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Officials say alcohol caused student’s Nov. death

By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle

For the last few years, administrators have kept their fingers nervously crossed as alcohol-related deaths occurred at several colleges around the country. Duke has long been known for its alcohol-dependent social scene, and University leaders hoped it wouldn’t take a tragedy here for students to change their risky behavior.

Now, the much-feared tragedy has hit the University. Administrators recently confirmed that Pratt junior Raheem Bath’s Nov. 27 death resulted from overconsumption of alcohol.

After Bath, 20, died from pneumonia, rumors surfaced that alcohol had caused his illness, but they were never confirmed, nor was there any official attempt to raise public awareness. Following several serious incidents involving students’ excessive drinking this semester, administrators now acknowledge that Bath drank too much, passed out and inhaled his own vomit, causing a fatal bacterial infection in his lungs.

“There was no intention of‘keeping this quiet’ in order to cover it up,” President Nan Keohane said. Tn fact, as soon as we knew that we had the permission of his parents to talk about it, both people in Student Affairs and I began to talk about it.”

Many administrators noted that a series of hospitalizations in the last few weeks—including one in which an inebriated student caught pneumonia by inhaling her vomit—revived conversations about excessive drinking. “I don’t think it was intentional that there was going to be information withheld,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson.

“After Raheem died, we certainly did not expect that there would be more circumstances where people were hospitalized.”

But greek officials said the near-death of a second student only three months

cussed rumors about Bath’s death, but the tragedy did not resonate with many undergraduates. Tt probably was a lesson for some and not for others, unfortunately...,” the Trinity junior said. “We might have been able to maximize its lesson potential had we addressed it as what it was right away... Maybe the greek leadership could have used it to their advantage and pulled something good out of something awful.”

Phi Kappa Psi President Kevin Marchetti said administrators never explicitly confirmed to the fraternity the cause of their brother’s death. “People are disturbed because we’ve asked specifically, and a lot of people claimed that they couldn’t comment on it,” the Trinity senior said, adding that determining the exact cause of Bath’s death was not the fraternity’s top priority last semester.

“Everyone was so much more worried Bath’s raises questions after passing about whether officials and campus lead- about planning the memorial that [we ers should have used the momentum thought], Sve know enough, that’s it.”’ from his death to demonstrate the danAdministrators said Phi Psi’s suspenof sion alcohol abuse. this semester was related to a recent gers Panhellenic Council President Kate mixer, not to Bath’s death.

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Administrators, students look at drinking culture

By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle

An alcohol-related death in the fall and several hospitalizations early this semester have left administrators frantic to understand the causes and culture of binge drinking, but many students say recent events are not surprising. “[Binge drinking] exists within our age of peers,” said Trinity junior Kevin Streelman. “It’s a common occurrence.”

• Still, many administrators are profoundly disturbed by recent events.

“Does [our] climate in some way See OVERCONSUMPTION on page 8

Quiet CPS graduate

student dies suddenly

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

Michael Loeb, an introspective, caring computer science graduate student with a playful sense of humor and a love for teaching, died suddenly in his home Tuesday morning. He was 34.

“He was a very good listener.

He had a real sensitive heart.

Whenever you were hurting, he

really listened to you,” said David Mills, Loeb’s former roommate and one of his closest friends. “He was a very funny guy... He could do a parody of any song or any movie,” added the sixth-year graduate student in biomedical engineering.

The cause of Loeb’s death is unknown.

At Duke, Loeb’s loss will be felt hardest in the classroom, by the students he helped teach and the professors with whom he worked.

In his six years at the University, Loeb helped teach hundreds of undergraduates; it was the part of his studies he enjoyed most. Last year, he was presented with the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

“He was a greatTA. He developed new assignments for us,” said Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science Owen Astrachan, who often worked with Loeb. “He prepared unbelievably diligently for review sessions and office hours.”

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VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE visited Broughton High School in Raleigh yesterday to speak about education and taxes and collect endorsements from N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt, right, Sen. John Edwards and five U.S. representatives.

Gore visit yields N.C. endorsements Hunt, Edwards supported the vice president at a Raleigh rally

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

RALEIGH Several leading North Carolina Democrats—Gov. Jim Hunt, Sen. John Edwards and five U.S. representatives —endorsed A1 Gore for president Wednesday, as the current vice president made his first visit to the state since last May. “We need proven leadership. We need somebody who can take theory and put it into practice.... This man doesn’t just talk the talk; this man has walked the walk his entire life,” Edwards said after a 30-minute speech and question-and-answer session involving Gore, Edwards and Hunt at Broughton High School.

Hunt, long known for his interest in improv-

ing public schools, praised Gore for his commitment to education. And when asked about recent speculation that he would endorse Bill Bradley, not Gore, he responded, “I think the vice president has the best ideas I’ve ever seen

in a candidate.”

Gore also received endorsements from U.S. Reps. David Price, Eva Clayton, Mel Watt, Bob Etheridge and Mike Mclntyre.

“With A1 Gore, we have the opportunity to continue our efforts to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, pay down the debt, reduce class size, enact a patients’ bill of rights and protect the environment,” Price said in statement.

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BERLIN The crisis ofthe conservative party that has governed and stabilized Germany for most of the postwar years deepened Wednesday with the abrupt resignation of its leader, Wolfgang Schaeuble.

The departure of Schaeuble, who was handpicked by former Chancellor Helmut Kohl to be his successor as party chair in 1998,leaves the opposition Christian Democratic Union rudderless at a time of profound shifts in the political landscape of German-speaking Europe.

The rise of Joerg Haider’s Freedom Party in Austria illustrated the potential attraction of a nationalist right in a Europe more fearful of globalization than communism. In this light, the plight of German Christian Democracy, the only mass movement of the moderate right here, is causing widespread concern.

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But battered by a financial scandal that has included disclosures that Kohl accepted $1 million in cash from anonymous donors while he was chancellor, can the party that has governed Germany for 37 ofthe postwar years remain such a crucial “integrating force”?

Ever since Konrad Adenauer guided the reconstruction of West Germany after World War 11, the party has embodied German conservatism while dampening nationalist or extremist temptations. Its current debacle has therefore opened the possibility of a troubling void on the German right.

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Med Center shifts Psychologist stereotypes examines campaign strategy Claude Steele discussed perceptions of race and their effects on our lives

� Although the Medical Center’s fund-raising is ahead of schedule, it is lagging behind several other administrative divisions and still can’t find that one big gift.

By RICHARD RUBIN The Chronicle

The Campaign for Duke has generated some huge gifts during its first four years: $35 million from Edmund Pratt for the engineering school, $3O million from the Duke Endowment for financial aid and $2O million from Bill and Melinda Gates for a scholarship program. These mammoth donations—and thousands of smaller ones—have pushed the campaign to nearly 75 percent of its goal even though four more years remain.

But the Medical Center—which has the campaign’s largest goal—hasn’t received a single eightfigure gift. This lack of large-scale donations places the Medical Center at only 59.28 percent of its goal, well behind other administrative units. Partly as a result, the Medical Center is restructuring its development office to pay more attention to major gift fund-raising.

The office’s revised strategy increases emphasis on fund-raising from former patients and other nonalumni friends and focuses on securing money for faculty and medical student support. “We want to be more aggressive, and we want to take the campaign’s effort to a new level,” said Robert Bradford, director of communications for the Medical Center development office. “Clearly, we’re happy, but we’re not complacent either.”

The office created a new strategic plan last summer and top Medical Center officials recently reassigned Joe Beyel, vice chancellor for alumni affairs and development, to focus on major gifts. When the reassignment takes effect in the coming weeks, a personnel See MED CENTER GIFTS on page 7 �

Correction A page-four story in the Feb. 16 edition of The Chronicle incorrectly described the condition of Jonathan Patton, a Medical Center patient. He has not yet had a heart transplant.

By BECKY YOUNG The Chronicle During a Wednesday night speech, Claude Steele, a long-time researcher of stereotypes and intellectual identities, discussed “stereotype threat” and its role in minority performance.

“We look at what’s left [in society] that may still be a barrier tied to race or tied to gender that may undermine a person’s ability to succeed,” said Steele, who is professor and chair of the psychology department at Stanford University, while speaking about the connections between public images and performance levels.

He said anyone can be affected by stereotype threats, which he defined as “situations where you realize a negative stereotype about a group you’re a part of and this could affect you.”

Citing the example of a young black man whistling Vivaldi so he is not frowned upon when he enters a high-class store, he explained that people do not even have to recognize the threats posed by

stereotypes to be affected by them.

Steele spent much time discussing his research methods over the past 10 years.

He explained one method involving “turning up stereotypical pressure,” where black and white male subjects are told that they are taking a diagnostic test.

As soon as this test becomes an element in the study, black people seem to feel pressure not to live up to the negative stereotypes that surround them.

Being so concerned with this standard, they tend to spend too much time checking and second-guessing their answers, and, in turn, score lower than white students.

In order to measure peoples’ awareness of stereotyping, researchers tell black subjects to list their favorite hobbies and cultural activities.

Steele explained that in order to avoid the “risk of being seen through the lens of a stereotype,” black people often list things they feel would not usually be associated with their race.

Another test involved asking elite athletes, both black and white, to perform a physical task.

Steele demonstrated that the effects of stereotypes were revealed when blacks excelled only after being told it was a test of “natural athletic ability” and whites succeeded after being told it was a test of “strategic sports intelligence.”

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STANFORD PROFESSOR Claude Steele spoke last night in Page Auditorium about stereotypes and society.

Steele said the repercussions of stereotype threats include a heightened awareness of race and gender and that these effects can hinder performance levels in any societal task, including education. “The environment is loaded with cues to any rational person that they might be judged by images,” Steele said.

Steele suggested that people not only accept each other’s differences, but also realize the major role these differences play in society today. He said his research “shows the degree to which the societal situations we are in play a role in our lives. What we’re trying to do here is describe how the stereotype in a society can come down to shape the lives ofindividuals and groups in that society.”

The Page Auditorium speech, which drew a crowd of 75, was sponsored by the Samuel Dußois Cook Society.

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Despite a plan Trinity senior Cory Davis and his friends brewed up to spread themselves throughout campus, but he was the only one who woke up at 7:35 a.m. as planned. “I’m tent 97 and it was only 8:05 when I did it,” he said.

Many of these tenters, who had to set up in K-ville by noon yesterday, said they would have tented during the earlier blue period if they had been able to get a complete group of 10 together in time.

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ganized ourselves now. It took us a while to get enough people together.” Like most ofthe others, he kept reloading his browser until the information was posted.

But a few people had other ideas. Pratt freshman Grace Kwon and her friend Sunny Yoo, a Trinity junior, stayed up until 4:30 a.m., hoping the line monitors would post registration information early. Kwon even spent the night with upperclassmen on Central Campus. By the time they reached the line, it was up to 101. “If we were under 100, it would be better,” the freshman said. “We should get in, but it really stinks that we’re 101.”

Yoo agreed, with caution. “My freshman year, I was in the first tent not to get in,” she said. “We were crying, but they had 15 in each tent that year.”

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Tennis, anyone?

The Sheffield Tennis Center will be dedicated March 4, though the tennis teams have already begun using the facility. Chris Kennedy, associate director of athletics, said that although faculty and students will eventually be able to use the new building, the department is still tweaking its policy for reserving and paying for court use.

� After a year of troubles and delays, Student Information Services and Systems will be live in every department by summer and available to students for fall registration.

The policy will allow non-team members to reserve court time in one-and-a-half hour blocks for a reasonable fee. No numbers have been set, but Kennedy said the plan will undergo revision until it is finalized in September.

By ELLEN MIELKE The Chronicle

The grim reaper is preparing to visit the ACES lady, won’t be coming.

As implementation of the new software that will unify the University’s departments continues, administrators expect that students will be able to use the new program to register for the summer and fall semesters, as well as check their personal information online. They had similar expectations for spring 2000, but unexpected delays pushed the debut back.

“The new student information web site should be up and running around mid-March, shortly after spring break,” said Bruce Cunningham, University registrar and Student Information Services and Systems project manager. When that occurs, students will be able to register online, check grades, look up their schedules and check other personal information, including financial aid information.

The software, which is manufactured by PeopleSoft, has taken at least one problem-filled year to implement. “It’s been a long process to get this thing up and running, and we continue to run into glitches common with any new software as complex as this,” Cunningham said.

Lately, however, implementation of the software has been moving more smoothly, thanks to a new customer service approach by People Soft. Many universities criticized the company’s efforts, as earlier versions of the software continued to cause glitches that PeopleSoft was not cooperative in fixing.

The company has become much more responsive, Cunningham said, and has begun providing better customer support.

“There has been quite a bit ofpublicity lately about problems schools have had with the software, but we’re actually feeling pretty good about it right now,” he said. “We’ve seen considerable evidence of this new approach over the past six months and have forged a strong partnership with them in order to see this implementation through to a successful completion.”

Cunningham isn’t the only one with a changed opinion. Robert Kvavik, the provost’s chief of staff at the University of Minnesota, expressed dissatisfaction last semester with the People Soft implementation process, but of late has changed his tune.

Last year, Kvavik admitted that he liked the software itself, but said that the implementation required a lot of maneuvering. Now, however, he is exceptionally pleased with the software and particularly with PeopleSoft’s increased customer support.

The benefits ofthe People Soft software have not yet been felt by many of the University’s students, staff and faculty, but the software has already begun improving computer systems. Previously, University departments were operating on different software systems, but with the unified program, data is more easily retrieved for institutional reporting, Cunningham said.

By this summer, all University programs will be folly live under People Soft, though many of the old systems will keep running as a precaution.

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DSG elects Fairfax Young Trustee Friend remembers The Trinity senior will focus on financial aid, residential life and community He said his intense experience in various activities has “imminently prepared him for life after graduation and for the role of Young Trustee.”

“The more students you know, the more visible you become to any body that you are a member of,” he said, explaining that his work with diverse groups made him better suited for his new role.

“My participation in a broad range of Young Trustee. academic and extracurricular groups “I feel like this process was difficult will help me to bring a broad range of and took a lot of effort, but I would have opinions to the Board,” he said not gotten this far if it had not been for Zeidner, a Trinity senior, Was first to people like my mother, my fraternity brothers, my family and friends,” the take the podium. She said she wanted the Young Trustee position not for “anTrinity senior said elatedly.

Trinity senior Jeremy Huff, vice other addition to my resume, but because I love this school.” president for community interaction, The current DSG president offered explained the weighty duty of the DSG her experience in various activities to legislators yesterday evening in one the legislators, describing it as having simple sentence—“There is one item on Justin Fairfax the agenda, and that is the selection of “width and breadth.” the Young Trustee.”

She concluded by asserting that her best character Huff began the meeting by reading the text contrait is “an ability to listen, to act when it is important taining late President Terry Sanford’s original deand to see results from what I do.”

Like the other finalists, Stempel, a Pratt senior, scription of the Young Trustee: “A trustee is literally expected to have the trust of the institution is involved in a wide array of activities. which he or she serves.”

He said his personal interaction with Board Sanford created the position in the 1970s to inmembers prepared him for the job. crease student involvement in administrative mat“The three characteristics to think of when seters and to bring a young perspective to the Board. lecting a Young Trustee are experience, personalImmediately following Huff’s introduction, Lisa ity, and character,” he said.

Zeidner, Brian Stempel and Fairfax—the three As accomplishments, he pointed particularly to Young Trustee finalists —gave their individual his planning for the Breakfast with Dean Sue series and the Devils’ Desires program. speeches.

After each speech, the candidate answered Although some legislators seemed to want addiquestions from the legislators. tional time to question the candidates and debate Fairfax began his speech by thanking DSG for about them, Huff decided that the vote should take its exhaustive reading of his application and explace immediately. tending a heartfelt thanks to his family and Earlier in the week, some DSG officials had disfriends for their support. cussed amending the Young Trustee voting rules to As Young Trustee, he said, he planned to adallow debate. dress three critical areas—residential life, finanThe voting process was surprisingly short; the cial aid and community interaction. legislature reached a majority on its first vote.

In addition to being a resident adviser, Fairfax A very excited Fairfax said the first item on his has also been the president of Alpha Phi Alpha agenda is to “meet people and gain their respect. I Fraternity, Inc., the only minority greek selective cannot initially enter the Board with huge proposhouse on campus. als. They need to know me first.”

By KIA WRIGHT The Chronicle After greeting and hugging a group of wellwishers and supporters, Justin Fairfax explained how he felt in one word: “Blessed.”

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developing a new method for estimating probability densities from clouds of points in feature space. He was hoping to find an academic job where he could focus mostly on teaching.

“This is a really tough loss because the guy was ready

to defend his dissertation this semester,” said Loeb’s adviser, James Coggins, associate professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Loeb had worked with a research team at UNC for several years despite his enrollment at Duke. “This is really a tragedy we’re feeling over in this comer of the Triangle.”

His dissertation committee will-examine Loeb’s work to see if his doctorate can be awarded posthumously.

Although Loeb excelled as a teacher, he struggled to find the same level of comfort outside the classroom. He battled depression for several years and was diagnosed with a thyroid imbalance last year. “He really improved dramatically over the last few months, so it’s really a shock that he is gone,” said his former roommate Neil Carlson, a graduate student in computer science. Michael Loeb Steve Hinkle, Duke’s chaplain ofreligious activities who met Loeb through the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, said Loeb enjoyed playing with Hinkle’s children and going to sporting events “He was a pretty shy fellow,” Hinkle said. “He had a few close friends who were real good friends. He was a Star Trek buff and a Duke fan who worked a lot on his computer stuff.”

Carlson met his wife when she started watching Star Trek with him and Loeb. “My first impression is that he was withdrawn, at times inscrutable, but he really grew on me over time,” Carlson said.“He loved to have fun, especially because his life was such a constant struggle with his emotions and his self-image. He would really relish any opportunity for diversion.”

The Durham Police Department is still investigating Loeb’s death, but the say foul play seems unlikely. His friends believe he died of natural causes. “There’s an outside possibility that because Valentine’s Day was a very difficult time for him, he could have succumbed to the temptation to hurt himself” Carlson said. “He told me several times he would never do that, and I suspect he died because of a long-term medical condition.”

Loeb grew up in Chicago and received his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. After a stint programming for Reuters news service, he decided to return to the classroom to escape the cutthroat world of industry.

“He had a very playful spirit, in spite ofthe problems he had in his personal life and his illnesses,” Coggins said. “He had a big laugh and I tried to prompt that laugh. We were doing some research and some good research, but the thing that the Duke community should know about is his playful spirit,” Loeb is survived by his parents and a sister. An oncampus memorial service is being planned.

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The couple agreed to plead guilty to a series of federal crimes, which carry up to 10 years in prison and heavy fines, and to cooperate with investigators in a

plea bargain that U.S. authorities hope will produce more charges.

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“It’s better to put the talent I have to focus 100 percent of the time on major gifts,” Beyel said. He and other officials stressed that until recently, the Medical Center raised most ofits money during special events.

Despite the lack of large donations, Medical Center development officials said they are pleased with their fund-raising progress so far, pointing out that they are still on track to surpass their ambitious $550 million target by the time the campaign ends Dec. 31, 2003.

David Anderson, executive director of Medical Center Development, said he is optimistic that his division will catch some big ones, too. “I think those gifts will come, it just takes a bit longer to get there,” he said.

Still, officials do not foresee a Pratt-style gift that would rename the School ofMedicine.

To speed up the process, development officers are trying to move beyond the traditional alumni base, instead seeking out former hospital patients who have had their lives saved. “We’re aggressively pursuing the grateful patients,” Bradford said.

Even as the overall Medical Center campaign trails slightly behind other schools, several portions of the University-wide fund-raising effort are especially lagging. Scholarships are only at 23 percent of goal, and the school has only garnered 21 percent of the money for faculty retention.

“I think you’ll see University-wide those are the big challenges in the campaign and those are the challenges we’re facing...,” Bradford said. “Our education component is sometimes not as dramatic to donors out there.” In contrast, he explained, “In a medical center environment, clearly the research has a tremendous lure to potential donors.”

Peter Vaughn, director of communications and donor relations for University Development, stressed that all of the schools are now exceeding their predicted pace. “I certainly don’t see any reason for alarm about this,” he said.

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After Wednesday’s remarkable courtroom appearance, the bank’s culpability, and that of its directors and officers, is still not clear. Federal prosecutors have great discretion in deciding whether to pursue criminal charges against the bank.

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acceptable, but it’s cool, it’s the thing to do?” asked Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Sue Wasiolek.

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sumption were reported this year—l so far this semester. Furthermore, the number of cases sent to the emergency room has been rising dramatically for the past three years, despite a relatively strict alcohol policy.

Many students said binge drinking—technically defined as consuming four or five drinks in a single sitting—happens fairly regularly here, but it is far more common elsewhere.

“Having visited friends at other schools,” said Alissa Kendall, a Trinity senior, “Duke’s drinking culture is so mild compared to most.”

Interfraternity Council President Ken Collins, Trinity ’99, said dangerous situations arise when students don’t know their own limits and there are no “speed bumps” to slow down the flow of alcohol. “Part ofthe problem is that people don’t start drinking thinking they want to go to the ER,” he said. “As they start to get drunk..., they understand their limits even less.” Collins added that the number of students who drink to extremes is almost as high as the number who drink responsibly.

Substance Abuse Specialist Jeanine Atkinson said students’ Monday morning answers to inquiries about their weekends follow a troublesome trend. “It seems like that attachment ‘and I was sooo drunk’ seems to give it some level of social acknowledgment,” she said.

The social aspect of excessive drinking seemed to be confirmed in the past week, when two greek organizations were suspended pending investigations of overconsumption at a bid night and mixer.

“It’s almost a tradition—people get messed up on their bid night...,” Streelman said. “But it isn’t related to a fraternity or sorority, it’s related to an individual.”

Although President Nan Keohane acknowledged that the behavior ulti-

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mately lies with individuals, she worries that certain organizations might perpetuate it.

“Certainly, at Duke and elsewhere, at least some greek organizations—surely not all—have a well-founded reputation for encouraging excessive drinking either as a rite of passage or as a proof of comradeship or just because it has become the familiar thing to do,” she said.

“Working with greek leaders here and elsewhere, we need to change that.

There is no reason why the basic ideals and purposes of fraternities and sororities need to be steeped in alcohol in order to be realized; one would think, in fact, that these ideals are more likely to be realized by people who can have fun with each other without getting totally drunk first.”

Collins acknowledged that the greek system, by organizing functions at which alcohol is readily available, helps create hazardous environments. “[Particularly pledgesl are looking to mem-

bers who may not be responsible to dictate what their behavior will be,” he said. “When you have people coming to Duke wanting to feel like part of [a group], and the next three and a half years depend on one semester of activity..., you have people who may otherwise fall into the safe category of drinking but [who] tell themselves that they’re doing it just to get through the hoops of pledging.”

Atkinson added that many students, greek or non-greek, feel they cannot be socially successful without using alcohol as a social enabler—away to make awkward situations seem comfortable.

“People come to Duke... admitting that they too were geeks in high school and want a different reputation, a different start when they come here,” she said. “They do want to be a part of the popular set. There’s probably a perception that to be part ofthat popular set you have to be cool, party. Social anxieties seem to wash away when you drink alcohol.”

Trinity junior Sonia Bansal said students are immersed in Duke’s drinking culture as soon as they arrive on campus. “Freshman year it was a lot about bingeing on weekends, getting trashed, going to frat parties...,” she said. “[Even now], we definitely get together and just have parties where you basically binge.”

Although many students maintain that the University’s alcohol culture is comparable to or more tame than those of other schools, they say many dynamics of Duke life can encourage dangerous drinking.

Kendall, the Pratt senior, noted that more stringent alcohol policies, like the one implemented at the University in the 1995-96 school year, make beer less accessible on campus, encouraging students to drink heavily in their rooms instead.

“People drink faster and harder alcohol when it becomes more secret,” she said. “People don’t get the chance to be responsible if things are done secretly on this campus.... You get people much sicker, less able to know their limits.”

Phi Kappa Psi President Kevin Marchetti said some people drink excessively because they drink less frequently. He said students only drink once or twice a week—much less often than in previous years. “When people were hanging around drinking every See OVERCONSUMPTION on page 9 �

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Keohane will evaluate drinking President pushes for Duke-wide dialogue from page 8

night, they weren’t getting hosed,” he said.

Collins, who worked for Duke EMS last semester, said peers are often unwilling to cut off a student, even one who is approaching excess.

“Nobody wants to be the guy who’s cutting somebody off after three beers...,” he said.

“The situation never arises at Duke where somebody is really going to try to monitor someone’s drinking unless there’s sickness involved. No one at Duke feels comfortable or [like they] need to limit a friend because it does not seem like their business.... The safety net doesn’t really pop up until there is already a problem.”

College-age students, Wasiolek added, tend to think they are invincible.

“I don’t know what it will take to create the sense of urgency and community and individual responsibility that we’re looking for,” she said. “For whatever reason, we tend to deny that anything so tragic could or would happen to us, [that] we will handle things in a different way that will not result in a tragic outcome.”

Now that the potential for a tragedy has been realized, officials say they must work with students and solve the problem of fairly frequent alcohol abuse.

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Administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were among the first to do that in the national spotlight. After the highly publicized 1997 death of freshman fraternity pledge Scott Krueger, the university quickly began revamping its alcohol and alcohol education policies.

“What you do is tell the truth and face the music,” said Robert Sales, a spokesperson for MIT. “One of the things you do is say that it’s a problem and do things to make it less likely.”

Almost three months after the death at Duke, University officials are starting to talk about these alcohol-related incidents openly and have begun exploring ways to prevent more of them.

Keohane, who mentioned Bath’s death

in confidence to the Board of Trustees in December, will include it in herformal report to the Board this week. She said she has shared some of her concerns with several parents and alumni groups.

“One [parent and alumnusl had

these situations, that I personally, as president, need to—and will—give a higher priority to talking about this issue in depth with alumni and parent groups, as well as with student and faculty and groups...,” administrative Keohane said. “I have been a strong supporter of those members of the Student Affairs staff who have shown leadership in this area, and

heard of the binge drinking problems and wanted me to know that, although initially, when his daughter came to Duke, he thought this was just normal Raheem Bath college behavior, he and his daughter had begun to see things in a very different light once the character of binge drinking at Duke, and its consequences, had become better known to them,” Keohane said. “I hope that many Duke parents and students will react the same way. If so, then Raheem’s death, and the medical emergencies with similar or parallel features in recent weeks that fortunately did not end in tragedy, will not have been entirely in vain.”

John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said discussing the issue of excessive drinking is the first step to its prevention.“Whether this student [had] died or not, this has been an accident waiting to happen,” he said. “The accident has now happened. Let’s talk.”

Greg Pessin contributed to this story.

have been willing to crack down on excessive drinking. I have urged that we give a high priority to this goal for some time, and I want us to use the recent worrisome occasions as a ‘wake-up call’ for students and parents who may still be under the illusion that all this is just so much harmless good fun.”

Toby Coleman contributed to this story.

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the most telling sign of the drastically lowered profile of Students Against Sweatshops was, appropriately, a sign displayed at Tuesday’s rally that read: “-46 days to disclosure.”

It is absolutely essential to vigilantly monitor the University’s progress on gathering the addresses of factories that make Duke apparel, and signs like this could have been extraordinarily effective in helping activists and the University count down to disclosure. Unfortunately, this sign made only sporadic appearances around campus and was not prominently featured until 46 days after the deadline.

Throughout December and January, as the one-year anniversary of last year’s sit-in approached, SAS should have been extremely visible on campus, using the impending deadline to recapture some of the momentum the group had last year.

Instead, the organization and the push for disclosure virtually disappeared from public view, leaving the deadline all but forgotten among the student body.

SAS’s return to campus activity this week was a welcome sight, generating much-needed attention to the progress of factory address disclosure.

But Tuesday’s rally merely continued SAS’s disappointing year.

Reporters and photographers outnumbered the protesters, and even a bullhorn couldn’t make their weak message audible.

Although more than 100 passers-by signed petitions, the general lack of campus support for SAS leaders is not surprising. The group did not build up to Tuesday’s rally with flyering, handbills or on-campusvisibility. And although the group sent out a barrage ofe-mails seeking solidarity with other campus organizations, the messages were not widely disseminated until the night before the rally.

SAS has been diligent behind the scenes in the past few months, working with administrators to achieve full disclosure. Its efforts have paid off, and it is moving closer to reaching the elusive goal.

Furthermore, Duke seems willing to drop apparel makers that do not strictly comply with the regulations the University has set forward, and administrators have set clear deadlines for disclosure.

When Executive Vice President Tallman Trask announced this University position in The Chronicle and at the rally Tuesday, SAS members should have been excited and proud of what they had done. Inexplicably, SAS members still gave speeches attacking the administration, a tactic that made their arguments seem irrelevant. The event, in essence, should have been a rally, as advertised, not a protest. It should have been a celebration of progress toward disclosure and a reminder of the challenges that remain ahead, like forcing the administration to recognize the inadequacies of the Fair Labor Association.

Even with disclosure coming closer, SAS still has a valuable role to play on campus in monitoring factories and acting as a check on the University. They just need to check themselves first.

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Letters to

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Accusations against Pi Phi disturb sorority alumni The Duke grapevine recently brought very disturbing news to us. We were upset to learn that our old sorority, Pi Beta Phi sorority, is under suspension and will face more sanctions pending investigation of its bid night activities. The allegations against the chapter are very serious. With only gossip and letters to the editor to base our opinions on, we are in no position to judge what happened that evening—we leave that to the administration. However, we do want begin a dialogue on how these alleged activities could occur on a campus we are so

proud of. . What disturbs us most is the accusation that sisters wrote obscenities on the pledges. We have all done frighteningly stupid things when intoxicated, some which have put our physical safety and health in danger.

But these allegations threaten a person’s mental and

emotional well-being. A sorority should be a source for support, encouragement and respect. Bid night is the first time you meet the friends with whom you will share the next four years ofcollege and beyond. To have that evening marred by such misogynistic actions is very disturbing. To imagine one of our own “sisters” writing “F-k Me” on a 19-year-old body sickens us.

This is goes against basic human dignity and respect.

If the accusations are true, we certainly do not condone these activities. Additionally, we do not pretend to justify the allegations by claiming that the Pi Phis were only typical drunken college kids.

Drunk or sober, there is no excuse for these actions.

We would like to raise this issue beyond finding fault with one individual or with one sorority. This should have the whole campus asking, “Could I have done this?

Is this endemic to life on

campus today?” Take this opportunity to take a deeper look into yourselves and your community. What we alumni are hearing through the grapevine is disturbing, and it goes against everything we believed in while we were in your shoes. Duke should be a place where you

build support systems for the rest of your life, not where you tear each other down. As alumni, we would like to offer our support and encouragement as you wrestle with these issues, and we would like to be involved in fathering this discussion as we all continually try to improve campus life.

Elizabeth Andersen Trinity ’92

Allison Ezell Trinity ’92

And three others The writers were all members of Pi Beta Phi sorority.

Duke’s rhetoric regarding parking is contradictory As mentioned in an article events like the recent blizparking professionals to in Tuesday’s edition of The zard, it would only be asking count how many parking spaces Duke has and to Chronicle, parking at Duke is to revisit the Donner Party. indeed a problem of great The administration has determine their location. magnitude. I feel for the been making strides toward Hopefully, new parking plight of law student Nikos ending these dark days. First, spaces will have constant Konstantinides, who must they have vetoed the building luxury shuttle service so that park a whole quarter-mile of a commuter rail stop near students will not have to from the law school after dri- the hospital because it would dirty their shoes. With these ving all the way from Central not only despoil the beauty of new developments, I feel conCampus. Surely no one could the nearby parking garage, fident the parking atmosexpect him to ride the but it could also have introphere will soon be thick with plebian bus that passes duced an undesirable human soothing car exhaust. through Central, or to surelement to the area. This mount the Durham Alps that allows efforts to refocus on Andrew Heidel stand between him and walkthe parking issues at hand.

Graduate student, ing or biking to school. With Second, they have hired Department of Botany for referenced article, see http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/2000/02/15/01Westparking.html

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Committee is proud to On behalf of the Duke announce the addition of community, we would like to three new Merchants-on- express our gratitude to Points vendors. As of Feb. Director of Dining Services 15, both Papa John’s and I Jim Wulforst and his entire Love N.Y. Pizza are deliver- department for responding ing food to students on to the concerns and desires Duke meal plans. In the of the student body, as articcoming weeks, George’s ulated by DUSDAC and

Duke Student Government officials.

Michael Barone Trinity ’OO

RUSTY SHAPPLEY Trinity ’OO

The writers are chair of DUSDAC and DSG executive vice president, respectively.

Cameron Crazies need to step up support of team OK, it’s 8:20 p.m. and we sitting in Cameron Indoor Stadium anxiously awaiting the tipoff of the game against Florida State University. Much to our dismay, there are entire empty sections behind the FSU bench and in all four comers.

We have watched Blue Devil basketball games on are

television since we were children, hoping that one day we’d have a chance to experience the games ourselves.

Now we consider it an honor to support a nationally ranked team. Coach K has always referred to his fans as the sixth man, and now we seem to be a mere five and a half. We have three more

home games left this season, so please take a two-hour break from problem sets and show our team the support they deserve.

Holly Cooper

Trinity ’OO

Lauren Strickler Trinity ’OO

On the record “People come to Duke... admitting that they too were geeks in high school and want a a different start when they come here. They do want to be a part of

different reputation, the popular set.”

Substance Abuse Specialist Jeanine Atkinson of the Healthy Devil on how students’ desire to fit in affects their behavior (see story, page 1) i ■ .>

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Dr. Charles Hicks talks about his research on AIDS ting started that is set up so the medical students or residents that we will be working with will come into the clinic to do some of the patient care, to leam how to do HIV patient care, and then come up with their own project with questions related to that that they want to answer. My job will be to show them how they can take that question they want to answer and make it into an ethical, well designed, properly conducted clinical research study that generates new knowledge and information and teaches us to do a better job of taking care of HIV-infected patients.

Oak Room This interview with Dr. Charles Hicks is the eighth in a series of Oak Room Interviews. The series is designed to shed light on the personality of noted campus figures in an informal setting. This interview was conducted by Pratt junior Norm Bradley, editorial page editor of The Chronicle.

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In coming to Duke, the students here, well, it’s women, which has been a big evolution... away from the under the binding of the [National Institutes of white men.

Health] to study a variety of questions related to HIV almost humbling how remarkable the people are. I’m original epidemic, which was primarily gay of patients More than half our are African-American.... and how to take care ofpatients with HIV. A portion of most familiar with the Medical Center, but the stuOf the new patients that we see, half of them are what I do is related to research as a part of that big, dents are wonderfully bright and incredibly enthusiasI would say our clinic population is generally women.... collaborative group. The value of a big group like that tic. Their motivations for what they do are..., I don’t reflective of the population of North Carolina. More is that it allows you to address questions that need to want to say pure, that sounds too schmaltzy. My experience with Duke students is that these are people who than half of them don’t have insurance—they get their have large numbers of patients in the study..... go into medicine not because they want to get rich, not health care through assistance programs, through the We are also interested in smaller-scale issues related through a variety of other to H1V.... One is a study of acute HIV infection. By that because they want to become famous, but because they state, through Medicare, We have never turned a patient away for mechanisms.

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A recent- episode of MTV’s The Real World featured Ruthie, a real-life college student who experienced a dangerous alcohol overdose. Three of her housemates recognized the symptoms, attended to her and ultimately called 911 in time to save her life. Three other housemates continued to party, unwilling to get involved in Ruthie’s alcohol problems, oblivious to the emergent crisis in their midst.

I watched the show—my daughter is one of The Real World’s story editors thinking such callousness would never exist at Duke. People wouldn’t be so reluctant to intervene. Here, we care. We do not remain silent out of fear of interfering with a student’s right to do what she wants to herself, right?

But binge drinking to the point of passing out is on the rise around the —

nation among college students, and Duke is no exception. Duke students have been found unconscious in their residence halls, in the bushes, at bus stops .and in public bathrooms.

There were 26 cases reported during the fall semester—one fewer than was reported during the entire 1996-97 school year. Additionally, 13 cases have been reported already this semester. Most of the students were rescued and taken to the emergency room by Duke University Police Department officers or our wonderful emergency medical technicians.

Still, two Duke students have been hospitalized this school year with aspiration pneumonia. One of the students survived; another, tragically, did not. Before these incidents, I did not know much about this condition, which can occur as a result of binge drinking. What happens is that a person gets so drunk she or he becomes unconscious or blacks out and later vomits. As Dr. Bill Christmas of Student Health Service described it, the acidic stomach contents then may go down the wrong way into the lungs, which can inflame and infect them. The result is called aspiration pneumonia

and, when severe, it can lead to death. If the person experiences symptoms such as coughing and fever several days after passing out and vomiting, he may be developing this life-threatening illness.

It is crucial that doctors be informed immediately of the circumstances surrounding the earlier blackout. When overwhelming aspiration occurs, even the heroic efforts of pulmonary specialists may not save an otherwise healthy, unsuspecting patient.

I am extremely concerned —as are my colleagues—that despite numerous attempts to convey the risks of excessive alcohol consumption, the messages are going unheeded. We’ve had nationally known speakers on campus who have described in detail the dangers regarding the excessive use of alcohol. We’ve talked and distributed literature about the increased rates of sexual and relationship violence, sexually transmitted diseases and car accidents that can relate to alcohol abuse. Still, some students—and in some cases, parents—fail to fully appreciate the dangerous behaviors caused by excessive alcohol use.

We’re talking about possible death, yet

students regularly continue to put themselves at great risk.

There are no easy solutions: We’re talking about a cultural phenomenon.

Drinking alcohol is part of mainstream American culture and binge drinking has become a public health problem.

Administrators can’t mandate that students drink responsibly. But Duke can help students who are willing to examine why they are drinking so heavily. In the coming months, we plan to discuss these issues more regularly and more candidly with students, faculty, parents and our associates in the Duke 'Alcoholism and Addictions Program and the Medical Center. We intend to inform students who are concerned about, but unaware ofrisks such as inhaling one’s own stomach contents. We encourage friends to be involved and to take students exhibiting potentially dangerous symptoms to the emergency room, which is where all alcohol cases need to go.

Alcohol can kill. We don’t have to be accomplices. We need your help.

Janet Dickerson is vice president for student affairs.

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PARSHAT HA SHAVUAH The weekly Torah portion, with Rabbi Pinny Lew of Chabad. Explore the weekly Torah portion. We will cover the text and expound upon it with some old and new commentaries. Knowledge of Hebrew is not necessary. 7:00 p.m, in Freeman Center for Jewish Life. Contact jewishlife -

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Gore discusses education, taxes Studies help solve autism’s mysteries �AUTISM from page 4

University of South Carolina Associate Professor of Neuropsychiatry Michael Cuccaro, who supervised the study’s clinical aspects, added that this research has the potential to allow doctors to classify different types of autism by their genetic identity as well as by their behavioral effects.

The study is of considerable importance to researchers in the field, said autism specialist Peter Crino, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

“I think the significance of the study is it is really among the first studies that provides us an inroad into understanding this very complex neurological

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Al Gore shakes a Raleigh high school student’s hand Wednesday. During his visit to Broughton High School, Gore talked about his policy ideas and even won over a few new fans. �GORE from page 1

Broughton students. At the school, he emphasized that improving public education remains his top priority.

“From pre-school all the way to post-graduate study [and into life], I believe it’s time not only for an education president... but for an education decade,” he said.

Gore said this issue is particularly important in this information revolution and for this, America’s largest generation.

“The way we live our lives is being transformed by the information revolution, and far from slowing down, it is speeding up,” he said. He proposed public preschool for every child, hiring bonuses for teachers, more one-on-one student-teacher interaction and increased federal funding for Internet hookups in the classroom.

Gore also fielded questions from the audience—a select group of about 30 Broughton students and a few parents.

When senior Lakia Lewis asked Gore how he felt about minority access to higher education, the vice president responded passionately.

“We have not yet achieved a colorblind society,” he said. “We have a national interest in speeding up the arrival of a more equal society... We have a national interest in making sure that minorities have the ability to pay for a college education.”

Following the session, Lewis said she was pleased with Gore’s reply. “He’s... really concerned about minority students and aid for minority students,” she said. “His answer just caught my attention; he seems to be a really serious, passionate man.”

Gore also explained his proposed 401J plan, describing it as “a tax free fund available to each individual that can be drawn upon throughout a lifetime for continuing educational [purposes],” Broughton junior David Ward, who asked about the plan, also expressed his enthusiasm for Gore. “He touched on the most important issue in the country—education. I feel even stronger about my support for him right now. [lf I could vote], I would vote for A1 Gore,” he said.

Gore also answered questions about computer literacy and the reduction of class size, emphasizing the importance of both.

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� Wrestling beats Camels The wrestling team, returning two injured starters, grabbed a 22-12 victory over Campbell last night in Buies Creek, N.C. Up by four late in the match, Duke won the final two bouts to get its second win of the year, Tom Cass, Sean Meakim, Harry Clarke, Andy Soliman, Mike Mitchell and Matt Hoover all recorded wins for Duke.

� Men’s tennis ranked third in latest poll The 3-0 men's tennis team stayed at No. 3 in the latest poll released yesterday by the ITA and is just 10 points behind No. 1 LSU. Three individual Blue Devils are ranked in the top 40, while the doubles duo of Doug Root and Ramsey Smith leaped from 33rd to 20th.

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� UMd. 92, Ga. Tech 70 Juan Dixon scored 18 of his career-high 33 points in the opening 12 minutes last night as No. 22 Maryland took control early and cruised past Georgia Tech 92-70. Dixon went 12-for-17 from the field and had a career-best seven assists.

� Janikowski charged, could get the boot Sebastian Janikowski, the kicker for national champion Florida State, was charged yesterday with one count of bribery after he allegedly offered a police officer $3OO to release his roommate.

The charge is a third-degree felony, and Janikowski, a native of Poland, could face deportation if convicted. If found guilty, he also faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

One and counting: New Cameron streak begins

By BRODY GREENWALD

� Led by Jason Williams,

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101 It’s their house

Duke again FSU 68 One week after Maryland shocked the basketball world by becoming the first visitor to win in Cameron Indoor Stadium in more than three years, the third-ranked Blue Devils (20-3, 11-1 in the ACC) demolished Florida State 101-68 to reclaim their homecourt ascendancy Using a suffocating fullcourt trap, the Blue Devils forced 14 turnovers in the first half and converted them into 25 points. All five starters scored at least nine first-half points as Duke hit 60 percent of its shots to bury the Seminoles (9-13, 4-8) in a 25point ditch at the break.

As Duke’s lead rapidly ballooned from 15 to 25 in just over three minutes late in the first half, point guard Jason Williams capped off a 15-3 Blue Devil run with a steal that led to his show-stopping coast-to-coast layup, blowing by the Florida State defense SHANE BATTIER strips the ball from Florida State’s David Anderson in last night’s with a ball fake to Nate drubbing of the Seminoles.

James that froze his defender After halftime, the Blue James gave the Blue Devils and electrified the 9,314 fans in attendance.

Devils came out even hotter their largest lead of the evening “I think tonight was much than they left the court as and forced a disgusted Steve more of a real Cameron atmosCarlos Boozer began the half Robinson to pull all five of his phere,” Shane Battier said. with a two-handed slam dunk Seminole starters out of the lineup only two minutes into “The Crazies were back to nor- that sparked a run of five conmal strength, we were up by 30 secutive possessions that Duke the second half. into and everything seemed right converted baskets.

But the FSU reserves would See MEN’S HOOPS on page 19 � with the world.”

Consecutive three-pointers by

the Blue Devil defense forced 21 turnovers as Duke returned to its earlier season form.

Arkansas’ Nolan Richardson invented it, but the Blue Devils

perfected it last night. visiting Duke treated Florida State to 40 minutes of hell en route to an impressive 101-68 victory. The Blue Devils forced turnover after turnover as the hapless Seminoles could do nothing but anxiously await the return of the college football season.

Bob Wells Game Commentary Last week, Duke saw its 46game home winning streak come to an end as visiting Maryland torched them for 98 points. The Blue Devils’ defense was hardly imposing against the Terrapins, and

Duke’s players and coaches had talked all week about the importance of bringing the intensity every time on the defensive end of the floor.

The team proved last night that it wasn’t just rhetoric, putting the defensive clamps on the Seminoles from the opening tip. Duke forced 21 turnovers on See DEFENSE on page 18 �

Moreland raised Duke to unparalleled success The Blue Devils made their first NCAAs, but their struggles continued behind the scenes Twenty-five years ago, the very first Blue Devil women's basketball team took the floor. In part two of a three-part series,

The Chronicle looks at the end of the Debbie Leonard era.

� Bulls trade final piece of dynasty

By ANDREA BOOKMAN The Chronicle

The Chicago Bulls traded Toni Kukoc yesterday in a three-way deal involving the Warriors and 76ers. Kukoc will head to Philadelphia and current 76ers Larry Hughes and Billy Owens were shipped to Golden State.

The Warriors gave up a No. 1 pick and John Starks to Chicago

Before there were televised games and a Nike contract, an assembly of increasingly talented young players and their tenacious young coach began writing a new chapter of Duke women’s basketball history.

This chapter is decidedly

more successful than the last.

QUOTE OF THE PAY “I don’t know who gave David Stern all the power in the world to sit there and make all the rules in the world, but this league has gone to hell. It’s ridiculous.... I wish me and David Stern can get some damn gloves on and we go In the ring and we can see who’ll come out the winner. Me and him.”

Dennis Rodman

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CHRIS MORELAND was Duke’s first big recruit and still holds program records for career points, rebounds, free throws and field goals.

It starts with the big-name recruits who took a chance on an enthusiastic coach. It features plot twists—the program’s first NCAA tournament, a plague of injuries and disputes between the coach and the administration. It ends with a bittersweet epilogue.

In 1984, Chris Moreland, Duke’s first bonafide women’s basketball superstar, arrived on campus. Moreland garnered a string of “first” accomplish-

ments for Blue Devil women; she became Duke’s first ACC rookie of the year in 1985 and its first All-ACC first team selection in 1986.

25 years In four years, Moreland etched her name atop almost every category in the Blue Devil record book. She holds season and career records for points and rebounds. In addition to ranking first in most statistical columns, Moreland’s name appears in a smattering of other top-10 lists, including minutes per game and blocked shots.

“Chris was our first big

catch,” said Debbie Leonard, Duke’s coach at the time. “She took a big chance on us. She was maybe the toughest 6-1 forward who’s ever played the See MORELAND

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A changing State: Injuries in post create new-look rematch

By ANDREA BOOKMAN The Chronicle

Chones have started every game for the Wolfpack this season. With Erb out of the lineup, Chones is the team’s leading scorer with 11.8 points per game. James averaged 15 points per game this week

Back on Jan. 20 in Raleigh, the N.C. State women’s basketball team spoiled Duke’s bid for a come-from-behind win, beating the Blue Devils 80-75 in overtime. to earn ACC Rookie of the Week honors.

Another State freshman, reserve guard Tonight, the Wolfpack come to Cameron Indoor Stadium for the rematch. Amy Simpson, who averages under nine Seventh-ranked N.C. State (20-4,11-2 points per game, found the shooting range in ACC) and No. 14 Duke (20-4, 9-3) will and scored 26 against Duke in January.

Meanwhile, Duke’s own freshmen tip off at 7 p.m. Both teams feature lineups drastically altered by injuries to have been playing more confidently and senior stars. The Blue Devils continue to consistently lately. Sheana Mosch and play without Peppi Browne, out for the Michele Matyasovsky have been asked season with a torn ACL, while the to play more minutes, and both have Wolfpack has had to adjust to losing 1999 improved their rebounding and defense.

ACC player of the year Summer Erb to a ‘We are a different team this time,” broken foot.

Rice said. “Our freshmen have more In the teams’ previous meeting, experience. They have been rebounding Browne led Duke with 25 points and 12 a lot better.” rebounds, at times singlehandedly whitBlue Devil veterans have also helped tling down the N.C. State lead. Six-footpick up the slack since Browne went down six center Erb contributed 19 points and against UNC. Junior Rochelle Parent is 10 rebounds for the Wolfpack. settling in as Duke’s new top rebounder, It’s difficult to say whether either and Krista Gingrich has stepped up both team gains an advantage with these her offensive and defensive intensity. injuries or whether the losses of leader“Really everybody has been playing ship and production negate each other. better,” coach Gail Goestenkors said.

“I think they were in a better position “Our bench has really stepped up.” initially,” senior Lauren Rice said. “Their Beating the Wolfpack would help the freshmen were already taking on large Blue Devils move up in the conference r01e5.... Our freshmen’sroles had to change, standings, where they are currently and they hadn’t gotten the minutes to third behind N.C. State and Virginia. develop like the State players had. Also, Further, a win would prove to naysayers Peppi is such a defensive presence for us. that without Browne, Duke can still win Her loss has really affected our rebounding against one of the nation’s top teams. and our pressure man [defense!”

And of course, revenge is always sweet.

“It was a tough loss for us there,” N.C. State’s most precocious freshmen are point guard Terah James and Goestenkors said. “We want to center Kaayla Chones. Both James and redeem ourselves.”

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N.C. State Game time: 7 p.m.

Place: Cameron Indoor Stadium TV/Radio: WDNC 620AM No. 7 N.C. State 20-4 (11-2) Coach Kay Yow Guard Terah James, Fr. (8,3 ppg) Guard/Forward Tynesha Lewis, Jr. (11.4 ppg) Forward Talisha Scales, So. (4.2 ppg) Monica Bates, Jr. (5.7 ppg) Forward Center Kaayla Chones, Fr. (11.8 ppg)

Series record: 37-14, N.C. State leads Last meeting: N.C. State won 80-75 last January in Raleigh.

No. 14 Duke 20-4 (9-3) Coach Gail Goestenkors Krista Gingrich, So. (7.4 pp( Guard Georgia Schweitzer, Jr. (16.1 ppg) Guard Sheana Mosch, Fr. (8.2 ppg) Forward Rochelle Parent, Jr. (5.7 ppg) \uren Rice. Sr. (8.9 ppg)

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Baseball’s skid reaches 5 as Blue Devils drop home opener

By KEVIN LEES

asked for a more frustrating loss.

While the sun set on the field and opening day turned into night, the Blue Devils (1-6) squandered an eighth inning opportunity, losing 4-3 to Davidson (3-2) to extend their losing streak to five.

In the bottom of the eighth, J.D

Alieva hit a grounder which bounced under Davidson’s third baseman, notching Alieva a double. The play ended with Davidson 4 The baseball team couldn’t have asked for nicer batters on second and third, and Duke Duke 3 weather on opening day poised to score. at historic Jack Coombs Field.

Davidson took out its pitcher and But as inning by inning went by replaced him with fresh arm Tim without a hit, Duke also couldn’t have Frend. Senior veteran Jeff Becker doubled and Duke’s Doug Bechtold made it home. Duke wouldn’t score another run, however, as Davidson took a double play off a Gideon Thompson grounder to end the inning and Duke’s chance to recover.

“They brought in a sidearmer,” Becker said. “It’s just the way the ball bounces sometimes. In baseball, stranger things have happened. We hit the ball hard, it just happened to be right at the shortstop and they turned two on us.”

In the third inning whenKevin Kelly knocked the ball over left field and out of the park, as he and David Mason scored two runs to tie the game 2-2..

Davidson followed up in the top of the fifth with a home run to take the lead 4-2, a lead that would prove insurmountable.

The Blue Devils mustered only six hits in Wednesday’s game to the Wildcats’ 12.

“We got picked off first base a couple of times and we didn’t hit the ball,” coach Bill Hillier said. “They did a good job of pitching. I think we did a decent job of pitching. But five hits isn’t going to win ball games for you.

“We need to start hitting the ball.

JEFF BECKER swings and misses yesterday afternoon as the Blue Devils dropped their fifth game in We’ve got to do a better job on the bases. a row. Duke finished the game with just six hits and three runs.

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Relief pitchers Kevin Perry and Jeff Alieva came in for the final and innings three stymied Davidson’s offense, allowing only one hit and no runs. Perry also notched a

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“I think they did a great job,” Hillier said. “Whenever you come in and shut people down, it’s a great job. Ryan Caradonna did a great job too. He gave up two home runs, but he pitched pretty good. He’s pitched well every time he’s gone out there and he’s going to pitch a bunch for us.”

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Williams leads way on both ends of floor � DEFENSE from page 15 the night, 14 in the first halfalone, and converted those miscues into 33 points. Conversely, Duke committed just seven turnovers.

“We played very good defense [tonight],” coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We played with a lot of energy, but we didn’t put the ball in the basket early. We were really ready to play. We were playing better than the score [early in the first half]. When we stopped fouling, that’s when we broke it open.”

The Blue Devils held Florida State to just 8-of-21 shooting in the first half and shut down its top gun, superstar shooting guard Ron Hale. Hale finished with seven points, but most of that came in the last minutes ofthe second half. While the team was certainly impressive on the defensive end, Jason Williams’ performance was particularly noteworthy.

Williams harassed the Seminole guards all night with his on-ball pressure. Responsible for guarding Delvon Harrington, Williams pressured him into eight turnovers, including a 45-second span in which he forced a five-second count, a whistle for traveling and a 10-second violation.

Complementing Williams’ stellar defensive play was an equally impressive offensive performance. The rookie point guard scored 19 points and dished out five assists. Williams also electrified the crowd on several occasions that will no doubt land him a starring role on ESPN’s Plays of the Week and prompt anchor Kenny Mayne to say, ”That’s fancy.” Still, it has been Williams’ NATE JAMES AND CARLOS BOOZER fight for a loose ball that decision making and growth as a player that has propelled Duke to the top ofthe ACC. Damous Anderson grabbed.

“[Williams] makes us go.

When he’s handling the ball now, unlike earlier in the season, he’s going to make a good decision.” i

Chris Carrawell

“The development of Jason Williams as the point guard has been tremendous,” Chris Carrawell said. “He makes us go. When he’s handling the ball now, unlike earlier in the season, he’s going to make a good decision.

He’s very instinctive.”

Williams’ improved decision-making was certainly evident as he turned the ball over just two times in 28 minutes ofplay.

“When Jason sees that we turn the ball over in single digits, we’re very successful,” Shane Battier said.

“It’s almost like a chain reaction when we don’t turn it over. We make the other team turn it over a lot. That’s really been a huge key for us since our offensive rebounding has been down.”

The Seminoles had a marked 38-24 rebounding edge over Duke, including nine more offensive rebounds.

Additionally, no Blue Devil player finished with more than six rebounds, and Carlos Boozer only managed to grab three rebounds in 22 minutes playing time.

Despite its shortcomings on the boards, Duke’s desire and defense allowed it to vanquish another opponent.

After years at war with Butters, Leonard leaves by ‘mutual decision’ � MORELAND from page 15 game. She was a real game player. No

major gripes. Mostly, though, she was

upset that she had to give scholarships out other team liked to play her.” of her budget for travel and equipment.

“One of the men’s assistants at the Despite the limited budget Leonard worked with, she convinced Moreland, time used to always say to me, ‘Debbie, the first in a line of players who are now you’re never going to get anywhere remembered as the program’s pioneers, unless you start losing,’” Leonard said. to gamble on Duke.

“We were shooting ourselves in the foot Guard Katie Meier arrived in 1985 by doing well. The administration could and was the Blue Devils’ second and last say, ‘See, you have enough money to be ACC rookie of the year in 1986. Forward successful.’ But we were successful in Sue Harnett came to Duke the next year. spite of our budget.”

In 1987, the Blue Devils reached the These women still find their names alongside Moreland’s in the record books, and pinnacle of their success during the Leonard remembers them fondly for their Debbie Leonard era—their first NCAA unique contributions to the program. tournament. In a smaller field ofonly 24 “Katie is someone I still keep in touch teams, Duke advanced to the second with,” Leonard said. “She’s an assistant round before losing to Rutgers. coach at Tulane now, and she will be a That game featured the premier great Division I head coach someday. matchup of Moreland and Rutgers’ Sue Sue is so charismatic. She has a great Wicks, now a member of the WNBA’s personality and really helped us to New York Liberty. make friends with the student body.”

After Duke’s run, Leonard worked as Duke’s success during this time a scout for USA Basketball and was showed up in the wins column, but it offered a job coaching at Arizona. She belied that Leonard, who won her only decided to stay in Durham, however, but ACC coach of the year award in 1986, the successes of 1987 were not to be was still unsatisfied with her budget repeated during her reign as coach. and the publicity her team received.

Injuries, specifically tom ACLs, were A two-page media guide and free devastating. The next year, the Blue admission to games were two of Leonard’s Devils were ranked eighth in the country

when they traveled to Maryland in January. In that game, a 73-63 loss, Meier tore her ACL. The following year, this time it was Harnett whose knee gave out, and Duke’s record dipped below .500 for the first time since 1982.

“Back-to-back injuries to major players in your program is just very difficult,” Leonard said. “I truly feel that if Katie had not injured her knee, she would have been the best player ever at Duke, and that’s not to take anything away from Chris Moreland.”

Leonard’s final two years at the helm ofthe Duke program were characterized by frustrations and conflicts with thenathletic director Tom Butters. Leonard had worked to bring the Dial Soap Classic, a two-game tournament, to Cameron in 1988. This tournament gave the Blue Devils scheduling credibility and much-needed money.

But in 1991, Butters declined the Dial Tournament and began the Duke Women’s Basketball Classic.

After another losing season in 199192, both Leonard and Butters knew it was finally time to stop butting heads and to start something new.

“It was a mutual decision between him and I,” Leonard said. “I’m lucky that

I was prepared. I knew I had been in that office kicking and screaming for too long. I was tired offighting. I knew I didn’t want to coach anywhere but Duke, and I’m a very big supporter of the program to this day. I am still proud of my

kids who won, even though they didn’t have a level playing field.”

Thus, in 1992, 29-year-old Gail Goestenkors, a former Purdue assistant, took over the program and scripted the most successful era in Duke women’s basketball history.

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Waiting for Ron Hale: Duke stifles Seminole star —again � MEN’S HOOPS from page 15 fare no better as back-to-back baskets by Williams and a bomb from behind the arc by Battier preserved Duke’s lead above 30 by the halfs first tele-

about getting back to our defensive identity and stepping up defensively.”

With nearly everything going his team’s way last night, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was able to vision timeout. The Blue Devils drained 12 three- reach much deeper into his bench than has been the pointers and shot a scintillating 66.7 percent from case so far in ACC play. long range as Williams, James, In addition to Mike Dunleavy, Boozer, Battier and Chris Carrawell who plays interchangeably with combined for 79 points despite sitDuke’s starting five, three ting out at least 11 minutes each, reserves—Matt Christensen, Casey “It was amazing to see once we got Sanders and Nick Horvath—saw out there on the defensive end how double-digit minutes in playing things started happening for us offentime and combined for 13 points and nine rebounds. sively,” James said. “I think we kept that going and continued to hit shots “It wasn’t so much even to rest and continued to make big plays. [our regulars] as it is to get the Everything worked out for us.” other guys time,” playing “As far as people Duke’s prolific offensive effort came Krzyzewski said. “As I mentioned to getting tired or whatcourtesy of one of its best team defenour guys yesterday or the day before, I’ve never had a player come sive efforts of the season. The Blue ever, I have a hard Devils forced 21 turnovers, including time with that. into my office complaining about No eight by point guard Delvon [too much] playing time. As far as Arrington. On consecutive plays in the player in his right people getting tired and whatever, I first half, Williams forced Arrington have a hard time with that. No playmind gets tired of into a backcourt violation and backup er in his right mind gets tired of playing time.” point guard Matt Chlebek into a fiveplaying time.”

And while everyone made their second violation Mike Krzyzewski way into the game for the Blue Yet, Florida State’s offensive strugDevils, the highlight reel will likely gles were experienced especially hard by senior Ron Hale. feature one man—Williams.

In addition to his unbelievable first-half move, Although the 6-foot-9 guard recently eclipsed 1,000 points for his career, he has never been able Duke’s freshman floor leader brought the crowd to a to find his rhythm against Duke, Last month, the frenzy on two different occasions in the second half.

Blue Devil defense hounded Hale to two points on a With less than 11 minutes left in the game, l-for-7 shooting night, and last night was no differDunleavy hit Williams with an outlet and he drove ent. Hale collected two points in garbage time, and baseline under the basket before reversing the ball was held to only two field goals, seven points and up and under offthe glass. zero assists.

Six minutes later, Williams penetrated into the lane and bulleted a behind-the-back pass to a “I think we were trying to get back to our defensive habits,” Battier said. “I think there had been so streaking Dunleavy, who tapped it to Boozer for a much success that we got away from what made us slam that stopped the clock with less than five minsuccessful. So the last few games have really been utes to play.

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