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PHILADELPHIA—If it felt like No. 1 seed Syracuse barely had the ball after it nurtured a 5-0 lead against seventh-seed-ed Duke, it’s because the Orange barely did.

Blue Devil faceoff specialist and tour-nament most outstanding player Bren-dan Fowler won 13 consecutive faceoffs in the second through fourth periods, allowing Duke to dominate possession en route to a 16-10 victory and the pro-

gram’s second national championship.“I told John [Danowski] after the game

to buy his faceoff guy a big steak because he deserved one,” Syracuse head coach John Desko said. “We just couldn’t get the ball in the second half.”

The Blue Devils brought home the trophy for the first time since 2010 after reaching championship weekend for seven consecutive seasons—all under head coach John Danowski and since the 2006 season was cancelled amid false allegations of rape.

Although the Blue Devils came out of the gate looking “tight” in the words of Danowski, they went on a 12-1 run in the second through fourth periods to secure a lead and the win.

The Orange built a 4-0 advantage in the first period, even though Duke won 3-of-5 faceoffs. Fowler was 2-for-4 in those while getting whistled for a penalty and adjusting to the style of the referees.

“I let it get to my head a little bit,” Fowl-er said. “Once I cooled down a little, and just stuck to what I do every day, I got into

a groove.”The junior then won 15-of-16 faceoffs

in the second and third periods as the Blue Devils narrowed the gap and even-tually took the lead. He finished the game 20-of-28.

“We would say maybe this would be the week Brendan doesn’t win 65 percent of his faceoff and we figure out how to com-pete, how to win if he doesn’t,” Danowski said. “That day almost never came.”

Chinese gov. bans topics in classrooms

Uni. finalizes Central Campus upgrades

by Raisa ChowdhuryTHE CHRONICLE

Originally built as temporary housing in the 1970s, the Central Campus apartments are receiving their last upgrades for the next decade.

This summer, the University will com-plete interior enhancements on apartments as part of the Central Campus enhancement plan that began in Summer 2010, said Joe Gonzalez, dean for residential life. Past up-grades included additions to the campus, such as the creation of Devil’s Bistro and Mill Village, as well as external upgrades, such as repainting the exterior of Central Campus buildings and creating new walkways. The current renovations are focused only on the apartments themselves and invole interior upgrades, such as new floors and paint jobs.

The work on Central Campus this sum-mer will cost approximately $5 million, Gon-zalez said, adding that the entire Central Campus enhancement project sums up to approximately $14 million.

“It was work that was due,” Gonzalez said. “I mean, these apartments existed for 35 years and it was time for the maintenance to be done.”

The interiors of the apartments between Anderson Street and Alexander Avenue were renovated in past summers with new carpets, bathroom doors, interior paint and fencing, among other changes, Gonzalez said. The rest of the apartments will be up-dated this summer with wood vinyl floors, new interior paint, new bathroom sinks and vanities, stainless steel hoods and refinished cabinets in the kitchen.

Gonzalez added that some of the apart-ments will also be redesigned, transforming some one-bedroom apartments into two-bedroom suites to accommodate students who don’t want to share a room—particular-ly seniors. Work will also continue to replace the outside stairwells on Central Campus—a project that also started three summers

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Chinese leaders have reportedly banned seven topics of discussion from university classrooms.

Duke administrators have received no confirmation that this will impact the aca-demic environment at Duke Kunshan Uni-versity, said President Richard Brodhead.

The Chronicle of Higher Education re-ported May 22 that the topics—freedom of press, universal values, wealth of government leaders, failures of the Communist party, ju-dicial independence, economic neo-liberal-ism and civil societies— are banned because they are causing the country’s leaders to lose their ideological grip over students and younger faculty.

The article said that the new bans had been decided in February after the nation’s new leaders were announced.

“We heard the story, but we have no inde-pendent confirmation that this is even going to happen,” Brodhead said. “People don’t

even really know the nature of what we are dealing with here.”

He referred to the speculation that the topics have been banned as a “rumor.”

Brodhead added that administrators have spoken to several Chinese universi-ties—including Wuhan University, Duke’s partner school in Kunshan—and none have received communication of the ban.

“We are aware of the news reports con-cerning seven educational topics and have been following the issue with our contacts in China,” Mary Bullock, executive vice chan-cellor of DKU, wrote in an email Saturday. “To be clear: we have not received any writ-ten or verbal decree from the Chinese gov-ernment, nor any indication that one will be coming.”

She added that DKU is still in the pro-cess of establishment. Although the univer-sity was originally set to open in Fall 2011, construction issues have led to delays. The

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Gene Klein travels the world with his daughter, Jill Klein, to discuss surviving the Holocaust and the amazing power of human resilience. The pair came to Duke to speak with administrators about the power of resilience. Jill is a marketing professor at the Melbourne Business School at the University of Mel-bourne and was a visiting professor at the Fuqua School of Business in 1994. She recently published a book, We Got the Water: Tracing My Fam-ily’s Path Through Auschwitz, which chronicles her father’s internment during World War II. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm sat down with the duo to discuss Gene Klein’s experience, the book and the importance of learning from our past.

The Chronicle: Mr. Klein, can you give us the background of your story?

Gene Klein: I was born in Czechoslo-vakia, and I went to school there. My fam-ily consisted of my father, mother and two older sisters. We learned foreign languages in school—in gymnasium, which was a com-bination of high school with a little junior college....I decided to take German and Ital-ian. In only a few years, you were fluent be-cause the teachers didn’t mess around.

In 1939 World War II started, Germany invaded Poland, and at the same time, this little part of Czechoslovakia—where I was living at the time—was given to Hungary, but we just continued going to school....Life was good....Then all of the killing started, and not just the Jews, all of the so called ‘un-desirables’ too. And in the spring of 1944 my father was told to close his store, and we were told not to come to school anymore, and we were just waiting to see what was go-ing to happen.

In May of 1944, the Hungarian soldiers collected all of the Jewish families, and they told us we were leaving, but we didn’t know where. Then we were put on this train, then we arrived at this place, that I later found out was Auschwitz—the killing machine. Men, women and children were separated. The officers decided who was going to die and who was going to live. My father was se-lected to be killed, and I was selected to do slave labor. I had no idea what happened to my mother and sisters. Then I was shipped from Auschwitz to a slave labor camp. Peo-ple who weren’t killed outright died from slave labor, hunger and conditions.

In the fall of 1944, one of the officers asked the younger prisoners who speaks

German, and I said that I did. There was a civilian German engineer who needed help for the next few weeks because he was sur-veying the road that was being built by the prisoners. And he began feeding me with his own food, which was very risky, and it actually saved my life because if I hadn’t got-ten the extra nourishment, I would not have lasted.

In 1945, all of the work stopped. I turned 17 around that time, and our camp was evacuated. All those who could walk were marched to the next camp, and those who could not walk were taken to be killed because they were useless. And we ended up in a big collection camp where there was no work and very little food because they didn’t want to feed you if you weren’t doing any work. Basically, it was a camp where you went to die. Fortunately, the Russians were coming closer and closer to our camp, and the guards took off, and we were liberated by the Russians. I decided to go home in-stead of going to the hospital. And as I start-ed my journey home, a young woman—who was still in her striped uniform—recognized me and told me the good news—my mother and sisters were still alive, and they had been liberated by the Americans. It was fantastic news because four out of the five of us had survived, which is unheard of.

TC: Can you talk a little about how you have learned to cope with being a survivor?

Jill Klein: When you talk about resil-ience, a critical aspect is how you interpret the bad event that has happened to you—what kind of sense you make of it [and] what kind of meaning you [give] it. Why has this happened? Even the situation that my father was in, which was so incredibly awful,

there were still some choices he made about the mindset. The one freedom you had was your mental view of things. The key thing with coping strategies is figuring out how to move forward.

GK: When you see a lot of dead people, which a 16 year old boy is not very used to, especially when you first see it, you are very taken aback. That is someone’s brother, someone’s husband and someone’s son. Then your survival instinct kicks in, I don’t know where it came from, but it was there. But that is not enough, so you have to put a goal in your mind, what you have to do in order to survive. In my case, I knew my father was killed, but I didn’t know about my mother and two sisters. What happens if they survive and I perish and my father is dead then they lose two male members of the family? So that gave me an incentive to try really hard to survive. The other thing was, if they kill me, they win, and if I survive, then I win. So basically I had to tell myself these two things before I went to sleep every night and every morning when I woke up.

TC: Jill, why did you choose to write the book about your father’s experience rather than have a first hand account?

JK: I don’t think my dad was going to write the book himself. In the book, I tell the narrative, and it isn’t just my dad’s story, it is his two sister’s and his mom’s as well. The chapters tell the whole story, and once they are separated at Auschwitz, the chap-ters alternate between my dad and the women in his family. In between, I have the-ses essays, called recollection, and they are about the process of piecing together their

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Duke faculty are coming together to form a comprehensive research commu-nity known as BioCoRE, with student par-ticipants from all levels of the University community.

BioCoRE—the Biosciences Collabora-tive for Research Engagement— is sup-ported by a $1.8 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and aims to maximize the participation of underrepresented groups in the scientific research world. The grant has allowed faculty members to implement an institutional and integrative program in hopes of developing financial security, improving scientific community and providing mentorship for students who hope to enter careers in science.

“This is a program that endeavors to enhance the diversity of the scientific workforce, but it is not specifically a mi-nority program,” said Dan Janes, a grant program official at the Institute.

He added that the grant is given spe-cifically to research intensive institutions capable of utilizing the funds.

The program is co-directed by three faculty members who each represent a dif-ferent aspect of the University. Kenneth Kreuzer, biochemistry professor and grad-uate faculty member, represents graduate students. Julie Reynolds, associate direc-tor of undergraduate studies in the biol-ogy department, handles undergraduate programs. Sherilynn Black, director of the Office of Biomedical Graduate Diver-

sity at the School of Medicine, is respon-sible for building community within the program.

“The three of us had different areas of expertise, and we decided to combine them all to create this global institutional model to bring all of the scientific com-munity together at Duke and to do it in an inclusive way,” Black said. “We wanted to make the program in a way that was inclu-sive and that benefited all different types of science, from thinking and input to the scientific process.”

In order to create a program that ac-complished the task of tailored integra-tion throughout the University, the team conducted a yearlong self-study, Reynolds noted.

“Duke has a lot of fantastic program-ming to support students who have an in-terest in science research,” Reynolds said. “One of the things that this grant will al-low us to do is to integrate some of those existing programs into new programs to create a more systematic approach to sup-porting students in that process.”

Undergraduates in the program are required to participate in four semesters of a paid internship at a research lab, one summer of support at a lab and a confer-ence to present their research during their senior year.

Black said that the students’ work in the research lab will be able to replace work-study, which is unique to BioCoRE.

“Our idea is that students who need

story. I figured out that they were probably on the first train of the Hungarian deporta-tion of the Jews, and I explain in the book how I pieced that together. But it also about what it was like for me to talk to them. The good and the bad side of having to ask these questions—about an unspeakable time—to your own family.

GK: What really made me emotional about Jill’s book, and I am not just saying that because she is my daughter, was when she covered my father’s walk through the camp. She follows the path my father took through Auschwitz after he was sent to the gas chambers. She walks with him to the gas chamber, holding hands.

JK: I reconstruct his path using pho-tos and I say, ‘this is the part we all know, but no one remembers,’ because no one who was with him survived. It is very sad because at the end of the book, we reach the chamber together and I have to leave him. And that is the part of the book when the family kind of acknowledges that he isn’t coming home. Because until then, there was still hope. Even though they knew what him being sent to the cham-bers meant, it was all such chaos, they had hope that he was coming back.

TC: Has it been difficult for you to retell your story over the years?

GK: Not really. Usually I just whiz through it, but in some sessions, I break down about three times. When I get to cer-tain parts, like when the German engineer gave me his food and when I was liberated, I break down sometimes. Fortunately, I kind of have the personality that when it is over, I forget about it. A lot of the survi-vors can’t do that. Their past is with them everyday for the rest of their life. But you

can’t ruin your life about what happened in the past. I can bring it up and talk about it, and then put it back. I concentrate on enjoying life.

TC: Do you still see this level of bigotry in the world today?

GK: Definitely, first there have been several Auschwitzs, several holocausts since World War II. Yugoslavia, and people are killing each other in Africa. And there is still anti-Semitism, like in Hungary. It is one of those things that just doesn’t stop. It is very discouraging, because you ask, didn’t you learn anything? But I think a lot of people didn’t.

JK: The message of the story about the German engineer giving my dad his food is that, my dad doesn’t hate the Germans. Everyone is an individual, and you can’t lump everyone together. My dad has every right in the world to be angry with a group of people, but he doesn’t because he has seen the power of an individual. We have to remember that before we lump people together.

TC: What do you think the youth of to-day should learn from your experience?

GK: It is interesting because you think, is there anything good that has come from this, and in a way there is. Nothing will be as bad as this. There is nothing that I can go through in the rest of my life that can be as bad as that.

JK: The biggest thing I take from his sto-ry is that you don’t stand by when people are being bullied. All of this would have been prevented if, when it all started, people did not let others be singled out. If people had just stood up, in small ways, this could have been stopped. That is what everyone should take from this. You don’t stand by when somebody is being bullied, it is your respon-sibility to step in.

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“Throughout this process, we have received assurances from our partners and authorities that DKU will be accorded the highest level of academic freedom, consistent with Duke Uni-versity’s commitment to these values,” Bullock wrote.

During the foundational process of DKU, Brodhead has maintained that the Chinese government will not be able to interfere with students’ academic freedom.

“We have always understood that this is a potential issue, and we have always made it clear that DKU will require the highest level of academic freedom,” he said.

Brodhead added that he has received many rounds of assurances that the Chinese government will not impede learning at DKU from the city, provincial and federal levels.

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ago. Three-quarters of the stairwells will be replaced by the Fall.

The renovations are part of a broader initiative to improve the quality of life for stu-dents, along with the new housing model and the introduction of sororities and fraternities to Central Campus, said Vice President for stu-dent affairs, Larry Moneta.

“We don’t make renovations for the sake of renovations,” Moneta said.

An additional project involving the clean-ing of the duct systems in Central Campus apartments, which began in March, is ex-pected to be completed in June, Gonzalez said. The cleaning project began in response to many students reporting allergic reactions and breathing difficulties in the apartments.

Ashley Tsai, Trinity ’13, said she had trou-ble breathing in her Pace Avenue apartment. She reported the issue to Housing, Dining and Residential Life multiple times through-out Fall 2012, and after seeing no conclusive action taken by the University, decided to pay out of pocket for her ducts to be cleaned last January, which resolved the issues. HDRL sent someone to clean her apartment in April.

“It was a huge problem—I was sick all the time and I couldn’t concentrate on my work,” Tsai said. “It just frustrated me that there was all this money to spend on other things like expanding Wallace Wade... but we can’t even build these apartments for students to live in.”

Moneta noted that complaints did not serve as the impetus to the various Central Campus renovations.

“It wasn’t so much complaints, but our sense of excellence and what we like to pro-vide to our students,” Moneta said.

The ongoing renovations are separate from those in the University’s strategic plan that was approved by the Board of Trustees in

2006. The strategic plan aimed to redevelop Central Campus into a “vibrant intellectual and residential community.” Renovations were delayed indefinitely due to the economic downturn in 2008.

“When the economy changed, we realized we had sort of held off doing work on the Central Campus apartments, and we realized it was just time,” Moneta said.

The University hopes to pursue the more extensive changes to Central Campus outlined in the strategic plan—estimated to require $350 million—in the future, but there are no concrete plans currently, Gonzalez noted.

Moneta added that there are many com-peting projects, and the University had to make decisions about its priorities. Due to preliminary changes already made to Central Campus, administrators said it was possible to settle for the less costly upgrades.

to have a job can either spend their time working at a library or as a lifeguard, or they can spend their time working as a paid researcher in a scientific lab,” Reyn-olds said.

Further, undergraduates will receive individual pre-major advising from faculty members that will enable them to develop a more focused career path, Reynolds ex-plained.

Graduate students will be integral to developing a strong scientific community by acting as mentors and reaching out to undergraduates and faculty through pro-grams designed to improve relations, Kreu-zer said.

“What I am most looking forward to see-ing is my students becoming excited about Duke’s rich intellectual dialogue,” Pete Chhoy, graduate student in pharmacology and cancer biology, said. “I can think of no other program like this where students, graduate and undergraduates together, can engage in this intellectual dialogue and discourse.”

The continued existence of the pro-gram rests on its future success. Although the grant covers BioCoRE for five years, its expansion will require more funds.

“We will be looking to augment the pro-gram with other private sources as we go along,” Kreuzer said. “We hope that the

He noted that the Chinese government has expressed approval of Duke’s presence in the country.

“It is our hope and expectation that we can contribute to the education and civil debate on education issues when DKU opens for classes next year,” Bullock wrote.

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program will also create spinoffs that are self-supporting and potentially indepen-dent of the grant.”

Due to an already extremely high par-ticipation response in both graduates and undergraduates, Black explained that the program has been built so that non-Bio-CoRE students can still reap its benefits.

“One of the things that we really tried to focus on is making sure that this inclusive program was actually inclusive,” Black said, adding that non-BioCoRE students are en-couraged to participate in programs open to the entire university enabled by large faculty support.

Among these programs is a new month-ly seminar titled “What Makes me a Scien-tist,” which targets institutional exclusion by highlighting scientific qualities and practices in students and faculty that may not be obvious.

“We’re planning on having all different types of people who are engaged in science in some way,” Black said. “It will help the students understand that there may be a role in science for them even if they didn’t previously consider it.”

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Danowski changed the meaning of Duke lacrosseEven after two national championships

in seven years, the 2006 Duke lacrosse scan-dal may never go away.

Head coach John Danowski told Jake Tripucka as much when he recruitied him. Tripucka, who graduated in May, had initially been re-cruited by Kevin Cass-ese, the interim head coach in between the resignation of Mike Pressler and the hir-

ing of Danowski.“When you commit to Duke—and

Coach Dino tells you this when he’s talk-ing to you—he goes, ‘Hey listen, the 2006 is never going to go away. It’s one of those things they’re always going to talk about it no matter how great you do, how many championships,’” said Tripucka after win-ning his second national championship in four years.

The scandal may never go away, and it may always be among the first few results for “Duke lacrosse” in a Google search. (Even after Monday’s 16-10 national cham-pionship win against Syracuse, it’s in the top three). And it’s a shame that a set of lies, a district attorney’s ambitions and pre-sumptions of guilt have made it that way.

But in Danowski’s seven years as head coach with a semifinal appearance each

season and two national championships, he has built a new standard and image for Duke lacrosse.

Duke lacrosse doesn’t mean parties and rape (even if a North Carolina football play-er couldn’t help but tweeting about that af-ter the win). It’s not a window into an over-priveledged and unruly Duke culture.

Duke lacrosse is something else now. “There’s a certain amount of discipline,

a certain amount of work ethic, and then the last part is there’s a necessary team as-pect that it has to be team oriented if you want to play on this weekend. Everything that we do from day one is team oriented,” Danowski said. “It’s like having children:

when they step out of line, you have to let them know. But we let them know why.”

Nobody could have scripted the situa-tion Danowski was walking into when he took over as head coach. After Monday’s win, Danowski said nobody scripts being down 5-0, like the Blue Devils were to Syra-cuse in the second quarter.

What he could script in both situations: how his team reacted.

At halftime, down 6-5, he told his play-ers “we need to play Duke lacrosse over the next 30 minutes.”

“Duke lacrosse is playing hard, scrappy, fundamental,” senior David Lawson said. “It’s doing things the right way.”

It didn’t hurt that Brendan Fowler dom-inated at the faceoff X and helped the Blue Devils maintain possession the rest of the way, but the comeback showed the spirit Danowski instilled all season and has since he arrived in July 2006.

Duke began this season 2-4, falling out of the national rankings and threatening its worst start in more than three decades. Two wins against top-10 teams later—one against reigning national champion Loyola and the other against archrival North Car-olina—Duke was back on track.

“Nobody envisions that,” Danowski said. “It’s just about showing up every day to work and taking each day one day at a

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PHILADELPHIA—Kyle Turri was never supposed to play in the national championship game.

Initially, his spot was reserved for senior Dan Wigrizer. In 2010, as a freshman, Wigriz-er led Duke to its first national title in pro-gram history, becoming only the sixth true freshman in NCAA history to go all the way as a starting goaltender.

So the net was all Wigrizer’s again for his sophomore and junior seasons. He led Duke to its fifth and sixth consecutive NCAA semi-final appearances in 2011 and 2012, and was ready to return again in 2013 for his senior campaign. This year, making the postseason had added meaning for Wigrizer, since cham-pionship weekend was slated to take place in his hometown of Philadelphia.

“To be home and to potentially win a championship in front of the home crowd… in the city where I grew up playing lacrosse—I could not ask for a better way to end my ca-reer,” Wigrizer said. “Being able to finish [in Philadelphia] is the best experience I could possibly dream of.”

But six games into the 2013 season, the Blue Devils were 2-4. And Wigrizer, who had started each of those six games, had suffered one concussion too many after Duke’s March 2 loss against Maryland.

In stepped Kyle Turri.It wasn’t as though Turri had no experi-

ence. He started three games during his freshman season in place of an injured Wigrizer and had relieved the senior along with freshman Luke Aaron and sophomore

Ben Krebs as a part of a four-goalie system that head coach John Danowski used during Duke’s early-season struggles.

Turri was also no stranger to champion-ships. He led West Islip High School to the New York state championship during his se-nior season in 2011. His older brother, Justin, a two-time All-American, was Wigrizer’s team-mate on Duke’s 2010 national championship squad. And as a rising sophomore, Turri won a gold medal in Finland at the U-19 World Championship as a member of the United States Men’s National Team.

“When it was time for Kyle to take over when Dan had to step down, it wasn’t abso-lutely new territory for him,” Danowski said. “Kyle is a winner.”

But Turri’s first game as Duke’s new full-time starter provided the ultimate test. His foe was then-No. 4 Loyola, the defending national champions. The Greyhounds had beaten Wigrizer the previous season, when he surrendered seven goals while making only one save in two quarters of work.

The Blue Devils’ new netminder made his presence known immediately. Loyola scored with 1:13 remaining to cut Duke’s lead to 9-8. But Turri and the defensive unit held off the Greyhounds to secure the Blue Devils’ first victory in nearly three weeks.

“We were certainly delighted with [Kyle’s] performance,” Danowski said after the game. “Your team is always a work in progress.”

Turri would continue to be hot in the net, posting a 9-1 record throughout the rest of the regular season.

“I was just trying to get better each game,” he said. “I had a few games where I played


Duke goaltender Kyle Turri posted a 14-1 record after taking over as the team’s full-time starter.

pretty well and a few, not so much. But the coaches and I came to work every day to get better.”

Turri continued to play with confidence heading into the postseason. However, af-ter making 12 saves in a double-overtime win against Loyola in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Turri made only two against Notre Dame in the quarterfinals. But arguably his biggest save of the tour-

nament came with 3:18 left against the Fighting Irish.

With the Blue Devils down by one goal, Turri stopped Notre Dame attack Sean Rog-ers’ shot from point-blank range. His outlet pass to Duke midfielder Greg DeLuca set up a transition opportunity and gave Jordan Wolf the opportunity to set up Josh Dionne’s

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time. And I think when you’re involved in athletics you learn to live that way, whether it’s Tuesdays in the weight room or film days or pregame night before meetings. You just keep on working and keep staying on task.”

If anybody knows about slow starts and staying on task it’s Danowski. The Blue Devils began the 2010 season 2-3 before winning 13 of their last 14 en route to their first national championship in pro-gram history.

Though his accomplishments in each season are individually impressive, more impressive is that he has consistently kept the program on task, even when nobody envisioned that Duke lacrosse could actu-ally mean playing lacrosse.

Looking back on it, nothing was right about Pressler’s “resignation” from Duke (something a settlement from the Univer-sity later confirmed). It was a unique set of circumstances that brought Danowski to the Blue Devils. So it was only appropriate that Pressler’s Bryant Bulldogs—a program that was in Division II when he took over—were in the NCAA Tournament this year.

But in the last seven seasons in Durham, Danowski has given a new life and meaning to Duke lacrosse. There’s no question he was the right fit. Lawson, one of the key se-niors on this team who will walk away a two-time national champion, didn’t have many words to describe playing for Danowski, only saying, “He’s the best, that’s the only way to put it.”

Each season only makes clearer what Danowski means not only to the program, but also the University.

“Only guys who have played for Duke and played for Coach D know what Duke lacrosse is,” Tripucka said. “It’s about being a Duke man and everything that stands for.”

game-tying goal. Midfielder David Lawson scored the game winner for the Blue Devils less than a minute later.

“We wanted to play for 60 minutes,” Danowski said of Turri’s performance. “We certainly don’t script these endings…. Kyle Turri, while he didn’t have a great day in the goal statistically, comes up with a big save on the outlet. He keeps his poise and allowed us to score the game-tying goal.”

Turri was a different goaltender against Cornell in the NCAA semifinals. One week later, he dazzled with a career-high 16 saves, including four in the fourth quarter to keep a resurgent Big Red offense at bay.

“Early on it took me awhile to get settled in, but I felt like I was seeing the ball well,” Turri said. “I was pretty happy about getting my saves up…. We just had to hold them off for the last few minutes… and keep our com-posure.”

Kyle Turri was never supposed to play in the national championship game.

But, 14 games after replacing Wigrizer, there he was.

Stepping onto lacrosse’s biggest stage for the first time, Turri was unable to stop a siz-zling Syracuse offense in the game’s opening

Jordan Wolf broke the ice for Duke to make it 5-1 in the second period and scored again with 1:51 left in the half to bring Duke within one at the break, trailing 6-5.

The Orange struggled even more in the third period to gain possession as Fowler won all seven faceoffs in the 15-minute span. Paced by two goals each from seniors Josh Offit and David Lawson in the third period, Duke took a lead it would never relinquish and entered the fourth up 10-7.

The offensive onslaught continued in the fourth, though Duke only won 4-of-10 faceoffs in the quarter while Fowler faced a new adversary.

Senior Orange defender Brian Megill, who leads the team in groundballs and rare-ly spends time at the faceoff X, had some success pushing Fowler around and giving Syracuse some much needed possession.

“I just wish I went out there two quarters earlier,” Megill said.

Finishing with two fourth-quarter goals, Wolf paced the team with four scores while Josh Dionne and Josh Offit both added hat tricks. The Blue Devils finished the game scoring 10 of the last 13 goals.

In the game, Fowler extended his single-season record for faceoff victories to 339 while also finishing the season second in Di-vision I history with 209 groundballs.

But Fowler was a diamond in the X for Danowski, who said he did not recruit Fowl-er and that the Chaminade High School product got into Duke “on his own.”

Danowski didn’t meet Fowler, who also plays football at Duke, until August of his freshman year. As a sophomore, Fowler broke his collarbone in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, a 12-9 win against Syracuse.

“We take no credit for the recruitment of Brendan Fowler,” Danowski said.

M. LACROSSE from page 1minutes. Although he notched four saves in the first quarter, the Orange recorded four goals on 15 shots. The Blue Devils found themselves in a 5-0 hole 42 seconds into the second quarter—their season on the brink.

“[Coach Danowski] told us to relax,” Turri said. “It was a 60 minute game and we knew they were going to have a run in them. We knew we were too. We weren’t just going to step back.”

So Turri saw the ball better. He recognized the outside angle shots and the bad angle shots. He relaxed and he did not step back.

With Duke down 6-5 going into the third quarter, Turri held Syracuse to only one goal for the next 33:36. When Syracuse briefly threatened the Blue Devils’ lead in the fourth quarter, with back-to-back goals by star mid-fielder JoJo Marasco, Turri shut down the of-fense, making five stops in the final period.

“I realized [we were going to win] with about four or five minutes left,” Turri said. “I still got nervous. I always get nervous, even with a six goal lead because you never know what could happen. But with four minutes left, I knew.”

Kyle Turri was never supposed to play in the national championship game.

But there was Kyle Turri, hoisting Duke’s second national championship above his head after the clock struck zero.

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This summer, Central Campus is receiving its last upgrades for the next de-cade. Although we com-mend the University for mak-ing necessary renovations to the run-down a p a r t m e n t s , the University should continue to keep Cen-tral Campus in mind going forward, as there are many changes that still remain to improve the often neglected campus.

Central Campus apart-ments were originally built as temporary housing in the 1970s and remained in dilapi-tated conditions until the Uni-versity chose to upgrade them Summer 2010. Such renova-tions included the creation of Devil’s Bistro and Mill Vil-lage, as well as structural and

internal upgrades. Although such renovations have helped improve the state of Central Campus, there is still more that can be done to create a thriving and more comfort-

able campus environment.

In 2006, the Board of Trustees approved a strategic plan that was in-tended to completely rede-velop Central Campus. The renovations were expected to take decades, but the fi rst phase of the plan—slated for completion in 2009—would have added residential and academic space. The strate-gic plan envisioned Central Campus becoming an “aca-demic village,” as faculty and students would come togeth-er on a campus that includ-ed academic and living spac-

es, similar to West Campus. The economic downturned in 2008, however, made this reality nothing more than a dream—the University settled on the necessary up-keep of Central Campus, a $14 million expedenture, instead of their grand vision, which totaled $350 million.

The vision the Unives-ity had for Central Campus in 2006 was a bold and promising move in the right direction. In-cluding academic space for de-partments on Central Campus would create a bustling and thriving atmosphere, rather than the current stagnant envi-ronment of students trekking to Central only to disappear into their living quarters. Such an atmosphere could decrease the sense of isolation students living on Central Campus feel,

as both West and Central Cam-pus would become places for a thriving academic and social life throughout the day.

We understand why such a grand and costly vision could not be executed in the after-math of the economic crisis, however we question why the University chose to abandon the plan altogether. In a re-cent Chronicle article, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta noted that the University had to give differ-ent projects priority, and such grand Central Campus up-grades did not make the cut.

However, Central Campus should be considered a pri-ority by the University’s stan-dards. Students have com-plained of living conditions on Central Campus in the past, and although such issues

have been addressed by the minor upgrades this summer, students should not feel like they are living on the “lesser” of Duke’s campuses. Duke Forward, the University’s larg-est capital campaign to date, is dedicating 40 percent of the campaign’s goal—about $1.3 billion—to the under-graduate experience overall. Major renovations to Central Campus would contribute to a better undergraduate expe-rience, yet none of the money raised, so far, will be used to make any major changes to the quality of life on Central Campus.

Administrators should continue to keep Central Campus in mind as they pour money into projects that they deem as more im-portant.

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As the Syrian Revolution rages on between President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the opposition materializing, no ceasefi re seems

on the horizon. Syria’s future appears desolate, ruth-lessly bloody and utterly hopeless.

Cities like Aleppo and Homs have been partially destroyed by numer-ous episodes of endless fi ghting. Or-ganizations such as Shiite-led Hezbol-lah, which the State Department has deemed a terrorist group, are now actively assisting the Syrian Army to thwart future repulsive attacks from rebel forces. Syria contains a majority Sunni population and a small Shiite minority to which President Assad belongs. Assad’s tyrannical govern-ment espouses dictatorial rule in a virtual one-party system that remains vehemently opposed to few, if any, democratic reforms. More than 80,000 people have perished since the confl ict began more than two years ago.

President Obama and the American public re-main staunchly critical of any humanitarian military intervention in Syria, which is home to roughly 20 million inhabitants. Previous lessons from the 2003 invasion of Iraq have caused the U.S. government to eschew any involvement beyond supplying non-lethal aid and reportedly providing CIA-directed co-vert intelligence. When it comes to Syria, there are certainly very few hawks compared to doves in Wash-ington today, but that is clearly a serious mistake. It is important to realize a few critical reasons why the U.S. should begin to intervene further on behalf of the opposition.

The primary reason the U.S. must do more in Syria is to break the existing Shiite Iraq-Iran-Assad regime and Hezbollah axis. Altogether, these Shiite elements seek to maintain a balance of power against their Sunni rivals, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan. Moreover, Iran’s nuclear ambitions con-tinue to confound the U.S. If the U.S. wants to in-crease its already faltering legitimacy in the Middle East, it should immediately aim to shift the balance of power against Iran by giving lethal aid to the reb-els, which will gradually lead to Assad’s ouster.

According to U.S. intelligence reports, Iran is cur-rently using Iraq as a channel to transport weapons, intelligence and other forms of physical support to Assad, allowing the group to remain fi rmly in power. With Hezbollah now sending units to fi ght along-side the Syrian Army, Israel—America’s primary ally in the Middle East—is susceptible to Hezbollah’s belligerence. The chaos in Syria might very possibly spill over into Lebanon, which would put Israel’s se-curity further at risk.

Secondly, additional radicalization of the rebels

and several factions operating within the state itself has exacerbated sectarian tensions in the Middle East. The al-Nusra Front, a Sunni militant group currently fi ghting the Assad regime, has also been

deemed a terrorist organization. Other groups, such as the Syrian Islamic Front and al Qaeda in Iraq, both of whom are Sunni, are seek-ing to topple the current regime and replace it with an Islamic state. The U.S., in this case, must fl ex its politi-cal muscles and institute a cohesive foreign policy that is committed to a thriving democratic culture for the Syrian people.

Thirdly, American policy in the Middle East must be cognizant that

Syrians today exercise their right to self-determi-nation, something that was not fully realized after Syria’s independence in 1946. The U.S. will have to deal with the resulting implications of the Arab Spring by remaining committed to the Arab world.

For decades, Arabs in Egypt, Libya and Iraq were deprived of fundamental rights in their own coun-tries. Syria, more importantly, has been under the Baath Party system since the late 1960s—a govern-ment averse to political pluralism and the advance-ment of democracy. President Assad has been known for committing human rights abuses and hindering the political process to advance his own demagogic reputation. As we have learned from the events of the Arab Spring, ordinary Arab citizens have success-fully toppled numerous dictatorships. Syrian citizens are now illustrating this point by seeking to imple-ment a system that is compatible with their own ide-ologies and traditions.

Now may be the time to change how we deal with this political and humanitarian crisis. By not actively assisting the rebels, the U.S. is acting contrarily to its own national interest, which would be defending its own security and its allies’ security. The United States, in order to increase its legitimacy and cred-ibility in the region, should begin to weigh the op-tions that may potentially change the outcomes of the confl ict.

By keeping its cost-benefi t calculation as part of the overall strategy, the U.S. should witness how much change can be realistic if it carefully assesses the facts and important lessons from the Arab Spring. If it tests its options assiduously, we can fulfi ll our national objectives in the Middle East, one step at a time.

Zubair Akram is a Trinity sophomore. His second sum-mer column will run on June 30. You can follow Zubair on Twitter @ZubairAkram11.

As a high school junior just two years ago, I had barely scraped the surface of understanding the college admis-sions process. My naiveté was my own doing, of course,

and soon enough I would be fl ipping through the newest edi-tion of the “Fiske Guide to Colleges” hoping to get an idea of what was out there. Among the four colleges I hand-picked from the book happened to be good ole Duke, and all received thorough examinations through College Prowler, among vari-ous other online sources. From what I gathered, I was able to c o n c l u d e that Duke was a pretty good school in many r e s p e c t s . But whenever I thought about Duke, there would be this phrase that struck me time and again: hook-up culture.

It seemed that, re-gardless of the re source , “the hook-up culture” was a phrase that seemed pervasive in defi ning the Duke social scene. It appeared to me that, instead of giving thoughtful in-sight into the many social aspects of Duke, this was, and always has been, the catchall phrase to describe the situation, which is a lazy cop-out at best. The Fact or Fiction section of the “Duke Life” website attempts to clarify a few unfounded preconcep-tions. But is this really necessary? Why does this stigma even exist in the fi rst place?

To put it simply, Duke students are hardly deserving of the wrap they get. Barring the characteristic booty-shaking and lip-smacking seen at Shooters, there is very little that makes Duke stand out from the rest of the crowd. Though my fi rst LDOC was indeed a night to remember (or forget), it is quite diffi cult to compare Duke’s social culture to that of a state school when everything is put into perspective. Whether it is based on an-ecdotal evidence from folks at home, stories from fellow Duke students or even the most basic Google searches, large state schools are far more infamous for their social scenes.

I do admit: I am a rising sophomore and can’t really speak on behalf of the entire student body; however, I have seen friends and acquaintances maintain relationships both at home and at Duke, and I know many more that are still look-ing or aren’t interested in random hook-ups at all. The Duke Social Relationships Project Report, released in 2012, indicates that 45.5 percent of students had not experienced any hook-ups in the past six months, with hook-ups being defi ned as any “acts of physical intimacy with a partner with whom you are not currently involved in a serious relationship.” Additionally, ac-cording to the 2012 National College Health Assessment, 32.8 percent of all college students had no sexual partner in the last year. This means that there are 12.7 percent more Duke students than average college students who choose not to have physical intimacy. Since the DSPR accounts for all physical in-teractions between two partners, and anything short of sex is included in the 32.8 percent of the NCHA’s fi ndings, it is note-worthy that such a signifi cant difference exists.

Duke is undoubtedly a prestigious university where academ-ics are the primary focus of any student. Thus, it would make sense for a hard-working student to avoid long-term relation-ships and choose only to hook-up, in an effort to concentrate on his or her work. Unlike other top institutions, Duke’s cam-pus is viewed as more social and lively, but the belief that with a more outgoing group of people comes a greater number of hook-ups is a brash generalization. It is easy for the uninformed individual to make this assumption because of our reputation, and efforts have defi nitely been made by The Chronicle and other news sources to portray this development as a cultural phenomenon rather than a Duke-specifi c quality.

At this point, I may be pointing out the obvious, but the foundation for this perception is weak. Since Duke’s academic reputation is not as prominent among the general population as some of its peer institutions, having any negative notion as-sociated with the school can be detrimental to its image. Al-though this did not affect my decision two years ago, it could potentially infl uence the choice of future applicants. Perhaps just by writing this column with the word “hook-up” in the title I could further hurt our image, but with increasing awareness of this issue, it should only be a matter of time before more students seek to change this perception.

Bryan Somaiah is a Trinity sophomore. His second summer column will run on June 30. You can follow Bryan on Twitter @Bee_Smoove.

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Hook-up culture or hype

Bryan Somaiahbreaking barriers

During their fi rst elementary school social studies lesson, American students learn that we live in a nation of immigrants . . . although perhaps not in

so many words. In any case, our students are taught to admire and respect the pilgrims for their brave and cou-rageous trek to the New World. Every Thanksgiving, el-ementary school classrooms across the country dedicate a bulletin board to hand turkeys and the Mayfl ower. Every fi fth grader is expected to be able to rattle off the names of Christopher Columbus’s ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa María.

Later in elementary and middle school, in discussions about the industrialization of the United States—the process that allowed it to become the behemoth of a nation that it is today—students are introduced to the metaphor of either the melting pot or the salad bowl. Both represent the United States as the com-ing together of heterogeneous groups, or “ingredients,” to form a cohesive or at least complementary whole.

How did we get to where we are today? There were about 2.9 million American Indi-an and Alaskan Natives in the United States in 2010. That’s less than 1 percent of the total population. There were only about 24 million peo-ple who identifi ed their ancestry as “American” in 2011. That’s only about 8 percent of those living in the United States. Clearly, we are still a nation of immigrants. So how does a nation of immigrants solve the problem of an esti-mated 11 million undocumented immigrants?

In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I am an immigrant. I came to the United States at the age of three, and I have been a legal permanent resident, or a “green card holder” for almost 18 years. My parents went through the legal immigration process: My father was sponsored by his employer, my parents were represented by a private immigration attorney and, after a little more than two years, we had our green cards. It was a long and arduous process that included extensive internal medical examinations (for the women only) and expensive trans-lations of offi cial documents. Since we were lucky enough to have the fi nancial means and the favored Western Eu-ropean origin, we came out the other side relatively pain-lessly.

Needless to say, it is neither easy nor cheap to enter the United States as a legal immigrant. Yet the American attitude toward immigrants is internally inconsistent. On one hand, most American-born, U.S. citizens recite their ancestry with pride—one-quarter Irish, half German, one-sixteenth Dutch and so forth. On the other hand, the immigration reform bill currently in the Senate calls

for drones to patrol the border with Mexico around the clock. According to a 2011 Gallup Poll, 43 percent of re-spondents agreed that developing a plan to deal with the large number of illegal immigrants who are already living in the U.S. was “extremely important.” In the same poll, 21 percent of respondents said the government should simply deport all illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. Similarly, according to a recent Fox News Poll, 73 percent of Americans favor taking measures to increase border se-curity before changing any other immigration policies.

Naturally, in an ideal world every immigrant would have the fi nancial and social capital to go through the process

that my parents and I went through in or-der to get our legal permanent residency. Moreover, the U.S. is perfectly justifi ed in closely scrutinizing the individuals it places on the path to citizenship. But does there have to be such a signifi cant fi nan-cial burden on the applicant? A simple family-based petition, where a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident petitions to have a family member immigrate to the United States, comes with a $420 fi ling fee. And that does not include processing fees, travel costs or attorney fees. Once

an immigrant is legally in the U.S. and wants to adjust to permanent residency, he or she must be prepared to shell out an additional thousand dollars just to fi le the I-485 form. And then there’s the cost of translating offi cial documents and the attorney’s fees once again. There are fee waivers for some forms, but only for those earning less than 150 percent of the national poverty level or suffering “fi nancial hardship,” as determined by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

In other words, it seems as though the current immi-gration system incentivizes illegal immigration. If an es-timated 11 million people can live “in the shadows” for decades, while documented immigrants spend years and thousands of dollars risking rejection, what’s the practical advantage of using the proper channels? Rather than sim-ply beefi ng up border security and creating a new path to citizenship, we should look more closely at how to reinvig-orate the immigration-based model that built this nation into what it is today. Immigration reform must do more than increase staffi ng at application processing centers. It must also make the system accessible to qualifi ed individu-als who wish to immigrate to the United States.

Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. Her second summer column will run on June 20. You can follow Joline on Twitter @jydoedens.

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