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President Barack Obama embraces his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, after he officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention in a speech Thursday night.

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Obama accepts nomination, contrasts ‘Americas’

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Duke faces tough road test vs. No. 25 Stanford

by Jacob LevittTHE CHRONICLE

Duke has not beaten a ranked opponent on the road in 41 years. The last time it happened, Stanford was the victim in 1971.

Duke will need to match the level of intensity from its season-opening 46-26 win against Florida Interna-tional to have a shot at breaking that streak Saturday night against No. 25 Stanford (1-0) at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, Calif. The Cardinal rolled to a 44-14 win last year at Wallace Wade, but the Blue Devils believe that this time will be different.

And Duke’s performance last weekend has given it reason to believe that might just be the case.

“The thing I liked the most about our team Saturday is there really wasn’t a lull,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I have felt often in ballgames since we’ve been

Catholics drawn to new Dem. platformby Jack Mercola

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CHARLOTTE — Although the Democratic Party scrambled to reintroduce the word “God” into its platform, the party’s ef-forts dealing with poverty and health have proven attractive to some religious voters, particularly Catholics.

Speakers at the Democratic National Convention attempt-ed to align the party’s major policies, such as support for the poor and the middle class and the health care provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, with faith-based values such as compassion for those less fortunate. They also argued that the Republican ticket does not adequately represent these commu-nity-centric values.

Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Roman Catholic Social Justice Organization, spoke in the DNC lineup Wednesday, charging that the budgetary plan of Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan is not representative of the beliefs and principles of Catholicism. She contrasted Ryan’s claim that the GOP budget reflects the principles of his Catholic faith with the reality of the budget, which she said would not alleviate the struggles of the lower and middle class.

“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are correct when they say that each individual should be responsible,” she said. “But their

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by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

CHARLOTTE — The host state of the 2012 Democratic National Con-vention was on display this week, along with its 157 delegates.

With prime real estate inside Time Warner Cable Arena—North Carolina delegates were seated stage left in the front of the arena floor, where they could not be missed. Members were some of the more vocal at the con-vention and represented the Greatest Generation through to the Millenial Generation.

The delegation had roughly the same number of delegates under 35 years old as it did delegates over 65 years old—40 people each. This equates to roughly 50 percent of the delegation being represented by both of these demographics.

At the upper end of in terms of age is 91-year-old Charles Johnson of Rocky Mount, N.C.

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plishments to date. Manufacturing increases, clean energy, education, national security and deficit cutting comprised his outlook. He spoke at length on foreign policy achieve-ments such as the death of Osama bin Laden and the end of the Iraq War.

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“I want to nominate a man who’s cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside,” former president Bill Clinton said in his nomination speech for President Barack Obama.

After a minor setback, in which Obama’s accep-tance speech was moved indoors due to inclem-ent weather, the president rallied voters to chants of “USA.”

In his acceptance speech, Obama highlighted the importance of “citizenship,” which he cited as the very essence of American democra-cy. He reaffi rmed his commitment to increasing jobs, developing renew-able energy, reforming Medicare and strengthening social security.

The speech also focused on Obama’s accomplishments over the past four years in offi ce, including improving student loans, reforming healthcare via Obamacare and prog-ress in the war against terror with the death of Osama bin Laden.

The convention demonstrated the Democratic Party’s ability to com-municate a visionary message and communicate specifi c policies, said Pope Mac McCorkle, visiting lec-turer at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Michelle Obama buoyed the message in what some are calling the fi nest speeches ever given at a Democratic convention, ac-cording to CNN. In her speech, Obama connected with American voters by depicting the Obamas as a normal American family.

A draft of the Democratic plat-form, which excluded “God” and any language identifying Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, prompted criticism from conservative politicians Tuesday. The language was reincorporated in the fi nal draft of the 2012 platform.

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“The Democrats have shown a better mastery of communicating a message and communicating specifi c policies. [The convention] was successful in humanizing Romney, but left a lot on the table to accomplish before November.

“In avoiding the negative, [both parties] are keeping themselves in the game. Voters are already dug in… they need some catastrophe on the other side for voters to change their minds.”

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Republican nomination, but his speech was not the highlight of the Republican convention in viewer opinion, according to a Huffington Post poll.

Clint Eastwood’s speech, in which he pre-tended to have a conversation with President Barack Obama, was rated the highlight of the convention by

20 percent of convention viewers, according to the poll. Seventeen percent of viewers voted Romney’s speech as the highlight.

In his acceptance speech, Romney highlighted the main tenants of his plan if elected to the White House, which include cut-ting the deficit and balancing the budget while not raising taxes for middle class Americans. The Rom-ney plan would repeal and replace Obamacare, make North American energy independent by 2020 and forge new trade agreements.

“Freedom of religion, freedom to speak their mind, freedom to build a life… this is the essence of the American experience,” Romney said. “We Americans have always

felt a special kinship with the future.”

The convention was a successful event for the Republican Party, said Pope Mac McCorkle,

visiting lecturer at the Sanford School of Public

Policy. It “humanized” Romney by depicting his devotion to family and wife Ann, and better con-nected him to American voters.

Even so, Romney failed to ad-dress a compelling vision detail-ing how his administration would do things differently, or highlight distinctively Republican issues, McCorkle added.

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Biden defends Obama recordby Jack Mercola

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CHARLOTTE — Although they often play second fiddle in the me-dia, the second family captivated the crowd at the Democratic National Convention Thursday.

The Bidens also have a some-what convoluted reputation in the national media. Jill Biden, who rare-ly figures in the national spotlight, is recognized for her doctorate in education and her work with mili-tary families. Vice President Joe is so often chided for slips of the tongue and gaffes in speech that he often is portrayed as much less serious than his predecessor, former Vice President Dick Cheney. Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor, even sug-gested in August that Obama should replace Biden with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the ticket.

The Bidens worked together to expel these preconceived notions and present Joe as a strong vice pres-idential candidate.

Beau, Joe’s elder son and Dela-ware’s attorney general, came first. He presented a deeply personal and heartfelt introduction of his father, whom Beau formally named the vice presidential nomination by ac-clamation.

“As he led those new Americans through the oath of citizenship, this celebration of democracy in the land of a deposed dictator, I was struck by the strength and diversity of our country,” Beau said. “I was re-minded why we as a nation are stron-

ger when everybody has a chance to do their part. And I was reminded of everything President Obama and my father have done to guarantee that chance.”

Joe Biden is a statesman who has made differences of both small-scale, interpersonal importance and large-scale legislative magnitude, Beau added. The younger Biden, who serves as a major in the Dela-ware Army National Guard, recalled that when he was deployed in Iraq, his father made an unannounced visit to the war zone and held a natu-ralization ceremony for soldiers.

“In moments both public and

private, he is the father I’ve always known, the grandfather my chil-dren love and the vice president our nation needs,” Beau noted.

The vice president has proven to be not only an advocate for Ameri-ca’s troops, but for women—anoth-er demographic pursued by Demo-crats in 2012—said his wife, Jill, in her address Thursday night.

“Two decades ago, when Joe start-ed working on the Violence Against Women Act, domestic violence was often treated as a private family mat-ter rather than the crime it is,” she


Vice President Joe Biden accepted his nomination for a second term at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte Thursday.

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Students call for sexual assault policy reversal

by Raisa ChowdhuryTHE CHRONICLE

A group of students is calling on administrators to amend the University’s policy on sexual mis-conduct.

After researching sexual vio-lence and policies at other uni-versities, a Duke Student Govern-ment task force—formed Spring 2012—drafted a memorandum outlining their demands. They sent the document to several ad-ministrators, proposing that the statute of limitations be extended to allow sexual misconduct victims to file complaints as long as they are associated with the University as a current student, faculty or staff member.

Duke Student Affairs leaders said they do not expect a change to the current policy, which allows a victim to report an incident up to one year after it occurs.

“There’s been a little bit of re-sistance, but it’s the kind of thing where we haven’t gotten a ton of answers yet,” said junior Stefani Jones, DSG vice president for eq-uity and outreach and a leader of the task force. “We have been working with the administration and haven’t made as much prog-

ress as we would like.”In January, the Office of Stu-

dent Conduct reduced the report-ing period for sexual misconduct from two years to one year after the incident. The policy change was a response to federal regula-tions for universities released by the U.S. Department of Education, which required sexual harassment reporting procedures for students to match those for University em-ployees.

Women’s issues blog Develle Dish and Duke Student Govern-ment sponsored a petition in April specifying grievances with the re-duced statute of limitations. The task force operating currently con-sists of a diverse group of students, including some associated with DSG, the Women’s Center and Develle Dish, Jones said.

Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Of-fice of Student Conduct, wrote in an email Wednesday that he did not know of any pending action in the direction of changing the statue of limitations. He deferred further comment to Larry Mone-ta, vice president for student affairs

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Johnson said. “This, by far, is the best one that we’ve ever had. I’m a little bit biased, of course, because it’s here in North Caro-lina where we’re just a little bit more friendly.”

The former environmental health worker retired only a year ago, having entered that line of work at 50 years old. Johnson, who served in World War II, was nearly as spry and equally as pas-sionate as his younger counter-parts. Proudly sporting a WWII Veterans ball cap and a salmon pink blazer, Johnson swayed back and forth and clapped his hands over his head while sing-ing along with the delegation to “Born in the USA” at the start of the evening.

In stark constast, 19-year-old delegate Vibhav Kollu, is a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kollu, a Concord resident, was elected as a delegate at his dis-trict convention. He said he is leaving the convention not only ecstatic that he had this expe-rience at such a young age but also fired up about the election and the Democratic Party.

Kollu said his favorite mo-ments of the convention were the remarks made by former President Bill Clinton and for-mer Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as well as the Foo Fighters performance. In the next few months, he will be working for the Obama cam-paign to engage South Asian and East Asian college students, a demographic he said is often politically-minded but not nec-essarily active.

“I really like how Obama has stepped out for young people—whether on issues that directly affect us, like increasing access to Pell Grants, or in the social aspect,” he said. “He has stuck up for our views and with our generation, especially when it

came to marriage equality.”And despite their different

backgrounds, the delegates worked well together through-out the convention, said Ever-ett Ward, a 53-year-old delegate from Raleigh. The camarade-rie and resulting brainstorms helped give the delegation strength as the height of elec-tion season—the bulk of their workload—approaches.

The Blue Devil DemocratMany students may have en-

countered senior Elena Botella on campus in different settings: a classmate, former Duke Dem-ocrats president, former colum-nist for The Chronicle. But, at the DNC, Botella was known as a Democratic delegate for the state of North Carolina.

Botella is president of the College Democrats of North Carolina, an auxiliary of the North Carolina Democratic Party and a part of College Democrats of America. She was elected by the state Democratic convention to serve as a dele-gate at the national convention in her hometown of Charlotte.

As a learning experience, Botella said her time at the con-vention, though without much sleep, was incredibly worth-while. A typical day for the delegates included: 8:00 a.m. breakfast, 10:00 a.m. press con-ferences and 12:00 p.m. caucus and council meetings before the evening speaker sessions. Botella attended both the His-panic and Youth council meet-ings.

“I was looking to come into this knowing a lot of the other delegates, but it has been enor-mously exciting to meet people from all over the state and the country,” she said. “A core func-tion of the convention is for people to come together, share best practices, and learn strate-gies [for promoting the party]. It was a lot of fun doing that.”

and DSG President Alex Swain, a senior, for further comment.

“DSG has a group hoping to bring about change and I ap-plaud their conviction but any such change will require that policies that apply to faculty and staff be changed first,” Moneta wrote in an email Wednesday. “I’m not sure that there’s support for that.”

Benjamin Reese, vice president for institutional equity, could not be reached for comment.

Senior Ian Harwood, a gender violence prevention intern at the Women’s Center and member of the task force, noted, however, the importance of reaching out to faculty because the changes

would affect them as well as stu-dents.

The administration has argued that there are not enough cases reported after a year for it to be worth changing the current policy, Harwood noted.

“It’s like they are saying it’s in-convenient to change the policy,” Harwood said. “So the question is, how many rapists do we want on campus? How many are we willing to tolerate before it’s an issue?”

Looking forward, the task force is compiling a formal report on findings, concerns and demands to give to administrators, as well as an action plan, Swain said.

Swain added that she hopes the task force will continue collabora-tive efforts initiated in the Spring, raising awareness on campus about

the policy change and the negative implications for victims of sexual misconduct.

“People don’t understand what the statute of limitations is, and when they do understand, they don’t understand that rape and sexual assault are traumatic,” Har-wood said.

Strong student support will be necessary to show faculty and ad-ministrators how important the issue is in order to get the policy changed, Jones added.

“Think about how terrible it would be for a victim of sexual as-sault to go through [an attack] and then not be able to report that incident,” she said. “The most im-portant thing which people should be thinking about is students being able to report.”

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“On every issue, the choice you face won’t be just between two can-didates or two parties,” he said. “It will be a choice between two differ-ent paths for America—a choice between two fundamentally differ-ent visions for the future.”

The opposing choices theme echoed imagery in speeches by President Bill Clinton, Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden and women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke earlier this week.

First lady Michelle Obama introduced the president, who took the podium amid deafening roars from the crowd. Time War-ner Cable Arena was at absolute capacity, leaving little room to walk freely.

In his remarks, Obama touched on the themes of hope and change from his 2008 campaign. He char-acterized the deeds of Americans as the source of his hope, whether an auto worker winning the lottery or a woman overcoming homeless-ness through her nationally recog-nized biology research.

“The truth is, it will take more

than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades,” Obama said. “If you turn away now, if you buy into the cyni-cism that the change we fought for isn’t possible… well, change will not happen.”

Obama highlighted his experi-ence and asserted his dominance as the incumbent in a presidential race.

“I’m no longer just a candidate—I’m the President,” Obama said.

Obama’s remarks cemented party unity and the success of the convention, said U.S. Rep. David Price (D-NC).

“President Obama made it clear tonight what our choice is be-tween,” Price said in an interview. “The differences are so stark this time. We are definitely coming out of this convention renewed in our determination.”

Obama also came out strong on social issues, including the DREAM Act and women’s rights, recurring themes of the convention.

“We don’t think government can solve all our problems,” he said. “But we don’t think that gov-ernment is the source of all our problems—any more than are

welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants, or gays, or any other group we’re told to blame for our troubles.”

Convention attendee Gunther Peck, Fred W. Shaffer associate professor of history and public policy, said Obama’s speech made the clearest possible case for his re-election.

“He had a balance to strike be-tween offering more hope, which will not get him reelected, but also he really was describing what he thought he had done well,” Peck said.

Obama began speaking with a detectable sense of hesitation, but as the speech continued the presi-dent began to loosen and gain a rhythm, feeding off of the crowd’s energy.

As Obama wrapped up his re-marks, the crowd’s applause esca-lated to the point where those in the back strained to hear the presi-dent conclude.

“If you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules, then I need you to vote this November,” Obama said.

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said. “But Joe knew that he had to bring this issue out into the open. And in the years since that bill passed, I’ve had women tell me that their sisters or their friends wouldn’t be alive today—if it weren’t for Joe.”

As Jill turned the podium over to her husband, Joe was welcomed with a standing ovation—a warm greeting for a politician with a 44 percent approval rating, according to a Sept. 5 USA Today/Gallup poll.

“My fellow Americans, four years ago, a bat-tered nation turned away from the failed poli-cies of the past—and turned to a leader—who they knew, could lift our nation out of crisis,” he said of his running mate in the opening of his address. “Our journey isn’t finished.”

Joe’s speech raised themes of humility and family as he discussed his late father’s humble roots. Joe’s father lost money in a series of

several business reverses and became a car mechanic —“an automobile man”—he said. From this narrative, the vice president praised Obama’s revitalization of the American auto-mobile industry, which he claimed GOP presi-dential candidate Mitt Romney would have neglected.

“America is not in decline,” he said. “I’ve got news for Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan, it has never, never, ever, been a good bet to bet against the American people.”

Biden highlighted the importance of Obama’s actions in taking down Osama bin Laden.

“He listened to the risks and reservations about the raid. And he asked the tough ques-tions,” Biden recalled. “But when Admiral McRaven looked him in the eye and said, ‘Sir, we can get this done,’ I knew Barack had made his decision. His response was decisive. He said do it—and justice was done.”

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budget goes astray in not acknowledging that we are responsible not only for ourselves and our immediate families. Rather, our faith strongly affirms that we are all responsible for one another.”

The United States Conference of Catho-lic Bishops concluded that the Ryan budget failed a basic moral test, Campbell added, be-cause it would harm families living in poverty.

Campbell endorsed the ACA, popularly known as Obamacare, for its inclusivity of the most struggling Americans, which she called “our responsibility.” She briefly men-tioned abortion—one of the biggest con-flicts between the Catholic faith and the Democratic platform—noting that despite the Democrats’ support of abortion rights, implementing Obamacare was “part of my pro-life stance and the right thing to do.”

In fact, there are several prominent anti-abortion Democrats, said Chris Pumpelly, communications and development director of Catholics United, a nonprofit social justice advocacy group. He said Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA)—a fellow Catholic—is an example of a nationally relevant politician who has stayed true to his stance against abortion.

“Democrats take all types of people,” he said. “We’re working to reduce the need for abortion in America and stand for life in all situations.”

Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren also evoked Christianity in her speech Wednesday night. In order to practice Christian values, Americans must act in a familial and socially responsible manner, she said.

“I grew up in the Methodist Church and taught Sunday school,” Warren noted. “One of my favorite passages of scripture is, ‘Inas-much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.’ Matthew 25:40. The passage teaches about God in each of us, that we are bound

to each other and called to act. Not to sit, not to wait, but to act—all of us together.”

At Democratic National Conventions prior to this year’s, the party platform has included language mentioning “God,” but Tuesday’s draft of the 2012 platform exclud-ed this along with any language identifying Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. After con-servative politicians and pundits criticized the platform draft, Los Angeles Mayor and DNC Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa took the podium and asked for delegates’ approv-al to reinsert these pieces into the platform in an unscripted moment Wednesday.

Despite nearly equal support and opposi-tion in a series of three voice votes conducted by Villaraigosa, the language was included in the final draft of the 2012 platform. This in-clusion should ensure support from Catho-lics who believe in religious principles of goodwill and inclusion, Pumpelly said.

“This says that the Republican party can no longer say they have a monopoly on the common good,” he said.

As for the lack of language identifying Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in the original draft, some Democrats say the party regrets the exclusion.

“It was an unfortunate oversight,” Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker told The Chronicle.

Delegates have criticized the voice voting process, saying the nays were equally as loud as the yeas in Wednesday’s vote. This directly contradicts Villaraigosa’s assertion that those in favor of the amendment to the draft had the necessary two-thirds majority.

Including “God” in the platform may violate the principle of separation of church and state, said Noor Ul-Hasan, a Muslim del-egate from Salt Lake City, Utah.

“There are people who don’t believe in God and you have to respect that as well,” Ul-Hasan said. “There was no discussion.... We were blindsided by it.”

Nicole Kyle contributed reporting.

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Last Friday, Duke’s volleyball team ex-perienced something it wasn’t quite used to—losing. No. 24 Louisville swept the team in their opening match of the Louisville Tournament. After the game head coach Jolene Nagel spoke of minimizing mistakes

and coming back strong for the rest of the tournament, and the team was clearly taking notes. Duke went on to beat Samford and Marshall in its the next two matches, in which freshman Emily Sklar amassed 29 kills, giving her 42 overall in the tournament.

This Friday, the Blue Devils hope to continue their win-ning streak as the Duke Classic gets underway, in which Duke will host Elon, East Carolina and Northeastern. Duke’s action be-gins against Elon at 7 p.m. Friday and continues Saturday versus East Caro-lina at 10 a.m. and

Northeastern at 7 p.m.Duke (5-1) is looking to continue its

successful campaign and solidify itself in another tournament before entering ACC play. The Blue Devils will continue to look to Sklar as their driving force, after she and teammate junior Ali McCurdy were both

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Duke heads into its final weekend before ACC play, carrying the momentum from the team’s USC Futbol Classic win last weekend. The No. 4 Blue Devils kick off the Duke Nike Classic at Koskinen Stadium with San Diego on Friday at 7:30 p.m. followed by No. 12 Mar-quette on Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

After losing to Florida two weeks ago, Duke bounced back, beating Southern California 2-1 in a comeback victory before dismantling Washington State 4-0 in what was their most complete game of the season so far. Without key players Kelly Cobb and Mollie Pathman, who are competing for the United States in the U-20 World Cup in Japan, the Blue Dev-ils hope to close out the non-conference por-tion of their schedule with only one loss. Both Cobb and Pathman will return next week.

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“We are obviously coming off of two big wins. Our goal for last weekend was to win those two games and the USC tour-nament, and that is kind of our mind-set going into our tournament,” junior forward Laura Wein-berg said. “Our goal is to always win those two games, win our tournament on our home field. So we have just been work-ing really hard to-gether to carry that momentum from last weekend into this weekend.”

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Duke will look to rise above 0.500 this weekend when they take on Wake For-est and Northwestern. The No. 9 Blue Devils (2-2) will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C. to face the No. 13 Demon Deacons (1-2) Saturday and return home to play the No. 11 Wildcats (5-1) Sunday.

Wake Forest is Duke’s first conference opponent of the season.

“We want to get two big results out of the weekend,” junior Emmie Le March-and said. “There’s also the added factor that we scrimmaged Wake Forest in the preseason, and were beaten 4-1 so it’s not necessarily revenge, but we want to show them what we’re capable of.”

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Two ranked foes loomFIELD HOCKEY

Both Duke and Wake Forest lost to Princeton on their home fields last weekend. Since then, the Blue Devils have worked on not giving up corners, their defensive structure outside the circle, their communica t ion within the circle and their attack return, head coach Pam Bustin said.

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Freshman outside hitter Emily Sklar has been named ACC Volleyball Freshman of the Week twice.

named to the All-Tournament Team in Louisville. Only six games into the season, Sklar has been named the ACC Volleyball Freshman of the Week twice and leads the team with 75 kills. The team thrives when she plays well, and that is bad news for up-coming opponents, as she seems to be on an extended hot streak.

“I never really promise anybody a start-ing opportunity as a freshman,” Nagel said. “But she certainly seems to be managing ev-erything right now.”

Elon (4-4) is coming off a bounce back, grinding win against Radford. After losing their previous match to Alabama, the Phoe-nix held off Radford thanks largely in part to Megan Gravely’s 24 kills. Gravely leads the team with 79 kills, averaging just under 10 per match. If Gravely continues to put out solid numbers this weekend, the Phoe-nix should be a steady opening-round test for Duke.

East Carolina (1-5) enters the Classic with a disappointing record, most recently losing to UW-Milwaukee, a team Duke swept earlier this season in the Duke Invitational.

The true test for the Blue Devils will come in the form of Northeastern (6-2). Junior Kelly Bacon, who leads the Huskies with 93 kills, has been a constant source of produc-tion. Northeastern comes into the tourna-ment with back-to-back wins against Idaho and Cal Poly, and is set up to win its first two games against East Carolina and Elon.

“All three opponents this weekend have a little bit different style, which is great for us to have a look at,” Nagel said. “We haven’t seen Elon in a really long time and we haven’t played East Carolina for a few years now. Northeastern, we haven’t played for a long time as well.”

This tournament should serve as a good measuring stick for the Blue Devils, who open ACC play Sep.14 against N.C. State.

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Duke’s first match of the fall pits it against 10 of the top 15 finishers in last year’s national championships, but the Blue Devils—behind National Player of the Year Lin-dy Duncan—bring one of their deepest teams to date.

Returning all six letter-winners from last year’s squad and adding two freshmen, Duke opens the year at the three-day Cougar Classic at Yeamans Hall Club in Hana-han, S.C. Sept. 9-11.

Joining the field at the College of Charleston for the second straight year, the Blue Devils will look to improve upon their tied-for-seventh place finish in 2011.

“[Last year], we didn’t finish that great, but it made you want to come back and take it on again,” head coach Scott Brooks said.

Facing a field that features each of the top five teams in last year’s NCAA Championship round, Duke faces a tough opening challenge. Duncan’s performance will be key to Blue Devil success. The senior tied for sixth in last year’s Classic, and in each of her 10 finishes for the 2011-12 season, she placed no worse than eighth, accumulat-ing four victories.

Moreover at 71.07 shots per round, Duncan finished just three overall strokes short of eclipsing the Duke single-sea-son scoring record of 71.0 set by Amanda Blumenherst.

“Lindy is always getting better,” Brooks said. “Every se-mester she’s been here, she’s gotten a little better…. She was National Player of the Year last year, but she’s looking to be one of the best players in the world on the LPGA [tour], so she needs to improve. As good as she’s been, she can get better. And I’m sure she will.”

And Duncan has already taken the first steps to elevate her game to an even higher level.

In June, she competed for the United States in the Curtis Cup for women amateur players and in August, she competed in the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic. Al-though she missed the cut, she gained valuable time on the course playing with professionals, including a 2011 major winner.

“Playing in the LPGA event was great as well because you get to assess your game against the pros,” Duncan said. “I got to play a practice round with Stacy Lewis on

one of the days. So I just played 18 holes with Stacy Lewis, her coach and her caddie, and my dad was there, so that was a great learning experience.”

Joining Duncan, both of Duke’s freshmen—Ashley Xiao and Celine Boutier—qualified for the Blue Devil lineup.

“They’re really great for the team,” Duncan said. “They’re both very calm in their demeanor, but they re-ally have this fight in them…. They’re very patient, which is great too.”

In July, Boutier—a native of Montrouge, France—not only won European Ladies Amateur title, but also beat her nearest competitor by six strokes.

Boutier also advanced to the second round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur in August.

“She’s somebody who tends to rise to the occasion,” Brooks said. “She likes the big events. I’ve seen her do

very well in those.”Xiao, a walk-on from Guangzhou, China, has im-

pressed the team as well, playing with a scrappy style, Duncan said. And Xiao’s scrappiness may be just what Duke needs to succeed at Yeaman Hall Club.

“It takes a little creativity,” Brooks said. “It has square greens. You get some very abrupt banks where you play the shot a little too long, you go over the back, and now, you’re basically pitching over a wall…. Some of [the bun-kers] are 10-feet high—some crazy shots compared to normal golf—but it should be a lot of fun.”

With three players making their second straight start in the Cougar Classic, the Blue Devils may have the nec-essary experience to tackle the course.

“We have a great shot at contending, possibly winning it,” Duncan said. “We have a lot of depth to the team.”

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Senior Lindy Duncan, who was National Player of the Year last year, is ‘looking to be on of the best players in the world on the LPGA [tour].’

After Duke earned its first win of the season in its last game, the Blue Devils will look to continue that success as they begin ACC play, traveling to Charlottesville to take on Virginia at Klockner Stadium Friday at 7:30 p.m.

The Cavaliers (1-2) have begun the year much like Duke (1-2), with all three of their games having one-goal margins. And if history is any in-dication, the matchup will be a close one—the teams are 37-37-8 all time against each other. Four of the past six games have reached overtime, a proposition that should excite the Blue Devils, who are 3-0-1 in those games.

Both teams have struggled to generate offense in the early going, each with three goals in as many gams. Fresh-man Zach Carroll paces the Cavaliers, having found the back of the net twice, while three different Blue Devils have earned tallies in the early going.

Last year Duke began its conference play against Vir-ginia, falling 1-0 despite outshooting the Cavaliers 19-12. Eight of the Blue Devil shots were taken by Nick Palodi-chuk, who leads Duke’s offensive attack again this year with a goal on a team-high 12 shots.

The game is Duke’s lone contest during the weekend, before gearing up for a midweek game against Georgia State and then a heavier dose of conference action.

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While in California, Duke (4-1) had the chance to scout the Toreros (3-3), who also competed in the USC Futbol Classic. San Diego went 1-1 in the tournament, sliding past Southern California 2-1 in the final minutes before losing to Washington State 2-1 on Sunday. The last time the Blue Devils met the Toreros was in 2007 when the game ended in a 0-0 draw.

“Every game is a different game and you cant really go by the scores,” head coach Robbie Church said. “Fridays you get a team’s best shot because everybody is fresher. Sunday comes less than 48 hours from when you last played, so unless you are deep, that is tough to do.”

The Toreros, however, are not the toughest foe for Duke this weekend. For just the second time this season, the Blue Devils will play a top-25 ranked team. Marquette (3-0-1) has yet to allow a goal this season, shutting out all the teams it has played. In return, they have netted 20 goals. The only other ranked team that the Blue Devils have played this season is Florida, which handed them

their only defeat in an overtime thriller. “Year in and year out Marquette is one of the elite pro-

grams,” Church said. “They are a big team, a physical team. They are a hardworking team and a mentally tough team so I think playing Friday night and then turning around and playing Sunday afternoon we are going to have to be mentally tough. We are going to have to really move the ball against them, and we are really going to have to attack them. Our of-fense, which has scored a lot of goals early in the season will have a great challenge playing a defense that hasn’t given up any goals this year.”

Besides securing another two victories and winning a sec-ond consecutive tournament, Duke hopes to gain momentum going into the beginning of their ACC games. Both San Di-ego and Marquette will provide a chance for the Blue Devils to assess their game as they begin conference play against top-ranked Florida State next week.

“It’s important that we are really playing our best soccer go-ing into the ACC,” Church said. “These are kind of the last games we have, and I think it’s important that we are playing well in all areas—offensively, defensively and on set plays. And I think we are starting to play well.”

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Freshman Krysta Wangerin—who has registered four points on the year—leads the Demon Deacons’ attack, as well as sophomore Anna Kozniuk and junior Jess McFadyen, who have tallied three points apiece. Duke counters with Le Marchand, sophomore Jessica Buttinger, juniors Brenna Rescigno and Devon Gagli-ardi and senior Chelsea Amsley. Buttinger has logged five points, and the other four players have recorded four points each.

“We’re excited to get conference play underway,” Bustin said. “There is no doubt that the level of inten-sity and the level of competition is going to be at its peak. Wake is always a fantastic opponent, and I think our teams match up to make a good game.”

So far this season, Northwestern has proven its abil-ity to battle with the best, pulling off upsets against two top-20 opponents—then-No. 11 Stanford and then-No.

16 California.“Northwestern is a very talented team,” Bustin said.

“They’re going to be good in the set pieces and deci-sion making, so I think for us it’s just going to be set-ting up early and just containing them and their speed too. They’ve got some good speed on their team.”

On Sunday, Duke will have the added challenge of playing its first game without six of its players, who are competing at the Pan American Games in Mexico. Freshmen Hannah Barreca and Aileen Johnson and sophomores Abby Beltrani and Lauren Blazing, will compete for the United States while Buttinger and freshman Kendra Perrin will compete for Canada.

“It’s definitely going to make the kids who are on the field a bit more focused and more on-task,” Bus-tin said. “It’s going to affect us in substitution. We will have fewer subs to run in through the game. As far as coverage on the field and set plays, we have everything we need to compete as usual.”


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here that we’ve had lulls that have just criti-cally hurt us. Even though we weren’t perfect [against FIU], there was never a failure to have an edge. We played 60 minutes of in-tense football.”

The win has Cutcliffe’s squad buying into the hype as well.

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After registering nine tackles in Duke’s season opener, sophomore lineback C.J. France will look to stop Stanford’s physical offense that scored 44 points against Duke last year.

difference,” Duke redshirt sophomore linebacker C.J. France said. “It gives us a lot more confidence going into this next game. Last year we kind of had our heads hung a little bit, so coming off a win is a great feeling going into the second game.”

Stanford had a disappointing opening-week performance, despite coming away with a victory. Against a mediocre San Jose State squad—which they destroyed 57-3

last year—the Cardinal gained only 280 yards and needed a field goal in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter to eke out a 20-17 win. Their offense was adjust-ing to the loss of Andrew Luck, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, and they did not show the big play ability that allowed them to dominate Duke a year ago.

In last year’s loss, the Blue Devils kept the game close for the first half, but the Stanford offense broke loose for big plays in the second half. In the first 30 minutes, the Cardinal averaged 7.1 yards per play. But Stanford’s offense scored touchdowns on its first four drives of the second half and ran out the clock on its last possession. On the Cardinal’s second-half touchdown drives, they averaged more than a first down per play at 11.1 yards.

“We gave up a couple big plays. They were able to capitalize off that,” France

said. “This year I don’t think that will hap-pen. We’ve got a lot more depth. We’re a lot better in reading our keys and being focused.”

But the size and physicality of Stan-ford’s offense aided the big plays, wear-ing down opposing defenses as the games progressed. This year’s Cardinal squad is physically daunting as well, led by two-time 1,000-yard senior rusher Stepfan Taylor, who checks in at 5-foot-11 and 215 pounds. Two of senior quarterback Josh Nunes’ top targets are senior tight ends Levine Toilolo and Zach Ertz, who stand at 6-foot-8 and 6-foot-6, respectively.

“They’re a good football team,” France said. “They have good backs, and they have a good [offensive]-line. I feel like they’re going to try to come out and play big boy football and run straight ahead. And we’re going to try to play physically with them.”


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Out the smudged window there’s a con-stant, monotonous image of greenery. The trees are tamed only by Interstate

85 and medians covered by overgrown weeds, confettied with an occasional plas-tic bag or empty Coke bottle. Our bus inches slowly up the map to-ward our destination.

I look up from my laptop occa-sionally, glance out the window and am met each time with a familiar sight. Then there’s an SUV head-ing southbound, pulled over by the fl ashing lights of one of North Car-olina’s fi nest. We head past it at 70 mph and it’s gone. More trees.

These sights are reminiscent of any weekend road trip for my team, the Duke University fi eld hockey team, and the team road trip is an ex-perience shared by any NCAA team at any in-stitution. The trips differ in the opponents, the outcomes, the direction in which the bus heads off—but embarking on another weekend mis-sion always feels the same.

Nineteen girls, four coaches and an athletic trainer occupy the same seats every time we hit the road. Below the bus are suitcases embroi-dered with Duke emblems, goalkeeping equip-ment, Band-Aids and gauze, sticks and stick bags and all the other weekend battle necessi-ties. The cabin of the bus boasts pillows pressed against tinted windows, and the fl oor is littered with untied Nike sneakers. Bare feet are rested on headrests, and headphones drown out the constant hum of the engine.

The bus carries on and then we’re welcomed into the state of Virginia by a sign at the side of the road. Sometimes it’s South Carolina. Or maybe Maryland. We’re still seeing the same trees—north, south, east or west. Road trips sometimes exist as merely a blur, a smear of East Coast states until we’re greeted with some civili-zation or pit stop to stretch our legs and pick up a pre-ordered meal. Then it’s back to the bus.

These road trips are not just like business trips. They are business trips. Forget power suits and Ralph Lauren; we don matching sweatshirts and shorts, each sporting a Nike swoosh. We have an agenda and an itinerary, an objective to carry out. Pregame meetings replace confer-ence calls and the fi eld is our offi ce. We have a duty to represent the University and a responsi-bility to impress our coworkers and bosses. The “2:30 feeling” turns up, but is quickly cured with a slurp of Gatorade and a bite of a granola bar. Then it’s back to work to fi nish the day.

Sure, team road trips represent all of these

things, but beyond the fi eld or the sport there exists an opportunity. It’s our privilege to tra-verse places across the country that we likely wouldn’t visit otherwise. Ann Arbor, Mich.?

Probably not. College Park, Md.? Maybe to visit your cousin. Farm-ville, Va.? No. Defi nitely no.

As much as we’d like it to be, fi eld hockey matches aren’t al-ways primetime sporting events, but they are more than worth your consideration. Seventy-min-ute matches of physical work and psychological wit where “non-con-tact” means “don’t get caught.”

We embrace these challenges and more on our journeys by bus and by plane, from sea to shining sea, and we enjoy the diver-sity that our teams so effectively gather. We’ve got East Coasters. We’ve got Canadians. We’ve got girls from across the pond, girls from the countryside. We are 19 girls who consider “study-ing abroad” completing make-up work in a Dou-bletree Hotel in Philadelphia, whose Saturday night drink of choice is Gatorade, who consider wearing this University’s colors to be not only an unparalleled privilege, but also an ardent re-sponsibility to scratch wins in the scorebook.

Six of my teammates—your classmates—are lucky enough to carry the Duke name to the Pan-American Games in Mexico for the next 14 days. Four Americans, two Canadians—all Duk-ies—have the honor of embarking on another trip to take care of business, this time on an in-ternational stage. Here at Duke, our squad will be down six, but we’ll continue to take care of business while they’re gone. They’ll wear red, white and blue or show off a maple leaf on their jerseys; we’ll boast black and blue. But whether we’re playing on East Campus or in Guadalaja-ra, we’re working everyday in the name of this University.

The next time I sit looking out the window, we’re headed southbound, rolling past the bor-der of Durham County. Out the window I see the same trees lining the same tarred road. There are ice bags situated carefully on legs and hips and arms, ointment and Band-Aids cover-ing blistered and turf-burned skin. And another win in the book for Duke. Yet again, we were privileged enough to work and sweat and win in your colors. And it was lovely doing business for you.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday. You can follow Ashley on Twitter @camano4chron

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When I was 15 years old, I attended a summer pro-gram in the mountains of New Mexico, where the principal activity was hiking non-stop for

three weeks with a 50-pound pack on my back. It seemed like a good idea at the time despite the fact that I was a scrawny kid coming out of ninth grade whose prepara-tions for the program con-sisted of stomping up the stairs of my house with a backpack full of encyclope-dias. Fast forward to the fi rst night of hiking, and I was laughably out of my league. The pain, the exhaustion and the fact that we were hiking with no clear destina-tion in sight fed a despair that overwhelmed me. Eventu-ally we arrived at an old fort that enclosed a grassy area where we were told to put down our gear and lie down. As soon as my back hit the grass and my gaze lifted to the night sky, it was as if everything that was bothering me lifted as well. That sky was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. The lights of the universe, no longer obscured by urban illumination and the pollu-tion of humanity, made the sky so dusty with stars that I couldn’t tell where one stopped and another began. I never wanted to look away.

I haven’t looked up much since then. The rest of the hiking trip was spent looking down at the ground to avoid rocks and rattlesnakes. High school was a blur of friendships, academics and other activities preparing me for college. Once I entered college, that blur turned into a whirlwind.

We encounter an incredible amount of noise on a dai-ly basis. Technological advancement has been wonderful for so many different reasons, but there are times when the world gets so loud that it’s hard to hear what’s true. We live in a political and media-driven landscape that is more focused on character assassination than what we can actually do to solve the problems that plague us all. I can guarantee that the outcome of this coming presiden-tial election will be determined in part by whoever is best at pointing fi ngers. It’s the reason why a good number of you, like myself, avoid getting into political arguments. No one leaves happy, and someone always leaves upset. Emotions often get in the way of rational and produc-tive discourse. Technology, the media and our political culture all contribute to the noise that drowns out what matters.

Not long ago, I came across a mash-up video on You-Tube titled “The Most Astounding Fact.” In the video, computer generated images of the cosmos are paired with a response from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to the question “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?” His response in-spired this column: “We are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us.... My atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel con-nected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like you’re a participant in the goings-on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive.”

I wasn’t shocked by this revelation because I had learned about it years before in science class. Yet for some reason, the statement resonated deep within me. It made me look, really look, at the night sky for the fi rst time in awhile because this was something that actually made sense in one of the most incredible ways possible. It might have been that the feeling I got from looking at those stars in New Mexico was an implicit understanding that I could trace my very existence to their predeces-sors. Our collective experience as a people and a species and a planet is tied together because of how we all came to be. Something like that has a way of making things such as political attack ads and talking heads on TV seem so… small.

I really don’t know how or if things will change for us down the road. A hopeful and perhaps naive part of me thinks that maybe we could tune out some of the noise in order to fi gure out what really matters to us. Maybe we could re-evaluate our place among one another and with-in the universe as a whole. Maybe we could just look up.

Jordan Siedell is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday. You can follow Jordan on Twitter @JSiedell

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Gothic Bookshop a rare treasureI’m writing in reference to the “Fall Book Pre-

view” published in the Recess section on August 30. The Chronicle asked the owners of Durham’s Regulator Bookstore about their most anticipat-ed books this fall and paid tribute to the locally owned business as a Durham literary landmark—which indeed it is, and one that I’m proud to sup-port.

But I wondered if the editors overlooked anoth-er top-notch, locally owned bookseller even clos-er to home. The Gothic Bookshop, located in the Bryan Center on Duke’s West Campus, has been an independent bookstore at Duke since 1956. In fact, it’s one of the few independent bookstores left on college campuses, and it has long been

a favorite haunt of booklovers all around Duke. Indeed, I seldom walk out empty-handed, even though I work in a rather sizeable library! And I always appreciate the excellent recommendations of the friendly, well-read staff.

If you want to support independent, locally owned businesses—and I hope you do—remem-ber Duke’s own entrepreneurs right here on cam-pus. Universities will always have libraries, but a cozy, carefully stocked bookstore is a rare treasure these days, and we’re fortunate to have one right here in the neighborhood.

Deborah JakubsRita DiGiallonardo Holloway University librarian

and vice provost for library affairs

Why we covered the DNC moreSeveral readers have come forward and right-

fully questioned why we have covered the Demo-cratic National Convention more extensively than the Republican National Convention.

Although my response may not alleviate every concern, our decision to send a reporting team was primarily a question of the best use of our resources.

From a practical standpoint, as a campus news-paper, we have limited financial means. The ex-pense of plane tickets and hotel stays in Tampa was prohibitive, but going to Charlotte entailed a short train ride and free accomodations at the family home of our photographer.

In acknowledging this reality, we published two articles last week referencing reactions from students and professors to the RNC as well as first-hand accounts from a student who actually saw Mitt Romney speak.

But ultimately, to report the RNC, we relied on our Internet connection and phone lines.

For journalism, boots on the ground is always better. In sending people to Charlotte, we had the option to play down our presence and coverage. But, having asked our team to miss three days of class to constantly report, that alternative seemed foolish.

But the convention will conclude tonight, and some of you will have doubts about our cover-age heading into the election. To mitigate those doubts, I will outline our editorial standard for coverage this year. When a national, major politi-cal party figure or candidate, regardless of their views, holds public events in North Carolina, we will make every effort to send a reporting team.

In that vein, I can promise that, had the loca-tions been reversed, and Charlotte hosted Rom-ney and Paul Ryan, we would have brought the same thorough coverage that a physical presence allows.

Yeshwanth KandimallaEditor

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