DSG pres. vetoes Senate DCR ruling

See veto on page 4Duke Muslims celebrate Eid as national debate rages

by Ciaran O’ConnorTHe CHRonICLe

Fueled by the fierce backlash against a proposed Muslim community center in Manhattan, anti-Islam sentiment is on the rise throughout the country.

at Duke, though, Muslims feel they are able to practice and raise aware-ness of their faith in an environment they describe as generally tolerant and accepting.

Muslims celebrated eid al-Fitr, com-memorating the end of Ramadan’s month-long fast, Friday amidst some an-ti-Muslim rhetoric linked in part to the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

“It definitely is troublesome,” ah-mad Jitan, a junior and president of the Muslim Students association, said of the Islamophobia portrayed in the news. “But,” he added, “Duke’s student population is accepting.”

MSa Vice president nabil enayet, a junior, said Duke’s student body is generally curious about Islam and ea-ger to understand what the religion is all about.

abdullah antepli, Duke’s Muslim chaplain, dedicated an hour Friday to just that—conducting an online office hours session in which he spoke with Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells about Is-lam and took questions from audience members via Twitter and Facebook. In the segment, which is available online, antepli explained Islam’s core values and combated some common miscon-ceptions about the religion.

“Many assumptions [about Islam] are not based on accurate information,” antepli said during the session. “nobody uses the Quran like

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ELEVENTH HOUR

DEFEAT

by Joanna LichterTHe CHRonICLe

after the Duke Student government Sen-ate’s decision to defund and move toward de-chartering the Duke College Republi-cans, DSg president Mike Lefevre vetoed both pieces of legislation this weekend.

Lefevre, a senior, vetoed the group’s de-funding Friday afternoon and extended his veto Sunday night to block the potential de-chartering of the organization, which would have been determined by the Student orga-nization Finance Committee.

Lefevre’s veto came after he received letters of resignation from DCR Chair Carter Boyle and Vice Chair Travis Rapp, both seniors.

“It didn’t make sense to veto one and not the other,” Lefevre said. “Students in-volved in this mess will no longer be lead-ing the organization.... It’s really unjust to the club if we punish them for something that happened last year, [when] the people who did that faced the repercussions.”

DCR will hold an election in the next few weeks to select a new chair. no current mem-bers of the DCR executive board will be able to run for the position—a decision made by the College Republicans, Lefevre said.

after meeting with SoFC Chair Max Tabachnik, Lefevre extended his veto to prevent the organization’s de-chartering. Tabachnik, a senior, proposed that SoFC govern the next College Republicans

by Scott RichTHe CHRonICLe

WInSTon-SaLeM — For 30 minutes Saturday, Duke’s offense ran like a well-oiled machine.

Then, almost inexplicably, it broke down.after scoring 35 points and amassing 326

yards in the first half, the Blue Devil offense sputtered after halftime, allowing Wake For-est to claim a 54-48 victory in what was the second highest-scoring game in aCC history.

“We didn’t come out at halftime like we should’ve and you could definitely see it out there,” senior austin Kelly said. “I felt like our execution and our focus wasn’t there in the second half for the offense.”

Duke’s second-half yardage was less than half of what it accounted for in the first. While quarterback Sean Renfree had only two incompletions in the first half—both of which were bobbled balls that led to inter-ceptions—he had 14 in the second. Running back Desmond Scott rushed for 108 yards in the first half, including a 63-yard touchdown scamper, but averaged only 3.5 yards on his four carries in the last 30 minutes.

However, the Blue Devils’ second-half struggles would have been inconsequential had it not been for the defense’s poor per-formance throughout the contest. It allowed the Demon Deacons 500 total yards and eight touchdowns and was consistently gutted both through the air and on the ground.

Big plays were the major problem for the unit, as it allowed four touchowns of more than 20 yards, including an 81-yard touchdown on a trick play that had wide receiver Marshall Williams hitting a wide-open Chris givens for the score.

“Defensively you simply need to tackle better to begin with,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “and the consistency it takes to not give up huge plays, those are all cor-rectable things, but they’re not being done. and that falls back in my lap.”

Duke was able to remain within strik-ing distance throughout the entire game thanks to its own proficiency making big plays. Indeed, the Blue Devils nearly pulled off a miracle when, down 13 with less than two minutes to go, Renfree hit Vernon for a 51-yard touchdown pass on a well executed hitch-and-go on the first play of the drive.

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Receiver Conner Vernon had eight receptions for 181 yards, but Duke still lost 54-48 to Wake Forest.

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WashinGton — “tea party” activists gathered outside the Capitol sunday to demonstrate that they remain energized more than a year after their conservative movement was born and that they are committed to ousting democratic leaders from Congress who they think have led the country astray with reckless spending.

thousands of protesters marched from the Washington monument to the Capi-tol’s front lawn, where speakers lauded the movement’s impact on elections and pub-lic discourse. With the nov. 2 midterms less than two months away, however, they em-phasized that their work is not done.

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a group of about 30 students and faculty members gathered in the Duke Chapel Saturday morning in re-membrance of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The ceremony opened with a col-or guard presentation by Duke’s air Force RoTC and a prayer urging lis-teners to have the “strength to rise again” and to “believe that good will never be defeated.” Volunteers lit candles at 9:59 a.m. and 10:28 a.m.—the two times at which the World Trade Center’s two towers fell—and Durham Fire Department Battalion Chief Craig Hoxie gave a speech.

“anniversaries are significant,” Hoxie said. “[The attacks] impacted me as a firefighter in a way you can’t understand.”

Less than a year after the attacks, Hoxie traveled to new York City with his family to visit ground zero. The stepson of a fellow firefighter from Durham led Hoxie through the city’s subway system and onto the site.

“It was incredible how it impact-ed me,” Hoxie said, adding that his sense of awe reminded him of visit-ing the grand Canyon because the site must be seen in person to be un-derstood. “If it doesn’t bring tears to your eyes—just the magnitude of it—there’s something wrong with you.... The firefighters love new York. It’s

like they have a key to the city.”Junior Sam Baek, a member of the

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“I have a special connection with... how our nation responded to this event and the significance of what [hap-pened] nine years ago,” Baek said. “[I came] to really pay tribute, you know, spiritually, emotionally.”

Like Baek, Jesse Huddleston, Trin-ity ’10 and an administrative intern for Chapel Services, was not directly af-fected by the attacks but still came to the service to be with Duke students who might have been.

“I wanted to be present with those, also, who may have been more no-tably impacted. I think it is a day of significance where it is important to... pause,” he said. “It helps you keep a better perspective, a better hold on yourself.”

near the end of the ceremony, ju-nior Kyle Ulrich, commander of the arnold air Society, recalled the words of elmer Davis, a former director of the United States office of War Infor-mation, that said the U.S. will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

The ceremony ended with a bagpipe rendition of “amazing grace” and a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of the attack.

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Last year, students at Durham’s e.K. powe elementary School were asked to draw what an ideal library would look like. With a reno-vation of the facilities now complete, some of their ideas became a reality Friday.

e.K. powe unveiled its remodeled library and media center Friday, the funding for which was provided by Target and The Heart of america Foundation as a part of the Target School Library Makeovers program.The make-over is part of a national campaign by the two

organizations that seeks to overhaul libraries in order to promote literacy.

e.K. powe, one of 32 schools across the country selected for a makeover, received 2,000 books for its library as well as new com-puters, furniture, shelves, flooring, paint and an eco-friendly design.

“I feel very fortunate to be part of this community, which includes Target and Heart of america,” said e.K. powe principal Jeanne Bishop. “The children are very ex-cited [about the new facilities].”

Duke has several partnerships with e.K. powe through the office of Durham and Regional affairs, including sponsoring 30 incoming kindergartners in the Stepping Stones program, a free two-week, transition-to-school summer program for incoming kin-dergartners with little or no preschool experi-ence. Duke also participates in several student tutoring programs at e.K. powe.

The Durham community also made the project possible through donations and dis-counted pricing on the renovations. For ex-ample, paragon and Smith Systems provided green-certified furniture as one of several ef-forts to make the project eco-friendly.

Since 2007, when the Target School Library Makeovers program was launched, Target has worked with more than 2,000 school libraries and donated more than 1 million books.

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election. Lefevre noted that the club must comply with SoFC’s ruling.

The Senate’s Sept. 8 decision to defund the group was made on the basis that the club had demonstrated a “culture of discrimination.”

The Senate came to a vote—securing ex-actly the necessary two-thirds majority—after reviewing discriminatory and homophobic e-mails, photographs and other forms of evi-dence allegedly connected to DCR members. The evidence was presented by former DCR Chair Justin Robinette and former DCR Vice Chair Cliff Satell, both seniors. Robinette claimed in april he was impeached from his position because he is gay.

In response to the vetos, Satell said in a press release Sunday that a complaint against Duke will be filed with the office of Civil

Rights in the Department of education. The club, however, is still at risk of los-

ing its charter. The Senate can overturn Lefevre’s

veto with a two-thirds vote in its meeting Wednesday.

The College Republicans could also be de-chartered pending a DSg Judiciary hear-ing regarding the DCR’s alleged selective membership. Satell filed a complaint with the Judiciary over the summer, arguing that the club violated an SoFC bylaw when he and Robinette claimed they were removed from the club’s roster and listserv.

according to the bylaw, an officially Char-tered organization like the College Republi-cans is one that is “not selective in its member-ship.” If the Judiciary finds the club violated the bylaw, it can recommend that SoFC de-charter the organization, Lefevre said.

Boyle could not be reached for comment

Sunday, but Rapp said he resigned to focus more on his academics and extracurricular activities. He added that he wants to keep his involvement with DCR at a “minimum.”

“Honestly, I made my decision indepen-dent from that of any other officer resig-nations in the club,” Rapp said. “I won’t speculate as to the reasons that others had or the reasons that Mr. Lefevre had for his veto of our defunding.”

Senior Stewart Day, current DCR execu-tive vice chair, will serve as interim chair until the upcoming election.

“per Lefevre’s veto, we are hoping to get a new chairman from someone outside the club,” Day said. “We’d like to run elections in accordance with the College Republicans constitution and the DSg constitution, and as long as we do that I think everything will turn out fine.”

To comply with an april DSg resolution,

the club modified its bylaws last week to make its elections “free, formal, and publicized” and include two weeks notice of the election.

after the Senate’s decision Wednesday, Lefevre consulted DCR Chief of Staff Rachel provost, a senior, to discuss the club’s future.

“My only action was to not sign this thing,” Lefevre said. “The College Repub-licans had in accordance with their own bylaws a very thorough and fair process for changing leadership.... They have guaran-teed a regime change.”

Lefevre did not consult Robinette be-fore releasing the veto.

“I think some of the onus falls on the administration [at Duke],” Robinette said. “The administration asked us to take our is-sues to student government and the student government Senate passed in our favor and it was overruled. I think it’s very clear that the system didn’t do its job very well.”

a manual—I don’t wake up every morning and look to see what I’m going to do today... It is the book in which god says, ‘I created you because I want to enter into a relationship with you.’”

Some politicians, though, have spoken negatively about some forms of this relation-ship. Former U.S. Speaker of the House newt gingrich described the people behind the proposed mosque near ground zero in Man-hattan as “radical Islamists” during an appear-ance on Fox news.

enayet said he was disappointed by the vit-riol he has seen on television and somewhat surprised at how frequently Islam has been conflated with violent fundamentalism.

But Muslim sophomore omar nazzal said that at Duke, the national discord has actually been productive in some ways.

“It’s brought about good discussion with

people in the dorms, in the common room, at the great Hall,” he said.

Still, sophomore Ruqayya Diwan, also a Muslim, said she thinks the contention over the proposed center is a misunderstanding and wishes the media would devote more time to the floods in pakistan than arguments about the proposed “ground Zero mosque.”

“Both sides should negotiate and come to an understanding as opposed to arguing about it,” she said.

even with all the controversy, Muslims at Duke celebrated eid al-Fitr by gathering Fri-day with fellow Muslims from the Triangle at the exposition Center at the north Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.

“This is pretty much like Muslim Christ-mas,” antepli said of the holiday. “This reflects our joy and happiness at ending Ramadan successfully, working on our spiritual muscles for the last whole month and feeling good about ourselves and our relationship with god almighty.”

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WORLD CLASSPropelled by Kevin Durant, Krzyzewski wins his second straight international tournament

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Head coach Mike Krzyzewski won the FIBA World Championship Sunday behind another top performance from Kevin Durant, who had 28 points.

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Mike Krzyzewski is a Gold Devil once again.Team USA’s head coach won his second straight inter-

national tournament Sunday, beating Turkey 81-64 in front of a home crowd in Instanbul.

“This is the best. This is the best,” Krzyzewski said. “With this group, they really have represented our country, USA Basketball so well. Such a young group. They played with enthusiasm.

“Not much was expected. I shouldn’t say that. They’re always expecting a lot. But most people didn’t think we could win. But [the team] kept getting better.... I’m just so happy, so fulfilled. This is as good as it gets right now.”

Krzyzewski was helped by a certain member of the Okla-homa City Thunder, Kevin Durant, who won the tourna-ment’s MVP honors after turning in another tremendous performance with 28 points. The standout forward aver-aged 22.8 points and 6.1 rebounds per game and shot 55.6 percent from the field while in Instanbul.

Lamar Odom, one of the team’s few big men, also chipped in Sunday. He finished the game with a double-double after tallying 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Durant and Odom were forced to deal with an intense Instanbul crowd, as well as a physical game that saw 23 fouls in just the first half. Team USA soon pulled ahead, though, in the final 20 minutes, en route to the win.

While Krzyzewski may have appreciated the FIBA win, he didn’t lose sight after the game of his main job. Asked to name his most special win—his national championship, Olympic gold medal, or FIBA gold, Krzyzewski brought up Duke.

“A national champion[ship] in college,” he said. “I am a very lucky guy to have great players. This championship meant a lot because we had a very young team. It just meant a lot to all of us. This was a very special thing.”

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Sophomore Ryan Finley wanted re-venge. He had been knocked down by the Cavaliers, kicked in the face with a cleat

and now stood watching the min-utes tick away on a sure Virginia win.

But with 2:24 left in the match, he and the rest of the Blue Devils weren’t prepared to roll over that easily. Finley took advantage of a loose ball in the box, tapped it past the Cavalier keeper and gave Duke a draw against the

defending national champions.“Luckily it just fell [to me] and I just

tapped it in,” Finley said. “The goal is great, but people don’t really see how much work the defense and midfield put in that leads up to the goal.”

Before Finley knotted the game up at 2-2, the No. 8 Blue Devils (1-0-2) entered the game knowing that a strong start was imperative if they wanted to stick with No. 2 Virginia (2-0-1). They did just that, tak-ing a 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute when freshman Rob Dolot slotted home his first career goal off a rebound from a shot by fellow freshman Jonathan Aguirre.

“Rob Dolot’s goal was big for us,” head coach John Kerr said. “He’s such a com-posed player for such a young player.... Jonathan Aguirre was awesome tonight. He controlled the middle. He’s very poised for such a young player as well.”

Kerr said that another freshman, Will Donovan, provided an important spark off the bench and showed confidence on the ball.

But the star of the night was Finley, who carried the attack as the lone striker to the tune of eight shots.

“He’s great,” Kerr said. “He’s a threat for us every time he gets the ball going for-

ward. Running at people, he is dangerous, and people have to defend him. He played great tonight.”

Duke was unable to extend its strong start in the second half, and the defend-ing champs took advantage. After a couple of close chances for the Cavaliers, Jimmy Simpson finally struck for his second goal of the season in the 71st minute, and Sean Hiller put Virginia ahead 15 minutes later.

“They took the game to us in a big part of the second half,” Kerr said. “[When] they tied it up and got that late goal, I was looking

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In the 23rd minute, freshman rob Dolot scored his first career goal off a shot from Jonathan Aguirre.

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HISTORIC YARDAGE RWABUKAMBA PICKDuke gained 487 total offensive yards, while Wake Forest attained 500. The 987 total yards helped make the game the second-highest in ACC history.

Chris Rwabukamba had six tackles and one interception in the game. The redshirt senior ran the pick back 28 yards before finally being tack-led.987 28

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WINSTON-SALEM — The newly re-named BB&T Field earned itself a nick-name Saturday afternoon: The Defense-Free Zone.

Between the two, Duke and Wake For-est surrendered an un-precedented 987 total yards of offense along with 96 points. The dif-ference in the outcome, however, came down to defending the running

game. The Demon Deacons’ four-pronged ground attack of Ted Stachitas, Tanner Price, Josh Harris and Devon Brown proved just too much to handle for the young start-ing front.

“We’d have our heads down, and the guy would run right by us,” head coach Da-vid Cutcliffe said. “8.6, 5.6, 4.2, 4.8 on the average, and you just can’t give up that.”

The opening drive of the game ex-emplified the Blue Devils’ woes. Rush-ing the ball nine straight times for 82 yards, Wake Forest used the option to perfection and showed its quickness in the backfield. Four of the first five keep-

ers by the quarterback Stachitas went for over 10 yards.

Compounding the rushing problem was the inability to protect in the second-ary, partly because of the constant ground assault. Forced into a short zone or man-on-man coverage in order to protect the line of scrimmage, the Duke cornerbacks quickly surrendered two long touchdown passes.

Still, heading into the locker room at halftime, with the score tied at 35, the Blue Devils had succeeded in looking better on defense then their Wake Forest counter-parts. After having given up only one third down conversion in the first half, Duke appeared to have the game’s momentum in hand. Yet while the Demon Deacon de-fense came out energized and improved, the Blue Devils lost any luster that they had remaining in the first half.

“I thought we were gassed,” Cutcliffe said. “There was a lot of emotion spent in the first half.”

In the fourth quarter, Wake Forest used small yardage plays as opposed to the long ball, keeping tighter possession while con-tinuing to bully the Blue Devil front line. Utilizing 10 and 13-play drives to score,

the Demon Deacons wore down a Duke defense already reeling from a long first half. Furthermore, the Blue Devils failed to play well on third down—their lone first half strength—by giving up three of five conversions.

Other issues came due to inexperi-ence and mental lapses on the part of the defense. On Wake Forest’s sixth touchdown of the game, a 38-yard strike from Price, redshirt-freshman Ross Cockrell bit on a screen to leave his man unmarked for a score. Similarly, other members of the Duke secondary, among them Cockrell, failed to turn around and make plays when balls were thrown to their receivers.

“Ross is a really good athlete, and he’s going to be a real good player,” Cutcliffe said. “But he’s a young corner, and he’s ba-sically developed a habit of not looking for the ball…. He’s right there. He’s just got to make a play on the ball.”

But Cockrell is just one of a group of players that Cutcliffe expects to improve as the season progresses.

“We’re in the process of growing a pro-gram,” Cutcliffe said. “[And] we need to be focused on Duke.”

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(Clockwise left to right): Matt Daniels takes down Wake Forest’s Brandon Pendergrass; sophomore Desmond Scott turned in another solid performance, rushing for 122 yards and one touchdown—including one 63-yard run; quarterback Sean renfree finished the game with 358 yards passing; receiver Austin Kelly had a game-high 10 receptions.

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However, the ensuing onside kick was recovered by Wake Forest (2-0, 1-0 in the ACC), icing the game.

A consistent rain that escalated into a downpour during the second half likely in-fluenced that onside kick, as well as many other aspects of Duke’s offense. Drops were an issue for the Blue Devil receivers throughout, and they led to two of Ren-free’s three interceptions.

Still, no one on Duke’s offense would point the finger at anyone else for those mistakes. While Kelly stated that the rain was “not an excuse,” Renfree tried to shoulder the blame himself, saying the drops were due to inaccurate throws on his part. Even Cutcliffe felt ac-countable, say-ing, “We haven’t thrown a wet ball and caught a wet ball quite enough.”

Those drops and intercep-tions, along with a fumbled punt returned by Giv-ens for a touchdown, halted the nearly overwhelming momentum of the Duke attack in the first half. After an 82-yard Wake Forest drive, capped off by a 23-yard run from quarterback Tim Stachi-tas, started the game, the Blue Devils quickly answered with an electrifying kickoff return by Patrick Kurunwune that was nearly a touchdown. Eight plays and less than four minutes later, Duke had its first touchdown after freshman

quarterback Brendan Connette stuffed the ball into the endzone.

After one of the Blue Devils’ few de-fensive stops, Duke (1-1, 0-1) went on another quick scoring drive, capped by a touchdown pass from Renfree to tight end Cooper Helfet. But the Blue Devils squandered the momentum that came from yet another defensive stop on Wake Forest’s subsequent drive by not only stalling on their own possession, but allowing the Demon Deacons to tie the game on that fumbled punt.

Duke nearly wrested the momentum back away from Wake Forest after tying the game at 21 thanks to a 70-yard touch-down pass from Renfree to Vernon, who, despite tight coverage, was able to fight off his defender and then scamper un-

abated to the end-zone. But the Blue Devil defense let up its own big play on the game’s next snap in the form of Williams’ trick-play pass to Givens for the touchdown.

Vernon nearly sin-gle-handedly earned Duke a victory, ac-counting for 181 yards

on his own, along with two touchdowns.“I did everything in my power to come

out of here with a win,” Vernon said. “I put this game on my shoulders.”

Still, despite the plethora of fine offen-sive efforts by the Blue Devils Saturday, it wasn’t enough to overcome a slow second half and a porous defense. Duke learned that while scoring 48 points may win a team a lot of football games, allowing 54 will al-most certainly cost it more.

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CAREER-DAY CONNERRWABUKAMBA PICKFor the second consecutive game, receiver Conner Vernon set a career-high for reception yards. This time, he gained 181 with two touchdowns.

Chris Rwabukamba had six tackles and one interception in the game. The redshirt senior ran the pick back 28 yards before finally being tack-led. 181

“I did everything in my power to come out of here with a win. I put this game

on my shoulders.” — Conner Vernon

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(Clockwise left to right): Matt Daniels takes down Wake Forest’s Brandon Pendergrass; sophomore Desmond Scott turned in another solid performance, rushing for 122 yards and one touchdown—including one 63-yard run; quarterback Sean renfree finished the game with 358 yards passing; receiver Austin Kelly had a game-high 10 receptions.

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After 139 minutes of scoreless play this weekend, the Blue Devils were finally able to breath a collective sigh of relief Sunday after sophomore defender Maddy Haller finally found the back of the net, giving Duke a 1-0

win over Yale.The goal capped

an unusually long stretch of offen-sive inefficiency for Duke (5-1-1), which dominated Florida Interna-tional in shots Fri-day night but came

up empty-handed in a 0-0 draw. Sunday, it seemed like it would be more of the same, but Haller scored and the Blue Devils’ de-fense continued their strong play en route to their fourth straight shutout.

Florida international (3-4-1) is a strong defensive team, and though No. 14 Duke controlled possession and had 31 shots on goal compared to the Panthers’ seven, the Blue Devils were unable to capitalize on their scoring opportunities.

“They had a great opportunity coming in here,” head coach Robbie Church said. “They play a very defensive formation as they play a 4-5-1 and it is a tough formation to break down. We just weren’t that sharp and prepared... which starts with me.”

After their disappointing performance Friday night, the Blue Devils came out aggres-sively Sunday and continued to dominate the battle of possession, creating several excellent scoring opportunities in the first half. But Yale goalie Ayana Sumiyasu came up with several excellent saves, and it seemed like the game was heading to another defensive stand-off.

Then, in the 30th minute, Duke took advantage of a corner kick. Forward Mollie Pathman floated a pass into the box, and Haller headed it directly into the back of the net for the first goal of her career.

“We had a ton of shots in both games so it’s good to finally see one put in the net,” Duke goalkeeper Tara Campbell said. “When defenders get to go in on corners, it’s always exciting when they score.”

While Haller was able to spark some of-fense for Duke, the Blue Devils continued their defensive domination. For most of the game, Yale had trouble even pressing their offense into Duke territory and accu-mulated only seven shots on goal.

However, in the beginning of the second period, the Bulldogs (1-3-0) gained some offensive momentum after several well-struck shots. Yale forward Becky Brown was able to take advantage of a defensive lapse and found herself one-on-one with Camp-bell, but she aggressively rushed out of the net and made a diving save.

“Tara made a big save when we needed it,” Church said. “That was great to see. It’s

been awhile since she’s had to make a big save. We made a mistake in the back, she came up big and that’s what she did for us last year. It was great to see that.”

Campbell and the Duke defense have dominated their opponents lately, and haven’t given up a goal since the game against Stanford August 29.

“I think my back four has been outstand-ing,” Campbell said. “I can’t say enough about how well our team’s defending has been.”

After the draw against Florida Interna-tional, the win over Yale was crucial as Duke gets closer to the Duke Nike Classic—and a nationally televised game against Florida—Friday.

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After a painful 3-2 loss to Wake Forest Saturday in quadru-ple overtime, Duke came out Sunday against No. 13 Drexel (2-2) energetic despite the long minutes played in the previ-ous day’s contest. It paid off with a 2-1 overtime win.

The No. 10 Blue Devils (4-2) be-gan the first quarter with tight de-fense and eight shots on goal. The Dragons met their advances and defense, however, with an equally

determined performance. Only Duke’s freshman Emmie Le Marchand’s shot from four yards out could break the seven minute 0-0 stalemate.

“I think the aggression we took out of it really set the

tone for the rest of the game,” Le Marchand said.The remainder of the first half was largely characterized by

an abundance of turnovers and near-missed penalty corners for both teams. With three minutes to go until halftime, Drexel’s Christina Mastropaolo rebounded the ball off a penalty corner. With the score tied at 1-1 at the half, Duke head coach Beth Bozman rounded her team in the locker room for a pep talk.

“We all felt we needed to do a little bit of a gut check to scrape up the energy and the drive that was needed to win the game,” Bozman said.

Visibly weary from their Saturday game, the Blue Devils kept the Dragons in check in the second half, foiling 11 shot attempts and taking 14 of their own. Duke moved the ball well and limited Drexel’s opportunities to set up plays. In possession with one minute to go in standard play, the

Blue Devil offense made an attack at the goal. Benefiting from a Dragon penalty, Duke attempted a

play off the penalty corner. But the Drexel goalie Jenna Phillips, who made nine saves in the second half, crushed the Blue Devils’ hopes of evading yet another overtime.

With an abbreviated line-up, the Dragons and Blue Devils found themselves head to head in a sudden death duel.

The initial six minutes were turnover-filled, but with eight minutes to go, Le Marchand made a leading pass to senior forward Susan Ferger, who dodged the defense, pulled the Drexel goalie out to the right and slammed the ball in the left-hand corner for the game-winning goal.

“We were all really tired from our game yesterday,” Fer-ger said. “It felt good to score, but it felt even better to be done running.”

for what kind of personality our team is going to have.”With just five minutes remaining and a devastating

loss looming, the Blue Devils turned to Finley, who erupted in celebration after his ball crossed the line, Taking off down the sideline, he sprinted past the Duke and Virginia benches to the corner flag, so fast even his teammates couldn’t catch him.

“I don’t know where he got the energy for that one,” Kerr said laughing. “Wish he’d used that energy in the game.”

Duke pushed for a winner in the final two minutes, but when none came the game headed to overtime. The slight rain that had been falling throughout much of the match picked up as the game moved along, but the 1,200-plus fans that showed up stuck around for the ending.

The first extra time saw each team earn a couple of chances, but neither mustered a shot on target so the game continued on to a second overtime.

Duke dominated the final 10-minute period, testing Virginia goalkeeper Diego Restrepo, but was unable to come up with a game-winner as the team exited the field satisfied, but disappointed with the draw.

“I thought for sure we were the better team in the overtime and took the game to them and just weren’t able to finish it off,” Kerr said. “I thought our guys showed a lot of character and poise.”

The Blue Devils’ early season schedule doesn’t get any easier this week as they host George Washington on Tuesday and North Carolina on Friday. But, saturday night’s game showed that this team has the skill and confidence to compete with the best in the country.

“Our character tonight showed in many, many ways.” Kerr said. “I’m very proud of the team, and if we can get two good results this week, we’ll be in good shape as we keep moving forward.”

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Last Spring the Duke Stu-dent Government Judiciary ruled against senior Justin Robinette in a discrimina-tion suit, in which Robinette alleged he was impeached as club chair of the Duke College Republicans be-cause he is gay.

The DSG Judiciary declined to hear a second suit filed by Robinette Aug. 20. Justices deemed the new evidence “student-on-stu-dent harassment,” which does not fall under the Judiciary’s purview.

Although we are disap-pointed that Robinette and senior Cliff Satell have been unable to settle their dispute with the club through a formal mediation process sponsored by the Office of Student Con-duct, we will focus our atten-tion on the roughly 50-page

packet of e-mails, comments and other pieces of evidence he supplied to the DSG Senate in his most recent suit.

After reviewing this packet, the editorial board reached several conclu-

sions.First, Robi-

nette may nev-er prove conclusively that he was impeached on the basis of his sexual orientation, but the packet of evidence he supplied should prompt swift action on the part of the Senate.

Second, this packet of hate-ful materials proves that mem-bers of the College Republi-cans used their e-mail listserv to engage in conversations that were not only offensive to homosexuals but also racially insensitive and anti-Semitic.

As the body tasked with

maintaining the charter status of student organiza-tions, the DSG Senate must respond to this unacceptable behavior with punitive action. We commend senators for voting to defund the DCR last week. Now, the Senate should follow through on its vote by stripping the College Repub-licans of its charter and status as a recognized group.

We believe this is the only appropriate punishment for a club that has fostered a “cul-ture of discrimination” for too long—a culture that Rob-inette himself may well have perpetuated.

The DSG Senate should take action by punishing the group and not its individual members. The College Repub-licans as the group currently exists should be disbanded.

Third, we recognize that

the absence of a Republican student club would be a det-riment to campus culture, and therefore we call on the DSG Senate to work with in-terested students toward the aim of chartering a similar group in Fall 2011.

Fourth, DSG President Mike Lefevre, a senior, was not justified in his veto of the Senate’s decision to defund and move to de-charter the club. The resignation of two individual members of the DCR executive board does not remedy what the Senate has correctly identified as a broader issue of intolerance. Lefevre should step aside and allow the Senate to de-cide the fate of this student organization.

Finally, it is unclear why the Student Organization Fi-nance Committee should de-

termine the final status of the DCR charter. The DSG Sen-ate is constitutionally bound “to charter or recognize all organizations established by and for undergraduates.” Both Lefevre and SOFC should recognize that this situation demands clear and coherent action, and that the power to take that action rests with the Senate.

The packet of evidence Robinette produced does little to prove his specific claims that his former club discriminated against him, but the hateful content this document contains is no less damaging because of it.

The DSG Senate should punish the Duke College Re-publicans by removing the group’s charter and stripping it of its status as a recognized group.

Men like challenges. Tell me I cannot do something and I will spend an exces-sive amount of time trying to prove you

wrong. For example, I was told that there is a mil-lion dollar prize for the proof of the Navier-Stokes Equation. I could do that in my sleep, but I’m going to let someone else get fired up and solve that (in all honesty, it would take de-cades to solve that problem, some-thing a friend told me as I stared at the problem for hours).

With that in mind, I was given a challenge by a coworker. The eco-nomics department had an excessive amount of hanging file folders, and he thought it would take an exor-bitant amount of time for me to get rid of these things. I knew I could demolish this task with ease and consequently made a couple calls to depart-ment main lines.

I dialed up the neighbors at psychology, and they scoffed at me telling me they had boxes and boxes of hanging file folders they needed to get rid of. Crap, I was screwed.

Then I called sociology, which is literally the floor above the psychology department. They ac-cepted file folders.

It took me six departments to get rid of them all. I called multiple departments, which are locat-ed in the same building, and got the same results. One secretary even laughed at the offer (“Hun, we got about 1,000 folders.”). Yet the department below her just ordered four boxes.

Now, let me outline how easy it is to call an-other department while using your department’s switchboard phone. Step 1: Pick up phone. Step 2: Type in four numbers. Step 3: Let it ring until they answer. They pick up, you tell them you have file folders and they tell you whether or not they want them.

The tricky part comes when they answer. Either they’ll say yes and you take a five minute trip to deliver said items, or they say no and you go on to the next department. Overall, though, a pretty stress-free process.

Yet, instead of communicating with one anoth-er, departments let things like hanging file folders sit in storage rooms and spend money on unneces-sary items.

As low as the cost of these folders may be (Sta-ples has them at about 55 cents each and with

discounts and bulk-order rates the amount spent was probably less than $50), the fact remains that departments’ inability to think before spending contradicts Duke’s commitment to post-recession

fiscal conservatism. However much the recession

hit our campus, it has become in-creasingly evident that our school (Trinity College in specific) is departmentally segmented. The admissions page even stresses the idea that Duke has an “extensive list of undergraduate majors and minors, more than 40 in all.” Trinity College has 34 different departments, and, if my small personal sampling is an example,

it is extremely rare for any of them to communi-cate about anything (one of my coworkers even scoffed, “Departments work together? Why would they do that?”)

Technology has made it so easy for depart-ments to simply talk to one another. It takes four numbers or a quick e-mail to contact another de-partment, whether it is about needing or having something or simply interdepartmental research.

It is sad to see that we can preach efficiency and the concept of perseverance and use financial is-sues as an excuse for various cost-cutting methods. Yet, after all of the huffs and puffs of change, we do not acknowledge various inconsistencies that could easily be solved with basic communication.

I can deal with chalkboards and somewhat fuzzy cell phone service. What I cannot deal with is the inability to communicate in a technologi-cally advanced world. It is about time we created a system, whether it be a networking website or a departmental Craigslist, where departments can communicate with one another. Breaking down the boundaries will not only save money, but help make Duke the unified university it claims to be.

Higher education in recent years has put re-newed emphasis on interdepartmental collabora-tion, highlighting research, majors (Trinity offers an interdepartmental major, or IDM) and unique pairings of disciplines. If departments are going to work together at Duke, they might want to start thinking outside the box—and sharing some of their file folders.

Antonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Monday.

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Above: the subject line of an e-mail I sent 20 people in my address book last Thursday night at 9:25 p.m. I

imagined my contacts in various and sundry locales as my virtual message land-ed in their respective inbox-es and waited to be read by impatient eyes.

In the e-mail body, I tried to affect the air of the pro-fessional journalist, but it didn’t quite work. “Respond to this e-mail as soon as you humanly can!” my message screamed. It then asked my victims to iden-tify whether they’d checked their e-mail on a smart phone. After hitting “Send,” I waited for replies and documented their time stamps.

The point of this admittedly unscientific exercise was this: Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed the growing number of smart phones in the hands of my peers. From BlackBerrys to Droids to the much-hyped and then un-hyped iPhone 4 and beyond, smart phones have become an ever-increas-ing presence in the lives of undergraduates.

ExactTarget, an e-mail marketing compa-ny, estimates that almost 40 percent of college students use smart phones. A study recently conducted at Ball State University puts the per-centage closer to 50 percent. At Duke, where the costliness of fads is directly proportional to how quickly they catch on, the proportion is very possibly even greater than that.

Of course, the advent of these newfan-gled gadgets does wonders for what you can accomplish on the go. Where would we have ended up on a doomed Harris Teeter run if my friend hadn’t GPS-ed us to safety with his Blackberry? How much mental an-guish was spared when someone answered a much-contested question via his smart phone? (Apparently, there are 446 bridges in Pittsburgh. A matter of great urgency, for sure.) Wouldn’t it have been nice if I’d read the e-mail about my canceled Wednesday afternoon class before I traipsed all the way to the Bridges House?

Smart phones are incredible, right? Maybe even a “must-have campus acces-sory,” as Ju’lia Samuels wrote for ABC News blog “Campus Chatter” in June 2009. But despite the marvel of the smart phone, the

media backlash has already begun. We’ve all heard these grievances and dis-

missed them. Socially, they isolate users and encourage rude behavior. Mentally, they contribute to our shrinking attention spans. Physiologically, the bright light of a smart phone has even been accused of throw-ing off circadian rhythms and causing sleep deprivation.

But these are small pric-es to pay for the benefits we draw from having a phone that can do nearly anything

we want! And all these criticisms are made begrudgingly while still acknowledging the inherent helpfulness of what smart phones offer: They make our lives easier, expedit-ing otherwise tedious tasks.

Is that even true though? Or is the com-plete opposite case in fact the reality of our tech-crazed lives?

Pretend you’re an English major, and suppose that in this text, “smart phones” are symbolic of all the technologically astound-ing feats of the last half-decade designed to make our day-to-day activities more con-venient. This includes still oft-discussed de-velopments (Facebook Places, iTunes Ping, Google Instant) and other innovations no one considers novel anymore (Facebook, iTunes, Google—the platforms on which these new services expanded).

Think about how much time these ad-vances have freed up in your lives. Consid-er just how stress-free the person compul-sively checking his e-mail next to you on the C1 actually seems. Estimate how many minutes (hours?) per day you spend scroll-ing through e-mails and jumping at Face-book notifications when you should have been buckling down with a textbook.

To me, it appears much more plausible that, rather than simplifying our busy sched-ules and freeing up time, technology is ac-tually “stealing our lives,” in the words of Rebecca Traister of Salon.com. Instead of al-lowing us new ways to handle our workload, our technology is just another time drain we must juggle along with coursework, extracur-riculars, jobs and other activities.

Expectations increase along with techno-logical improvement; now, because so many of my classmates have smart phones, I find myself rushing to reply to e-mails to avoid the appear-ance of negligence. I find the thought of my e-mail oppressive, as all my messages shout “Read me now!” in unison from my inbox.

A friend told me (via his Blackberry, of course) that before his smart phone up-grade, he was “really bad about reading and responding to e-mails, but now... I ba-sically have to—the annoying notification icon won’t go away otherwise.”

It’s a classic Red Queen’s race scenario (my, but wouldn’t Lewis Carroll have a field day with us?). We’re all rushing to save as much time as possible but with very little benefit to our lifestyles. It takes all the running and e-mailing we can do to stay in exactly the same busy, frenetic place.

Sure, we might be able to send and receive information more quickly, but taking this as the sole standard of judgment implies that the e-mail is more important than the e-mail-er, that our productivity has somehow super-seded our independence in significance.

As for my little experiment, I heard back from all but two of my subjects. Those who re-plied from smart phones took an average of 15 minutes to respond. Those on old-fashioned computers took a little over two hours—more than an eightfold difference. I meant to send out thank-you e-mails for their participation, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Shining Li is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

Read me now (now! now!)

9/11 was on all of our minds last week (and yes, Gossip Bro is aware of a few larger world issues beyond

Tailgate and who wore whom with what this week-end). In observance of the tragedy, some held vigils, some attended services and some drank through eight seasons of Fox’s “24” in an unprecedented concatena-tion of 192 consecutive Jack Bauer Power Hours. In ad-dition to all of these things (except the first two), I vis-ited the Facebook page of the one Muslim person I knew in high school to see if she would have any inter-esting insight from a point of view we may not always get to hear.

This individual, I should qualify, is not a real Muslim, but rather one of those people who had an identity crisis in high school and went all Nation of Islam or whatever that thing is that people convert to in prison. Anyway, what I found was her Facebook status, which was not about 9/11 but about a recent Muslim holiday. It read, “I need a henna so I cn look dumb fly 2mrw for the Eid!!!” The Eid, for those of you who don’t know, refers to the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. I’m quite sure Allah would have been very disappointed if one of his children looked anything less than “dumb fly” for one of Islam’s holiest holidays.

And right there is the point. In the age of the Internet and high-speed communi-cation, one prize idiot can undermine an entire sect of people with a few clicks of a button. One status update, one “tweet,” one viral video and BOOM—the undered-ucated canaille suddenly and unanimous-ly believe that Mexican “anchor babies” are about devour us like the eponymous fish of “Piranha 3D,” or that 9/11 was re-ally orchestrated by Barack “Where’s-the-Birth-Certificate” Obama and his Saudi oil sheik brethren to make room for their Ground Zero Victory Mosque.

But the truth is that stupid people

abound on the fringes of every religion and every group of people, and we can’t deal out judgment to many based on the

semi-retarded tweets of a few. We shouldn’t single out Christians because a few of them believe that dinosaurs were born 200 years ago as the product of two dudes who had sex; we shouldn’t single out Jews because some of them massacre people while yelling some justification about “getting even;” and we shouldn’t single out

Muslims because a small group of them get off on blowing up our stuff.

Instead of getting incensed every time you listen to Ann Coulter or Keith Ol-bermann, just realize that most people, no matter what religion, are actually just chill bros who like to get effed up. So let them debate about their anchor mosques and Ground Zero babies and all the other asinine tomfoolery that might be teabag-ging its way onto the blogosphere. The only thing I’ve really gleaned from the past eight years of cable news is that wa-terboarding is a freakin’ awesome thing to do to your friends when you’re high.

And that’s precisely what makes Amer-ica so great. We can get attacked, take a breath and start having fun again. Who cares if there’s a mosque at Ground Zero? Build a Pokemon Stadium on Pearl Har-bor for all I care—after all, as the old aph-orism goes, it’s a free country! And Jack Bauer will slit the throats of terrorists with everything from a machete to a jaggedly broken credit card to keep it that way.

We’re not in goose-stepping Korea or communist China —we’re in a free society where people can do what they want. So what if capitalism breeds competition? I’d prefer a dog-eat-dog country to a people-eat-dog country any day of the week.

All bros are equal, but Gossip Bro is more equal than others.

Anchor mosques and Ground Zero babies

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monday, mondayxoxo, gossip bro

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