MOP hours reinstated after outcry

by Yeshwanth KandimallaTHE CHRONICLE

The hourly restrictions on the Merchants on Points program have been repealed as quietly as they were announced.

Duke Dining repealed restrictions that prevented students from ordering through MOP before 7 p.m., following a meeting with student representatives Friday. Additionally, none of the 19 MOP eateries listed on Duke Dining’s website will be cut from the program this year, said Rick Johnson, assistant vice president for housing and dining. Nei-ther the implementation of the hourly limits nor their repeal were announced to undergraduate students via email or through Duke Dining’s website.

In an interview Sunday, Johnson said he chose to repeal the hourly limitations following student feedback that largely opposed them. The policy may be rein-stated next year.

“After talking with students, we decided at this point that MOP needed to be avail-able during the day,” he said. “It made a lot of sense to revisit the program and look at it every year. We’ll look at how it functions and listen to student input and make a better de-cision.”

DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, said he learned about the cap on MOP

Students robbed at gunpoint

by Caroline FairchildTHE CHRONICLE

Three graduate students were robbed at gunpoint on 2750 Campus Walk Ave. at 1 a.m. Saturday.

A man displaying a silver handgun ap-proached the students—who were all Asian females—and proceeded to rob them, said Lt. J.E. Yount, Durham Police Department watch commander on duty Sunday.

The robber, who is described as a black male wearing a cloth mask over his face, de-manded the wallets and purses of the three students before fleeing toward Erwin Road on foot, Yount said.

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Missed field goals doom Dukeby Chris Cusack

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It was déjà vu all over again... all over again.

For the third time since 2006, Rich-mond defeated Duke in both teams’ season opener. Though the Blue Devils out-gained the Spiders by almost 100 yards, they lost 23-21.

Despite brand new black jerseys, Duke again suffered a crucial special teams error that cost it the game.

In 2006, Richmond’s Adam Goloboski jumped through the line to block a 43-yard field goal attempt that kept the Spi-ders up two scores before halftime. Three

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Richmond running back Garrett Turner scored on a one-yard run to give the Spiders the lead in the fourth quarter.

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Like Duke football’s final at-tempt at a game winner Saturday, some said Football Gameday just came up short.

Football Gameday, the Univer-sity’s replacement for Tailgate—canceled last November—attempt-ed to substitute beer showers and neon costumes with barbecues

and seersucker in a campus-wide, organized celebration of Duke’s game against Richmond.

Prior to the football game, 18 registered student groups hosted barbecues throughout various areas of West Campus. Roughly nine of the groups’ events hosted about 75 people, though the rest of the groups’ events were very small, Dean of Students Sue Wa-

siolek said. The lack of Tailgate’s signature

sense of community was the main complaint coming from students, said junior Chris Brown, Duke Student Government external chief of staff.

“When you spread everyone out and decentralize everything,

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Despite administrators’ attempt to pro-mote official campus activities at the start of this academic year—and the reinvention of the annual Joe College Day—freshmen still made their way to unsanctioned events this weekend.

In an effort to promote campus unity and safer student behavior, the University packaged the “1st Big Weekend,” a weekend of varied activities following the first week of classes, including Heat Wave—Duke Univer-sity Union’s reinvention of the music festival formerly known as Joe College Day.

Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the weekend was presented in order to show students—particularly freshmen—what types of on-campus activi-ties Duke has to offer. Administrators also hoped the event would emphasize campus-oriented events instead of potentially dan-gerous activities such as excessive alcohol consumption, he added.

“There’s always a hope students will take advantage of these opportunities instead of engaging in those behaviors,” Moneta said. “But I would not say this was a primary goal [of the First Big Weekend].”

Senior Kawon Lee, Joe College Day com-mittee chair, said she was pleased with the turnout at Heat Wave—which featured art-ists New Boyz, Stay and Walk the Moon—but noted that it was hard to compare it to last year’s program. The changes from years past included scheduling the concert earlier in the school year, making it a half-day instead of full-day event and bringing in more mainstream artists.

“We wanted to kind of redesign [Joe College Day] and make it evolve based on the needs of the student population,” Lee

said. “We figured to change it, we should re-brand it.”

She added that the decision to hold Heat Wave early in the year was particularly good for freshmen because it invited them to West Campus.

But some students felt that even with the shifts away from the theme of the origi-nal Joe College Day, which garnered some criticism in the past, did not necessarily provide a better experience.

Larger events such as Heat Wave are not good environments for meeting new peo-ple, freshman Sydney Howland said, adding that this is an important aspect for events to have, particularly at the beginning of the year and in comparison to section parties.

“It is hard for freshmen because all the other freshmen go, too,” Howland said. “If you want to meet other people you haven’t seen before, it’s not conducive for that... Parties are a little more laid back.”

But those who attended Heat Wave could not help but notice a difference be-tween the event and its predecessor.

Sophomore Kaitlin Gladney said she en-joyed this year’s event more, adding that it seemed that Heat Wave attracted a bigger crowd than Joe College Day did last year.

“[My friends] and I were curious about what the New Boyz were like live,” she said. “And it seems like there are a lot of people here.”

The 1st Big Weekend line-up also in-cluded a magic show, campus organiza-tions’ open houses and Saturday’s football game against Richmond, particularly the first Football Gameday.

Although many freshmen attended sev-eral of the 1st Big Weekend events, some said they thought it did not necessarily accomplish some of the administration’s

goals because it was not able to compete with many of the parties also taking place.

According to University policy, no living groups may not register on-campus section parties until Sept. 9—two weeks later than in previous years when the policy only ap-plied to orientation week. Housing, Dining and Residence Life announced the exten-sion of this policy in an email to student groups Aug. 25, though the initial decision to prohibit section parties during the first two weeks of classes was made in April.

Freshman Reem Alfahad, who attended a couple of the events—including Heat Wave—said many freshmen were making time for both the campus events and for going out.

“From what I’ve seen, there are some people who make time for this and put off the parties,” Alfahad said. “There are people who are always going to go to the parties anyway.”

Freshman Elber Reyes said he and his

friends decided collectively to go to off-campus parties this weekend. Reyes added that he believes more freshmen would go to on-campus organized events if more stu-dent groups participated.

“[1st Big Weekend] felt very scattered,” Reyes said. “If there weren’t so many other parties going on, everyone would go [to the events].”

Senior Ryan Lipes, director of Duke Emergency Medical Services, wrote in an email Sunday that four calls were made this weekend concerning alcohol-related incidents. He noted that this was not ab-normal for a weekend near the beginning of the school year and that all of these calls were placed at night. Lipes said he did not have data regarding the number of calls during the first weekend follow-ing classes last year.

Moneta noted that it was too early to tell whether or not the event was a success.

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“My understanding is that after the incident, Durham Police have increased patrols, and they are working in coordination with Duke police to do so,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said.

Yount declined to release the names of the victims but said that they did not suffer any injuries from the robberies. He added that the suspect has not yet been discovered.

Duke Police Chief John Dailey said he was glad that the graduate students were not injured during the rob-bery and that Duke Police is continuing to increase secu-rity efforts in the area where the robbery occurred.

“We had actually already increased patrols in that area before the incident had occurred,” Dailey said. “We have been working with the property owners in the area to help them with their security as well.”

Moneta added that students should take extra pre-caution when walking around late at night, especially given that it is the beginning of the school year.

Dailey said it is important that students are aware of their surroundings, particularly if they live off campus.

“Anybody that is renting an apartment off campus really needs to understand what their property manag-ers are doing for crime prevention,” he said. “They need to ask their property management what crimes have occurred. I encourage students to visit the Durham Po-lice website and look at that map that shows you where crimes have occurred and when.”

And though there have been a series of break-ins at the Belmont Apartments—close to where Saturday’s in-cident occurred—this summer and last Spring, Moneta said he could not extrapolate as to whether these crimes were related.

“Whether it was one student robbed or multiple, the issue is concerning,” he said. “But this doesn’t suggest a trend, and I am certainly hoping that increased security will prevent robberies in the future.”

Moneta sent an email alerting the student body of the incident shortly after it occurred Saturday morning.

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hours about two weeks ago, after students approached him about not being able to order from vendors who lost eligibility under the now repealed rules. After meeting with Johnson to learn more about the reasons behind the changes, he and senior Esosa Osa, DSG vice president for residence life and dining, met with Johnson last Friday to discuss the negative student response.

Schork said changes to MOP were discussed among stu-dent leaders throughout last year but the proposal did not come up as part of a formal negotiation.

Osa said administrators did not consult about the final decision on MOP hours with students but noted that stu-dents had a role in the repeal.

“It was great starting point for a relationship between [DSG] and the administration,” she said. “The fact the we have student voices being heard on this issue is a very good sign.”

Duke Dining finalized the contracts with MOP vendors in January, Johnson noted. In addition to changing the hours of MOP’s availability, the contracts also stipulated that vendors disclose to students their minimum order requirements and delivery fees by publishing them on the MOP website or on their respective menus.

Johnson said administrators in dining discussed the planned changes with members of Duke Student Govern-ment before Johnson assumed his role in January. He added that he could not comment specifically on the content of dis-cussions because he was not part of them.

Last month, Jim Wulforst stepped down from his position of 15 years as director of dining services. The University is in the process of searching for a new director this Fall, with Johnson overseeing Duke Dining in the interim, The Chron-icle reported Aug. 26.

Schork said the University was primarily concerned about MOP’s effect on student culture, not its financial impact to Duke Dining.

Johnson said after meeting with Schork and Osa, they agreed that changes to MOP might be more effective as part of a long-term plan. He added that the renovations to the West Union building will create more dining venues on cam-pus, and social interaction around dining will continue to be a concern for the administration.

“The house model is going to address some of these community building issues,” he said. “Every year we’re looking at how MOP helps or hinders community-build-ing around meals.”

Schork said there may be a correlation between the num-ber of on-campus venues and student interaction but added that many students order food through MOP as a group and eat together. He added that he is pleased with Johnson’s deci-sion to repeal.

“I think it’s the right decision given where we are with our dining program,” Schork said. “Until we build more on-cam-pus venues, we can’t be cutting options.... I think it was a win

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it’s very difficult to foster community,” Brown said. “The model we had in place on Saturday is not the one we are happy with because community was lacking.”

DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, said he saw a range of student opinion regarding attending the football game, from increased enthusiasm to rebellion—students who did not attend the game simply because of their dis-like of Football Gameday.

“It was an outstanding first effort,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said.

Administrators were also pleased with attendance at Saturday’s football game, though they acknowledged that attendance is usually heightened for the first game of the season.

Student leaders will be meeting with the administration this week to discuss potential changes and improvements for the next Football Gameday this Saturday when Duke football plays Stanford.

Schork said he and Brown will be pushing to feature more barbecues on Main West Quadrangle, as well as ex-ploring venues to allow unaffiliated students to host bar-becues or events. The main goal going forward will be to open Football Gameday to anyone who wants to have a pregame gathering as opposed to the more structured group gatherings that took place Saturday.

“[Football Gameday] went well to the extent that it showed a strong message to the administration that stu-dents are willing to embrace a festive, pre-football game celebration,” Schork said. “Now it is a matter of adopting that in a way that is more communal in nature.”

A more communal event may also increase student par-ticipation in Football Gameday, Schork added.

“At the old event, you used to see over a thousand come,” he said. “Collectively, I would put the number [of students at the first Football Gameday] to be below 1,000.”

Wasiolek said she was not aware of any major rule viola-tions or calls to Duke Emergency Medical Services during Football Gameday. She added that some groups attempted to continue their barbecues beyond 6 p.m.—the dead-line for the conclusion of groups’ respective events—and had to be told to stop their event, clean up and go to the game.

Although Football Gameday received criticism for lack-ing community, Brown said he thought it served its main purpose—providing an event that centered around foot-ball.

“When the smell on Main Quad is of charcoal and bar-becue, the atmosphere speaks for itself in regards to what Duke Football Gameday is centered around,” Brown said. “It was centered around football, conversations and food.

Interfraternity Council President Zach Prager, a senior, declined to comment. Other IFC executive members also declined to comment.

for students.”Sophomore Rachel Roberts said the repeal was a good

idea to maintain more dining options for students.“Since we pay for food points, it’s only fair that we can

buy from other merchants,” she said. “I think it could po-tentially hurt [social interaction], but I don’t think a lot of people order during the day for lunch because it gets kind of expensive.”

Roberts said she might support some changes to MOP if dining options expand on campus.

“Right now, the options on West Campus get old after a while,” she said. “It will be nice to walk somewhere on campus rather than order.”

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After a week of frustration over the change in hours of the Merchants on Points food delivery program, Duke Dining has reversed the poli-cy. Rather than forcing MOP eateries to only deliver between 7 p.m. and at least midnight, the adminis-tration will allow vendors to deliver during open hours—at least for the next year.

The retraction in policy comes after a wave of student backlash swept across cam-pus, and with good cause. The absence of a public an-nouncement until a few days after the change took effect —and even then only in The Chronicle —rightly roused student ire. A hamstrung MOP program could only reduce student options and

their access to well-priced off-campus venues. This is not to mention the disregard the move expressed for Durham businesses dependent on stu-dent food dollars.

Rick John-son, assistant vice president

for housing and dining, ar-gued that the reduction in MOP hours would allow on-campus eateries to attract more business during lunch-time hours, and would force meal soloists toward a more community-centered din-ing experience. A thriving dining community sounds an enviable goal—but it is a goal that only makes sense on a campus where commu-nity dining spaces are widely available. This is not Duke, at least not yet.

Duke Dining is no strang-er to foisting sudden policy changes on the students it serves. The sudden change in MOP availability reminds us of the continuation of the dining fee last year. Then, a deal involving former Duke Student Government Presi-dent Mike Lefevre and for-mer Vice President for Cam-pus Services Kemel Dawkins was buried during an admin-istrative power shift. Like-wise, Rick Johnson—who had only just been hired when the new policy was born last January—cited a Spring 2011 Duke University Student Dining Advisory Commit-tee discussion, which he did not take part in, as evidence of student input in the new policy.

This amounts to a de-

layed announcement of a seven month-old program, justifi ed on the basis of a conversation which only took place after the program was conceived. Johnson’s eventual decision to restore MOP is redeeming, but it hardly remedies these er-rors. By not publicizing the shrinkage in delivery hours, the administration showed blatant disregard for the opinions and interests of stu-dents. If the new policy was conceived of last year, there was plenty of time to work through the particulars with students. At the least, com-mon courtesy ought to have led the administration to announce the change to stu-dents and restaurants before they made large fi nancial decisions with incomplete

knowledge. Student leaders showed

strong resolve even as they were pushed out of the con-versation. Although DSG President Pete Schork pur-ports to have caught wind of the change along with everyone else, DSG’s ability to respond within the week may have saved the pro-gram for this year. DSG’s use of student frustration as mandate for change augurs well for student input this academic year.

Students have a right to be involved in issues that they have a direct stake in. Policy changes without stu-dent input always risk their own self-destruction. At least when it comes food, students will make sure their voices are heard.

One especially fascinating aspect of academic disputes is that they are marked by a feroc-ity that is inversely proportional to the scope

and signifi cance of the issue under contention. The higher the volume, the lower the stakes, and thus an out-side observer is left with the forgiv-able impression that the ivory tower is a mere echo chamber of petty, pointless recrimination. Perhaps a more sober way to characterize this phenomenon is to say that academ-ic discourse has become distinctly methodological. But methodology, if not exactly a technical term, has a distinct philosophical pedigree, fi rmly rooted in the tradition of modern science. The increased focus on method in the humanities thus serves to both obfus-cate and concede the much more signifi cant “cul-ture war” between the humanities and the sciences.

Some readers will recall the reference to the British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow, who memo-rably lamented the cultural rift between “literary intellectuals” and scientists. But Snow’s complaint was chiefl y directed at a supposed double standard in favor of the former. Why is it, Snow asked, that a scientifi c intellectual could never get away without having read Shakespeare, while literary types are not only routinely ignorant of the scientifi c equivalent (e.g. the second law of thermodynamics), but also somehow take a perverse pride in this fact?

Anyone remotely familiar with the state of aca-demic literature today will be tempted to repeat Colonel Pickering’s admonishment to Professor Henry Higgins: “Come now, I think you picked a poor example.” Forget Shakespeare—one would be hard pressed to fi nd a contemporary scientifi c article whose prose passes for readable English. But who needs English when equations and formulae suffi ce to deliver on Bacon and Descartes’ promise for “the relief of man’s estate” by prolonging life spans, enhancing health and broadening prospects for commodious living? Science wins wars, cures dis-eases and increases economic effi ciency, and there-fore maintains and deserves its supremacy over the humanities.

Whereas at one time (perhaps) a scientist had to feign familiarity with Shakespeare, we are now con-fronted with the far more embarrassing spectacle of “literary theorists” huffi ng and puffi ng inanities about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. As if to crown this ironic reversal, it is now possible to earn a PhD in literature without reading a single work of Shakespeare. In fact, reading as such seems to have been scrapped altogether, in favor of various pseudo-scientifi c methods of linguistic analysis or criticism. Such developments may go a long way toward ex-

plaining why, if scientifi c writing is unreadable, hu-manistic writing is increasingly unread.

How can the humanities possibly justify itself under these circumstances? Con-veniently, means are never too far removed from ends. It should come as no surprise, then, that just as sci-entifi c jargon and methodology have gained purchase in the humanities, so too has the Baconian mission of relieving man’s estate. This aim is nonetheless characterized somewhat differently in the narrow and loaded concept of “social justice,” or the still more vapid metaphor of “empower-

ment;” quite fi ttingly, it is Bacon who fi rst explicitly identifi ed knowledge with power. The purpose of literary and historical studies is now to expose and overcome linguistic, institutional and cultural struc-tures of oppression. These disciplines no longer fi nd value in themselves, but are rather instrumentalized in the service of such broader social goals as equality and self-esteem, the neo-humanistic answer to “com-modious living.”

Thus the humanities (and specifi cally literature) itself divides into two cultures: one views the purpose of literature as the creation of aesthetic environ-ments in which to participate in the beautiful and the imaginary, and the other seeks to deconstruct such environments in order to expose the very con-cept of beauty as a tool of oppression. The one of-fers transcendence, the other liberation. But this must remain an incomplete and unsatisfactory kind of liberation, for the instrumentalization by which it is achieved liberates from anything that it can ulti-mately claim to liberate to. However desirable, a situ-ation of complete social justice, just like one of in-defi nitely prolonged commodious living, cannot be a goal unto itself but merely the precondition for the realization of goals. In fact, such a situation would have no use for the function of the humanistic learn-ing that helped to bring it about. The liberationist conception of the humanities, like science, seeks to destroy the preconditions of its own existence.

The only way for the humanities to regain its status with respect to science is to resolve its inter-nal struggle. Ultimately this must involve not only a concession that both scientifi c and humanistic study have a role in addressing the very real socioeconom-ic disparities in the world, but also a recognition that there are still deeper forms of impoverishment than the merely monetary, and still sharper pangs of hun-ger for which the humanities alone are able to pro-vide sustenance.

Darren Beattie is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in politi-cal science. His column runs every other Monday.

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I’ll never forget my fi rst night in Africa. The tribe-speople I was staying with (I can’t spell out their name because English letters are too limited to

express their much richer language) greeted me in the traditional way that they greet honored guests. They slaughtered their fattest cow, cooked it with great ceremony and served it to me, refusing to eat until I took the fi rst bite.

Needless to say, I was de-lighted. This was a rare op-portunity! Not to eat the poor murdered cow fl esh, I mean, but the chance to enlighten an undereducated people about the lofty prin-ciples of my own life. So I explained why none of us could eat that meal. It’s true, the concept of vegetarianism was diffi cult to explain to a people who have no word for “ani-mal” in their language, but the interpreter my parents hired did a really good job, and eventually they under-stood that I would never eat anything with a soul.

You probably believe that it’s culturally irresponsible of me to refuse the food they had prepared, especially since their tribe reveres cows and only eats meat on very special occasions, and they were forced to throw all of it away because I didn’t eat any. But I do the same thing when I go to a friend’s house for dinner, and I believe in equality for all people. Frankly, I think it’s culturally, morally and environmentally irresponsible for anybody to eat meat.

Before I go on, I’d like to talk to you about your use of the word “animal.” You see, even though this tribe

was doing such... well, barbaric is a loaded word.... Even though this tribe was doing such benighted things as eating meat and wearing the skins of their fellow crea-tures, they understood a concept that we privileged first world citizens never have. They knew that humans are animals, too. It’s so rude of you to say to your drunk friend, “Omigod, you’re acting like an animal.” Ani-mals live with even less technology than people in third world countries! That means they’re even more noble! Would you really call the majestic pygmy hippopota-mus by the same name you would use to describe an inebriated frat dude? (The pygmy hippopotamus, by the way, is endangered. The big hippopotamuses are probably Republicans.) Therefore, I propose we purge the word “animal” from our own language. Call them “fellow-creatures” or just plain “people.” That Good Morning Camper with bacon sure feels like murder now, doesn’t it?

I know I’m “preaching to the choir” (I generally try to avoid religious language, but I feel that the rest of you will understand it better than a secular metaphor) to the fi rst-years, and that makes me very happy. For those of you who, like me, were living all summer without any available electricity or news source, let me tell you that the fi rst-years read one of the best books published this century for their summer assignment. They had the plea-sure of learning all about the evils of meat from Jonathan Safran Foer, a true master of innovation and one of the best authors of our time.

A summary: In the sparkling prose for which he is so well-known, Foer explained fi rst why people eat meat (selfi sh, superfi cial reasons), and then he explained what was wrong with eating it. His wrenching images and gripping descriptions reached the hearts of many a hardened carnivore in the Class of 2015. Upperclass-

menandwomyn, you have so much to learn from your younger Duke siblings.

So how can you change? Obviously you should stop eating meat. You don’t have to be vegan, because no-body’s perfect, but remember that every bite of animal products you take is a bite of the fl esh of your fellow people—people who have suffered more than you will ever imagine are now on your plate. You should also stop wearing leather. When I left my tribe in Africa, they had all switched from their traditional leather footwear to sandals made from rubber tires. This was an improve-ment for their people, because everyone knows that cul-tural traditions are only important to preserve if they aren’t totally icky.

You need to educate people about the importance of not eating meat. You don’t have to be annoying about it. For example, next time you are invited to a barbe-cue, bring your own veggie burgers. And a small sepa-rate grill, of course. You don’t want any murder juice to get on your moral food. Also make sure everyone at the barbecue knows that you are eating veggie burgers. Use this as an opportunity to teach your friends. A lot of people think that vegetarians are annoying, but that’s just because they don’t understand the reasons behind their choice. I like to hand out a small pamphlet that I’ve typed up and illustrated with graphic depictions of the meat industry so they can get a better idea of how bad eating meat really is.

It’s a real lifestyle change, but in no time you, too, can be masking your eating disorder with a good moral reason! The animals will thank you for it, and so will I. Peace and love, my fellow earth children. Peace and love.

Concerned Global Citizen thinks veggie bacon is delicious.

lettertotheeditorGender-neutral housing

As the president of Duke Students for Gender Neutrality, a new student advocacy group on campus, I wanted to write a brief response to the article “Gen-der-neutral housing likely to continue, sees glitches” that appeared in the Sept. 1 edition of The Chroni-cle. First of all, I would like to laud The Chronicle for bringing attention to the way that students who have chosen the gender-neutral housing option have been mistreated in the Room Picks process.

That being said, I think it is important to point out the substantial difference between gender-neutral housing and co-ed housing that the article missed. A housing model is only truly gender-neutral if mem-bers of the opposite sex can live together in one room as roommates; a housing model is co-ed if male and female residents can live on the same hall, but only in same-sex roommate pairs. Thus, the article’s asser-tion that “There are also two gender-neutral sections in Kilgo and Few” is inaccurate; Kilgo and Few only have co-ed housing options.

Also, I think that the article missed the very impor-tant point that in actuality, we still do not have gen-der-neutral housing on campus in any respect. The current “gender-neutral” option on Central Campus does not allow males and females to share a bedroom. The only apartments in which “gender-neutral” hous-ing is allowed are apartments with two single bed-rooms or apartments with two single bedrooms and a double bedroom, and the double bedroom must be shared between students of the same sex. So in reality, there is not any gender-neutral housing on campus where male and female students can share a room.

Even though some people would dismiss gender-neutral housing as a “fringe” issue, it is one that fun-damentally affects gender relations on campus. If we say that men and women cannot live together at Duke—even as friends—we exacerbate poor gender relations campus-wide. And honestly, if I want to live with one of my best friends who happens to be a girl, what’s the big deal?

Jacob TobiaPresident, Duke Students for Gender Neutrality

Trinity ’14

Somewhere out there is a single metaphor that describes every facet of the Duke experience. Who better to find it than us columnists? Many

efforts at pinning down such a meta-phor have appeared on these pages, but I’ve managed to narrow the search down to two possibilities. Duke is ei-ther Steven Seagal, or an apricot.

Consider President Brodhead’s “Welcome!” email on Aug. 28. At fi rst, it seemed like nothing more than a tip of the cap to returning undergraduates. But last Thursday night, while I was re-watching the arty and subtle Seagal classic “Hard to Kill,” it hit me: Brod-head was referring to Steven Seagal.

“Since your life is yours to choose, build a life here that you are proud of,” Brodhead urged us. “And above all, use your freedom to give yourself a great education.”

Throughout his film oeuvre, Steven Seagal’s characters have built lives in which both pride and meaningful glares are abundant. From the gruff cop in “Hard to Kill,” to the tough policeman in “Out for Justice,” to the hardy constable in “Above the Law,” Seagal’s characters embody the full range of human ambition and achievement. Their lives are theirs to choose, and they have chosen to be awesome.

What’s more, no one makes more use of free-dom than Steven Seagal. Just look at 1992’s “Under Siege,” a movie that defined the warship-takeover genre before being eclipse in 1995 by “Crimson Tide.” Seagal’s Casey Ryback is an ex-Navy Seal who reluctantly abandons his job as a ship’s cook in or-der to defend a centerfold played by “Baywatch” luminary Erika Eleniak. Ryback freely chooses to compromise his freedom in order to protect the freedom of others. That’s a lot of freedom.

Even if you think Brodhead doesn’t know what he’s talking about, there’s plenty of objective evidence sug-gesting that Duke is basically Steven Seagal. For instance, Seagal’s personal journey—from Aikido sensei, to actor, to cultural icon, to blues guitarist, to New Orleans sher-iff’s deputy—mirrors the Duke student’s growth from freshman to New Orleans sheriff’s deputy.

But perhaps an even more apt analogy for every-thing that is Duke may be found in our fuzzy friend,

the apricot. I’m talking about the raw apricot, mind you. The dried apricot is, for reasons I won’t get into, nothing at all like Duke.

We come to Duke to test the limits, to reach for the stars and to explore endless opportunities en route to be-coming who we truly are. We learn skills that will serve us for our entire lives, like how to engage with global networks to contextualize our innova-tive paradigms across disciplines. But above all, as Brodhead recently point-ed out, we have “unparalleled free-dom” during our time at Duke.

At Duke, we are free to choose whether or not we eat apricots. A

small orange globule that tastes like the middle ground between a nectarine and a peach, the apri-cot appears to be a simple fruit. Just like our time at Duke, though, the apricot is fraught with complica-tion. What if your apricot gets bruised?

The important thing is for you to reach out be-yond your apricot. The apricot reminds us that, if all you do is eat apricots, you’ll never make connec-tions with all of the non-apricot things this school has to offer. You’ll never contextualize disciplined networks across globally engaged innovations. The most important thing you can do at Duke is to make sure you eat apricots as only one part of a balanced diet.

By the time I graduate, I hope to understand how these two overarching metaphors—the apricot and Steven Seagal—may be merged into a single super metaphor. I haven’t yet found the intersection be-tween a downy fruit and a very un-fuzzy action star. Rest assured—when I know the secrets of this Sea-galpricot and what it says about Duke, I will alert you via column.

I hope I will be the last columnist to embark on a quest for a metaphor that encompasses Duke and everyone here. But I have a hunch that it won’t be long before someone else thinks he or she has found the one true Duke metaphor. To that writer, wherever she may be, I have only this to say: May the Seagalpricot be with you.

Connor Southard is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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Although Hurricane Irene battered the North Carolina coast, Duke and the Triangle came out mostly unscathed.

The only damages Duke sustained during the Category 1 storm Saturday were two fallen trees near East Campus, said Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh, who also acts as emer-gency coordinator for the University. One tree fell near the entrance of the West Duke Building and another at the intersection of Trinity Avenue and Buch-anan Boulevard.

Unlike the city of Durham, which experienced numerous power outages, the University avoided large scale power outages, as the fallen trees did not bring down power lines affecting campus, Ca-vanaugh added.

The hurricane, which made landfall Saturday, brought one to two inches of rain and wind speeds of 35 mph to Dur-ham and Wake counties, said meteorolo-gist Kathleen Carroll of the National Weather Service in Raleigh. Most of the storm stayed to the east of Interstate 95 as forecasted. Those areas saw as much as six inches of rain.

Hurricane Irene left the state between

Duke remains perfect, knocks off No. 1by Ryan Claxton

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — After 60 min-utes of play, the outlook was bleak for Duke against No. 1 Notre Dame. The Blue Devils trailed 1-0 after allowing a fluke goal in the first half, and to add injury to insult one of their captains—Ashley Rape—had just been carted off the field with a right knee injury.

But just when it looked like Duke was in a position to shut down, it turned up the pressure on the defending national champions.

No. 21 Duke (4-0) scored three unan-swered goals in under 12 minutes during

HDRL to release house model plans

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As summer comes to an end, students and administrators are closing in on details of the house model.

Under the first year of the new residential model, which will group students into vari-ous houses across West and Central campuses starting Fall 2012, residentially unaffiliated sophomores and juniors will be randomly placed into one of 40 unaffiliated houses, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for Housing, Dining and Residence Life. Members of the Class of 2013, who will be seniors during the

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Instead of entering a poem into a time capsule at the Martin Luther King, Jr. memo-rial dedication with the families of King and President Barack Obama, Maya Angelou de-livered a heartfelt address to Duke first-year students at the Chapel.

“I’ve given my word to Duke, and I will be at Duke,” Angelou said to students as a reminder of how important their entry is to the University.

Angelou, a multi-talented, award-winning

poet and author, not to mention a civil rights figurehead, spoke to the Class of 2015 Sun-day, welcoming them to the Duke commu-nity. In her twenty-second annual address, Angelou urged students to remember what an important responsibility their education will be during the next four years, emphasiz-ing the importance of continuing in higher education.

“My dears, you’ve already been paid for—you owe it to someone down the road to pay it for them,” she said before an atten-tive audience. “Don’t even think about leav-

ing Duke.” At times, she sang to the crowd and pro-

vided anecdotes, but her emphasis was clearly on the connecting power of poetry and its ability in particular to connect the Class of 2015.

“[Poetry] encapsulates so much of what the human being has gone through, goes through and is yet to go through,” she said. “The poem is written for all of us... all of the time.”

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Duke returned home yesterday after a four-day trip to Alabama, where they competed in the Auburn Tourna-ment, splitting two contests. After a disappointing 1-0 loss to Auburn on Friday night, they rebounded to defeat Ole Miss on Sunday afternoon, 1-0.

Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this weekend’s perfor-mance is the team’s apparent loss of momentum after a surprising 3-1 upset victory over No. 1 Notre Dame merely five days before. Many believed the No.5 Blue Devils (5-1)to be one of the best teams in the

country, but their apparent struggle against two unranked opponents have many second-guessing themselves.

Indeed, many Duke fans were upset with the team’s per-formance this weekend. Head coach Robbie Church, how-ever, did not echo these same frustrations. He was quick to assert the inherent difference between the team’s victory against Notre Dame in Chapel Hill to their disappointing performances in Alabama.

“We went from the hunter to the hunted,” Church said. “When we play against the No. 1 team in country so close to home, we become the hunters. But when Duke travels on road, we become the hunted. People circle their calendars. They throw everything at us. It’s a different game”

Friday’s game against Auburn pitted two defensive teams against one another. Even on a rainy day, almost two thousand Auburn fans came to root against Duke—rough-ly four times the attendance of the last home game at Ko-skinen Stadium. During the first half, both teams were at stalemate, unable to score.

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It doesn’t take much to lose a soccer game. The slight-est break in concentration can spell disaster, even for a team that controls play throughout the game.

A pair of overtime defeats, to UC-Santa Barbara 3-2, and to SMU 1-0, leave Duke with just one victory in its first

four tries.Against the No. 9 Gauchos

(3-0) on Friday night, before a 3,000-strong crowd at Koskinen Stadium, the Blue Devils (1-3) came out energized. Just 48 sec-onds ran off the clock before fresh-man Nick Palodichuk nabbed the

first goal of his career off a feed through heavy traffic from senior Christopher Tweed-Kent.

Yet while the early strike boosted Duke’s confidence, UC-Santa Barbara made sure to quickly extinguish the spark. In the sixth minute, Blue Devil defender Riley Wolfe mistakenly saved a pass that was headed out of bounds. Gaucho forward Sam Garza recovered the ball, and with only the keeper to beat, he knocked the equalizing goal into the top left corner. Behind the sudden momentum change, the Gauchos controlled the rest of the half. De-spite being outshot 10-4 in the period, however, Duke managed to keep the Gauchos at bay, and the score went into halftime knotted at a goal apiece.

In the second half, the Blue Devils looked like an en-tirely different team as they began dictating the tempo of play, and scoring opportunities became more plen-tiful. In the 67th minute, freshman Andrew Morales launched a rocket from outside the 18-yard box that just caught the fingertips of UC-Santa Barbara goalie Andre Grandt. In the 74th minute, Palodichuk nearly added his second goal of the night off a free kick, only to again be denied by Grandt.

Yet in the 80th minute, disaster struck the Blue Devils when a UC-Santa Barbara forward was fouled in the 18-yard box. Luis Silva converted the penalty kick for the Gau-chos, putting the Blue Devils in a late hole.

Kerr’s resilient squad wasn’t ready to go away just yet, though. As the clock ticked down under three min-utes, junior Andrew Wenger tapped home an equalizer after the ball ricocheted through heavy traffic within the six-yard box.

“We are a very fit team, and they were tired,” senior

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Duke’s Nick Palodichuk fights off Peter Schmetz in Friday’s match. The freshman scored his first career goal 48 seconds into the contest.

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Duke’s quartet of runnings backs piled up almost twice as many rushing yards as Richmond. Ju-wan Thompson led the team with 86 yards on 15 carries, and Desmond Scott averaged a team-high 7.3 yards per carry.

2010-11 first team ASCA All-American Will Snyderwine missed a 27-yard field goal with less than two minutes left that would have given the Blue Devils the lead—and potentially the win.

Sean Renfree and Brandon Brax-ton both fumbled for Duke, twice giving the Spiders prime field po-sition. Richmond converted the turnovers into 10 points.

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Johnny Williams breaks up a pass to Stephen Barnette. The Spiders gained just 193 yards through the air on Saturday, 129 to senior receiver Tre Gray.

years later the Blue Devils amassed 369 total yards to Richmond’s 282, but missed two field goals and had a punt blocked, effectively giving the Spiders a 24-16 victory.

Last night was more of the same, as 2010 American Football Coaches Asso-ciation All-American Will Snyderwine missed a 27-yard field goal with two min-utes remaining that would have given Duke the lead. His subsequent attempt from 60 yards as time expired fell short of the uprights.

“I just pushed it,” Snyderwine said of his first attempt. “Completely my fault. I just didn’t quite do my job right there. It’s tough. I go out there and expect to make everything that’s put in front of me. Sometimes it just doesn’t go your way.”

Quarterback Sean Renfree threw for 201 yards on 23-of-33 passing but fumbled late in the first quarter after a helmet-to-helmet hit from safety Cooper Taylor that left the redshirt junior shaken up on the field. Richmond’s Brandon Scott recov-ered the lost ball on Duke’s seven-yard line, and the Spiders took just three plays to score the game’s first touchdown.

Renfree was back in the lineup on the Blue Devils’ next possession, though he admitted after the game that the collision left him feeling “a

little dizzy.” After attempting just five passes in his team’s first four offensive possessions, the quarterback completed nine straight passes after his fumble.

“That was our gameplan,” junior wide receiver Connor Vernon said. “That’s what [offensive coordinator Kurt Roper] wanted to do. That’s what we practiced a lot this camp and in the spring, just establishing the running game.”

Junior running back Desmond Scott scored the Blue Devils’ first touchdown on a 29-yard run up the middle. Scott would later leave the game with a leg in-jury after he was tackled violently. He was seen using crutches on the sideline dur-ing the fourth quarter.

The two teams traded turnovers on the next two possessions, as Walt Canty intercepted a pass from the Spiders’ Aaron Corp and then Brandon Braxton fumbled a catch to give Richmond great field position, which it quickly converted into three points.

Duke had another chance to score at the end of the second half after Lee But-ler returned a punt down to the Spiders’ 38-yard line with 24 seconds left. Vernon had a 19-yard catch that brought the Blue Devils into field goal range, but poor clock management cost the team a shot at three points to end the half.

““I was [expecting to have an attempt there],” Snyderwine said. “I think they were [just trying to get a first down to stop the clock.] I was just getting ready to do what

I’m supposed to do, so I’m not sure.”The two teams exchanged touch-

downs in the third quarter, with Duke backup quarterbacks Brandon Connette and Anthony Boone each rushing for short yardage scores.

At the start of the fourth quarter, though, Richmond put together a 10-play, 79-yard drive to score the game’s winning touch-down. Corp found his favorite target, Tre Gray—who finished with a career-high 129 yards on eight receptions—wide open over the middle of the field for a 33-yard gain to the Duke 7-yard line. After a five-yard gain on first down, Kendall Gaskins carried the ball again on second- and third-down, but could not find the end zone. Facing a 4-point deficit with just over ten minutes left, the Spiders left their offense on the field to try to take the lead. Tailback Garrett Turner finally broke through, giving his team a 23-21 lead after a missed PAT.

“I was really proud of us because we fought,” linebacker Kelby Brown said. “We fought really hard. On the 1-yard line, when they get a few chances, that’s tough though. We gave it all we had and they came out on top with that score.”

Duke’s only chance to score in the fi-nal period came on Snyderwine’s missed field goals.

“I promise we won’t be moping around come tomorrow,” Renfree said. “I’m not go-ing to allow the guys on our team to think it will affect us, I won’t allow them to think that. I promise that much.”

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Missed opportunities cost Dukeby Matt Levenberg

THE CHRONICLE

The missed opportunities in the red zone that plagued the Blue Devils in 2010 returned in their 2011 season opener, as Duke fell short again against Division I-AA opponent Richmond.

Blue Devil fans will recall the team’s 51-per-cent red zone touch-down rate last year, just 11th in the ACC. Duke posted a 50-percent red zone touchdown rate

Saturday night, scoring only two touch-downs on four trips inside Richmond’s 20-yard line. The major difference last season was that the Blue Devils were ex-tremely successful kicking field goals in the red zone. However, in this contest, Duke failed to make any field goals.

The Blue Devils’ first hiccup in the red zone occurred right before halftime. Lead-ing 10-7 with under 40 seconds left in the first half, senior Lee Butler provided a spark, taking Nick Hicks’ punt from his own 47-yard line to the Spiders’ 38-yard line.

Presumably Duke only needed one first down to give Sporting News’ preseason sec-ond team All-American, Will Snyderwine, a makeable field goal attempt. On second down, quarterback Sean Renfree found play-maker Conner Vernon for a 19-yard gain over the middle of the field. Without any timeouts remaining, the offense hurried to the line and spiked the ball at its opponents’ 19-yard line with ten seconds remaining.

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North Carolina 42 - JMU 10Interim head coach Everett Withers is off to

a quick start in Chapel Hill. Sophomore quarter-back Bryn Renner threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns on 22-of-23 passing in his Tar Heel debut. North Carolina scored the first 24 points of the game and never looked back in the vic-tory. The team reportedly plans to send former coach Butch Davis a game ball.

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Despite trailing 16-13 at halftime, the Tigers took control in the third quarter by scoring on three consecutive possessions. Tajh Boyd was Rivals.com’s ACC Player of the Week after com-pleting 20-of-30 passes for 264 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.

N.C. State 43 - Liberty 21

N.C. State forced six Liberty turnovers in the win, though the game was closer than the final score indicated. The Wolfpack led by just eight in the fourth quarter, using a fumble recovery and interception to solidify the win. The Flames out-gained N.C. State in total offense, 406-318.

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CORRECTION An Sept. 2 preview capsule of the North Carolina football season incorrectly stated the Tar Heels had lost their bowl game last season. It should have said that North Carolina beat Tennessee in the Music City Bowl. The Chronicle regrets the error.

Game Analysis

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Brandon Braxton fights to hold onto the ball as he gets brought down by Darryl Hamilton. Above: Juwan Thompson led the Blue Devils with 86 rushing yards.

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Rough West Coast swing for Blue Devilsby Dawei LiuTHE CHRONICLE

At any point during the season but especially towards the beginning, the opportunity to perform in the face of adversity can build or break

a team. This weekend , the Blue Devils con-fronted a significant challenge, as they played three west coast squads in three days.

The No. 18 Blue Devils (4-2) faced Pacific (3-1) on Thursday at the Alex G. Spanos Center in Stock-ton, Calif. The Blue Devils took the match 3-1 behind strong attacking.

“It was a nice atmosphere to get started in,” head coach Jolene Nagel said about the first time her squad has taken the court outside of Durham this season.

Overcoming a somewhat slop-py showing on defense during the beginning of the contest, Duke was able to secure a tight victory with some outstanding offense. Led by freshmen Jeme Obeime’s eight kills in the final two games and anchored by the consistently stellar play of seniors Sophia Dun-worth and Kayla Kirk, who totaled

13 kills during the final two sets, the Blue Devils were able to apply more offensive pressure than the Tigers could handle.

The team then traveled to Palo Alto to face St. Mary’s (3-3) for its first match in the Stanford Invita-tional on Friday night, and second contest of the trip. The teams trad-ed games before a fifth and decid-ing set. Dunworth, a Pleasanton native, passed 1,000 career kills with 15 on the night.

The Blue Devils looked like they had seized the momentum after winning a back-and-forth fourth game 27-25. With the teams knotted up at two games a piece, though, the Gaels won the fifth game decisively, 15-4. The defense of Gabby Jolly and Natalie Loos, who combined for twelve blocks on the night, and three during the crucial last game, dashed Duke’s hopes of pulling off the comeback victory.

“We really felt like we should have had that match,” Nagel said. “We needed to control the ball a little bit better in order to do the things we wanted to do offensively. We didn’t do that well enough.”

After the tough loss against St. Mary’s, the Blue Devils then had to face No. 6 Stanford (4-0) on Satur-day night for their final match of the road trip. The first game was taken by the Cardinal 25-20, but Duke responded impressively tak-

ing the second match 25-19. Led by junior All-American Kellie Cata-nach, Duke picked up 19 kills in that game and looked like it could give Stanford a tough match.

“[The team] saw the level that they could play, during game two against Stanford,” Nagel said. “It was very exciting for them and very motivating.”

Stanford responded with stifling defense throughout the rest of the contest. With 106 digs, the Cardi-nal effectively shut down the Blue Devil offense. Despite the standout performance of sophomore and All-Tournament selection Ali McCurdy, who led the game with 31 digs, Duke was not able to find an answer for the tournament MVP, Stanford’s outside hitter Rachel Williams.

Williams had 24 kills and 22 digs, leading her team in both categories. Duke showed flashes of brilliance, but the Cardinal was just a better team over the course of the game.

“I think what we learned about ourselves, in regards to maybe where we are right now and some of the things we’re capable of doing…is priceless.” Coach Nagel said.

With another ranked oppo-nent in No. 20 San Diego (6-0) making the cross country trip on Thursday to play at Cameron In-door Stadium, Duke hopes to re-spond to this adversity with better and more consistent play.

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Duke nets road wins before home opener

Christopher Tweed-Kent said. “[But] we need to make sure we are strong defensive-ly and never give them a glimpse, because the minute we give them a glimpse, that’s where they get some energy.”

Despite outplaying the Gauchos in the overtime period and once again dictating play, UC-Santa Barbara got that glimpse and was able to convert in the 99th minute. Catching the defenders slightly out of posi-tion, Gaucho sophomore Dom Sarle made a run and fired a shot that narrowly beat Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw to end the match. The loss was Duke’s first in a home opener since 1992.

Duke’s fast start in Friday’s play wasn’t repeated on Sunday. The No. 17 Mustangs (1-2) applied consistent pressure on the Blue Devil defense for the first ten minutes before Daniel Tweed-Kent rifled a breakaway shot across the face of the SMU goal, and the tide turned in Duke’s favor. Sebastien Ibeagha nearly headed in the ensuing corner, and for the rest of the game, the Blue Devils kept the heat on the Mustang net.

In the 35th minute, Wenger made a fabulous run on the goal, chipping the ball over sliding SMU keeper Jaime Ibar-ra, but the ball rebounded off the post and was quickly cleared.

Wenger, Daniel Tweed-Kent, and junior midfielder Ryan Brown worked well together to create plenty of scoring opportunities, but Ibarra and the Mustang defense stymied the Duke attack with deflections and key tackles.

As the midway point of the half passed, SMU slowed the play down significantly, with Ibarra taking as much time as he could to punt the ball away each time. This added to the Blue Devils’ frustration, and especially in the last ten minutes, the intensity of play ratcheted up as Duke tried even more fervently to keep the pres-sure going. Chris Tweed-Kent was yellow carded for an aggressive tackle in the 86th minute, and an SMU player was carded just 90 seconds later after getting tangled up with Chris’s brother Daniel.

“You depend on the referee to keep the play going, and not let the time lapse,” Kerr said. “It’s frustrating, because we were stron-ger and they knew it, and they were tired. And we’re like, ‘Let’s get it going.’ So they wasted the last 20 minutes of the second half, and tried to waste the overtime.”

Wenger made a final exciting run on goal with just 30 seconds remaining on the clock, but again could not convert the opportunity, sending the Blue Devils into overtime for the second straight game. Duke maintained its high effort into the extra period, but a lapse in defensive play opened a window for the Mustangs.

A botched tackle at the top of the 18-yard box left the ball free, and after it bounced around between Duke defend-ers and SMU attackers, Mustang forward Arthur Ivo broke away from the pack and finished an easy point-blank shot from 12 yards out.

“[We were] not strong enough on the tackle,” Kerr said. “The ball was there to be won, and we were slow in reacting.”

Injuries and absences also played into the Blue Devils’ defensive misfortunes over the weekend. The team missed Ibeagha for Friday’s game after he received two yellow cards in the team’s previous contest against Furman, and freshman Riley Wolfe injured his knee Friday and missed Sunday’s match. Even on Sunday, Kerr was still uncertain of the severity of Wolfe’s injury.

Despite the tough result, Kerr was en-couraged by his team’s play throughout the weekend.

“We’re creating some really good oppor-tunities, some great movement, and I’m re-ally pleased with the performance overall as well,” he said. “It’s just unfortunate that at a crucial time, both Friday night and to-day, we got punished for lack of concentra-tion, and it hurts.”

He acknowledges that tough breaks in both games ultimately doomed his team but doesn’t let that dampen his confi-dence in his squad.

“So now they’re walking away from this game very happy,” he said of SMU, “and very lucky.”

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The only thing more gratifying than stealing two wins on the road is winning one of those in shutout fashion. The Blue Devils leave their second weekend with a better mindset than the previous week, racing past Delaware 5-2 Saturday and

blanking Drexel 2-0 Sunday.After last weekend’s rocky start

to the campaign, when No. 15 Duke (3-1) defeated No. 12 Ohio State but lost to unranked Indiana, the team put in a full week of practice in preparation for its next matchups.

“They were able to make the ad-justments from last weekend and bring them into this week-end,” head coach Pam Bustin said. “We just stayed on task to what we set out to do. The kids just kept playing from the first whistle to the last whistle…and stayed with the game no mat-ter what happened within the 70 minutes.”

In Saturday’s game against Delaware (2-1), the Blue Dev-ils quickly set the tone with a flurry of offensive play. Out-shooting its opponent 13-1 in the first period, Duke put up two unanswered goals before the halftime whistle. Although the Blue Hens scored two goals in the second half, they were unable to overcome the Blue Devils’ early lead.

Sophomore Emmie Le Merchand and freshman Jessica Buttinger each tallied two goals and were joined by junior Mary Neilson to bring their team to a 5-2 victory. This was also the highest scoring output by the team since defeating Boston University 5-1 in Oct. 2009.

“Jess has got some great hands,” Bustin said. “She does some great things in front of the goal cage. Whenever we have the opportunity to get her in that position we’re going to do it.”

Sunday’s match against No. 18 Drexel (3-1) required Duke to take advantage of every opportunity. The Blue Devils again commanded the flow of the game, outshoot-ing the Dragons 13-1 in the first period, but were unable to convert any of these shots. The teams entered halftime with the score locked at 0-0.

Junior Devon Gagliardi put the Blue Devils on the board, netting a goal from 15 yards out. Le Merchand was quick to finish a cross from senior Tara Jennings just five minutes later, marking her fourth goal of the year. Senior goalkeeper Samantha Nelson saved three Drexel shots to keep the first shutout of the year alive. This 2-0 victory gave Nelson her 13th career shutout.

“They were both very good matches, just a little bit dif-ferent,” Bustin said. “A team needs to be able to adapt to either type of game, to control the flow of either game. I think that our Duke team did that. We adjusted [Saturday] to what we needed to, and we dug down deep [Sunday] and we did what we had to.”

Duke will begin its four-game homestand against ACC rival Wake Forest Saturday Sept. 10. The Blue Devils have already proven their strength to the Demon Deacons, over-powering them 6-1 in a preseason victory.

“We’ve grown a lot in the last two weekends as a team,” Bustin said. “We’re learning a lot about ourselves. I think after another week of training and practice we’ll be right where we want to be for our home opener.”

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ils let their level of play drop. They opened the second period with “fifteen bad minutes”—as Church describes it—allowing the Aggies to score the game-winning goal in the 61st minute of action. While the Blue Devils even-tually regained their composure, they were never able to score the equalizer.

On Sunday, the team began with the same uninspired play that characterized their matchup two days before. So, they turned to a different strategy, changing things up dramatically. They dug down much deeper into the depth chart and got a few fresh faces on the field, utilizing several different formations.

Notably, Audrey Gibson and Katy Colas, two freshmen who have not traditionally seen extended action, logged 28 and 29 minutes, respectively.

“We battled, we fought, we made some substitutions, and we went deeper into the bench. We played some girls who haven’t played in a while. Then we started them again in the second half,” Church said. “We got some quality minutes for some girls that worked really hard in practice. Then we were able to come back with our more traditional and score.”

Perhaps the most encouraging performance of this weekend was that of Kelly Cobb, the standout freshman forward. Even amidst a game characterized by rugged defensive play and few chances to make plays in space, Cobb managed to score the game-winning goal against Ole Miss in the 76th minute of play. And her coach couldn’t have been more proud.

“Today wasn’t her top game, but she still found a way to get the ball in the net. That’s what goal scorers do,” Church said. “That’s what our program’s traditionally been lacking. We’re extremely grateful to have her.”

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tempts last season and is 11 of 13 in his career in field goals from 30-39 yards. This attempt would have been 37 yards, but head coach David Cutcliffe opted to try to pick up one more first down before sending his kicker onto the field.

“At the end of the first half I got greedy,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s poor judgment on my part. We were trying to throw the ball beyond the chains to make a first down or incom-pletion, then we would have kicked from there.”

Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, Brandon Brax-ton made the catch inbounds and was tackled short of the first down and the clock ticked to zero before Renfree could spike the ball. Cutcliffe and his team know that was a missed opportunity, one that the team cannot afford to commit. When asked about that play, Renfree was at a loss for words. He admit-ted that they simply “messed up” and called it “a frustrating play.”

In the third quarter, Duke registered its second rushing touchdown of the night on its first red zone trip of the young season. On second-and-goal, quar-terback Brandon Connette saw the field for the first time. After faking the reverse to Donovan Varner and being stuffed on his first try, he tried again on third-and-goal and found the end zone, giving the Blue Devils their first lead of the game.

Duke returned to the red zone on their next pos-session after Richmond reclaimed the lead. Again, the coaching staff got creative in the red zone, this time bringing in third-string quarterback Anthony Boone. Seeing the first action in his collegiate career, the red-

ANALYSIS from page 8 shirt freshman carried twice for six yards and found the end zone to give the Blue Devils a 21-17 lead after Snyder-wine added the extra point.

Richmond took a 23-21 lead early in the fourth quarter before Lee Butler made defenders miss on his second impressive punt return of the game, taking it to the Richmond 24-yard line. After handing the ball off on the first three plays of the series, Renfree dropped back to throw on third-and-goal from the 5-yard line. The offensive line did a good job of creating a pocket for him, but he decided to roll left and ran into the pass rush.

Cutcliffe sent on his usually-reliable kicker to knock in a chip shot, a 27-yard attempt, to give his squad the lead with under two minutes to go, but Snyderwine missed it wide right.

“I mean you expect to make those,” Renfree said. “We should have put the football in the end zone and not even had to kick a field goal. It falls on the offense in the end.”

The Blue Devils would force a three-and-out before getting the ball back on their own 37-yard line with no timeouts and under 40 seconds to go. After a confus-ing play call which resulted in a 4-yard gain on a swing pass to Jay Hollingsworth, and an incomplete pass over the middle intended for tight end Cooper Helfet, Ren-free found Vernon along the left sideline for 17 yards, just enough for Cutcliffe to send Snyderwine out for a 60-yard prayer. But Snyderwine’s attempt did not have enough power and fell short of the uprights. This loss was certainly not how Duke envisioned starting a sea-son which had high expectations.

“We can’t get this game back,” Vernon said. “We have to forget about it tomorrow and move on.”

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Sean Renfree’s fumble and Will Snyderwine’s missed field goal were major reasons Duke fell to Richmond for the third straight time.