February 4, 2000

The Chronicle Carolina Classic Duke survives UNC comeback to capture vintage OT victory

By RACHEL COHEN The Chronicle

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This was the best Duke-Carolina game I’ve been in, even better than my sophomore year.

college basketball game that took place last night in the Dean Smith Center did not feature an unranked squad and the No. 3 team in the countiy It did not pit a school on a 16-game win streak against one that recently suffered through four straight losses.

It was Duke-Carolina, and for all the media coverage, all the hyperbole, all the trash talking, nothing could come close to the game itself.

“With all the hype that goes into these games,” said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, “the hype didn’t live up to the performances by those youngsters

“Guys were making plays out there that were unbelievable. For us to win this game is huge.”

UNC (13-9,4-4 in the ACC) never led and managed only one tie in the second half. But it came with 5.2 seconds to play, after Jason Williams missed the second oftwo free throws to give the Tar Heels one last gasp trailing 73-70.

Forte, the precocious freshman who finished with 20 points, decided he didn’t want his first Duke-Carolina game to end.The guard drilled an off-balance three to send the Blue Devils (17-2,8-0) to their fifth extra period of the season.

“It’s almost like overtimes are old this ballgame.” hat to this team,” Shane Battier said in They performed for 45 minutes, after Duke won its fourth straight overand when two weary rivals walked off time contest. “It seems like we’re there the court, the Blue Devils owned a 90- every week. But we were calm.... In 86 victory and their first four-game overtime, we decided it was our time. It win streak against the Tar Heels has been the last couple of games.” since 1964.

The Tar Heels had forced another Duke’s Chris Carrawell is now a five minutes, but they would soon feel veteran of nine showdowns with UNC. the effects of a play that happened late And after the Tar Heels rallied from a in the second half. With 2:50 to go, cen19-point deficit, after Joseph Forte ter Brendan Haywood had pushed buried a three-pointer to send the Battier away from the ball and was game to overtime, after the Blue Devils called for his fifth foul. put together another fearless extra peOnce Haywood departed, Duke cenriod, the senior made his pitch for ter Carlos Boozer, who shot 2-of-ll where he thinks last night’s game from the floor in regulation, got to stands among the 205 Duke and UNC demonstrate his dunking ability. Three have played. times in the extra period, a teammate “You’ve got to rank this as one ofthe found the freshman alone in the paint top three Duke-Carolina games ever,” against UNO’s zone for a two-handed he said. “I wasn’t here in the ’6os or slam. The last dunk, coming after Carwhatever, but tonight was a classic....

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CHRIS CARRAWELL scored 23 points in the game, coming through in the clutch with a three-point play late in overtime to give D uke a seven-point lead.

Administrators investigate bid night practices

By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle

With stories of dangerously drunk students and harmful rites of passage circulating across campus, the University is starting to investigate sorority bid night incidents that one senior administrator called “potentially lethal.”

After enduring the grueling formal rush process, the sorority community breathes a sigh of relief when rushees become pledges. It is time to celebrate. But suddenly bid nights—parties where pledges and sisters invite the campus for a night of bonding, dancing and drinking—have become urgent concerns for many Uni-

versity administrators.

A letter to the editor published in Monday’s edition of he Chronicle alleged that pledges to Pi Beta Phi were expected to drink excessively and had to walk home from the 0 -campus bid night.

And Monday night, one pledge and one member of Delta Gamma were sent to the hospital fol°wing the sorority’s bid night at Tobacco Roadhouse.

Associate Dean for Judicial Affairs Kacie Wallace said e 's looking into these incidents and several other ororities’ bid night practices. ®

there is ever a situation where a

student is forced

to do something or there is an environment created where a student is allowed to do something that is dangerous or embarrassing, then we will look into that...,” said Wallace, paraphrasing the definition of hazing.

“We’re starting to get to the point where we hear of things that cross the line and become very dangerous.”

Although bid nights seem to be getting more attention this year, substance abuse specialist Jeanine Atkinson said the hard numbers of people being hospitalized seem standard—one or two were admitted last year, and five the year before. Even the tales of hazing are nothing new.

“I do think the letter has drawn attention to a problem that has always been there,” said Ellen Plummer, former Panhellenic Council adviser.

At typical bid nights, which are generally not sanctioned by national organizations, sororities rent out local bars or clubs to welcome new members to their chapters.

Many post fliers around campus and provide buses for transporting students to the parties. Alcohol is usually in abundance, and many sororities pre-party with their pledges before arriving at the clubs. As with any college party, a few attendees might have had a few too many by the end of the night.

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“After attending many bid nights, including this week, I know for certain there are many individuals who experience those problems, but not all are reported,” said DG President Allison Beard, a Trinity senior.

Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Wasiolek said this year’s bid nights seem more dangerous than those in the past. “My experience has been that when students gather at a party or social event where alcohol is available or strongly encouraged,” she said, “there’s always the potential for some problematic situations.”

Panhel President Kate Heath, a Trinity junior, said pledges are not explicitly pressured to drink. “I hope new members never feel as if their choice to drink or not drink affects their relationship with their sorority,” she said. “I know many women who are happily involved with their sorority and choose not to drink.”

Still, Atkinson called late January to early February a “high-risk time for freshman women”—so highrisk that she distributes informational pamphlets to sorority members providing tips for making bid nights safer. Sororities have also recognized the potential hazards of binge drinking: Panhel and some individ-

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Russia trades soldiers for reporter

Underscoring the limits the Kremlin has imposed on reporting from Chechnya, Russian authorities locating the devices that handed over a Radio Libcould tell them why the erty correspondent to plane crashed.

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Vodafone, Mannesmann agree to merge The unprecedented $lB3 billion deal is the largest corporate merger in history

By ANDREW SORKIN and EDMUND ANDREWS N.Y. Times News Service

DUSSELDORF, Germany Ending a brutal struggle to dominate Europe’s insatiable market for wireless communications, a company that was until recently a relative unknown name outside Britain Thursday rammed through the biggest takeover deal in history.

Three months after attempting the biggest hostile takeover bid in history, Vodafone Airtouch PLC of Britain achieved a stunning victory Thursday morning when Mannes-

mann AG of Germany surrendered and agreed to be acquired for $lB3 billion in stock.

It is the biggest corporate takeover on any continent, eclipsing the previous record set less than three weeks ago—America

Online Inc.’s $165 billion deal to

buy Time Warner Inc. If consummated, the takeover will create the world’s biggest wireless communications company, one that dominates the European market and also has major holdings in the United States, Asia and Africa.

But the deal is even more impor-

tant as a watershed in European corporate behavior.

Never before has a European company carried off a hostile takeover on such an audacious scale: cross-border, cross-cultural and financed with shares in a company that most Germans had never heard of until a few months ago.

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Austria forms controversial government

By ROGER COHEN

N.Y. Times News Service

VIENNA, Austria Austria’s president announced Thursday that he would swear in a new government Friday that includes Joerg Haider’s anti-immigrant Freedom Party, setting the country on a collision course with its 14 partners in the European Union.

President Thomas Klestil announced the decision after a final day of hesitation that was marked by objections to two proposed Freedom Party members as cabinet ministers.

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democracy, since the Freedom Party and the conservative People’s Party led by Wolfgang Schuessel won enough seats in elections in October to govern. But it also gave stature to a rightist party that has not hesitated to employ bigotry and racist vitriol.

Despite a last-minute declaration by the coalition promising to work “for an Austria in which xenophobia, anti-Semitism and racism have no place,” reaction was swift.

The other 14 governments of the European Union confirmed that they would downgrade diplomatic relations with Vienna and isolate the nation, as they had threatened Monday.

Israel said it would recall its ambassador as soon as the swearing-in is completed. France and Portugal announced that they would impose sanctions Friday. And in Washington, a State Department spokesperson, James Foley, reiterated warnings that the United States would review its relationship with Austria as soon as Haider’s party joined the government.

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Fire and Ice The closer-than-expected game led to a smaller-than-usual bonfire on the muddy, icy expanse of Main West Campus

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

leaves surrounding him, Emil Avanes lugged sophomore Trinity tree branch through the magnolia a quagmire that is Main West Quadrangle. A few snowballs flew behind him, but he remained focused on the growing two-bench, several-tree fire ahead.

“We went over to the ATOs’ bench, but we didn’t want to mess with it,” he said. “The branches were already down.

We’re thinking about charging people for cleaning it up.”

For nearly five minutes after freshman Mike Dunleavy’s game-clinching foul shots, it seemed as if the fire might not happen; all week students had been discussing whether to ignite for beating an unranked team.

“I think that if we beat ’em by 20, we don’t do this,” said Benjamin Torbert, Trinity ’9B, “but if we beat ’em in this close and stressful a game, it’s OK. You gotta love bonfires. You just don’t want to do it at a time when it would be anticlimactic.”

But when a voice—“Here comes a board”—buzzed through nearly 20 police and administrators’ walkie talkies, it became clear that a fire was inevitable. Doors opened, music blared, books and paper caught fire and more than 500 students spilled onto the quad.

“I think it’s awesome,” said Edith Stevens, a public policy graduate student and Rutgers University alumnus.

“This is my second year here, and I’m all for Duke. This is a real team here

the riotous MSU blazes—like the mayhem that followed the' Spartans’ Final Four loss to the Blue Devils.

“I can’t say I like it better, I kind of miss the tear gas.... The level of alcohol is lower here,” he said, gulping a Foster’s.

His brother Dave, also a Michigan State alumnus, observed that trees burn much faster than cars. “It’s kind of a cool tradition to see, especially by a non-student who’s never been down here before,” he said.

By midnight, the revelers were

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Editor’s note Trinity junior Jack Newhouse posed as men’s swimming coach Bob Thompson for a page-14 article on Feb. 1. The quote attributed to Thompson was, in fact, made over the phone by Newhouse.

mostly freshmen and remained relatively sober.

Although Campus Police received no reports of fire-related injuries, one student was assaulted around 12:15 a.m. near the Bryan Center and taken to the hospital.

DUPD’s Maj. Robert Dean said three men and three women approached the student and one of the men punched

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NONTRADITIONAL KINDLING, like this tree limb, helped students preserve their benches without sacrificing the primal joy of bonfire building. and real team spirit. I think [the fire] is really important this year. The spirit is there and the heart is there. I think we can take it all the way.”

From the start of the blaze, A-team members—administrators and students charged with keeping order during bonfires—asserted their presence in the crowd’s inner circle.

“I wouldn’t say [they are] physical,” said Duke University Police Department Chief Clarence Birkhead. “[They’re] a little more assertive, trying to keep people back a safe distance.”

Only minutes after the House C bench was placed in the middle of Main West Quad at 11:25 p.m. last night, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Wasiolek pulled a student from

atop the just-lit lumber. Throughout the night, A-team members formed a perimeter several feet from the flames, and, at times, pushed the crowd back.

But beyond a little heckling, relations between administrators and students never heated up. “We were all most appreciative of the cooperation we received,” Wasiolek said. “Students were very cooperative and very respectful, except for the man who mooned me.”

This cooperative spirit surprised and disappointed some, who remembered charged showdowns at Duke and elsewhere.

Andrew Hutson, a Nicholas School of the Environment graduate student and Michigan State University alumnus, said Duke’s tame fires do not compare to

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him. The victim was unconscious for a short time before being treated by Duke EMS and transported to Duke Hospital’s Emergency Department. The six combatants fled in a Ford Taurus, Dean said.

At 12:30 a.m., the crowd’s attention turned from the waning fire to its stillfired-up men’s basketball team, which had just arrived from Chapel Hill. Shane Battier, the game’s high scorer, reignited the crowd with chants and cheers.

“It feels great to be with my friends, hanging out at one o’clock in the morning,” he said. “There’s nothing better.

This is why you come to Duke.”

Hours before, fans only miles down the road moped across their own muddy campus, still mourning their team’s nearly-extinguished prospects.

“It sucks we lost, but we showed a lot of heart,” said Matt Prout, a senior at UNO’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

“I was really impressed with the enthusiasm. The Dean Dome was like Cameron Indoor for once.”

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Quilligan relishes role as English chair Professor of English David Aers said he has enormous change in the department.

By RICHARD RUBIN The Chronicle

New English department chair Maureen Quilligan heads into her first full faculty meeting today with a

packed agenda: instituting democratic procedures, discussing this year’s job candidates, beginning to plan a long-term hiring strategy and announcing the winner

of a snowman contest.

The lighthearted snowman contest is no small game in a department that seemed deep in rancor only a year and a half ago. The wintry playfulness is a sign that the faculty are now more interested in looking toward the future instead of glaring at each other across

MAUREEN QUILLIGAN, a Renaissance scholar from the University of Pennsytvania, assumed the chairship of the English Department Jan. 1,

the room.

“I want it to be fun, but I want it to be serious too,” Quilligan said. “I want it to be a lot more than snowman contests. We’re trying to stay a department of the first rank.”

With this goal in mind, Quilligan took over from interim chair Ron Butters on Jan. 1, and already, many in the faculty are singing her praises.

“I think she’s doing brilliantly. It’s almost impossible to imagine anyone doing better...” said Director of Graduate Studies Joseph Porter. “The general department morale is at an all-time high, and a lot of that is thanks to Maureen Quilligan.”

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“The improvement has been massive, massive terms of people being amiable, benevolent, confidentin about working together as one of the leading English departments in the country, which is what we all want,” he said.

Quilligan, a Renaissance scholar from the University of Pennsylvania, said she wants to build on the “wonderfully cordial” reception she received from the faculty As such, Quilligan hopes to institute democratic governance procedure, an ethic she says was ingrained in her at Penn. The usually cheery Quilligan sounds almost robotic when asked about it: “Everything’s democratic, yes. One person, one vote.... I don’t do it any other way.”

This democratic style is a stark contrast to the old order in the department, which was plagued by frequent complaints about favoritism and inconsistent administration. By the time an external review committee examined the department in the spring of 1998 many faculty said they were fed up with then-chair Marianna Torgovnick.

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Student finds his car stolen from Edens A parking lot From staff reports

A student reported that his $5,000 gray Dodge Spirit was stolen from the Edens A parking lot between Jan. 29 at 9 p.m. and Feb. 1 at 5:06 p.m., said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department. The 1994 vehicle has New York license plate Y46-6CE.

Vehicle broken into: An employee’s parked vehicle was broken into

between 9:20 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Jan Explorer. Another $lOO in damage was 31, Dean said. done to the console.

Someone broke out the A $lOO Motorola cell $2OO driver’s side window 3T Tl phone, a $5O Minolta 35 mm camera, 48 individual picwhile the vehicle was parked i OIICC at 2024 West Main St., Red tures valued at $2O were stolen from the car.

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containing $2O cash and credit cards from her unlocked office on the Carr Building’s second floor, Dean said.

Wallet stolen: Someone stole a student’s $2O wallet—containing $23 in cash, credit cards and a driver’s license —between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Jan, 23. The victim said he left the wallet on the East Campus gym floor while he played basketball.

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Proponents of Hindi concentration hope students sign up

By KIMBERLY HOLMES

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After almost a year and a half of drafting proposals, the University recently added another academic concentration: Hindi. Although many have waited anxiously for the concentration, no one has signed up yet and big changes to Hindi instruction at Duke will probably not occur immediately.

The Asian and African Languages and Literature department does not plan to add new professors any time soon, and new Hindi classes will be added gradually.

The AALL department and Diya, the South Asian Students Association, agree that it is difficult to predict the amount of interest in the program. Because the program was only finalized toward the end of last semester, it is hard for upperclass students to pursue the concentration.

The course enrollment suggests that there is some interest in Hindi courses. Eleven of the 15 seats in the introductory class are filled, as are 10 of the 20 seats in the intermediate level courses.

“Several members have expressed interest in the new concentration. However, since many of the upperclassmen will not have enough time to fulfill their requirements, it will be primarily up to the class 0f2003 and subsequent classes to pursue the concentration,” said Anand Shah, co-president of Diya and a Trinity sophomore.

The concentration was added to the three other AALL divisions in early December. The areas of study are separate concentrations within AALL, not majors.

Proposals to add a concentration in Hindi, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, started in the fall of 1998. Many were in favor of instituting the concentration —many, but not all.

The following spring, then-Trinity freshmen Jay Strader and Berin Szoka wrote letters to the editor of The Chronicle opposing the addition, citing a lack of demand for the major. More controversially, they argued that Indian culture was inferior and not worth studying. The letters prompted a campus-wide debate, and the students were bombarded by a myriad of threatening e-mail messages.

The Hindi program consists of seven courses and two instructors: Lecturer Mekhala Natavar and Associate Professor of the Practice SatendraKhanna. Both professors offered new courses this year.

In fact, Wang said, “The approval was based on [the] new courses.” Natavar added a course on Indian dance and Hindu cosmology last spring and Khanna added a course on Indian cinema last fall.

“Since both our Hindi professors have interests in media and performance... we expect Hindi majors from among students interested in exploring South Asian culture in particular,” Wang said.

The AALL department does not plan to add any new Hindi professors within the next three to five years. “We expect to hire part-time instructors to assist with Hindi language classes, if enrollment justifies such requests,” Wang said. He said Hindi was unlikely to become a full major in itself.

“Our philosophy at AALL is to link societies in the Asian and African geological areas through similarities of cultural improvisation in response to industrialization, colonization and the projects of modernity. We do not tend to alter this philosophy and revert to area studies by region.”

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N.C. requires that standardized tests count in class grades From staff and wire reports State education leaders continued their push to hold schools to more rigorous standards Thursday, when the North Carolina Board of Education decided that standardized tests must count for a large portion of students’ grades.

Beginning with the 2000-2001 school year, every school system in the state must count standardized year-end tests in five subjects—English I, algebra I, biology, U.S. history and civics—for at least one-quarter of a student’s grade.

And the standard likely will get tougher.

“If we’re going to be first in the nation, we need to have a common platform across the state,” said Edgar Murphy, a board member and manager of community relations for Nortel Networks in Research Triangle Park. “I

see this [policy] as a minimum; that’s

step one.”

Still, the new rule represents a retreat by the state board, which had been considering even tougher requirements.

They contemplated a rule requiring students to earn a passing score on a year-end test to pass the course and a rule mandating \[ that the tests count for at least tfc one-third of the final grade.

Board members also asked that in the future the state consider adding the standardized tests given in six other subjects.

Clinton budget may include up to $240 million in Floyd aid: The Clinton administration will seek up to $240 million in additional recovery

funds for Hurricane Floyd-related losses, Sen. John Edwards said Thursday.

Much of this money—similar to more than $2 billion already allocated by the

federal government for flood relief—would wind up in North Carolina, which sustained the worst damage.

‘This isn’t the last package,” said Rep. David Price, D-N.C. “We’ll be continuing to work on this for years. But in this package we want to have the best possible proposal.”

Museum agrees that Nazis stole painting from original owner: The

North Carolina Museum ofArt has concluded that a 16th century German painting in its collection was stolen by Nazis from a Jewish collector.

Museum director Lawrence Wheeler said he hoped the heirs of Dr. Philipp von Gomperz ofVienna, Austria, would allow the painting, “Madonna and Child in a Landscape,” to remain at the museum.

The painting is no longer on display.

In March, the World Jewish Congress advised the museum that two elderly Viennese sisters said their great-uncle had owned the painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder before World War 11.

Officials believe it was seized by the Gestapo in 1940 from Gomperz.

In January, the museum verified the painting had been Gomperz’s by comparing photos taken before and shortly after the war. Verification was important because Cranach and his assistants produced several versions of the same composition.

Bid nights face scrutiny from nationals, administrators

�BID NIGHT from page I ual sororities have rules that keep a few members sober and watching out for the others.

But there are still frightening allegations that older sisters push younger women to exceed their limits.

“It’s a great concern that we are endangering the lives of some of our most vulnerable students because of rite-ofpassage practices...said Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson.

“Out-of-control drinking and perhaps intentional expectations that people will drink to get drunk have led to potentially lethal situations where students have to go through detoxification. They’re really put at risk by women who would have them be sisters.”

Some sorority presidents stressed that they do not require pledges to drink on bid night.

“No, it is not a part of bid night to do anything to the new members,” said

Beard, the DG president. “Delta Gamma has a zero-tolerance policy for hazing, and it is made clear to each and every member that such behavior is grounds for dismissal from our sorority. New members are also informed that at no time should they ever feel pressure to do anything they are uncomfortable with, including drinking.”

But even if drinking is voluntary, Atkinson said the choice to overconsume is certainly influenced by peer pressure. “(Sisters are] older, more mature,” she said. ‘They should understand that these are people who are eager to be accepted and therefore they might be more likely to do high-risk behaviors.... Because alco-

cer said the national organization has a hazing hotline so they can be notified of any incidents. “If we do find these things going on, we investigate and take action...” she said. “It’s hard to say if anyone’s going to be reprimanded. Whether it’s the chapter as a whole or individual members depends on what we find.”

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STUDENTS danced and reveled during a recent bid night at the Tobacco Roadhouse, hoi does reduce inhibitions, it seems like an easy way to make friends.”

Wallace added that sororities can face judicial charges for just “creating an environment” in which excessive or underage drinking is encouraged.

Also, national organizations explicitly forbid hazing and binge drinking—as well as bid nights, which can include both.

National Panhellenic Council’s hazing position statement is adopted by most sororities in the United States, including DG and Pi Phi. The policy defines hazing as “any action or situation with or without consent which recklessly, intentionally or unintentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student, or creates risk of injury, or caus-

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The University’s anti-hazing policy closely mirrors that of NPC. According to Pi Phi’s national alcohol policy, “no alcoholic beverages shall be consumed at ceremonial events or related activities, at any rush or pledging function or any required chapter

function.”

Representatives from Pi Phi’s national chapter said they are investigating the incident described in Monday’s letter to the editor, which detailed hazing at Pi

Phi’s bid night.The letter claimed pledges were “expected to drink until they vomited” and made to walk home, some without coats or wearing sandals.

Pi Phi Executive Director Renee Mer-

nior, could not be reached for comment Thursday.

DG’s Executive Director Betsy Fouss said she had not heard about the two students, one freshman and one junior, hospitalized after bid night, but that she would look into it.

The University is continuing its investigation, too. ‘There was definitely something that happened there that is of concern, and we want to address that,” said Wallace, who oversees the University’s judicial process. “And there certainly could be judicial consequences.”

Donna Lisker, Panhel’s current adviser, said that although the organization does not support bid nights, it can do little to stop them. “Once [rush] is over, pledges are turned over to individual sororities..,,” she said. “How they do that is specific and unique to each group.”

Plummer said it is “some sort of miracle” that overindulging on bid night has not yet brought any tragic consequences.

“There is a real drinking culture within the student social scene, and I think the greek scene might exacerbate it,” she said. “And all that gets really concentrated on bid night.”

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But m a major departure from tradipractice, Mannesmann tional European to seek political attempt any avoided its battle by apwaged and protection pealing directly to shareholders.

When it became obvious this week that shareholders were ready to sell out, Mannesmann’s embattled chief ex-

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for peace.

Under an agreement reached after hours of bargaining at Mannesmann headquarters here Wednesday night, Esser agreed to endorse a peaceful takeover in which Vodafone will issue millions of new shares to buy out Man-

nesmann shareholders.

The deal comes just four days before the expiration of Vodafone’s hostile bid to Mannesmann shareholders.

And although it is nominally a

“friendly” merger, Esser only capitulated when it became obvious that a majority of his shareholders were about to

sell out.

Mannesmann shareholders will end up with about 49.5 percent of the combined company’s stock, and Esser will resign from the company in favor of Vodafone’s chief executive, Chris Gent.

If Vodafone shares hold their value, the agreement will become a huge bonanza for Mannesmann shareholders.

At current stock prices, the Vodafone offer is worth more than 330 euros per share—more than double the price that Mannesmann shares were trading at before the takeover battle began last fall.

But the deal is a bitter defeat for Esser, who passionately fought to preserve his company’s independence. It is also a shock for Mannesmann, an oldline industrial conglomerate that had brilliantly transformed itself into the

biggest provider of wireless communications in Europe. Gent also outmaneuvered Esser on the chessboard of Europe’s wireless industry, which is based on a handful of immensely valuable national wireless licenses in each country.

deal convinced wavering shareholders that Esser had lost the upper hand, even with his allies, and they immediately began betting on a takeover.

The combined company will control

wireless networks in Europe’s three Mannesmann owns national netbiggest markets —Britain, Germany and works in Germany, Italy and Britain. Italy—along with a 45 percent stake in Vodafone owns Britain’s second-largest the biggest U.S. network and holdings in network and scores of other stakes more than 30 other countries from Swearound Europe and on other continents. den and Poland to India and Japan.

Though Europe has witnessed a Gent’s biggest victory came last Sunday, when Vodafone managed to surge of big hostile takeovers in the last steal one of Mannesmann’s longtime two years, the takeover of Mannesmann allies—Vivendi SA of France. makes history on several fronts besides That move derailed Esser’s desperits sheer size. ate attempt to hammer out a merger The battle for Mannesmann marks with Vivendi, which would have given one of the first real battles for‘the enhim control of a major French network tire European market, one in which and greatly strengthened his position both the combatants recognized that with shareholders. the economic integration of Europe and But Gent cut his own deal with Viventhe adoption of a single currency in 11 di’s chair, Jean-Marie Messier, by forming countries made it crucial to overcome a joint venture in Internet services. That national boundaries.

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cellor. The sensitive ministries of justice and defense will go to the Freedom Party, but Haider himself will not be in the government. He has made it clear that he prefers to remain out of government office until he is strong enough to become chancellor. Haider’s party got the chance to join a coalition government after talks between Schuessel and the Social Democrats collapsed.

In the election in October, the Social Democrats emerged as the strongest party, but Haider’s Freedom Party came in second for the first time. The right-wing coalition has 104 seats in the 183-member Parliament.

tolerance and understanding for all human beings irrespective of their origin.” the declaration, drafted in part by Klestil, amounted to a bizarre list of democratic commitments and mea culpas for the prospective government of a modem European state to be signing. But it reflected the degree of alarm that Haider’s entry into government has provoked in European nations governed mainly by the center-left.

Schuessel described the text as a “pre-emptive political strike” intended to reassure the world about Austria’s commitment to human rights. “This declaration is very important because it deals with the fears of many friends at home and abroad,” he said.

The European Union stand is based on the view that Haider’s politics, including isolated and subsequently regretted expressions of sympathy for aspects of Hitler’s rule, make him incompatible with the values of the European Union, and on the pragmatic concern that other extreme-right parties may benefit from his party’s inclusion in the Austrian government.

On Thursday, dressed in an uncharacteristically sober dark suit and tie, Haider, 50, appeared in a vast hall of the gilt-dripping Hofburg Palace and sat beneath the European Union’s blue-and-gold flag as he signed the declaration committing Austria to “respect,

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enslavement of a people in the pre-Civil War South. Do these students similarly believe that Americans had Government legislators—- “no business” speaking out that Duke students and against these practices?

It’s ironic that this debate other “outsiders” have no right to speak to the issue of occurs at the same time as the Confederate battle flag. the “Jim Crow” exhibit was the on display in Perkins put enjoy America, we In freedom, nay, some would Library. Student Freedom say the obligation, to speak Riders—outsiders—couraout against injustice—- geously risked their lives to whether it be the slaughter see the end ofthis unjust sysof Jews in Nazi Germany, the tem. One wonders whether use of sweatshop labor in such courage exists within foreign factories, the genotoday’s student body. cide in Kosovo or the I close with two observaI am deeply disappointed the claim—made in numerous letters to the editor and now by Duke Student

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tions. First, there is a South Carolina branch of the NAACP, and they have every right to use the power of their national organization to change what, to them, is an important local issue. Second, at least some letter writers who upbraid uninformed “outsiders” are themselves appallingly ignorant about the history of this very flag they claim to defend.

Paul Gronke

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Greek organizations need to examine their practices After reading Monday’s let- is just another example of ter to the editor regarding Pi this attitude.

Beta Phi’s bid night, I would Gray also made the point have expected some kind of that “college students get statement from the sorority. drunk everywhere, and it’s Instead, the only reply to that not just at Duke, and it’s cerletter was from alumna Julia tainly not within Pi Phi.” Her Gray, who told the author of statement is definitely valid, the original letter that her but I think the amount of view was “provincial,” and drinking that goes on within that she had better get used to sororities (and this is certainthe excessive drinking that ly not limited to Pi Phi) is goes on at Duke. I agree that rather problematic, especially drinking has become an inte- considering these organizaculture tions are allegedly intended gral part of and is certainly not limited to to promote “sisterhood.”

Whether Gray chooses to greek organizations.

I see, however, something believe it or not, it’s common inherently wrong in the way knowledge that sorority that greek life is exalted on pledges are, if not forced, at least strongly encouraged to this campus and how nongreek students are expected get extremely intoxicated on to put up with it. Gray’s letter their bid nights. I think it’s a

shame that current sorority members, many of whom are cast in the role of“big sisters” encourage pledges to put themselves in a position in which their judgment is impaired. Granted, independent female students drink as well, but they rarely have older girls (who, whether they like it or not, are in somewhat of a position of authority) egging them on. If greek organizations don’t wish to be attacked on account of their practices, I suggest that they reexamine what these practices actually are, and pay more attention to the consequences of their actions.

Katherine Silton Trinity ’O2

see http: //www.chronicle.duke.edu /chronicle/2000/01 /31 /06Piphi.html and http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/2000/02/03/08Drunkenevenings.html

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Columnist perpetuates racial inequities in America John Zimmerman is certainly from ‘The Right Side of Campus.” In his article published Wednesday regarding “today’s black leaders,” he demonstrates what it is to be a conservative Republican blind to the causes of racial inequality in this country.

Zimmerman claims to be interested in “racial harmony” and “equality” and suggests reasons why America remains an unequal place. There is a “problem with discipline in

the young black community..., rappers consistently advance racism and stereotypes, blackon-black crime is rising...”

Although there is no doubt that these are pressing social

issues, Zimmerman should realize it is ludicrous to pin the problem ofracial injustice on minorities in this country.

For the most part, minorities—such as blacks, Latinos, Asians and Indians—have been the victims of racial injustice in America and not

the instigators of the problem. Zimmerman should look in the mirror and realize that the major cause of racial inequality was, and continues to be, people just like him. It is he who fails to see the privileges he receives just by having white skin, and it is he who will keep America the institutionally racist society that it is today.

Peter Gail Trinity ’OO

for referenced column, see http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/exportlwww/www_docs/chroniclel2ooolo2lo2l o9Todaysblack.html

University should not pay for unperformed work Chuck Pringle’s letter to the editor had some good points, specifically that it can be a hardship for employees to lose work time, “penalizing them for something that is beyond their control.” I’m also a biweekly employee (with 15 years of service to the University), and I didn’t like having to use vacation time or take unpaid time off when I couldn’t make it to for referenced

work. I also didn’t like havscheduled to be at work at 8 to snow and ice off a.m. ing clear and you are unable to of my driveway. make it in until 9 a.m. due My point is that while to the weather, you still are the snow is beyond my conpaid for the first hour. I trol, it’s also beyond the condon’t really feel the trol of the University. Why University is obligated to should it be penalized by pay for more unworked time having to pay for work that than that. was not received? The Mark Kitchens University does give a grace period to get to work—as I Special Events Supervisor, Duke Technical Services understand it, if you are

letter, see http: llwww.chronicle.duke.edu /chronicle / 2000 / 02 /03/OSEmployees should.html

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If you're the organizer of an a capella group, the project sounds great. But what if your creative idols run closer to Limp Bizkit or Li'l Wayne? Well, the project is interested in something from everyone.

"There is no specific type of 'music' that we are looking for," said John Hladczuk, one of the project's organizers. "If we could get rap, dance mixes and heavy metal renditions... that would be exactly what we are hoping to achieve.... The rap or gospel or dance or instrumental or heavy metal renditions will be considered equally along with traditional renditions."

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Holman on the phone.

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I was like, oh yeah, this is a much more secure a job.

Then how did you manage to make the transition from poor starving to successful celebrated writer?

Well, I got a job at a literary agency, and I was there for five years. It was while there that I got really serious about writing. I saw what sold, what didn't sell, you know, what worked and why it worked. My first book I wrote early, early in the morning whenever I could snatch time. Luckily, that got me enough money [that] I was able to quit my job and write full-time. I think that made a tremendous difference.

What advice can you give college students who are interested in becoming writers?

A lot of people disagree with me, but 1 don't necessarily think you shouJd pursue an MFA program. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with them, but a lot of books that come out of them are perceived in the publishing world I'm not saying they are—as small, precious and a little too mannered sometimes. The main thing that sells is something that has one plot. That doesn't mean that you have to sacrifice good writing, you don't have to sacrifice characterization, you have to think very carefully about your plot.There's so much on the market, I've noticed, working in a high-powered agency, that's always what set a book apart, that it was well-written but it also had a kind of a driving pace to it.

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At the very beginning of The Dress Lodger, you draw in the readers by addressing them directly.

I had about 15 different beginnings for this book. When I set out to write it, I drew a very thorough outline —now I do,-in my first book I didn't write that way and I realized that was a mistake—so I knew what was going to happen in terms of plot, but I didn't know the voice of the book yet, so I started it in a bunch of different ways.

From Henry's point of view, from Gustine's point of view, from a third-person general narrator—nothing worked.

Then I was reading a lot of Dickens, I was reading The Uncommercial Traveller, and he does lots of that addressing the audience kind of thing. I thought that sounded very period, to give the feeling of the period without doing a pastiche.

How did you feel about the mayor of Sunderland calling your book "American claptrap"?

Wasn't that mean? I was really upset because my sources for Jack Crawford [a British working-class hero who is debunked in the novel] were all published in Sunderland. I thought that this was the general, accepted view of Jack Crawford in Sunderland. But I found out it was like coming to Richmond and running down Stonewall Jackson. You just don't do it. It's been 150 years, but you just don't do it. I didn't realize I was treacling on toes.

What about your political sympathies, though? You make the lower-class characters very understandable.

Yeah, I'm down with the poor man. 1 grew up in a rural area, I grew up without a whole lot of money and I feel much more connected on some level to that life. When I was a child, I felt the divide, and it's very interesting now being on the other side—living in New York, being relatively successful—I feel very conflicted about it. My sympathies do tend to lie with the people who were victimized that way.

What about the names of the main characters, such as Gustine and Chiver?

Well, Chiver is actually —I looked it up in my dictionary of Victorian slang—a slang term for knife. So I though that was kind of perfect, so that's why I called him that, as a sawbones. And Gustine: Justine was a character in Marquis de Bade, who is very highly sexualized, and I liked the idea of giving her a guttural g, so it sort of gutterized the eroticism, because I didn't want to romanticize prostitution.

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So once again, the killer is back; After offing a semi-major actress in the first scene (like Drew Barrymore and Jada Pinkett in the previous movies), the hooded hoodlum goes on a rampage on the set of Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, which unsurprisingly is a movie version of the life and adventures of the unfortunate Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell)—though it's never quite clear whether this is supposed to be the 'movie version' of Scream 2or a new story.

Once again, reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and police officer Dewey Riley (David Arquette) arrive on the scene to save the day (or at least to try), and even film geek Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy), who died in the last film, gets to make an appearance to explain the rules of the last films of trilogies: The killer is superhuman; anybody—including the main characters—can

die; the past comes back to haunt the story.

Characters are dispatched left and right, there's plenty of blood and gore, the uppity people get what they've got coming, and everything is presided over by Lance Henriksen, who has migrated straight from Millennium to the equally mysterious and sinister role of B-horror-film producer John Milton (nice choice of name). And there probably has never been a movie in which cell phones ring so many times.

Director Wes Craven turns Scream 3 into as much of a celebration of the Scream franchise as a decent film. The movie's cutest aspect is its incorporation of cameos (from Carrie Fisher to Kevin Smith) and film references. As usual, he has picked actors who are currently on popular TV shows: This time, we get Scott Foley (Noel in Felicity as Stab 3‘s director Roman Bridget. The greatest casting coup is giving the 'role' of Gale Weathers in Stab 3 to Parker Posey; The indie favorite gets to mock Courteney Cox, the annoyingly saccharine but supposedly ruth-

less journalist.

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all about? British intelligence agent falls in love with female killer.

Possibly interesting. Maybe even an international conspiracy involving the British consulate in Washington and a murderess who slices and dices the diplomat's bratty embezzling son. Intriguing. I was settling in for a taut, complex thriller about spies and femme fatale killers and surveillance equipment. One out of three isn't bad, but I can't get riled up about surveillance equipment.

British intelligence agent? He's a loser. His name is The Eye. He speaks in monotones and wears highwaters. Ewan MacGregor was never so joyless and humorless... oh wait, except when he was Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Dialogue follows suit. And so without a plot, we have two hours of voyeurism. The Eye follows Ashley -||| Judd. Watching. Staring. He becomes obsessed with her.

HEY. I LOOK JUST UKE HELENA BONHAM CARTER IN FIGHT CLUB: Ashley Judd Mmm, killing people is sexy. stalks and murders without motive and appears in various states of undress. And in sunglasses and a scarf, she sure does look like Helena Bonham Carter. meantime, the our femme In fatale, in various states of dress Why does she |<j||7 Because she doesn't have a and undress, offs every man she meets. New father. Is that a good motive? Screaming "Oh feminism meets Serial Killer Fashion. And here Daddy, Merry Christmas!" as you gut someone? we have Miss Judd, in Victoria s Secret Angels Mr. Eye ( Qr Freud will see you now.

2000 ensemble, sashaying and stabbing her So here we have a film that amounts to a lot of way through British people! The graceful lines random killing and pasty-faced staring. No of Armani suit her nicely as she drowns a man romance, no humor, and no intrigue. Just two in the toilet! Oops, don t kill the blind guy losers who deserve each other.

(Patrick Bergin) before changing your wig!

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By Jonas Blank I'm angling my car to work on a frigid Tuesday morning under the haze of a heavy post-party hangover, thinking about life and unrecognized opportunities. Crooked Fingers is playing on the car stereo —not cranked, but at a mild, pensive volume perfectly suited to the melancholy of an ambivalent morning.

Crooked Fingers is that kind of album, the kind that makes you want to sit back, reevalu-

ate, take a nice, long drag on a menthol cigarette and let your mind wander where you

probably don't want it to go.

As the latest solo project of ex-Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann, Crooked Fingers takes some of the Archers' most endearing qualities—like simple song structures, memorable songwriting and Bachmann's penetrating, nasal croak —and sits them down by the fireplace, slowing the pace and bringing the rock almost to a standstill. The album is not a total sleeper, but the slower, more melodic

By Norbert Schiirer songs and lush As Latin music's popularity arrangements give it a

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The band was formed nine years ago by Jim Thompson, Jorge Negron, gang of value shoppers who play instruments.

Ray Gonzalez and Ed Trask as students at Virginia Commonwealth University—as a percussion group. Later, as Thompson explains, "We began listening to more salsa music and slowly evolved into a salsa band.

We played covers—mostly songs we liked out of Jorge's record collection."

Even back then, Bio Ritmo stood out as a band offering live music for dance venues and quickly became a regular fixture on the Richmond music scene, in the following years, they also played at festivals, museums and cultural events in the MidAtlantic region.

The group continued to add new members, and in 1995 singer and trombone player Rene Herrera, an award-winning composer and former member of the Cuban Symphony Orchestra, joined the lineup. With Herrera's arrival, Bio Ritmo started recording their music, producing in quick succession Que Siga La Musica (1996), Salsa Galactica (1997) and Rumba Baby Rumba (1998).

Along with the band, Thompson takes credit for changing the public's perception of Latin music. "I think we're moving salsa beyond the gimmicky Hollywood stereotypes of Ricky Ricardo and are showing people that it's a beautiful and complex music style with rich cultural aspects," he says.

Bio Ritmo will be performing at the Cat's Cradle, one of their regular haunts, tonight. As a reviewer in Mademoiselle once put it, "Whether you simply wriggle your rump or put your Latin dance lessons to use with some fancy footwork, you won't just sit there sipping a rum and coke."

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whimsical, dreamlike quality that doesn't resembel the Archers in the least. Crooked Fingers isn't a headbanger album, but it really shouldn't be. The slower, more demulcent pace is what makes it work.

Crooked Fingers is an album of mood songs, not singalongs.

As solo outings often are, it's personal and direct, untethered by pesky expectations and alleviated from any obvious need for validation. It is merely a document, words over guitars, bass and drums lathered with bells and strings.

Bachmann captures a moment in time here, a long night of icy weather and sentimentality. Crooked Fingers

is free of egotistical flourishes; Bachmann isn't Mick dagger, and

he doesn't try to be. The album does what independent albums do best, distilling the small, complicated moments of life into a personal yet accessible album. This is music that inspires—and recalls—memories.

Crooked Fingers is a hangover album. A post-coital haze hangs over every darkthemed song, from the tough-morning meditation of "New Drink for the Old Drunk" to the sexual confusion of "She Spread Her Legs and Flew Away."

Bachmann ruminates on such things as girls burning and evil lurking, tike a drunk poet in a gutter—the disillusioned intellec-

tual, the post-'9os rocker sifting through the left behind emotional and sonic rubble of the real "me" decade Though Bachmann's voice SWAN LAKE; Believe it or not, this beautakes some getting tiful swan was once an ugly duckling.

Eric Bachmann is still ugly, though. By used to (he somethe way, this is the album cover. times sounds like he's got about a plantation's worth of cotton shoved in his sinuses) his voice on this album is the best that it has sounded. The Archers' sound took some focus away from Bachmann's whine, but the band's more rocking sound also demanded louder singing that clearly strained his pipes.

Without all the heavy guitars, Bachmann's voice is softened and prettified; he almost recalls Elliott Smith at times. When you think of Crooked Fingers , think of Neil Young or Neutral Milk Hotel; sometimes, it's the ragged crooner that makes the most sense.

And these are the times, as the snow melts and the winter slowly wanes away, for an album like this to make its mark. It's an intimate album, with small moments and small aspirations. But when the air chills your heart and slush dampens your feet, it's a night indoors with the lights down, listening to an album like this, that makes those little moments special.□ J

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The Upright Citizens Brigade is committed to undermining society through the proliferation of chaos. And they're damn funny. he four members of the Upright Citizens Brigade have taken sketch comedy to the next level. Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, lan Roberts and Matt Walsh all cut their teeth on the famous Chicago improv circuit. Now they're on TV, and their weekly show on Comedy Central stands somewhere between Shakespeare and Saturday Night Live on crack—with several diverse and insane plot lines operating simultaneously and somehow coming together in a cogent, though nonetheless insane, manner by the end of the show. Recess caught up with UCB member Amy Poehler earlier this week to discuss ideas, parents and taking over the world, among other things.

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Right, I'm the only lady... but I'm lady enough to handle the position Going back to the roots of the Upright Citizens Brigade... who's idea was it?

The original members were Matt Besser, lan Roberts and Matt Walsh You guys have a lot of pretty off-the-cuff ideas. Where do you guvs come up this stuff?

We, um, all clamor around a giant bong and we smoke it... and whatever shapes the smoke forms when it blows out of our mouths is what we write the episode about. Also, we do deep-sea expeditions, where we go deep into the sea and we recover things from shipwrecks, bring them up and write funny things about them. 0r... sometimes we troll really depressing places like hospitals, or nursing homes and graveyards, and are usually inspired by that.

You guys have a lot of stage performance experience...

Yeah, we perform here weekly. And we've been performing on-stage

for years and years.

How is your approach to making a television show different than the stage?

Our [TVJ show's completely different than being on-stage, because we shoot everything on location, so it's a new location every day. And we don't shoot in front of an audience, so it's kind of like making a film. S° you have to really alter your performance.

How so?

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But the great thing is that you get to do it jver and over again, so ou get it right.

Of the two, which do u like better?

It's like choosing etween my babies. Don't 'ke me do it.... I like m both the same, ave you guys ever -e a college tour?

Yeah, we've done a mch of college shows, 'e've been all over, and 'e're thinking about doing again in the spring when 'e wrap up shooting.

Would you consider oming to Duke?

Yeah! Have Duke set us up.... Colleges are really fun.

Because of a couple of reasons, we love doing them. First of all, we love going to the parties after the shows. It makes us feel very young... even though we're not very old. Also, 1 think the audiences are really smart and really.open-minded, I think that most college kids have their finger on the pulse of what's funny. They watch Conan O'Brien, they watch Mr. Show, they love The Larry Sanders Show. They make pretty good decisions and judgments of what's funny. At least I agree with them. So I feel happy to be able to make them laugh. And, you know, the free meal plan food is good, too.

What do your parents think of the show?

They love it. My parents are huge fans.

Are your parents funny?

Yeah... when they're trying to be funny, they're not. When they aren't trying to be funny, they're hilarious.

Time magazine wrote that "unlike most troupes, [UCB] includes a woman." What's up with that? Why the trend of all-male troupes? Are women just not funny?

I'm not sure, because I actually know tons of hilarious women. I guess those other troupes just didn't have any women that they wanted to perform with who they thought were funny. I don't think comedy should be equal opportunity. I think the funniest people should be in the group. And what's really great and fun about our show is that I play men all the time, and the guys play women, so it's really nice that you don't have to limit yourself. I don't always have to play the girlfriend or the hooker role. I always kind of fantasized that I would be the one who Monty Python thought, "Ooh, she's brilliant (in a thick British accent)," or the Kids in the Hall went, "H II ht come on over!" But there's plenty of worry I'm sure they're in groups all over the worf Well, the Kids in the Hall do a pretty ( of handling the female roles themselve; Yes, Dave Foley is a very attractive worn, pale in comparison.

Do you have a favorite episode of UCB that you've done?

Again, it's so hard to choose. Every day is something new. We just watched our show last night, and we did a Little Rascals parody that really like. And we just watched some clips from our next week's episode in the editing room, and was really funny. So, my favorite sketch is probably the one that I'm doing. But I'm always really happy when people come up to us and say that they liked something, h always different. People like different thing tor different reasons, and always like to know what people think is funny and why.

Do people recognize you in public?

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sleepless night!"

What's Conan really like?

He's a fucking asshole. A fucking jackoff. He's like a slavemaster. No, really, he's awesome, he's a doll. He basically helped us pay our rent when we first moved to New York by throwing us on the show, giving us staring contest bits or making us eat fish and dance around on our heads or wear giant foam-rubber Andy [Richter] outfits. And he's been super-supportive of the show. And he's, of course, a raging alcoholic.

The goal of the UCB is to "undermine society through the proliferation of chaos." What are you trying to accomplish with that?

I really don't want to tell you too much, because then I'd have to kill you. But basically, the Upright Citizens Brigade is not a sketch show, it's an underground organization monitoring the various happenings all over the globe. Although Duke may think that they're protected against the UCB's infiltration, we've got cameras set up all across campus and we know what you're doing, and we know how your parents would not appreciate it is world domination the end goal?

Oh, well, we already have that. We've got our fingers in everything, it's just a matter of decided which parts we want to reveal.

Your press materials describe your style of sketch comedy as the "Harold."

What's that?

We're at the core, the very essence, of improvisers. We started improvising in Chicago with our teacher, Del Close, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harold" is a form, away of improvising. It's a performance piece where you take suggestions from the audience and you just feed off of the suggestions, and the "Harold" is just a simple, no-nonsense name for this very complex and interestHMMM... WHICH BALKAN COUNTRY SHOULD WE OVERTAKE ing improv game. And so we Amy Poehler, bottom right, is thinking about Albania. base our show off of that form, in kind of a tribute to Del, which is that our show starts with sketches that are very disparate and don't have much in common, and by the end of the show, they all connect in a hopefully interesting and organic way, so that the show itself is a whole instead of just sketch-blackout, sketch-blackout, sketch-blackout, and so it's the kind of show that you can watch a lot find different layers and interesting things in it the more you watch. hidden cameras occasionally, right?

Y ing a lot more hidden camera stuff this season, ere almost every one of our scenes will have the character or one of the ideas from the scene out into the real world with a hidden camera. So, we'll go and ask old ladies at hospital giftshops if they carry dildos, and we pretend that a regular dog is a seeing-eye dog and he eats all of the hotdogs at a hotdog stand. We do tons of stuff like that.

How often do the other people get really pissed off?

Oh, every time. We almost get beat up every time So, how did the Upright Citizens Brigade end up on Comedy Central, anyway?

We did a tot of comedy in New York, and then a lot of small projects for them. We took the movie It's a Wonderful Life, and we rearranged all of the scenes and wrote an entirely new story and )bed over it, which was realty fun and which we ome day will be broadcasted. They were having >s with copyright stuff.... Maybe those guys are all and they'll all die and then they'll let us show it. worked on small projects like that, until one day we )rmed into their offices and said, "You better fuck'e us a contract 0r... we'll... kill you.â&#x20AC;? And so they ; ke, "Come back in a couple of months." a

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Performance artist Dean Moss combines dance, video and text in two pieces: Spooky Action at a Distance and Tale Telling Telling.

Calling all dancers, filmmakers, artists, writers, philosophers and quantum physicists; Dean Moss is at Duke, and he's performing especially for you.

Who is Dean Moss? He's a little bit of everything—a Renaissance Man of media and philosophy. More simply, he's a performance artist.

This Friday and Saturday, Moss is bringing his unique brand of artistry to Duke with his solo piece, Tale Telling Telling, and a trio, Spooky Action at a Distance Text enhances movement, movement creates video, and all of these media combine to deepen this experience of continuous creativity and complexity. As Moss dances with the ease and beauty of a feather blowing in the wind, a home video plays behind him, along with a reading of journal entries. His work is dense, but enlightening in its discovery. He juxtaposes video, dance and text so exquisitely that one cannot imagine one form of media without the other.

In Spooky Action at a Distance, Moss draws inspiration from the Astaire/Rogers film Swing Time and is particularly focused on Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. Dancing with Kacie Chang and Marcelo Continho, Moss uses some of the film's score, along with lectures from Noam Chomsky, Richard Fryman and David Ruelle, to explore ideas of existentialism. Much like all of his work, the focus is not solely on dance, but rather on how Moss integrates the text and video with dance. His inspirations feed off each other. Moss says, "I draw on a wide range 0f... subject matter... a wide range of elements,'' which extend from his journals, videos, dance background and philosophies all the way to simple pedestrian movements and thoughts. But once you've seen his work, it is hard to think 'simple.'

What is even more intriguing about Dean Moss is the process by which he creates. Tale Telling Telling gives the audience a glimpse into the mind of an artist. The piece is based on Moss's vision of what it would be like to exist in a class taught through Mayan mythology. He elegantly struts around the stage, drawing with chalk. The sketched symbols explain themselves while he speaks in phrases that mythologically describe the situation.

Though this work may seem daunting in its explanation, its presentation is a breakthrough.

The layers meld and fuse, forcing our ideals and conceptions of life experience to multiply. His pieces are as complex as they are engrossing.

You find yourself entering into a world that is paradoxically undiscovered, yet familiar territory.

You are aware of video, you are aware of music, you are aware of dance—but you were never aware that they could exist so perfectly together.

He is a man with a plan, a plan to introduce you to the endless possibilities that exist with-

in the realm of performance art. Dean Moss was brought to Duke not only to perform, bu to teach. He has given workshops on film, video and dance with the purpose of opening students to a different realm of artistic possibilities. He says, "I wanted to open up this world for these students." The world he describes is one that involves the unification of all art.

There are no boundaries.

Dean Moss started the four series workshops with a relatively simple physical project that involved learning some material. The movement material included an object—a foam board. Over the course of the workshops, Moss allowed the students to add visual elements to the board itself by joining the possibilities of narrative, text, music, lighting or the use of video.

Dean Moss's style is not concrete, but the richness of his work is. He asks only one thing of his audience; “I would like them to come in interested and curious,'' he says.

So for those of you who pride yourself on experiencing the new, but especially those who think they need to stick with the old, be sure to catch this performance. Because Dean Moss's work is so vast, it is sure to affect you, no matter what your interests. Just arrive with an open mind. □ Dean Moss and his colleagues will be presenting their performance tonight in Sheafer Theater.

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Cuba is a poor and dirty country, full of evil communists. Castro, their malevolent leader, even wanted to fire missiles on us until President Kennedy stepped in. And Elian Gonzalez should be so thankful that a Florida court is keeping him here temporarily.

Or so American propaganda might have you believe.

But if you do not believe these distortions of Cuba, what is out there to shape the image of what this nation has become? Despite any skepticism about the propaganda, Cuba is still an isolated and often mysterious country to most Americans. Over the past few years, though, new presentations of life in Cuba have emerged. El Periodo Especial, Ernesto Bazan's exhibit of black-and-white photography, is one source of images and words that provide another view of Cuba—a view that shows his love for this country and its people.

El Periodo Especial means the special period, and it refers to these past years in Cuba since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Without the economic support of the former USSR, much of Cuba is now in poverty. Cuban life can often be hard and have little reward. The desperation created by these economic difficulties can be seen in the grave faces and gaunt bodies of the individuals in "Coffee line, Regia" as well as in the crumbling buildings of the street scenes.

These times can be difficult, but Bazan also sees and captures the strength and the vitality of the people of Cuba. One striking image is of the lone sugarcane cutter in “Macheteros!' As this man stands in the field and changes clothes after a tiring day, Bazan's camera transforms him into a strong, hardy figure.

Bazan's ability to capture such raw emotions shines throughout this work.

Whether it is the happy tears of an airport reunion or uplifted, longing eyes of a man holding candles above his head, Bazan is able to capture that essence that makes us human. These individuals become more than just Cuban —they are people to whom we all can relate.

At the same time Bazan gives us that glimpse of human spirit, these photographs also distinctly portray the uniqueness of life in Cuba. Where else would you find a makeshift altar of candles next to a poster of Fidel Castro?

Seemingly distinct cultural categories sit next to each other and often blur together in this country. The photograph of the man stretching up his arms holding candles is close by another showing a local boy participating in a traditional Santeria ceremony.

Through his photographs, Bazan invites us to believe that Cuba is an exotic, though not foreign, place. Although the traditions and culture may be different, in the end Bazan wants us to see the people of Cuba as everyday individuals who get up and face the day just as everyone else. This may be true, but also captured in his work is the strength and passion of these individuals to survive and thrive in a country so troubled during this special period. □ Bazan's photographs will be shown at the Center for Documentary Studies until May 26. For details, see calendar, p. II

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Who Wants To be a Millionaire attempts the jump from smash-hit game show to smash-hit game. The result is Song on authenticity but woefully short on fun.

Good luck trying to escape Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It's not just prime-time TV; The game-show has replaced professional sports as the favorite topic for watercooler gossip. Professors find ways to link it obliquely to their lecture themes. CNN even aired a story crediting the show with helping revitalize the American family destroyed by Murphy Brown, The Simpsons and Beverly Hills 90210. A computerized simulation was only a matter of time, and now the long, painful wait is over.

Developed by Jellyvision, creators of the addictive smash-hit You Don't Know Jack, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire faithfully duplicates the TV show. The basic format is simple enough: A ladder of 15 questions with steadily increasing cash prizes, four choices, even a quick-finger round if you're playing with friends. The show's three Lifelines are recreated with equal care: Instead of polling the audience, you view the results of a poll (ostensibly) taken of random adults on each question. When you're just playing on a computer, you can enlist the help of a friend on every question, of course, but if 30 seconds isn't enough time or you don't have any friends, the game obliges with a recorded conversation with one of Regis' friends sharing his or her insight.

Ultimately, a quiz game is only as good as its questions, and here again Millionaire doesn't disappoint. It features the familiar blend of pop culture and thirdgrade level academia—it's easy to answer just enough questions to have a pot of money that's painful to lose. You may think you're clever, but winning a cool million is only slightly easier on the computer than it apparently is on TV. Once you pop that CD in the drive, the only intellectual challenge real contestants get that you don't is keeping up with Regis' razor-sharp wit.

Fans of the show may buy it, but Millionaire doesn't add up to much of a video game experience. A sizable chunk of the show's fun comes from its one-on-one intensity.

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But, you may argue, millions of computer users isolate themselves from friends and loved ones to play single-player games. True, but those games are either immersive graphical extravaganzas like Half-Life or quick-loading desktop distractions like Solitaire or Minesweeper. Millionaire is neither—it might have worked if an interactive, animated 3-D Regis leered at you as you played, and it would certainly work if you could pop it up on your desktop while a web page loaded and rattle off a quick 15 questions. But Millionaire is slow to start up, loaded with down-time for corporate logos or repetitive recorded announcements and doesn't even support the mouse. It's fun the first few times while you get to pretend you're a real, live contestant, but once that novelty evaporates, the game just isn't worth the effort of playing again. □

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With no memory, no belongings, no name and no future prospects, the protagonist finds himself in the most dire of circumstances. Guide him as he collects his bearings, joins some traveling companions and begins to piece his life and memory back together.

Possible solutions to confrontations and difficulties vary depending on the mental and physical attributes the player selects for the hero as well as decisions made earlier in the game. Give the hero strength of heroic proportions and look to bash skulls for answers. A keen intellect and

charming personality are likely to result in more conniving or non-violent solutions.

The environment is as bizarre and original as any that has ever graced the computer screen. The city in which the adventure occurs is filled with an extraordinarily wide array of creatures, from humans to far more sinister, evil and freaky creatures, each of which has a distinct personality.

Unlike most contemporary offerings, the game is dialogue-heavy. Fighting and flashy special effects take the backseat to a thoughtful and tight storyline.

Keeping track of the wide array of adventures is a daunting task, but a robust personal journal is built into the game. This diary, in which entries

are automatically recorded, is neatly organized into different sections —one for recording events, another for listing quests completed and incompleted and a third that provides information on persons and beasts encountered.

NICE HAIR: Planescape: Torment presents a bleak urban future with an engaging storyline and pleasing graphics.

Learning the game does not require much strenuous effort, although there are areas in which the game controls feel rather clumsy—a problem further exacerbated by the lack of any comprehensive tutorial.

Any minor problems learning how to play are pushed well into the background once the plot and environment unfofd in one of the most compelling releases of the last year.

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8, See article, p. ($l6 for reserved seats, $l4, $8 for students) pm 8 [onight, jheaferTheater, Bryan Center. 684-4444.

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Caretaking: A Visual Exploration*The title says it all. These works by continuing education students appear at the Center [or 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. Hours of operation are Monday thru Thursday, 9 am to 7:30 pm; Friday, 9 am to spm and Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm. For more information, call 660-3663.

Sheri Holman»The author will be reading from her novel The Dress Lodger. See interview, p. 3.

Tuesday,7 pm (admission free). Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth Street, Durham. 286-2700.

Bio Ritmo»The Southern salsa band will be bringing its unique style of music to North Carolina. See preview, p. 5.

Tonight, 11:30 pm ($7). Cat's Cradle, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro.

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CAMPUS Library of Congress Film Preservation Tour*Brought to campus & Video Program, this tour is presented on the occasion of the library's bicentennial celebration and highlights the need for film preservation to ensure the survival of the library's collections. Movies being shown include: •Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), tonight, 8 pm (introduced

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•Within Our Gates (1919), Saturday, 10 am •Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), Saturday, 1:30 pm •Chinatown (1974), Saturday, 8 pm •Dr. Strangelove (1964), Sunday,' 3 pm •Safety Last (1923) and Duck Soup (1933), Sunday, 8 pm •Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Monday, 8 pm.

Except for Mr. Smith, which is showing at the Carolina Theatre (309 W. Morgan St,,. Durham. 560-3030),,a1l films will be present-

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Fixing what’s broken in public education Few lessons can be quite as important as learning to speak English properly long and concerted effort to implement rap artists—complete with rhythm, and also that they would be beyond the pronunciation and inflection. reach of any individual critic.

I’d have them choose their favorite So what would I do? orator and then, using the language To start with, I think I’d ask to be lab if the school had one, or a simple assigned to younger children. By the cassette recorder if it didn’t, record William Raspberry time students reach high school age in and re-record their imitation of the some of our worst-performing schools, speech. Oh, yes, and they’d have to who the emphasis has shifted away from eduEverybody WASHINGTON transcribe the speech so they could criticizes America’s public schools, I cating them to simply cajoling them into read it back—an exercise that, I am convinced, would help enormously told a friend the other day, ought to be staying long enough to get a diploma.

And what would I do with these with their reading progress. required to spend a semester teaching youngsters in primary and elementary Can’t you just hear their proud parin one. school? I think I’d spend a lot of time ents? “Lordy me, that girl sure do I admit I was being more smartalecky than prescriptive. I was saying teaching them the language. Not just the sound just like Maya Angelou (or that people who are so sure that disci- mechanics of English—spelling, gramGwen Ifill or Barbara Jordan or pline is the answer to underachieving mar, the parts of speech—though I’d like Johnetta Cole).” or “Man, I swear if you schools would see at first hand how dif- those taught as well. No, my semester’s close your eyes you’d think you were ficult discipline can be to achieve. contribution would be to get my young- listening to Kweisi Mfume (or speaking Likewise, with those sters Frederick Douglass or Martin Luther who think phonics is English as well as I King Jr.).” or the answer, could manage in I’d move them as quickly as I could ...competent prayer or uniforms such a short time. from repeating the canned oratory of or bigger budgets or You see, there’s their chosen models to reading their teachers who can no doubt in my national a pass a easier to master mind that if these teachers’ exam. Let children learned to s;tand-' them spend a semesspea.k andar d ter in a failing school and then see what English, they’d find reading a lot easithey think about their pet scheme. er to master —and that competent I certainly wasn’t saying that the reading makes everything else a lot schools would benefit from having a easier to master. bunch of second-guessing, pedagogically I know there would be critics who ignorant, disrespectful know-it-alls clutwould complain (assuming I was tering up the place. I was being ironic. assigned to a predominately black But the more I think about it, the class) that I was teaching these chilmore I’m inclined to think some verdren to speak “white.” I’d have three sion of the spend-a-semester idea answers for them. The first (and probmight be a good thing (besides lowerably most effective) would be to evoke ing the decibel level of the criticism). my spend-a-semester rule. The second In particular, I wonder what I would would be to ask them just which nondo with my semester. You see the prewhite language they’d like me to scriptions I’ve been offering—improving emphasize. But third, I’d lay in a stack teachers’ colleges, instituting parenting of recordings of black Americans classes for parents of young children, speaking standard English and get the that sort of thing—constitute systemic children to mimic these careful speakchanges. That means they would take a ers the way they mimic their favorite

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combination of writing the material (which means they’d have to think about it), reading it as effectively as they could and then listening to and critiquing their effort would move them rapidly toward becoming proficient with the language.

Language isn’t everything, of course. Sooner or later they’d have to learn something of history and math and science—the things we describe as “content” courses. But I don’t propose to become their permanent teacher.

I’m only there for a semester, remember. And that is about the most effective way I can think of to spend my semester.

How would you spend yours?

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A competitive rivalry between equals I guess that I should lay my cards on the table right here, right now: I am a recently converted Blue Devil fan. For the first 18 years of my life, I rooted for the team that wears a lighter shade of blue. I barely remember celebrating Dean Smith’s first national championship, sipping special commemorative David Margolis “Carolina Blue Soda” with my dad, a proud Chapel Hill alumnus. I only rooted for Duke when Carolina’s run in These columns have to be turned in two nights the NCAA tournament had ended, and I was quite before they are going to be published, but I am going to pleased to see their string of championships cut by go out on a limb here to say that last night’s basketball Donald Williams and the ’93 Heels. game was magnificent. Furthermore, am Now I love rooting for Coach K and the fierce comhappy to see I he University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s team petitors that he produces every year. A Trajan Langdon mrning their recent misfortunes around, even though it jump shot was just as beautifiil as those of Donald at the Blue Devils’ expense. Both teams Williams. I do not mind the darker shade ofblue. But I Is ou ght hard and deserve a lot credit. of do not hate UNC—and you shouldn’t either. That is one . see, my philosophy of a sports rivalry is unconthing that really bothers me about my experiences ventional. I do not see any reason for fans and players cheering for Duke over the past three and a half years.

0 regard each other with bitter hatred. Perhaps when There are a lot of people here who cannot mentally sepone rival is clearly more successful than another—for arate their support for our basketball team and an example, the mighty New York Yankees and the hapopportunity to attack UNC as an academic institution. ess Boston Red Sox—those feelings may be justified, There is a pervasive attitude amongst our fans that u not when both sides are exceptional competitors so Duke players are better not only because of superior onsistently. In the games leading up to the renewal of athletic and team preparation, but because of their e rivalry, I pull for both Carolina and Duke so that intellectual skills. These people forget that, while Duke e game will again be between the two best teams in University is one of the 10 best schools in the country, con^erence When Carolina beats Duke in an epic the University of North Carolina is an elite institution 4p p b battle, it is a testament to the strength of both as well. For all ofthat talk about the evils of Tar Heel P ograms because you know that the outcome of the early entry to the NBA draft, we forget that six of Dean me could have easily been reversed. Do want nine draftees have earned their degrees and I my arn to win? Yeah. But if not, that’s OK. The only sit- Smith’s are now just as prepared for life after the NBA as our n Wh n * am disappointed is if one of the teams four-year stars like Grant Hill and Christian Laettner.

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Part of this problem comes from our love affair with

stupid Tar Heel jokes. When we call their students “hicks” and “rednecks,” it insults the large percentage of Duke students and 100 percent ofDuke employees who hail from this state. Making fun of former UNC star J.R. Reid for his supposed illiteracy was elitist, cruel and racist. These attitudes are endemic of our callous and haughty treatment of Carolina at this time of year.

The pages of this newspaper are often littered with Tar Heel putdowns, from our “humor” columnists and cartoonists to The Chronicle’s annual “Daily Tar Hole” parody. If you want more evidence ofracism, check out the novelty afro that the editors stuck on Antawn Jamison’s head a few years back. Continuing with these silly and ignorant practices seems to prove that we lack the class we so often claim to have.

Do not get me wrong. When we beat Carolina, I think that it is fine to puff up our feathers and crow. I even cheer, “Go to Hell, Carolina!” on occasion. I love my team, but I respect my rivals. That is what, for me, takes the sting out of a Carolina win and what makes a Duke victory even sweeter. So let’s stop acting like we are the southern Harvard striking a blow for intellectual basketball fans everywhere by defeating the “Podunk University of Agriculture and Technology” Our rivals in Chapel Hill are our equals in ever}' way, and they can prove it in the classroom just as well as they can on the basketball court.

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does not want to dwell on the past. “I think I’m starting to see how things got stuck, but I think they’re unstuck...,” she said. “I only see it in terms of the unstickingness.”

And, she added quickly, “Nobody’s interested in telling me about it either. It’s a new millennium.”

Quilligan also dwells on millennial themes when she thinks about the future of the department and her field. She speaks eloquently about English’s unique role as the universal language of the Internet and the importance of understanding its history and literature.

“We should teach with English carrying that kind of a burden,” she said. “It’s a historical accident that it should end up English.”

But in the democratic spirit, Quilligan’s personal preferences will not necessarily determine how the department develops. “Once the department has a serious conversation about it, I want to pinpoint what we want to d0.... What does an English department ofthe third millennium look like?”

Right now, the department is seeking one senior and one junior faculty member in 18th and 19th century

British literature.

Even with those two new hires, the department will still be five faculty members below its eventual goal of 38. But Quilligan says she wants to go slowly and

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concentrate on finding the best young fac ulty, not necessarily the superstars that catapulted the department to prominence under Stanley Fish in the mid-1980s “You don’t hire a whole bunch of full pro fessors all at once. You mix and matcli and different ranks,” she said. ‘You trytc find a superstar of tomorrow today.”

Karla Holloway, dean of humanities and social sciences, said she has beer impressed with the job candidates she has seen so far. “Because we know then is going to be recruiting in the depart, ment and a fairly aggressive recruit ment plan,” Holloway said she will working actively with the departmel in coming years.

So far, Holloway, an English professoi said has been particularly pleased will the way Quilligan stayed in touch wit] the department while on a research sal batical in California last semester.

In her guidance of the department, Quilligan seems to be concentrating on the concept of creating and developing the department as a community, both in the academic and personal realms.

“Ideally, what we want to do is have a group of people who are talking to each other, and who share some common critical discourses, and given the nature o literary studies, that’s tricky to do right n0w,..,” she said. “This is a very hardworking and communally engaged department, and it wants to pull together as a community, and it is.”

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 2000

t Snowy Jack Coombs forces schedule changes

Due to inclement weather, the baseball team will open its season this Sunday with a doubleheader against Georgetown at East Carolina’s Harrington Field, In addition, the original season opener against Coastal Carolina has been canceled and next Tuesday's game at East Carolina has been moved to Monday.

Sell advances at Rolex Duke's

Kathy Sell cruised past

Mississippi’s Celeste Frey 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Rolex Indoors yesterday. Teammate Megan Miller bowed out in the opening round to Georgia’s Esther Knox, 6-1, 7-5. Sell and Miller also fell in the second round of the doubles bracket.

Virginia 66, Ga. Tech 65 Svetlana Volnaya sank two free throws with 3.5 seconds remaining to help Virginia slip past Tech and remain on top of the ACC standings. Telisha Quarles led the Cavs in scoring with 17 points.

FSU 76, Wake Forest 47 In a matchup of the two bottom teams in the conference, Latavia Coleman and April Traylor scored 17 points apiece to propel the Seminoles to a 29-point rout of Wake Forest.

N.C. State 86, UNC 76 Summer Erb's 25 points and 16 rebounds rallied the Wolfpack from a five-point deficit in the second half to knock oft the Tar Heels. Erb, however, injured her foot late in the game and will have X-rays performed today.

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Duke slams door on UNC comeback Battle-tested veteran Chris Carrawell guides young Blue Devils through grueling contest CHAPEL HILL Chris Carrawell looked around the locker room, staring down the faces of so many young players.

He looked at them, and like an old grandfather, gathered them around and told them a story.

Neal Morgan Game Commentary The story dated back to Carrawell’s sophomore season, when North Carolina led Duke at Cameron by 17 in the second half.

Looking at the scoreboard last night, Carrawell saw the same lead, but the roles were reversed.

“I reminded the guys at halftime that this was just like my sophomore year,” Carrawell said. “They were up by 17 at our house and we kept chipping away and we finally won it. So I was like, ‘Look guys, I’ve been in this situation before, you guys gotta stay with it.’”

His halftime speech was an example of his off the floor lead-

ership, a big reason why the Blue

Devils now hold a three-game lead in the conference standings.

On the court, it was more of the same.

With 18.1 seconds left, Jason Williams missed his second free throw that would have given the Blue Devils a two-possession lead. After Joe Forte sent the game into overtime, Carrawell went over to Williams and said a few more words.

“I was looking at Jason, going into overtime, I just told him, ‘We’re still going to win this game. Just get me the ball, give Shane [Battier] the ball, and

we’ll work from there.’”

Leadership does not appear on box scores and is often hard to pinpoint. But Williams knows what it is. He knows what it’s like to rely so heavily on two individuals and to strongly believe they won’t let you down.

“When you look into Shane’s eyes and Chris’ eyes, we see they have an eagerness to win,” See CARRAWELL on page 14

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SHANE BATTIER shot 8-of-9 from the field last night, leading the Blue Devils in points and rebounds, with 25 and 10, respectively.

Shellshocked: Terrapins bomb Browne-less Duke Marche Strickland and Tiffany Brown’s eight three-pointers gave Maryland its first win in Cameron in seven years.

I Defensive lapses, poor

rebounding and incohesiveness doomed Duke to its second straight conference loss.

By ANDREA BOOKMAN

The women’s basketball locker room must have felt a bit like George W. Bush’s New Hampshire

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Maryland 63 In the final 12 minutes of last night’s women’s basketball game, Duke scored 28 points and allowed only three

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Game Commentary

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ducers at Classic Sports were seeing dollar signs when he hit that shot to send it to overtime.”

Shane Battier, on Joe Forte’s gametying three-pointer in regulation.

The Blue Devils’ bid to come back from a 14-point deficit fell just short as the Terrapins (138, 4-6 in ACC) upset the No. 9 Blue Devils (18-4, 7-3), 63-62, behind deadeye three-point shooting from guards Marche Strickland and Tiffany Brown.

“I give Maryland a lot of credit,” coach Gail Goestenkors said.

Down but not out, the favored Blue Devils expected to rebound from their loss to Virginia and gain some morale and spirit in what should have been an easy win vs. Maryland.

Yet the maverick Terrapins surprised, playing to Duke’s weaknesses and taking a onepoint victory, their first road win against such a highly ranked team since 1993.

It could have been Lauren Rice’s night. The senior stepped up the tempo throughout the game. She played 37 minutes, scored 17 points and grabbed seven defensive rebounds.

In fact, the Blue Devils played so intensely in the last 10 minutes that it looked as if Rice might lead Duke to a come-frombehind victory. The problem wasn’t the last 10 minutes. The prob-

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KRISTA GINGRICH drives into Maryland’s Deedee Warley during the second half.

Gingrich’s three-pointer with 3.4 seconds left proved to be too little, too late. lem was the first 30. Those minutes provide the Blue Devils with plenty to improve on before next week’s Georgia Tech game.

“That’s the good thing: I’ve got a lot things we can work on over the next week,” coach Gail Goestenkors said.

Without Peppi Browne, the Blue Devils were and still are obviously at a disadvantage. But their performances in the last two games indicate that the slump Duke has gotten into is more than just Browne’s torn ACL. See STRUGGLE on page 16

them play.”

Maryland forward Deedee

Warley put the game just out of

reach by hitting two foul shots with 10.5 seconds left, extending the Terrapin lead to four.

After Duke’s Krista Gingrich connected on a three on the other end, Maryland’s inbounder hurled a long pass to the speedy Brown, who dribbled See L'PSKT

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UNC mounts miraculous comeback with sizzling 2nd half UNC from page I rawell let the shot clock run down then drove and dished to the open big man, gave Duke a six-point lead with 1:51 to go.

“He takes up a lot of space in there,” Boozer said of Haywood. “So it was a good opportunity to go inside, because he’s also a good shot blocker.... I was just happy to get the opportunity. All I had to do was catch

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But it still wasn’t over. The Tar Heels had 17 offensive rebounds after halftime and 6-foot-2 Ed Cota got two straight on their next possession, converting the second to make the score 84-80.

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through tonight.”

It is the leadership of Carrawell and fellow captains Battier and Nate James that has carried the Blue Devils all season long.

Then

Orlando Melendez, who sat the first 44 minutes of play until Jason Capel fouled out, got yet another offensive board after bricking the second of two foul shots. Forte—who else?— sank a layup to cut the deficit to 8886 with 16.7 seconds remaining.

JASON WILLIAMS scraps with Jason Capel for a loose ball. Although Williams struggled with Once again, a Duke freshman his shot all night, he began overtime with a driving bucket and a dish to Carlos Boozer stepped to the foul line with a chance to clinch the game. This time, he came through, as all the Blue Devils combined Mike Dunleavy nailed both to earn some Class of 2003 The Blue Devils led 50-31 just over five minutes into the second half, before UNC started to chip away bragging rights.

“I was thinking to myself when [Williams and at the lead. Haywood had five offensive rebounds after Boozerl missed their shots, Tf I get the opportunity I intermission, as he and fellow big man Kris Lang don’t want to blow it,’” he said. “So when I was greetpounded the boards. Lang scored eight of his 15 points ing them after the game, I let them know that I was during the comeback, and his follow of a Cota miss the only freshman to do it.” with 1:09 to go brought the Tar Heels within two.

Forte finally missed a three, and the Blue Devils On the other end of the court, Carrawell collided with stretched their record ACC regular-season winning Forte, sending the freshman tumbling to the floor. The streak to 30 whistle didn’t blow, and Carrawell drilled the jumper to “The guys have done well in overtime,” Krzyzewski give Duke a 72-68 lead. But Capel countered with a layup said,“though I don’t want them to take me there anymore.” 19 seconds later to set up the dramatic final seconds.

In the first half, the coach had reason to believe he “I think everyone knew that despite the records and wouldn’t have to weather another overtime contest. the streaks, whenever Duke and Carolina play it’s a Duke led 41-24 at the break after the Tar Heels shot special game,” Battier said. “Tonight, I hear the pro38 percent from the floor and committed 14 turnovers. ducers at Classic Sports were seeing dollar signs when Cota, their All-ACC point guard, had six, as many as he hit that shot to send it to overtime.”

Mentally tough Duke refuses to buckle amid Tar Heels’ rally the freshman point guard said. “We know that they’ll do whatever it takes, and their leadership really carried us

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Then it was Carrawell’s turn, and the senior dished out an'assist to Boozer and then gave Duke a seven-point lead

when he drove past Joe Forte down the baseline and picked up an old-fashioned three-point play.

“I start to pick up energy late in the game,” said Carrawell, They are the reason who scored 17 of his 23 *5 that this year’s team, points in the second left for dead after the half and overtime. “I NBA Draft, is ranked want the ball to come third in the nation and to me.” pulled off its fourth The Blue Devils are overtime win of the not as talented as they have been the past two year last night in the Smith Center.

“We’ve got a lot of seasons, but Mike “You can attribute Krzyzewski has the heart, and that’s why that to the captains and most battled tested Battier coach,” said. we win games in group he’s had in a “Chris and Nate are as overtime.” long time. With five tough as nails. If I was weeks still left in the in a fight and I could season, Chris Carrawell Duke has have any two people in already played in five the country, it’d be overtime games, the Chris and Nate.” most in 40 years.

Duke almost suffered The result? A Duke a monumental breakdown, but when team that is mentally tougher than any things were at their bleakest, the Blue Blue Devil squad of recent memory, Devils’ tri-captains made the plays necincluding last year’s dominating nationessary to win the game. al runner-ups.

In the final four minutes of rcgula“We’ve got a lot of heart, and that’s tion, the three captains combined for why we win games in overtime,” seven of Duke’s final eight points. Up by Carrawell said. “Last year’s team, we one early into the overtime period, were great, but... we weren’t in too Battier found Carlos Boozer open down many tough games, and when we did low for an easy deuce and on the ensuget in tough games, we lost. This year’s ing possession, he nailed a three-point-. . team, .we’re buildingxharacten”

Virginia vs Duke �

Game time: Tomorrow, 3 p.m.

Place: Cameron Indoor Stadium TV/Radio: ABC/WDNC 620AM

No. 3 DUKE (17-2, 8-0) Coach Mike Krzyzewski Guard Jason Williams, Fr. (14,9 ppg) Guard Nate James, Jr. (10.4 ppg) Forward Chris Carrawell, Sr, (17.7 ppg) Forward Shane Battier, Jr. (14.4 ppg) Center Carlos Boozer, Fr.. (12.6 ppg)

Series record: 93-43, Duke leads Last meeting: Duke won 109-100 in OT on Jan. 5 in Charlottesville.

VIRGINIA (15-6, 5-3) Coach Pete Gillen Guard Donald Hand, Jr. (15.5 ppg) Guard Adam Hall, So. (9.9 ppg) Forward Willie Dersch, Sr. (4.6 ppg) Forward Chris Williams, So. (15.2 ppg) Center—Travis Watson, Fr. (11.5 ppg)

ANALYSIS In the last matchup, super sophomore Chris Williams lit up the Blue Devils for 27 points and freshman Travis Watson had his way with Duke’s post players.

While Carlos Boozer has gained a multitude of experience since the first encounter and Shane Battier remains consistent, UVa still gets the edge.

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A telling moment of the first game occurred at the beginning of the overtime, when Jason Williams broke his shooting slump and hit a three-pointer to put the Blue Devils ahead for good. While Donald Hand has the ability to get really hot, Williams should neutralize him and Carrawell can dominate Dersch.

Virginia brings a very deep team to Durham, which includes physical post player Colin Ducharme and freshman Stephane Dondon. Three-point specialist Roger Mason is capable of breaking a game open and freshman Majestic Mapp is improving rapidly. Mike Dunleavy will be Duke’s only significant reserve.

VIRGINIA

After an emotionally draining victory against UNC, the Blue Devils will certainly be fatigued coming into the game. However, the young Cavalier team will feel intimidated coming into Cameron and Duke should feed off the sure-to-be rowdy Crazies, who will want to celebrate further their team’s recent good fortune.

If there were ever a time for a letdown game, this would be it. Sitting undefeated atop the conference halfway through the ACC season and coming off an overtime win against archrival UNC, the Blue Devils must stay focused if they're to dispose of a dangerous Virginia squad. After the Cavaliers put a scare into the home team early in the first half, Duke gathers itself and cruises to a comfortable 95-80 victory.

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Spirited Duke comeback falls short in 2nd straight game playing catch-up.

In the next five minutes, Strickland and Brown would hit three from beyond the arc, and between these were sandwiched two Terrapin layups during a run that would leave Maryland up nine.

Duke narrowed the lead to five by halftime, but the points column was not the only statistic looking vastly different from the Blue Devils’ last meeting with the Terps. Maryland, a much smaller team than Duke, was winning on the boards as well. Terrapin guard Vicki Brick, the smallest player in either team’s lineup, had more rebounds than any Duke player in the first 20 minutes.

The second half began slowly for the Blue Devils, who did not score for three minutes. Meanwhile, Maryland was finding ways to score inside the threepoint line, opening the half with six unanswered points.

UPSET from page 13 to avoid being fouled the ball aroundlast three seconds. game’s the for Playing for the first time in Cameron without senior Peppi Browne, who tore her ACL a week ago, the Blue Devils were hoping to bounce back from a weekend lossonat Virginia.

Maryland They planned to take defense that was with the same zone so successful in a 79-61 win in College park in January.

This time, though, the Terrapins’ streaky shooters were hot early, with guards Marche Strickland and Tiffany Brown combining for seven first-half three-pointers. Previously, no team had hit more than seven treys in a game against the Blue Devils this season.

Maryland complemented its strong shooting with suffocating defense, denying Duke transition buckets.

Georgia Schweitzer tied the game at 13-13 with 13 minutes remaining in the first half. Thirteen proved unlucky, however, as it would be the Blue Devils’ last tie in a night spent

Finally, Schweitzer hit a driving layup, and Lauren Rice hit a clutch three to bring Duke back within six points.

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Duke was not going away without a fight, GEORGIA SCHWEITZER draws the foul on Tiffany though. Down 14 with 12 from the field on the night. minutes remaining, the Blue Devils started playMatyasovsky scored 10 points off the ing the brand of basketball bench. Matyasovsky scored five of that earned them headDuke’s first seven points in a run thatturning success earlier sliced the Maryland lead in half.

Then, it looked like the Terrapins this season.

“We got a little compomight falter. After Rochelle Parent was sure back during that whistled for a defensive foul and a techstretch,” Rice said. “We nical foul, the Maryland free throw took our time, and some shooters combined to make only one of people hit some big shots. four opportunities at the foul line. A We did what we needed to Warley layup on the ensuing inbounds do, and we got ourselves play stretched the lead to ten. back in the game.”

With only seven minutes to go, Duke During the crucial 12 found its offensive rhythm, and minutes, freshman Michele Maryland missed free throws, turned

Brown during Duke’s rally. Schweitzer shot 7-of-9

the ball over often and managed only layups rather than the three-pointers that characterized the first half. But the game was never quite within the Blue Devils’ grasp.

Gingrich hit the last bucket of the game of the game for Duke—a threepointer, appropriately. The Blue Devils had finally found the Terrapins’ range, but it was too late.

The final 3.6 seconds were merely a prelude to the Maryland celebration, as Brown dribbled the ball around to avoid being fouled and her teammates on the bench prepared to erupt.

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Blue Devils struggle with rebounding in Browne’s STRUGGLE from page 13 Last night’s game saw three areas in which the Blue Devils were at a glaring disadvantage.

First, from the beginning, the team’s ln the first half, Duke defense allowed Maryland’s Marche Strickland and Tiffany Brown to score 21 points from three-point land.

“I think we did a much better job offensively than we did against Virginia,” Goestenkors said. “But now we’ve got to do it on both ends of the floor.”

While Strickland and Brown are the ACC’s top three-point shooters and Maryland’s key strength, many of those three-point shots were shot uncontested

by Duke defenders.

Rebounds were the second big defiIn the last game against Maryland, Duke took a solid 32 defensive rebounds to Maryland’s 16; this time, it only got 17, as the Terrapins edged out the Blue Devils for 18. was “Rebounding horrendous,” Goesteknors said. “I was not happy, especially with our guards. Olga ciency.

[Gvozdenovic] can’t play 21 minutes and get one rebound. It’s something we’ll

work on.”

The ever-changing lineup and the awkwardness of having to shift duties to make up for Browne seems to be a third frustration for Duke. The Blue Devils just are not working as well together on the floor. They appear distracted, not as near-

ly focused as in prior games.

The team that last played night neither

looks nor feels like the team in Cameron only a week ago.

As the Blue

absence

“Rebounding was horrendous. | was not happy, especially with our guards.”

Devils were starting to rally in the second half, Georgia Schweitzer tried to pass to Rice, who, on the other side of the court, didn’t even see the ball as it bounced off her temple into the hands of a Terrapin.

While Duke grapples with its identify, it is painfully trying to regain its rhythm.

Gail Goestenkors Still, the spirit of the team remained strong, as they easily could have folded down by 14 in the middle of the second half. Yet their rally to within one point of Maryland was a good sign that even without Browne, the Blue Devils are capable of playing with the heart and tenacity that the injured senior personifies.

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