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Football head coach David Cutcliffe rings the Victory Bell , the trophy signifying Duke’s win against North Carolina, in Perkins Library Friday. Read about Duke’s 56-20 loss to Clemson, Sportswrap page 4.

Shhh! Freshman ignites debateConfl ict surrounds affi rmative action letter

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A letter to the editor concerning af-firmative action has incited a polarized response online and around campus.

The letter “Rethink affirmative action, by freshman Jed Bradshaw, was published in The Chronicle Thursday and criticized the use of affirmative action practices in college admissions and the University’s recent support of said practices. The let-ter sparked heated discussion among stu-dents on social media outlets and in their dorms.

“What’s going on is good,” said fresh-man Alex Bernard, who noted that he personally opposes affirmative action. “It’s creating a greater awareness about this issue.... More of Duke’s students will be encouraged to discuss it with adminis-trators, faculty members and their fellow students.”

Duke students should engage in a more meaningful discourse about af-firmative action that takes into account both personal opinions and historical

Straight-ticket ballot leads to voting issues

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Straight ticket voting may exacerbate un-informed voting.

The voting system, established in North Carolina since 2000, allows individuals to vote for a single party across all races by marking a single bubble. Although straight ticket voting expedites the voting process for voters, especially those who have strong par-ty affiliations, some question whether the sys-tem encourages voters to cast ballots without being fully educated about the candidates.

“Straight ticket voting enables those that are less informed about individual candi-dates and individual political contests to vote and to have blind faith that everyone on their selected side is better than everyone on the other side,” said state Sen. David Lewis, R-Harnett.

North Carolina is one of 15 states with straight ticket voting and the only state where the option does not include the presidential race or nonpartisan judicial races.

The exclusion of these races has caused significant voter confusion since its incep-tion in 2000 and has contributed to a phe-nomenon called “undervoting,” when a vot-er does not complete the ballot, Lewis said. Undervoting most often occurs when voters opt into straight ticket voting, unaware that

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Huffington Post Managing Editor and Duke alum Jimmy Soni spoke to stu-dents Friday.

Dukies deal with damage from Sandy

by Ryan ZhangTHE CHRONICLE

Hurricane Sandy has subsid-ed, leaving Duke students and alumni among those recovering from the damage.

Families of Duke students and alumni living in the Northeast continue to cope with the destruc-tion caused by the storm. Many still lack access to basic necessities such as water, power and, in some cases, shelter. New York and New Jersey, two states hit hardest by the storm, are recovering slowly, alumni in the area said.

“The storm lifted New Jersey and dropped it on its head,” said Nick Stevens, Trinity ‘86 and pres-ident of Duke New Jersey.

Stevens said the alumni net-

work in New Jersey was able to stay in touch throughout the ordeal, exchanging emails to keep each other updated. He noted that even though some people suf-fered property damage from fall-ing trees, most made it through the storm unscathed.

Linda Martin, Law ’96 and one of the regional chairs of Duke New York, noted the similarities of the storm’s aftermath in New York City to that of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, particularly the “eerie calmness” that has settled upon the normally bustling city.

“The atmosphere everywhere is surreal,” Martin said. “I was just at the supermarket and the shelves

Duke grad tells students to make change through writing

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Writers should use their work to influence public conversa-tion, Huffington Post Managing Editor Jimmy Soni, Trinity ’07, urged students Friday.

Writers from a variety of on-campus publications, as well as other interested students, gathered to hear Soni’s key-note speech and participate in workshops at the annual Duke Writes symposium, sponsored by the Thompson Writing Pro-gram. This year’s symposium, Compose Yourself: Writing for Change, was intended to show upperclassmen how to use writ-ing to make changes in others’ lives as well as their own.

“People are consuming more media than ever,” Soni said. “If you have something to say—and it’s valuable and worthwhile, and it’s new and it’s fresh, and it offers somebody something that they didn’t know before —someone is going to pay at-tention to you. This is possible today, and it probably wasn’t 15 years ago.”

Soni encouraged participants to use writing as a tool to discov-er their own thoughts on differ-ent issues. He described his own experience as a columnist for The Chronicle as an enlighten-ing time that forced him to de-velop his own distinctive voice.

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Coleman talks politics, running for officeLinda Coleman is running as

the Democratic candidate for lieu-tenant governor of North Carolina. In her career in public service, Cole-man has served as a chair of the Wake County Board of Commission-ers, state representative and director of state personnel. During a visit to Duke’s campus on Thursday, she spoke with The Chronicle’s Julian

Spector about working with p o l i t i c i a n s with different

agendas, the importance of educa-tion to North Carolina and the ef-fects of Amendment One.

The Chronicle: First things first, what does the job of lieu-tenant governor entail?

Linda Coleman: North Car-olina is one of 17 states that elect governor and lieutenant governor separately. Since the lieutenant governor runs inde-pendently, other than the con-stitutional duties, the lieutenant governor gets to set his or her own agenda. One other role is to preside over the state Senate and, in the case of a tie, the lieu-tenant governor breaks the tie, because there are 50 members of the senate.

The other is the lieutenant governor serves on two major state boards: the state Board of Education and the state Board of Community Colleges. Those are two very important educa-tional boards in North Carolina. It has appointments to other boards like biotech, economic development, so they can exert influence on those board ap-pointments as well.

TC: What challenges would you face you if you win and end up serving with a Republican governor with a different legisla-tive agenda than yours?

LC: The challenge would be

if you have a different agenda. For the most part, you would expect the agenda for governor and lieutenant governor of the same party to be very similar, but would expect the agenda for a lieutenant governor and gov-ernor of different parties to be a little different. To overcome that, we already know there are some things we should have in common that should not be par-tisan at all, and that is jobs and the economy, given the state of North Carolina and its unem-ployment rate. There should be no question whether this should be an issue of common interest for both of us.

The key is to really sit and talk and find out where we can work together. Elected officials often want to promote their party, but one of the key roles of an elected official is to represent the people and that should take precedence over politics.

TC: You were talking about areas of shared interest, but what happens if there is an area

you don’t agree on?LC: If there are areas we don’t

agree on, then I have to look at my role and what I have going for me in terms of my authority and my relationship with others outside of the executive branch of government and to look at who else could help me to ac-complish my agenda, because I would have the authority to set my own agenda.

TC: Your platform has a lot of focus on education. What specific educational innovations would you enact?

LC: I would really love to see if we are number five in biotech in the country, how do we become number one, what’s the educa-tional infrastructure we need?

The other is how do we col-laborate with our educational institutions to provide the skill sets in our people in North Caro-lina to recruit those jobs, those [unfilled] jobs in the nation and bring some of those to North Car-olina? What’s the infrastructure that’s needed? A lot of time it’s not just the skills themselves but other kinds of things. It may have to do with our road system or our bridges. Do we need to strength-en our port system, for instance? If we’re going to recruit business and industry to North Carolina, given our current infrastructure what do we need, how long do we have to do that to provide the skill sets in our people to bring those jobs here?

TC: How does better edu-cation lead to a stronger state economy?

LC: No company is going to relocate to any place without having a well-trained workforce. This is how companies make their profits. They want people who are innovative, who are creative. That’s the wave of the

future. It’s not just going to be A plus B equals C, but it’s go-ing to be how do you rearrange things to come up with some-thing totally different, to make it more efficient, to make more use of something? We’ve got to look at how we do things now and how we’re going to do it in the future, especially given that technology changes the way we do things and technology is changing every day. How do we keep up with that? How do we provide skill sets in our people and how do we give them the notion that if you’re going to be part of the workforce, education has to be a lifelong learning pro-cess because you’re not going to be able to graduate with a de-gree and expect not to go back to school at some point to make sure you are up to date?

There also needs to be more development opportunities for the teachers teaching our kids. It’s not just teaching them how to take a test or spit out something they’ve been fed the day before. But how do we teach them to think in a creative way that looks at issues in new and different ways? The world is changing, and we can’t do things the way we’ve always done them.

Innovation and creativity will be a huge part in the way we ex-pect people to behave, to learn, to do things, and that means government. It’s almost a misno-mer to say government and in-novation. The government has to learn to be creative and inno-vative because we won’t always have the money and I think this recession that we’ve been in for the past few years should have taught us about not always hav-ing the resources available to us, and how do we continue to sus-tain ourselves. We’ve got to look 10, 20, 30 years down the road. We’ve got to have people look-

ing continuously down the road to make sure that our state re-mains prosperous and progres-sive and that it’s a place where people want to come and work and play and raise a family and do business.

TC: What do you think the effects of the recently passed Amendment One will be on North Carolina’s state unity?

LC: I don’t know that there will be a whole lot said about it in the future. The couple of things I will say about it are: number one, it was a smokescreen for a social agenda and there were a lot of implications in there that people didn’t realize who voted for the amendment that had re-ally devastating effects on peo-ple’s lives, especially their health care and custody battles and other issues that will affect fami-lies in a negative way. I thought that was shameful. Secondly, it wrote discrimination into our constitution.

Third, I think it’s going to end up limiting some of our op-portunities for job growth. There will be companies that may not relocate here because of the im-pact of Amendment One. Final-ly, it was a social issue It did not create one job when jobs and the economy should have been the main focus of any elected body in the state. That the leg-islature did not bring forth one bill that created one single job in the state and instead focused on something like Amendment One, I think that was a shame.

TC: If you win and will be working with the legislature, how would you approach work-ing with politicians with differ-ent beliefs and different agen-das from you?

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data, said Black Student Alliance presi-dent Marcus Benning, a junior.

“Very often, we engage in sensational-ized rhetoric about affirmative action being good or bad when there could be a more nuanced conversation about it,” he said.

BSA is encouraging students to wear “Young, Black and Talented” T-shirts on a day yet to be announced, Benning added.

In the wake of the controversy, Brad-shaw posted a public apology on the Of-ficial Duke University Class of 2016 Face-book page, noting that even though he stands by his views, he regrets the word-ing he used to explain them.

“There are two legitimate sides to the issue, and they represent fundamentally different mindsets,” he said about the apology in an interview. “I regret that the debate has been centered around me personally, and I regret that it wasn’t as civil a conversation as I expected it to be. What I have gotten out of this is the chance to think about and explain my side of things.”

He added that he is glad he was able to personally speak with peers about cri-tiques of his approach and sentiments. He said he understands the legitimacy of the negative feedback, though he does not necessarily agree with it.

Some comments on Bradshaw’s Face-book post declined to accept his apology, calling it illegitimate. Other comments debated about Bradshaw’s First Amend-ment rights, and his right to his own opinions.

“Jed Bradshaw should not have backed down, in fact, he did not go far enough [in defending himself],” said freshman Max Schreiber, associate justice for the Duke Student Government Judiciary. “Af-firmative action, which is a policy based

on the design of one’s body and not the content of their character, is the type of policy Martin Luther King would have marched against 40 years ago. The nega-tive attacks on Mr. Bradshaw is yet anoth-er example of people trying to margin-alize the opinions of anyone with whom they disagree.”

Some people mischaracterize affir-mative action as Duke admissions giving black students handouts, Benning said.

“We could be anywhere, but we de-cided to come here,” he said. “There is something special about Duke and some-thing special about us.”

The backlash to the letter escalated rapidly over the weekend as increasing-ly charged comments by users on The Chronicle’s website accused Bradshaw of racial insensitivity. Other commenters and students supported Bradshaw, while some commenters took the dialogue to an inflammatory level, prompting The Chronicle to remove and disable com-ments on the letter.

Some of the comments that were origi-nally posted on the letter on The Chron-icle’s website were hateful in nature, said junior Jessica Adimora, vice president of DukeAFRICA. She made flyers intended to further discussion on the issue and posted them throughout Randolph dor-mitory. The flyers included one of the comments, reading “face it, there is a to-tem pole of average intelligence among races, and descendants of Africa are at the bottom of this totem pole.”

The flyers were not posted with the in-tent to facilitate hatred, Adimore wrote in an email to Randolph residents, en-couraging students to have active conver-sations about race.

Randolph’s House Council president, freshman Katie Fernelius, said she re-moved all of the flyers.

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were bare because of the power outages. You would never, ever see that.”

Martin said efforts by the alum-ni network to help others restore power have progressed slowly be-cause many members remained without electricity themselves.

“When you see such destruc-tion—hundreds of houses burned down or flooded—people want to help,” Martin said. “But the ques-tion is, well, how do we approach this? We have to figure out who is in need of help and who is even capable of helping.”

Although rebuilding efforts have begun, much remains before the region returns to normal. For instance, the difficulty of finding gas impedes recovery, Stevens said,

citing long lines at gas stations and the tendency of stations to run out of supply.

The impact of Hurricane Sandy has extended to students search-ing for jobs, said Emma Rasiel, as-sociate professor of the practice of economics and director of Duke in New York: Financial Markets and Institutions. Several students were forced to postpone interviews scheduled in New York City.

Students whose families live in New York or New Jersey also felt the impact of Hurricane Sandy.

“It was hard because I didn’t actually know what was going on,” said freshman Logan Turn-er. “Knowing that my family was at home with no power and no water and looking at pictures of the Jersey shore was very difficult for me.”

New York was not prepared for the storm, said freshman Diana Lam. Lam noted that the flood-ing paralyzed the subway system and disrupted bus and train schedules.

Residents of the city are op-timistic that the region will pull through. Martin said a number of alumni had been planning a major presentation on upcoming development in New York City, but now they are considering hosting a discussion on how the storm and any subsequent rebuilding will af-fect the city.

Stevens said the first post-San-dy event Duke New Jersey will be holding is a brew pub tour and tasting set on Nov. 17.

“I imagine it will be both a re-flective and celebratory event,” Stevens said.

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Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, writ-ing lecturer and director of out-reach for the Thompson Writing Program, said she saw Soni as a model for connecting knowl-edge to the service of society, noting his as a result of his work as a writer in the public sphere and his commitment to increas-ing the diversity of voices pre-sented on op-ed pages around the world.

“When Jimmy and I discussed his keynote [speech] and work-shop, we both were committed to providing undergraduates with more than just sage advice from an alum’s perspective, but actu-ally challenging you all and giv-ing you a jumpstart on crafting your own op-eds,” Ahern-Dodson wrote in an email Sunday.

Ahern-Dodson organized this year’s event after talking with alumni at a five-year re-union. She noted that the alums at the reunion felt that talking about what they were currently writing—ranging from medi-cal school essays to nonprofit grants—helped them respond to the typical reunion question: What are you doing now?

“I wondered what would happen if we turned that ques-

tion to undergraduates and got them thinking about writing as a tool for affecting change,” she said.

At the end of his workshop, Soni had students generate a list of possible op-ed topics and challenged everyone in the room to bring their ideas to life. For additional motivation, Soni handed out his business card and mentioned the possibility of being featured on The Huff-ington Post’s online news blog.

Junior Omoye Osehobo signed up for the conference to learn how to properly struc-ture her personal statement for medical school.

“I was also able to take away valuable information from the keynote speaker and the closing speaker,” she said. “Even though the keynote speaker works in the journalism industry, a ca-reer path I don’t imagine pursu-ing, he left me with a couple of thoughts that apply to any career path,” said Osehobo.

Lee Baker, Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, said even students can use writ-ing to make concrete change.

“Writing is the one thing you can use right now in terms of making the change you want to see” he said.

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As an old man—and I think my wondrously ac-curate prose has driven home the idea of my age rather effectively—I am often told that I

ramble on and repeat myself, telling the same stories again and again, re-peating myself by rambling on over and over, about things they’ve already heard about, one more time.

They tell me, “Wellington, no one wants to hear about the story about the time you met the Nigerian transsexual prostitute who actually fathered Barack Obama. It’s absurd even by your standards.” I’ve been told that our institution’s concerns have been altered, and that the is-sues that used to be near and dear to Duke students even a few years back are no longer important.

But am I to merely keep quiet, to slowly await the demise of my cam-pus, to not continue splitting infi nitives in pursuit of a triumph? I have been a fi ghter ever since I success-fully fought the draft board to keep me out of WWII, and I will continue in that vein until my dying day. And my biggest problem is a simple one: I’m living in a time of tremendously boring peace.

Take two weeks ago as an example. I deliberately conspired to bring my good friend Karl Rove to cam-pus with the expressed purpose of irritating the riff-raff around the school. I don’t know what it is about a good protest that gives me the jollies—perhaps it’s the unkempt rabble’s lack of an economic future that provokes laughter in me, or perhaps it’s the simple joy in seeing the one minority in the crowd dragged off by the police for “being too forceful.”

But, lo and behold, when I arrived, there was nary a bearded hippie in sight! Where had all the god-less communists gone? After a little bit of research, I realized: no one cared about politics in public any-more. People still had beliefs, absolutely, but liberals and conservatives alike hid in their rooms afraid of alienating a single person. The most overt political gesture that would be held was the conservatives praying in the Chapel to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, for a Romney presidency, while the liberals

were on their computers praying to Nate Silver.And it’s not merely a political problem. I have

been searching far and wide for more specifi c cam-pus issues to write about. The fi rst piece I wrote for this periodical was about the house model, thinking it would have a substantial impact on the upcoming semester. What a fool I was! “House model” is as dead a term as “Tailgate,” “effortless perfection,” “[obscure ethnic slur for Polynesians deleted by editor]” or “effective and relevant student government.”

Now, I suppose on the whole I should be celebrating some of these changes. Students have presumably realized the futility of campus activ-ism and instead fully embraced a pre-professional attitude, spending time they once dedicated to social issues now preparing for fi nance and con-

sulting interviews. I mean, does anyone actually be-lieve in “interdisciplinary” academia for its own end? I could write a joke about it, but the statement itself is far funnier than I could ever be [Editor’s note: ad-mittedly, a low standard].

But I miss the thrill of the battle. It made every-thing rather fun. Without an adversary that truly cares, the victories a man achieves are truly hollow. What was Magic Johnson without Larry Bird, Bill Clinton without his libido or Judaism without every major power of the last two millennia? Winning by forfeit: It doesn’t seem fun.

Of course, there is another explanation for my disillusionment. Perhaps I am truly out of touch with the campus, that in my old age I’ve missed what is truly relevant to the newest students of Duke Univer-sity. I am, without a doubt, the most self-aware per-son I have ever known, and I am not of the current generation. I hope that is not the case, but I must acknowledge the possibility. Such is the problem of being a senior, citizen.

The Grumpy Trustee begs the members of the greek com-munity to send out a controversial e-mail sometime in the next week, because he’s resorting to grammar jokes at this point.

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Last week, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta sent out an email to the student body expressing the community’s concern for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast. “I’m not sure how we can help,” Moneta wrote, “but your family are our ex-tended family.”

While the general senti-ment of Moneta’s email is appreciated, it falls short of the University’s responses to other natural disasters in recent years. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Duke launched a broad re-lief campaign, with everyone from Duke basketball to Duke Student Government help-ing to raise nearly $40,000. Duke even sent medical relief

teams to Haiti to help. Duke also mounted a signifi cant re-sponse to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. For example, Duke initiated a program where em-ployees could be reimbursed

for vacation days they used to volunteer in

disaster relief.Obviously, there are im-

portant distinctions between Hurricane Sandy and these two other natural disasters. But Hurricane Sandy still presents crucial opportunities for Duke to use its resources and knowledge in service to society. Simply sending our sympathetic regards toward the affected region does not suffi ce. Our response should not stop at an email.

Admittedly, Duke’s money or manpower might not be

of greatest use to Hurricane Sandy survivors at the mo-ment. But Duke can contrib-ute more by starting a serious conversation about climate change to prevent similar di-sasters in the future. As a ma-jor research university, Duke should be on the cutting edge of climate change discourse. As The New Yorker put it, re-fusing to have a conversation about climate change now is “akin to the insistence that the aftermath of a mass shooting is somehow an improper mo-ment to talk about America’s gun laws.” In short, to not talk about climate change would be perilously irresponsible.

Especially given Duke’s ample expertise—Sanford for public policy, the Nicholas School for the environment and Pratt for engineering—

there are obviously abundant intellectual resources to de-vote to the Hurricane Sandy aftermath, whether in terms of rethinking waterfront de-velopment or designing storm barriers. Marshalling public will to fi nd serious ways to ad-dress climate change is also a nontrivial task.

Duke has funneled its in-tellectual resources to natural disasters in the past. After Hur-ricane Katrina, Duke faculty across multiple schools lent their knowledge to Katrina-spe-cifi c problems ranging from the dangers of wetland de-struction to the racial implica-tions of botched disaster relief. Symposiums galore were held after the Haiti earthquake too. The intellectual work associ-ated Hurricane Sandy has just begun. Although Duke’s own

campus was not impacted, we are not exempt from process-ing the hurricane’s scientifi c and societal implications.

There is yet another conse-quence of not engaging with the Hurricane Sandy after-math. Duke should not ignore the fact that—even in Amer-ica—natural disasters dispro-portionately harm the poor. One does not have to look to Port-au-Prince to see this phenomenon—it is readily ap-parent in New York City. When thinking about helping people, Duke students like to orient themselves internationally. But even a cursory comparison of post-hurricane recovery on the Upper East Side and the Jacob Riis Houses housing project in lower Manhattan will remind Duke students to look a little closer to home.

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Tomorrow is Election Day, a day on which the United States voting public elects our nation’s president as well as many other state and local offi cials. The

choices we make now can have wonderful or disastrous con-sequences not only in the next four years, but also for gen-erations to come.

The simplest way to interpret this truth is that one must choose wisely between the two mainstream candidates. After all, they are the only ones that have a real shot of winning, right? With some stipulations, you the voter have two choices: A candidate who believes in civil liberties and modern science (usually marked by a letter “D”) or a candidate who believes in something resembling free en-terprise (usually an “R”). You might every now and then be concerned that despite the sheer diversity of opinions that naturally exist in a free society, we somehow make it work with only two parties. After all, the newspapers and networks all seem to only address two can-didates, even going so far as to use phrases like “both candi-dates” to imply that there are only two. The Commission on Presidential Debates, as of writing this column, has only in-vited two candidates to any of their presidential debates, with the exception of the 1992 debate with Ross Perot. It seems odd, even wrong, but it makes total sense in a system where supporting any third-party candidate is at worst a spoiler vote and at best a drop in the bucket.

On both sides of the aisle, the destiny of our country seems to hang in the balance. In such a hostile partisan environ-ment, even the mention of the third-party is met with hostility. I remember seeing a lovely Facebook post from one of my friends insisting that “a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Ba-rack Obama.” I would contend that, given the current politi-cal situation, such an assertion is irrelevant. Here’s why.

Much of the selling power behind the Romney/Ryan tick-et is their promise to reign in entitlement spending, specifi -cally their promise to repeal Obamacare. To this goal I say: fat chance. Even if Romney wins the election and the Republicans retain the House, the Senate will almost certainly remain in Democratic control thanks in part to Todd “legitimate rape” Akin. If the Dems retain control, Romney has no chance what-soever of passing meaningful entitlement reform.

Likewise on the Democratic end, an Obama win would quickly devolve into a continuation of the current lame-duck session. The Dems have no chance whatsoever of picking up the House, and even have a slim chance of losing the Senate. Either way, Obama will be hard-pressed to actually accom-plish anything in his second term. Those of you adamant about gay rights, repealing the PATRIOT Act, etc. are sadly destined to be disappointed.

Gary Johnson is not a spoiler candidate. His record as governor of New Mexico shows that he is a man who made libertarian principles work beautifully in the real world, and he has greater moral integrity than either of the two main candidates. Unfortunately, he has no chance of winning this election. … So why vote for him? Why did I vote for him?

I voted for Gary Johnson because I am naïve enough to actually believe that our political process is about voting on principle and not out of fear. More to the point, I believe that a lot more can be said and done with one’s vote (even for a losing candidate) than stating a preference for the immediate election. I don’t expect Gary Johnson to win; I don’t even ex-pect him to come close. What I hope for is in the longer term. All he needs is 5 percent. Five percent of the vote makes the Libertarian Party a major party according to federal regula-tions, giving them automatic ballot access in every state as well as $90 million in federal election funding for 2016.

Such a standing would undoubtedly force the other major parties to take libertarian ideals seriously. More importantly, however, it would cut them just deeply enough to remind them that even a god can bleed. It will force a more honest political discourse, because the Republicans and Democrats will realize that they are not unconditionally on top. Maybe the Libertarian Party will run the show or maybe the other two parties will fi nally have to shape up. Either way, the result is better for all of us.

Even if Johnson doesn’t hit the 5 percent mark this time around, I encourage you to live free, to stand on principle and vote for the freedom you and all Americans deserve. It may be hard to see the effects now, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Seeing our bright future come to fruition will require time, patience and, most importantly, dedication.

Michael Cook is a Pratt senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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ment of Barack Obama was predictable. But its characterization of Republicans as “bloodthirsty” and “extremist” was absurd.

It belittles The Chronicle’s editorial board to de-scend into petty name-calling. Impugning the mo-tives of those who disagree with you is the fi rst resort of the lazy and self-convinced; it is not the hallmark of the thoughtful and well educated.

Don’t fall into that trap: Befriend people who disagree with you and engage them in conversation.

Force yourself to step outside your own experience and understand how people of good intentions can disagree on the matters of substance. Or, for a start, read The Chronicle’s excellent Nov. 2 interview with accomplished Republican Hill staffer Kather-ine Haley, Trinity ‘00.

There are important issues at stake on Election Day—issues too important for the childish, churlish language of The Chronicle’s editorial board.

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Language is more than just English, Spanish, Chinese or Arabic. Language acquires mean-ing through context, and although the mean-

ing of a simple word such as “Hello” may be fairly universal among English-speakers, this is not the case for more complicated expressions such as “basic healthcare” and “religious freedom.” Superfi cially, these phrases may seem fairly self-explanatory—of course every-one is entitled to access to basic health-care, and every fi fth grader knows that religious freedom was one of the founding principles of this country. However, the underlying defi nitions of these terms dictate the parameters of debate. If two parties involved in a discussion have fundamentally different understandings of the core terms of their disagreement, then they could just as well be speak-ing mutually incomprehensible languages.

This is especially true in the case of the debate over the “birth control mandate.” Included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this provision for free birth control comes out of the guidelines for wom-en’s preventive services that the Department of Health and Human Services adopted on the advice of the independent Institute of Medicine in order to “address health needs specific to women and fill gaps in existing guidelines.” That is, the IOM recog-nized that access to contraception stands alongside pap smears and mammograms as a core element of women’s preventive healthcare. Rather than argu-ing that an unplanned pregnancy constitutes an ill-ness, the IOM classifies it as a “health condition,” and examines the implications of an unintended pregnancy for both the mother and child. Women who have either mistimed or did not plan their pregnancy are less likely to receive prenatal care, more likely to drink or smoke while pregnant, more likely to be depressed and more likely to experience domestic violence while pregnant.

When pro-choice organizations such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL look at IOM’s recom-mendation for the provision of free birth control through the ACA, they applaud the mandate as a step forward for women’s reproductive rights. They argue that the IOM was correct in recognizing con-traception as an element of basic healthcare, and point to the economic and health benefits of no-cost birth control. For example, Planned Parent-hood’s Cecile Richards argued, “The birth control benefit underscores the fact that birth control is basic health care, and is fundamental to improving women’s health and the health of their families.” Similarly, NARAL points to how “a woman who can plan when to have a family is able to participate in society more fully.” In other words, the language that pro-choice organizations speak is founded in notions of women’s autonomy, family planning as a component of basic women’s healthcare and the importance of shifting the economic burden of fam-ily planning off of the individual woman.

When religious organizations evaluate the birth control mandate, however, they tend to focus im-mediately on issues of religious freedom, and spe-

cifi cally on the right to freedom of religion. In the legal context, organi-zations such as the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) point to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which states, “Government shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.” As applied to the birth control mandate, these or-ganizations argue that a government requirement to provide health insur-

ance that includes no-cost birth control violates the religious conscience of Catholic organizations. The Catholic Church considers many artifi cial, emergen-cy contraceptive methods to be “abortifacients,” and therefore prohibits the use of contraception or steril-ization as family planning methods. By defi ning birth control essentially as abortion-light, the ADF and other religious organizations maintain that the man-date forces religious employers to choose between breaking one of the Ten Commandments and sub-jecting themselves to $1,400 per worker per year for non-compliance. In addition, religious organizations such as Catholic universities and hospitals argue that the religious employer exemption from the ACA is too narrow. Essentially, the Church argues that just because an organization does not limit its charitable services to Catholic ministry, that doesn’t mean that the organization should be considered an employer like any other.

Thus, there are two main definitional differences between religious organizations against the birth control mandate and organizations that support the mandate. First, the Church considers emergen-cy contraception an “abortifacient,” and therefore considers it morally impossible to endorse the use of drugs that kill fetuses. Organizations that support the mandate examine contraception in the context of its ability to reduce economic burdens on wom-en, its implications for women who shouldn’t get pregnant for health reasons and its effect on wom-en’s ability to become more active participants in the public sphere. Second, the organizations that oppose the mandate focus on freedom of religion, regardless of the presence of an employment rela-tionship. Those who support the mandate concep-tualize religious freedom more as freedom from religion, the right not to have a religious practice imposed on you. Although we can recognize these different definitions, and attempt to translate them into our own worldview, the fact remains that those who are fully fluent in one language have difficulty understanding how the other side rationalizes its definition.

Joline Doedens is a first-year law student. Her column runs every other Monday. You can follow Joline on Twitter @jydoedens.

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the presidential and judicial races are not included.

“People assume they’ve exer-cised their right to vote, but they haven’t,” he said.

In 2004, more than 92,000 North Carolina voters failed to vote in the presidential race, ac-cording to the North Carolina Coalition for Verified Voting. That year, 2.57 percent of the nearly 3.96 million casted ballots were incomplete. These numbers mark an increase in presidential race undervoting since 2000, when more than 75,000 voters neglected to vote for a candidate. Overall, the undervote in 2000 stood at 3.15 percent of ballots.

Straight ticket voting also has significant implications for judi-cial races, Lewis added. Confu-sion about whether straight ticket voting applies to these races, in

conjunction with the fact that vot-ers tend to be less educated about judicial candidates, causes a sig-nificant voter drop-off in those races.

Demystifying confusion about the voting procedure is a priority, said Tori Bragg, director of North Carolina Young Americans for Romney. The campaign actively informs voters about the system during all of their events and campaigning efforts.

Popularity for straight voting across the nation has waned over the past decade. Starting with Georgia in 1994, six states have abolished the option—Wisconsin being the most recent one in 2011.

Legislators in New Hampshire eliminated straight ticket voting in 2007 after determining that voters should read through the ballot and make their choices independent of party affiliations,

said David Scanlan, deputy secre-tary of state of New Hampshire. He noted that public reaction to-ward the abolition remained rela-tively ambivalent, though voters with strong partisan affiliations preferred the old system.

David Rohde, Ernestine Friedl professor of political sci-ence, noted that Republicans tend to disfavor straight ticket voting. When they control state legislatures, the state has been more likely abolish straight tick-et voting.

But Democrats generally fa-vor straight ticket voting more because it has historically bene-fited their party, Rohde said. His-torically, Democratic voters have been less likely to be informed about individual candidates and would be more likely to vote for only candidates of their party.

Students have also raised ethi-cal concerns about straight ticket

voting. Sophomore Eeshan Bhatt said he opposes straight ballots because it further polarizes gov-ernment politics. Bhatt did not vote straight ticket.

“If you’re going to vote for someone, you should take the time to fill in all the bubbles,” Bhatt said. “Straight ticket voting encourages people to vote without being fully educated.”

Although sophomore Jackie Dobbies is also concerned about uninformed voting, she does not think it should be abolished. Straight ticket voting saves time and therefore attracts voters who may otherwise be deterred, she said.

Straight ticket voting will likely be addressed in the General As-sembly, though whether the state will continue providing the op-tion remains uncertain, Lewis said. He added that representa-tives from both sides of the aisle have expressed interest in abol-ishing the system.

“Members on both sides tend to think that straight ticket voting tends to help the other side more than it helps their side,” Lewis said.

Although Lewis said he is un-certain whether straight ticket voting disproportionately ben-efits one party over another, Democrats have more effectively organized their party base to not just vote but to support the whole party by voting straight ballot. He added that such activism does not mean straight ticket voting provides a partisan advantage—Republicans have the same op-portunity to rally their base.

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LC: When I was in the legislature it was a Democratic legislature, but I still worked across the aisle with other legislators. I sponsored and co-sponsored legislation with Re-publicans because in the end what I look at is, “Is this good for the people of the state?” Not whether this is partisan or going to advance any ideology that I might personally hold. Is it going to advance North Carolina in a good way? I don’t look to hold to a partisan divide—I really hope more than anything that we can break this gridlock where just because you’re in power, you be-lieve that, “I’m going to do all these things and not look at what’s really good for North Carolina.”

I want to have some really solid conversations with members of the other party to see, if there is com-mon ground. Whether it’s on edu-cation, the environment, health, economic development, you’ve got to look at what we believe we need to do to improve North Carolina, not just for today but for the fu-ture. We want to all be known as a body that did something insightful, that helped North Carolina move forward in a good way, that anyone could look back on years from now and be proud of the work they did, whether they worked with their own party or with a different party. That’s something we all need to be able to look back on. At some point we can’t draw a line in the sand. We’ve got to be able to cross the line and say we’ll take the best of all of this and make it good for North Carolina.

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For a Division II women’s basketball pro-gram like Queens, the opportunity to play against one of the top teams in the coun-try is unique. Although head coach Cheryl Nix’s Royals faced a Duke squad missing players including Elizabeth Williams due

to injury, Sunday’s game at Cameron Indoor Stadium was by no means a close affair.

No. 3 Duke controlled the game early rushing out to a 17-1 lead and by the end of the game racked up an 118-27 advantage, concluding their exhibition calendar.

Despite the high margin of victory, the final score belied the intensity of the game. Queens, though on average two inches shorter than the Blue Devils, fought hard defensively for loose balls and gave their physically superior opponents no free chances.

“Our game plan was to come and com-pete and represent our program well. I feel like our players fought until the very end,” Nix said. “Our kids kept attacking, and I’m really proud by the way they rep-resented today.”

The Royals used a full court press, which they have been practicing for situ-ations like this, helping cause 28 Duke turnovers. Although Duke had trouble maintaining possession of the ball, head coach Joanne McCallie kept her message positive about improving as regular season play draws closer.

“We did turn the ball over too many times. Some of those turnovers I’m okay with because it’s still getting to know each other with passes,” McCallie said. “Then, with the silly turnovers there’s no excuse there. We always want to have 12 or less, and we were way above that number.”

Although turnovers plagued Duke throughout the game, the Blue Devils dominated the rest of the stat sheet. The team accumulated 67 rebounds in the game. Forward Haley Peters had a career day with 21 rebounds and 20 points in 30 minutes of play.

Rebounding and defense remained a focus heading into Sunday for the Blue Devils, who responded to McCallie’s call to increase intensity on the court. With 10 blocks and 14 steals, Duke stifled the Roy-als’ offensive game, holding them to 11.4 percent shooting.

“Defensively, I thought we were strong in a lot of areas and also have something to work on,” McCallie said. “Rebounding wise, I thought we weren’t as strong until

the second half. We grew a lot as a team in the second half rebounding wise.”

Although hindered by turnovers on the offensive side of the ball, Duke had six play-ers score more than 10 points and had a team total 26 assists, nine of which came from freshman guard Alexis Jones, who played 35 minutes off the bench. Jones dazzled with her drives, shots and passing ability, finishing the day with 22 points and nine rebounds. Her backcourt teammate Chelsea Gray notched 24 points and 9 re-bounds.

Sunday showed the Blue Devils depth in spite of the injuries and skill, and Duke is committed to improving with its first regular season game Nov. 17 against Presbyterian.

“I think one thing we have to take away from this is to put two halves together,” Gray said. “We were real sluggish, loose with the ball and very casual in the first half. In the second half we were more com-posed. We had way too many turnovers—myself included. Making better decisions and putting two halves together is what we have to work on.”

Duke splits five-set thrillers

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The Blue Devils got to play 10 exciting sets of volleyball last weekend but return to Durham with only one victory to show for their hard work.

Duke took down Boston College Fri-day after falling behind 2-0 to start the match, and then fell just short against Maryland Sunday.

Duke (14-13, 5-10 ACC) got off to a slow start in the first of its five-set thrillers, recording a .156 hitting percentage and dropping the match’s first two frames be-fore rallying to knock off the Eagles (21-25, 24-26, 25-19, 25-15, 15-5).

“Going up to [Boston College], we knew was going to be a tough and impor-tant match for us,” head coach Jolene Na-gel said. “We came out not communicating in the first two sets, we were making a lot of errors which was frustrating.... But then, [in sets three through five] our hitters started to put the ball away and then we started to get some runs. The fourth and fifth sets were not close at all. They were a good team and they put a lot of pressure on us. It was nice to see that we could recover after getting down [two sets to none].”

After two sloppy opening sets, the Blue Devil defense imposed its will on Boston College (10-17, 4-11 ACC). Led by mid-dle blockers Christiana Gray and Chelsea Cook, who combined for 10 blocks on the night, Duke held Boston College to just 28 kills in the final three sets.

The Blue Devils jumped ahead 15-10 to start the third set, but the Eagles battled back to within three at the 21-18 mark. Duke won four out of the final five points to take the frame and regain some lost momentum.

Midway through the fourth set, Duke once again began to widen its lead. A kill by sophomore setter Kelsey Williams put the Blue Devils up 11-7, and forced a Bos-ton College timeout. But the Eagles could not make anything happen on offense, and a kill and a block by sophomore outside hitter Jeme Obeime finished off the stanza and tied the match at 2-2.

Duke dominated the fifth and final set, holding the Eagles to a hitting per-centage of just .050, sealing the come-from-behind victory.

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When the runners on Duke’s ‘B’ team stepped up to the starting line at the Three Stripe Invitational in Cary this past Satur-day, one of them was not only running his last race of the season, but the last of his Duke cross country career.

Senior Joseph Elsakr joined six current Blue Devils in Cary where they combined their efforts to take first place as a team, beating out teams from N.C. State and East Carolina University. The rest of the team, including former runners, such as now-vol-unteer assistant coach Andrew Brodeur and alumnus Cory Nanni, cheered the runners on and not only from the sidelines. Both Brodeur and Nanni raced alongside their former teammates as unattached runners, pacing and encouraging them onward.

“Joey Elsakr finished out a really won-derful cross country career here at Duke,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “He came from such a long way back to get where he is. [Joey] was certainly hoping that he would be finishing his career at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet—[but] he came one position short of doing that, so he had to finish up his career [here]... We’re ex-tremely proud of what he’s accomplished here in his four years.”

Elsakr came in second for Duke behind freshman William Rooney who crossed the line in 15:21 to take first. Elsakr followed just seven seconds later, leading teammate William Hague who finished in sixth over-all with a time of 15:36. Freshman Eddie

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Joseph Elsakr finished second in the Three Stripe Invitational, the final cross country race of his career.

by Sarah ElsakrTHE CHRONICLE

This past Saturday at the Three Stripe Invitational, graduate student Cydney Ross led the Blue Devils to a first-place finish as she ended her Duke cross country career.

Ross, whose primary strength lies in the 800m on the track, surprised her coaches, her teammates and herself when she blazed across the line in 18:03, shattering her pre-vious personal record by about 1:40.

“It’s bittersweet,” Ross said. “I’ve defi-nitely struggled with cross country over the years... but this year we switched some of my training up, and I’ve been going in with a different mentality for racing. It’s nice to

finish my last race with a huge [personal record] and a win.”

After Ross ran through the line in first, junior Dana Morin and sophomore Abby Farley did not take long to follow her across, finishing in 18:25 and 18:28, respec-tively. Freshman Olivia Anderson came in next for Duke, taking fifth overall. Senior Adrianne Soo and junior Ashley Berry rounded out the rest of the Duke contin-gent as they crossed the line within a sec-ond of each other, finishing in 19:21 and 19:22, respectively.

“We had a lot of good runs. A lot of

Ross grabs fi rst to end her cross country career

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Senior Cydney Ross concluded her cross country career with a first-place finish at the Three Stripe Invitational.

Meranda and Brian Schoepfer came in eighth and ninth place, respectively. Junior Spencer Pecha crossed the line less than 30 seconds after Schoepfer to round out the top seven for the Duke team with a time of 16:07.

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Just two weeks ago a packed Wallace Wade Stadium stu-dent section rushed the field to celebrate a last-second win against North Carolina that clinched bowl eligibility and returned the Victory Bell to Durham.

Saturday night, that seemed like a distant memory as No. 10 Clemson (8-1, 5-1 in the ACC) rode a dominant of-fensive performance to an easy 56-20 victory against Duke (6-4, 3-3), giving the Blue Devils their second straight de-feat by more than 30 points.

“We’ve had a difficult time now for eight quarters,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “We all know Florida State and Clemson are very talented teams, but for us to finish like we want to finish, we’ve got to play clean across the board.”

No matter how clean Cutcliffe’s squad played, though, the Tigers carried an enormous advantage in size and speed. Clemson’s athletic advantage was evident from the first snap, a 26-yard end-around by speedy running back Andre Ellington. A few minutes later, receiver DeAndre Hopkins caught the first of his three touchdowns from Tajh Boyd, who had 199 yards and four touchdowns through the air by the end of the first quarter.

Offensively, Duke had some initial success, scoring on its first two drives and racking up 152 yards in the first quarter. Even with those numbers, though, the Blue Devils finished with only 342 total yards. But the defense’s failure to stop or even slow Clemson’s offense put the game well out of reach after 15 minutes of play.

Duke’s de-fense did not improve much in the second quarter either, although it forced three turnovers while yield-ing 191 yards and 14 points. Its first stop came two and a half minutes into the second quarter when Walt Canty forced a fumble.

The Blue Devils were unable to make anything of the turnover, how-ever, going three-and-out on the ensu-ing possession. Clemson would not be stopped on its next drive, as Boyd threw his fifth touchdown pass of the night—this time to Martavis Bryant for 41 yards.

Duke responded with a touchdown of its own to cut the lead to 35-17. On the next possession, Walt Canty came up with another turnover, this time via an interception. The Blue Devils were able to put together a few positive plays on a four-minute, 34-yard drive. Facing a fourth-and-three at Clemson’s 45, Cutcliffe considered going for it.

“I just had it going both ways in my mind, and I felt good about the call,” Cutcliffe said. “To give that team the ball there, I thought if we could punt them deep, which we didn’t do, that we could keep the score a little more reasonable. If we didn’t make it on fourth down then I was afraid it was going to turn into 42-17… We were going to see if there was a potential fake there and they took a tim-eout. If you can’t stop them, you have to give them a little

more field to play with.” Will Monday’s punt went only 29 yards, pinning the Ti-

gers at their own 16 and forcing them to drive the length of the field with just 3:21 left in the half. As it had all night to that point, Clemson’s offense responded with a quick drive, covering the 84 yards in less than a minute and a half and concluding with a 21-yard touchdown run by Boyd.

By the end of the half, the game was all but over. Clemson led 42-17 and had racked up 487 yards of offense, including 314 through the air on just 19 attempts. Boyd finished the half with 388 total yards and six total touchdowns.

“I knew going in that Boyd was extremely accurate with the deep ball,” Cutcliffe said. “You can’t throw them any better than he throws them. I think he’s a really fine foot-ball player. He’s dangerous with his legs. He’s poised. He has the complete game.”

Duke’s offense, on the other hand, struggled mightily for most of the second quarter, punting on its last four

possessions of the half. After scoring to cut the lead to 28-17, the Blue Devils registered just

26 yards of offense during the last 13 min-utes of the quarter. Those struggles con-tinued over the rest of the game, and Monday was forced to punt nine times despite averaging a career-worst 39.9 yards per punt.

Conner Vernon, who needed just 82 yards to surpass Florida State’s Pe-

ter Warrick’s record for most ca-reer receiving yards by an ACC player, was held in check for the second straight week. After notching just three catches for 12 yards against the Seminoles last week, Vernon had five

catches for just 47 yards against the Tigers.

Both teams played more conser-vatively in the third quarter, tacitly ac-

knowledging the game was settled but for the final score. Both teams settled

into their running games, chewing up the clock. Duke put together a couple of

field goal drives while Clemson managed a few touchdowns, but for all intensive

purposes the game was finished. For the second straight week, the Blue Devils were on the wrong end of a blowout against a superior team.

Duke will have a week off be-fore playing Georgia Tech. The team is well aware that the final two games are critical in the hunt for an ACC Champion-ship. If the Blue Devils pull out a victory in Atlanta, it will be a much happier illustration of how much things can change in two weeks.

“We know what the stand-ings are,” cornerback Ross Cockrell said. “We understand that we can potentially get

another chance at either Clemson or Florida

State and I look for-ward to that.”

The Blue Devils were able to find some success through the air against Clemson, rec

n are very talented teams, but for us to finish like we finish, we’ve got to play clean across the board.”

matter how clean Cutcliffe’s squad played, though, ers carried an enormous advantage in size and

Clemson’s athletic advantage was evident from the p, a 26-yard end-around by speedy running back llington. A few minutes later, receiver DeAndre

s caught the first of his three touchdowns from yd, who had 199 yards and four touchdowns the air by the end of the first quarter.

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nything of the turnover, how-ing three-and-out on the ensu-session. Clemson would not be on its next drive, as Boyd threw his chdown pass of the night—this time

avis Bryant for 41 yards. responded with a touchdown of its own

he lead to 35-17. On the next possession, nty came up with another turnover, thisan interception. The Blue Devils were able gether a few positive plays on a four-minute,

drive. Facing a fourth-and-three at Clemson’s liffe considered going for it. t had it going both ways in my mind, and I felt out the call,” Cutcliffe said. “To give that team the re, I thought if we could punt them deep, which ’t do, that we could keep the score a little more ble. If we didn’t make it on fourth down then I was was going to turn into 42-17… We were going to

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better than he throws them. I think heball player. He’s dangerous with his lehas the complete game.”

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possessions of the half. Aftelead to 28-17, the Blue D

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SSw After Duke scored 17 points in the first half, the Clemson defense smothered the Blue

After Clemson jumped out to an early 7-0 lead, Duke’s ensuing drive was stopped in Clemson territory, forcing a Ross Martin field goal.

Clemson responded to Martin’s field goal with a 58-yard touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins, who caught three touchdowns in the first period.

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cording two passing touchdowns on 257 yards receiving.

by Brady BuckTHE CHRONICLE

It’s no secret that the ACC’s top two teams—No. 8 Florida State and No. 10 Clemson—are in a class of their own.

The Blue Devils (6-4, 3-3 in the ACC) know that first hand after being outmatched in back-to-back losses to the two. Much like the loss to the Seminoles a week ago, Duke did little to help itself against the Tigers (8-1, 5-1) Saturday night by giving up big plays defen-sively and failing to take advantage of turnovers, a rec-

ipe conducive to a lopsided score against a vastly more athletic and talented opponent.

“There’s no real magic formula,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “The better the

opponent, the more solid your game has to be fundamentally.”

Down 7-0 after a quick Clemson score, the Blue Devils were forced to settle for a field goal on their first pos-session after senior wide receiver Des-mond Scott was unable reel in a pass from redshirt senior quarterback Sean Renfree that likely would have been a touchdown—the team’s first miscue of the night. Duke was forced to play catch up the rest of the night.

Clemson’s second touch-down came on a 58-yard bomb through the air as quarterback Tajh Boyd connected with wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. Unlike most of the Tigers’ passing touchdowns in the contest, Duke’s secondary was in position to make a play on the ball. Going stride for stride with Hopkins, redshirt junior cornerback Ross Cockrell could not break up the pass and the speedy 6-foot-2 receiver raced into the end zone for the second of his three touchdowns in the first quarter.

“There’s nothing more you could do,” Cutcliffe said. “At first upstairs, they thought [Cockrell] knocked the ball away.”

The Blue Devils’ last sign of life came when Renfree delivered a career-long 77-yard touchdown pass to Jamsion Crowder to pull Duke within four. That score, however, would be the last time the game was within reach as the Clemson offense continued to score at will throughout the first half, quickly putting the game out of reach.

“At first it wasn’t that bad,” redshirt senior cornerback Lee Butler said. “Then they kept scoring and we couldn’t really stop them.”

Ultimately, the secondary was unable to keep Clemson’s dynamic receiving corps of Hopkins and Sammy Watkins in front of them in the first half, preventing the Blue Devils from having a fighting chance. For the

second straight game, Boyd threw for five first-half touchdown passes, racking up 344 yards on just 16 completions.

“We didn’t make enough plays in the beginning of the game to really change the outcome,” Cock-rell said.

Playing without starting defensive end Kenny Anunike, Duke’s rush defense was just as vulnerable.

The Tigers accumulated 339 yards on the ground and each of Clemson’s

five rushers averaged more than five yards per carry.

Duke’s defense, however, won the turnover battle, man-aging to pick off Boyd three times on the night— the high-

est total in his career. The Blue Devil de-fense also recovered a fumble, while the offense did not turn the ball over once. Despite win-ning the takeaway

battle 4-0 for the sec-ond straight week, the offense was unsuccess-ful in converting any of Clemson’s miscues into points, further doom-ing Duke’s chance to beat a ranked oppo-nent for the first time since 1994.

“It’s odd,” Cutc-liffe said. “We have taken care of the ball and taken the ball away. And we are not doing anything. One of the old game ac-tions is play for

breaks, but when one comes your way

score. We aren’t getting points off of turnovers. Those are what

good football teams do. We have to get back to that point.”

The offense’s inability to get in groove can partially be attributed to the fact that its most reliable threat—wide receiver Conner Vernon—has been a non-factor the last two games with just eight catches for a meager 59 yards.

For a team that has given up 105 points in its last two outings and has been riddled by injuries, a bye week

could not come at a better time as the team enters the final stretch of

the season.“Obviously, after the eight quarters

we have played, we need one,” Cutc-liffe said. “We have a lot of significant injuries, and we’re getting thin at some places.”

Conference class warfare

Game Analysis

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five rushers averaged more five yards per carry.

Duke’s defense, howwon the turnover battle, aging to pick off Boyd ttimes on the night— the h

est total in his caThe Blue Devilfense also recova fumble, whileoffense did turn the ball once. Despite ning the take

battle 4-0 for theond straight week,offense was unsucful in converting anClemson’s miscuespoints, further doing Duke’s chancbeat a ranked onent for the first since 1994.

“It’s odd,” Cliffe said. “We taken care ofball and takenball away. we are not danything. Onthe old gamtions is play

breaks, but wone comes your

score. We aren’t getting poff of turnovers. Those are

good football teams do. We to get back to that point.”

The offense’s inability to ggroove can partially be attribto the fact that its most relthreat—wide receiver CoVernon—has been a non-fthe last two games with just catches for a meager 59 yards.

For a team that has given uppoints in its last two outings andbeen riddled by injuries, a bye

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the season.“Obviously, after the eight qua

we have played, we need one,” Cliffe said. “We have a lot of signifinjuries, and we’re getting thisome places.”

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e Devils in the final two periods, holding them to just three points the rest of the way.

Crowder showed Duke has a vertical game too, catching a 77-yard bomb from nfree to make it 14-10 Clemson.

Sammy Watkins caught a 30-yard touchdown pass at the end of the first to give the Tigers a 28-10 lead.

Clemson QB Tajh Boyd threw for five touch-downs but also ran for one, going 21 yards in the second quarter to bring the lead to 25 points.

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Belshaw earns a shutout as Duke stays hotby Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

In the final regular season game of his career, James Belshaw earned a shut-out, and the Blue Devils made sure not to waste it, recording their third win in four games.

Coming off a scoreless draw with Elon Oct. 30, Duke (8-7-2) defeated SIU Ed-wardsville 2-0 Friday night at Koskinen Stadium as Belshaw earned his career-high eighth shutout of the season.

“The credit doesn’t just go to me. It goes to the whole team,” Belshaw said. “We’ve just had this mentality this year of not conceding

goals and just defending like our life de-pends on it, and that’s what’s brought us our success.”

Averaging 0.74 goals against per game, the Blue Devils own the second-best mark in the ACC this year, and with just one goal allowed in their last six games, their de-fense has only been getting stronger. The trend continued as Duke allowed just one shot on goal in the first half.

After being shut out themselves earlier in the week though, the Blue Devils looked to get on the scoreboard early against the Cougars (12-6).

“We had good movement in the Elon game, but we just couldn’t capitalize,” fresh-man midfielder Zach Mathers said. “But I think we really did a great job tonight mov-ing off the ball and getting shots off.”

Duke had just five shots in the open-ing period, but in the 17th minute, one of them found the back of the net.

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Zach Mathers scored Duke’s first goal of the game and then was moved back to defense, where he helped hold SIU Edwardsville scoreless.

Receiving a long throw-in from sopho-more midfielder Riley Wolfe at the top of the 18-yard box, sophomore midfielder Sean Davis flicked the ball toward the pen-alty mark. There, Mathers buried a right-footed volley for his second goal in three games, giving the Blue Devils a 1-0 lead.

With a 1-4-0 record in games that Duke has scored only one goal, the offense

pushed for a second score.“We’ve been talking about after we get

our first goal to try to press more than we did before,” Mathers said.

Mathers, who is referred to as “Chachi” by his team, just missed a second score 10 minutes later, and the squad went into the break without an insurance goal.

To help preserve the lead, Mathers

played mostly on the back line in the sec-ond half.

“The SIU Edwardsville team was very tal-ented, very good going forward with good movement off the ball,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “We thought that Chachi could help us in the back. It obviously left a

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Hartmann’s win highlights Hokie Openby Lopa Rahman

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Before the Hokie Open, Duke head coach Glen Lanham believed that the Blue Devils would surprise a lot of people. Satur-day afternoon in Blacksburg, Va., they did just that.

“Our guys competed well,” Lanham said. “We definitely surprised a lot of peo-ple here. I talked to a lot of coaches, and they said that the team looked unbeliev-able and had never looked that tough. I’m excited about that.”

Eight out of the 10 wrestlers represent-ing Duke at the tournament posted win-ning records, and sophomore Conner Hartmann and senior Diego Bencomo fin-ished in first and second place in the 197- and 184-pound weight classes, respectively.

Despite his team’s strong showing at the first tournament of the season, Lanham is not getting complacent.

“We made a lot of mistakes that we need to correct,” he said. “We were a little hesi-tant on offensive attacks. We accomplished two out of the three goals that we set.”

The three goals that the Blue Devils fo-cused on were getting off on their offen-sive firsts, riding time in their matches and giving every match their all. On the whole, the team succeeded in being the first to the shot in their matches and riding time, Lan-ham said. He believes that the squad did not accomplish its third goal—giving com-plete effort in every match.

The brightest spots of Duke’s showing in the Hokie Open were the performances of Hartmann and Bencomo. Hartmann fin-ished 4-0 on the afternoon, including three victories against wrestlers seeded in the top

Wixted wins at Taishoff

SWIMMING AND DIVING

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The Blue Devils competed against N.C. State and Miami at Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion Saturday. The Duke men’s and women’s team notched 11 first place finishes in one relay and 10 individual events. The Duke women beat the Hurricanes while losing to the Wolfpack and the men lost to both opponents.

Junior Christine Wixted remains undefeat-ed in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke, best-ing her personal record in the 100 with a time of 1:02.02 and recording a season-best time of 2:16.50 for the 200. Junior Hunter Knight also won both of the breaststroke titles with a season-best of 55.92 in the 100.

Fellow junior Steven Gaspirini also added two first-place finishes, setting a personal re-cord by breaking 50 seconds for a 49.88 time in the 100 backstroke and winning the 200 in-dividual medley. This was his first win in the ACC since joining the Blue Devils last year.

Other first place finishers include junior Lauren Weaver, who recorded a time of 23.24 to claim the 50 freestyle, and the men’s 400 freestyle team of freshman Romain Decrop, sophomore Michael Donnalley, freshman Sam Skinner and senior Adam Flur, who fin-ished with a time of 3:05.94.

In diving, senior Jordan Long followed his successful meet last weekend with a first-place finish in the 3-meter competition, earning a score of 362.95.

After this meet, the women are 2-3 over-all and 1-2 in the ACC, while the men are 1-3 overall and 0-3 in the conference.

three. He clinched the 197-pound title with a 6-3 decision against the top seed in the bracket, North Carolina’s Antonio Gior-gio. Bencomo, the third-seeded wrestler in the 184-pound division, earned runner-up honors after falling in the final bout to No. 1 seed Dan Rinaldi of Rutgers.

“Connor Hartmann is a surprise to a lot of people, but he works really hard, wrestles well and defeated some really good guys in this tournament,” Lanham said. “Diego competed really well. He really pushed the pace. I think some things were missed in the officiating of his final match, but I’m not going to cry about that.”

The other wrestlers to capture winning records in Sunday’s action were freshmen Trey Adamson, Marcus Cain, Andrew De-Hart and Brendan Walsh and sophomores Tanner Hough and Randy Roden.

Senior Peter Terrezza and sophomore Brandon Gambucci, who took second in the 133-pound division last year, were side-lined due to injury. Lanham anticipates that both wrestlers, who were expected to make a statement in the Hokie Open, will return to the mat in approximately two weeks.

The Blue Devils continue their tourna-ment schedule on the road at the Michigan State Open next weekend.

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Duke’s Diego Bencomo placed second in the 184-pound weight class at the Hokie Open.

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runners to finish their season in a low-stakes competition, was an overall disappointment for the Blue Devils. Though the team was able to walk away with the win, many of the runners were less than happy with their finishes. One Blue Devil, freshman Daniel Moore, was forced to drop out of the race due to sickness and several others were feeling under the weather.

“I have no regrets,” Elsakr said. “I thought I ran well. I definitely think I could have run a little bit faster but it’s also been a good season and I’ve run a lot of good races, especially recently. ACC’s was just a week ago and I’m hap-py to be able to come back and run a good 5k.”

Though the season is over for these runners, the rest of the team is still looking ahead to the Regional meet. According to Ogilvie, Duke will be shooting for a top-four finish there in hopes of accomplishing its ultimate goal of reaching the NCAA Championships.

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hole in the midfield.”Although the tactic allowed the Cougars to take great-

er control of the pace of play, the Blue Devil defensive backs repeatedly made the plays in and around the 18-yard box to keep the lead.

“We did everything that we needed to do in that final third to make sure that they didn’t get any good looks so I’m proud of them,” Kerr said.

In the 57th minute, junior defender Sebastien Ibeagha blocked a shot from just inside the 18-yard box. Then, in the 68th minute, SIU Edwardsville’s Peter Kelly appeared to have broken through the midfield for a clear path to goal when sophomore defender Jack Coleman came in from across the pitch to block the shot.

Additionally, Mathers made several tackles to spoil the Cougars’ opportunities in the final third.

“[Zach’s] dangerous on both ends,” Belshaw said. “I’d like two of him—one in the back and one further forward.”

With mounting pressure on its defense, Duke pressed harder for a second tally. And in the 84th minute, another Blue Devil freshman notched a goal. Off another assist from Wolfe, forward Luis Rendon took the ball through the 18-yard box and netted it from the left side

“[It was a] great finish from Luis to put the game to bed,” Belshaw said. “We needed that badly.”

With a two-goal lead, Duke took over possession to run out the clock. For the remaining six minutes, Rendon had two chances to add to the margin.

The Cougars, however, were unable to break into the final third of the field, ensuring the Blue Devils’ fourth straight shutout.

“The season’s not over,” Belshaw said. “We’ve still got time to get a few more wins—a few more shutouts— and keep this streak going.”

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Freshmen Elizabeth Campbell and Emily Sklar, along with Gray and Cook, posted double-digit kills on the night. Campbell tallied 16 kills and 20 digs, and Sklar registered 11 kills and 10 digs. Gray and Cook added 16 and 11 kills, respectively. Sophomore setter Kelsey Williams facilitated the offense, which posted a hitting percentage of .333 in the final three sets, dishing out 44 assists on the night.

Junior libero Ali McCurdy’s defensive effort also proved vital to the Blue Devil comeback. McCurdy recorded 23 digs—placing her second in Duke history with 1,834 digs in her career.

After Friday’s tough match in Boston, Duke headed to College Park to take on the Terrapins (14-13 5-10 ACC).

The Blue Devils committed 25 attack errors on the night, and Maryland recorded a .260 hitting percentage, taking the match (25-27, 25-23, 25-22, 23-25, 15-10).

The opening stanza went back and forth between Duke and the Terrapins, with both sides committing eight er-rors. After a kill by Sklar put the Blue Devils up 24-22, a Maryland kill and a Sklar attack error tied the game at 24-24. Sklar then proceeded to knock down two consecutive kills and give Duke the opening set.

The Terrapins jumped out to a 5-0 lead to begin the second frame, but Duke closed the gap and took the set all the way down to the wire before a Maryland service ace gave the Terrapins the set and tied the score at 1-1.

Despite recording a hitting percentage of .444 in the third frame, the Blue Devils once again dropped a close set, and Maryland took a 2-1 advantage.

“We had our opportunities,” Nagel said. “We just didn’t capitalize on them and they were able to capitalize on the opportunities we gave them... I feel like at times there were some defensive balls we could have gotten, but for some reason we froze and lacked communication. And some of our errors just came at really bad times.”

With a 22-20 lead in the fourth stanza, a Maryland kill and a Duke attack error leveled the score at 22-22. After a Blue Devil timeout, a kill by Gray, a Terrapin attack er-ror and a block by Obeime gave Duke the set and tied the score at 2-2.

After falling behind 5-0 at the start of the last frame, the Blue Devils eventually rallied to come within one of Maryland at 8-7. But the Terrapins widened the gap and easily took the last set, recording 12 kills and just two attack errors.

Duke once again put four players in double-digit kills, led by Campbell with 17. Gray recorded 15 kills and four blocks, and Obeime added 10 kills. Sklar was the only Blue Devil to record a double-double, racking up 13 kills and 15 digs. Wil-liams facilitated the attack with 59 assists.

“There were definitely some good things that hap-pened today, but we didn’t capitalize on some of the easy stuff,” Nagel said. “I think people were frustrated, but it was definitely a learning experience for our younger girls especially.”

people seemed happy about how they did,” head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “For most of them it was the last race of their cross country season so it was good for them to finish on a positive note. Cydney had a really good day... now that I think she’s got this extra confidence of excel-ling a cross country race that’s really going to help her move forward.”

The meet in Cary was Soo’s last meet as well, though it did not go quite as she had hoped. Soo has been struggling since her knee surgery and the hilly course did not help her overcome the pain.

Despite the fact that the upperclassmen were wrapped up in the emotions that come with ending their time on the team, they were still able to provide the type of lead-ership that “bring[s] up the excitement, the focus [and] the commitment levels,” Jermyn said. Ross mentioned that even while she was running the fastest race of her life, she was making sure to encourage her teammates and draw them along with her as she pushed ahead of the pack.

“Our race strategy was to run fast for two miles and run in a pack,” Ross said. “I was pushing the pace... saying ‘Come on ladies, we can do this’ and having some positive talk throughout the race.”

For Ross, encouraging her teammates, even during a tough race, was part of being a member of the team.

“[Being part of this has] made my Duke career,” Ross said. “I can’t imagine being at Duke without these wom-en and training with them every day and having the best friends I could have made.”

W. XC from SW page 3

M. SOCCER from SW page 6

VOLLEYBALL from SW page 2

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Kelsey Williams recorded 59 assists in Duke’s loss to Maryland while Sklar recorded a double-double with 13 kills and 15 digs.