to be more stories centered on the minority Duke experience. I would love to hear more about how we live in these intersections of race, gender,socioeconomic status, sexuality, emotional and mental health. I agree with the Editorial Board that with heighten popularity comes a responsibility to prioritize those whose voices are often ignored. I remember watching Me Too as a first year and thinking of it as a safe space for frank narratives about identity. As Me Too becomes more popular and thus more “mainstream,” can it still be a safe space for these minority stories?

After seeing a lack of such stories last year, I decided to get involved and audition this year. I now see how the production team intentionally tried to get more diverse stories on stage. However, we are only as strong as those who support this work- the writers of the monologues, the actors, and the audience. Out of 80 submitted monologues this year, two were primarily about race. Both of those monologues were in the show. These monologues are a gift and we cannot perform what is not given to us. This article is a call for all to submit, get involved with the production team, encourage others to submit, change the narrative and continue to fulfill the mission of Me Too.

Ngozi Max-Macarthy is a Trinity senior.

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Ramkumar said. “So I’m really excited to pursue that.”

Community building is essential for Ramkumar, who currently serves as a resident assistant on East Campus. He emphasized the importance of making sure everyone on staff enjoys their work and has each other’s backs.

“The goal is to recruit, to get as many fresh faces as we can,” Ramkumar said. “Through recruitment and delegation

of important tasks, we will help bring together a real cohesive unit that is a family.”

Ramkumar also emphasized his goal of increasing staff development, noting that The Chronicle is looking to grow its staff next year.

“A big challenge is finding the right people to have my back and are on board with what I want to do here,” he said.

But his biggest challenge, he said, will be learning elements of journalism that he has not yet been exposed to during his work with sports coverage—things that might have been second nature to

past editors-in-chief who rose through the ranks of the news department.

Ramkumar added that despite the learning curve, his sports background provides a fresh perspective that could ultimately aid the organization’s growth.

There is no better candidate for the job, said junior Nick Martin, The Chronicle’s sports editor.

“Through his time in sports he has displayed resilience, hard work and a dedication to The Chronicle that does not come along that often,” he said. “I think he will flourish in the editor-in-chief position.”

Martin added that Ramkumar is both extremely understanding and intelligent.

“Because of that, he’s going to not just be a great editor but also a great leader and friend to anybody that is in 301 Flowers next year,” he said.

Taylor Doherty, Trinity ’12 and a former news editor who began his career in the sports department, said that Ramkumar’s background in sports coverage will be exciting for The Chronicle.

“For years, sports has really been the forefront in terms of adapting to online journalism quickly and efficiently,” Doherty said. “I expect that background to bring a lot of that to this organization.”

Doherty also, however, emphasized the challenge of covering a much wider range of storylines.

Martin added that some of Ramkumar’s challenges will be to continue the model of excellence The Chronicle has set forth throughout its 110 years of production—while also trying to be innovative during the Internet age.

“Being able to delegate the jobs to a trustworthy and hardworking staff will be key for his success and The Chronicle’s success next year,” Martin said.

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and director of the Humanities Writ Large program at Duke.

“The most popular majors at Duke are the social sciences, and there are multiple ways at Duke where we allow the humani-ties to keep up with the times,” Aravamu-dan said.

In response to attacks on the usefulness of liberal arts majors, Aravamudan said the liberal arts are crucial to the development of well-educated citizens and for societal growth.

“We live in a very uncertain and fast-changing and fast-moving world,” Ara-vamudan said. “And I think the humanities give you the skills to change and adapt and think about how you can develop new skills in certain areas.”

Aravamudan added that any stigma against liberal arts education is misguided and contrary to the purpose of higher edu-cation.

“The fact that they’re willing to study these subjects is something society should get up and feel good about,” Aravamudan said. “They’re not doing it for economic self-interest, just to get a job. If education was all about vocational training, we should get rid of colleges and universities entirely.”

Allison Jamison, associate director of ad-missions for the Fuqua School of Business, noted that humanities majors often face no disadvantage—and might actually be at an advantage—in applying to business school.

“We don’t give preference to any particu-lar major,” Jamison said. “Someone who has a classical degree, for example, may have very good ideas and clear reasons for how they’re going to leverage that information into a business career. Its not a deterrent in the application process by any means.”

Emma Loewe | The ChronicleSophomore Amrith Ramkumar was elected by the Chronicle staff at a meeting Friday night to become editor-in-chief for the 2015-16 year.

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