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Duke nets Ist ACC crown

University drops 28 licensees

Five players score in double digits to lead the Blue Devils over the Tar Heels By RAY HOLLOMAN The Chronicle

Tear79 GREENSBORO choked and game-weary, UNC 76 Missy West sat staring out at the assembled media with a spent stare that said everything that didn’t need to be, her left hand cupping her right, as if she were holding her own hand, trying to convince even herself that she had done what she had done. In a game where emotions had poured out like sweat and where a rivalry flared like no other can, she had been the hero of heroes. It had taken Duke 25 years to be this

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After a year ofnegotiations with corporations and anti-sweatshop activists, the University severed ties Monday with 28 companies that had not disclosed complete information about their factories. Only three days after the most recent deadline, the Collegiate Licensing Company—Duke’s licensing agency—issued letters on behalf of the University, voiding the corporations’ rights to manufacture and market products bearing the Duke name. “You’re either in compliance or you’re n0t...,” said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. “I hope this sends a message that we’re serious about this.” Duke will continue to contract with more than 380 companies producing items that sport the school’s logos. Trask said the 28 terminated companies produced about $30,000—or 8 percent —of Duke’s annual royalty revenue. “We knew all along that we were going to lose some income,” Trask said. “We’re fine with that.”

close to an ACC championship and

Missy West made sure that another 51 seconds wasn’t going to stop the Blue Devils from claiming their first. The senior, who has seen about as many knee surgeries as double-digit games, scored 11 second-half points and hit three key free throws in the final minute of the game as the second-seeded Blue Devils (26-5) defeated the No. 5 seeded Tar Heels (18-12) 7976 in Greensboro Coliseum last night to win the program’s first-ever ACC

championship. “It was a great game; we just came out determined to play at the end,” said West. “It was a sweet victory, a great way to go out.” But the Tar Heels nearly chimed midnight early on the Tobacco Road Cinderella story of the blue collar Blue Devil. After trailing by four to seven points

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COACH GAIL GOESTENKORS celebrates with a pull-up on the rim at the Greensboro Coliseum after Duke captured its first-ever ACC tournament, title. *

most of the second halfand not seriously threatening the Duke advantage, the Tar Heels began a rally with 5:53 left to play that turned a tight ACC championship game into one of the tournament’s classics. North Carolina star point guard

Nikki Teasley, whose 31 points kept the Tar Heels close on the Blue Devils’ heels the whole game, connected with a slashing LaQuanda Barksdale for a lay up to trim the lead from a game-high nine points back to seven. See CHAMPIONS on page 15 �

Fire damages nearby apartments Basketball players The blaze displaced about 24 students living in the Campus Oaks complex

� Several members of the men’s basketball

By MARY CARMICHAEL and GREG PESSIN

team say that they were misled into signing

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a tetter supporting presidential candidate Jordan Bazinsky.

Twenty-foot-tall flames projected from the top of the Campus

Oaks apartment complex at 311 Swift Ave. late last night. Although the fire consumed five apartments and affectedl2 doubles believed to be inhabited by students, no injuries were reported. At about 9:20 p.m., complex residents reported, they heard car horns honking and two men banging on their doors warning them of the serious blaze and telling them to get out. The blaze started in apartments 301 and 302 and spread downward through the building. By about 10 p.m., six fire units had more or less contained the blaze in front of crowds ofresidents and onlookers. “Right now we feel like we’ve got it under control,” said Durham Sec FIRE on page 5 �

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deny endorsement By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle

In a letter to the editor last week, the men’s basketball team declared its strident support for Duke

FIRE TRUCKS responded en masse to the flames that consumed the Campus Oaks apartment complex Monday night.

apologizes

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Student Government presidential candidate Jordan Bazinsky, but a series of denials and denunciations has cast doubt on the endorsement. Trinity junior Jill Alexy, a team manager who is also organizing Bazinsky’s campaign, put the letter on the table during one of the team’s marathon autographing sessions. Several players said that in the rush to get as many items signed as quickly as possible, they did not read the letter before signing it, and others claim that they never signed the March 1 letter at all. “On a day where I signed over 300 items, I do not take the time to read every single thing I sign. I assume since it is on the table, I am to sign it. But it wasn’t until I read my name next to the letter in The Chronicle [that I sawl what had happened...,” Shane Battier wrote in an e-mail. “I did not intend to endorse See LETTER on page 6

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Boeing engineers remain defiant

After surviving raging A day after Boeing imfloods and days of being posed part of its latest stranded in trees and on contract offer and rooftops, an estimated pleaded for the 17,000 250,000 Mozambicans striking engineers and managed to reach 64 aid technical workers to camps trying to find food come back, few returned and clean water. to their jobs Monday.

Plane barely escapes Mexican protesters seize university office gas station collision After landing in BurAbout 60 hooded probank, Calif, a Southwest testers carrying clubs Airlines Boeing 737 and rocks and demandslammed into a car Sun- ing the release of dozens day evening and stopped of jailed students took with its nose just 39 feet over the offices of the short of the gas pumps at president of the National a Chevron station on Hol- Autonomous University lywood Way. No one was of Mexico in Mexico City. seriously injured. Flag boycott costs S.C. Problems put UNC millions in tourism The NAACP’s economic hospital on probation UNC Hospitals’ designa- boycott of South Carolition as a Level 1 trauma na to force the removal center has been placed on of the Confederate flag probation for up to a year flying from the state after a Dec. 2 review by house has cost Columbia inspectors revealed long- at least $3 million in room bookings. standing problems.

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Gore and Bush targeted campaign efforts toward Jewish voters Monday By DAVID ESPO

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Hoping for a WASHINGTON Super Tuesday worthy of the name, George W. Bush and A1 Gore campaigned on opposite coasts Monday in parallel pursuit of the victories needed to settle their parties’ nom-

inating struggles. “Rest is for another day,” said Gore’s rival, Bill Bradley. And- on the eve of a virtual nationwide presidential primary with contests in all regions of the country, all sides seemed to agree.

Republican John McCain said

mercials aired by Bush and “his sleazy Texas buddies” in New York and elsewhere. The front-runners, Bush and Gore, both courted Jewish voters as they tailored their messages as much to the general election as Tuesday’s primaries.

“Tolerance can never be assumed, and it always must be taught,” Bush said at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles where he also stressed his support v for “a safe and secure Israel.”

Gore, in New York, told a Jewish organization he would be a “good

and helpful and loyal friend” to Israel if elected to the White House, Public opinion polls had Gore ahead of Bradley virtually everywhere. Bush’s position wasn’t as commanding, although he led McCain in the polls in several key states, including Ohio, Maryland, Georgia, Missouri and in the winner-take-all competition for 162 California delegates. McCain’s strength was in New England, and he and Bush battled fiercely in New York.

Jury convicts officers of assault cover-up By ALAN FEUER and EDWARD WONG N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK Two New York City policemen and one .former officer were convicted Monday of covering up the brutal assault on Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, in an emotional verdict that the defendants’

whether police officers and officials of the policeman’s union lied to protect their brethren rather than the citizens they were sworn to serve. In June, Schwarz was convicted of violating Louima’s civil rights by helping another officer, Justin

Volpe, torture him. Volpe pleaded guilty to attacking Louima and is serving 30 years in prison. Schwarz, lawyers and families vowed through tears to fight. The three defendants—Charles Schwarz, Thomas who was thrown offthe police force after his conviction Wiese and Thomas Bruder—each were found guilty in and has been in custody, faces a possible life sentence. federal district court in Brooklyn of obstructing justice Bruder and Wiese were acquitted of beating Louima in by conspiring to manufacture a story for authorities a squad car. that Schwarz was not involved in the attack on Louima What emerged as a central element in both trials in the bathroom of a Brooklyn station house in 1997. was Schwarz’s role in the attack. After the first trial, The horrible details of the assault, in which a police Volpe said Schwarz was not in the bathroom during officer beat and sodomized Louima with a broken the attack. And in the second trial, Volpe testified that broomstick, had been fully aired at a trial last year. it was Wiese, not Schwarz, who was the second person Monday’s verdicts spoke to the systemic problem of with him in the bathroom.

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Candidates react New project fights false imprisonment to election ruling

By TOBY COLEMAN The Chronicle

By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

Candidates and Duke Student Government officials are split on the propriety of the DSG judi-

ciary’s decision to overturn last Thursday’s executive elections and reschedule them for tomorrow. Although some candidates believe that the new elections will demonstrate DSG’s seriousness about the democratic process, other officials think that the process could turn the organization into a joke. “I just think that if you’re going to call a new election, it’s a big deal, and it’s reserved for the roof coming down... something that obviously gave a large sway to what happened,” said Trinity junior Jennifer Stapleton, the former election commission chair and attorney general who decided Friday to resign if the election were overturned. The judiciary based its decision on what it called a “troubling pattern” of procedural errors in the way Stapleton and the election commission conducted the election, including a failure to remove fliers near polling stations. “The fliers—they were there, we acknowledge that, but they were not there all day and we corSee DSG ELECTION on page 7

Inspired by a Cardozo Law School project that has helped free 37 innocent men from prison, Duke law students and professors have started their own effort to help free wrongly convicted prisoners. Duke’s Innocence Project leaders sat down yesterday with the founders of the Cardozo project, Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, after the two lawyers delivered a wellattended speech in the law school. Scheck and Neufeld are on a national speaking tour touting theirbook Actual Innocence, which they co-wrote with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Dwyer. The men, perhaps best known for their work in defending 0. J. Simpson, are using the tour to push for reform of the criminal justice system and they believe that local Innocence Projects like Duke’s will aid this effort. For now, Duke’s Innocence Project is still in the planning stages and lacks both a budget and office space. Student coordinator Pamela Hoefer, a secondyear law student, said the group was still establishing criteria for accepting cases. Like the nationally renowned Innocence Project run out of New York City by Neufeld and Scheck, Duke’s project will work only with apparently innocent prisoners who have exhausted their legal appeals. However, unlike the Cardozo project, Duke’s program will not limit its work to cases where newly available DNA evidence could overturn the conviction, Hoe-

fer said. Scheck cautioned the students to work only with convicts who unflaggingly claimed their innocence since their conviction. “We’ve been burned when it’s just the families [claiming innocence],” Scheck said. Using improved DNA testing, the two lawyers have managed to free 37 men condemned by both juries and appellate judges to life imprisonment or, in eight cases, death. Pointing to case studies and statistical analysis in their new book, the lawyers said the criminal justice system should be blamed for allowing innocent people

Clarification A page-three story in the March 2 Chronicle misidentifled the relationship between George’s Garage on Ninth Street and the Garage Express in the Levine Science Research Center. Garage Express is a wholly separate entity operated by a former employee of George’s Garage. Only food from the Ninth Street restaurant will be available for delivery on points soon.

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BARRY SCHECK’S work has helped inspire Duke law students and professors to help free wrongly convicted prisoners.

to go to prison. “There are just more people in jail because this system, and many of its important parts, are broken,” said Scheck. The book recounts some of the cases Scheck and Neufeld have handled since starting up the Innocence Project in 1986. In one case, a Tulsa, Okla. man spent five years in prison for the rape of an 11-year-old, despite 11 defense witnesses’ testimony that he was skeet shooting in Dallas. Neufeld said the book explores the causes of wrongful convictions. The answers, he said, are fairly simple but are rarely looked for. Cars get recalled, plane crashes get investigated and medical errors get inSee

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Sportscaster apologizes for SAS applauds University, his controversial comments pursues better monitoring � Through an e-mail to two students, Billy Packer said he never intended “to disparage Duke University or its students.” *

By RICHARD RUBIN The Chronicle

CBS basketball commentator Billy Packer apologized Monday to two Duke students for sexist remarks he made to them at a home more than a week ago. “I am sorry you were offended by my comments as I entered Cameron on Feb. 26,” Packer wrote in a brief email to Trinity junior Jen Feinberg and Pratt junior Sarah Bradley. “It was never my intention to disparage Duke University or its students.” Bradley and Feinberg responded and accepted Packer’s apology Wednesday. “We were pleased to see it. I was actually sort of stunned when I saw it pop up in my e-mail,” Feinberg said Wednesday afternoon. “We’re glad to have it resolved.” CBS had no official statement on the issue, saying that it was between Packer and the students. Packer, who was criticized in 1996 for calling basketball star Allen Iverson a “tough monkey” declined further comment Monday, calling it a “personal matter.” Packer’s comments came to light last week in a letter the two students sent to CBS Sports President Sean

McManus and to The Chronicle. According to the letter, Packer made “inappropriate and derogatory remarks” to them as they checked identification and press passes at the Cameron In-

door Stadium entrance. When they asked Packer to show his press pass, the announcer allegedly said, “Since when do we let women control who gets into a men’s basketball game? Why don’t you go find a women’s game to let people into?” A stadium official who saw the interaction apparently guessed that Packer was just joking, whereupon Packer turned around and said, “No, that’s just the kind of guy I am.” Based on this comment, Feinberg said she realized that Packer was unaware that his statements could be seen as offensive.

But now, after receiving the apology, Feinberg said she feels that Packer understands the potential inappropri-

ateness ofhis comments. “I’m glad that CBS Sports stuck to their policy against bias in any manner and I’m glad that he acknowledged that his comments were taken as offensive,” she said. The last few days have brought a flood of phone calls to Feinberg and Bradley from supporters, critics and members of the news media. They had several requests to do live talk radio shows but, Feinberg said, “We decided that was just not for us.”

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major project SAS will tackle, he said, is Trask would not reveal which compato convince Duke to sever its ties with the nies’ contracts were ended. “We agreed to Fair Labor Association, a national monidisclose [information aboutl people li- toring organization overseen by non-govcensed to do Duke work. These people are emmental organizations, human rights groups, universities and corporations. no longer licensed,” he explained. The letter to the companies reads, in “Now you have to have a successful part: “Since you have not complied with monitoring system,” Harrell said, the factory disclosure requirement... adding that representatives of SAS will your company no longer has the right to meet this morning with Jim Wilkerson, manufacture, advertise, distribute or director of Duke University Stores, to sell products bearing the indicia of reiterate their request that Duke switch to the Worker Rights Consortium. “No Duke University. All merchandise incorporating the marks of this institution one in Duke’s SAS or [United Students must be forwarded to CLC for disposal.” Against Sweatshops] feels the FLA is Monday’s action marks the latest an adequate monitoring system because step in the process toward disclosure it is corporate-run,” Harrell said. Wilkerson could not be reached for that began during Students Against Sweatshops’ Allen Building sit-in in comment Monday evening, but Trask exJanuary 1999. At the end of the sit-in, pressed hesitation about dropping out of the University and the protesters setthe FLA immediately. “We try to make the tled on a Jan. 30, 2000 date for disclo- FLA work. We’ve got a pretty good shot of it...,” he said. “We’ve already said if it doessure and contract termination. In mid-February 2000, the Universin’t make a record, we’ll look somewhere ty sent certified letters to the more than else.” He added that because the factory 100 companies that had not disclosed addresses are available publicly, anyone is full information, giving them 15 days to free to do monitoring. “We’re not relying come into compliance. on one mechanism,” he said. And some SAS members will not “We’re going to be celebrating this monumental achievement,” said Trinity squander this opportunity. During spring senior Casey Harrell, an SAS leader. “It’s break, several groups of students will never ever happened before at the unitravel as watchdogs to various factory sites in the United States and South versity level or any retail level. It’s fantastic, although it should have happened America. “We’re going to be very happy in January.” Harrell tempered his enthutomorrow, getting this list...” Harrell siasm about the University’s action with said, “but we’ve also got to say this is not a recognition of the long road ahead for the time to rest on our laurels because the anti-sweatshop movement. The next we’re talking about people’s lives.”

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Muslim leader will Duke will aid those displaced by fire explore 3 religions From staffreports Imam W. D. Mohammed, spokesperson for the Muslim American Society, will discuss ‘The Spiritual Connection: Connecting the Three Faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam” at a speech at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday VT p c night at the Freeman Center for iIC W 3

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Mohammed, son of the late Ui ICi J Nation of Islam founder Elijah Mohammed, is known for his promotion of universal human excellence and service. He spoke at Duke in

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Alcohol speech planned: At a talk called “Buzzed and Befuddled? Rethinking Campus Drinking,” Cynthia Kuhn, a professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, and Jeffrey Georgi, a clinical associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, will discuss responsible alcohol use in the context of understanding its physiological effects. Sponsored by the Pratt School of Engineering, the event will be held in Griffith Film Theater at 7 p.m. March 8. Free pizza and soft drinks will be served.

� FIRE from page 1 Fire Department Battalion 1 Chief L, M. Christian. “There are still some hot spots in the walls and floors. When we got here the whole floor was in flames.” Christian said 24 or 25 fire personnel were working on the scene. “It’s a big one for this year... he said of the blaze. “It’s been a long time.” Trinity senior Marcia Gomez, who lives in apartment 206, said, “It’s just surreal. You don’t think it is going to happen to you.” Her roommate, Trinity senior Jill Austrian, agreed with this sentiment.“You have just five seconds to grab anything important to you,” she said. “Pictures, jewelry, my laptop.” Durham resident Charlie Mason watched the fire

for more than an hour. “It was 20 feet up, and it kept blazing. I was on the way home and I saw the flames and smoke,” he said. “I thought it was clouds moving in..,. It’s got to be an awful feeling.” Janet Dickerson, vice president for student affairs, arrived on the scene at about 10:20 p.m. to chat with the displaced students and assure them that the University will help them find new housing as soon as possible. Affected students should contact the Office of Student Development Tuesday. “We’ll put them wherever we have space,” Assistant Dean of Student Development Bill Burig said in a phone interview Monday night. “I don’t know exactly where [off-hand].” Jaime Levy contributed to this story.

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Basketball manager, players dispute endorsement letter �LETTER from page

I Jordan.... I feel my name was misused.” Battier, a Trinity junior, has been particularly vocal about his non-involvement with the endorsement —which ran with his name and that of teammate Carlos Boozer, who come first alphabetically. His ire prompted a letter of apology from Bazinsky, who said the conftision about the letter stems from miscommunication. ‘The last thing I would want to do is .misrepresent someone’s ideas, Shane’s or anyone else’s,” said Bazinsky, who had won the presidency until the election results were thrown out Sunday night. When he saw the letter, Bazinsky said he assumed the players had been briefed on his platform and were offering support. Alexy, who has been with the team for two years, insists that she spoke with each and every player about the endorsement, despite several players’ assertions to the contrary. T approached each individually to see if they would support my friend Jordan...,” she said. “It was in all different circumstances, but they all agreed.” Furthermore, Alexy said the players should be responsible for what they sign. “Obviously, the first lesson we all leam when we’re two years old is that you have to read what you sign,” she said, adding that she finds it “personally insulting” thatBattier does not fully recall their conversation. Before the letter was published, Alexy told The Chronicle that she witnessed all the signatures, and Editorial Page Editor Norm Bradley, a Pratt junior, took that, the signatures and their appearance on Duke Basketball letterhead as confirmation of its accuracy. ‘The letter was clearly signed by each individual on the basketball team,” he said. “However, in

retrospect, The Chronicle should have been more aggressive in contacting individual members of the team to verify that they remembered signing it and agreed with its endorsement message.” Alexy later admitted she did not witness all the signatures. Ryan Caldbeck, a Trinity junior, said he and his roommate Matt Christensen, a Pratt junior, were surprised to leam that their signatures are on the letter. ‘1 am positive I never signed it or gave my permission,” Caldbeck said. He added that Christensen had explicitly asked if he had to sign the letter and decided not to. Battier said he remembers speaking with Alexy but does not recall saying he would endorse Bazinsky. “I believe I told her that I would wait and see,” he wrote. “I would not endorse a candidate without knowing at least a little of the platform, which I never did.” In the days after the letter ran, rumors began to circulate that certain members of the basketball team were unhappy with the endorsement. The issue took a backseat to Saturday’s Carolina game, but surfaced with a vengeance Monday. The basketball office is investigating the allegations, said JeffLa Mere, Trinity ’94 and program coordinator for the basketball program. “We’re looking at everything ourselves in order to find out what happened and who is responsible,” he said. Alexy would only say that she has been or will be “punished severely,” and a clearly distraught Bazinsky said his friend was in a “very bad position.” The controversy surrounds a typical autographing session Feb. 23. As usual, a vast assortment of posters, basketballs and personalized notes and photographs

“On a day where I signed over 300 items, I do not take the time to read every single thing i sign.... I feel my name was misused.” Shane Battier

“The last thing I would want to do is misrepresent someone’s ideas, Shane’s or any-

one else’s.”

Jordan Bazinsky was laid out for the players to sign during a prearranged autographing session; the letter was in a section of special items set off to the side. Most of the players signed

it then, and to collect the rest of the signatures, Alexy moved the letter to a separate location where players sign memorabilia as they pass. By the following Monday, she said, all the team had signed. Laura Anne Howard, who oversees the autographing process as the basketball administrative secretary, said the players assume that if something is out for signing, it has gone through the proper channels and does not need to be read first. “I have it all set up, and the whole point is that they should just be able to walk and sign,” she said. Howard deemed Alexy’s

actions “definitely inappropriate.” “I would never have had the players sign something like that without them knowing what they were signing—which

they clearly didn’t,” she said. Alexy said managers often put out personal items to be signed by the team.

Because she felt the players had consented to the endorsement, she felt there was nothing wrong with putting the handwritten endorsement note out with all the other paraphernalia. “I feel like I covered all my bases,” she said. “I in no way feel that I took advantage of anyone.” But Jason Williams said he did not intend to endorse any candidates. “I didn’t even know what I was signing for,” the Trinity freshman wrote in an e-mail. “We were having autograph day and someone put it in my face and I just signed it.” Trinity freshman Mike Dunleavy, meanwhile, did not attend the session when the letter was signed. Refuting Alexy’s contentions with simple “No”s Dunleavy said he did not sign it, did not agree to allow anyone to sign his name, was never directly contacted about the letter and did not agree to endorse Bazinsky. In retrospect, Bazinsky said he regrets seeking the endorsement. “I didn’t need the basketball team,” he said. “It was cool, but that’s all.”

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.rected them quickly..,,” Stapleton said. “No candidate received any advantage from it because all of the candidates’ fliers were up.”

Trinity juniorRob Leonard filed a complaint against Stapleton’s handling of candidates’ early-campaign concerns. Specifically, Leonard presented the judiciary with an e-mail from Stapleton that he felt discouraged candidates from complaining. But Stapleton said she sent the e-mail after she had received several e-mails and six or seven personal complaints from candidates alleging that someone had ripped down their fliers or placed them in illegal spaces. “I decided to e-mail the whole group and decided to say, That’s not acceptable,”’ she said. “Perhaps it was not the appropriate phraseology I used to discourage that type of behavior.” Some of the candidates, while wary of restarting campaigning and shocked at the re-election, said they were happy with the decision. “I don’t think this is the correct decision—it was the only decision possible.... The mistakes were such glaring errors on the part of the election commission,” said Trinity sophomore Vik Devisetty, a presidential candidate who did not file a formal complaint despite the misspelling of his name on the ballot. “When candidates run a smooth election for 10 days, then the election commission screws it up, it furthers people’s poor perceptions of DSG.” Trinity junior Jordan Bazinsky, who was elected president Thursday, said he tried to run a clean, issues-based campaign and agreed that the second straight revote could harm DSG. “It really makes you wonder why you would want to be a part ofthis organization,” he said. Current vice president for academic affairs Drew Ensign lost last Thursday’s race by 4 percent but thinks a new election, run properly, could result in a different outcome. “There was a comedy of errors in this race, so it’s certainly not surprising,” he said. Leonard, who had been elected vice president for community interaction, said the principle was important enough for him to challenge the vote. “I think there-election established with the student body that DSG is doing its best to correct the errors it made Thursday,” he said. But Stapleton is skeptical of this stated enthusiasm for principle. Although she had chosen not to speak out against individual candidates’ efforts before she resigned, she decided to do so yesterday to defend her organization, she said. ‘There are two roommates. Rob and [fellow complainant and Trinity junior Jim Lazarus] live together,” Stapleton said, adding that Lazarus, a candidate for president, indicated to her that he expected to win the election or be in a runoff. Sean Young, the runner-up in the community interaction vote, did not know whether he agrees with the judiciary’s decision overall. “I personally think it’s a minor issue, but then again, if it happened to me, I could see how it’s upsetting,” the Trinity sophomore said of names being misspelled on the ballot. “It’s obviously good for me because it gives me another chance.” Presidential candidate Evan Holod, whose complaint about the fliers was rejected by the election commission, did not appeal the decision to the judiciary. “I’m disappointed that the judiciary committee decided to have a re-vote because I’m not sure that it’s worth putting the school through another election,” the Trinity junior said, adding that he is excited to start campaigning again. But Holod also said he thought Stapleton did her best and was disappointed that her DSG career had to end in resignation. Presidential candidate Travis Gayles, whose complaint alleging incompetence by the commission was rejected because he turned it in more than 24 hours after the election’s end. “I think that by doing this, it’s righting wrongs, which will help serve the future,” he said. “I think it goes a long way towards saying that the organization is trying to get things done properly for a change.” But Stapleton still believes that the proper thing to do was uphold the election. She complained that scheduling conflicts prevented the judiciary from hearing from any member ofthe election commission Sunday. The only evidence in her committee’s defense were the minutes from its meeting, she said. “That decision was really one-sided. Paper does not speak as loud as people taking my quotes out of context and screaming them at you,” she said. Jaime Levy, Richard Rubin and Katherine Stroup contributed to this story.

spected. But, he said, miscarriages of justice are rarely examined. According to Actual Innocence several factors routinely recur in the convictions the Innocence Project overturned. For instance, mistaken identification by a witness or a victim played a key role in 84 percent of the cases. Other factors include forced admissions of guilt, unqualified or poor legal counsel and what Scheck called “junk science.” Although certain forensic techniques can help determine the identity of the perpetrator, other procedures commonly used before 1990, such as microscopic hair analysis, are now considered completely unreliable. In yesterday’s speech, the two lawyers suggested ,

criminal justice reforms, including mandatory taping of suspect interrogations, less biased suspect identification procedures and a requirement that states keep all forensic evidence while the person convicted is in jail. “In 75 percent of our cases, we can’t find samples anymore...,” Scheck said. “In instances where we can find samples, two-thirds are innocent.” They said that these reforms will happen as more students begin to look into questionable convictions. Neufeld added that working to free innocent people from prison can be difficult and tiring but also rewarding. ‘There’s no better feeling than when you’re standing at the prison gate and you watch a man coming out who has been in prison or on death row,” he said. “You embrace him with a hug reserved only for your nearest and dearest on a special occasion.”

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year’s Duke Student Government executive elections were stained by the incompetence and stubbornness of election commission officials. Unfortunately, the judiciary had no choice but to nullify the previous vote—for the sake of the candidates, and more importantly, for the credibility of the organization. Simply put, DSG should have done a better job. It is inexcusable that an organization with 50 legislators could not find a warm body to man the polls in Trent Dormitory for two hours in the afternoon. This embarrassing mistake could have cost Trinity sophomore Drew Ensign dearly in his race. Trinity junior Jim Lazarus may have been a bit overzealous when he filed multiple complaints. He does, however, have a legitimate complaint in that his name was listed as “LAZ” instead of “Jim ‘Laz’ Lazarus.” By only referring to Lazarus by his three-letter moniker, the election commission hurt his opportunity to pick up both educated and uneducated voters. Nobody named “LAZ” picked up The Chronicle’s endorsement, and nobody is going to randomly vote for a three-lettered option. The posters left near polling stations probably had only a minimal effect, but there is no excuse for certain mistakes. DSG Attorney General Jennifer Stapleton, a Trinity junior, had two weeks to compile the slate of 20 candidates into a correctly spelled list. Even if these mistakes appeared on the ballot, the commission, at the very least, should have reprinted the ballots instead of crossing a candidate’s name out and correcting mistakes with pen, as was done with Trinity sophomore Daryn Dodson’s name. In a race that was decided by less than 75 votes, every little detail matters. One ofthe more frustrating aspects of this entire debacle is how the election commission handled complaints—leaders who have accepted responsibility must at least attempt to handle complaints courteously and professionally. To use academics as an excuse for errors is shocking. Candidates sacrificed two weeks of their semester to aggressively campaign—it’s too bad DSG could not complement their energy. In many ways, the judiciary was caught in a lose-lose proposition—no matter what its members did, the prestige of their organization would suffer. However, elected organizations derive their mandate from the will ofthe populace. If the electoral proceedings are tainted in any way, it is a slap in the face of the candidates and of the students they claim to represent. Although this is the second straight year that initial election results have been thrown out, the circumstances are drastically different. Last year’s shady, external influence was almost laughable. This year’s version is more tragic—the organization has failed those who wish to lead it next year. Redoing the election creates a host of problems. What if turnout is drastically lower? What happens if the results are drastically different? What does this mean for the credibility ofDSG next year? These are all important questions. No matter what happens the second time around, some candidates will feel that the process—and fate—worked against them. However, holding another election is clearly the lesser of two evils.

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Letters to the Editor

Sexual threats must not be accepted by community Considering Duke’s strong pro-diversity programs, it is easy to think that we are moving towards a safe, egalitarian environment. How ironic it is then that three sex-related threats reached our attention during Rape Awareness Week. They all demonstrate that violent thinking toward women and gays remains entrenched at the University. Saturday night, a friend of ours was returning alone to her room through the back stairway of her dorm. She passed a group of unfamiliar male students on their way out. One of them pushed her face against the wall and attempted to kiss her.The rest stood and watched for a moment until two in the back told him to cut it out. Shocked, our friend ran to her room. During the week, another

friend leaned out of her window to ask a group of drunken fraternity men outside to lower their voices so that she could study. Their responses: “Shut up, you cunt!” and “We’re going to rape you!” They proceeded to laugh. Two days ago, one of us received a series of e-mails from a varsity sports team’s mailing list. A few of the men were debasing two students in a late-night e-mail chat. The dialogue concerned a male student who they suggested was gay—because he had not recently slept with a woman—and a freshman woman. The last e-mail made demeaning reference to the male student’s body and his alleged sexual acts. It then replied as to whether one of them should “fuck” the woman, saying to “go ahead

and do it,” and adding that she would bleed because of “the scabs” rather than because of her “fresh meat.” This e-mail reached the entire men’s and women’s varsity teams. What kind of culture are we perpetuating at Duke? What will it take before students, who witness their friends’ violent behavior, speak out? We are all an equal part of the problem when we idly watch. What makes us accept a situation in which half of our population faces threats to its safety and dignity? Is this the community where we want to live? Andrea Mazzarino Trinity ’Ol

Samir Mehta Trinity ’Ol

Judiciary destroyed DSG’s credibility with ruling This past weekend, the judiciary of Duke Student Government went to extraordinary lengths to continue to make a mockery of DSG. By throwing out this past Thursday’s election, the judiciary has done nothing more than reinforce what we already think about DSG: It is impractical, trifling and serves no other purpose then to provide comic relief to the rest of this campus. The judiciary members have taken it upon them-

selves to not act on the students’ behalf, nor on the behalf of DSG, but for their own interests in a desire to promote their own agenda. Was the election perfect? Of course not, but I think it is pretty clear to everyone associated with the University that our student government is very far from perfect. Regardless of what the judiciary may expect, this Wednesday’s new election will also be plagued with violations and petty problems.

All we have done is set an ugly precedent for the future. This past weekend, the judiciary made the University a little worse by throwing out what had been as valid an election as anyone could have hoped for under the inordinately difficult circumstances.

Aaron Stahl Trinity ’Ol

The writer is a member of the Duke Student Government election commission.

Clean up fliers to help reduce litter on campus This seems to be an opportune time to voice one of my only criticisms of this school. I’m tired of people taping fliers everywhere around campus and leaving them to just sit and slowly rot away. Do these people not realize that a month after they have taped up these fliers, they turn into the trash that litters the campus? Everywhere one walks one can see tom pieces of flier scattered on the ground. On every sidewalk and at every bus stop one can spot old, dirty pieces of tape that have been there for months. Duke has too beautiful of a campus for us to allow it to be littered with old fliers. I am not writing this because I am tired of seeing the names of candidates for president of Duke Student

Government everywhere I It is time for the school to turn. I support DSG camput an end to this garbage. paigns. I also support any Make those who put up the fliers take them down after type of student club or organization relaying its message. three weeks. Or possibly But what I don’t support is even limit the paper fliers to when someone posts his the bulletin boards in the name, club or organization on residence halls. This situaa flier and leaves it so that it tion may not be the most becomes the garbage marring pressing issue at the our beautiful University. University right now, but I There are better ways to am sure that I am not alone advertise one’s name, club, or in my opinion of fliers litterorganization than with fliers. ing this campus. The banners over the Bryan If nothing else happens, Center walkway are a perfect the next time you tape up a flier on West Campus, take a example. These types of messages give the University life moment to think what it is and show student involvegoing to look like a month ment. One may say that from now and just for how fliers do the same. Yes, they long that dirty piece of tape might, but they are ugly, will be there. especially after being on the ground, in the form of trash, Kenneth Wiland for a month. Trinity ’O3

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A question of honor The current honor system appears to be strictly for show—it needs fundamental revisions Giuliani’s Corner David Nigro I was surprised to see some ofthe candidates running for president of Duke Student Government discussing the University’s Honor Code. One candidate proposed some changes, including offering unproctored tests and letting students write their own dean’s excuses. Of course, the killjoy that is The Chronicle had to include the comments of Matthew Baugh, Trinity junior and chair of the Honor Council, who stated that only the Honor Council has jurisdiction over the Honor Code. Previously I had heard rumors that the University had an Honor Code, but I was never certain. Sure, we all see those framed documents in every classroom, but students hardly ever reaffirm their commitment to the Honor Code before tests, nor do professors give students the opportunity put their faith in us and in the code. So does the University really have an honor code or not? The answer, as any undergraduate knows, is no. The University has no de facto honor code. Bom in 1993, the Honor Code was supposed to revolutionize academics at the University. It was supposed to foster trust and understanding between faculty and students. In an ideal setting, the Honor Code would allow professors to treat students as adults, not as children. It would allow students to take responsibility for their actions. And, most importantly, it was meant to show the world that Duke is keeping up with the Ivies. However, in the year 2000, seven years after its “implementation,” the Honor

Code has had no effect on academic life. I have never been given an unproctored test that trusted me not to look at course texts and/or to hold myself to a time limit, Every test I have ever had has been strictly timed and proctored by a professor who clearly anticipated cheating. Last year when I had the flu, I was forced to pointlessly navigate the blue bureaucracy for a dean’s excuse. After being routed from one office to another, I gave up, got dressed, and walked to class, only to have my professor send me home after he saw the shape in which I was. Under a real Honor Code, I would have been able to write my own excuse and forget about proving to someone else that I was sick. I felt like I was in third grade again, being forced to prove to the school nurse that I was too ill to be in school. Can’t an adult tell when he’s sick? This is not to say that professors do not have reason to think students will cheat, A perfect example of this is tests at 7:30 a.m. Organic chemistry has three ofthose tests every semester to standardize testing conditions and prevent cheating that could occur if one group took the test before another. If one is sick for the test there are no makeups because it is assumed that one’s friends have already told him the answers. Also, two-thirds of the tests are photocopied before they are returned to students. This way, if a student changes his answer and asks for a regrade, his dishonesty is caught. This policy is clearly that of a paranoid professor who assumes that all of his students would cheat, if given the opportunity, and who demonstrates no trust in nor regard

ly in a high-pressure class that is graded on a rigid curve—would cheat to get ahead if there were little chance they would be caught. It is this mutual suspicion and mistrust that is the obstacle between the University having ade jure honor code and having a de facto honor code, Correcting this problem is not easy. I would suggest looking to schools that have strong codes, such as the University of Virginia. At UVa, the Honor Code is a key part of the tour for prospective students. Once accepted to the school, students are bombarded with literature con-

ceming the policy and its implementation. Student responsibilities are clearly defined and outlined. During freshman orientation, the Honor Code is once again a point of emphasis. If we adopt this strategy, it will make freshmen realize that this is the way a University student conducts himself. After all, if we can teach freshmen to chant, “Who’s your Daddy? Battier!” we can surely teach them the value of our Honor Code. Also, students should be-.reminded of the code every day by reaffirming their commitment on

every graded piece of work. Additionally, professors should trust students and give some unproctored tests or quizzes to demonstrate that the system can work. Most importantly we should make the consequences of breaking the code a death sentence: expulsion. At UVa, there is no other sanction possible; Either someone is found not guilty or he is expelled. That punishment is a powerful incentive not to

break the code. These changes will not happen fast; perhaps it will take four or five years as students are cycled in and out of the University. No current undergraduate remembers open distribution, and only juniors and seniors remember when fratemities could have kegs at their parties. Just as the social scene has changed dramatically over the last seven years, the perception and utility of the Honor Code could also change in the next seven if the administration takes the proper steps to transform our “me-too” Honor Code into a legitimate component of a Duke education David Nigro ts a Trinity junior.

for the Honor Code That being said, I agree with him. I think that a majority of his class, ifgiven the opportunity on a take-home test, would cheat by using course materials and/or using extra time. Despite our Honor Code, I think students—especial-

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Off the Record and on the QT Martin Barna

South Carolina is another fine state. However, it is unlike the rest of the country in that it has a racist flag flying over its capitol and it is home to a religious university that has come under fire for delivering a message ofintolerance. Michigan is another fine state, and it is more representative of the country than the previous examples. After all, it makes cars that a few Americans still want to buy and it has a more ethnically diverse population. However, it also has-a governor who treats public educators like lepers, and the sole claim to fame of his rival in the last election was that he had been Dr. Jack

Few people would argue that this has not been an interesting primary season. George W. Bush has slipped on the banana peel of his own incompetence many times, and we still have seven months until the general election. So far, John McCain has ruined more than one Kevorkian’s attorney. man’s campaign—his own, Bush’s and Bill Bradley’s. California is the most populous state, but the nation (Remember Bill Bradley?) This race is so exciting that already has to put up with too many wacky trends that even A1 Gore is awake. start there. Let’s not allow these folks to select our presSadly, after today’s super-whammo-national primary, idential candidates. this campaign will likely be over. After today’s primaries Indeed, no state truly represents our diverse country, in California, New York and all-important Vermont, so the only answer is to find a country that could serve Bush will likely have finally avoided making a critical as a surrogate and let it hold our primary for us. Of error long enough to bounce McCain. My omission of course, the answer is Canada. Alan Keyes has nothing to do with racism—l am only Ninety percent of Canadians live within 100 miles of discussing serious candidates. Also, after today A1 Gore the United States border, and American cultural influwill have reduced Bradley’s campaign to the point where ences are so great that their federal government has he only exists in the memories of political junkies and passed arts content legislation to protect Canada’s CNN analysts. “unique cultural heritage.” Besides, just like in any But while it has been a fun primary season, ,we are friendship, one’s friend always knows one better than dogged with one major problem in our primary system—- one knows oneself. So if our neighbors to the north are the race begins with minor states that do not represent willing to put up with it, they could act as a stand-in for the union. For example, New Hampshire is a fine state, our primary. but minorities are underrepresented there, relative to There are many advantages. the rest of the nation. Moreover, the people of New First of all, Canadians would have to listen to Hampshire will not vote for a candidate unless he or she those endless political commercials. visits their home. These people want Steve Forbes in Our candidates would have to run on the issues. A their living room! candidate wouldn’t gamer much support just because

his father had been president. Who cares? Now, if he had been governor general or prime minister, that might indeed be different. Ditto if the candidate were a great basketball player. If he were a great hockey player, however, he might have an unfair advantage. The Vietnam War would finally be over. If you served bravely or protested with conviction, it would nonetheless mean little in Canada. Canadians had the good sense to stay out of that one. Since the Canadian dollar is trading at around 70 cents, more candidates could afford to stay in the race longer. Think of it, Dan Quayle would still be in there. Okay, maybe that’s not an advantage. Canadians are experts on health care since they have lived with a nationalized health system for many years—here there are 40 million Americans with no health care coverage at all. They could tell us if either Bradley’s or Gore’s plans have any merits. They could help us to determine if we want a nationalized system in our own country. Maybe they could explain why Bush and McCain have failed to offer health care proposals. We could ask some of the Canadians when they cross the border to see their American specialists. Granted, nothing is perfect, and there would be some drawbacks. Canada is a bilingual country. I don’t even want to think about Bush speaking French. Gore might claim he invented Canada, hockey or ice. Canadians have one small annoying habit of speech. We all know what it is. We don’t want to hear anyone say, “No matter what, I will never lie to you, eh.” Martin Barna is a Trinity ’ sophomore, associate editorial page editor of The Chronicle and assistant editor

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Who’s your player of the week? Battier!

The ACC honored Shane Battier as its player of the week after the junior forward averaged 28 points in wins over Clemson and North Carolina for the men’s basketball team, which moved up a spot to third in this week’s AP poll.

� ACC honors Breslin in men’s lacrosse Goalkeeper Matt Breslin earned his lirst-ever nod as the ACC’s player of the week. The junior recorded 13 saves in Duke's 98 win over No. 8 Maryland Saturday and held the Terrapins scoreless over the final 18:56 of play.

� Women’s hoops recruit shines in championship Alana Beard, a 5-foot-11 forward who signed with the Blue Devils in the fall, scored a Class sArecord 48 points Saturday to lead Shreveport (La.) Southwood to its fourth straight state title. Beard and Southwood completed a perfect 36-0 season and have won 54 straight games.

� Men’s golf in second The men's golf team is tied for second place after two rounds of the Matlock Invitational held in Lakeland, Fla. The Blue Devils stand are six over par after 36 holes and are tied with Valdosta State, and trail Georgia State by three strokes.

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There’s no place like Greensboro Seniors Lauren Rice and Missy West began their Duke careers slowly, but after last night’s win, both hope to go out with a bang.

S Nikki Teasley’s spectacular show goes for naught as her 31 points are not enough to lift the Tar Heels. By RAY HOLLOMAN

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Behind a GREENSBORO neatly arranged table, perched impossibly high on a shaky wooden stage sat the heroine, as arrogant in defeat as in victory and as full of swagger in a halfempty press room as in a buzzing coliseum. Her coach sat beside her, a fit-

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ting symbol of the flashy Tar Heels, dressed in a glittering gold suit coat just as likely borrowed from Wayne Newton’s Las

Whether either player would

ever put on that school’s uniform again became a serious question. Three years later, they lead that school to its first conference

Vegas closet as bought. She made her thoughts known—“l knew they would title in history. throw a lot of people at me,” she Absolutely amazing. said, “but from the look of the But the most amazing part of stat sheets, it looks like it didn’t this fairy tale? It is somehow a matter who they threw at me.”— true story. and she wore her emotions as Less than three years ago, plain as the North Carolina letLauren Rice nearly left Duke to tering on her chest. return home to Indiana and Nikki Teasley was holding Missy West didn’t know if she court. would ever step on the court And after one of the finest again after seriously injuring performances in ACC history, her knee. LAUREN RICE and Missy West celebrate Duke’s first-ever ACC tournament title in nobody in the press room, just Last night, the fiery forGreensboro Coliseum. like nobody on the court, could ward from Indiana and the even consider stopping her. stubborn gunner from New previous trips to the ACC tournacould share together,” said Rice There are a lot of things that York carried the Blue Devils to ment have yielded little more than of herself and her roommate. can be disliked about Teasley, their first ACC championship souvenir gifts, last night yielded “That’s the part that feels the but last night there wasn’t anyin program history. their ultimate vindication. best within me because this is thing—gaudy swagger and inFor Rice and West, whose three “It’s something special we See WEST on page 14 See TEASLEY on page 14 P >

SPOBTSIHBBIEr � Going for Bourque Ray Bourque, the longtime leader of the Boston Bruins who won five Norris Trophies but never a Stanley Cup, got his wish for one more chance at a championship when he was traded to Colorado last night. “We limited ourselves to teams where Raymond Bourque would have a chance to win the Stanley Cup," Bruins general manager Harry Sinden said.

� Happy Birthday Shaq On his 28th birthday, Shaquille O'Neal exploded for a career-high 61 points last night against the Clippers. It's the first time since 1994 that a player has scored more than 60 points. O'Neal shot 24-of-35 from the floor and also grabbed 23 rebounds. O’Neal's previous career-high was 53 points in 1994, while with the Orlando Magic.

“I love this place. It’s great to cut down the nets

here again.”

Gail Goestenkors, on the Greensboro Coliseum, where Duke won the ACC tournament last night and the East Regional last year.

Agrawal qualifies for NCAAs Track competes ByANYASOSTEK The Chronicle

At 7 p.m, last night, women’s track coach Jan Samuelson-Ogilvie and freshman Sheela phenom Agrawal stared at their respective computers, waiting for the NCAA mile field to pop up on their screens. And they waited. And then waited some more. About two hours later, Samuelson-Ogilvie.

4:45.58—in the mile preliminaries in this weekend’s ECACs. Agrawal’s time stacked up 13th among the 17 qualifiers. “She worked very hard for us this year,” Samuelson-Ogilvie said. “I’m very excited for her.

She’s made outstanding

progress, which bodes

well for this week and her future.” Agrawal will first run in the preliminaries Friday night. The top 10 times move on to the

checked her e-mail and finals Saturday. learned that the wrong “She has a good shot website was listed in the NCAA rule book. Minutes “I’m really excited. I to make the finals,” said associate head later, they found out what was a little bit unsure men’s coach Norm Ogilvie. they had been waiting for: After the NCAAs, about whether or not Agrawal had been selected the NCAA Agrawal will continue for I’d get in.” her new experiences. Championships. From Arkansas, she “I’m really excited,” Sheela Agrawal will fly back to Durham Agrawal said. “I was a litand then to Portugal to tle bit unsure about whether or not I’d get in. I ended up hear- represent the U.S. in the world junior cross country championships. ing around nine, I was sweating it out.” “I’ve heard neat stories about the When Agrawal runs this Friday in Fayetteville, Ark., she will become the only Ethiopians and Kenyans running bareDuke woman ever to compete in the indoor foot,” she said. “I’ve never run against NCAAs. She will also be the only freshman international competition. It will be nice to see where I, and the rest of the U.S. team, in the 17-member mile field. time— stack up. It will be a learning experience.” her qualifying Agrawal set

in IC4As, ECACs By ANYA SOSTEK The Chronicle

Juniors Jillian Schwartz and Mike Zulandt have two things in common: they had never competed in their respective sports before coming to Duke and they captured All-East honors in this weekend’s IC4A and ECAC invitational meets. The IC4As (for men) and the ECACs (for women), held this year in Boston, test the best athletes in about 100 northeast and mid-Atlantic Division I schools. Sheela Agrawal, Katie Atlas, Lamar

Grant and the men’s distance medley relay team also finished with top-six performances, which qualified them for All'East honors. Schwartz finished first among the 38 pole vaulters, clearing 12’ 5” and smashing her old school record of 11’ 10”. The jump qualified as an NCAA provisional height, but she ended up missing the NCAA cut by three inches. “I was really excited,” Schwartz said. “This was a really big personal record for me.”

Schwartz also won last year’s outdoor ECACs. She arrived at Duke in the same year that the NCAA decided to sanction pole vaulting. With her speed and gymnastics background, she was a natural. “She was able to pick up the pole vault See TRACK

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Rice, West come up big in stretch, clinch ACCs for Duke WEST from page 13 card again, drilling a three-pointer from the top of the circle to .give Duke some something we’ve both wanted so bad.” West wanted the championship bad more breathing room. “She’s a great shooter,” UNC coach enough to sit through nearly two years of hell while rehabbing her knee. And for Sylvia Hatchell said. “Maybe she’s not the most significant 72 hour stretch of pleased with how much she’s played; her career, West found something extra maybe she’s trying to show something. Because she really showed something she and something spectacular. After an 18-point performance against hasn’t shown consistently through her Georgia Tech Sunday, West didn’t let her career. She’s really going out in style.” But West showed she’s more than shooting touch cool down a bit. West nailed a three-pointer with three minutes just a great shooter. With UNC holding left in the first half to give Duke its on to its only lead of the second half at 72-71 with just over a minute left, it was biggest lead of the half at 37-30. But West saved her best for the second West who threw the pinpoint pass to a half. After a sizzling Nikki Teasley drilled cutting Georgia Schweitzer for the basher sixth three-pointer to bring the Tar ket that put Duke ahead for good. And Heels within two at 49-47, West down the stretch, it was West who hit answered with a three-pointer in the left three huge free throws to keep the Tar corner to halt the run. Heels at bay. Oh, West also had the small task of Nine minutes later, it was Juana Brown who brought Carolina within two defending a red-hot Teasley in the game’s again with a three-pointer from the left waning moments. Picture this: the player who wasn’t wing. But West threw down the trump >

quick enough to guard anyone that knew

what the word penetrate meant was guarding arguably the quickest player in the country on her finest night. Although Teasley made West look silly on a couple of occasions, West did not relent. In the game’s final minute, Teasley misfired twice from long distance with West hounding her. And on a night when making Teasley miss from behind the arc seemed slightly more difficult than rationalizing pi, West passed the defensive test with flying colors. West had a little help, of course, from her roommate, who knew the pain of three straight fruitless trips to the ACC tournament as well as anyone. Rice knew the pain well enough to stay on the court to drill a three-pointer from the left comer on the very play she twisted an ankle, giving Duke an eight-point lead midway through the second half. Fittingly enough, Rice also delivered the game-clinching play, launching a

near-perfect, length-of-the-court inbound pass to Schweitzer, who fed Michele

Matyasovsky for the layup with nine seconds left. And as Brown’s desperate heave at the buzzer fell harmlessly to the floor, Rice immediately turned to West and locked in an embrace—an embrace that closed one heck of tale. “It’s been a long four years—frustrating at times,” West said. “I’m thankful for my teammates because when I’m down, they’re there to pick me up. My teammates are always there for me, especially Lauren. She always knew when I am up, and when I am down, and what it took to get me back up. I felt like giving up, but Lauren always told me to hang in. Some people doubted my ability, it ticked me off. It was great to prove myself. “I’m second team All-tournament. Who would’ve thought of that? I didn’t.” It only happens in a fairy tale.

Teasley’s 73-pointers set UNC record Grant hopes for strong spring without football TEASLEY from page 13

your-face attitude included—that couldn’t be respected. “She put on a show,” Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. “There just wasn’t very much we could do to stop her.” Thirty-one points said most of it, a school-record seven three-pointers says more, and whatever was left unsaid she was sure to point out, but in the middle of it all there was a supremely gifted athlete with one objective and one objective only—win. When the Tar Heels needed a bucket, the ball went to Teasley. When the Tar Heels needed a leader, all faces

NIKKI TEASLEY fights off tears as she walks off the court following a 31-point effort in a losing cause.

turned to Teasley. And when the Tar Heels needed a miracle, without doubt, without hesitation and with absolutely no question, the call went to Teasley. And it was almost anticlimactic that the heroine couldn’t answer. There were more moves than in a good month for Century 21—the between the legs dribble cutting into the lane, a little shimmy after a three-pointer ripped through the net—and there were half a dozen Blue Devils showing up on the unhappy end ofhighlight reels. But in the end even the slashing Super Woman of the ACC misfired. With just under a minute to go and down by one, Teasley unleashed a long three-pointer over resident Duke hero Missy West, and 8000 sets of eyes immediately shifted to the bottom of the net, the only place the shot—no matter how outlandish—had any chance of going. But it clanged offthe rim, and the arena fell nearly silent for a brief moment, all 10 players watching stupefied as the ball harmlessly caromed off the rim and bounced twice, slowly heading out of bounds. And the disbelief on unmoving LaShonda Allen’s face as the ball bounced off the chair she was sitting in said it all—it wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Teasley got one more shot, another three as the Heels trailed by two with just under 30 seconds to play, but there would be no happy ending for the heroine. “I was playing for the win,” she said. “That’s what I think of: win, not tie, not lose.” She had rescued her team from a 1-6 January swoon to turn them into an NCAA team, leapt small buildings and probably done just about every other improbable thing you can imagine, but on a warm March night in Greensboro, even the heroine, with school records and gaudy stat lines to spare, couldn’t find the right ending.

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really easily,” said women’s track coach Jan Samuelson-Ogilvie. “She has made remarkable progress this year. It’s a feather in her cap to have won two ECAC championships.” Zulandt finished fifth in the pentathlon with 3,669 points, setting five personal bests and beating the old school record by nearly 100 points. He nearly won the 1,000 meter run, the final event ofthe pentathlon, finishing just .02 seconds behind the winner. Katie Atlas finished fifth, running a 2:10.35 in the preliminaries and a 2:11.19 in the finals of the 800. Sheela Agrawal’s 4:52.38 was good for sixth place in the mile. Her prelim time of 4:45.58 qualified her for the NCAA Championships. Senior Lamar Grant twice lowered the school record in the 200, running 21.86 in the prelims and then 21,83 in the finals. He finished in sixth place for the second year in a row. “For the first time in his career, he’ll get to run a full outdoor track season,” men’s associate coach Norm Ogilvie said of Grant, who previously had spring football practice. “I look forward to see what he can do. He’s in the best shape of his life.” The men’s distance medley team finished a disappointing fifth place, considering they were seeded second in the race. Mike McKeever, who runs the lead-off leg, got sick and ran eight seconds off his normal split in the prelims. The team, consisting of freshman Donnie Fowler instead of McKeever in the finals, ultimately fell two seconds short of qualifying for NCAAs. “Shoulda, coulda, woulda,” Ogilvie said. “There’s always next year.”

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directly after UNO’s Juana Brown sank a three to pull A quick miss by Krista Gingrich gave the ball back the Heels within two at 64-62—and a twisting left o the Tar Heels, and a 12-foot jumpshot by Jennifer handed lay-in in the post by Rice kept the Blue Devils 'homas brought the tournament-record crowd of 8,090 from being shutout for nearly five minutes. And the Tar Heels weren’t letting up. irgely pro-Carolina supporters to its feet. “It was difficult, the crowd was difficult,” Rice said. A 24-foot, three-point bomb by Teasley capped off the h weren’t up by much the whole game, so we just 17-6 Carolina run, giving the Tar Heels their first advanied to calm down.” tage since the 10:55 mark in the first half at 72-71. But the Blue Devils seemed destined to repeat their Fortunately for the Blue Devils, it was the Tar mly other appearance in the championship game—a Heels’ only lead of the half. .995 loss to the Tar Heels. West laced a perfect pass to a cutting Georgia Only a well-timed three-pointer by West—coming Schweitzer, sneaking the ball just past the arms of an outstretched Jackie Higgins, who turned and watched as Schweitzer sank the layup to put Duke ahead for good. And then the unlikely sub became the unlikely hero. A Teasley miss gave the ball back to the Blue Devils with 51.9 seconds to go and a handcheck foul by North Carolina’s Cherie Lea on West, who was dribbling on the perimeter, would give the Blue Devils the game. The Malone, N.Y., senior stepped to the line and sank the front end of a one-and-one, putting the Blue Devils ahead by a basket. She misfired on the second attempt, but 4Vi another Teasley miss on the Tar Heels’ next possession and a pair of West free throws after she corralled the defensive rebound proved to be all the Blue Devils needed to claim their first ever ACC championship. “This was one of the best games I’ve ever been a part of,” Goestenkors said. “Fm incredibly happy to come out of it with a win.” But for one brief moment still, it seemed like the Tar Heels might make one last push. Teasley nearly came up with a steal on a Duke inbound pass with 12 seconds left, but she had stepped out of bounds. Duke then ended the suspense quickly on JENNIFERANDERSON/THE CHRONICLE the ensuing play. lIKKITEASLEY freezes Missy West on a night when everything went right A home run ball from Rice soared through )r Teasley, except the final score. the Coliseum rafters, streaking above the m

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Duke 79. North Carolina 76 Box Score UNC Allen

MP 15 24 35 38 405 3 28 3 9

FG 1-2 0-4 5-15 5-11 12-19 0-1 0-1 7-15 01-

3PG 0-0 0-3 2-7 0-0 7-11 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0

FT 0-0 0-0 3-3 2-2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

200

31-73

9-24

5-6

MP 29 25 Gingrich 32 Schweitzer 34 Rice 34 West 22 Brown 4 Matyasovsky 20 Team Totals 200

FG 5-8 2-3 4-12 6-10 6-10 4-9 0-0 3-7

3PG 0-1 0-0 2-6 0-2 1-1 3-4 0-0 0-1

FT 0-0 2-3 1-2 4-5 3-4 3-5 0-0 0-0

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J. Brown Barksdale Teasley Huntington

Thomas Higgins

C. Brown Lea Team Totals Duke Mosch Parent

30-59 6-15

13-19 36

TO BLK 1 0 0 0 4 0 10 0 0 3 0 11 0 1 11

ST 0 2

TO BLK 0 2 3 0 0 2 11 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 1

ST 0

PF 0 5 0

PTS 10 6

2 2 0 2

16 16 14 0 6

35 39

41 40

0 0

North Carolina Duke

PF PTS

0 3 0 0 0 0 1

0 2 0 0 0 0

Officials: Broderick, Cunningham, Momingstar Attendance—8,090

Player of the game G Missy West The senior scored 14 points and grabbed five boards, but most importantly, West hit, three critical free throws in the waning seconds to seal Duke’s ACC title.

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Carolina press and hanging, it seemed, for the whole 25 years Duke had gone without an ACC title. But the ball found the waiting hands of Schweitzer, was relayed to Michele Matyasovsky for a bucket and ended the evening in the only conceivable manner for the champion Blue Devils—perfectly.

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Login required for OIT Computer Clusters starting Spring Break 2000 From March 10-20 (Spring Break) OIT will be upgrading the PC and Macintosh computer clusters with new software that will require users to log in and enter a password in order to use a computer.

1. What you’ll see when you try to use a computer You’ll see one of the login boxes below:

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Registered ACPUB User

ACPUB User ID: || Password: Shutdown...

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MAC

2. How to login Use your acpub userid (also known as login or user name) and password to log in. Once logged into the cluster computer, users will be automatically logged into e-mail and other password-protected services such as SISS/ACES Web. In most cases, users will not have to log in separately for these services—the one time login will suffice. Mac and PC computers will differ slightly in their automatic login capabilities. This is known as “single sign-on”.

3. If your user name is invalid Make sure you’ve entered your user name correctly. If it still doesn’t work, then you may have a “stale” password (one that has not been changed since July ‘9B). People with older passwords could not be automatically converted to this new system and thus must register manually. •

This is not applicable for Macintosh computers. To register: 1. Click “OK” on the invalid username alert box. You will be sent back to the SnareWork login box. Enter your acpub userid and leave the password field blank to start registration. 2. You will then be asked to enter your password twice. Use your acpub password. 3. Continue with the instructions on the screen and you will be converted to the new system. We strongly suggest that you change your password using SSH (a secure Telnet program) if you have not changed it since July 1998. See http://www.oit.duke.edU/docs/csg/7.html for instructions on how to log in and change your password using a telnet program. •

4. Log out before you leave Use the logout icon on the desktop. Wait for the dialog box and click “Yes” to confirm your logout. Remember, more than just your e-mail is at risk —personal student information is now available online and accessible with your acpub userid and password. So don’t forget to LOGOUT!

Auto-logout for unattended machines If the computer is inactive for more than 20 minutes you will be automatically logged out. This time limit is subject to change

5. Keep it confidential—don’t share your password. More than just your e-mail is at risk—personal student information such as grades and Bursar’s information is now available online and accessible with your acpub userid and password Duke University

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