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Duke eye center opens new entrance

November Dances program fl ourishes at Duke

by Gautam HathiThe ChroniCle

north Carolina is among one of the top-performing states regarding educa-tional data usage, according to a recent report by the Data Quality Campaign.

The campaign released the results of its ninth survey looking at the use of data in education across 49 states and Wash-ington, D.C. Monday. The report ana-lyzed the steps that states have taken to collect, analyze, use and communicate educational data. Specifically, the report looked at 10 actions states could take to make the best use of data—such as link-ing data systems and raising awareness of available data—and which states had taken these actions. north Carolina has taken action in eight out of the 10 areas, according to the report.

“We have to focus on what people’s questions are if we truly want to make sure that data is not just data sitting on the shelf, that it is actionable informa-tion that meets people’s needs,” said Aimee Guidera, Data Quality Campaign founder and executive director, in a media conference call discussing the re-port.

Some of the action areas in the report included linking K-12 data with college and career data and providing teachers and parents access to data on students, as well as promoting research based on educational data. The Data Quality Cam-paign claims that states that take these actions are most likely to reap benefits from educational data.

“What we’ve really seen this year as one of the biggest changes is focusing

on getting the appropriate access of the right data to the right people at the right time with the end goal of improv-ing student achievement,” Guidera said.

According to the report, north Caro-lina still needs to take further action to provide good support for its data systems and allow broad access to data while pro-tecting privacy. But overall, north Caro-lina appears to be doing a good job col-lecting and leveraging educational data.

north Carolina has high-quality data resources available to researchers and others interested in improving educa-tion said Jacob Vigdor, professor of pub-lic policy and economics.

“north Carolina has some very good resources,” he said. “We of course have things like standardized test scores, which are tracked over time, but there

are a lot of other resources which are linked.”

For example, Vigdor said, research-ers can correlate north Carolina educa-tional data with student location data at birth or student career data.

Vigdor also pointed out that Duke plays an important role in supporting the state of north Carolina’s education-al data resources.

“A lot of the data resources are ar-chived right on campus at Duke in the north Carolina education research Data Center,” he said.

Kristen Stephens, associate professor of the practice of education, said the way data is used in education is chang-ing from a focus on determining student

North Carolina rated highly in educational data usage

by Jen ChenThe ChroniCle

A new temporary entrance to the Duke eye Center will benefit patients while construction is ongoing.

Since April 2012, the parking area in front of the main entrance to the eye Center has been blocked by construc-tion of its new building, requiring pa-tients entering the Center to navigate past the construction zone. The main entrance was replaced by a temporary patient entrance Monday. The new en-trance, located at the north end of the building, aims to make patients’ travels easier, wrote Michael howard, chief op-erating officer of the Duke eye Center, in an email Tuesday.

“The new entrance opened yesterday allows for convenient patient drop-off and pick-up,” howard wrote. “Patients have commented on how nice the new entrance appears and how much they look forward to coming to the new eye Center.”

The creation of a new eye Center building is the result of a $12 million donation from lC industries—the larg-est employer of visually impaired people in the country, according to a publica-tion from the eye Center.

The eye Center’s current home, the Wadsworth building, is almost 40 years old and was intended to accommodate

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by Katie FerneliusThe ChroniCle

Duke is notable as a basketball lega-cy, as a premier research institution, as a hallmark liberal-arts education and, most recently, as a victorious underdog in football, but little is said publicly about the blossoming arts culture at Duke, particularly in the Dance Pro-gram. The Dance Program at Duke has

been present since the 1930s when it was part of the physical education pro-gram, but over the years it has grown into a freestanding program with both a major and a minor. The program has grown substantially in the last six years with the tripling of full-time faculty. its success as a program is impossible to ig-nore as an intrinsic component of arts culture at Duke.

This weekend, Duke will feature its faculty and student dancers and chore-ographers in their annual fall showcase, november Dances. The performance will feature pieces choreographed by faculty in ballet, modern and African dance, as well as performances choreo-graphed by Dance Program students.

See dANCEs, page 4

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New Pratt certificate for non-academic careers in progress

by Sasha ZientsThe ChroniCle

The Ph.D. Plus program at the Pratt School of engineering is in the process of becoming an official certificate pro-gram.

The program—which is student-organized—educates Ph.D. students who are considering careers outside of academics. if the proposal to make the program a Pratt certificate is approved in the Spring, students who complete the program will have an official note on their transcript.

“Ph.D. Plus is actually a pretty radi-cal idea for the slowly changing world of doctoral education,” Dean of Pratt Thomas Katsouleas wrote in an email Wednesday.

Jenni rinker, a doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering and co-chair of the Ph.D. Plus program, said that the program is essential for filling the information gap that exists in “traditional” Ph.D. programs with regard to linking academia and other industries. rinker added that the pro-gram seeks both to educate students and develop their skills through a series of seminars designed to address various Ph.D. career paths that students may not know about.

“how many Ph.D. students know about technology transfer or consulting or policy?” rinker said.

Although some assume most gradu-ate students go into the field of aca-demia, more than 60 percent of Pratt graduate students who received their degrees in the last ten years have moved

into non-academic career paths, rinker added.

Ph.D. Plus is currently well into the application process for becoming a cer-tificate, said Suzana Vallejo-heligon, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering who helped found the pro-gram. The program members aims to gain approval by the Board of Trustees in the Spring.

“The reason why we were applying to become a certificate is mostly as an outward sign to the rest of the world,” said Ph.D. Plus co-chair Judy Winglee, a doctoral candidate in civil and environ-mental engineering. “either way, we will still be offering the same service to the Pratt community.”

Winglee noted that converting the program to a certificate would allow students to officially report that they had completed the requirements of the program which include workshops, an internship and an optional course of choice relevant to participants’ fields of interest.

Katsouleas said that Ph.D. Plus is unique because it is designed to be compatible with the busy schedule of the Ph.D. student. he noted that in or-der to accommodate the Ph.D. student lifestyle, the program makes use of sem-inars, workshops and internships as op-posed to semester-long courses.

“Students go off and do [intern-ships] and then they come back and it gives them a break from their thesis,” said William reichert, associate dean

Nowicki discusses changing role of higher education at DSG

by Carleigh StiehmThe ChroniCle

Steve nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, gave his annual Fall address to the Duke Student Government senate body Wednesday eve-ning.

The speech focused on the changing role of higher education as much of the media concentrates on the rising costs and online alternatives. nowicki focused on the undying value of education in a traditional university and the continued innovation of Duke’s teaching methods.

“The nature of higher education right now is much questioned, nationally and worldwide,” nowicki said.

Duke administrators are not immune to feeling concerned about the future of higher education, nowicki said.

“Are we a dinosaur? Are we dying out?” he asked, noting the many criticisms that universities have faced over the past de-cade.

But Duke will never be irrelevant, no-wicki said. he added that the value of an education expands far beyond the knowl-edge passed through textbooks.

“i don’t remember a single thing that i learned in college,” nowicki said. “What i got out was understanding how to think, how to form relationships, how to identify

See dsg, page 10 See PH.d., page 10

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Dean Nowicki gave his annual Fall address to the DSG senate Wednesday evening. He discussed the value of education and innovation at Duke.

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In this course we will learn about the features of higher education that were designed specifically to prepare workers and leaders for the Industrial Age, and we’ll strategize ways that, together, we can change learning—inside of school and out—for the world we live in now—and even to help improve our world. The course will be “co-taught” virtually with classes and instructors at Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and Harvard as well as with a MOOC expected to draw tens of thousands of people from around the world. It promises to be an unforgettable experiment where Duke students can help chart the future of higher education.

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Surveys evaluate levels of college student involvement

by Rebecca ChenThe ChroniCle

The national Survey for Student engagement published its newest find-ings last week, with participation from 568 colleges and universities across the country—Duke and many of its peer institutions, however, were not among them.

nSSe provides annual updates on college students’ involvement in differ-ent activities and how they spend their time. Duke, along with 30 other schools, participates instead in surveys given by the Consortium on Financing higher education, said Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students. CoFhe counts the ivy league schools and similar institutions, as well as top liberal arts colleges, among its constituents, while nSSe surveys a broader scope of schools.

Stephen nowicki, dean and vice pro-vost of undergraduate education, said CoFhe surveys often contain questions similar to those on the nSSe.

“The advantage of CoFhe surveys is that those comparisons are to institu-tions that are similar to us in terms of the kinds of students we attract and in terms of the kind of education we think we’re providing,” nowicki said.

Jillian Kinzie, associate director of the Center for Postsecondary research and nSSe institute, said the nSSe first originated because there was concern about the quality of undergraduate edu-cation and how colleges and universities should go about improving themselves.

Director of institutional research

David Jamieson-Drake said his main is-sue with the nSSe is that its reports are focused at the institutional level as op-posed to the departmental level. This presents a problem because the facul-ties in each department are the people who develop better methods to engage students.

“i think [the nSSe] does good in the sense that by people seeing the ques-tions and then seeing how they do insti-tutionally, they get a sense of what sorts of activities promote student learning,” Drake said. “But then let’s say an institu-tion wants to improve. They would want to know which departments are doing this well and which are not doing it well. And how would they know that? They can’t.”

in response, Kinzie said that over the past three years, nSSe has been offer-ing reports based on major or field to encourage more reporting at the depart-mental level.

Drake said the nSSe also seems to fa-vor humanities classes over more techni-cal classes based on the questions it asks, such as those related to number of essay drafts and pages of writing involved in a class.

“The ideal setting seems to be a hu-manities seminar, [a] small group set-ting where people give presentations and participate fully in discussions and there’s lots of writing,” Drake said.

Kinzie acknowledged Drake’s point as a valid concern and said the new quanti-tative reasoning section balances out the

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about a third of the patients the Center currently sees, howard noted.

“The new clinical building has a friendly, patient-centric design that adds additional patient examination and treatment areas in a very attractive and patient comfortable setting,” he wrote.

in addition to improving workflow and maximizing patient care and conve-nience, the new building plans to incor-porate state-of-the-art optical imaging technologies, a circular, covered patient drop-off area and an outdoor courtyard, according to the eye Center website.

Meanwhile, steps have also been tak-en to ensure that patients—who may already have trouble navigating due to optical problems—are not further in-convenienced by the construction. Ad-ditional signs and personnel are being implemented to direct the patients, said linda Bryant, a receptionist at the eye Center.

“A few people have been getting lost in the past, but things are definitely get-ting easier for them,” Bryant said.

Though she noted that she had to navigate around for a bit to find the entrance, eye Center patient Cheryl Wilkins said the experience was not too troublesome overall.

“it could be a lot worse,” said Wilkins, who walked to her appointment.

The construction has also caused changes in patient parking, as they can no longer use the parking lot in front of the main entrance.

“Before [the construction], there were two parking options—we either parked outside or used valet parking,” said William Thornton, a patient at the eye Center. “now we can park inside the

garage, which is really helpful, especially when it rains.”

he added that the availability of the parking garage has lowered the cost for parking for him, as the garage costs $1 per hour for a maximum of six hours, whereas the valet charges a $7 flat fee.

While this change is good news to some, it may cause problems to others. Because handicap parking is in the same garage, the handicapped can no longer park for free, according to a patient no-tice issued by howard.

The construction will be completed by 2015, howard said in the notice.

“We are sure you will be impressed by the final result,” the notice read.

DaNceS from page 1

“each dance engages the community in a different way, from more formal qualities with abstract interpretations of the imagery, to ones that engage with specific cultural or environmental or personal issues,” said Tyler Walters, asso-ciate professor of the practice of ballet. Walters is one of the choreographers for this year’s showcase, alongside two other faculty members, Ava Vinesett and An-drea Woods.

Walters admits that his piece is more technically-focused and abstract than Vi-nesett’s and Woods’s but invites interpre-tation into his creative process. his piece for november Dances is oriented around the concept of following in each other’s footsteps and explores this theme to the soundtrack of a fugue. Just as the voices in the fugue layer and explore certain themes, so will the dancers in Tyler’s piece interplay the idea of following in their movements with one another.

“What i really like about working with

Tyler is that while he has a vision for the outcome of the piece, he is not opposed to being inspired and influenced by his dancers,” said Maurice Dowell, a sopho-more who will perform in november Dances. “in working, we try out a lot of different things. There’s a lot of trial and error, but in doing this, it gives us danc-ers a voice and a sense of entitlement in connection to the piece.”

Apart from faculty-choreographed works, students ellen Brown, Stephanie Joe and Jayne ratliff have each choreo-graphed their own dances for the show-case. Their inspirations are varied: for Brown, it was an exhibit at the nasher; for Joe, it was in a piece of italian music named “Ascolta”; and for ratliff, it was in the intimate creative setting of the Duke Dance Program.

“The dance department at Duke is re-ally coming into its own and producing some interesting work,” ratliff said. “i think the first [dance] major graduated not all that long ago, and now we have a Fall performance filled with amazing dancers. That says something.”

“i want Duke students to get from the performance that there is no limit of the creative mind here at Duke. We may not be a conservatory, but the danc-ers at Duke are strong in their technique as well as their drive,” Brown said. “Sub-stantial work really can be created here as long as you find people that are dedi-cated and willing to explore with you.”

For her piece, “Unseen: for the light failed to acknowledge the Shadow to which it was attached,” Brown is working with a group of six dancers in order to examine the ways in which people un-knowingly connect with each other.

“Your shadow literally touches people around you everyday, so if we strive to ac-knowledge our shadow, mustn’t we also

acknowledge those people around that our shadow touches?” Brown said.

Similarly, the Dance Program can feel like the shadow of Duke, touching and connecting Duke to Durham through its programming at the historical Ark building, its outreach with the American Dance Festival and performances like november Dances. Although the annual Fall showcase is well over a decade old, it is still a poignant reminder to the Duke community that dance is alive and well on campus.

“The showcase shows the potential for dance to reach out in a lot of differ-ent ways; you have classical ballet next to modern next to African dance, all in the same program, each engaging the audience in its own way and with its own means,” said Walters. “it shows the pos-sibility of dance.”

With the successful win over Miami this past weekend, the question floating through the Bryan Center, the pages of The Chronicle and everyone’s Facebook feeds is a resounding “is Duke a football school?” But with the november Dances showcase this weekend, and the victories and possibilities of the Dance Program here at Duke, a more appropriate ques-tion might be, “is Duke now a dance school?”

november Dances 2013 is on Friday and Saturday, nov. 22 and 23, at 8 p.m. in reynolds industries Theater in the Bryan Center. Tickets can be purchased at tickets.duke.edu or at the box office. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for stu-dents.

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Ranked Duke squad heads to Wake Forestby Zac ElderTHE CHRONICLE

Saturday the Blue Devils will get a chance to do something no Duke team has done since World War II.

The Blue Devils head to Winston-Salem, N.C., this weekend looking to secure their ninth win of the season, a feat Duke last accomplished in 1941. The Blue Dev-ils are on a six game winning streak, and Wake Forest has lost

its last three games.“I like history,” Duke head coach David

Cutcliffe said. “I think it’s fun to mimic it, or make it, either one. I would like that for our program and for our kids. There’s only one way were going to get it, though. We have to play well.”

The No. 25 Blue Devils (8-2, 4-2 in the ACC) have turned the ACC Coastal Division on its head this year. Picked to finish last in its division, Duke now sits in first place and con-trols its own destiny in hopes of playing against No. 2 Florida State in this year’s ACC Champi-onship game. A win against the Demon Dea-cons (4-6, 2-5) would leave the Blue Devils just one victory away from a trip to Charlotte to play in the conference title game for the first time in program history.

by Brian MazurTHE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils are hoping that the third time will be the charm when they face a famil-iar foe in the Final Four.

After first- and second-round wins against New Hampshire and Massachusetts

fourth-seeded Duke will face the ACC champion, top-seed-ed Maryland, for the third time this sea-son Friday at 2 p.m. in Norfolk, Va. The winner will play either North Carolina or

Connecticut in the championship game Sun-day at 4 p.m.

This will be the teams’ third matchup in the past three weeks. The Blue Devils lost to the Terrapins 5-1 Nov. 2 and fell 3-2 in over-time in the ACC tournament semifinal Nov. 8.

“In the first game against them, we didn’t

Duke also finds itself in an unusual posi-tion among its ACC counterparts. Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Miami and North Caro-lina are all nipping at the Blue Devils’ heels, looking for a chance to finish the season atop the division.

Despite losing to Louisiana-Monroe in week three, Wake Forest got off to a promising 4-3 start to the year. The Demon Deacons re-lied on strong defensive efforts—letting up 10 and 13 points, respectively, to ACC foes N.C.

by Delaney KingTHE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils will not have to trek out west to continue their postseason run.

After defeating No. 24 Colorado College in penalty kicks Saturday, Duke will host the next two rounds of the NCAA tournament,

beginning with a matchup against sec-ond-seeded Florida Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.

“Florida’s a very good team—they’ll be a good team on their field, or on our

field, or a neutral field,” head coach Robbie Church said. “Being home gives you an ad-vantage because you’re familiar with every-thing. You’re much more comfortable, but you’ve got to go out there and do the work.”

Koskinen has not treated the Blue Dev-ils (8-8-5) well this season in comparison to

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Goalkeeper Lauren Blazing will have her hands full with a high-powered Maryland offense in Duke’s Final Four matchup.See FIELD HOCKEY, page 7 See W. SOCCER, page 7

State and Maryland—to win games. But the in-ability to put points on the board has plagued Wake Forest all season, especially during the Demon Deacons’ current three-game slide.

Wake Forest’s offense has struggled this season, and the loss of star wideout Michael Campanaro to a collarbone injury stole the Demon Deacons’ biggest playmaker. The se-nior racked up more than 800 receiving yards and six touchdowns prior to his injury against Syracuse three weeks ago. Wake Forest’s of-

fense averages only 17.8 points per game, ranked 114th out of 123 FBS teams. Without Campanaro on the field, the Demon Deacons have only scored a combined three points in their last two games.

“I think they are finding themselves,” Cutcliffe said. “I enjoy watching Campana-ro play until we have to play them. He’s got some good tape out there. He’s a really good football player. I love his competitiveness, and his skill level is high. Anybody would miss him. Compare that to if you don’t have Jamison Crowder suddenly. That affects any football team.”

On the offensive side of the ball for the Blue Devils, the dual quarterback combina-tion of Anthony Boone and Brandon Con-nette proved extremely effective against Mi-ami. Boone went 11-for-15 for 104 yards and started the game under center. Connette worked in throughout the game and finished with five touchdowns, four of which came on the ground. Although Boone is listed first on the depth chart for Saturday’s game, Cutcliffe indicated he will continue to split time be-tween his two quarterbacks.

“We’re not doing two because we don’t have one,” Cutcliffe said. “We’re playing two because we have two.”

The biggest obstacle the Blue Devil offense will have to overcome this weekend is nose

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Experienced defender Natasha Anasi will be matched up with one of the nation’s top freshmen in Florida’s Savannah Jordan.

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Entering Wake Forest’s matchup with Duke, Demon Deacon quarterback Tanner Price has struggled.


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by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE

For Amber Henson, Duke’s season-opener on the road against California started the same way every game for the last 691 days had—sitting on the bench.

Building up a small lead in the game’s opening minutes, the second-ranked Blue Devils got into foul trouble in the post. Center Elizabeth Williams was whistled for an early foul. Kend-all McCravey-Cooper picked up two. And just 9:54 into the con-test, head coach Joanne P. McCallie looked down the bench and called Henson’s name.

Henson played just 11 minutes in Duke’s season-opener, scoring two points and grabbing four rebounds. But for Hen-son and her Blue Devil teammates, it was the culmination of a long journey back to basketball.

“It was actually really funny because between the plane ride and practicing my knee wasn’t feeling too well. So the practice before, I did most of the practice, but I still didn’t know wheth-er I was going to play. Game comes, and we get in foul trou-ble with our post, and [coach] is like ‘Amber, can you play?’” Henson said. “Surprisingly I wasn’t really nervous, I was just excited.”

Ranked a top-10 recruit in the Class of 2011 by a number of

scouting services, Henson was expected to team up with Wil-liams in the post during her freshman season to form one of the most dynamic frontcourts in the nation. But Henson was hampered with knee issues during her junior and senior sea-sons in high school. To make matters worse, her doctors didn’t know what the problem was.

After signing her national letter of intent, Henson came to Duke from her home in Tampa, Fla., to have the team’s med-ical personnel check on her knee. They discovered kneecap instability and performed a scope in hopes of a quick fix. It was the first of six surgeries that Henson would undergo in the next two years.

Henson saw limited action in eight games early in the 2011-12 season before doctors shut her down and performed a more comprehensive procedure to repair the cartilage in her right knee.

McCallie was quick to apply for a medical redshirt, which was granted by the NCAA. Henson was relegated to the side-lines, where she patiently waited to make her return to the court.

“There were times when I didn’t know if it was worth all this, but my teammates and coaches have been great supporting me through all this,” Henson said. “There were times when

they believed in me a lot more than I believed in myself.”Henson watched as her Blue Devils finished one game

short of the Final Four, thinking about the impact she could have made had she played. She expected to make her return to the court last year, but further setbacks with her knee re-quired additional surgery.

With her rehab progressing at a slow pace, Henson red-shirted again in 2012-13. Along the way, a number of her team-mates were able to see her struggle firsthand. All-American point guard Chelsea Gray went down with a dislocated knee-cap of her own, forcing her to miss the back half of the season and all of postseason play. Gray and Henson quickly became rehab partners, which Gray said helped her understand the work Henson had put in to return to basketball.

“It’s amazing the smile that she brings every time she steps on the court,” Gray said. “All the surgeries she’s had to go through, all the rehab appointments day in and day out, I couldn’t be more proud of her.”

Henson began her third full year on campus as a 20-year-old redshirt freshman, which Henson said draws plenty of grandma jokes from her teammates. But nobody was laughing when Henson stepped onto the court at Haas Pavilion to play her first game since Dec. 20, 2011.

Not long after her first game back, Henson received a text message from her older brother, John, who played his college basketball eight miles down the road at North Carolina and now plays in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks. John did not even know that Amber was going to play that day.

Although she is back in action, Henson is still transitioning back to playing basketball full-time. She still takes her workouts day-to-day and does not compete in all of the drills at every practice—but that sure beats sitting on the sidelines.

Henson was able to make her first appearance at Camer-on Indoor Stadium in the Blue Devils’ home-opener later that week, a 123-40 drubbing of USC Upstate Nov. 14. Scoring four points in 13 minutes, Henson drew a large ovation from the home crowd when she went to the scorers table to check into the game.

“It felt awesome just to have the crowd behind me,” Henson said. “Even when I did the littlest thing, they were cheering su-per loud. They just give me so much energy, and it was exciting to finally be out there in front of our home crowd.”

Playing another 11 minutes in Duke’s victory against Ala-bama Sunday, Henson said she continues to feel stronger each time she plays. Finally back in action after a long and difficult journey, Henson hopes to help her teammates accomplish something they weren’t able to do during her absence—reach the Final Four.

“She has been so courageous in all ways, and such a great example of somebody who just perseveres. And now it’s time for her to play,” McCallie said. “I think every opportunity she gets, she’s grateful for.”

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After six surgeries in two years to repair her kneecap instability, Amber Henson finally made her return to the court this season as a third-year redshirt freshman for Duke.

THE LONG ROAD BACKAmber Henson returns to basketball after 2-year injury hiatus

show up,” senior forward Emmie Le March-and said. “The team that played that game was not who we are. There were elements of that in the first half of the ACC tournament [game], but in the second half, that is the team that we have been all season.”

This will be Duke’s first appearance in the Final Four since 2006. The Blue Devils (17-6) have only gone to the title game three times in program history and have never won a nation-al championship.

“It’s the goal every year to make it to the Fi-nal Four,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “It was last year’s goal too. This is the year it comes together, this is the year we have taken care of certain opportunities. [The team] has stayed with it for 365 days and here we are.”

It has been a tale of two different Blue Devil teams in two matchups with Maryland (22-1). In the regular-season contest, the Ter-rapins built a 3-0 lead by halftime before add-ing two second-half goals to put a damper on Duke’s Senior Day.

Just a week later, the Blue Devils found themselves on the field with Maryland again in the ACC tournament. The Terrapins built a 2-0 lead by halftime, but this time the Duke attack responded. Forward Abby Beltrani and defender Hannah Barreca scored two late goals in the second period, and a number of critical saves by goalkeeper Lauren Blazing prevented Maryland from taking a lead.

The game went to overtime, where it took only 3:52 for the Terrapins to strike when forward Maxine Fluharty scored off of a re-bound. Maryland would advance to the ACC Championship game, which it would win 2-0 against No. 3 North Carolina.

The statistics explain Maryland’s domi-nance this season. Its attack is averaging a na-tion’s best 4.27 goals per game, and the team’s defense is only giving up 1.17 goals per game, good for seventh in the nation.

The Terrapins are led by senior forward Jill Witmer, who has found the back of the net 19 times on the season. She has garnered All-ACC accolades for the past four years and was named the 2013 ACC Offensive Player of the Year.

But the Duke defense has held Witmer scoreless in their two meetings this season, something that will have to continue if the Blue Devils have a chance of pulling off the upset.

“We are just going to take them like any other team,” senior defender Brenna Rescig-no said. “We are just going stick to playing tight defense in the circle and marking up, but really keeping an eye on Jill Witmer.”

The Duke defense has only allowed two goals in its first two NCAA tournament wins. But it will have its hands full with the Terrapin attack, meaning Blazing will see a lot of action in the goal. She ranks fifth in the nation by stopping 79 percent of the shots she’s faced this season.

One of the keys for the Blue Devils will be to get off to a fast start. Duke has not lost a game this season in which it scored first, and the Blue Devils surrendered early goals in each of their two previous losses to Maryland.

“It is just a build up of us working incredi-bly hard all season, especially coming into the postseason,” Le Marchand said. “Making a big effort to put it on [the other team] early.”

Duke will likely be without the services of Cherry Seaborn on Friday, as the forward sustained an injury during last Saturday’s first round game against New Hampshire and did

previous years. In the 2012 season, the squad ended 7-1-2 at home, compared to this year’s 3-3-2 record.The Gators (18-4-1) enter Friday having won 10 of their last 11 games.

“They are a great possession team,” Church said. “They pass the ball really well, they move off the ball really well—you watch the tapes and you just love the way that they play, but there are some things that we can exploit playing against them.”

Florida’s biggest threat is freshman for-ward Savannah Jordan, who has already notched 22 goals this season, the second highest of any freshman in Gator history.

“We’ve got two players, Lizzy Raben and Natasha Anasi… that will be covering [Jor-dan] a lot during the course of the game, and I feel both of those players are up to task with that,” Church said. “Natasha’s been an All-American here, and Jordan will probably be a freshman All-American… so we look forward to that matchup.”

Saturday’s win at Colorado College marked Anasi’s 70th straight start. She will look to continue to make crucial stops as part of Duke’s second-to-last line of defense on the field. To challenge Florida’s attack, which has averaged 2.26 goals per game, redshirt junior Meghan Thomas will start in the goal. In Saturday’s contest—which marked her 10th start of the season—Thom-

as notched a career-high nine saves.“Your goalkeepers have to come up big,

and they have to make one or two saves that are just crucial saves. [Thomas] did that against Colorado College, and I know she’ll do that against Florida,” Church said. “She’s done a great job for us. We would not be in this situation, we would not be playing this weekend if it wasn’t for Megan.”

On the offensive end of the field, Duke has had its struggles. The team averaged 1.11 goals per game through its first nine contests of the season, netting multiple goals in a game just once in that opening stretch. Currently, that number has in-creased to 1.33, signaling that the offense is on the upswing.

Scoring has only become more import-ant for Duke as the season wears on. Finish-ing their regular season at 8-7-4, the Blue Devils were a bubble team with no certain bid into the NCAA tournament. After nar-rowly making the conference tournament only to lose in the first round to then-No. 2 Florida State, Duke now has a chance to make its fourth consecutive Round of 16 ap-pearance.

“I think that we’re really peaking at this point. I think our confidence is really high, and this team is really special when you get in do-or-die situations,” Church said. “We’ve been in these one-and-done scenarios for much longer than a lot of people, and I think this team kind of thrives on that.”

not play in the win over Massachusetts.After winning just seven games in 2012 and

missing the NCAA tournament, the Blue Dev-ils have a chance to accomplish something no Duke team has before. But Rescigno said the journey this team has made to reach the Final

Four will ultimately trump the final result.“This is something we all strived for since

we were little kids, and it’s going to be one of the greatest experiences,” Resicgno said. “No matter how it ends, I will be happy with our success this season.”

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tackle Nikita Whitlock. The redshirt senior has compiled 16.5 tackles-for-loss and 8.5 sacks on the year, as well as two blocked kicks. Whitlock provides the foundation for the Demon Dea-con defense, which allows less than 24 points per game.

“He is fun to watch as a football coach until the week you play them,” Cutcliffe said. “He plays wire-to-wire every game and goes wire-to-wire every play with his effort. I don’t know if you could give a player more accolades.”

Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe lost his first of 12 career matchups against the Blue Devils last season. Replac-ing an injured Sean Renfree, Boone led Duke to a 34-27 victory over the Demon Deacons, the first win against Wake Forest since 1999. Despite the historic significance of last year’s victory, a Blue Devil win this year would have even larger implications for Duke football as it tries to secure a spot in the conference championship game and a chance at a BCS bowl bid.

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For Amber Henson, Duke’s season-opener on the road against California started the same way every game for the last 691 days had—sitting on the bench.

Building up a small lead in the game’s opening minutes, the second-ranked Blue Devils got into foul trouble in the post. Center Elizabeth Williams was whistled for an early foul. Kend-all McCravey-Cooper picked up two. And just 9:54 into the con-test, head coach Joanne P. McCallie looked down the bench and called Henson’s name.

Henson played just 11 minutes in Duke’s season-opener, scoring two points and grabbing four rebounds. But for Hen-son and her Blue Devil teammates, it was the culmination of a long journey back to basketball.

“It was actually really funny because between the plane ride and practicing my knee wasn’t feeling too well. So the practice before, I did most of the practice, but I still didn’t know wheth-er I was going to play. Game comes, and we get in foul trou-ble with our post, and [coach] is like ‘Amber, can you play?’” Henson said. “Surprisingly I wasn’t really nervous, I was just excited.”

Ranked a top-10 recruit in the Class of 2011 by a number of

scouting services, Henson was expected to team up with Wil-liams in the post during her freshman season to form one of the most dynamic frontcourts in the nation. But Henson was hampered with knee issues during her junior and senior sea-sons in high school. To make matters worse, her doctors didn’t know what the problem was.

After signing her national letter of intent, Henson came to Duke from her home in Tampa, Fla., to have the team’s med-ical personnel check on her knee. They discovered kneecap instability and performed a scope in hopes of a quick fix. It was the first of six surgeries that Henson would undergo in the next two years.

Henson saw limited action in eight games early in the 2011-12 season before doctors shut her down and performed a more comprehensive procedure to repair the cartilage in her right knee.

McCallie was quick to apply for a medical redshirt, which was granted by the NCAA. Henson was relegated to the side-lines, where she patiently waited to make her return to the court.

“There were times when I didn’t know if it was worth all this, but my teammates and coaches have been great supporting me through all this,” Henson said. “There were times when

they believed in me a lot more than I believed in myself.”Henson watched as her Blue Devils finished one game

short of the Final Four, thinking about the impact she could have made had she played. She expected to make her return to the court last year, but further setbacks with her knee re-quired additional surgery.

With her rehab progressing at a slow pace, Henson red-shirted again in 2012-13. Along the way, a number of her team-mates were able to see her struggle firsthand. All-American point guard Chelsea Gray went down with a dislocated knee-cap of her own, forcing her to miss the back half of the season and all of postseason play. Gray and Henson quickly became rehab partners, which Gray said helped her understand the work Henson had put in to return to basketball.

“It’s amazing the smile that she brings every time she steps on the court,” Gray said. “All the surgeries she’s had to go through, all the rehab appointments day in and day out, I couldn’t be more proud of her.”

Henson began her third full year on campus as a 20-year-old redshirt freshman, which Henson said draws plenty of grandma jokes from her teammates. But nobody was laughing when Henson stepped onto the court at Haas Pavilion to play her first game since Dec. 20, 2011.

Not long after her first game back, Henson received a text message from her older brother, John, who played his college basketball eight miles down the road at North Carolina and now plays in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks. John did not even know that Amber was going to play that day.

Although she is back in action, Henson is still transitioning back to playing basketball full-time. She still takes her workouts day-to-day and does not compete in all of the drills at every practice—but that sure beats sitting on the sidelines.

Henson was able to make her first appearance at Camer-on Indoor Stadium in the Blue Devils’ home-opener later that week, a 123-40 drubbing of USC Upstate Nov. 14. Scoring four points in 13 minutes, Henson drew a large ovation from the home crowd when she went to the scorers table to check into the game.

“It felt awesome just to have the crowd behind me,” Henson said. “Even when I did the littlest thing, they were cheering su-per loud. They just give me so much energy, and it was exciting to finally be out there in front of our home crowd.”

Playing another 11 minutes in Duke’s victory against Ala-bama Sunday, Henson said she continues to feel stronger each time she plays. Finally back in action after a long and difficult journey, Henson hopes to help her teammates accomplish something they weren’t able to do during her absence—reach the Final Four.

“She has been so courageous in all ways, and such a great example of somebody who just perseveres. And now it’s time for her to play,” McCallie said. “I think every opportunity she gets, she’s grateful for.”

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After six surgeries in two years to repair her kneecap instability, Amber Henson finally made her return to the court this season as a third-year redshirt freshman for Duke.

THE LONG ROAD BACKAmber Henson returns to basketball after 2-year injury hiatus

show up,” senior forward Emmie Le March-and said. “The team that played that game was not who we are. There were elements of that in the first half of the ACC tournament [game], but in the second half, that is the team that we have been all season.”

This will be Duke’s first appearance in the Final Four since 2006. The Blue Devils (17-6) have only gone to the title game three times in program history and have never won a nation-al championship.

“It’s the goal every year to make it to the Fi-nal Four,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “It was last year’s goal too. This is the year it comes together, this is the year we have taken care of certain opportunities. [The team] has stayed with it for 365 days and here we are.”

It has been a tale of two different Blue Devil teams in two matchups with Maryland (22-1). In the regular-season contest, the Ter-rapins built a 3-0 lead by halftime before add-ing two second-half goals to put a damper on Duke’s Senior Day.

Just a week later, the Blue Devils found themselves on the field with Maryland again in the ACC tournament. The Terrapins built a 2-0 lead by halftime, but this time the Duke attack responded. Forward Abby Beltrani and defender Hannah Barreca scored two late goals in the second period, and a number of critical saves by goalkeeper Lauren Blazing prevented Maryland from taking a lead.

The game went to overtime, where it took only 3:52 for the Terrapins to strike when forward Maxine Fluharty scored off of a re-bound. Maryland would advance to the ACC Championship game, which it would win 2-0 against No. 3 North Carolina.

The statistics explain Maryland’s domi-nance this season. Its attack is averaging a na-tion’s best 4.27 goals per game, and the team’s defense is only giving up 1.17 goals per game, good for seventh in the nation.

The Terrapins are led by senior forward Jill Witmer, who has found the back of the net 19 times on the season. She has garnered All-ACC accolades for the past four years and was named the 2013 ACC Offensive Player of the Year.

But the Duke defense has held Witmer scoreless in their two meetings this season, something that will have to continue if the Blue Devils have a chance of pulling off the upset.

“We are just going to take them like any other team,” senior defender Brenna Rescig-no said. “We are just going stick to playing tight defense in the circle and marking up, but really keeping an eye on Jill Witmer.”

The Duke defense has only allowed two goals in its first two NCAA tournament wins. But it will have its hands full with the Terrapin attack, meaning Blazing will see a lot of action in the goal. She ranks fifth in the nation by stopping 79 percent of the shots she’s faced this season.

One of the keys for the Blue Devils will be to get off to a fast start. Duke has not lost a game this season in which it scored first, and the Blue Devils surrendered early goals in each of their two previous losses to Maryland.

“It is just a build up of us working incredi-bly hard all season, especially coming into the postseason,” Le Marchand said. “Making a big effort to put it on [the other team] early.”

Duke will likely be without the services of Cherry Seaborn on Friday, as the forward sustained an injury during last Saturday’s first round game against New Hampshire and did

previous years. In the 2012 season, the squad ended 7-1-2 at home, compared to this year’s 3-3-2 record.The Gators (18-4-1) enter Friday having won 10 of their last 11 games.

“They are a great possession team,” Church said. “They pass the ball really well, they move off the ball really well—you watch the tapes and you just love the way that they play, but there are some things that we can exploit playing against them.”

Florida’s biggest threat is freshman for-ward Savannah Jordan, who has already notched 22 goals this season, the second highest of any freshman in Gator history.

“We’ve got two players, Lizzy Raben and Natasha Anasi… that will be covering [Jor-dan] a lot during the course of the game, and I feel both of those players are up to task with that,” Church said. “Natasha’s been an All-American here, and Jordan will probably be a freshman All-American… so we look forward to that matchup.”

Saturday’s win at Colorado College marked Anasi’s 70th straight start. She will look to continue to make crucial stops as part of Duke’s second-to-last line of defense on the field. To challenge Florida’s attack, which has averaged 2.26 goals per game, redshirt junior Meghan Thomas will start in the goal. In Saturday’s contest—which marked her 10th start of the season—Thom-

as notched a career-high nine saves.“Your goalkeepers have to come up big,

and they have to make one or two saves that are just crucial saves. [Thomas] did that against Colorado College, and I know she’ll do that against Florida,” Church said. “She’s done a great job for us. We would not be in this situation, we would not be playing this weekend if it wasn’t for Megan.”

On the offensive end of the field, Duke has had its struggles. The team averaged 1.11 goals per game through its first nine contests of the season, netting multiple goals in a game just once in that opening stretch. Currently, that number has in-creased to 1.33, signaling that the offense is on the upswing.

Scoring has only become more import-ant for Duke as the season wears on. Finish-ing their regular season at 8-7-4, the Blue Devils were a bubble team with no certain bid into the NCAA tournament. After nar-rowly making the conference tournament only to lose in the first round to then-No. 2 Florida State, Duke now has a chance to make its fourth consecutive Round of 16 ap-pearance.

“I think that we’re really peaking at this point. I think our confidence is really high, and this team is really special when you get in do-or-die situations,” Church said. “We’ve been in these one-and-done scenarios for much longer than a lot of people, and I think this team kind of thrives on that.”

not play in the win over Massachusetts.After winning just seven games in 2012 and

missing the NCAA tournament, the Blue Dev-ils have a chance to accomplish something no Duke team has before. But Rescigno said the journey this team has made to reach the Final

Four will ultimately trump the final result.“This is something we all strived for since

we were little kids, and it’s going to be one of the greatest experiences,” Resicgno said. “No matter how it ends, I will be happy with our success this season.”

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tackle Nikita Whitlock. The redshirt senior has compiled 16.5 tackles-for-loss and 8.5 sacks on the year, as well as two blocked kicks. Whitlock provides the foundation for the Demon Dea-con defense, which allows less than 24 points per game.

“He is fun to watch as a football coach until the week you play them,” Cutcliffe said. “He plays wire-to-wire every game and goes wire-to-wire every play with his effort. I don’t know if you could give a player more accolades.”

Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe lost his first of 12 career matchups against the Blue Devils last season. Replac-ing an injured Sean Renfree, Boone led Duke to a 34-27 victory over the Demon Deacons, the first win against Wake Forest since 1999. Despite the historic significance of last year’s victory, a Blue Devil win this year would have even larger implications for Duke football as it tries to secure a spot in the conference championship game and a chance at a BCS bowl bid.

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In Wednesday’s editorial, we explored the value of athletic scholarships and their importance for recruit-ing exceptional athletes. Today, we consider merit scholarships and how they impact Duke’s academic and social culture.

One of the few elite universities in the country that has merit-based scholarships, Duke currently has nine programs that offer free tuition as well as room and board to scholars. Merit scholarships are valu-able for three main reasons: they enrich the campus experience, boost Duke’s reputation and, most im-portantly, lure high-performing students away from Duke’s so-called competitor institutions and to the gothic wonderland.

However, if last year’s low yield for the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship is evidence of a new trend, merit scholarships might be a less effective method of keeping Duke competitive with peer insti-tutions than we may have thought. Only eight of the 22 accepted scholars matriculated in 2013—the year before,15 accepted. Alex Rosenberg, then director of the program, noted in an interview with The Chroni-cle that the scholarship, for the first time, was compet-ing “not on financial value, but on the value of the program.” Princeton University, for example, offered to finance one of the potential scholar’s gap years.

Armed with seemingly bottomless endowments, these institutions are well-positioned to offer benefits that negate the gravitational pull of Duke’s scholarships.

It is too early to tell whether the low yield is an anomaly or the start of a trend, but it presents an op-portunity to reflect on the value of merit scholarships

at Duke. On campus, scholars can enrich the expe-riences of their fellow students. Selected for a broad range of achievements in academics, service and lead-ership, they bring diversity and insight to classrooms, labs, clubs and conversations around the dinner table. Merit scholars have also exhibited particular success in achieving post-graduate scholarships and other prestigious awards. In total, the A.B. Scholars program has produced 18 Rhodes Scholars, 13 Mar-shall Scholars and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Their suc-cess boosts Duke’s image, and their legacies remain plastered on the walls of Perkins Library for all pro-spective students to see. Merit scholarships thus en-liven the campus culture in the short term and, in the long term, elevate Duke’s reputation. Although the scholarships raise some questions about equity—after

all, all Duke students have proven themselves to be high-achieving by simply being admitted—we believe that they offer a net benefit to the University.

How then can Duke make its scholarship packages more attractive to incoming students? Outmatched in endowment and resources by schools like Harvard University, Duke cannot increase its financial offer-ings to potential merit scholars. Instead, we propose that Duke look to other, more innovative enrichment programs. The A.B. Scholars program, for example, awards a six-week study abroad program at the Uni-versity of Oxford as well as up to $5,000 for research. Duke could increase the funding for research or pro-vide funding for students seeking to take a gap year before entering college, a trend that is becoming in-creasingly popular.

Merit scholarships benefit the entire Duke com-munity by weaving diversity and insight into the Uni-versity’s academic and social fabric. Duke should look to new, innovative ways to differentiate itself and revi-talize its scholarship programs.

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One hundred and fifty years ago this week, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short, two-minute address that has

become one of the best-known speeches in American history. The President wasn’t the featured speaker on the program (that honor was held by Edward Everett, revered as a great orator), and his two minutes of remarks could reasonably have been forgotten after the two-hour address that immediately preceded them. Yet they were not. Instead they have become immortal and integrated into the curricula of many schools throughout the country.

The Gettysburg Address resonates through history, even if Lincoln’s remarks were not particularly well received at the time. Perhaps one of the lessons here is that nothing the President of the United States says or does is insignificant, even as the perception of those actions may change over time. Or perhaps there is a lesson here that editorial biases and politics never change, as the papers with an editorial bias against Lincoln were harsh while those biased to towards him were more complimentary. I will suggest an alternate lesson here: The victors are not the only ones who write history. We also choose what lessons to take from our past. The further from the present an event is, the easier it is to impart it with significance far greater than it had in its own time.

And so we have another act of President Lincoln—the creation of the holiday of Thanksgiving. In 1863, the President created a day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens” as a public and federal holiday. While one can link the three-day celebration of the “First Thanksgiving” to this new holiday, the former was a three-day celebration that included the members of the Wampanoag Nation who helped the Pilgrims survive as well as the settlers themselves, while the latter was about healing a nation. In the proclamation signed by the President, we read that the President sought to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.” The First Thanksgiving was a sign of singular gratitude that the settlers were able to sustain their lives, while the national Thanksgiving proclaimed by President Lincoln sought to create a lasting observance that would lead to peace and harmony as the nation was restored.

Just as with the Gettysburg Address, Thanksgiving has endured. It is one of my favorite national observances, and this year it is linked to another enduring tradition, the festival of Hanukkah (often spelled a variety of other ways including Chanukah and multiple N’s and K’s). Contrary to popular belief, Hanukkah is an exceptionally minor holiday in the Jewish calendar, and it has largely rocketed to

prominence due to its proximity to Christmas—a far more significant holiday to those of the Christian faith. That Hanukkah and Thanksgiving converge this

year is highly unusual and something that is not going to occur again for tens of thousands of years, until the year 79,811 on November 28. Both Hanukkah and Thanksgiving have their roots in the Biblical holiday of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles, an autumnal holiday tied to the harvest, and both give thanks for the ability to be able to offer thanks to God—due to having a bountiful harvest to sustain life.

While there is no major winter harvest in the land of Israel, Hanukkah is tied to the harvest festival because it marks the rededication of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 164 B.C., after being defiled by the Syrian-Greek King Antiochus. As a result of the Temple being unfit for worship, Sukkot could not be celebrated at its appointed time, so there was a festival very much like Sukkot in the winter when the Temple was cleansed and re-dedicated. Like the much later festival of the First Thanksgiving, it celebrates the sustaining of life and—like the festival proclaimed by President Lincoln—it marks the restoration of a nation and the enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and union.

This sort of convergence should be celebrated, and not simply because holidays deserve to be celebrated. This particular convergence deserves to be celebrated since it is so very rare for holidays of different faiths to coincide in both timing and spirit. Hanukkah and Christmas shouldn’t be associated. While Hanukkah is a significant festival of national liberation, it doesn’t have the same kind of deep religious significance that celebrating the birth of their Lord and Savior has for Christians at Christmastime. A teacher of mine, Rabbi Gerald Zelizer, points out that Hanukkah and Christmas are almost polar opposites as Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Jewish Nation to the Torah whereas Christmas marks the birth of Jesus who was understood by the founders of the Christians Church to have replaced that same Torah.

We have a chance this year to enjoy the converged celebration of holidays that are similar in origin, scope and impact. May everyone enjoy the celebration of their fall holidays of significance, and if that happens to involve latkes and turkey combined—let’s exchange some recipes, I have some great ones.

Jeremy Yoskowitz is the campus rabbi and assistant director for Jewish life. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Rabbi Jeremy a message on Twitter @TheDukeRav.

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In his inaugural address many years ago, Duke’s presi-dent, William Preston Few, opined that the University “must not be content to ride upon whatever may hap-

pen to be the popular wave,” but “must resist fads and bad tendencies, as well as encourage and direct right ten-dencies.” One of these right tendencies, Few believed, was the development of a campus culture in which athletics were complementary to academics. He wasn’t the only one who believed this, however, for former President Terry Sanford once remarked that Duke has “endeavored to remain true to [its] academic purposes and to place athletics in the role of wholesome adjunct

to university life.” Today, Duke athletics are inseparable from the distinct culture that defines our University. It all started in the early 1930s, when Few appointed William Wannamaker as the chair of Athletic Council commit-tee. At that time, no one foresaw an athletic department that would partially define Duke for decades to come.

It was the ethos of what Sanford once referred to as “outrageous ambition” that drove Wannamaker to reach out to Wallace Wade, then a stellar football coach at the University of Alabama. Having served as head football coach at Alabama for eight seasons—the last of which saw the Crimson Tide attain yet another Rose Bowl victory and national championship, Wade was unreservedly considered one of the nation’s best coaches. Accordingly, it surprised many when he decided to leave Alabama to become the athletic director and head football coach of a school that had never before been recognized for distinction in football or any other sport at the time. Nonetheless, Wade’s success at Alabama translated well to the University’s developing program. In the 16 years that Wade served as coach, the football team won seven Southern Conference Championships, attended two Rose Bowls and ranked as high as second and third in the AP Poll. For his achievements, Wade was eventually inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame and became the namesake of the University’s football stadium.

Though initially hesitant to describe why he left Alabama for Duke, Wade eventually disclosed his answer to a sports historian later in his life. As William King, the former university archivist indicated, his reason “was not the challenge of reviving another dormant football program, nor was it for the money.” Rather, Wade’s “philosophy regarding athletics and academics fit perfectly with that of the Duke administration.”

Wade’s legacy drove Duke’s football team, then under the program’s next coach, Bill Murray, to win six of the first 10 ACC football championships between 1953 and 1962. Murray would retire as the last football coach to leave the Blue Devils with a winning record until 1987, when Steve Spurrier, current head football coach at the University of South Carolina, accepted a coaching position with the University. In between, the University’s football program became stagnant, with various coaches, including Tom Harp, Mike McGee, Shirley Wilson and Steve Sloan, attempting rather fruitlessly to resume the successes of Wade and Murray. It wasn’t until Spurrier arrived, however, that the “cellar-dweller of the ACC” claimed its first conference title and first bowl appearance since Murray served as head coach two decades earlier. Unfortunately, Spurrier would eventually leave Duke to accept a head coaching position at the University of Florida. Rice University’s football coach, Fred Goldsmith, would eventually succeed him, leading the team to attain an 8-1 record and brief national ranking before succumbing to a losing record two years later. Carl Franks, a former assistant coach under Spurrier, was hired in replacement of Goldsmith, but likewise failed to deliver the team out of its rapid decline. Franks, like Goldsmith, was eventually fired and replaced by his defensive coordinator, Ted Roof. Roof, however, similarly struggled as the head football coach and, after attaining a dismal 6-45 record, succumbed to a fate similar to that of his two predecessors.

From the retirement of Wallace Wade until a few years ago, Duke’s football program had meandered

along an undefined and confusing course. Resultantly, the Board of Trustees approved the Department of Athletics’ plan, “Unrivaled Ambition,” which called for an increased investment in Duke football and other sports. The plan indicated that “the immediate task facing the new coaching staff is to change the entire culture of the program.” For decades, the football program had strived, sometimes successfully and other times unsuccessfully, to find another coach who exemplified the commitment, perseverance and passion that defined Wallace Wade. It was certainly no coincidence that the program had discovered these qualities in a coach whose alma matter hosted Wade for many years. They had found a man who—similar to Wade—was passionate about the mission of the University and its balance between academics and athletics, perseverant in his task to restore the football program despite all difficulties and committed neither to salary nor prestige, but to the prospect of finally charting a course and defining a legacy. They had found David Cutcliffe.

Known for having turned around Tennessee’s program and coaching Peyton and Eli Manning, Cutcliffe was considered to be very persistent. Additionally, his refusal to fire his assistant coaches at the request of University of Mississippi athletic director Pete Boon, which resulted in his own subsequent firing, demonstrated an unmatched commitment. It was Cutcliffe’s passion for balancing athletics and academics, however, that guaranteed he would be, as former athletics director Joe Alleva once said, “the right man to lead our football program to the excellence that is synonymous with Duke.” In an interview with The Chronicle four years ago, Cutcliffe admitted, “I’ve got a Duke education in my suitcase. I know we’re not going to attract every kid,” he continued, “but if an education is not important to a kid, then that kid’s not important to me.”

Cutcliffe revived Duke’s program with success only similar to that of Wade himself. In his first season, he led Duke to its first ACC victory since 2004. Five years later, and the team would muster up five wins and seven losses, the closest the school had come to bowl eligibility since a decade earlier. Duke football was slowly, yet effectively, gaining ground. Nonetheless, the football world was shocked to learn, in 2010, that Cutcliffe would refuse a head coaching position at Tennessee—the school he had dreamt of coaching at since he was an assistant there in the 1980s—following Lane Kiffin’s sudden departure. “We’re a group,” Cutcliffe said when asked about his decision. “We’ve invested a lot in each other’s lives, so wherever we go, we go together.”

Last year, after a close win against North Carolina, Duke became bowl eligible for the first time since 1994, and Cutcliffe was named ACC Coach of the Year. Soon thereafter, Cutcliffe agreed to a contract extension through June 2019, claiming that, “We’ve accomplished some of the goals we laid out five years ago, but are nowhere close to where we want to be.” Indeed, not until recently had Duke seen a coach as committed to the program as Wallace Wade. This year, Duke football has achieved its first win over a ranked team as well as its first winning season in over a decade. After its sixth straight win this past weekend, Duke appeared in the AP Poll for the first time since Goldsmith served as head coach of the program years ago.

Wade and Cutcliffe have accomplished much for the University. Through their efforts, they have shown that a renewed emphasis on Duke football does not diminish the University’s academic reputation, but rather supplements it and ensures that members of the student body learn to care for something greater than themselves. More importantly, Duke football has given students the opportunity to disregard all personal and social differences, throw their arms around each other’s shoulders and demonstrate, in unity, the respect that their fellow athletes deserve.

This, aside from stellar academics, is precisely what Few and Sanford had in mind, and—for its more recent realization—we have Coach Cutcliffe and the Duke football team to thank.

Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity sophomore and the editorial page managing editor. His biweekly column is part of the week-ly Editor’s Note feature and runs on alternate Thursdays. Send Mousa a message on Twitter @MousaAlshanteer.

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I really like the sight of blood. Not other people’s blood of course (because that would be creepy), just my own. So natu-rally, I was super excited to find out there’s a blood drive

going on at the Bryan Center this week because, quite frankly, I LOVE giving blood. The first time I donated I nearly fainted on the floor of my high school. The second time I actually did faint when I went to the gym the next morning, and my fitness instructor thought he had inadvertently murdered me. Nowa-days, I have a variety of bodily reactions to blood giving, but regardless of what happens, I always come back for more. My often-vocalized affinity for donating blood results in an array of reactions. Some people think I’m weird. Others show concern

for my sanity. But mostly, people are just perplexed as to how anyone could enjoy getting vital fluids sucked out of them. So behold: the top three reasons I love giving blood.

1. It feels amazing.I get a tingly sense of joy every time I watch the nurse prepare

my arm for extraction. I’m always quite jealous of people who have exceptionally protruding arm veins that are perfect for blood donations, because ironically, I have horrible veins for giving blood. They are hardly ever visible, and, indeed, there have been several nurses who seem genuinely surprised that I’m able to be alive given how little blood seems to course through my body. Luckily, they’re always able to locate the vein eventually, even if that means calling another person over to find it for them. They then apply an iodine solution, pinch my skin together and finally, in one swift motion, stab the needle into my cold, numb flesh in the hope of penetrating a blood vessel that can release my fluids through the plastic tubes and into the designated plastic baggie. And, as an interested bystander, I get to watch all this happen while feeling the blood physically exit my body. For those who’ve never donated, it almost feels like I’m getting the life forces drained out of me, but in a good way. It’s really quite relaxing.

2. They take care of you real good.Have you ever been to a blood drive? Have you seen the

amenities they provide? These places go all out for you. First, there’s a person who gathers all your belongings and walks you over to the break table. At that point, a different person will start asking how you’re doing, what you need and what you’d like to eat. They bring you water, juice, soda, cookies—basically anything you could want—and continue to dote on you for the entire 15 minutes you’re there. And if you still happen to keel over because you’ve just had a tenth of your blood ripped from your body, there’s someone to walk you over to the fainting station too! This is a wondrous place and nowhere else am I able to gorge so shamelessly on pretzels, Cheez-Its, Teddy Grahams, apple juice and cookies all in one sitting because, after all, it’s for a good cause. And that brings me to my third reason.

3. It’s for a good cause.According to the American Red Cross employees I try and

fail to start conversations with when I donate, each donation can save up to three lives. That number always amazes me. I don’t consider myself a particularly significant person as little of what I do has any real impact on anything. So this idea that I can give one, two or even three people a second lease on life—the chance to be alive—by simply sitting in a chair for 15 minutes is really sort of incredible to think about. And sure, I’m not traveling across the world to service an underdeveloped community, nor am I affecting change in a new and radical way, but for someone somewhere I am making an impact.

In my excitement for the blood drive, I hastily tried to recruit all of my friends to donate with me and from each of them I received a solid and resounding, “Nah.” And I’m sure that’s the reaction of a lot of people. For the most part, we’re all civic-minded individuals hoping to make a difference in the world, but sometimes we overlook the smaller things we can do to really have an impact. Granted, donating blood isn’t for everyone; some people are genuinely terrified of needles while others simply feel like they don’t have the time. I think we should recognize, however, the value small-scale efforts have. Not everyone can change the world, but anyone can make a difference in the quality of another person’s life. And we don’t have to wait until summer or graduation to offer help to those in who need it. That can—and should—start now. So ask yourself: Do you want to change a life today? Good. Now go do it.

Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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test more, placing less emphasis on hu-manities courses.

in the future, Kinzie said she hopes people will keep finding the nSSe useful and that students will also enjoy taking the survey.

“When i look at the comments that students make at the end of the survey, they will say things like, ‘This is the first time i’ve really thought about all the things that i probably should be doing [as an] undergraduate,’” Kinzie said. “Those kinds of comments are very vali-dating in terms of striking a chord with students in the ways we want them to be reflective about the kind of education they are engaging in.”

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proficiency in subject areas to a focus on determining student growth. As a result, collecting “longitudinal data,” or data on individual students over long periods of time, is becoming more important.

“There is more of a need for longitu-dinal data sets so you can really see the trajectory that students follow and how they grow over time, rather than just where they are at any given point,” Ste-phens said.

States have become better at provid-ing educators with data on individual students to create a personalized learn-ing experience, Guidera noted.

“We’re now seeing this promise of personalized learning becoming a real-ity,” Guidera said. “This year, for exam-ple, we’re reporting that teachers in 35 states now have access to data about the students in their classroom. This is an increase from 28 states in 2011.”

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Going forward, Vigdor said the em-phasis will be on getting schools and teachers to use data which is already accessible to improve educational prac-tices.

“There actually isn’t any kind of rule which says, once you have data you need to use it,” Vigdor said. “i suspect that there are a lot of school districts out there which don’t take advantage of data or the analysis of data.”

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for Ph.D. education and faculty coordi-nator for the Ph.D. Plus program.

reichert noted that the program en-hances student understanding of career options.

“Ph.D. Plus encourages students to think hard about what kind of experi-ence would make them the best candi-dates for what they want to do profes-sionally,” reichert said.

he added that the faculty and admin-istration of Pratt discussed their ideas for the program initially spoke with Pratt students to see if there was a demand for the program. From there, they designed the “skeleton” of the program, reichert said.

rinker said the program is one of the only programs of its kind anywhere in the world.

“Because we as students are develop-ing the program, we are closer to the is-sue than if it were organized by a faculty member,” rinker said. “Additionally, the program’s focus on engineering Ph.D. career tracks ensures that our focus is not so broad that it is equally useless to everyone.”

Winglee added that the program is

continually striving to improve.“The best part of the program is that

it is always getting better,” Winglee said. “it is put on by a group of motivated stu-dents and we are always looking to do new workshops for the community.”

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and solve a problem.”These skills, he noted, cannot be

learned through online-only education formats.

Despite the appeal that schools like the University of Phoenix have, including al-lowing students to learn in their pajamas, students will never have the ability to learn from each other and through the mentor-ship of professors through these platforms, nowicki said.

The ability to live together and create a community that connects learning and living is a unique and important part of the college experience, nowicki said. The implementa-tion of the new house model is striving to enhance this experience, he added.

“A residential campus creates and envi-ronment for social connectivity,” nowicki said.

Because the housing model is still in the early stages of its development, the lasting success of the new communities has yet to be seen, he said.

he noted that it will take several years for the independent houses to develop the per-sonality and sense of community that selec-tive living groups currently have.

nowicki responded to concerns that un-dergraduate education at Duke is forcing students to become overly pre-professionally focused and less intellectual.

“i know Princeton [University]. Those students aren’t more intellectual than Duke students, it’s just that they don’t have a win-

ning basketball team,” nowicki said.he continued by highlighting some of

the extracurricular aspects of campus life that enhance the Duke experience.

“Duke Student Government is an essen-tial part to make Duke work,” nowicki said.

There is an amazing phenomenon cur-rently occurring at Duke, he noted, because of the football team’s recent success at a time when discussion of basketball typically reigns supreme.

“education is not a spectator sport,” no-wicki said. “education transforms lives.”

In other business:in honor of national Transgender Day

of remembrance, the senate voted unani-mously to approve legislation supporting gender-neutral housing options on east Campus beginning in the 2014-15 school year.

President Stefani Jones, a senior, noted that despite the passage of the legislation, the decision to implement the changes is left to the administration.

information technology analyst Mi-chael Faber, Trinity ’05, presented Blue Sky, his new platform for Duke-centered discussions about community improve-ment.

“Blue Sky is the ying to Fix My Cam-pus’s yang,” Faber said.

The platform allows students to post concerns or suggestions for improvement among any area of student life at Duke. Faber encouraged senators to spread the word about the new website.

nowicki noted that he supports student use of Blue Sky.

executive Vice President nikolai Doytchinov, a junior, led a first reading of the student organizations and finance by-law. There will be a second reading at the Dec. 4 meeting, at which point the senate can vote to adopt the legislation.

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