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By TOBY COLEMAN The Chronicle

In an address to a room packed with about 150 Duke doctors, Dr. John Eisenberg, director of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indicated Thursday that he believes that the federal government must take steps to reduce the number of medical errors.

Th? issue of medical errors has grabbed national headlines since last month, when a report released by the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute ofMedicine estimated that medical errors are the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States.

By Feb. 5, Eisenberg’s agency will deliver a report to President Bill Clinton identifying the causes of preventable health care errors and suggesting ways to curtail such mistakes. Eisenberg refused to divulge any details of the agency’s report, but said that research identifying the causes of medical errors is in short supply, as are prevention strategies.

Eisenberg said patients do not know if a hospital is doing everything it can to prevent such mistakes. Nor does the federal government. “At such an early stage, we can’t even list the things that prevent errors,” Eisenberg said.

One of the many primary ftmctions of Bisonberg’s agency will be to fund research projects that identify the causes of medical errors or tests preventive techniques.

“What should the role of the federal government be in reducing this serious issue?” he asked, opening up a question-and-answer period that would last for almost an hour and a half.

Again and again, doctors in the audience and Eisenberg pointed to systemic problems as a major cause of the high number of medical errors. Unlike other high-risk industries, such as See MEDICAL ERRORS on page 7 �

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N.C. State snaps Duke’s 15-game streak in overtime

By RAY HOLLOMAN The Chronicle RALEIGH For a full 10 minutes, Lauren Rice’s eyes barely wa-

vered from her fidgeting hands.

Flanked by her coach and teammate Peppi Browne, the Peru, Ind., senior’s downward gaze told only of the pain of falling on the wrong side of one of the ACC’s wars.

Sitting silently in the Reynolds Coliseum media room, she might have realized that the evening’s game was, as N.C. State coach Kay Yow seemed to think, a game for the ages, but more than likely all Rice knew was that the battle for ACC supremacy was N.C. State’s and the night was all Amy Simpson’s.

Simpson, the surprise star of the ACC’s most heavily anticipated game, scored a career-high 26 points and a stifling N.C. State defense held Duke to 26.5 percent second-half shooting as the No. 6 Wolfpack (15-2,6-2 in the ACC) snapped

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A Simpson three-pointer with 1:11 remaining in overtime highlighted an outstanding night for N.C. State’s reserve-turned-star, giving the Wolfpack a a 77-75 lead and all the margin it needed to secure its first win in six contests against the

Blue Devils.

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13.4 minutes a game coming into last night’s contest shot 9-for-16 from the floor and drained four three-pointers, despite being tightly guarded by a rotating host of Blue Devils “She was huge tonight,” N.C. State senior and reigning ACC plaver of the year Summer Erb said “Amy came in and started taking See N.C. STATE

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Union closes in on Wyclef concert

By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle “Gone til November,” but coming in March?

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This would be the first concert Major Attractions has brought to campus this year. Last year, the group brought in Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds—a deThe Duke University Union has reached a precision popular with many students but criticized by liminary agreement to bring rapper Wyclef Jean to others because so much of the committee’s money campus in March, two members of the Major Atwent to funding a single show. tractions committee confirmed last night. “As far as Hindman said he did not know how much it would I and the other people on the committee know, he is cost to bring Wyclef to campus, and he added that coming,” said Trinity junior Justin Lessek, co-secuMajor Attractions is still negotiating with the artist. rity chair of Major Attractions.

When asked to guess, he said a Wyclef According to an e-mail he received from concert in 1998 would have cost about Major Attractions chair Tiffany Hall, the $40,000 or $50,000, but added that his show is scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday price has dropped substantially.

March 23, in Page Auditorium.

Wyclef, the Haitian-bom rapper/proHall, a Trinity senior, could not be ducer who rose to stardom with the reached Thursday night, although she had funk-inspired, hip-hop trio The Fugees, earlier declined to comment on the concert. achieved substantial solo success with Union President Jeff Hindman said no his album The Carnival—which went date has been set and that no contract has gold. But his interests are nearly as dibeen signed with Wyclef. ‘The fact is, up verse as the reggae-rap-soul rhythms until someone signs on the dotted line, noth- Wyc | he helped make famous as a Fugee.

1 e f Jean ing is definite,” the Pratt senior said. “Until His diverse sound and mainstream all the details have been worked out, the chances are appeal should make the concert popular with a relastill pretty low that everything will come together.” tively wide array of Duke students. “Everyone’s got But Lessek, and another member of Major AttracMP3s by him, so he would probably [appeal] tions who wished to remain anonymous, said they have large group as long as the tickets are not too to a expenbeen informed that Wyclef is coming. ‘That’s exactly sive,” said Trinity sophomore Jason Koslofsky. what the head of the committee told me,” Lessek said Greg Pessin contributed to this story.

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President Bill Clinton and chair of the Palestine Liberation Authority Yasser Arafat agreed that a Middle East peace accord remains within reach this year, despite the likelihood that a key milestone slated for Feb. 13 would be missed.

Russian general reported missing Russian Maj. Gen. Mikhail Malofeyev vanished Tuesday. Russian officials said the general had been probably killed, but Chechen rebels insisted he had been captured alive and was being interrogated.

Spain will not appeal Britain’s decision Spain’s government touched off a legal debate, saying it will not appeal if Britain decides to free former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet rather than extradite him for trial in Spain.

Snow hits East Coast Winter delivered its first major blow to parts of the East Thursday, tangling air and ground traffic, closing schools and dropping blankets of

By KEVIN GALVIN Associated Press

WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton proposed a $3l billion plan Thursday to make college education more affordable and upbraided Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for suggesting that no major legislation would be enacted this election year.

The centerpiece of the proposal was a $lO,OOO tax deduction to help millions of Americans pay for tuition, books and university fees.

“When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable,” Clinton said.

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“Some in Congress, I note, are saying that because this is an election year we really shouldn’t try to do anything for the American people,” Clinton said. “Nothing, not a national election or a Washington snowstorm, should get in the way of making a college education more affordable for all Americans.”

By ROGER COHEN

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A leading finance official HAMBURG, Germany of Germany’s embattled Christian Democratic party committed suicide Thursday after leaving a note indicating he had become aware of crimes of embezzlement, the police said.

Wolfgang Huellen, the head of the Christian Democratic Union parliamentary delegation’s finance and budget department over the last 18 years, hanged himself in his Berlin apartment as a parliamentary investigation is getting underway into a web of illicit payments to the party in the 19905.

A Berlin prosecutor told the daily Bild that a criminal inquiry into embezzlement had been opened based on a passage in Huellen’s suicide note. The Friday issue of the Berliner Zeitung reported Huellen had said in his suicide letter that he was afraid of an audit

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The president was referring to a comment Lott, R-Miss., made to reporters a day earlier. Lott said “everyone needs to acknowledge there won’t be a lot of time for big new initiatives” on a shortened congressional calendar this year.

Skeptics question whether the policy proposals Clinton has made before his State of the Union address Jan. 27 can pass the Republican-controlled Congress. But White House officials, seeking to address those concerns, seized on Lott’s statement and insisted voters want action on education.

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Huellen, 49, the father of two children, became the first casualty of a widening scandal that has prompted repeated comparisons to the web of corruption whose

revelation brought down Italy’s Christian Democrats after the end of the Cold War. In Italy, several prominent public figures, including the former head of the state-owned oil company, killed themselves.

German Christian Democracy is not Italian Christian Democracy—it is better organized, it has not held a monopoly on postwar power and it represents a respectable German right in away that may be irreplaceable. Still, the headlines of“Deutschland alia Romana” have resonated, not least for the sheer operatic intensity of the drama.

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Trask OKs most recommendations on recreation fees

He announced his decision at the Academic Council meeting, which then focused on the botany/zoology merger

By RICHARD RUBIN

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With a few slight modifications, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask approved the gym fee structure pronosed by a committee last month, he at Thursday’s Academic

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As recommended, each semester will cost $75 for individuals and $125 for families, down from the $lOO fee implethe athletic demented this summer by by and criticized many faculpartment The new fee will be employees. and ty to retroactively Aug. 15, back applied as officials a “mess” logistical creating straighten out every account, he said.

er proposal adds a fee for using the gyms in the summer; the committee suggested that gym use should be free in the summer.

Because graduate and professional students already pay for the summer as part of their mandatory fee, Trask said after the meeting that he thought it would be unfair for them to subsidize others.

Also, he said, “There is demand and, especially in the summer, these buildings are expensive to air condition.”

Individuals, including undergraduates, will have the option to pay $25 for the summer; families will pay $4O.

Although all the overall changes will likely reduce the University’s revenue, Trask said he is “not tembly worried” about breaking even. “It’s close enough that I’m comfortable running the gamble.” He added that he is particularly unsure how many people will use the option of paying a small daily fee.

The reduced revenue may lower the level of service, Trask said, with fewer free programs included in the cost. He is also toying with the idea ofchanging the facilities’ hours so they are staffed 12 hours per day but open to card access all night—except for the pool and weight room.

The often fiery fee issue will likely recur periodically. “[We’ve] created another version of the parking conversation,” he said.

The majority of Thursday’s meeting was spent discussing another of the fall’s hot faculty topics: the proposed merger of the botany and zoology departments.

Administrators prefaced the discussion by saying that the procedural merger is only one part of an overall strategy for improving the biological sciences.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe announced that Duke will commit $3 million over the See BIOLOGY on page 6

Snow falls on Duke again, but classes go as scheduled session, other employees brought their children to work. “It’s been very convenient for me to bring them in here...said Claudette Parker, a staff assistant in the sociology department, as her two children played on the floor of her office. usual yesterday.

Still hopeful that they would not have Provost Peter Lange said he made class Thursday, hundreds of students the decision about holding classes sledded and snowafter watching WRAL’s doppler radar \r mi C balled on the quad as weather report at 6 a.m., when it iICWIS snow blanketed the seemed that the storm was sufficient- "D campus late Wednesly east of Durham to allow the Uni- Piitij day night. Trinity juversity to remain in session. nior Kathy Lin came He then sent an e-mail notifying acafrom Central Campus to West for snowdemic deans of his decision and his ratioball fights with her friends. “Everyone nale. ‘The snowfall has been light and, to last night, we all thought classes would use a technical term, fluffy,” he wrote. be canceled,” she said. “Everyone was Some employees said, however, the out enjoying the snow.” slushy streets made it difficult for them to drive to the University Thursday. T Transfer option into Trent singles didn’t get in until the afternoon, and I proves popular: Trent Dormitory may still found the roads treacherous,” said be the least desirable housing option for Hazel Carpenter, a secretary in the demany Duke students, but at least a partment of psychology. dozen students have applied for the 19 With Durham Public Schools out of See NEWS BRIEF’S on page 7

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Durham leaders ponder composition of next merger panel

By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

Now that both the Durham City Council and County Commission have approved funding for a cost-benefit analysis of the potential city-county merger, officials are jumping to the next step in the merger process: determining exactly who will serve on the charter commission.

Tuesday night’s city council meeting finalized the hiring of DMG Maximus, a Chicago-based consulting firm, to investigate the merger’s possible repercussions.

After unanimously approving the

some criticism from council members.

Pamela Blyth, for example, voiced concern about having a task force guided by political interest—an issue that has already come up in the county commission’s discussions about whether elected officials should be included on it.

“It’s important that it be citizen-driven and not political-driven,” the council member said after the meeting. “[Political action committees] don’t speak for broad [interests]. They speak for specific political interests.”

Tennyson’s memo partially addressed this issue by noting that “individuals are to be nominated as individuals, not as delegates from any group.”

And some council members said that because political action groups are mem-

$93,900 analysis, the council members discussed Mayor Nick Tennyson’s presentation about the possible composition of the charter commission, which will debers of the Durham community, they develop a blueprint for the merged government. Officials hope to have a November serve some voice in merger discussions.

‘They’re part of the diversity of opinreferendum on the task force’s plan.

The city council members and county ions in Durham,” said council member commissioners will meet together Jan. Lewis Cheek after the meeting. “Every31 to determine how to form the charter body has political ideas.... What you commission. hope is that people will come into the At Tuesday’s meeting, Tennyson sugprocess, regardless of what group they gested a system—which he devised come from, with an open mind.” jointly with County Commission Chair Along with discussing the types of MaryAnn Black—where county organipeople on the charter commission, counzations would nominate people to serve cil members have begun talking about on the task force. The city council and how many should serve. Suggestions for county commission would then approve the size of the group have ranged from or reject these choices and add several 20 to 50. at-large members to the group.

Several officials argue that a larger Along with this plan, Tennyson progroup is needed to adequately represent vided a potential list of 26 organizations Durham’s diverse population. “To bring the type of inclusiveness that this prothat would be able to nominate members. His list, which included several ject [requires], we really need to have as business, environmental and political many... as is reasonably possible,” said groups and the local universities, drew Mayor Pro Tempore Howard Clement,

“It’s important that it be citizen-driven and not political-driven.... [Political action committees] don’t speak for broad [interests]. They speak for specific political interests.”

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“[Political action committees are] part of the diversity of opinions in Durham.... Everybody has political ideas.... What you hope is that people will come into the process, regardless of what group they come from, with an open mind.”

City council member who supports a 50-member commission divided into six or seven subcommittees.

Likewise, Blyth cautioned against excluding any portion of the population. “If any group or number of groups feel disenfranchised as a result of the process, then [the merger referendum] will fail.”

But for many officials, the need for efficiency counterbalances the need for equitable representation. “Generally... a smaller number of people is preferable in terms of getting things done,” said Cheek, who suggested a group of about 35 or 40.

At a Jan. 10 meeting, county commissioners raised questions about whether elected officials should serve on the charter commission, and city council members are also looking into this issue.

Tennyson maintains that elected officials should not have a place on the task

force, noting that office-holders could be overburdened by what will definitely be a time-consuming project. He added that officials’ viewpoints could obscure those

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of the other members. “The inclusion of elected officials in any body of citizens has a tendency to create either greater or artificially less weight [for their opinions]/’Tennyson said.

Council member Brenda Burnette, who disapproves of the merger altogether, agreed with Tennyson to some extent, saying that eliminating public officials from the commission would help stop the potential for top-down manipulation.

On the other hand, Blyth noted that officials would bring much-needed government experience to a committee that will be designing a government. ‘There’s just a crucial perspective you have,” said Blyth, who is still undecided on this question.

Still, others said, elected officials will have opportunity for input, even if they are not actually members ofthe commission. ‘The charter commission isn’t going to operate in a vacuum,” Cheek said.

Christine Parkins contributed to this story.

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Neuroscientist analyzes human ability to look forward Canadian professor speaks about autonoetic consciousness, or the knowledge of a personal past and future

By LIANA ROSE The Chronicle

“The development of civilization as it stands is only because of an awareness of the existence of a future,” said Endel Tulving, the Tanenbaum chair in cognitive neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre at the University ofToronto during his lecture in a mostly-filled Love Auditorium yesterday.

Using his thesis, Tulving discussed with his audience of professors and students that this awareness is a unique form of memory that does not exist in other species and is primarily located within a specific

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Tulving defined the awareness of our personal past and future as autonoetic consciousness, also known as of memory requires you to travel back into your own past,” he said, contrasting autonoetic with semantic memory, which comprises activities like recalling a phone number, for example.

Other memories involve the past, but not the perTo illustrate the importance of episodic memory, Tulving discussed a patient whom he calls K.C. The patient is a 50 year-old man who suffered from a traumatic brain injury as a result of a motorcycle accident 20 years ago.

He remembers the rules ofchess, though he cannot play a very good game, and can elaborate on the details of the latest Star Wars movie.

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During his lecture, Tulving asked why episodic memory evolved in humans and what purpose it serves. ‘The adaptive value lies not in being able to remember facts but in... an awareness of subjective time,” Tulving said. ‘The most important human capacity... is our ability to be consciously aware of an existence of the future and take account of it [in our actions].”

Like other forms of memory, episodic memory has been localized to a specific brain region. Tulving said that likely candidates had included any “place in the brain that’s recently evolved... and whose functions are unknown.”

Using PET imaging, Tulving and his colleagues determined that the portion of the brain closest to the forehead, known as the prefrontal cortex, is active when people are involved in a task using episodic memory.

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ENDEL TULVING described the mental phenomenon known as episodic memory.

“He also cannot tell you anything about his own future,” Tulving said.

In short, unlike other humans, K.C. cannot travel into his own past or future, so he cannot, for example, describe what he will do for the remainder of his day.

Although Tulving’s theory proposes that animals do not have this kind of memory, he conceded that there is no real evidence to prove or disprove this as-

ized to the right hemisphere of this part of the brain. Tulving warned his audience, however, that “the past is not in the right prefrontal cortex.” That part of the brain is simply prominently used when a test subject is involved in a task that requires episodic memory.

So, having determined the primary location of episodic memory, Tulving asked his audience to consider the location of autonoetic awareness of the future.

“Where is the awareness of the future? I cannot tell you because the research has not been done yet,” Tulving quipped, encouraging younger members of the audience to go into the labs and find out.

Interested in Wyclef, Academic Council, neurobiology, the city-county merger, medical Become a Chronicle reporter. E-mail Rich at rsr@duke.edu.

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In Security Council speech, Helms calls U.N. ungrateful The North Carolina senator said the United Nations should lower its funding expectations from the United States cleaned the creek and disinfected the area. The From staff and wire reports Jesse became the first U.S Helms, R-N.C., Sen. North Carolina Department of Environment, Health lawmaker ever to address the United Nations Secuand Natural Resources will investigate. rity Council Thursday, criticizing the UN. for not North Carolina ski resorts flourish: The state’s showing enough gratitude to the United States for its efforts within the organization. recent snowstorms have allowed local ski resorts to He insisted that UN. should lower its expected rebound from the poor season last year, when warm contribution from the United States, and should weather delayed the resorts’ openings until midapply that lower standard to the funds that the UnitDecember—the latest in 15 years—and returned in ed States already owes the organization.

January, melting the snow.

Ski industry officials expect more “The money we spend on the U.N. is not than 500,000 skiers and snowboarders charity,” Helms declared. “To the contrary, it is an investment —an investment from to generate about $l6O million this which the American people rightly expect 01*1018 season at the state’s resorts, most of a return which rely on manufactured snow. This He added that while the Security Council year, the resorts opened when temperatures dropped had “admirably” ended the Iraqi conflict in 1990-1991, it just before Christmas.

“When it’s snowing down in the Piedmont, that’s had been “paralyzed” in Kosovo.

In response to Secretary General Kofi Annan’s real good news for us because it makes people excitcalls for “global engagement,” Helms said the U.N. ed about skiing,” said Gil Adams, marketing director “must respect national sovereignty” and not seek “to of Ski Beech. “What a lot of people don’t realize is impose its utopian vision of international law on that it can be balmy down the mountain and we can Americans.” be cranking out the snow up here in the mountains.”

With snow predicted for the weekend, ski resorts Durham sewer overflows; The Department of officials are ecstatic. “It looks like Colorado up here in the mountains,” Brad Moretz, assistant general Public Works reported that city crews found a sanitary sewer main overflowing at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. manager at Appalachian Ski Mountain.

Officials at public works reported that about 125,000 UNCC faculty ask for parity; UNC-Charlotte gallons of sewage spilled into the creek next to the off-ramp of Hwy. 70 and West Geer Street. faculty members are asking University of North By 1 p.m. Wednesday, crews contained the spillage Carolina President Molly Broad to support tuitionand cleared the offending blockage. Public works increase proposals at UNCC and two other UNC

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As part of a comprehensive plan to pay for a varj. ety of needs at UNC campuses, Broad has proposed a 2.1 percent across-the-board tuition increase and special tuition increases of $2OO per student at North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill, She has rejected similar requests from UNC-Charlotte UNC-Wilmington and East Carolina University, “All members of the UNC system compete with each other, peer institutions, and institutions in all classifications in the recruitment and retention of

high-quality faculty,” the UNC-Charlotte faculty council said in a resolution adopted Thursday.

Limiting the special tuition increases to UNCChapel Hill and N.C. State sends a message that those institutions are more important to the state than the majority of the universities that constitute the UNC system, the council’said.

In an earlier resolution, the faculty council expressed strong support for Broad’s plan for a new, systemwide academic facilities fee.

The proposed fee marks the first time that UNC students have been asked to pay for the construction of classrooms and laboratories.

The fee would be $lOO next year and would grow to $275 in three years.

“We recognize the great costs to our institution and to the future education of our students if no action is taken to improve capital funding,” the council said.

The UNC Board of Governors plans to vote on Broad’s proposals at its upcoming meeting in Chapel Hill.

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next 18 months for long-awaited renovations to the Biological Sciences Building and will add three graduate fellowships to the new department.

Several faculty members asked for a clear rationale for the merger.

“It’s not clear to me at all why you take two good departments and make one big department,” said Professor of Chemistry Barbara Ramsay Shaw.

Administrators stressed that a merged department would best accommodate future changes in the field and improve coordination with biologically oriented departments in Duke’s other schools.

Some professors said they would feel more comfortable approving the plan if the botany faculty fol-

lowed the lead of their zoology counterparts by formally voting for the merger.

Chafe said he will ask department chair Donald Stone to reconsider his decision not to hold a vote. Although botany faculty have resisted merger in the past, many have said publicly that they support the current plan.

IN OTHER BUSINESS: As this week’s snow turned to slush, Provost Peter Lange responded to faculty concerns about the University’s severe weather policy. In a memo to the council, Divinity School Professor of Church History Russell Richey suggested that each school be allowed to determine

whether to cancel classes.

Lange said such a policy would complicate the al-

ready-difficult task of informing thousands of employees about administrative decisions. He explained that he and Trask have been communicating with state and local officials about the weather and the status ofroads. “If we decentralize the decision, we are then leaving the decision to people with less information about the conditions,” he said.

The council passed a resolution supporting a new master’s in health sciences degree in clinical leadership.

Terming himself a lame duck, council chair and Professor of Law Robert Mosteller announced the two candidates who will compete in a February election to succeed him: Professor of Classical Studies Peter Burian and Helen Ladd, professor of public policy studies and economics.

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double rooms in Trent that will be used as singles, said Bill Burig, assistant dean of student development.

The double rooms, which are currently vacant, will be assigned to students tomorrow. The inhabitants will pay the higher cost of a single.

This is the first time a mid-year lottery has been held for vacant rooms in Trent, Burig said, although such lotteries have been held for other locations in the past. “And there’s at least one student who applied who is a senior not living in Trent,” he said.

Speculating over the appeal of the offer, some students admitted that there are worse housing situations than living in Trent. “I would consider moving if I didn’t get along with my roommate,” said Pratt sophomore Kim Novick.

Others believed the offer was most attractive to current Trent residents. “My roommate and I could split the cost of upgrading to a single and make the extra room into a lounge, with some sofas and a television,” said Trinity sophomore Darren Lew, who lives in Trent.

Burig noted that the Housing Assignment Office is free to fill reassignment requests by placing students in the spaces opened by those who move to Trent. However, if those spots aren’t mled, the occupants of those rooms will still pay the price for a double room.

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Duke Student Government will sponsor an interaction-promoting “fishbowl” today at 3 p.m. The exercise is designed to help improve dialogue between Asian and Hispanic students.

The Community Interaction Committee is sponsoring the discussion, to be held in the House G commons room.

Representatives of Mi Gente and the Asian Students Association will lead the events, but it is open to all members of the community.

A fishbowl is a method of communication where members of a particular group take turns sharing life experiences, hopefully improving understanding with the other party—which sits outside and watches, like people observing fish in a bowl.

The first DSG-sponsored fishbowl was held Nov. 12, and featured dialogue between black and Jewish students.

“We received a great deal of positive feedback from the last fishbowl as a new way to organize critical discussions,” said Committee chair and Trinity senior Jeremy Huff. “It provides a more intimate setting and hopefully encourages the participants and observers to continue the conversation even after it ends.”

Huff said the goals of the fishbowl include getting away from a black-white dialogue on race and inspiring action.

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But, Eisenberg Much will depend on the stated health organizationdidas hold up one a model of purpose of reporting medical errors. how to effectively use computers to If the data are used primarily by the prevent medical mistakes: the Vetermedical profession to learn from the ans Administration. errors, it may not become public.

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Don’t fear beer The athletic department’s policy about alcohol purchases on food points is misguided: It separates athletes from their peers in an illogical and arbitrary fashion

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and professors often castigate athletic departments when athletes appear to be receiving special privileges. There should be equal alarm when a policy discriminates against athletes. Sadly, there is such a policy at Duke University.

A long-standing athletic department policy bars students on full athletic scholarships from using food points to purchase alcohol.

Many athletes over 21 can’t understand why they don’t enjoy the same privileges as their peers.

They have ample reason to disagree with the athletic department’s alcohol policy—it is baseless, filled with loopholes and unenforceable.

Scholarship varsity athletes receive University-funded food points. Because the money comes directly from the University, the athletic department feels justified in doing what it believes to be in the best interests of its athletes. However, when students who receive aid from Duke buy beer, they are technically spending University money.

This policy creates ridiculous circumstances for athletes. For example, why do athletes who live off-campus get a stipend—which they can spend on anything they choose—while on-campus athletes are hamstrung? And why isn’t this rule season-specific? There is no good reason why a 21-year-old senior football player can’t get a beer on points in January.

It would be one thing if the University were serious about retarding the flow of alcohol to all its students. However, this is a campus where beer on points can be purchased until 2 a.m. Considering that administrators have created an environment where alcohol is available, it is hypocritical of them to deny the same access to beer to a small minority of students.

Granted, alcohol can impair an athlete’s performance. However, lots of things available on food points are just as—if not more unhealthy. It is doubtful that a steady diet of Ho-Ho’s and chicken nuggets is any less healthy than a beer every now and then.

One of the more annoying aspects of this situation is the athletic department’s lack ofrationale behind the policy. Nobody seems to know when or how this rule was implemented, and the status reigns illogically.

A more reasonable alternative would be if coaches were in charge ofcreating alcohol policies specific to their team. It’s OK if a coach doesn’t want her athletes drinking beer during the season. If athletes violate team policy, let the coach handle discipline. But an overarching, heavy-handed inflexible rule creates athletic scholarships with unnecessary strings attached.

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No culture is objectively better than any other In his column published

Jan. 18, Alex Epstein raises

an interesting question—are some cultures objectively better than others? The answer on my part is a resounding no! In his book

Against Method Paul Feyerabend makes precisely this point. He says that all traditions (and cultures) acquire desirable or undesirable characteristics only when viewed from the perspective of another tradition or culture. Indeed, it can be argued that there are a few ideas universally repulsive to all cultures, whether they are “backward” or “forward,” such as murder or mass genocide. But such ideas are ,

few and far between.

Certainly “science and reason” or “rationality and individualism” are not such

choices on behalf of other culideas. These are the yardsticks which Epstein uses to tures, if anything, is the one measure cultures. He and objectively wrong quality of many others do not realize some cultures. that the “scientific worldjudgments that All view” or “rationality” have Epstein—or for that matter been dominant features of anybody—makes will always only a few cultures in be implicitly based on the human history (e.g. the assumption of superiority of ancient Greeks and the the founding tenets of the modern industrial civilizaindustrial/Western way of tion) and have no objectivelife, including science and ly superior standing in technology, rationality and individuality. The conclusion themselves.

There are many so-called will be a foregone one: that all the non-scientific, lowlow-technology/savage/backward/tribal cultures in the technology cultures are world—and there is nothing “inferior.” Human happiness, wrong with them. In fact, which should be the forethey often ask to be left alone most pursuit of all cultures, and do not force their way of is not contingent on any of life on the rest of the world. these issues.

This has precisely been the occupation of the industrial Amu Basole culture for the past 300 Graduate student, years. The practice of making Department of Neurobiology

for referenced column, see Http:! www.chronicle.duke.edu /export www /www_docs /chronicle/2000/01 /18 /1 lJudgingcultures.html /

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Greatness comes from avoiding errors in judgment Ray Holloman’s column in the Jan. 19 edition of The Chronicle makes the right point, but uses the wrong person to illustrate it. Try to be a good man, and the world will remember. I’ve heard the advice many times, and I do my best to follow it. I don’t claim to know much about Bobby Phills or his career,

but I do know that his life was ended by a single unnecessary act of indiscretion.

Like Pete Rose’s gambling, The Race Gone Wrong will be a label that will follow Phills into infamy. I think basketball will eventually forgive Bobby Phills. I know I will.

But we need to take alesson away from all of this—the

squandering of such a talent is an incredible shame. Many

of us try to be great men, and it is hard not to make mistakes, but the truly great always look before they leap, and never waste what they’ve been given.

Jim Fitzpatrick Trinity 'o3

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of the parking conversation.”

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask referring to running some facilities during the summer (see story’ page 3)

Announcement Applications for an at-large membership to The Chronicle’s Editorial Board are now available at 301 Flowers Building. They.are due Feb. 2.. If you have an questions, please contact Norm Bradley at nsb2@duke.edu.

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In last week's’issue of Recess, we ran a story questioning the striking similarities between the cover of the Counting Crows' album This Desert Life and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace. We even, well, accused the Crows of plagiarism. Maybe that was a stretch, as some of our readers pointed out, but after hearing from them, we still question the Crows' lack of originality. Here area couple of letters that we received: In response to Kevin Pride's Jan. 13 article titled "Can you say... plagiarism?," blaming the Counting Crows of robbing artwork from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. 1ask a different question; WHAT?! In the words of a great philosopher, "You better check yourself before you wreck yourself."

The Counting Crows have in no way committed any form of "blatant plagiarism." The cover illustration of their latest, and quite possibly greatest album, This Desert Life, gives credit where it is due. And geesh Kevin, you didn't even get the friggin' book right, pal!

The picture is from the book The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman (White Book Press), and the reference to % 4 this can be found in the front of the lyric book in the Counting Crows' album.

LCaslds So before you go bashing any more birds, take your own advice, Kevin: '.'..[You've] gone too far." And please, give the Counting Crows the honor they Very respectfully, deserve.

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Recess senior editor Norbert Schurer caught up with Levy at his cabin In Puerto Pico, where the filmmaker is working on several new projects. Although the conversation took place in German, we translated it for your convenience.

The Giraffe Meschugge, in Yiddish, means crazy or nuts —and is the original German title of Dani Levy's film that in English is called The Giraffe. The movie—which stars Levy himself next to his long-time partner Maria Schrader—centers on two young people, a Jewish New Yorker and a German woman, who in the course of the tale discover the entanglement of their two families in their

Could that change with your film?

Films such as mine and Life Is Beautiful show the German audience that the subject does not necessarily have to be a boring, educational problem, but that it can be treated fictionally and entertainingly.

Three films came out almost simultaneously; Life' Is Beautiful, Meschugge and Aimee and Jaguar, so there was sort of a revival of the subject, even though the three movies were completely different, Aimee and Jaguar for instance introducing the second taboo subject of homosexuality.

Are you responsible for the English title?

We aren't completely happy with either the German or the English title. Meschugge was the title we used for the 10 years we worked on the project. At the beginning of those 10 years, it was even meschuggener than the present product, it was more unrealistic and metaphysical and mystical—there were more daydreams and visions; Kaminski was a golem. When we were done, it became clear to us that internationally, except in Jewish neighborhoods in big cities, nobody would understand the word. We looked for a title that would work in the international market and finally settled on The Giraffe—but never felt we hit the jackpot with that. We stuck with Meschugge in Germany, but I'm not sure if that was a smart decision.

Where did the idea for the film come from?

I developed the idea with my long-time partner, Maria Schrader. We were a German-Jewish couple, myself being a Jew and Maria German. It was not autobiographical at all, but it was still myself with a schiksa. I was greatly fascinated by my Jewish past and my Jewish identity. We decided to do a love story with a German-Jewish couple at its center which is confronted by the hidden, secret past of their families against their wishes.

What about your own family's history?

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Except for an intellectual elite, the subject of the Holocaust is disliked and taboo. It is taught in schools as a subject, but most young people feel like they've heard too much of it. My movie encountered this issue: Most people in Germany, especially potential movie audiences, were not interested in dealing with the subject; it made them feel,like they had to do homework again. In Germany, the Holocaust is connected with guilt and morals and pointed fingers, so most people get turned off by the subject, emotionally and intellectually.

Did you shoot the film mostly in English to attract an international audience?

No—the main reason the movie was shot in English is because it is set in New York. The protagonist's mother had to flee somewhere authentic. We wanted to tell a story in a Jewish community that was more normal on a day-to-day basis than it could have been in Europe, where Jews are a minority.

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grants. She was smuggled from Berlin into Switzerland in 1939; that was an amazing story, one year after the Kristallnacht, when it was already incredibly difficult to leave Germany. At home, this subject was pretty much taboo for us.

This film was an opportunity to revisit my family's past, if only on a fictional level.

Where can The Giraffe currently be seen in the US? The film is only showing on the festival circuit, mostly at Jewish festivals. But I get the feeling it is completely irrelevant whether audiences are Jewish or no t—they all enjoy the film. At the same time, the film is very controversial, or better, sophisticated, and leads to many discussions with different emphases.

Older people tend to be more interested in the Holocaust topic, while younger people are more curious about the constellation of the love story.

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The Giraffe is part love story, part detective drama, part Holocaust tragedy. It is also, unusually for a German film, shot almost entirely in English—and boasts David Strathairn as a lawyer with a past in the Jewish Defense League.

The Giraffe will be showing this weekend at the second annual North Carolina Jewish Film Festival. This festival will screen 18 films at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham and will also offer speakers and panels, children's programming, a performance of comedian Sherry Glaser's Family Secrets and a live show with the local Magnolia Klezmer Band.

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One of the best examples of this is Snoop Doggy Dogg, one of the most successful rappers of the 19905, In 1992, Snoop made his debut on the Deep Cover soundtrack alongside the already successful Dr. Dre.The duo’s song, "Deep Cover," shot up the billboard charts while the song's video played in heavy rotation on MTV. In the end, the utterly average movie, Deep Cover, achieved relative box office success, due NO, REALLY, 13 IS A LUCKY NUMBER... HONEST: Jamie Foxx has two songs on the largely to the propulsion provided by the success Any Given Sunday soundtrack. A! Pacino does not. of its soundtrack. all over it.

If the Any Given Sunday soundtrack is any indication, the ever-observant director Oliver Stone {JFK, It's just too bad that about half of the songs on the album suck. Hole, Godsmack, Trick Daddy and Mystikal Born on the Fourth of July) has taken serious note of all fall short, and the one song by DMX, the man most this trend. Most of the songs on the album feature poplikely to boost sales, weighs in just under a paltry ular hip-hop artists, with a few exceptions being made minute in length. for rock/metal bands. Consider the prospects—you combine the cocky, intense, and often individualistic sport of The Next Friday soundtrack suffers a similar fate as that of Any Given Sunday—for every track that football with a musical genre notorious for violence and braggadocio. The bumps and grinds, there's another track that result is a hell of a lot of boasting and pretty much sucks. Ice Cube, who produced a ton of taunting. the entire album, has one of the best songs on A surprisingly cohesive collection, "You Can Do It" with Mack 10 and Ms.Toi. It strong only seems proper that the guy who wrote of the feature a many songs and produced the movie have one of the best orchestral element, particularly "Who songs on the soundtrack.

You Gonna Call" by Missy and "Misdemeanor" Elliott "Never But not the best. The BigTymers, Lil' Wayne and Mack 10 hold that spot with "Good Friday.''

Coin' Back" by Mobb Deep. When the hard lyrics and sound of the rapWith their characteristic video game-sounding with the ping combine soothing qualibackground beats and ensemble rapping, the I J*— y^rv m? of the orchestral ty background, a Cash Money Millionaires exhibit why their aura eeriness records strange emerges keep climbing up the charts. of Other tracks showcase the talents The much-heralded return of N.W.A., with Snoop Dogg in tow, on "Chin Check" is a disof hip-hop's finest. On "Sole Sunday," southern playas Goodie Mob and appointment. Rather than the tight funk of Outkast flow in their usual upbeat t their early '9os music, "Chin Check" sounds manner over a smooth cymbal-driven like a last minute throw-together.

-U-J, _4 beat. One song later, on "Shut 'Em But when all is said and done, perhaps the best thing to come from both of these albums Down," L.L. Cool J (who also stars in the movie) raps in an uncharacteristically fast tempo, a is the debut of 17-year-old Lil' Zane with "Money diversion from his standard laid-back approach. He pulls Stretch" on Next Friday. The song begins with a solo it off, but the song's chorus almost ruins the song by funk guitar strum, followed by a rushing beat and then Zane's fresh voice lacing the track. He pulls the entire disrupting L.L.'s flow.

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Aimee Mann (formerly of the 'Bos post-new age group 'Til Tuesday) wrote most of the album, displaying an impressive talent for lyrics and melody.

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While the movie may be rambling and fragmented, these songs act to tie the characters together by highlighting their isolation, fear and fragile humanity.

Aimee Mann shines through on this project as a real female talent, combining the musical chops of Sheryl Crow or Joan Osborne with a strong lyrical prowess. Also included on the soundtrack are four bonus tracks from the movie, including two catchy Supertramp offerings and a haunting score by ..

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sional appearance of barbecue at the Pits, the Duke experience is not a Southern experience, culinary or

AN ARTISTS RENDERING OF THE RESTAURANT IN QUESTION: Mama Dip's Kitchen may not look like your home, but the food sure is good.

otherwise. We re a campus teeming with Long Islanders and Californians chomping Alpine bagels and groovy burritos, chasing it all down with incalculable gallons of cafe mocha and cookies 'n' cream fro-yo.

There's scarcely a full cars worth of whisky-swilling good ol' boys among the masses of SUV-pimpinq carpetbaggers. Eating on West is like eating at the mall—you've got the generic Chinese place, the sloppy Tex-Mex and the questionable sub sandwiches, with greasy burgers, pizza and fried "chicken" sandwiches competing for your heart disease dollars. it's more of the same. If you grew up in the South (the real South, not Atlanta or northern Virginia), the mallish selection can bring a tear to your eye.

Fear not, TA3TE INFO utes away. authenticity is just minMama Dip's Kitchen Mama Dip's Kitchen, nestled along a 405 W. Rosemary St. less-traveled section of Rosemary Chapel Hill, NC Street in Chapel Hill, hits you like a y (919) 942-5837 breath of rarefied Southern air, the air , . that smells of pine needles and ome cooking. The restaurant looks like an old house, with a generous whitewashed front porch and big, inviting windows. Inside, there's none of the gaudy Cracker Barrel hodgepodge that the untutored might expect from a "Southern'' restaurant.

The place is spotless from floor to ceiling, well-lit and pleasantly decorated. The atmosphere is sunny even at night, with plenty of light reflecting off the polished Crimson Tide colore tables. Coffee cup planters—with real plants in them—sit in each window From the dining room, you can watch the kitchen staff work, mgent in the calm, easy way that Southerners are, talking, smiling and joking as they fry and baste and bake and grill. They take their time and it right, just like their mothers and grandmothers would at home.

Mama Dip—real name Mildred Council—runs her restaurant the way shed probably run her own kitchen. Though she is 70 years old, she still supervises and cooks, coming in every day at the crack of dawn to start Preparing the biscuits, cornbread, cakes and pies that will be served roughout the day. Many of the people who work at the restaurant are relatives—family pictures adorn the walls as you walk inside. Sit down and taste the exceptional cooking, and you'll never want to leave. ow Southern is Mama Dips? Very. Iced tea only comes one way—sweet, without lemon. Food toppings go way beyond ketchup to include molasses, hot peppers, gravy and The menu selections onions. re reminiscent of past Sunday dinners—chicken and dumplings, smothered pork chops, barbecue, fried chicken and roast beef served with fresh-cooked vegetables like okra, black-eyed peas, yams n turnip greens. Dinner is served with a choice of cornbread, yeast oils or delectable biscuits with the just the right amount of buttermilk verythmg melts in your mouth, steeped in gravy or fatback or boiled to st Perfection. Even with the strong regional flavor, Mama Dip's ’ for everybody. There are salmon cakes and shrimp for eatood lovers, liver and onions and ribs for beef lovers, and even sal°

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ads for the weight-watchers (ask for Dip's poppy-seed dressing). For the truly proper—or adventurous-chitlins (fried or "just plain") are served up a rarity even in the soul food world.

Since even fear chitlins, ordered smothered pork chops with yams fried okra and two biscuits. Tasting the smooth, brown meat gravy over chops so ten er could cut them with a fork, felt like was savoring the past, quaffing redemption with every sip of just-sweet-enough iced tea. Dip's put me on a back porch in Alabama, on a fishing boat floating downriver on a humid afternoon. This wasnt just a meal—it was Southern heritage on a plate.

Dips did everything right. Southern cooking is often seen as greasy mainly " he ! ryin9 ' Unfort unately, most fail to realize that it's incorrect frying (the McFastfood way) that produces soggy crinkle-wrapped hamburgers and ned chicken. The okra was as greaseless and moist as any I've tasted, breaded just lightly enough to let the flavor of the vegetable come through. The yams weren t quite to die for, but they sure beat the hell out of Yankee yams And, like any good Southerner, saved room for dessert. There are pies galore-coconut, pecan, apple and sweet potato-along with brownie sundaes and bread or banana pudding. The sweet potato pie was sublime, avoiding the tendency to kill the flavor of the vegetable with too much nutmeg.

When told Tanya, the woman who rang me up, that my dinner was incredible, she didn't look surprised. That's probably because she's Mama Dip's granddaughter, and according to her, she's worked there a long time. She's been there for hundreds and hundreds of beaming customers, sated and satisfied, all who now know the privilege of eating at Mama's house. Because once you've eaten there, you'll never feel the same about those bagels and burritos again □

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The city's established names read like a Who's Who of top-rated

southern restaurants: Magnolia Grill, Nana's, Parizade—the hit list goes on.

Even with the tough competition, Four Square Restaurant sits well abreast of its rivals. Located on Chapel Hill Road, the antebellum-style mansion radiates serenity, quality and class amid much more modest surroundings. The interior decor matches the restaurant's exterior reserve. There's a lot of clean, varnished wood and crisp, white linen in sight, along with tastefully arranged local art (a guide is available upon request). The minimal ornamentation, similar to that of the Magnolia Grill, gives the restaurant the proper focus —the food.

Four Square's contemporary American fare strikes a delicate balance between the eclectic and conservative. The menu is unsurprising—no wacky burritos or questionable fruit purees on the list—but it is presentation and taste, not exotic dishes and ingredients, that make a good meal. The wine list reflects a commitment to quality over pretense; for every high-priced selection, there's a worthwhile $2O bottle to match. The diversity and consistency of offerings show the place to be as comfortable serving slabs of meat as they are a delicate pasta or fish fillet.

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For Shane Ingram, running a restaurant is "what I always planned for my life." Now he is fulfilling his dream with his wife Elizabeth Woodhouse at Durham's latest address for fine dining: 2701 Chapel Hill Road, the home of Four Square, a new restaurant for contemporary American cuisine only a few minutes away from campus.

After attending the Academy of Culinary Arts in Mays Landing, the New Jersey native worked as a chef all over the country. For instance, he was at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City for five years and with Emeril Lagasse at his trend-setting restaurant Emerii's in New Orleans for two more.

After marrying Woodhouse—herself a pastry chef—the two took a food-and-wine tour of Europe, visiting France, Belgium, Germany and other countries. On their return, they moved to North Carolina, where Ingram worked at the Fearrington House Restaurant in Fearrington Village outside of Chape! Hill. When Woodhouse found the site of their current establishment, the couple decided to go into business on their own. Four Square opened last October, with Ingram doing most of the cooking, while Woodhouse contributes to management and decor, along with providing the desserts.

Ingram describes his cooking as an amalgam of his culinary experi-

ences, or "influences from my persona! history." In addition, the menu (which changes every month) offers regional specialties, even in the winter season. The red trout currently available, for instance, comes from a farm in Virginia, and the mustard greens in the grilled mahi mahi (that’s a fish, in case you're wondering) are typical North Carolina fare. Other menu items are bought from local producers in'places such as the Carrboro farmer's market.

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menu, right below an exquisite vegetable lasagna with oyster mushrooms, baby fennel and pea puree.

For the more adventurous eater, Four Square offers a pan-seared duck breast with duck confit cannelloni, garnished with dried cranberries and a porcini scented duck reduction. Of the four seafood offerings, the bacon-wrapped sturgeon (caviar is made from its eggs) wins the prize for originality, while the panseared salmon with artichoke, caper, dried tomato and calamato olive ragout and wild rice takes a spectacular variation on the traditional.

All of the food proved exceptional in both appearance and flavor. Four Square's emphasis on presentation gives its offerings the touch of elegance that justifies the high price tag. The service was extremely attentive and personal—all of our entrees were served simultaneously by separate waiters. The service was there when we needed it, invisible when we didn't. As for the food, it was garnished with equal flair and attention. It's almost hard to eat a meal that looks like artwork; with fried leeks riding atop my rubbed veal chop, with sprinklings of parsley flecking the plate's white space, the entree made me feel like I was eating a Renoir. The 'sandwich' of portobello mushrooms and creamed leeks that

accompanied the veal was divine, dripped with a Port wine cream sauce that also gave a subtle edge

to the meat.

Dessert is one area where some Durham restaufants fall flat, but Four Square triumphed there as well. Along with a selection of homemade ice creams and sorbets, the dessert menu boasted delectable

comes around, Ingram adds, the venison will be local as well.

Beyond the excellent food, however, Four Square gains much of its charm from its location; The building that now houses the restaurant —and previously was the site of other dining establishments—was built in 1908 by Bartlett Mangum, a Durham business magnate, in the late Victorian Colonial Revival style. Since four

rooms branch out from a central corridor on each of the floors, this style is also known as Tour FULRILUNG A DREAM: Elizabeth Woodhouse square.' Furthermore, the high and Shane Ingram have a glass of wine in their roofline, the many projecting new restaurant. wings and windows and the colossal two-story porch are typical of T the era. Where Mangum ran a brickyard and a lumber mill across the street from his house now stands a grocery store topped by a full-size cow, another Durham landmark.

The architectural style of the mansion and the fact that food is served on two floors give the restaurant an intimate appeal, almost like dining at home. This atmosphere is reinforced by the artwork on the walls, which Woodhouse solicited on loan from local artists at customers' suggestions.

Until now, Four Square has mostly attracted Durham patrons, whom Ingram calls "the most sophisticated diners in the area," but in the future, he hopes to expand his customer base to Chape! Hilt and Raleigh.

In addition to the food, Ingram believes that the unique wine collection will be a draw. The restaurant, currently open for dinner from 5 pm and for group luncheons, also offers facilities for private dining and can be rented as whole.

winners like white chocolate pistachio brittle cheesecake and a roasted banana cream tartlet with peanut nougat and spirals of dark and milk chocolate sauce.

The special was a generous serving of apple cider ice cream wedged between two giant oatmeal cookies my guest didn't leave an ounce on her plate.

New restaurants like Four Square show that Durham's tradition of fine dining endures. Its topnotch service, unique location, ■ refined presentation few and consistent quality make it a superb choice for a quiet dinner with the parents or that crucial third date. The restaurant is fine enough to impress somebody, but abandons the ostentation and pretense that could scare people away. Mainstays like Nana's and the tm Magnolia Grill should watch their backs Four Square is going to make it a tight race for dominance in the Durham restaurant scene

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The Hurricane DIR: NORMAN JEWISON. WITH: DENZEL WASHINGTON, VICELLOUS REON SHANNON, DEBORAH UNGER.

First off, The Hurricane is a fictionstory. It is not completely "facA- tual." This sets it apart from all the other life-story movies that are totally factual, like Chaplin, Amadeus, The Messenger...

Oh wait a minute, those are fictionalized too.

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and they, argue and they insult each other all the way over to Las Vegas in Davidovich's convertible. Why is she in the movie? She just drives the car, and may even have worse lines than Banderas and Harrelson combined.

Enter the second useless female character. Stopping at a roadside diner, our illustrious trio meet a slut of a high school student named Lia (Ally Mcßeal's Lucy Liu). She pays for their lunch, and then allows Boudreau to pump her at a local gas station. Here they are standing up!

Here they're on a stack of tires! From the front! From behind! Look my legs are over my head! Preparing for that role must have been difficult— "Now this is the scene where Woody gets on you and..." Then she gets punched out and that's the end of High School Skank.

More fights. More insults. And then they arrive in Vegas. More boredom. Dominguez and Boudreau sign their contracts without even reading them, and here ensues the boxing match. Punch punch.

Blood squirting. These two best friends are pounding into each other!

How could they do such a horrible thing? The horror. More punching and squirting.

In the meantime, Robert Wagner, Fight Promoter Extraordinaire, sexually harasses Grace and Teen Slut magically appears ringside with Rod Stewart. woke up just in time to see the cameos of Tony Curtis, Kevin Costner, Wesley Snipes and James Woods.

Ron Shelton ineptly wrote and directed this embarrassingly horrid movie, which is surprising because he scored much better with Bull Durham and Tin Cup. Every scene is worse than the last, and then, magically, it ends. There should be an Academy Award for the worst possible ensemble acting imaginable.

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Don t let these nit-pickers stop you from experiencing The Hurricane. Some facts may have been hazed over, but that does not take away from the testimony of racism, corruption and injustice that is Rubin Carter's life. It is a marvelous allegory that shows the pen is and always will be mightier than the sword.

Denzel Washington dazzles as the champion middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. In perhaps his best performance to date, Washington evinces a charisma and strength that is so powerful on screen he will effortlessly carry your attention throughout the film. The other

actors are sufficient and serve their parts well, especially the young Lesra (Vicellous Reon Shannon), the warm-hearted and determined teenager who provides away to relate to the powerful Hurricane.

The story is as much about Lesra's life as Carter's. Living with three Canadian tutors in order to further his education and make it to college (according to history, they live as a commune), Lesra buys his first book after learning to read and write; the story of the Hurricane.

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Days Don't Cry. directed and written by first-time filmmaker Kimberly Peirce, is the true story of Teena Brandon, a teenager who has a sexual identity crisis. Brandon (Hilary Swank) elects to chop her hair short, tape down her breasts, stuff her shorts and perfect her walk in order to look like a boy.

She inverts her name to Brandon Teena and leaves her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. At a rural Nebraska bar, Brandon falls in with a group that can only be called white trash—no euphemism can do them justice. As the film unfolds, Brandon's secret unravels—what was a haunting tale of belonging and love warps into a tragic, lurid hate crime.

Swank —who spent a year on Beverly Hi 115.90210 —plays Brandon as a sharp but confused teen who is fighting against a system that wants no part of her or her identity crisis. Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco) plays Brandon's new-found lover, a depressed loner who hates the desolation of life in rural Nebraska and finds salvation in her mysterious lover.

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A story about sexual identity that takes place in a locale like rural Nebraska runs the risk of sinking into stereotypes about people, regions and sexual "norms." Aided by powerful acting, precise directing, great writing, sharp cinematography and intense editing, Boys Don't Cry stays afloat, and is my choice for "best picture of 1999.''D

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Lesra decides that it's his job to free the Hurricane, writing letters and finally going to visit Carter in prison. Lesra's three Canadian tutors move to New Jersey to be near the Hurricane and work nonstop uncovering the truth of his case, sending it to the federal

paternal relationship that blosHIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME: Denzel Washington's performance as unjustly imprissoms between Lesra and oned boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter may be the best of his career.

Carter is subtle and beautiful, Cameron, I never know what to expect at the and it ultimately breaks Carter free. Just as the Awards. But I can only hope Academy courts finally overcome racial prejudice, Carter Washington gets the Oscar he deserves for a fabovercomes his own prejudices and dares to ulous performance. hope again.

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When was the last time you saw a really good holiday musical, the kind that you walk out of with a really goofy grin or a craving for hot chocolate and graham crackers? 1 know that over break, I did not go to the Nutcracker; I saw The Simpson’s Christmas Special instead. Luckily, Hoof 'n' Horn has pro-

vided the perfect remedy: The Fantasticks.

As I watched the talented cast's kicking legs, clad in plaid and swirling skirts, move across the stage, all that was missing was my parents on either side of me. Watching the show, I felt like a twelve-year-old again. For once I didn't have to analyze, brood over or politically support the plot. The actors and actresses were lively and energetic, resembling commedia dell'arte.

The first act opens with the entire cast presenting an animated dance, culminating in a tableau. The company's intricate formations are sharp and accurate, grabbing the audience's attention right away. Then, The Narrator (Matt Schuneman), who later doubles as El Gallo, a bandit, wins over the crowd with his soothing and gallant rendition of "Try

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The fathers pretend to be feuding, and the children’s love starts to thrive on its very difficulty, a classic case of reverse psychology. When the first act ends, everything seems to be working out, but in the second act —which resembles La Fontaine's fable "The Two Pigeons"—the story takes unexpected turns.

Throughout The Fantasticks, the two main characters are entirely believable and compatible on stage. Jessica Maas supports her strong singing voice with a charismatic stage presence and enthusiasm (although she is sometimes imprecise in the upper range). Though saccharine at times, Maas' comic role is a key component of the production. With all of her swoons, sighs and songs, she gives a highly impressive performance.

Opposite Maas,. LaSalle effectively stays true to his character, but often falls under the shadow of his co-star. While excellent when singing alone, LaSalle is indistinct when performing with the company as a whole. His puppy-dog eyes and exaggerated expressions when talking to Maas add merit to his performance.

Between the boy and girl's interaction, the two fathers provide hilarious comic relief. Holmes, the girl's father, and Sampieri, the boy's, cause not a few giggles with their laughable poses and songs such as "It Depends On What You Pay." Underlying their rather fatuous facades, they have witty and meaningful lines.

Probably the most amusing spectacle is the make-believe actors —Jacob Foster and Carl Pearson—that the fathers use for their scheme. Their vivacity and British accents reignite the play during brief lulls. Pearson imitates a stage death with such exuberance that it is almost worth going to see the play for him alone. These two deserve commendation as well for staying stuffed in a trunk for half the show.

The staging of The Fantasticks is always a surprise, as director Alyson Levy and stage manager Julie Foh make expedient use of the space in Sheafer Theater.

Choreographer Andrea Davey enlivens the rather sparse set with elaborate movements, which are further highlighted by Alana Lewis' lighting. The music—Kelly Kaplan at the piano and Adam Lord on bass —provides a perfect support for the singing.

The various elements of this production combine to give a solid feel-good experience. The Fantasticks does what a musical should: The show pulls you in, moving you out of everyday life into a more light-hearted realm. If your roommate ate all your peanut butter and jelly, or if you set off the fire alarm last time you tried to make s'mores, make yourself feel better by going to see The Fantasticks.d *

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Sunday, 5:45 pm and 8:30 pm (see article, p. 3) •Cup Final (Israel 1992, dir. Eran Riklis), Saturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 8 pm •Sherry Glaser in Family Secrets, Saturday, 8 pm Festival passes are $62 each and include one admission per to Glaser's performance. Single tickets are film and one ticket sold 45 minutes prior to films' screenings and are $6.50. For more information and complete schedule, check out the web site at www.carolinatheatre.org.

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Carolina Theatre, downtown Durham. 560-3030.

Fantasticks»Hoof 'n' Horn's latest production, directed byAlyson Levy and starring Matt Schuneman, John LaSalle and Jessica Maas, opened last night (see article p. 10).

Friday and Saturday, 8 pm, Sunday, 2 pm in the Bryan Center's Sheafer Theater. 684-4444.

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Thru February 15. Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Monday thru Friday, 10 am to 7 pm and Sunday, 10 am to 3 pm. 683-1709.

MUSIC Movie Music with Maurice Jarre «The man who composed the film scores for classics such as Fatal Attraction and Dead Poets Society will be conducting the North Carolina Symphony.

Friday and Saturday, 8 pm ($lO-$47), Memorial Auditorium, 1 E. South St., Raleigh. (919) 834-4000.

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Duel of the Iron Mies, Friday*Cravin' Melon w/ Agents of Good Roots, Saturday*Drop Kick Murphys w/Tommy & the Terrors and Toe to Toe, Monday*Funky Meters, Tuesday*The Business w/ Beer Zone, Wednesday*Fighting Gravity w/ Collapsis, Thursday The Cave*4s2 1/2 W Franklin St., Chapel Hill. (919) 968-9308.

The Last of the Great Sideshow Freaks w/ Bengt, Friday*The Balance Affect, Saturday*Sandwich, Sunday* John Gillespie w/ Warren Fryar, Monday*The John Andrews Band, Wednesday

The

Katie Lansdale*The renowned violinist, winner of the 1992 Mozarteum Bach Prize, will perform the second half of The Complete Sonatas and Partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Friday, 8 pm (admission free), in the Nelson Music Room of the East Duke Building on East Campus. 660-3300.

Fideiio»lriangle Opera is bringing Beethoven's only opera to campus in a new production directed by Terrence Mann.

Friday, 8 pm, Sunday, 3 pm and Tuesday, 8 pm ($45, $3O and $l5) in Page Auditorium. 684-4444.

El Periodo Especial»Photographer Ernesto Bazan presents an exhibit of Cuban photographs at the Center for Documentary Studies. Thru May 26.

Caretaking: A Visual Exploration»The title says it all. These works by continuing education students appear at the Center for Documentary Studies. Thru March 24 in the Porch Gallery.

The Center for Documentary Studies is located in Lyndhurst House, 1317W:- Pettigrew St. .off-East Campus. Hows, of opera-, fion are Monday thru Thursday. 9am to 7:30 pm; Friday, 9am to spm and Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm. For more Information, call 660-3663.

Romuald Hazoume and Paul Pfeiffer»This exhibit in DUMA'S North Wing Gallery is subtitled "Two artists from the project, a space in Harlem." Thru April 2.

Christian Haye Curates: Emerging Artists from the Project at Harlem»This show, complementing the previous one, is on display in the North Wing Gallery thru April 2.

Southern Gate*This DUMA exhibit features African-American paintings from the National Museum of American Art at the

Smithsonian Institution. The exhibit runs thru June 2002. There will be an "After Hours" reception and lecture by Prof. Richard

Powell in conjunction with this show Thursday, 5:30 pm

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operation are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 5 pm; Wednesday, 10 am to 9 pm; Saturday, 11 am to 2 pm and Sunday, 2 pm to 5 pm. For more information, call 684-5135.

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The Winslow Boy, Friday

The Wild Bunch, Tuesday Bananas, Thursday

Quadrangle Pictures* Shows are Saturday at Sunday at 8 pm ($3) in Griffith Theater.

American Beauty, this weekend.

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ARTS My Earth My Self*This exhibit shows works by Melissa

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Thru January 24. Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris Street.

Monday thru Satuday, 9 am to 9 pm and Sunday, 1 pm to 6 pm 560-2 7 87.

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Doing the right thing is harder than it seems Political interests play tug-of-war over the life of young Elian Gonzalez Commentary William Raspberry WASHINGTON Don’t expect anybody to do the right thing in the case of Elian Gonzalez, the six-year-old Cuban boy masquerading as a political football.

You would, of course, because you’re just a decent-minded citizen. You’d have the sent the kid home to his father so fast people would have thought he was a Haitian. But suppose you were, say, a presidential candidate with a chance of at least making a good showing in the primaries. Would you anger Florida’s large, organized and vocal Cuban community and thereby write off any hope of winning the state by urging that

grounds that it was hardly a local matter; you could opine that the boy ought to be returned to his father (which wouldn’t have settled anything) or you could temporize. You could set a hearing date for a couple of months down the road, elating the Cuban lobby and perhaps sealing your re-election chances, confident that at worst you’d be overruled by the Immigration and

Naturalization Service or the federal courts. Either way, no skin off your nose.

I’m not accusing any of the presidential candidates of lying about their actual feelings on the case; maybe each of them thinks keeping Elian in limbo for a month or two longer is just the right thing to do. Nor am I accusing Circuit Court Judge Rosa Rodriguez (no —her heritage is Puerto Rican) of letting political considerations interfere with her judicial reasoning. She might have reached the same decision had she been elected unanimously and for life.

America do the right thing?

I’m simply saying that doing the right More likely, you’d tell yourself that (1) your political success would be good thing is a lot easier when you’re sitting on the sidelines (like a newspaper for America, (2) saying something sensible about Elian would be bad for your columnist, for instance) than when your decisions can have a deadly effect on political success and (3) that your personal position on the case wouldn’t your own ambitions—-even while making little difference in the real world. make any difference anyway, so (4) sayIt isn’t likely to be much different for ing something sensible would be so useless and self-destructive as to amount Doris Meissner, commissioner of the INS, who, both during her tenure and to narcissism.

Or suppose you were a first-year judge before that at the Carnegie Endowment in Miami (where jurists are elected). And for International Peace, has had some uncommonly wise things to say about suppose that you were under investigaimmigration policy. tion for possible campaign finance irregularities, that pending investigation of the The INS said Tuesday it had no plans allegations (brought by the person who to forcibly return Elian to Cuba follow-, ing Judge Rodriguez’s ruling. Maybe ran against you) you had been reassigned from the criminal courts to family court—- there’s wisdom (and not mere self-proand that, right out of the blue, the case of tectionism) in that decision. The thing is ugly enough as it is without the INS and Elian Gonzalez landed in your lap.

You could defer to the feds, on the its parent (the Justice Department)

sending federal agents to wrest a screaming six-year-old from the arms of relatives who swear they love him and want only what is best for the boy.

And what is best for the boy? At the risk of sounding Clintonian, it really does depend on what “best” is.

I don’t mean the easy-to-settle mock dispute between the relative affluence Elian would enjoy with his U.S. relatives and the relative poverty of his father’s home in Cuba. There is the much harder-to-dismiss argument that, taking the two situations in their entirety, a case can be made for having the boy grow up not merely well cared for but “free.”

Already, there have been people poking around in Cuba looking for evidence that Juan Miguel Gonzalez is not exactly a paragon of fatherhood (Why didn’t he come to America to get his son?) or that he is afraid to say what he really thinks while he remains in Fidel Castro’s jurisdiction. Judge Rodriguez

already has said that if dad doesn’t show up at the March 6 hearing, it could adversely affect his interests. Even if Castro says he can’t come?

The best interest of the child. When you come right down to it, that mellifluous phrase is almost devoid of meaning absent evidence of actual mistreatment.

I have no trouble whatever imagining that some baby born while you’re reading these words—perhaps to a poor, unschooled but loving mother, perhaps to affluent but money-fixated professionals—might be better off growing up under my roof.

But so what? I say it takes a pretty darned good reason to take somebody else’s baby. I haven’t heard it yet.

William Raspberry is the Knight pro-

fessor of the practice of communication and journalism. His column is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group.

There’s nothing quite like a day on the shooting range The Brew That is True

absorbed his right-wing ravings while my friends nervously looked in my direction, desiring only my silence.

Rather than question him about why our Founding

Still, this was a handgun I was playing with, not my G.I. Joes. No matter how closely I followed the safety rules, the fact remained that I was just messing around, shooting at a target with a deadly weapon. My experience with shooting—and its potential for disaster—left me feeling queasy when the initial waves of

Fathers neglected to provide their slaves with the right to bear arms, I decided to avoid angering the man holding a .45 caliber hand cannon.

David Margolis adrenaline dissipated.

Anyway, it was soon time to shoot the gun I found myself asking, “Does anyone in this country The pistol was not the pea-shooting “Saturday night After exams last December, I needed a release from special” that I expected. The instructor handed four colreally need this type of thrill?” Breathing in the acrid the ache of frustration. I had brought myself to the very lege students with little or no shooting experience (save gunpowder and swelling with an inflated sense of my brink of insanity by mentally dissecting the week’s a 30-minute lesson) a .45 caliber, police-issue pistol. I’ve own power, I felt how shooting that gun could easily events over and over. A disorienting sensation trickled got to tell you—l was scared. I know that this excursion become addictive. Like any drug, recreational shooting through the folds of my brain, and I knew that I had to might sound like a typical student prank, like driving should be treated like a controlled substance. If anydo something to cope. With my mind unsettled, I did 30 minutes to shoot guns is tantamount to a beach road thing, gun controls are far too lax in this country. what any red-blooded American would do to regain his trip or a pub crawl. And, to a certain extent, our atti- Firearms are too often not stored properly in the home or her composure: I shot a gun. tude was pretty silly, but as soon as I curled my fingers and they too often go off unpredictable For home Of course, this was an odd choice of recreational around the cold steel of that killing tool, I started to defense, they are a poor substitute for a decent alarm activities for this American. Doing a personal inven- fear its clicking hammer, its fender trigger and its buck- system and a dog. We have seen time and time again tory, the only thing I have that is red is my politics. In ing recoil. how having a gun in a house with teenage children acts the midst of the Senate debate over the Brady Bill, I With the gun in my hand, I was hyperconscious of as a catalyst for tragic suicides and violent outbursts. wrote scads of columns in my high school newspaper the fact that I could now blow a gaping hole through Guns are OK for police officers and soldiers. m favor of gun control, caustically chastising those someone’s chest. It terrified me, and I concentrated all Handguns are legal, but we don’t exactly need to keep who confused legions of nut cases brandishing “street of my energy on following the directions of my instrucKing George 111 off our backs these days. They are an sweepers” with a “well-armed militia.” Nevertheless, tor to the letter. I nervously checked and doubleunnecessary threat to our safety. Any of the current when my friends called and said “Guess what we’re checked my fingers for the correct placement on the pieces of proposed gun control legislation advocating doing Friday?” I stepped outside ofmy former self and handle and touched the safety switch multiple times background checks for prospective buyers and a said “cool.” before handing it to the next shooter. national firearms registry would be a step in the Our quest for firearms took us far a field, to At the same time, I was experiencing just the type of right direction.

Liberty— a hamlet south ofBurlington—and a rifle and release that brought me to that gun range. Firing that Recreational shooting is unfortunately not an oxypistol range called “Handgunners.” This place provided gun made me feel good, even as I shuddered with each moron. However, it is serious business that should be reasonably priced pistol rentals and free safety lessons, blast . My friends and I basically obliterated target after left up to professionals. Next time 1 want to blow off courtesy of a local law enforcement officer. target as we shot through two boxes of ammunition. some steam, I think 1 will head out to a batting cage to Accompanying the shooting lesson was a short history Call it juvenile, but I enjoyed destroying that piece of hit some baseballs instead.

•ecture about how firearms have been the bedrock of paper, just like I used to enjoy knocking down rows of ‘our 'Society and -its- freedoms. I--bit -my lip and politely dominoesand toy soldiers in-my basement4s years ago. David Mnrgolis is a Trinity senior

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Freewater Films: “Winslow Boy” with Nigel Hawthorne and Jeremy Northam. 7:00 and 9:30 p.m., Griffith Film Theater. For more information call 684-2911.

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� Swimming hosts UVa

The men’s and women's swimm jng teams will both compete match of the in their final ACC season Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Aquatic Center when they host Virginia as a tuneup for next month's ACC championships.

� Tennis teams ready for ACC Indoors

The 3-0 women's tennis team will try to cause havoc in the ACC this weekend at the ACC Indoors in Chapel Hill. The fourth-ranked men's team will travel to Clemson lor the ACC Indoors.

Wolfpack’s big frontcourt controls pace of game RALEIGH

Before the seaGail Goestenkors knew the Blue Devils would have trouble with N.C. State. son began,

Neal Morgan Game Commentary She expressed her concerns in October, when the ACC’s nine coaches gathered for a preseason press conference. She knew that in any matchup featuring two such different styles, anything could happen.

t Brand not injured in car wreck Elton Brand crashed yesterday

morning when his Mercedes

Benz spun out on the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago. Brand was not injured in the crash and early reports indicate the accident may have been caused by weather-related factors.

� Prime Time back with Big Red Machine After sitting out the last two baseball seasons to focus on football, Deion Sanders has signed a non-guaranteed minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds.

wiMnmwwi � Buckeyes end Spartan Big Ten dominance No. 13 Ohio State moved into a live-team tie for first place in the Big Ten as they defeated Michigan State 78-67, snapping thelOth-ranked Spartans 21game conference winning streak. Buckeye point guard Scoonie Penn outdueled Michigan State’s Mateen Cleaves with 16 points to help his team snap a 10-game losing streak against the Spartans.

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Goestenkors knew she had no match for 6-foot-5 Summer Erb, joking that reed-thin center Lello Gebisa would fall over if Erb blew on her. But Goestenkors hoped that what the Blue Devils gave up in size, they could make up for

in athleticism.

Early on in Duke’s 80-75 overtime loss, it seemed she’d have her wish. For the first 5:30, the Blue Devils built a 16-4 lead

while keeping the much taller Wolfpack from scoring a single point inside the paint.

Erb was held scoreless for the first 11 minutes and her frontcourt mate, 6-3 Kaayla Chones, made just one layup in the first half. Duke’s small-but-quick frontcourt prevented N.C. State’s twin towers from touching the ball inside, and all the

while the Blue Devils dominated the transition game, forcing 14

first-half turnovers Put simply, Duke was forcing N.C. State to play the game at the Blue Devils’ tempo. But as the game wore on, it was the Blue Devils who were forced to play the Wolfpack’s game.

‘They have bigger bodies and they knew what to do with them,” Duke forward Peppi Browne said.

“Posting up, going outside, going to the basket and that kind of thing. They’ve probably been the toughest [team we’ve played.]”

The Blue Devils held a doubledigit lead with 7:32 left in the half, but the lead was trimmed to a single point as N.C. State’s bodies began to wear the Blue Devils’ down. During the comeback, Erb scored on a putback, Ivy Gardner made a layup, Talisha Scates put back an Erb miss and Amy Simpson made two free throws after rebounding a Gardner miss.

And although Duke took a

three-point lead into the halftime break, N.C. State took with it something much more precious—control of the game.

“We were much more aggressive tonight [than we have beenl,” Wolfpack coach Kay Yow said. “Early in the game, we gave up some easy transition baskets.

We got that straightened out and we really settled down and played a great defensive game.

We became more offensive-minded tonight in terms of penetration and getting the ball inside.”

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LAUREN RICE scored 16 points but grabbed only one rebound in last night’s loss to N.C. State.

Duke looks to stay perfect in ACC against Wake The Blue Devils can break the all-time record for consecutive ACC wins with a win tomorrow

By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle

For the first time since last Wednesday, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils won’t be battling for first place in the ACC when they take the court tomorrow.

Duke withstood a furious first half on Sunday by Florida State before regrouping for a 31-point victory and sole possession of the conference lead. Two nights ago, the Blue Devils overcame an eight-point deficit for a dramatic overtime victory against N.C. State to ensure a two-game lead over their

� Arizona remains perfect in Pac-10

Michael Wright, Jason Gardner and Gilbert Arenas combined for 60 points as No. 2 Arizona won its seventh-straight game last night with a 76-61 victory over No. 25 UCLA at Pauley Pavillion. The Wildcats improved to 5-0 in the Pac-10, °oe game ahead of No. 3 Stanford in the loss column.

nearest ACC foe.

“He seemed a little dense, you know, that’s not unusual with some

ballplayers.”

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was an impostor pretending to be a Florida Marlins pitcher when Camp couldn’t answer basic questions about the team.

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CHRIS CARRAWELL leads the Blue Devils into Winston-Salem only three days after he played in all 45 minutes of action against N.C. State.

Tomorrow afternoon, the stakes don’t appear quite as high, at least not on the surface anyway.

Unlike in their last two games, when the Blue Devils (14-2, 5-0 in the ACC) make the journey to Winston-Salem for a nationally televised noon showdown with Wake Forest (11-6, 2-3), they will face an opponent with a record below .500 in the conference. The Demon Deacons are also coming off back-toback losses, including their worst defeat of the year, a 73-51 drubbing by Maryland two nights ago.

But none of that matters heading into tomorrow’s game because Duke’s upperclassmen know how difficult it is to win on the road in Lawrence Joel Coliseum.

“They always play us tough, and we always play them tough,” junior Shane See WAKE FOREST on page 14

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 2Um

Blue Devils go stone cold in lopsided loss to UNC-Greensboro Faced with the adversity of Jason Gorski’s season-ending injury, Duke’s wrestling team dropped its seventh match of the season.

By BRODY GREENWALD the chronicle

The Blue Devils made the journey to UNCGreensboro last night only to find a familiar fate awaiting them: defeat.

For the seventh time in eight matches, Duke’s wrestling team lost to its opponent. Last night’s match against UNC-Greensboro was never even close as the Spartans reeled off six victories en route to a

25-12 romp.

The Spartans’ early string of pins put them up 22-0 before the Blue Devils even knew what had hit them.

“I was hoping we would have done better and competed a little better,” coach Clar Anderson said. “They just wanted it a little more than we did.”

Duke came up with only three victories out of the 10 matches on the evening. The Blue Devils recorded wins in the 125-pound, 141-lb. and heavyweight divisions.

Sophomore Tommy Hoang, wrestling in the lightest weight class at 125 lbs., was the only Blue Devil to score a fall on the evening. Hoang defeated Kevin Bradley of UNC-G in the most lopsided match of the night by earning a technical fall for a 17-2 victory. By earning a fall instead of a decision, Hoang accounted for five ofDuke’s 12 team points.

The Blue Devils earned four points thanks to sophomore Harry Clarke, who defeated Wade Cecil 14-6 in the 141-Ib. weight class. Duke’s other three points came courtesy of senior Alex Hunt, who notched an 8-5 decision over Brian King in the heavyweight division.

DEGAN SMITH, who was defeated in the 197-lb. weight class, was one of seven Blue Devil wrestlers to lose their bouts with the Spartans last night.

But the rest of the matches were all defeats as the Spartans handed the Blue Devils their worst loss of the young season.

‘This team beat us worse than we’ve been beaten by anyone,” Anderson said. “If we had some other guys back there it would have been closer, but I hate to make excuses because we won only three of the 10 matches we competed in.”

One of the guys that the Blue Devils were missing was sophomore Jason Gorski, who normally anchors the 149-lb. weight class for Duke. Gorski fractured his

jaw, forcing him to miss not only last night’s match but likely the rest of the year as well.

In Gorski’s place, freshman Andy Soliman moved up from the 133-lb. weight class to compete in his first bout of his career. Although he lost a 17-11 decision, Soliman’s ability to adapt to a new weight class was one of the evening’s highlights in his coach’s eyes.

“Andy did a good job of stepping in, moving up a weight class and going up against their toughest competitor—their stallion,” Anderson said. “I am really pleased with his performance.”

Blue Devils must contain preseason All-American O’Kelley WAKE FOREST from page 13 Battier said. “They’ve had some difficult losses, but we expect a close game.”

Last year, the Blue Devils never expected close games in conference, but that’s exactly what they got when they traveled to Wake in mid-January.

Only one ACC team—Georgia Tech in an 87-79 come-from-behind Duk6 victory—played last year’s undefeated ACC champions tougher than the Demon Deacons. Wake battled to the bitter end before Duke finally put the game away with two of Trajan Langdon’s four threepointers, allowing the Blue Devils to escape Winston-Salem with a 10-point victory, 82-72.

All four players who scored doublefigures for Wake in that game are back for the Demon Deacons, but only one of them was named to the John Wooden preseason All-America team. To shut down Wake, the Blue Devils will have to shut down junior guard Robert O’Kelley, who has averaged more than 15 points per game this season.

“Wake is a good team and they have a great player in O’Kelley” Carrawell said. “It’s going to be a real test for us to go over there and win.”

O’Kelley made it difficult for the Blue Devils to win at Wake last year. Despite hitting only 6-of-17 from the field, O’Kelley was a menace from beyond the arc as he nailed four of his eight threepoint attempts to account for 22 of his team’s 72 points.

It’s not all about the junior superstar when it comes to the Wake

offense, though.

Sophomores Darius Songaila and Craig Dawson, who combined for 26 points, seven assists and six rebounds against the Blue Devils in WinstonSalem a year ago, have been the second and third leading scorers for the Demon

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“Wake is a good team and they have a great player in O’Kelley. It’s going to be a real test for us to go over there and win.”

CHRIS CARRAWELL Deacons this season, averaging more than 21 points each game.

But with Wake, the offense—which is barely averaging more than 70 points per game—hasn’t been a major concern for its opposition this season.

Game time: Tomorrow, 12 p.m.

Place: Lawrence Joel Coliseum TV/Radio: CBS/WDNC 620AM

Series record: 140-72, Duke leads Last meeting: Duke won 102-71 last season in Durham.

No. 5 Duke 14-2 (5-0) Coach Mike Krzyzewski Guard —• Jason Williams, Fr. (15.1 ppg) Guard Nate James, Jr. (10.5 ppg) Forward Chris'Carrawell, Sr. (17.1 ppg) Forward Shane Battier, Jr. (15,7 ppg) Center Carlos Boozer, Fr. (12.7 ppg)

Wake Forest 11-6 (2-3) Coach Dave Odom Guard Robert O'Kelley, So. (15.1 ppg) Guard Ervin Murray, So. (1.4 ppg) Craig Dawson, So. (8,8 ppg) Forward Forward Darius Songaila, So. (12.3 ppg) Center Rafael Vidauretta, Jr. (3.8 ppg)

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Rather, the Demon Deacons have racked up their 11 wins with consistent defense, yielding a season average of only 61 points per game, second stingiest in the conference behind

N.C. State.

Something will have to give when that defense tries to stop Duke, which boasts the highest-scoring offense in the league.

With a 14-game winning streak intact and a chance to claim sole possession of the record for most consecutive victories in regular-season ACC play, the Blue Devils are trying to keep their focus on tomorrow’s opponent.

“We’re going to prepare for it like any other game,” Battier said. “We can’t let [Wednesday’s emotional win over N.C. Statel affect our preparation.”

THE NOD

Songaila and Dawson were two of the keys to Wake’s

moderate success last year as freshmen, but the duo will have their hands full with Duke’s veteran forwards tomorrow. Vidauretta has been a disappointment on offense this season after he scored in double-figures regularly down the stretch last season.

This will be one of the biggest challenges of the season for Williams and the Duke backcourt. O’Kelley isn’t scoring as much as last season when he led the ACC, but he is still one of the best guards in the conference. Still, Wake has struggled from the perimeter this season, shooting less than 30 percent on threes.

Duke’s bench has shrunk to one man, Mike Dunleavy, as the veterans have begun to log more playing time (Carrawell and Battier combined for 87 minutes two nights ago). Wake, on the other hand, has five reserves who average at least five points

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The Blue Devils have shown they have one of the true intangibles: heart. During Duke’s 14 game-winning streak, three of those contests have gone into overtime. Wake showed they can play tough in a big game when they upset North Carolina nine days ago, but they haven’t won since.

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Wins in the ACC certainly aren’t coming as easily this season as they did last. The Blue Devils needed overtime to defeat Virginia and N.C. State, while Florida State held a halftime advantage over Duke last weekend. Still, the winning ways haven’t changed for Duke, and the streak will continue tomorrow when the Blue Devils record their fourth road victory in the conference. Duke 84, Wake Forest 71.

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Duke squanders halftime lead Blue Devils fail to capitalize with l-for-17 start in 2nd half on N.C. State’s late mistakes »

ERB from page 13

As the second half opened, Duke lost complete control of the game and missed its first 12 shots. Duke wanted to run with the ball, but the Blue Devils were running without control, forcing up several ill-advised shots. The Wolfpack turned a three-point deficit into a ninepoint lead as Duke shot l-of-17 in the

halUs first 9:30.

“Their defense was excellent, especial-

ly on the perimeter,” Goestenkors said.

“We couldn’t get to the basket. I thought they did a great job stopping our penetration and taking us out of our set.”

The Blue Devils struggled adjusting to the new style of play, but Duke’s quickness led to many offensive rebounds and although Duke couldn’t hit field goals, it was able to stay in the game by getting to the charity stripe.

“Coach told us before the game that because we’re a little bit quicker than

their post players, we knew we’d be able to face up and take it to the basket,” Browne said. “Unfortunately, today we weren’t hitting our outside shots and we weren’t getting any open looks for our guards, so all we could do was go to the basket.”

N.C. State was on to the plan, and took advantage of a superior bench, playing three reserves.for 28 minutes or more, while Duke used just three bench players, two of whom played less than 10 minutes.

As the Blue Devils tired, they ran the ball less and were forced to play N.C. State’s half-court game.

Rochelle Parent’s and Browne’s foul trouble only exacerbated a bad situation.

“Rochelle Parent is one of our best help-side people and when she had to go out of the game, it really hurt our defense,” Goestenkors said. “She’s our best perimeter defender and she was doing a great job in the paint helping with the

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Duke had an opportunity to tie the game after Simpson’s three-pointer, but sophomore Krista Gingrich was whistled for traveling with 52.8 seconds left.

N.C. State let the shot clock dip below 10 seconds before Tynesha Lewis sent what would have been the game-ender clanging off the rim.

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again when Erb picked up her fourth foul. Browne went after the much slower Erb and in a twominute span late in the

second half, Browne scored seven points and dished out an assist.

But it was in the last 25 seconds of overtime when Goestenkors’ preseason fears came to fruition. Erb never picked up her fifth foul, and with Lauren Rice fouled out and Duke’s

frontcourt simply outmatched, N.C. State sealed the game when it grabbed three straight offensive missed rebounds on Wolfpack free throws.

It was Goestenkors’ worst nightmare, a recurring dream she has had since October.

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“They outhustled us,” said Rice, who had fouled out earlier in overtime.“They wanted it more. At the end of a big game, you’ve got to be able to rebound.”

And just in case it didn’t look bad enough, Rice got to see it twice more.

Simpson drained her first free throw to put N.C. State ahead 78-75 with 25 seconds to play, but she sent the second attempt short off the iron, falling directly into Erb’s hands.

Duke again fouled, sending Tynesha Lewis to the line with 14 seconds remaining and this time the Wolfpack miscued on both attempts, giving Duke a shot at sending the game into double overtime.

But Erb, who had played with four fouls since the 9:38 mark in regulation, corralled the third straight offensive rebound over the undersized Blue Devils. She then calmly sank her two free throws to send Duke out of Reynolds Coliseum as losers for the first time since 1996. “[Erb] put the final dagger in our heart,” Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. “She did a great job of staying in. We took the ball at her, but she played a very smart game and stayed out of trouble.”

Yet Duke barely made it to overtime.

After forcing the Wolfpack into a frenetic up-and-down running game in the first half, the Blue Devils’ lost control of the game’s tempo and the bigger, stronger N.C. State squad turned the game into a halfcourt battle.

And the Blue Devils did little to help themselves. Leading 37-34 at the start of the second half, Duke promptly misfired on its first 12 attempts, falling behind 40-37 and failing to break into the scoring column until the 15:10 mark when Georgia Schweitzer, a non-factor in the game, sank an uncontested layup.

But Duke’s shooting got even worse.

N.C. State’s pressure defense kept smothering the Blue Devils’ offense, as Duke made just one of its next eight shots, putting Goestenkors’ team at 10 percent second-half shooting with 7:05 remaining in regulation.

“Their defensive intensity picked up incredibly in the second half,” Rice said.

“In the first half we could drive and kick it out, but in the second there was constantly someone in your face.”

Just when the Blue Devils’ cold streak ended, Simpson started heating up again. She drained two consecutive three-pointers and assisted on an Erb layin to put N.C. State up by six with four minutes left to play.

Peppi Browne answered back for the Blue Devils, scoring seven points and assisting on Duke’s only other basket in a two minute spurt to bring Duke within one point at 66-65 with 1:22 remaining.

“Coach told us before the game that... we’re a little bit quicker than their post players,” Browne said. “We knew we’d be able to face up and take it to the basket.”

The Blue Devils forced a turnover and Mosch drilled an open three to give the Blue Devils a two-point advantage going into the game’s final minute. But a Lewis jumpshot on the other end tied the game at 67 with 34 seconds to play, sending the game to overtime after Duke failed to connect on its final shot of regulation.

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