February 3, 2000

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Carolina’s Blues Coach K fears Duke will take struggling UNC too lightly By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle

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SHANE BATTIER will be matched up against North Carolina’s Kris Lang (right) again tonight when the Blue Devils travel to the Dean Smith Center.

Mike Krzyzewski says a potential trap awaits his young players tonight. And, no, he didn’t mean the full-court press that North Carolina (13-8,4-3 in the ACC) at times will use to force turnovers from freshman point guard Jason Williams by trapping him in the backcourt. The trap the Blue Devil coach was referring to at Tuesday’s press conference was the one that has been laid by sportswriters, color commentators and the basketball public in general. The trap is no secret, and it goes something like this; the unranked Tar Heels are mediocre, they’ve lost eight games, they once lost four in a row including two at the Dean Smith Center and they’re definitely not talented enough to stop the third-ranked Blue Devils and their 16-game winning streak. And that’s a trap that Krzyzewski insists Duke (16-2, 7-0) will not fall into when it travels to Chapel Hill tonight at 9 p.m. for the 205th chapter in the most storied rivalry in college basketball. “To say that Carolina is not good or that they can’t beat anybody, I would not respect [someone’s knowledge of the game] if I read that,” Krzyzewski said.“Because it’s obvious that they can win and that they are good. It’s just like if we were to lose our next four games—we’d still be pretty g00d..., and that’s basically Carolina. Carolina has as much or more talent than anybody in our league. “With their first six players, they can compete against anybody or beat anybody in our league. And they certainly can beat us, so we’re not going to fall into that trap.” Duke’s upperclassmen are even more concerned about tonight’s game being the first

Part 1 No. 3 DUKE Blue Devils Record: 16-2 (ACC 7-0) NORTH CAROLINA Tar Heels Record: 13-8 (ACC 4-3) Tonight RJ/ESPN2 9 p.m. Dean E. Smith Center Duke-UNC contest for half of the Blue Devils’ six-man rotation, not to mention their first trip to the hostile Smith Center. Shane Battier remembers his first visit to Chapel Hill well. In fact, it’s probably a game he’ll never forget. The Blue Devils entered the highly anticipated matchup as the top-ranked team in the nation, but Antawn Jamison and Vince Carter embarrassed the No. 1 team and snapped its 11-game winning streak with a lopsided 24-point victory. Battier, who admitted he and the other freshmen felt like deer caught in headlights, has tried to share his experience with this year’s freshmen—especially Williams, Mike Dunleavy and Carlos Boozer. “It was almost like a carnival because the Dean Dome is a pretty big place,” Battier said. “It was packed, it was rocking and it was a little intimidating. See UNC on page 16

DSG OKs weakened resolution $8.5 million gift The final version takes no political stance, but DSG will organize Myrtle alternative aids scholarships By ROBERT KELLEY The Chronicle

man announced that he had agreed to delete the line

stating DSG’s support for the boycott. “The change efAlthough supporters of the South Carolina tourism fectively focuses the resolution to support those stuboycott can now count on Duke Student Government dent groups and not to speak for the student body,” to coordinate alternatives to the annual post-finals exsaid Freedman, who said he endorses the final proposodus to Myrtle Beach, they can forget about adding al as passed. DSG to their growing list of endorsements. Discussion of the issue began when several stuIn a meeting dominated by discussion of DSG’s role dents addressed the legislative body to voice their pasin the heated Confederate flag debate, legsionate feelings about the boycott. islators passed a watered-down version of a Labeling both the boycott and the proresolution proposed by Trinity sophomore posal “cheap political tricks,” Trinity sophoJason Freedman. The amended resolution, more Berin Szoka told the legislators, “Nowhich did not support the boycott but body elected you to tell your fellow students pledged that DSG would work with groups what to think, and to do so is arrogant.” that do, passed 28 to 12. Duke National Association for the AdThe original proposal would have made vancement of Colored People President DSG’s endorsement official. Earlier in the Kameron Matthews directly countered day, Freedman withdrew a resolution that Szoka’s statement, saying that DSG had a asked the legislature to affirm DSG’s role in responsibility to speak up on the issue. off-campus political issues. JaSonj aS on Freedman “Without the knowledge that our governUnder the final resolution’s terms, DSG ment respects us as a people, we are ultiwill “help coordinate the process of examining possimately doomed, and that’s especially true for the ble substitutes as well as assist in voicing Duke stuAfrican-American community,” the Trinity senior said. dents’ resolve to protest what some feel is an exhibiMany legislators remained skeptical that DSG tion of racism.” should ever have taken on this issue. From the start, it was clear that the resolution’s Freshman legislator Justin Ford was especially supporters would have to make many concessions to vocal in his opposition to discussing the resolution. “To Wln over legislators who were hesitant to take a stand be frank, it’s none of our damn business,” he said. 0n a controversial political issue. But Trinity senior Jeremy Huff, vice president for Before the resolution was even introduced, FreedSee DSG on page 6

Open Spaces

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

With an $8.5 million gift earmarked for a handful of University initiatives, the Duke Endowment added to its ever-growing contribution to The Campaign for Duke. The campaign has now raised $l.l billion along the way to its $1.5 billion goal. The largest part of the Duke Endowment’s package—s4 million—will raise the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship award to full tuition from its current level of 75 percent. The Angier B. Duke Scholarship program’s coffers will grow by $2.5 million; $500,000 will sponsor graduate and professional student financial aid; $1 million will go into a challenge grant fund that allows donors to establish a named scholarship for two-thirds of the regular price. The last half-million will help offset .the campaign’s mounting operational costs. “The scholarships represent an ongoing interest ofthe Duke Endowment to make the Duke education more affordable to students,” said David Roberson, director of communications for the endowment, which is financially separate from the University. The B.N. Duke program is used to attract 10 of the Carolinas’ finest scholars to Duke every year. All students are eligible for the A.B. Duke grant. See DUKE ENDOWMENT on page 6

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