Jan. 22, 2013 issue

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ANOTHER TERM, ANOTHER CALL FOR UNITY

UConn blows past Duke in the 2nd half for a 79-49 win

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Alexis Jones helped Duke keep it close with 12 first-half points but the Blue Devils couldn’t keep pace in the second half.

by Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

STORRS, Conn.—For 20 min-utes, Monday’s matchup looked just as compelling on the court as it did on paper: Two top-five teams battling back and forth, separated by just two points at the break.

When the teams returned to the floor, though, No. 4 Connecti-cut wasted no time putting No. 3 Duke away at Gampel Pavillion, earning a 79-49 victory behind 18 points and 12 rebounds from guard Kelly Faris.

“If you were a part of what Kel-ly Faris did tonight, you just saw a performance that people are go-ing to be talking about for a long time,” Husky head coach Geno Auriemma said. “There’s been

some great players playing in this building. There’s been some leg-ends playing in this building, play-ing in that Connecticut uniform, but I don’t know if anybody ever represented that uniform, and herself and her family the way that kid did tonight.”

After recording seven points in the first half, Faris stepped up her play in the second half, scoring 11 on 5-of-7 shooting. In addition to powering the Huskies to 49 second-half points, the 5-foot-10 Faris dominated the glass with 12 rebounds in the game.

“Kelly’s getting steals,” Con-necticut forward Kaleena Mosque-da-Lewis said. “She’s getting re-bounds. And everybody’s feeding off of her energy, and it’s just from

the first man to the 11th man, ev-erybody’s doing their part.”

Faris’ performance is even more impressive considering her struggles last season in her team’s matchup against Duke.

The guard had just one assist and seven points but turned the ball over four times in Connecti-cut’s 61-45 victory at Cameron In-door Stadium last season.

“If Kely Faris and Tiffany Hayes had not played in that game… we could have won by like 50,” Auriemma said. “That’s how hor-rendous those two guys played at last year’s Duke game…. Of course she remembers that. Kelly remembers everything.”

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden listen to the National Anthem during Obama’s second inauguration ceremony Monday. The president’s daughters Sasha and Malia Obama stand behind them.

“We possess all the “We possess all the qualities that this world qualities that this world

without boundaries without boundaries demands: youth and drive; demands: youth and drive;

diversity and openness; diversity and openness; an endless capacity an endless capacity

for risk and a gift for for risk and a gift for reinvention.” reinvention.” —President Barack Obama—President Barack Obama

Obama emphasizes equality in thought

and practiceby Tiffany Lieu and Jack Mercola

THE CHRONICLE

President Barack Obama renewed his oath of office just before noon Monday and used the inaugural stage to advocate for a more equal and progressive nation.

In his 19 minute address before a crowd that reached from the steps of the Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument, Obama priori-tized contemporary issues like gay rights and swift solutions for climate change—two topics that have never been mentioned outright in an inaugural address. He invoked the founding fathers and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to pro-claim that for America to continue to thrive, its people must uphold the promise to comprise a nation where all people are free and equal.

“What makes us exceptional—what makes us America—is our allegiance to an idea ar-ticulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,”

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Greek groups’ pledge numbers fluctuate mildlyPanhellenic sororities hand out 364 invitations

by Ryan ZhangTHE CHRONICLE

Panhellenic sororities ex-tended slightly fewer invitations this year, despite recent discus-sions about creating a new chap-ter due to robust recruitment numbers.

Duke’s nine Panhellenic As-sociation sororities extended invitations to 364 women on Bid Day, concluding a two-week-long recruitment process. That num-ber represents a slight decrease from last year, when the groups gave out 373 invitations. A total of 475 women registered for re-cruitment this year, down from last year’s total of 504, wrote senior Hannah Hayward, vice president of recruitment and membership for Panhel, in an email Sunday.

Although the recruitment calendar, which began Jan. 11, did not change much, the pro-cess deviated from years past because it was held at the Dur-

ham Convention Center instead of on campus. Recruitment was previously held in the Von Can-on rooms in the Bryan Center, but the space is currently under-going renovation.

“The move to the Durham Convention Center posed some logistical challenges as far as transportation but streamlined the process overall,” Hayward said. “[Potential new members] no longer had to travel between campuses, and chapters had more comparable accommodations.”

More than 100 girls withdrew during the recruitment process, but each chapter met its 39-per-son quota, she noted.

Because of its large recruit-ment numbers over the past few years, Panhel is currently accepting applications for re-view from various chapters who are interested in colonizing at Duke. They plan to select three chapters to give presentations on campus in March and will

vote to officially accept the new chapter to Duke this coming April, The Chronicle previously reported. The new chapter will then begin recruiting members on an open basis by Spring 2014, with official recruitment with the other Panhel sororities start-ing in Spring 2015.

Senior Courtney Liu, a mem-ber of Alpha Phi, said it is pos-sible that so many women par-ticipate in recruitment because greek life at Duke is low key, and members of sororities do not have to sacrifice academic success or extracurriculars to be involved. She also noted the sig-nificance of the new house mod-el, which has clustered sororities together on Central Campus since the Fall.

“I also wonder if the house model we have now is attracting more girls,” Liu said. “It’s kind of nice that we all live together CHELSEA PIERONI/THE CHRONICLE

Members of Alpha Phi sorority celebrate the addition of new members on Panhel-lenic sorority Bid Day Sunday afternoon.

377 men invited, 250 pledge IFC fraternitiesby Elizabeth Djinis

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IFC fraternities welcomed new members to their ranks Monday with the culmination of the two-week recruitment process.

The Interfraternity Council recruitment process officially concluded Monday at 2 p.m., the time at which prospective mem-bers had to turn in their bid cards. Regard-less, fraternities are still able to give out snap bids until Friday at 5 p.m. to rushees who either did not receive or accept a bid. Out of 450 registered prospective new members, 377 bids were delivered Sunday night from 17 fraternities. Of these bids, 250 were ac-cepted, said senior Charlie Blanchard, IFC vice president of recruitment. This is com-parable to last year’s recruitment, with the IFC extending 382 bids to 247 rushees, with

201 of these bids accepted.“I think recruitment was successful over-

all, and people were relatively happy how it ended up,” Blanchard said.

Blanchard noted that the earlier start-ing date presented a problem for some stu-dents.

“It wasn’t too different from last year,” he said. “We started a little bit earlier this year before classes began which presented a few issues with people returning, especially ath-letes or international students.”

According to numbers provided by Blanchard, Delta Tau Delta and Kappa Alpha Order were tied at 25 for the highest num-ber of pledges while Sigma Pi had the low-est number of pledges, ending the process with one new member. Delta Sigma Phi had the biggest decrease in new members, tak-

ing 11 fewer than the previous year, whereas Sigma Chi had the greatest increase, taking 12 more into their pledge class.

Some fraternities were very pleased with the way recruitment turned out.

Senior Michael Coggins, president of Sig-ma Chi fraternity, noted the strong pledge class that his group had chosen this year.

“As a fraternity, we’re always less con-cerned with the number of bids we give out than with the quality of the candidates to whom we give them,” Coggins said. “We had a very strong rush this year, and obviously we’re very excited to add 23 new members to our brotherhood.”

Freshman Lee Weisberger said that, though the process had its negatives, he is happy to have gone through recruitment.

“It was actually a surprisingly fun experi-ence,” he said. “Going into it, I didn’t know what to expect, but it was definitely very

busy.”Freshman Grant Jirka cited similar con-

cerns, noting that the packed schedule of fraternity recruitment events made it hard to do much else.

“One thing that bothered me was that there were a lot of events going on at once,” said Jirka. “I tried to rush selective living groups at the start, but I found it too time-consuming and I wanted to focus more on frat rush. Luckily there wasn’t too much schoolwork in those two weeks.”

Despite his busy schedule, Jirka said he valued the new community he has found at Duke by joining a fraternity.

“I thought it was really fun, and I got to meet a lot of new people,” Jirka said. “Now that I’m joining Sigma Chi, it’s really nice to actually have another family at Duke. I have my Duke family and also my Sigma Chi family.”

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Freshman Claire Dubuque said her view on the house mod-el changed over the course of recruitment, as members of so-rorities explained the benefits

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cal about rushing because I thought [living on] West would be much more convenient,” she said.

Some freshmen women said recruitment at the convention center was a positive experi-ence.

“It was a lot easier to see

all the sororities,” said fresh-man Diana Lam. “It gave me a chance to put a face to all the Greek letters that I’ve been hearing all semester.”

Hayward said she does not anticipate any major changes to the recruitment process in the future, though she ac-knowledged that the process is “always being fine-tuned.”

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3 undergraduates named finalists for Young Trustee

Three students have been named undergraduate Young Trustee finalists.

S e n i o r s Ashley Alman, Gurdane Bhu-tani and Chris Brown, named finalists by the Young Trustee N o m i n a t i n g C o m m i t t e e Sunday night, will compete

in a Feb. 7 election open to the entire student body.

The process concluded this weekend following interviews with all eight semifinalists. Cam-paigning starts Thursday.

“We want them to have pres-ence in the Board of Trustees,”

said junior Dan Pellegrino, chair of the YTNC. “We want someone who’s not going to be intimidat-ed and who’ll have their voice heard.”

Alman is an undergraduate admissions blogger, a member of the First Year Advisory Coun-cil board and vice president of external affairs for Duke Univer-sity Union.

B h u t a n i , an A.B. Duke Scholar, is the president of the Council for Collabora-tive Action. He served as executive vice president for Duke Student

Government as a junior.Brown is a

current mem-ber of The Chronic le ’s independent e d i t o r i a l board. He is also an under-graduate rep-resentative on the Board’s

Business and Finance Commit-tee. He was formerly the exter-nal chief of staff for DSG.

YTNC is independent from DSG to improve objectivity, Pel-legrino noted. But there are five current DSG vice presidents and four senators on the committee, composed of 14 students.

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year’s crowd fell far short of the re-cord-breaking 1.8 million-person turnout at Obama’s first inaugu-ration in 2009, a crowd estimated to hold 600,000 people braved the frigid Washington, D.C. Janu-ary morning to watch the re-inau-guration of America’s first black president. Although Obama was officially sworn in midday Sunday in private, the public ceremony, which coincided with Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Day, was filled with the usual pomp and fanfare of a traditional Jan. 20 inauguration.

Obama’s focus on equality was reflected in the morning’s itiner-ary. He surrounded himself with a diverse group of speakers and performers including civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, who delivered the invocation, and poet Richard Blanco, who, at age 44, si-multaneously broke ground as the youngest, first Latino and first gay inaugural poet. Blanco delivered a poem entitled “One Today” that promoted tolerance via the col-lective, shared experiences of all Americans.

“One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes tired from work: some days guessing at the weather of our lives, some days giv-ing thanks for a love that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother who knew how to give, or forgiving a father who couldn’t give what you wanted,” Blanco read.

Beyoncé Knowles sang the na-tional anthem, while James Tay-

lor and Kelly Clarkson promoted American patriotism and unity with their performance.

Obama paid homage to King in his speech, and he mentioned some of the American people’s greatest feats of equity activism and protest as major turning points in realizing the King’s dream.

“We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our in-dividual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth,” Obama said.

Although Obama asserted that the nation is in a better position domestically and internation-ally than it was four years ago—he lauded the end of a “decade of war” and the beginning of an economic recovery—he warned that only through unity could further advancement be realized. He struck a more reflective tenor than he did in his 2009 inaugural address, highlighting not only the nation’s immediate concerns, but deeper social and gender issues that he saw dividing the nation.

“My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it—so long as we seize it together,” he said. “Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one

people.... America’s possibilities are limitless.”

The call for unity was an at-tempt not only to reign in the growing partisan split, but also to encourage greater collaboration in technological development and education—training teachers and improving math and science curricula.

But to move the nation for-ward, politicians must work across the aisle, Obama added.

“We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spec-tacle for politics, or treat name-calling as a reasoned debate,” he said.

Obama also reaffirmed his commitment to Medicare, Medic-aid and Social Security, challeng-ing critics who claim that such welfare programs weaken the country.

“They do not make us a na-tion of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great,” he said.

A strong middle class is also important in revitalizing the nation’s economy and future, Obama said—one supported by a reformed school system, tax code and government. The theme of unity and collaboration similarly transcended generational divides when the president proclaimed that the nation need not choose between its past and the future.

“We reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future,” he said.

The inauguration was not with-out its dissenters. Amid Obama’s droves of supporters stood pro-testers who took the opportu-nity to criticize some of the presi-dent’s policies. One individual wielding a sign opposing abortion and Planned Parenthood climbed high atop a tree, and remained in his lofted seat chanting “Stop abortion!” and waving his sign throughout the ceremony despite multiple attempts by security and police to force him down.

When Evers-Williams pro-claimed, “In Jesus’ name and in the name of all who are holy and right, we pray,” at her invocation’s conclusion, the protester replied with shouts of “What about the babies!” He continued to loudly protest throughout the entire event.

After the ceremony, the presi-dential parade was opposed by a

small counter-parade led by an-archists donning signs that read “Don’t vote, organize.”

As government officials past and present filed onto the stage during the inaugural procession, former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton emerged onto the Capitol Building amidst en-thusiastic cheers from the crowd. Obama’s immediate predecessor, former president George W. Bush, was absent from the proceedings.

The 57th inaugural ceremony came to a close just before one p.m., aiming to stir optimism to those in the crowd looking to the future as they filed away from the Capitol.

“We possess all the qualities that this world without boundar-ies demands: youth and drive; di-versity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for re-invention,” the president said.

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President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address during the 57th Presidential Inauguration Ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Monday.

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Duke brings only one half to UConnWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

by Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE

Duke took a week off from its perch atop the rankings, but are back on top in the latest AP Poll.

A week after dropping to No. 3 follow-ing their loss to N.C. State, the Blue Devils are again ranked No. 1. Last week’s No. 1 Louisville lost to Syracuse and Indiana, the No. 2 team, lost to Wisconsin.

Duke received 39 of the 65 first-place votes while No. 2 Michigan received 11. Kansas and Syracuse, tied for third, re-ceived seven and eight first-place votes, re-spectively.

The current top 10, in order, is as fol-lows: Duke, Michigan, Kansas, Syracuse, Louisville, Arizona, Indiana, Florida, But-ler and Gonzaga.

N.C. State fell to Maryland last week and dropped from No. 14 to No. 18. Miami benefited from a number of losses in the bottom of the rankings and is now No. 25, placing three ACC teams in the top 25.

The Blue Devils travel to Coral Gables, Fla. for game Wednesday night against the newly-ranked Hurricanes.

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Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma said the second half was “as much fun as he’s had in a long time.”

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Doubles keys Duke’s season-opening sweepby Olivia Banks

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The No. 3 Blue Devils were back in action Saturday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, cruising past the Tribe of William and Mary in a decisive 7-0 victory. A loud crowd came out to cheer on the team in their first match of the Spring season.

Duke’s top doubles team of senior captain Mary Clayton and sophomore Ester Goldfeld demolished the No. 3 pair in the nation, Maria Belaya and Jeltje Loomans, leading the team to its sixth straight victory over the Tribe.

The victory adds to the team’s 16-0 record for home openers un-der head coach Jamie Ashworth.

“I was really happy with our doubles,” Ashworth said. “Before the match we talked about having a lot of energy, a lot of purpose in every shot that we hit. Not just hit shots to hit shots, but everything we do has a plan and a purpose, and to play with passion.”

The Blue Devils’ energy was ev-ident, as all three doubles courts opened up with early 3-0 leads. Clayton and Goldfeld started off with strong baseline play, keeping the ball deep and their opponents

subdued at the baseline. Despite being down 0-40 with a 4-0 lead, the pair managed to come back and win the game with a power-ful forehand swinging volley by Clayton to clinch the fifth game

of the set. They managed to carry this

all-important momentum to an 8-1 victory against Belaya and Loomans.

“I think it was a great start to

to be better than that.”Goldfeld’s second set was not

much easier, as she got down 3-1, but she managed to rally back to a 6-4 victory, breaking serve twice and winning four consecu-tive games to take a straight-set victory.

Assistant coach Mar Spic-jaric spoke to Goldfeld during a change-over about needing to match her opponent’s energy.

“Every team that comes out—we’re their biggest match, and they’re going to fight as hard as they can, and we need to do the same,” Goldfeld said.

The Blue Devils accomplished what they came out to do—secure their first victory of the season. Moving forward, the team hopes to build off this win and continue improving. As far as the rest of the season goes, Ashworth does not like to speculate, but is confident in his girls’ ability to execute their game plan.

“Getting the first win is the most important,” he said. “If we do the things that we talked about and play with energy in a match like that, then we should win, and we should take care of what we’re supposed to and we were able to do that.”

the season to take out the No. 3,” Clayton said. “It obviously gives us a lot of confidence to feed off of for the next couple of matches.”

Just a court over, sophomore Annie Mulholland and junior Marianne Jodoin managed to hold off the Tribe’s Anik Cepe-da and Leeza Nemchinov, who looked like they were making a comeback late in the set. Strong net play from the pair secured them a solid 8-2 victory. The two decided courts elected to end the third match as per a new rule implemented by the ITA—the last match did not matter because the Blue Devils had already earned the doubles point. Duke’s Hanna Mar and Monica Turewicz were ahead 6-3 when play was stopped.

Following an easy win in dou-bles, Goldfeld got off to a slow start in singles, Ashworth said. Af-ter being down 4-2 in the first and coming back to tie it up at four, Goldfeld missed a critical break of serve that would have put her ahead 5-4 and into a position to serve for the set. She recovered, however, to take the set 7-5.

“She did a good job compet-ing and a good job getting herself back into both sets,” Ashworth said. “But she knows that she has

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Mary Clayton and partner Ester Goldfeld took down the nation’s No. 3 doubles team.

by Jay SullivanTHE CHRONICLE

STORRS, Conn.—Duke has gone 0-6 against Connecticut during the tenure of head coach Joanne P. McCallie, often displaying a lack of consistency between halves. Monday night was no exception.

The No. 4 Blue Devils (17-1) were crushed by the No. 3 Huskies (16-1) 79-49 Monday night at Gam-pel Pavillion. The final score shows a 30-point blowout, but it was a tale of two halves for the Blue Devils, who en-

tered halfitme trailing by just two. A lack of consistency from half-to-half

has plagued Duke all season. This deficien-cy on both ends of the court was certainly on display against the Huskies.

“We got away with that one half play ear-lier in the season. Whether it was starting out strong and ending badly or staring out badly and ending strong,” center Elizabeth Williams said. “We’re going to definitely learn from it, and we definitely needed to be more physical and come out with more passion than we did today.”

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Blue Devils fall to UVA despite relay success

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Despite winning both the men’s and women’s 200-yard medley relays in what was an exciting opening to the meet, both the men’s and women’s teams came up short against the reigning ACC champion Virgin-ia Sunday in Charlottesville, Va.

Blue Devil head coach Dan Colella said he was pleased, however, with his team’s per-formance against a deep Virginia team.

“We knew going in that UVA has tradi-tionally been one of the strongest teams in the ACC for the last five, six years,” Colella said. “We knew going into the meet that we had some areas where we were going to be strong…. We probably won more events this weekend than we had in any previous meets against Virginia.”

Colella noted that the Blue Devils are still in the process of adding depth to their program. As only a partially funded Divi-sion I sport, competing against programs that are fully funded is in large part respon-sible for discrepancies in swimming level, he added.

“We are strong in certain areas and in the process of really trying to build our depth,” Colella said. “We had terrific fall recruiting. We have 24 recruits for next year. All in all we were very pleased with the performances and when you talk about UNC, it’s the same situation. We know that we are going to be able to go into the meet and win events.”

The Blue Devils saw notable individual performances on the weekend. Duke’s Ben Hwang recorded his third NCAA ‘B’ cut of the season when he notched a time of 20.11 in the 50 freestyle. The senior also regis-tered a win in the 100 freestyle with a time of 45.05, which marked his second-fastest swim of the year.

Colella praised the tremendous impact Hwang has had on Duke’s swim program not only this season, but also in his past three seasons.

“[Hwang] is a great leader in the pool

and also in terms of encouraging the un-derclassmen to push through and really reach for the stars,” Colella said. “He is someone who has the potential to win events at ACC’s and to qualify for NCAA’s. He has been a great team member and has definitely represented Duke in such a positive light.”

London Olympic bronze medalist Nick McCrory, who returned to colle-giate competition just a few weeks ago, contributed a strong performance for the Blue Devils in the diving well. The junior finished in second place in the 1- and 3-meter springboards.

Duke will travel a few miles down the road to take on North Carolina Saturday at noon. The Tar Heel women’s team ranks third in the conference while Duke ranks fifth. The North Carolina men rank first in the ACC, and Duke sits at eighth.

Although both Blue Devil teams rank be-low North Carolina, Duke will look to build on its strong showing Sunday to take down the 22nd nationally ranked men’s team and 16th nationally ranked women’s team in what will likely be a heated battle.

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Head coach Dan Colella praised senior Ben Hwang for his leadership in and out of the pool.

Although Faris and the Huskies eventu-ally won by 30, the Blue Devils had been matching their opponent shot-for-shot in the first half. In the first 20 minutes, fresh-man Blue Devil guard Alexis Jones had al-ready reached double digits scoring with 12 points.

Additionally, Duke forced Connecticut into 12 turn-overs for the period and gave up just three of its own, so de-spite a 35.3 field goal percentage, the Blue Devils trailed just 32-30 at the break.

Auriemma was the most upset he had been in a while at halftime, Faris said, and in the second half, it was the Huskies that dominated the turnover battle—as well as nearly every other statistic.

“We’re a little bit soft, a little sensitive,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We missed some shots in the lane. We didn’t have any rebounding on the floor. [The second half score of] 44-25 will get you beat real quick.”

And after Connecticut assistant coach Chris Dailey encouraged the team’s fans to chant, “No more turnovers” the Huskies tightened up their play, limiting themselves to just three second-half turnovers.

Despite an 11-5 Husky run to open the second period, the Blue Devils had a chance to stop the momentum when Con-necticut center Stephanie Dolson earned her fourth foul just before the 16-minute mark.

But only 80 seconds later, Duke quickly lost its hottest hand at the time, Jones, to her fourth foul as well. Although Jones quickly returned, Duke’s 10-point deficit soon extended past 20.

“It was a tale of two halves for us,” Mc-Callie said. “It’s consistent for us, how we’ve been playing all year. We played some great 20-minute ball, but have been non-existent

for 40 minutes. Give credit to Connecti-cut. They played well in the second half. There are some great lessons for us to learn from.”

The loss of Dolson did not hamper the Huskies’ ability to dominate the lane. Con-necticut scored 12 of its first 14 points in the half from the paint and had a shot 78 percent from the field for the stretch.

The Huskies outscored Duke 20-8 in the paint for the second half.

“When she came out of the game, I think had the game been played the way it had been in the first half, I think it would have been a problem,” Auriem-ma said. “Because of the momentum

of the game and because of the way the game was flowing, it didn’t have the kind of effect that it would have had.”

Duke was unable to overcome that mo-mentum, scoring only nine points in 10 minutes.

With just two points from guard Chel-sea Gray—who averages 13.3 points per game—and 5-of-15 shooting from the team’s leading scorer on the season, Eliza-beth Williams, Duke could not match Con-necticut’s offensive firepower.

“They gave a lot of extra attention to Chelsea,” McCallie said. “I knew they would. [Alexis] was huge in the first half that way because she took full advantage of that. I think it waned as the game went on though…. Chelsea is a great player but at the same time too she’s got to get herself in the right spots. [With] her going 1-of-6 obviously you have to credit the defense.”

Ultimately, what had kept Duke in the game for the first 20 minutes ended up fu-eling their defeat. After scoring 10 points off turnovers in the first half, the Blue Dev-ils did not register a single point off a turn-over in the second period. The Huskies had 17.

“The last 20 minutes of the game was as much fun as I’ve had in a long, long time,” Auriemma said.

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the Blue Devils scored 30 in the first half while only netting 19 in the second half off 12 fewer shots and 35-percent shooting from the floor.

Although the Connecticut had the same number of turnovers as Duke, the Huskies outrebounded the Blue Devils by nearly 20, with 44 rebounds in comparison to Duke’s 25. Connecticut guard Kelly Faris grabbed 12 re-bounds, seven of which were on the offensive end, match-ing the entire Blue Devil squad for offensive rebounding.

“It’s a tale of two halves for us. It’s very consistent for us. It’s the way we’ve been playing all year. So it’s more of the same. We played some great 20-minute basketball,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “In a classic case of not get-ting back on defense, they’re transition got them going. Initially in the second half we slept walked through that episode when they simply made layups. When you allow that to occur, anything is possible.”

The bright spot in the game for Duke was the play of freshman guard Alexis Jones, who matched a career-high with 14 points and led the team in scoring. She also paced the team with four assists.

The majority of Jones’ scoring and efficient play happened in the first half, leading to a two-point deficit for the Blue Devils at halftime. Her play in the second half, however, was limited by foul trouble and missed opportunities on the of-fensive end.

Without a steady offensive presence from Jones and her back-court counter-part Chelsea Gray, the Blue Devils were overcome in the second half by Connecticut’s deep lineup.

“I let my foul trouble get to me, and I shouldn’t have let the foul trouble get to me. I should have kept playing,” Jones said. “It kind of carried on. I missed a lot of shots I should have made, too.”

Gray, who has been an integral part to Duke’s season thus far, was held in check by the Husky defense. She scored just two points on 1-of-6 shooting from the floor with four assists.

“They gave a lot extra attention to Chelsea,” McCallie said. “I knew they would. [Alexis] was huge in the first half that way because she took full advantage of that. I think it waned as the game went on though.”

The disparity between Duke’s play was clear to the Hus-kies, who were surprised by the Blue Devils’ early intensity but rallied at halftime to overcome it. At halftime Connect-icut head coach Geno Auriemma noted the aspects of his team’s game that improved going into the second half.

“When you hold somebody to 30 points we should be a lot more in tune. They’re a really good defensive team,”

Auriemma said. “We didn’t perform as well on the of-fensive end. We kind of missed a lot of opportuni-

ties. If we can do better with offensive rebound-ing then we can do better.”

The Huskies had a total of 14 offensive re-bounds in the game, leading to multiple shoot-ing opportunities each time down the court. The Blue Devils were simply overmatched in

the second half after fighting to keep the game close early on.

Duke, which came into the game undefeated this season, faced its

first true test against a Connecti-cut squad that suffered its only loss to No. 2 Notre Dame.

For a team that has struggled to maintain a level of consistency between halves all season, the loss to Connecticut served as a wake-up call that they must play an entire 40 minutes in order to compete against upper echelon opponents.

“In the locker room we were pretty motivated and early in the second half we did get some good shots that we missed,” Williams

said. “Instead of taking that and mov-ing forward we fell back, instead of taking the adversity and playing.”

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Last April, I attended the Clinton Global Initia-tive University (CGIU), a yearly meeting “where students, youth organizations, topic experts

and celebrities come together to dis-cuss and develop innovative solutions to pressing global challenges.” I was in-vited for my social entrepreneurship, in recognition of an application called “Uhuru” that I crafted after working for two summers in refugee resettle-ment organizations in Washington, D.C. and Amman, Jordan. Uhuru, the Swahili word for freedom, crowd-sources the entrepreneurial activity of refugees and advertises them to local customers. Frustrated by unsustain-able subsidies to refugees that bred dependency, I saw Uhuru as a mechanism to facilitate refugee entre-preneurship. At CGIU, I was told President Clinton found my application as exemplary of the creative problem solving integral in public service.

Uhuru was recognized at a CGIU plenary session titled, “The Wisdom of Failure.” The development of Uhuru was dynamic, but my social entrepreneur-ship really grew from failure. Long before I was ever interested in crowd-sourcing, I wanted to start a non-profi t. It was a grand idea born from my FOCUS program and my own frustration with the ineffi ca-cies of refugee resettlement agencies. I felt that my non-profi t, the Triangle Area Refugee Association (TARA), could do better. I spent the fall semester of my fi rst year refi ning the idea, writing proposals for grants and researching the path forward. I met with leaders in the refugee resettlement fi eld, and I touted TARA to everyone I met. I must have seemed determined and optimistic.

But one day I gave up and stopped trying to make TARA happen. Part of it was the realization of my own arrogance—I thought that I could do better than industry veterans by just reinventing the wheel. I was still frustrated by resettlement outcomes, but I realized the problems were likely more systemic and could not be rectifi ed through a non-profi t. Refugee resettlement is hard, and I was naïve for thinking otherwise. It had been much easier to criticize, and much harder to do.

I would like to think that Uhuru is a story of re-demption, and I think CGIU saw it that way. But this was not a comeback story. This was a story of oppor-tunity, a chance that presented itself and an endeavor worth pursuing. My motivations made Uhuru differ-ent from TARA. I saw Uhuru as a cool idea that I want-ed to try, and I saw TARA as a way to impress. I think TARA ultimately failed because creating a non-profi t seemed like the standard go-to for college social activ-ists like me who wanted to make a difference.

I still want things to be different, for refugee re-

settlement to be a better process. But I no longer want difference for difference’s sake, nor do I feel compelled to start a non-profi t before I graduate. I

am motivated now by the cause itself, a passion that has grown after work-ing with refugees for two and a half years. Last November, I was invited to speak at the Humanitarian Chal-lenges FOCUS program and there I met a group of fi rst-year students de-veloping social entrepreneurship so-lutions for refugee confl icts abroad. I made a point of emphasizing TARA, and I told them to seek out ideas with potential, not ideas that would provide opportunities to brag

about. My advice stemmed from self-criticism—I am still mad at myself for feeling the need to rack up accomplishments for their own sake.

The motivations behind TARA are not unique to me. All too often I see non-profi ts, initiatives, student groups, mobile applications and other social entre-preneurship endeavors that froth with self-aggran-dizement. The go-to for collegiate social causes is the act of creation itself rather than long-term results. We celebrate initiative, when sustainability might be a more apt goal. American campuses are rife with projects that have high-minded names, mission statements dripping with concocted passion and the ever-constant, but often convoluted and unchecked, goal to “raise awareness.”

And that is okay. It is unrealistic for everyone to have completely pure intentions. I have come to real-ize that TARA, though ill-motivated, was a formative experience. I learned more about refugee resettle-ment: what services are provided to refugees, how the resettlement process works and where existing refugee communities are located. I also picked up a set of advocacy organizational skills that have already been useful in my more results-driven activities. But, most importantly, I learned a lot about myself. I found out that I am resilient, industrious and driven. I also found out that I am drawn to achievement, self-promotion, and that, at my core, I have a lot of self-doubt. I felt the need to prove myself, to attach myself to a cause and show that I can create change.

We emerge from these seemingly change-driven endeavors with a better understanding of what creates real value in society. We learn these lessons now, so we can enter our post-collegiate life with a more mature understanding of our purpose. We reap wisdom from our enterprises, so we can one day substantively use this knowledge for the service of society.

Patrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.

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For many, Panhellenic “Bid Day” is an emotional event. The highly visible nature of the recruitment process—cul-minating with an enthusiastic celebration on West Campus with members wearing identi-cal T-shirts and chanting sorority cheers—underscores the exclusivity of each group, and differenti-ates its members from those who have not joined. Taken together with the distribu-tion of bids for Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hel-lenic Council and Inter-Greek Council and selective living groups, this week can seem overwhelmingly important in one’s Duke career, as indi-vidual freshmen embark on their own divergent journeys and the collective Class of

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My brother-in-law, Drew, is an Apple maven. At home, one mention of anything with an Apple logo and my mother starts to wipe off her glasses so she can

see her phone to dial Drew’s number. Drew isn’t a casual fan of the Apple computer compa-ny; he is the first to know, and knows the most.

Where do you turn when choosing a movie to watch, or deciding which new release to go see? Considering that in the last 12 months, on average, the term “IMDb” has been Googled more often than “Obama” and “Romney” combined, I’d say you turn to IMDb. So IMDb is your maven, your expert, your “Drew.” But IMDb isn’t this, not even close.

IMDb is one of the most popular online movie aggrega-tors and falls in the top 50 most visited websites of 2012, ac-cording to Alexa Internet, Inc. The site uses user-generated ratings and a little math to produce a score for each movie. This number carries weight since the site aggregates such an enormous volume of movie reviews. The scores from “regu-lar voters” dictate a movie’s position on the behemoth of all movie lists: “IMDb Top 250.”

According to Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point,” a social epidemic needs three components to occur: mavens to discover the next best thing, connectors to spread the infor-mation and salesmen to convince hesitant adopters. IMDb has all three. Aggregated scores are seen as expert ratings. The site’s popularity is undisputed. High numbers of votes, especially for newer movies, are very persuasive. This means IMDb publicizes the likes and dislikes of the average viewer extremely effectively, guiding us all toward the watered-down center of a subjective art. But is this average score credible?

To explore that question, let’s look at “The Hobbit.” At the time of writing, IMDb rates “The Hobbit” as an 8.3, peg-ging it as #141 on the list of top 250 movies of all time. To contrast, “The Hobbit” scored a 58/100 as an aggregated score by Metacritic from 40 critic reviews, and one of those critics, Ann Hornaday from The Washington Post, rated it a 38. Which score should you listen to? Which is credible? That just depends on what you are aiming for.

For an aggregated score in one number from mavens, pro-fessional critics, use Metacritic. However, this aggregation di-minishes the voice of any single critic. If you want to listen to one maven that you really trust, your “Drew,” you have to fi nd and track what they say on any given movie. Finding critics you like and staying up to date with their reviews can be more time consuming than aggregators. That’s where Flicklist picks up.

Flicklist is an app that promises to preserve this idea of a maven. Members can still rate movies on a one to fi ve scale, but the emphasis of the site is on building lists of movies you’d recommend and trusting others’ lists. According to the website, trusting someone on the site is not like “adding them as a friend on Facebook or following them on Twitter.” Rather, you’re trusting the opinions of people you actually value. Professional critics and other movie mavens with large numbers of people who trust them will become more promi-nent on the app’s main pages. Flicklist is about listening to multiple, carefully selected mavens, IMDb is about listening to everyone collectively, and Metacritic bridges the gap.

Each of the discussed methods for fi nding movie reviews has its merits, and I will continue to use all three. However, people must remain cautious of allowing an average opinion to directly dictate the art they consume. I don’t like average, I never have. With average comes the end of originality; 2011 and 2012 tied for the highest number of sequels, prequels and spinoffs pro-duced in one year, at 27. And with the site’s popularity growing daily, the scores are becoming increasingly skewed.

Netfl ix accounts for one third of peak Internet traffi c in North America, while BitTorrent and video streaming have also become increasingly popular. With virtually any fi lm just a few clicks away, a rental store’s selection or a movie the-ater’s schedule are no longer limiting factors. You have more freedom than ever before, so don’t tie yourself to the limits of one source. IMDb doesn’t even let documentaries on their Top 250 list. What you do with your free time is your decision, so if you want advice, consult a maven. Consult someone with the passion to research and recommend, not just the rating of an average viewer, set along an arbitrary scale.

Travis Smith is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Travis on Twitter @jtsmith317.

How IMDb pushes us to the centerWhenever I bring up my EMS involvement in

casual conversation, the questions I get are usually infl uenced by a high-adrenaline pub-

lic perception of the fi eld: “What’s the worst thing you’ve seen?” “Have you ever seen somebody get shot?” “Have you ever done CPR?” We’ve all had our fair share of harrowing experiences in the fi eld, but the call-to-call reality is considerably less dramatic—though that’s not to say it doesn’t hold its own excitement. Truth be told, sometimes the most critical patients are the easiest to manage. After all, pre-hospital care boils down to some simple concepts—to quote an instructor of mine, “Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round, any variation on this is a bad thing.” Sometimes, it actually is that easy. Patient not breathing? Breathe for the patient. Massive extremity arterial bleed? Tourniquet it and forget it. See? Emergency medicine’s not that hard.

At other times, you have to do some detective work to fi gure out exactly what is going on. If your patient is talking, then the majority of your sleuthing is usually a matter of ask-ing the right questions. But what about the other case? Calls involving patients who can’t communicate with you, for whatever reason, will have you relying on all of your senses (well, hopefully not taste) to piece to-gether the puzzle. You’d be surprised at how little our sophisticated diagnostic equipment can contribute to our knowledge of the patient’s condition in some cases. After all, a $30,000 cardiac monitor will tell you if your patient is having a heart attack, but it won’t tell you anything about his lifestyle, habits or daily rou-tine. Recently, I was acutely reminded of this need for observation in reconstructing the bigger picture.

I had just gotten in from Jersey at the end of win-ter break, and I was working my fi rst shift after three weeks of holiday festivities and blissful abandon. My partner had told me that he was looking forward to a busy night. Drawing on the sardonic superstition ubiquitous among EMS folk, he concluded that a week’s worth of slow shifts portended the collapse of Western civilization at some point during our 12 hours working together. While our district did not descend into anarchy during the night, we stayed busy enough, bringing multiple critical patients into the trauma bays at the ER. One of them, in particu-lar, ended up sticking with me for a while.

The story begins as they always do—a disembodied, emotionless voice blaring from the radio, rattling off a dispatch for our unit. “Overdose,” it drones, instruct-ing us to respond to a residential address for a 17-year-old, unresponsive female. Jump cut to an upper-mid-

dle-class living room, where our patient lies motionless in the embrace of an armchair, her mother frantically telling us about the two bottles of pills she washed down with alcohol. Calm and collected, we work effi -ciently, protecting her airway, obtaining vital signs and moving to transport quickly—her best chance of sur-

vival comes with intubation, dialysis and antidote administration, none of which we can effectively provide on-scene.

As we navigate the pockmarked city roads at breakneck pace, my partner and I look to set up IV lines in accordance with another pithy instructor mantra: “The solution to pollution is dilution.” As we exposed her arms, though, scars of intricate shapes and ranging sizes stare back at us, telling a story of deep-seated and severe pain that compelled this young woman to take to her body with blades. It isn’t until we turn our pa-tient over to the emergency physicians that the fi nal piece of the puzzle slips into place. While preparing to monitor urine output, the nurses discover that

our patient is biologically male. And so this story ends with me looking on in muted horror in the trauma bay; I was silently terrifi ed at how my patient’s pro-tracted pain had culminated in this moment.

I never did fi nd out what became of my patient that night. The unfortunate reality of the job is that your war stories don’t always have an ending, and when they do, it’s rarely a happy one. But you still tell them. Someone has to speak for those who can’t, or won’t. At the end of the day, it’s not all about keep-ing air and blood moving through their respective cycles—you have to be an advocate for your patients. I’ve never particularly understood why extending basic civil rights to the LGBT community is contro-versial: How anyone can decide to systematically deny these rights to a substantial population is be-yond my comprehension. In many ways, it’s the adult equivalent of the high school stigmatization that likely helped drive my patient to her breaking point. Nobody should face this sort of purely unwarranted hardship as a result of their gender identity or sexual orientation, though millions nationwide struggle with these demons every day. And though it turns out you can never truly take responsibility for the happi-ness of others, that doesn’t mean you can’t make an effort to contribute to it—it’s all in the little things.

Jay Srinivasan, Trinity ’14, is a Duke pre-med. This column is the second installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written on the pre-med experience at Duke, as well as the diverse ways students can pursue and engage with the fi eld of medicine.

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This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Duke Performances, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

January 22 – February 4EXHIBITIONSCollecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore. Thru February 10.

Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save Our Community Hospital). Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier. Thru February 23. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Restraints: Open and Hidden. Photographer Gordon Parks’s 1956 Life magazine series on segregation. Thru March 2. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

The Road to Desegregation at Duke. A look at the contributions of African Americans at Duke 50 years after desegregation. Thru March 3. Rare Book Room Cases, Rubenstein Library. Free.

A Mockery of Justice: Caricature and the Dreyfus Affair. How the popular press satirized one of the most notorious legal cases in French history. Thru March 9. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Mapping the City: A Stranger’s Guide. How maps project ideas of urban space. Curated by students in the Franklin Humanities Institute Borderwork(s) Lab. Thru March 17. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

EVENTSJanuary 22Voice Master Class with Elizabeth Bishop. 4:30pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

January 24Full Frame Winter Series: HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE. 7:30pm, Carolina Theatre, downtown Durham. Free.

January 25Lecture Series in Musicology: Raymond Knapp (UCLA). “The Sound of Broadway’s Mean Streets.”4pm, Room 101 Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

January 26Home Movie Day. A celebration of amateur home movies; screen-ings and discussion with local film archivist Skip Elsheimer. 1–5pm, Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

January 27Free Family Day. Gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertain-ment. 12pm, Nasher Museum of Art.

Organ Recital Series Concert. David Arcus, Associate University Organist and Chapel Organist at Duke, will present a program on the Flentrop organ, featuring music from the German Baroque. 5pm, Duke Chapel. Free admission.

January 28QU4RTETS Exhibition, Performance Brown-Bag & Colloquium (See ad on this page.)

January 29QU4RTETS Exhibition, Performance Brown-Bag & Colloquium (See ad on this page.)

“Said the Piano to the Harpsichord…” Randall Love, piano and Elaine Funaro, harpsichord. Works include Poulenc’s Concerto Cham-petre and contemporary works for harpsichord. 8pm, Nelson Music Rm. Presented in association with Mallarmé Chamber Players. Free.

February 2Piano Master Class with Stephen Prutsman. 12pm, Nelson Music Rm. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETYAll events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwisenoted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center.(SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

1/23 THE FLOWER GIRL (W) Transnational North Korea Cine-East: East Asian Cinema

1/28 MONSIEUR LAZHAR [35mm] Quebec at the Oscars

1/30 SI-GUERIKI (W) w/ director Idrissou Mora Kpai Feminism & Freedom Film Series

2/3 THE SACRIFICE (by Tarkovsky) [BluRay] AMI Showcase

2/4 WAR WITCH (Rebelle) Quebec at the Oscars

QU4RTETS Exhibition:Jan 28 – February 9, 2013Open to public 8 am – 10 pm dailyDuke Chapel Transepts

Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman have each created four large-scale paintings in response to the imagery, emotion and allusion evoked by Eliot’s Four Quartets. These canvases and other smaller works inspired by the poetry will be hung in the transepts of Duke Chapel – the largest exhibition ever to be mounted in this space.Registration not required.

Opening Lecture and PerformanceMonday, January 28 at 7:30 pmDuke Chapel

Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Herman, and Christopher Theofanidis will present their collaborative visual and musical work in this grand multimedia celebration. Includes lectures by all artists and a performance by the Ciompi Quartet joined by DITA director Jeremy Begbie.See website for free registration.

Colloquium on Eliot, Art and FaithTuesday, January 29 at 7:30 pmDuke Divinity School, room 0016W

The artists will be joined by scholars Richard Hays, Ellen Davis, Michael Moses, and Gennifer

Weisenfeld for an academic seminar focusing on the way in which Eliot’s poetic vision can be explored in word, color and sound.See website for free registration.

Brown-Bag Class Discussionstudents & faculty only, pleaseTuesday, January 29 at 12:20 – 1:20 pm Duke Divinity Schoolroom 0015W

At this Brown-Bag lunch event, Fujimura and Herman will discuss with students how creative works by artists such as Eliot are catalytic for future development in the arts.Registration not required.

T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets has long been regarded as a masterpiece of modern English literature, able to transcend its particular era and social location to inspire new generations of creative and spiritual thinkers.

To explore this remarkable poetry, Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts presents ‘Engaging Eliot: Four Quartets in word, color, and sound,’ a multi-faceted celebration of art and faith.

The centerpiece of the celebration will be a grand exhibition of paintings (QU4RTETS) by artists Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman mounted in Duke Chapel. The Opening Night of the exhibition will feature a performance of Christopher Theofanidis’s quintet, ‘Stillpoint,’ a piece commissioned in collaboration with the visual artists’ work. Other events will surround these presentations, including a colloquium on Eliot, art and faith organized by the director of DITA, Jeremy Begbie.

Please join Duke Initiatives in Theology and Art as we celebrate the generative power of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets to integrate art and faith in the modern world. Event information at divinity.duke.edu/initiatives-centers/dita

January 28 – February 9, 2013

All events are free, however, some require registration.Registration information:

divinity.duke.edu/initiatives-centers/dita

Engaging Eliot: Four Quartets in Word, Color, and Sound is made possible by the generous support of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Chapel, John and Bobbi Augustine, and Duke University Council for the Arts.

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Jan. 22, 2013 issue