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Two da s in, still no winner

More than 19,000 votes thrown out in controversial Fla. voting district By RICHARD BERKE

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For the first time in more than a century, the winner of a presidential election remained unknown a full day after the polls closed as Texas Gov. George W.

Bush and Vice President A1 Gore dispatched teams of high-powered lawyers to Florida Wednesday to supervise a recount upon which their White House dreams now rest. The fate of the two foes appeared to ride on the verdict in Florida, where an incomplete vote count found that Bush was leading Gore by 1,784 votes, an ex-

traordinarily narrow margin in a nationwide race in which more than 96 million people voted. His lead in Florida was 0.03 percent of the votes cast there. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris said she would likely declare a winner by the close of business Thursday after a recount of the voting. But it was far from certain that the matter would be resolved swiftly. Even if Florida’s 25 electoral votes are delivered to Bush, Democrats suggested they would press forward with complaints about voting irregularities there. Some Democrats in Palm Beach, for example, called for a new election, saying the punch-card ballot was so perplexing that people mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Gore. Late last night, Florida elections officials revealed that 19,120 ballots in this district’s presidential race were tossed out before they were counted because they contained votes for more than one candidate. In addition, election officials in other See ELECTION on page 9 >

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THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES continued to sweat it out yesterday as Florida’s votes were recounted. Each candidate made a short appearance with his running mate and delivered a statement to the media, announcing the team he would send to supervise in the deciding state.

Closeness, not victor, represents election’s legacy By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

While most Americans sit on the edge of their seats awaiting the final declaration from Tallahassee of who will be the 43rd President of the United States, some distinguished University scholars said the campaign and election process itself may be more important than the actual outcome.

With the results of the national elec-

tions hinging upon a few thousand votes

in Florida, social scientists said this election will serve as a great topic of study and debate for future Americans. One of the most likely topics of discussion for the next several months will be the electoral system. With the strong possibility that Vice President A1 Gore will win the popular vote, yet lose the election, some scholars predict that this will cause citizens to question the method by whichAmericans elect their president.

“I think this may make people rethink the purpose of the Electoral College,” said John Transue, a lecturer in political science. “If it were to be abolished, some small states would never be visited. States like California and New York would receive the overwhelming attention.” While scholars agree that the validity of the Electoral College will be called into question, Assistant ProfesSee ANALYSIS on page 8 P-

Dedicated teacher, thoughtful colleague dies at 36 By TESSA LYONS The Chronicle

Nancy Staudenmayer, a dedicated academic and innovative teacher, died this week at her home in Durham. She was 36 Although the assistant pro-

fessor of management at the Fuqua School of Business had suffered from a long-term illness, her death came as a surprise to many of her colleagues. Staudenmayer, a New York native. Colleagues described her as a focused scholar with

much potential. “Doing research and teaching Nancy Staudenmayer was the absolute center of her life, and she was very, very good at them,” said Sim Sitkin, an associate professor at Fuqua. Sitkin and Staudenmayer co-chaired the schools

distinguished speaker series, worked with each other

on a number of administrative projects and were plan-

ning to begin research together. After not hearing from Staudenmayer earlier this week, her family began to worry and contacted the Durham Police Department to investigate. On Tuesday, police found her dead in her home. A police spokesperson said she died of natural causes. Staudenmayer’s illness—the details of which she kept private, even from her friends—did not stop her from successfully overcoming the obstacles that junior faculty face. “We are very sad about the loss of Nancy. She has been a wonderful colleague,” said Gerry DeSanctis, a professor at Fuqua and a friend of Staudenmayer. “Junior faculty have a lot of pressure to do many things: to do their own research, to achieve excellence in the classroom, to aid in the recruitment of new faculty, to serve on committees—and she worked extremely well at all of these.” Staudenmayer’s academic pursuits focused on problems related to product development, particularly on how businesses can overcome inefficiencies posed by dynamics among customers, testers, programmers and

other employees. Her Ph.D. work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Business was a comparison of how two major companies dealt with these types of problems. “Nancy didn’t pick something where she’d write a theory paper—she did a piece of empirical work,” said Steve Eppinger, an associate professor at Sloan and a member of Staudenmayer’s thesis review committee. “It requires maturity, devotion and seriousness that not every student has—which is why she ended up at Duke.” In addition to her passion for traditional academic work, Staudenmayer had taken on a number of non-research activities since her arrival at Fuqua in 1997. Colleagues said she was a key force in enhancing the Ph.D. and strategy curricula at Fuqua. “[Nancy] has been instrumental in the past years in expanding and enhancing the quality and breadth

within the school,” Sitkin said. “This has been a key part in building up the academic climate at Fuqua.” Eppinger said that the combination of StaudenmaySee STAUDENMAYER on page 9

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Chinese convict 84 for smuggling billions Chinese courts convicted

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and embezzlement, handing out 11 death sentences to government officials in connection with an embarrassing multibillion-dollar smuggling scandal in the port city ofXiamen.

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may still face trial An Indonesian appeals court overturned a lower court’s decision to dismiss charges corruption against former President Suharto, who is accused of stealing millions of dollars during his rule.

New Brown president may make history Ruth Simmons, president of Smith College and daughter of a Texas sharecropper, is expected to be appointed the new president of Brown University Thursday. She would be the first black president of an Ivy League institution.

EU: Turkey still not ready for membership The European Union said Turkey has not yet met the necessary conditions to start negotiations for membership, citing its

human rights situation, prison conditions and the continued military influence over its government.

Cohen downplays Bin Laden’s role in attack British twin makes Secretary of Defense progress after surgery William Cohen warned The three-month-old that it is too early to congirl whose life was saved in an operation that sacclude that suspected terrorist mastermind rificed the life of the twin Osama bin Laden was sister to whom she was behind the bombing of joined was reported “critthe USS Cole in Yemen.

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Campaigns quote Gore’s 2nd call Aides from both camps described the unprecedented concession retraction By SANDRA SOBIERAJ

speech in hand. ‘You’re calling me back to retract your concession?”

A1 Gore NASHVILLE, Tenn. set aside the stoic valedictory written for him by an aide and picked up the phone. George W. Bush did not take his call happily. “You don’t have to get snippy about this,” Gore spat. The acid of their year-long fight—character assaults and name-calling, layered onto the Clinton-Gore defeat of Bush’s father in 1992—boiled over as the vice president, in an underground office at the War Memorial, insisted

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, chastened on Election Night when it appeared Bush had lost the state, had just assured his brother it was a done deal. And the TV networks had already declared Texas Gov. George W. Bush the 43rd president of the United States. “Let me explain something,” Gore lectured in a stony tone, “your younger brother is not the ultimate authority on this.” The conversation, quoted to The Associated Press by two ofthe 20 or so people in the room with Gore and confirmed by a Bush aide, ended abruptly.

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that Florida’s decisive 25 electoral votes remained in limbo. “Let me make sure I understand,” protested Bush, his victory

Outside, thousands of supporters, sick from the night’s roller-

coaster drama, shouted “Stay and fight!” and “Recount!” While campaign chair William Daley announced, “Our campaign continues,” the vice president marched unseen from the Memorial through a side exit. Stranding dozens of friends, family members and VIPs in the drizzle, he ordered his motorcade back to the nearby hotel suite where no more than 60 minutes earlier he had telephoned his congratulations to Bush. “He’s fine,” said Gore’s brotherin-law, Frank Hunger, on the sidewalk and looking for a ride.

Violence persists before Mideast talks By JOEL GREENBERG N.Y. Times News Service

JERUSALEM On the eve of a meeting between President Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat to try to salvage the shattered peace effort, new bloodletting broke out Wednesday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Four Palestinian teenagers were killed in clashes with Israeli troops, and Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli woman. Arafat, the Palestinian leader, left Wednesday for Washington, stopping in Cairo for talks with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He is scheduled to meet Thursday with Clinton, who is trying to revive peace efforts devastated by nearly six weeks of street clashes and gun battles that have left more than 180 people dead, most of them Palestinians.

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The violence has persisted despite a truce agreed upon last week and an earlier cease-fire reached last month. So there was little expectation by either Israeli or Palestinian officials that Clinton’s discussions with Arafat, or a separate meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel Sunday, would lead to new peace talks soon. Arafat is expected to press Clinton for an international force to protect Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But Barak has dismissed the idea as “a reward for the Palestinian violence,” and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Anan has said that such a force could not be stationed without Israeli agreement. But the U.N. Security Council has agreed to hear a direct appeal from Arafat this week for a 2,000-member U.N. force.

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Absentee ballots could decide presidential race Absentees skyrocket throughout nation By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

ing it 0ut.... But I still feel like I didn’t like any of the candidates.”

Election officials nationwide have witnessed an increase in absentee ballots at a time when such votes are proving crucial in key elections. For example, in North Carolina in 1996, about 100,000—2 percent—of voters used absentee ballots. This election year, that number more than tripled, resulting in seven percent of voters choosing to vote in nontraditional methods. This jump may in large part be due to the state’s new early voting policy, which allows voters visit polls early and vote ahead of time, a method technically considered absentee. Other states, too, are relaxing restrictions on the time and method of voting. In Oregon, all voting is done by mail, a policy that aims to increase convenience and encourage higher voter turnout. But some experts argue that an increase in absentee voting de-emphasizes the importance and sanctity of election day. “It’s ironic that on the one hand we’re moving toward a system where voting will become more of an individualized act done in the privacy of your own home, and at the same time, we worry about the decaying fabric of our institutions,” said national elections expert Paul Gronke, assistant professor of political science. “One of these is the very act of going out to the polling booth and pulling that lever and seeing your friends and neighbors.” Still, Gronke said that in the end, if there is an increase in voter turnout, it may justify this symbolic loss.

Others said that even with the close race, they were glad they didn’t vote. “Unless the vote count comes down to one vote, my vote won’t end up mattering,” said Miami native Barry Spatzer, a senior. “It doesn’t pay for me to turn in my ballot. I’d only do it if it really meant something to [my parents].” This year, several students found themselves in the unfortu-

differing state-by-state absentee voting policies. In North Carolina, ballots must be in by 5 p.m. the day before the election. But in other states like Arkansas, officials will accept ballots up to 10 days after the election. Gronke expects that sometime in the future, the process will be standardized. But more importantly, he said, voting may eventually take place online. “There are some very serious and complex security issues surrounding the process,” he said. “The technology is out there. We just need to make it compatible with Americans’ concerns about privacy. Once we can

FLORIDA ELECTION WORKERS in Miami-Dade, like those around the state, recounted ballots all day yesterday. They are scheduled to announce the final count, and the election’s winner, by the end of the working day Thursday.

542 Floridian students reflect on vote By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

This year’s presidential election may hinge on just a few thou-

sand votes, and the 542 Duke undergraduate and graduate students from Florida are now wondering if their votes could make the difference. “ When I was first casting my vote, I never realized it would have such a large impact,” said senior Jana Gasn, “Watching the polls return last night and watching how it was so neck-and-neck...

It made me feel like my vote had an impact.” Many students agreed, describing the nail-biting anxiety they felt as they watched the media call the vote for Gore, then to no one, then for Bush and then to no one yet again. Although other students said they had no interest in voting, some said they wondered if they should have participated after all. “Obviously, I’m questioning that decision,” said junior Albert Norweb. “It came down to such few votes in my county.... I was sweat-

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ELECTION 2000

One Senate seat, 2 House seats remain in question By JOHN HENRY Houston Chronicle

Control of the Senate and WASHINGTON House will remain in Republican hands next year after an election in which three multimillionaires won on the strength of their wallets and five senators were ousted, one of them by a dead man. The election, which was generally friendly to incumbents, ended with a handful of Democratic gains that leave Republicans with the thinnest majorities in both chambers since Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House in the mid-19505. Unofficial vote counts indicate the Senate will have at least 50 Republicans and 49 Democrats. Among them will be 12, perhaps 13, female senators, an all-time high. In the House, incomplete returns showed Republicans with a 220-211 advantage over Democrats. Two House seats are held by independents and two races were too close to call. The new House will have 60 female members, the most ever. The OOP’s reduced margins, particularly in the Senate, could deepen the current partisan rift and hamper the new president’s agenda and approval of his appointments to the Cabinet and

federal courts. “For all those who claim to be interested in bipartisanship, the next two years will be the ultimate test in the United States Senate,” said Sen. Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat, who led the party’s effort to wrest control from the GOP. In the first ever election of a dead candidate to the Senate, Missouri voters chose Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed in an Oct. 16 airplane crash, over Republican incumbent John Ashcroft. Ashcroft, a one-term senator, said Wednesday he would not challenge the election

outcome, clearing the way for Gov. Roger Wilson to appoint Carnahan’s widow, Jean, to replace him in the Senate. In addition to Ashcroft, Republicans William Roth of Delaware, Rod Grams of Minnesota and Spencer Abraham of Michigan lost their bids for re-election. Also defeated was Sen. Charles Robb, a Virginia Democrat and son-in-law of the late President Lyndon Johnson. In the New York Senate race, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton swept past Rep. Rick Lazio, R-N.Y, evoking some testy comments from the Republican majority leader, Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, an outspoken critic of President Clinton. “I tell you one thing, when this Hillary gets to the Senate—if she does; maybe lightning will strike and she won’t—she will be one of 100, and we won’t let her forget it,” Lott told The Boston Globe. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., spent more than $4 million of his own money to win re-election. It was his second self-financed campaign. The champion spender was Jon Corzine, a New Jersey investment banker who spent an estimated $65 million on his win, setting a record for campaign spending and making his race against Rep. Bob Franks the most expensive Senate election in history. Democratic challenger Mark Dayton of Minnesota, heir to a department store fortune, reached into his own pocket for $8.7 million to help unseat Rod Grams, who spent $6.5 million. Maria Cantwell, an Internet millionaire, spent $8 million of her own money on the campaign for Senator from Washington and is still a few hundred votes short of winning the undeclared election. Her opponent, GOP Sen. Slade Gorton spent $5.8 million.

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Greensboro voters narrowly reject civil rights museum From staff and wire reports Despite voters rejecting a bond issue that would fund the construction of a civil rights museum to remember the sit-in movement that began at a local Woolworth’s counter, the project will still go forward,

supporters said. With 97 of 99 precincts reporting, the museum lost the bond question 51 percent to 49 percent. It was one of three VT \TITWC bond projects that Greensboro voters rejected. Eight other Ttjtc TT IL-Liv bond issues worth $136 million 1 were passed. Museum Chair Skip Alston said the museum will still open within two years with other sources of money. “If we’d have won, fine,” said Alston, a Guilford County commissioner. “We could have done a lot more things more quickly. I’m still optimistic we’re going to open the museum within the next 18 months to two years.” Alston said he took the results as a rejection of the project, rather than a response to pre-election criticisms of the museum’s management or a response to the large number of items on the ballot. “Obviously, the majority of the people didn’t want this to happen, just like they didn’t want the sit-ins to happen,” he said.

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Western N.C. fires burn on; Firefighters have corralled several fires in the western North Carolina mountains but are hoping for rain to put the fires out, officials said Tuesday. But shortly after Mitchell County firefighters controlled a 3,400-acre fire, 20 ofthem moved to fight four new fires in neighboring Madison County. “We’re fortunate we had so many personnel,” said Robin Carter, a spokesperson for the N.C. Division of Forest Resources. “We were hoping to send most of them home so they could vote.” Officials are investigating the cause of the four Madison County fires, the largest of which covers more than 200 acres. Firefighters got the upper hand on the Tipton Hill fire in Mitchell County one day after containing the Merritt Creek fire in Surry County, a deliberately set blaze that has burned more than 730 acres. A statewide ban on open burning remains in effect until a soaking rain reduces the fire hazard. Light rain fell in the area Tuesday, with a chance of showers fore-

cast through the rest of the week. In the Linville Gorge federal wilderness area, two fires that have burned about 10,000 acres are about 85 percent contained, officials said.

Grand jury investigates missing $l7 million: A federal grand jury has issued new indictments in connection with the 1997 theft of $l7 million from a Loomis, Fargo & Co. warehouse in Charlotte. Jody Calloway, who was indicted in September on a charge of possession of stolen funds, was indicted Monday on an additional count of money laundering. Calloway’s wife, Jennifer, was indicted on two accounts alleging possession of stolen funds and money laundering. His mother, Kathy Grigg, is charged in the same

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Freshman legislator organizes curriculum seminars By ERIC DIXON The Chronicle

Most freshman have realized that their courses for next semester need to meet requirements of the Curriculum 2000 matrix—a sometimes difficult task. One resource that can help them with this process is a series of information sessions being held on East Campus. The sessions, which are held in each dorm’s commons room, are run by a member of the pre-major advising cen-

ter staff, while Duke Student Government handles most of the publicity and logistics. The topics include strategies for course choice, using the Curriculum 2000 matrix, understanding changes involving study abroad and Advanced Placement credit, comprehending the significance of house courses and the

processes of declaring a major. The idea for these sessions was first introduced by DSG legislator Justin Waller, a freshman. “As a freshman I felt there were concerns among the class of 2004 that need-

ed to be met regarding Curriculum 2000,”Waller said. “The turnout has usually been between 30 and 40 students, and people have been very receptive.” The sessions have been able to clear up specific Curriculum 2000 questions for some students.

“The most difficult part is combining Curriculum 2000, the biology requirements and the pre-med requirements,” said freshman Tori Hogan. “[This session! convinced me that it is doable.” The sessions are a joint venture of DSG and the Pre-Major Advising Center. Senior Jason Bergsman, DSG vice president for academic affairs, said the partnership has worked well. “I think the academic affairs committee and DSG have been serving the needs of first-year students with these programs, and I’ve been very grateful for the role the Pre-Major Advising Center has played,” he said. Ellen Plummer, assistant director of the Pre-Major Advising Center, recently stepped aside as one of the sessions’ main organizers. “[The sessions] give students the opportunity to hear other student’s questions which they may not have thought of” Plummer said. “The sense I’m getting from students is that they are finding the meetings helpful.” Plummer is leaving Duke to take a position at West Virginia University. Some attendees were encouraged by the information provided at the sessions. “It helped me understand how they want to give us more diversity in our education,” said freshman Ben Woodward. He added that he is now more confident

MARCY LITLE, assistant director of pre-major advising, led one of the Curriculum 2000 information sessions on East Campus last week. Freshmen say they have been very helpful. that he will be able to meet requirements. “I see that I can graduate in four years, when before I thought it might be eight.” Not all students, however, found their problems solved by the session. Tt turns out,” said freshman Ben

More, “that study abroad, in Duke’s eyes, in a Duke approved program, is a break rather than an education,” referring to some of the new policies governing where transfer credit fits into the curriculum’s matrix.

GPSC discusses VP search, unionization, same-sex unions By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

Addressing issues such as the selection of next vice president for student affairs, graduate student unionization and same-sex unions in the Chapel, the Graduate and Professional Student Council met last night.

Three members of the student affairs search committee addressed the council, requesting input as to

what qualities graduate and professional students would like to see in the next vice president. Many graduate students expressed an interest in someone who will bridge the divide between graduates and undergraduates. Students pointed to conflicts about parking and basketball as examples of a poor relationship between the two groups. ‘There is some real animosity between the two

groups,” said Chrissie Merdes, a graduate student in port the recent National Labor Relations Board ruling biomedical engineering. T think it may be a good idea if granting graduate student teaching assistants the the next vice president would be able to address that.” right to organize. The statement also stressed that Vice President and University Secretary Allison GPSC did not believe such a union was necessary. Following the lead of their undergraduate counterHaltom told GPSC she will continue to solicit input from various groups on campus. part, GPSC also decided to address the topic of samesex unions in the Chapel. The council also took up the issue of graduate stu“I think GPSC should not comment on the issue,” dent unionization. After the series of federal rulings that now allow graduate students at private schools to said Andrew Barnes, a graduate student in mathematunionize, GPSC President Cybelle McFadden said she ics. “We should not meddle in things having to do with wanted to gauge GPSC’s opinion about students’ right religion.” Representatives will gauge constituent opinion on the matter throughout the week. to unionize. Members of GPSC also recognized a new organizaT think any court decision that would expand graduate students’ rights is a good thing,” said GPSC Vice tion, The Duke Shotokan Karate Club. This athletic club is dedicated to teaching specific forms ofJapanese President Ryan Opel, a second-year medical student. GPSC later approved a statement that would supmartial arts.

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Missing persons support center seeks critical funding By TYLER GIBSON The Chronicle Ever since the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons recently confirmed rumors that it would clqse later this year due to lack offunding, communities around the state have responded with a wave

of support. The Wilmington-based center, which works alongside law enforcement agencies to help locate missing persons, is run entirely by volunteers, making it unique in the state of North Carolina. The center has not received any large donations toward its estimated $ll,OOO minimum operating budget next year, although it has received a grace period on payments as well as some relief from its major expense—rent. The organization has never had to solicit such a large amount of money in such a short period of time. “We’ve been serving this state for the past six years and we have never asked for this type of support,” said Monica Caison, founder of the center.

vous energy to good use, along with providing a source of emotional and financial support.

Clarence Wilkerson, the center’s president and father of victim C. J. Wilkerson, explained that the center uses its funds on a day-by-day and case-by-case basis, with much money going to printing posters, sending out mass mailings, distributing flyers, providing basic aid to suffering families and pursuing the most promising leads. With almost 8,000 people currently reported missing in North Carolina, networking has become essential for all involved authorities in order to coordinate and distribute responsibilities. Detective Jennifer Judah of the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department attested to the value ofthe center for law enforcement. “Our department works very closely with the United Effort Center for Missing Persons... although indirectly,” she said. “The center is very useful to the families of victims... [for their] anxieties, questions, and fears.”

Spanish 1425.03 Race and Ethnicity in Colonial Spanish American Literature and Culture. 5:05 TTH 3:50 Instructor: Higgins

So far, the center has received about $3,500 through fund-raising events—free haircuts, hamburger sales and raffles—put on by churches, businesses, individuals and universities. One 11-year-old collected $B6O over a period of two days. Despite such efforts, Caison said, her organization is still having difficulties competing with Christmas charities. When a person disappears in North Carolina, authorities must deal with two major responsibilities. The first includes the actual search and rescue operation. The second involves dealing with the pain and then harnessing energy in order to help in the continuance of the search. It is in this second aspect of a community’s crisis that the Community United Effort Center finds its niche. “Family members of missing persons are dealing with a sense of helplessness,” Caison said. Tn their situations they tend to sit around waiting for the phone to ring. We get them involved in the search.” She added that the center tries to put a family’s ner-

SPI2B Art/Cuiture: The History of Flamenco Dance MW 2:20 3:50 5:45 W 3:50 Instructor: Carlota Santana -

This course will reconstruct how the process of the emergence and interaction of different ethnic and racial groups in Spanish America during the colonial period was represented in literature and art. We will explore the different ways in which categories of ethnicity and race was used to identify individuals and groups in Mexico and Peru. We will look first at texts that articulate and question Spanish attempts to establish a clearly defined social hierarchy in which Spaniards were to rule over indigenous peoples: Neman Cortes’s “Cartas de relacion,” Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s “Los naufragios,” and the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s “Comentarios reales.” Subsequently, we will scrutinize how this order develops during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and becomes complicated by the process of racial

miscegenation, analyzing texts that represent

the emergence of groups of mixed race and the challenge they presented to ruling elites: Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora’s “Alboroto y motm de los indios de Mexico”; the satirical poetry of Juan del Valley Caviedes. Finally, we will look at how representations of ethnicity and race -particularly in the genre of caste paintings and in literary works such as Alonso Carrib de la Vandera’s “Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes"- were reconfigured during the eighteenth century in the face of a more heterogeneous social order composed of indigenous peoples, whites, mestizos, and mulattoes. SPA 114.01 Discussion Readings Topics Concernint the Different National Literature of Spain and Latin America. Freshman and

Sophomores. MWF 11:50- 12:40 Instructor: Fabiola Orquera

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SPA 114.02 Indigenous movements and Technologies of Representation 03:30 TTH 02:15 -

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FR 1425.03 French Literature: “Exoticism and Eroticism” Instructor: Nick Dobbelbower This course will examine the attraction of “exotic” spaces, peoples, and mores, in

Nineteenth-Century French cultural production. As an interest in difference, exoticism can also be seen as away of defining and challenging

national and individual identities. The exotic other is also often a pretext for the expression of eroticism and repressed forms of sexuality. We will draw on literature, poetry, music, painting, film and the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris. Authors and artists will include Chateaubriand, Balzac, Flaubert, Nerval, Merimee, Segalen, Loti, Gide, Baudelaire. Rimbaud, Moreau, Gauguin, Delacroix, Boulanger, Debussy, Saint-Saens and Ravel. FR 1145.01 Childhood in Francophone African Literature MWF 9:10-10:00 Instructor: Victoria A. Lodewick In the years preceding and following African decolonization, many African writers of French expression produced works whose protagonists were children. From Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Cameroon, and the Ivory Coast, writers such as Amadou Hampate Ba Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ken Bugul, Nassiatou Diallo, Camara Laye, Calixthe Beyala, Ferdinand Oyono, and Bernard Dadie have narrated African childhoods through fictional and (semi)-autobiographical representations. The class will study how these writers, through the voices of children, relate the values of African societies in such a way as to illuminate the similarities and differences between their cultures and the cultures of their largely Western readers. We will explore how these texts not only illustrate African culture through ethnographic commentaries, but also educate both Western and African readers about the complexities of African self-hood developed under the shadow of French imperialism and neo-colonialism. We will also compare how childhood and adolescence may present different challenges

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Economy may tread on candidates’ fame ANALYSIS from page 1 sor of Political Science Scott De Marchi, an elections and

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As an act of political protest, a group of eight students burned the American flag yesterday at about 3 p.m. in front of the Chapel to showcase their frustration with many natipnal problems. “We want to show what we feel about the country,” said junior Arman Rashid-Farakhi. “Democracy is a joke.” Although the demonstration was meant to display the students’ views on many political issues—including capital punishment, oppression and genocide—Tuesday’s election provided the impetus for the action. “In particular we believe that yesterday’s election was a complete farce of democracy—a choice between two centrist, straight, white, rich men backed financially by many of the same corporations and ultimately chosen for us by an undemocratic Electoral College system," read an untitled flyer the group was distributing.

N.C. official predicts online vote � ABSENTEE BALLOTS from page 3 overcome those concerns, I think that will be the

next wave.” One public online election—this year’s Democratic primary in Arizona—was conducted on the Internet with the help of a company called election.com. Although the race was virtually uncontested, officials still witnessed a dramatic increase in voter turnout. There, election.com sent each voter a unique identification code. Once voters signed on, they were quizzed on personal facts such as their social security numbers and birth dates. “It’s a huge challenge, but ultimately we believe that we can use the Internet to really actually improve security at all levels, while hopeful-

ly also reducing cost and increasing turnout,” said Mark Strama, a vice president of the company. He added that online voting is particularly effective in smaller races, where turnout is especially low. Michelle Mrozkowski, director of voter registration for the North Carolina Board of Elections, said she hopes Internet voting eventually replaces physical voting, granting more flexibility to the voter. “The main benefit is convenience for the voters,” she said. “There’s not really a lot ofbenefit to any ofthe rest of us except it wouldn’t cost as much to run an election if there weren’t as many people coming into a physical location where we were.”

Marchi said. “The question won’t be how the money is spent, but where.” campaign strategy expert, With the United States cursaid any change would be exrently in one of the longest tremely unlikely. “I think peace-time economic booms, there’s going to be some comscholars said the outcome of the presidential election may plaining, but I think it’s a relatively abstract issue,” De ultimately be inconsequential. Marchi said. “Most people and Some experts said that party machines will probably America’s prosperity will not question the system, but in give either leader the opportuthe end I don’t think anyone nity to become a truly great or seriously want it memorable president. will “Whoever is elected Will be changed.” Many professors said this caught in the historical blur of year’s presidential election will the post-Reagan era,” Keyssar go down in history for its closesaid. “They’ll be as remembered ness, but others predicted that as William Henry Harrison.” its legacy will lie elsewhere. And associate professor of “I think 100 years from now political science Paul Gronke this campaign will be rememagreed. “Some unexpected crisis could possibly allow one of bered because of the gross corrupting effect of money on the these figures to come forth election,” said american presiand earn their place in histodential history expert Alex ry,” Gronke said. “But whoever Keyssar, professor of history. comes in as the winner is likeOver $5OO million in soft ly to be just a place-keeper.” money was spent during this Immediately, both Gore and year’s campaign, and some anBush could experience similar alysts estimate that over $1 problems. Associate Professor billion was spent on television of Political Science Peter advertising. In the last week Feaver said that either Bush of the election alone, over or Gore will experience a diffi$lOO million was spent to encult transition to power and courage voters to go to the will have to struggle to make election booths. any effective early change. De Marchi conceded that “The new president may the amount of money spent find that he is like the dog will be one thing remembered that has been chasing the car. about this election but said the As hard as it was to chase it way the money was spent will down, doing something with also serve as an important lesthe presidency may even be son for future campaigns. harder,” Feaver said, “The “From now on, I think [cantransition from campaigning didates! will always second- to governing is always diffiguess [themselves] every time cult, but given the way the they spend money in one place race shaped up, it will be espeas opposed to another,” De cially difficult this time.”

Asian Students Association

2nd Annual Fall Political Conference DUKE STUDENTS!!

1:00 P.M. Saturday, November 11th VonCanon A, B, and C in the Bryan Center

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Gore officials ‘furious’ at Green Party’s Nader >

ELECTION from page I

states with close outcomes, like lowa and Wisconsin, said they were bracing for the results to be contested. With Gore clinging to the slimmest popular vote margin in modem times, and Bush grasping for a bare majority of electoral votes to pull him over the top, both candidates were wondering whether they had done things a bit differently they might now be mulling over choices for their Cabinet—not mulling over their job prospects. The unimaginable series of events since the election Tuesday left officials in both campaigns describing the outcome as nothing short of surreal. It thrust the American political system into a limbo of sorts, with Bush and Gore not knowing whether they should disband their campaigns, prepare to govern or retreat behind closed doors. Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, stepped out ofthe Governor’s Mansion in Austin Wednesday afternoon to reassure their supporters and the nation. In brief remarks, Bush said he expected the recount in Florida to confirm

his victory there. He announced that he tion to a new administration with dignity, had called upon James Baker, his fa- with full respect for the freely expressed ther’s secretary of state, to travel to Tal- will of the people and with pride in the lahassee to look after his interests. democracy we are privileged to share.” In what had the ring of a truncated While Bush dispatched Baker, Gore version of an acceptance speech, Bush said he had asked another former secrethanked Gore’s supporters and said, tary of state, Warren Christopher, to be “Secretary Cheney and I will do everyamong the team of lawyers representing thing in our power to unite the nation, him in Florida. Yet for all the words to call upon the best, to bring people toabout cooperation, prominent Democgether after one of the most exciting rats made clear in private conversations elections in our nation’s history,” Signalthat they had no intention of standing ing his interest in ending the drama by if Bush claims the White House on soon, he said he hoped the matter was the slimmest of margins. “finalized as quickly as possible and in a Many Gore advisers said they were calm and thoughtful manner.” furious at Ralph Nader, arguing that he But later in the afternoon, Gore and drained enough votes from the vice his running mate, Sen. Joseph Lieberpresident to potentially cost him Floriman of Connecticut, appeared before a da. As he celebrated his wife’s victory in backdrop ofAmerican flags in Nashville, the New York Senate race Tuesday where the vice president said the outnight, President Bill Clinton was overcome should not be hastily determined. heard angrily denouncing Nader, who “Because of what is at stake,” Gore did not capture the 5 percent of the vote said, “this matter must be resolved expeneeded for him to claim federal matchditiously but deliberately and without any ing funds in the next election. rush to judgment.... No matter what the The Associated Press contributed to outcome, America will make the transi- this story.

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FLORIDA’S RECOUNT

Teaching, research star’s Fla. absentee ballots come service set for Thursday late to several undergrads

FLORIDA from page 3 lot. “I kept calling down to my county’s nate position of not receiving a ballot board of elections, and they didn’t in time to vote. know what happened to my absentee Even some students who registered ballot,” Carter said. “I am pissed about well in advance of the deadlines said it because this election is going to ride on Florida, and I’m a Gore supporter.” they did not receive a ballot. Freshman David Axelrod said he Florida election officials sent out sent for an absentee ballot three 585,000 absentee ballots and had remonths before the election. ceived 416,000 back by late Monday, When he called last week to find out the Associated Press reported yesterwhere his ballot was, Florida election day afternoon. officials said he would have one within Florida officials have not yet detera day, but Axelrod said he received his mined the number of overseas ballots, ballot just yesterday. but in 1996, there were about 2,300. And DSG Chief of Staff Jimmy These ballots could come in as late as Carter, a junior, never even got his balnext week. >

STAUDENMAYER from page I er’s high-quality research with her devotion to education suggested that she would have likely become one of the best scholars in her field. “She was wonderful,” Eppinger said. “She’s a serious scholar, very thoughtful, committed to her work, devoted to scholarly excellence, and I

was looking forward to following her career. She had a bright future and we expected wonderful things from her over the next few years.” Staudenmayer is survived by her younger brother, her mother and her father. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Duke Chapel. .

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United student workers? a student is more than just a pupil. A recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board gave graduate students the right to organize into labor unions. The decision was just, as it recognizes the graduate students’ unique roles as both students and

Sometimes

employees. True, teaching a section ofeconomics or a low-level course in mathematics may be a part of a graduate student’s training. However, that does not mean graduate students should not have the right to secure adequate wages, benefits and other employment protections. A university cannot function without the support ofits graduate students. Why not give these students a say in how they are treated? Graduate students deserve the right to organize and protect their jobs. There is more power in unity, and a union is that power exemplified. Opponents of graduate student unions argue that the creation of these unions would create added tension and hostility, not just between the administration and a union, but between professors and graduate students. However, as long as the union deals only with employment issues, and not with issues relating to research, this should not be a problem—professors would not be arguing about paychecks and the student-adviser relationship would stay above the fray. Another argument against unions takes the position that because there are so many different kinds of graduate students, there is no way one union could represent their needs equally. Chemistry may be nothing like British literature, but then again, parts employees are nothing like assembly line employees, and unions like the United Auto Workers have represented both groups for years, making this second argument unfounded. Yet, just because graduate students have a right to unionize, that does not mean that all ofthem should unionize. The administrative tension that a union would cause is too high a price to pay unless conditions are dire or suggestions are being completely ignored. Duke’s graduate students have things pretty well right now, and there is no reason for them to unionize. The University has been doing an admirable job of attracting high-quality graduate students and meeting their diverse needs. Duke has suggested expanding the number of free years of graduate school from four to five. Also, the Graduate and Professional Student Council is working with the administration to craft a code of conduct for professors and graduate students. If for some reason the University suddenly stopped listening to the concerns of graduate students, then a union might become necessary—but it is hard to imagine that happening right now. In the meantime, Duke should work with graduate students with the goal of improving their educational experience to the point where there are no cries for a union. The NLRB was right when it said all graduate students should have the choice to organize, but that does not mean that all of them need to do so.

the record

Unless the vote count comes down to one vote, my vote won’t end up mattering. Senior Barry Spatzer, a Miami native, explaining the logic behind his decision not to vote in Tuesday’s election (see story, page three)

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9, 2000

Letters to the Editor

Kristallnacht reminds

of the horrors of genocide

and assaulted Jewish women and children. Synagogues were burned while local fire departments stood by. About what was later called 25,000 Jewish men were sent Kristallnacht, The Night of to concentration camps. In a Broken Glass. The attack meeting of Nazi leaders, after Herschel Reinhard Heydrich reported came Grynszpan, a 17-year-old 7,500 businesses destroyed, Jew living in Paris, killed a 267 synagogues burned, and member of the German 91 Jews killed. Embassy in retaliation for My grandfather was fortuthe Nazis’ treatment of his nate enough to escape before family. A few days earlier, the fateful night. He planned Grynszpan’s family and over on leaving in December, but a 15,000 other Jews had been Nazi banker he had befriended warned him to leave by the expelled from Germany without any warning. They were end of October. Then in his twenties, he came to, America forcibly transported in boxcars and then dumped at the and saved diligently in order to free his parents. Due to Polish border. The shooting provided the immigration quotas, only his Nazis an opportunity to incite brother successfully fled Germans to “rise in bloody Germany. My grandfather vengeance against the Jews.” purchased tickets for his parNazi storm troopers murdered ents to immigrate to Cuba, Jews, wrecked Jewish homes but their boat, teeming with Sixty-two years ago tonight, a massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich began

other refugees, was turned around upon reaching the Cuban port. He never heard from his parents again. Demagogues throughout the world, including here in the United States, still play upon ethnic and racial tensions to augment their personal power at the expense of a scapegoated minority. Kristallnacht serves as a reminder of the tragedies that result from unopposed aggression, hatred and ignorance. Let us remember it not only as an appalling episode in our past, but as a call to fight bigotry in the present. Let us make not tolerance, but acceptance, the hallmark of our diverse community, so we can honestly say “never again.” Brian Fried Trinity ’O2

Support of same-sex unions offends many students I am writing this letter in reference to the Duke Conservative Union’s advertisement that appeared in The Chronicle on Nov. 2.1 am aware that the issue of homosexual unions in the Chapel

is a contentious issue and I in advance for offending anyone who might disagree with the position that I will take. I do not worship in the Chapel but I am writing this letter because I believe this issue is important to the Duke community and many student are afraid to speak their minds because they are afraid of being seen as politically incorrect. I believe that DCU’s letter presents a coherent argument addressing the issue of approving

apologize

civil unions in the Chapel. I believe that Duke Student Government representatives

do not have the mandate to legislate on an issue that affects alumni and other members of the Durham community that get married in the Chapel. DSG should stick to legislating on issues that affect the students, such as the basketball tenting policy or alcohol North consumption. If Carolina passes a law that allows gay marriages, I

believe that the Duke should then follow law. Even then, before changing the Chapel’s stance on gay marriage, the issue should be voted upon by the entire Duke community. At the present time, when the marriages are not recognized

DSG should poll students about I was refreshed finally to see some views voiced in The

Chronicle that clearly and logically stated the opposition to same-sex “marriages” in the Chapel. Since Duke Student Government Vice

President for Facilities and Athletics Emily Grey and DSG President Jordan Bazinsky introduced their DSG proposal for such unions, the editorial pages in The Chronicle have mainly

consisted of “hoorahs” for them and denouncements of the very seldom written letters of opposition. In this often hostile environment of political correctness the Duke Conservative Union is to be admired for making a statement on this important issue. Aside from one letter to the editor which suggested a referendum vote on the issue, little has been done by DSG to gauge the

by this state, Duke should not divide its student body and should recognize the fact that the Chapel is a pluralistic institution which represents all of the religious beliefs of the Duke student body. By supporting gay unions, the administration will offend a large portion of students who believe that homosexual unions are not in accordance with the sanctity of marriage

and Judeo-Christian standards of morality. I really hope that the administration will examine both sides of the issue and not make a decision until the time comes when the state recognizes the legality of homosexual unions. Scott Finkelstein Trinity ’O3

same-sex unions true views of the student body. I wonder if that is what

they really want? Perhaps they do not feel the student body is informed enough to address these issues? Maybe now we can have a discussion about the issue in a scholarly fashion? I applaud the DCU for taking a stand Georgia Gilman Trinity ’O2

Announcement Applications for Spring 2000 columnists and Monday, Monday are available outside of 301 Flowers Building. They are due Nov. 28 by 5 p.m. The editorial pages department is also looking for opinion artists. E-mail mfbs@duke.edu for more information.

Letters

Policy

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Commentary

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Remembrance of squeakers past The most

interesting part of a close election is not the outcome, but how the candidates react

nated by Republicans. Astonished reporters on the train saw his campaign gain energy as it progressed. The crowds began to grow in size and enthusiasm. Truman would knock Congress, Helen Thomas When his supporters shouted, “Give ‘em hell, Millions of Americans woke up the Harry!” That became their rallying cry. day after the general election and still On election night, Truman went to didn’t know who wouldbe the next presbed before he knew the final count. The ident—Vice President A1 Gore or Texas next morning he held a triumphant Gov. George W. Bush. news conference and gleefully hoisted While election squeakers are not the the Chicago Tribune emblazoned with norm, there have been other presidential a four-inch bold headline: “Dewey contests that were tight as a tick. Among Defeats Truman.” these was President Harry Truman’s And who can forget the 1960 1948 victory over New York Gov. Thomas Kennedy-Nixon race? Both men had E. Dewey by 4 percentage points. served in the U.S. Senate at the same In 1960, John F. Kennedy edged out time; their offices were across the corriVice President Richard M. Nixon by 2 dor from each other in the same office tenths of a percentage point. But Nixon building. Both were strong candidates won eight years later, defeating Vice and showmen. President Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968 On election night, the Kennedys by 7 tenths of a percentage point. gathered at the family compound in In 1976, there was another close race Hyannis Port, Mass., to hear the results. with Jimmy Carter winning 50 percent The furniture in the living room was of the vote and President Gerald Ford removed and picnic tables were set up with a battery of telephones so that gathering 48 percent. Now I don’t go back this far but the JFK’s aides could stay in touch with all history books tell the exciting story of parts of the country. Bobby Kennedy ran the 1800 election when the Democratic- the command center and the Kennedy Republican electors gave both Thomas women sat on the stairs, reacting to the Jefferson and Aaron Burr an equal results with happy shouts or expresnumber of electoral votes. The House of sions of dismay. Nixon was at his hotel headquarters Representatives settled the tie in Jefferson’s favor. in California. Both Kennedy and Nixon It’s with some nostalgia that one went to bed in the wee hours of the can look back on the late 20th century morning, not knowing who had won the squeakers because the players seemed close election. As the returns rolled in, showing to have so much political savvy, confidence, experience, drive, a sense of Kennedy ahead in the close contest, the purpose,-eloquence—and even a sense Kennedy crowd expected Nixon to conof humor. cede, but he refused and did not do so When Truman hit the rails on his until around noon the following day. In “whistle stop tour” in 1948, he went the early morning hours, Nixon made an after the “do-nothing Congress,” domiappearance in the ballroom of the

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Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and sadly told his supporters “if the trends continue” then Kennedy was the winner.

His wife broke up and fled from the ballroom balcony, her face drenched in tears. I believe she felt personally rejected because the Republican Party had campaigned for her to live in the White House and handed out buttons reading “Pat for First Lady.” The word from the Kennedy clan was that the morning after the election, three-year-old Caroline jumped on her father’s bed and awakened him with a no-doubt prompted welcome: “Mr.

President.”

But JFK apparently had gone to sleep reasonably confident he had won the election. He got his clue when Merriman Smith, the star White House reporter for United Press International, showed up in Hyannis Port around mid-

night. “Smitty” had a reputation of cov-

ering only presidents and his arrival on the scene was a signal to Kennedy that he had it in the bag. Because of the closeness of the vote, Nixon’s aides urged him to demand a recount of the votes in Cook County, 111., a legendary Democratic bastion where allegations of voter fraud were rampant. But Nixon accepted the results. That decision has often been cited as one of Nixon’s fine moments of statesmanship. Whoever wins or loses the current presidential election, none will have the grace and style of the defeated Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson who conceded to Dwight Eisenhower and told reporters; “I’m too old to cry and it hurts too much to laugh.”

Helen Thomas is a former member of the White House Press Corps. Her column is syndicated by The New York Times

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The best and the worst of Tuesday night Off the record and on the QT Martin Barna Who won? Who knows? We care!

Last night 50 states and one district voted for president and the House of Representatives. Thirty-four states elected senators. Eleven states elected governors and one state voted on a resolution to legalize marijuana. And while most of America was fixated on Florida, a few of us political junkies spent our evenings racing from the tube to the web, checking races nationwide. Here is a sort of Academy Awards of campaign 2000—the best and the worst of the longest election night in history. The “up-your’s”: Senator-elect Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y, is now the scourge of Republicans everywhere. Not only did she win an election in a state in which she never lived,

but she won an election in the state where her biggest detractor lost—recently vanquished former senator Alphonse D’Amato. D’Amato led the charge up Whitewater Hill before his 1998 defeat. Now she’s the senator and he’s the citizen. Let’s hope she holds hearings on something that he’s done. And it gets better for Hillary; she gets to bring the man who launched her career with his impeachment to all the Senate spouse’s functions. “Hello, Mr. Clinton.” ‘That’s former president Clinton, Mr. Gramm.” The best winning candidate name: If you were running for U.S. Senate, the name is Nelson. In Florida and Nebraska, Democrats Bill and Ben Nelson were elected to Senate seats, respectively. The worst candidate name: Gatewood Galbraith, Reform party candidate for Congress in Kentucky’s

Sixth District. Couldn’t his parents have named him Paul? Or John? Or even Jonas? The most fun name: N.C. Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry. When you’ve been awake for 26 hours and can’t tell the fortunate son of a president from the less-fortunate son of a senator, saying the words “Cherie Berry” makes you realize that politics is not

that were released to the press. The rest of them probably make the Nixon tapes sound like Sunday school. No one knows what happened in the conversation, but there is even money that Maureen Dowd will write up a phony version of the conversation. The Dead Man Walking: The late Gov. Mel Carnahan of Missouri, who died in a plane crash three just about having a good name. weeks ago, held on to beat incumbent Sen. John Money well spent: Senator-elect Jon Corzine, D-N.J., Ashcroft, a conservative Republican. Ashcroft had led spent around $6O million to win his election, it is his in the polls up until the death. CBS’s Bob Sheafer put first attempt at public office. When you are worth $4OO it best when he said, “But to lose to a dead man, that million, what is $3O million between two media marmust really hurt.” By tomorrow, the GOP will probably kets? President Gates in 2004? say Carnahan died on purpose. The Michael Huffington: Remember Michael The Eye has it: CBS was the first network to Huffington, the California entrepreneur who spent $25 announce that Florida was too close to call again, million of his own money to lose to Sen. Dianne approximately an hour after Bush was declared the Feinstein? Soon-to-be-former Rep. Rick Lazio wins this winner. Sheafer, Dan Rather and Ed Bradley were all award, as he spent $3l million in 5 months, just to get a flutter at the news and were quickly spouting off blown out by the candidate formerly known as Rodham some exceptional things: Rather was unable to do simClinton. At least Huffington lost in a squeaker. ple subtraction, Bradley confused the word Bush for Biggest Loser: Republican candidate for Senate Jack Gore, and Sheafer, who usually is the voice of reason Robinson of Massachusetts was anything but the big on election night, was all in a tizzy saying the kind of winner last night. The Republican Party abandoned his wacky phrases that one expects from Dan Rather. I candidacy in March, after Robinson revealed a backwonder if Bradley eventually mixed them up. The state from Hell: Florida. In 1997, the Miami ground with more run-ins with the law than the entire Kennedy family. He also managed to draw only a paltry mayor’s race flipped back and forth three times, now it’s 13 percent of the vote, edging out a Libertarian by 1 the presidency, Big Time. I am thankful I live in a place percent. Pat Buchanan drew higher numbers than that where the elections are always done right, the first time. in some counties in south Florida. Year of the women: There were at least three newly Quote of the night: “You don’t have to get snippy,” elected female senators last night, two new female Gore to Bush during the reportedly testy phone call governors and a handful of women won between the two candidates after Gore rescinded his Congressional seats. The coverage was dominated by concession. If tapes of this phone exist, they will likely middle-aged white males, but the real winners were get more airplay than the 911 of O.J. Simpson arid wearing pantsuits. Nicole Brown. Runner-up quote: Gore, in the same phone call, “Let Martin Barna is a Trinity junior and editorial page me explain something, your younger brother is no the editor of The Chronicle. He has been watching CNN for. ultimate authority on this.”And these are the exchanges 40 consecutive hours.

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Blue Devil soccer leaves Furman Pala-done � Five Blue Devils make All-ACC soccer Seniors Ali Curtis, Robert Russell and Jeff Haywood were named first team All-ACC while sophomore Trevor Perea and freshman Jordan Cila were named second team. It marks the third straight season Curtis, Duke's all-time leading goal scorer, has been named to the team. Both Haywood and Russell are two time honorees, while Cila and Perea are first time All-ACC.

� Gretzky to lead Canada in Olympics NHL Hall of Famer and pop icon Wayne Gretzky announced yesterday that he would be the executive director of Team Canada in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Gretzky, who last played internationally in Canada’s 1998 loss to Finland, will largely be responsible for assembling the Olympic roster tor the 2002 games. Toronto Maple Leaf coach and GM Pat Quinn will be behind the bench.

By NICK CHRISTIE The Chronicle

3 Coming off a stellar performance in the ACC tourna1 ment, the women’s soccer Furman team (13-7-1) maintained its high level of performance of late, defeating Furman (203) last night 3-1 in the first round of the Duke

NCAA Tournament at Koskinen Stadium. Although Furman entered last night’s game as the nation’s third highest scoring team and boasting an impressive 20-2 record, Duke outplayed Furman in every facet of yesterday’s match, consistently outpossessing the Paladins and outshooting them 22-6. “[Duke] physically overwhelmed us,” Furman head coach Brain Lee said. “We approached the game with a basic game plan to let them have a good bit of possession, and then counterattack. Once we got the ball forward I thought our forwards did have success. We just didn’t have enough of the ball, really.” The Blue Devils dominated the game from kickoff, applying pressure early and often. Duke’s front-line trio of Allison Sanders, Sarah Pickens and Gwendolyn Oxenham utilized their speed to beat Furman’s back-line at will during the game’s first 25 minutes, as the Blue Devils outshot Furman 6-0. “I think our kids really set the tone early,” Duke head coach Bill Hempen said. “I’m really happy with the result tonight.” See NCAA on page 20

� Manuel wins AL manager of year

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THE WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM found away to use its head in last night’s game against Furman. A strong defense limited the Paladins to only six shots while Duke hit three goals in 22 shots.

Sixers remain

Chicago White Sox manager Jerry Manuel won the American League manager of the year award, given by the Baseball Writers Association. Manuel, who received 25 of 27 first place votes, led the White Sox to a 95-67 record this season and into the playoffs for the first time since 1993. Manuel is the fourth White Sox manager to win the award.

unbeaten, beat hapless Detroit

From wire reports 76ers 103 Allen Iverson scored 28 points and Eric Pistons 94 Snow added a career-high 23, including 10 in the fourth quarter, as the unbeaten Philadelphia 76ers beat the Detroit Pistons 103-94 last night. The Sixers, 5-0 and off to their best start in 16 years, never trailed after the opening minutes. They built a 27-point lead in the second quarter and held on after Detroit rallied within a point in

� Houston, Arizona OK new stadiums Voters in Maricopa County, Az. approved a measure Tuesday that would provide most of the money for a $331 million stadium for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals. Voters in Houston overwhelmingly approved building a new downtown arena for the NBA’s Rockets and voters in Brown County, Wis., agreed to sell the naming rights for the NFL Green Bay Packers' stadium, helping pay off bonds used for renovations.

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MARK MATTERN and the Blue Devils kick off the ACC tournament with a game against the Terps this afternoon in Winston-Salem.

Men’s soccer prepares for ACCs By TYLER ROSEN The Chronicle

“The only time he talks to me is when he wants me to do something for him, to play in this tournament or that tournament. It’s not like he comes up to me and asks me how I’m doing.”

—Tiger Woods, on his relationship with PGA commissioner Tim Finchem

Riding the momentum of an winning eight-game streak, the men’s soccer team cruises into Winston-Salem this afternoon to take on Maryland in the opening round of the ACC tournament. The No. 7 ranked Blue Devils (13-4) are the third seed—Duke tied with UNC and UVa for the ACC regular

season championship, but was awarded the third seed

College Park on Sept. 24, the Blue Devils were 2-0 victors. because of goal differen- However, Maryland has tial—while Maryland (10-8) improved since then. Before is the sixth seed. The game ending the season with losses will take place at 5:30 p.m. to Clemson and UVa, in W. Dennie Spry Stadium Maryland racked up five on the campus of Wake straight wins against nonForest University. conference opponents. Duke’s coach John Maryland presents an Rennie is not going to look interesting first round challenge for Duke. When the two past the Terrapins. teams faced each other in See ACC on page 19 >

the fourth quarter. Jerry Stackhouse scored 36, including 28 in the second half, and Chucky Atkins added 24 for the Pistons. Vernon Maxwell had 15, Tyrone

Hill had 14 and Theo Ratliff added 13 for the Sixers. Spurs 91, Lakers 81 Tim Duncan scored 22 points and had 17 rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Los

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the Lakers, but the Spurs held Shaquille O’Neal to just 13 points. O’Neal was 5-for-13 from the field and 3-for-10 from the foul line.

The Lakers sank to the .500 mark for the first time since Nov. See NBA on page 19 >

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After losing to Wake Forest Saturday, Duke’s hopes for a win were likely buried beneath the Winston-Salem turf. The Blue Devils have two remaining win opportunities against N.C. State and North Carolina, both of which could- easily be bowf-bound.

� A few bumps in State’s Rivers Freshman Phillip Rivers is questionable for Saturday's game against Duke after injuring his shoulder in a loss last weekend to Maryland. Rivers, who now holds N.C. State’s school record for touchdown passes in a season, has essentially guaranteed himself ACC rookie of the year honors by racking up the weekly award six times already this season. His status will be re-examined today, when he is hopeful he can return to practice.

� No fatherly compassion Bobby Bowden displayed no compassion for his son, Tommy, Saturday when Florida State rolled over Clemson. The game was hyped as the Battle of the Bowdens in anticipation of a rematch of last season’s

17-14 Seminole triumph in Death Valley. But in Doak Campbell Stadium, Bobby’s Seminoles ran all over Tommy’s Tigers by an astounding 54-7 margin.

� Not Dantz-ing nearly as much

BOOMER WATCH Duke’s Brian Morton is on the verge of becoming the ACC’s alltime leading punter in both number and yardage. B& a a Counting down Boomer; 272 punts Needs: 6 punts Boomer: 11,532 yards Needs; 419 yards

After only 12 rushes for eight yards against the Seminoles. Clemson quarterback Woodrow Dantzler finally relinquished the top spot in the league to teammate Travis Zachery. Dantzler, who has been noticably hampered in his agility the last couple weeks, will have surgery on his ankle after the season. Dantzler originally suffered a bruised left lower leg against North Carolina, but he is also being aggravated by tendonitis.

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First amendment rights Monso(o)ned in Minnesota All of you Ray Holloman haters out Even better, Haskins and academic there, listen up. adviser Alonzo Newby were found to Maybe this paper tends to give the have helped cover up the fraud. football team a hard time every now and As a result, the NCAA levied the then. Maybe they deserve it and maybe proverbial smackdown against the they don’t. Maybe we should lighten up. University. While the Golden Gophers Maybe they should play better. avoided a postseason ban, they were put But no matter how you feel, nobody on a four-year probationary period, on this campus—not Carl Franks, not including the loss of five scholarships. Mike Krzyzewski—no one would reaThe program was nationally disgraced sonably contend that The Chronicle and forced to remove banners recognizshould be prohibited from printing anying their 1997 Final Four berth and thing that falls short of worshipping one 1998 NIT championship. of our elite athletic teams. And Linehan had the audacity to In Minnesota, however, such is not say that the school’s basketball prothe case. gram is beyond repair and needs to be The Nov. 3 edition of the Minnesota rebuilt? The NCAA was only a small Daily, the student newspaper for the step away from mandating such a University of Minnesota, broke the news death penalty themselves. that men’s basketball coach Dan As much sense as such drastic meaMonson, a second-year head coach, sures may make to those of us who stop threatened to revoke the paper’s credenand think for a second, it appears that tials after they published a column that Dan Monson didn’t agree. he felt was overly critical of the school’s Fine. The guy’s hard-headed. He basketball team. doesn’t think that Linehan was right. Sports editor Josh Linehan’s Oct. 13 He thinks he can clean up the program. column, entitled “Basketball program One of the great freedoms ofAmerica is must die,” wasn’t exactly a ringing that we all have the right to disagree. endorsement for that school’s particular That’s disagree, not censor. Anyone program. Linehan’s piece draws some claiming that freedom of the press still exists could in no way condone Monson’s strong conclusions, namely that the basketball program should be shut down actions. Write positive stuff or else we’ll and restarted from the ground up. pull your credentials—Monson’s threat is really nothing short of extortion. Whoa, hang on a second. What exactMonson could have written a letter to ly did the basketball program do to deserve such criticism? the editor. He probably could have gotJust widespread academic fraud. A ten a 30 second slot on the local news. tutor admitted to writing more that 400 But no, not the big and powerful basketpapers for basketball players over a ball coach. He threatened to revoke the five-year period. The NCAA also found paper’s credentials unless Linehan that former coach Clem Haskins paid wrote a more favorable piece. Are you serious? The only way that $3,000 to have a certain player tutored.

The proverbial smackdown Evan Davis we reporters can criticize a team is by turning around and praising them the next day? It’s a ludicrous notion. How many ‘The football team tries really hard” sto-

ries would it take to offset all of Holloman’s columns? Monson claims that his true beef with the column was that it mentioned underage drinking charges against one of the basketball players, but failed to mention that the charges were later dropped. Monson, the athletic director, the accused

player, or the newspaper

itself—any of the above could have used the newspaper as an appropriate medium for clarifying such an omission. But in the world that has become collegiate athletics, Dan Monson needed to

something, it’s really the athletic programs that have a responsibility toward the university. The problems with the basketball program aren’t Monson’s fault. He was busy leading Gonzaga into the Elite Eight while Clem Haskins was committing potential felonies. But the simple fact is this: Monson is coaching a program that is as much a disgrace as Pat Buchanan’s campaign. With all the program has been through, you would think that Monson would be as gracious as possible. After all, he’s basically asking fans to forgive the program for its sins. If there’s one thing that reigns true in this world, it’s this—you don’t gain forgiveness by acting like a jackass. Someone please inform Dan Monson. Would he have dared to threaten a commercial paper the way he did the Minnesota Daily? Think about how juicy media coverage would be if every time a reporter said something negative about a team, he risked having his paper’s cre-

dentials revoked. The fact is, there’s no way that Monson Nevermind that Mark Ryan, the would have treated a profressional paper men’s athletics spokesman, reminded that way. The media is the sole reason why everyone that media relations, not the basketball and football programs generate coach, decides who does and who does such high revenue. Without media coverage, well, how often do you see USA Today not receive credentials. Never mind that Linehan’s piece crit- running field hockey stories? Minnesota’s basketball program lost icized a basketball program which was involved in—according to NCAA offi- the trust of the university community. cials—one of the most serious cases of Gaining it back is possible, but it’s not academic fraud in the past twenty years. going to happen overnight. And unless I’ve got news for you, Dan Monson. Dan Monson gets his act together, it’s You’re not all that you think you are. not going to happen at all. Evan Davis is a Trinity sophomore While the athletic world seems to think that student newspapers owe them and a sportswriter for The Chronicle,

flex his muscles.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2000

Shanahan assists Detroit in snapping Phoenix streak

Brendan Shanahan scored a goal and added an assist as the Red Wings handed the Coyotes their first loss in 12 games By MEL REISNER Associated Press

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“We played really solid, but their two power-play goals were killers Phoenix forward Trevor Letowski said. Keith Tkachuk and Brad May had the Phoenix goals. But the goaltending which was a huge part of the Coyotes’ streak—they w T ere outshot 387-253 in the last 12 games —didn’t hold up. Backup Robert Esche gave up all four ”

Brendan Shanahan went into high Phoenix 2 gear the moment the puck dropped, and he never lost momentum. Shanahan scored a goal and had two assists as the Detroit Red Wings snapped the third-iongest unbeaten streak in Phoenix history with a 4-2 vicgoals on 23 shots. tory over the Coyotes last night. Shanahan scored unassisted 28 sec“We got to play our style,” he said. “If we’re going to play, let’s play a forceful onds into the game, streaking on a diagonal from the left wing before some fans game, like the style we used to play.” 26 reached their seats. Manny Legace had goalie Backup Maltby made it 2-0 when he took a saves in another strong game for the Red Wings. He is 5-1-0 this season and pass from Sergei Fedorov from the 9-1-0 since signing with Detroit in the boards and fired from the slot, beating 1999 offseason. Esche high on the glove side 8:02 into balance and con“We had good the first period. good Tkachuk was denied a goal with 4:18 tributions,” coach Scotty Bowman said. “It was a strange game. We really didn’t left in the first when his shot clanged off the crossbar and the left upright, bounced give them a lot to the ice and out. Trevor Letowski put in 12 went undefeated Coyotes The straight (7-0-5), but showed signs their the rebound into the net, but the play was momentum was slowing near the end whistled dead before Letowski’s shot to when they went into overtime the last see if Tkachuk’s shot went in. Officials later determined Tkachuk three games. The 1984-85 Winnipeg Jets went 13 hit the puck with a high stick. MIKE FIALAyASSOCIATED PRESS But Tkachuk converted during a 5games without a loss, and the 1998-1999 after his lone Detroit’s 4-2 victory over tne uoyscoring goal during on-3 Phoenix advantage, taking a crossBRENDAN SHANAHAN celebrates Coyotes set the franchise record at 14. from beatotes last Phoenix. Jeremy Roenick and night in “They’ve been sitting there waiting ing pass for us when we played last night,” coach ing Legace with a wrist shot from the “I saw him in the slot, but I kept on Legace stopped a shot by Landon Bob Francis said. “You knew they’d come circle 9:39 into the second period. looking a crease the at Shanahan to throw them in The Coyotes, who also trailed Los Wilson, but May found out strong. They’re a proud team.” Lapointe, who passed up a off,” ofplayers and knocked a rebound said logjam Shanahan and Kirk Maltby scored Angeles 2-0 Tuesday night before skatBut Kozlov, waiting on the chance to add to his eight-goal total for into the net. early for Detroit, and Slava Kozlov and ing to a 3-3 tie, caught up 30 seconds doorstep for a crossing pass from Martin a more sure scoring opportunity. “I Tomas Holmstrom added power-play into the third period. Wyatt Smith cirLapointe, scored 2:16 later, and the managed to get it to Kozzy, and he goals in the third period, with cled behind the net and flipped a pass knocked it in.” couldn’t catch up. Coyotes up to the crease. Shanahan assisting on each. Detroit

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Despite shaky ACC play, Duke looks to crown NBA Roundup: &

ACC from page 15 “Maryland is having a slightly down

year because they’ve had some catastrophic injuries that have taken some key players out,” the 22nd year coach said. “But they are a much better team than they were earlier in the season.” If Duke is able to get past Maryland, they will likely face Virginia in the semifinals. The Blue Devils have beaten the Cavaliers each of the last four times they have met, including last year’s ACC championship game. However, UVa will probably be better rested for the second round matchup because they will likely not face much of a challenge from N.C. State in the first round. Looming on the other side of the bracket from Duke is top-ranked UNC, the only team in the ACC that has beaten Duke this year. Senior co-captain Nii-Amar Amamoo has his eye set on that potential contest in the championship game. “It’s very tough to look past any of these teams,” the star back said. “[But] I would love the chance to play UNC. We didn’t have our greatest showing against UNC, but our team is different now.” Coach Rennie agrees that his team has changed since the North Carolina game. “We’ve progressed very well,” he said. “We have to figure out away to defend well against good teams. We’re doing a much better job defensively. Obviously we can score goals, but now we are doing better shutting down other teams. The challenge with this team is to shore up the defense and play consistently

for 90 minutes.” Even more important than the ACC

tournament is the impending NCAA tournament. With their winning

streak and high ranking, the Blue Devils are fairly confident that they have secured an at-large bid to the 32team tournament even if they fail to win the ACC. Success in the ACC tournament, however, would likely bring a higher seeding and homefield advan-

tage for the NCAA tournament. Despite this optimism, Amamoo is not yet counting his chickens. “The only way we know we will be in the NCAA tournament is ifwe are holding the ACC championship trophy at 5:30 Saturday,” he said. “I’m looking at this Maryland game as maybe the last game of mv Duke career.”

SENIOR MIDFIELDER ROBERT RUSSELL, shown here in a game against Butler, and the Blue Devils will shoot for their second consecutive ACC title.

Cavs, Hornets win tight games >

NBA from page 15

14, 1999. After six games last year, they were 5-1, and they lost only 15 of 82 all season.

Cavaliers 99, Knicks 97 Bimbo Coles scored four of his 17 points in the final minute as the most surprising team in the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers, stayed undefeated with a victory over the New York Knicks. The Cavs took the lead with 4 1/2 minutes to play and never gave it back to improve their record to 4-o—the first time since 1989 that they have started a season with four consecutive wins. Andre Miller and Matt Harpring added 16 points each, Lamond Murray had 13 and Wesley Person scored 10 of his 12 in the fourth quarter. Allan Houston scored 25 for the Knicks, but he missed his final four shots and scored only two points in the fourth quarter. Glen Rice, starting in place of the injured Latrell Sprewell, added 23. Hornets 96, Magic 90 David Wesley had 30 points and P.J. Brown scored eight ofhis 19 in the final four minutes to help the Charlotte Hornets hold off the Orlando Magic. The Hornets remained unbeaten on the road despite making just two of 11 shots in the fourth quarter. Brown broke a six-minute drought from the field with a short jumper and went 6-for-6 from the foul line down the stretch.

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Soccer out-defends Furman in 3-1 win NCAA from page 15

With Oxenham frequently beating two Furman defenders on her own before centering the ball to her teammates, Duke had a bevy of scoring chances in the game’s opening minutes. The Blue Devils capitalized in the game’s 18th minute, as Sanders headed Oxenham’s beautifully-played cross from the right wing into the lower left-hand corner of the net. Duke went ahead 2-0 just before the end of the first half on Carly Fuller’s blast off a free kick. After setting up from 25 yards out, the Blue Devil midfielder fired a rocket into the top left corner of the net. Fuller’s shot completely fooled Furman goalkeeper Melissa Barnes. An off-balance Barnes could only ANDREA OLAND/THE CHRONICLE watch helplessly as the ball flew past her into the HAVING WON THEIR FIRST GAME IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT, Duke will head to Clemson this weekend for the second round back of the goal. Susan Kraeger scored Duke’s third and final goal of the night off a comer kick in the 75th minute. Her cross from the endline deflected off a Furman defender and past a startled Barnes for an improbable goal. While Furman came into Wednesday’s contest with the reputation as an offensive powerhouse, the Paladins couldn’t muster a shot until the game’s 30th minute, when Oxenham, Pickens and Sanders were resting on the sidelines. Furman managed only two iiiiili first half shots and Duke goalkeeper Thora Helgadottir didn’t register a save until the second half. Impressive defensively the entire night, Duke achieved great success in containing Furman’s outstanding freshman Emily Turgeon, the nation’s leading scorer who tallied 22 goals and 17 assists in only iri 22 games during the regular season. While Turgeon did score the Lady Paladins’ only goal, her score came «: in the game’s 83rd minute with her team already and a Duke against down 3-0, defense consisting mostly of substitutes. Commenting on his team’s success in frustrating Turgeon, Hempen said “it wasn’t anything tactically,” attributing the Blue Devils’ defensive accomplishments directly to his back-line defenders. “We knew what was coming when she had the ball and the [players] did a good job of taking it upon themselves to shut her down.” A native of Raleigh, Turgeon desperately wanted to perform well against Duke and in front of a crowd consisting mainly ofFurman supporters. “Growing up as a kid I watched a lot of soccer games on this field when I was younger,” she said. “We really wanted to come out of tonight with a win.” With the easy win over the Paladins, Duke now faces another Palmetto State foe in Clemson Saturday. Although the Blue Devils have been the only team tudtnt 9171543210 to handle the Tigers—twice at home, in fact—the second round NCAA tourney match will be played this

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like, We were young, we shouldn’t be here, we were lucky to be here,’ or whatever,” Carlos Boozer said. “We expected to beat them and move on. Not to be able to do that, we couldn’t believe our season was ending.... Not to get [to the Final Four] was disappointing.” There could not have been more obstacles to overcome, more mountains to climb heading into the 1999-2000 campaign. But still, not even a final regular season ranking of No. 1 in the nation nor another ACC tournament championship could quench the flames kindled by a nine-point defeat. ‘There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t use the Florida game as a fire to just fight harder,” Williams said. “It’s something that we’re going to carry with us. And I’m going to cany it personally until I win it for myself and my team.” One day after nine hungry Gators tore apart Duke’s six-man rotation, Williams and the rest of the Blue Devils were back with their coaches, watching film and preparing for this season. More than seven months later, the Blue Devils believe they are deeper, more experienced and more talented individually. In other words, they think they are the best. “From the first day of pickup, I could see a vast improvement in everybody’s games,” co-captain Nate James said. “Of course, there’s a lot of people hunting for u5.... [Being ranked No. 1] is a sign of respect. We’ve worked really hard, and I think we deserve to be No. 1.”

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‘Designing women’ look to design new banner By ANDREA BOOKMAN The Chronicle

The last time the women’s basketball team entered a season this highly regarded, it was 1998. Ranked fourth in preseason polls, the Blue Devils lost three of their first four games, including a season-opening 30-point drubbing at the hands of Connecticut.

Duke ended the season, though, ranked higher than when it began, beating three-time defending national champion Tennessee in the East Regional final to advance to the Final Four. There, in the same venue in which they had opened the season against UConn, the Blue Devils finished just short of a national championship. This season, coming up shy of a national championship is not in Duke’s game plan. Led by senior tri-captains Georgia Schweitzer, Rochelle Parent and Missy West—who remember the Final Four in San Jose—this team set its goals during the preseason and set them high. Goal number one is not to just go to the Final Four in St. Louis, but to win it. Not to earn another blue Final Four banner to go with the one that currently adorns Cameron Indoor Stadium’s rafters, but to open the debate about how to distinguish the women’s national championship banner from the two of the men’s team. “It’s something we haven’t accomplished yet, and it’s a veiy reasonable goal,” Schweitzer said. “It’s going to take a lot of hard work.” The preseason polls are out, and Duke is consensus top 10 nationally, and in most cases top five. The Blue Devils are the favorite to win the ACC championship, and their roster boasts both the preseason league player of the year in Schweitzer and rookie of the year in Alana Beard. But Schweitzer—the reigning ACC player of the year and a candidate for the women’s Naismith Award—Parent, West, Beard and the

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Coach Gail Goestenkors, now in her ninth season at the helm of a successful program that she essentially crafted from scratch, does not put much stock in polls, either.' Three years ago, we were ranked very highly in preseason polls, and we learned the hard way

that they don’t really mean a whole lot,” Goestenkors said. “I think now we have a better sense of that.” What Goestenkors will put stock in is the proven leadership of her seniors and the new versatility and athleticism her underclassmen bring to the floor. “I’m veiy excited about my team,” Goestenkors said. “We have great leaders in Georgia, Rochelle and Missy West. But we also have five freshmen and five sophomores. It’s exciting because we’re going to learn and grow together.” For perhaps the first time in her successful career, Schweitzer is totally healthy—or at least claiming she is. Considered one of the toughest athletes on any Duke team, Schweitzer has a history of playing through pain and serious injury. This season, she looks forward to playing at the point guard position. Unlike nearly every other ACC team, Duke has many solid options at point. Schweitzer, who at 6-foot towers over most point guards, will see a great deal of action as floor leader. Junior Krista Gingrich, though injured most of the preseason, West and sophomore Sheana Mosch are three other veteran point DAN NELSON/THE CHRONICLE guards. Beard, a freshman, may see some of her minutes at point, while freshman Vicki Krapohl, MISSY WEST guides Duke’s offense against Uralmash Monday. West returned See WOMEN’S PREVIEW on page 36 � for a fifth season and will be looked to as an experienced team leader.

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She would have scanned the rows behind the Duke bench for his face, but she knew he was not there. She would have searched quickly and precisely through the team seats in the San Jose Arena w ith her cool gray eyes, cool gray eyes that had seen a man become a father and a father become a friend, eyes that are smooth like cobalt under a smile but that flash like lightening when she yelps, eyes that saw her team become a program and a program start its w Tay to legend. She would’ve stopped in the middle of the Final Four, sat her clipboard down on one of the white-covered arena chairs and she would have hugged him because she had made it and because she was going to make it and because they both knew. But John Goestenkors, her father and her friend, was not there and she knew it. “I wanted him there,” she said, “but he said he couldn’t bear watch, it made him too nervous.” The world had taken the daughter away from him in a sense, adopted her as a symbol of a University and a sport. The family name, which stumbles off the tongue with the stop-andgo staccato of Manhattan rush hour, Guess-ten-cours, which she had kept even through marriage, had been truncated and turned into a Duke brand—

Coach G.

But more than she knew offensive schemes, defensive assignments and fastbreak lanes, she knew it didn’t matter. “We’re a lot alike,” she said. “We share a love of the game.” Gail, Ms. Goestenkors, Coach G, it didn’t matter, it all meant John

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Goestenkors 11. She coached a seventh grade girls’ team at a local Michigan school. The rules were simple: Cut nobody, play everybody.

Yeah “I had 17 players on that team,” Goestenkors said, “and I learned exactly two things. One, I wanted to coach. Two, not seventh grade basketball.” If you believe the legends of Cameron, the plans for the grandest arena in the Southeast were drawn on the back of a matchbook. Fifty-seven years later, the plans for Duke women’s basketball were drawn in absolute darkness on the back of eyelids. Kira Orr was her first recruit. She was all but Stanford bound until she met a young coach who promised her the world and anything else she could carry on the way. Barely seven years out of college and fresh out of an assistant coaching job at Purdue, she was too young to understand just how big a challenge she was in for. Claiming the golden fleece was a bit of a difficulty. Goestenkors had an all-out challenge. She did not have a desk to sit behind, so they sat on the locker-room floor, surrounded by pink lockers, little steel boxes that stood testament to the uphill battle she was facing.

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Then she told her to believe, She told her in away that was so pure it was poetic, so idealistic that it was a dream and so impossible that it was real. Orr believed. Duke was born. By the time Orr was a senior in 1997, the advice of a summer-league coach had long since ceased having much bearing on her (“He still offers advice to me,” she said, “but I’ve learned it all already”), but the coachplayer relationship she had learned from him never went away. Her father was there in every player, in Kira Orr or Ty Hall, Nicole Erickson or Rochelle Parent. And when she did not win Orr the ACC title she promised, or when she had to watch Peppi Browne writhe on the floor in pain after tearing her ACL against UNC, she didn’t feel like she had let down a player, she had let down a daughter. “It was tough not winning for Kira,” she said. “And then watching Peppi go down was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to deal with as a coach.” One hundred and seventy six wins belong to Gail Goestenkors in the Duke record books. In her heart, she knows they just have the wrong first name. “When, not if, we make it back to the Final Four,” she said, “he’s going to be there.” In the background, a dull electronic ring interrupts the quiet of her sun-filled fourth-floor office. She casts a quick glance backward, thinks for a second and picks up the phone. It wasn’t her father. But everything else was

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Just how similar are Chris Duhon and Jason Williams? Well, for starters, they are both point guards with a silky-smooth shooting touch, both are about 6foot-1 and both were named Gatorade prep player of the year as high school seniors. But according to Williams, the similarities end there, because he believes his freshman backcourt mate brings more to the table than the freshman who took over for Will Avery a year ago. Tve really been just amazed by Chris,” Williams said. “He’s just so solid with the basketball —he’s definitely more solid than I was last year.” Not only does Duke’s starting sophomore point guard appreciate Duhon’s ball-handling ability, he also believes he has learned something from witnessing the freshman’s most explosive asset, his lethal shooting touch. “Chris can shoot the ball very well, not pretty well,” Williams said. “I think our

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think. He got through being a freshman and he also ran our team.” Even though Williams has improved his skills and is used to playing the full 40 minutes, in Duhon he will have both a worthy substitute and a capable complement. The emergence of Duhon could make the difference for Duke, as his presence will allow Williams to take some breathers during Duke’s games, a luxury the sophomore was rarely afforded last season. But more importantly, Williams says, the skills Duhon possesses give the Blue Devils the prospect of having a variety of possible lineups, each of which offers explosive capabilities. “I don’t think there’s any certain way you can describe the relationship me and Chris are going to have on the court,”

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Blue Devils’ baby brings big-time game By ANDREA BOOKMAN The Chronicle

Alana Beard is homesick—for her Louisiana home, her family and her oneyear-old niece. Beard thinks she is a baby. The youngest player on the women’s basketball team, Beard is perhaps being just a bit hard on herself. If she lives up to expectations, she’ll be one precocious baby. Beard, a soft-spoken freshman, came to Duke as a prized recruit in a class of exceptional rookies. During the preseason, the w ord on Beard spread—she is good, and she does not play like a freshman. Beard was named ACC preseason rookie of the year, but just as the Blue Devils do not put much stock in preseason polls, they similarly do not pay much attention to preseason player distinctions. In fact, Beard is very much like senior mentor Georgia Schweitzer in her public admission that she does not care about individual honors. “My individual goal is just to come in and do my role,” Beard said. “Whatever role the team assigns me, I plan on doing that. Of course, our team goals are winning an ACC championship, competing for an NCAA championship and working hard in practice every day.” Her coach believes it is an honest statement from the young woman who was named a high school All-American by at least five different outlets, including

USA Today, Parade, Nike and the WBCA. “She’s humble,” Gail Goestenkors said. “She may be the most humble player I’ve ever coached.” Beard’s role will, of course, be uncertain until the season begins. This freshman is one of Goestenkors’ most complete and versatile players. “She’s doing a great job at the point now, so she’ll be playing there a lot, especially early, but she can play wing as well,” Goestenkors said. Beard is already establishing herself as a team leader, both in terms of the game and the intangible attitudes that go with playing it superbly. She has come in first or second in every single sprint or

distance drill the team has done during its conditioning workouts. She is someone, her coach says, people “play for.” That is high praise coming from Goestenkors, who in her nine-year career as Duke’s coach, has won ACC championships and gone to a Final Four by being someone people play for. “She has an unbelievable work ethic, especially as a freshman,” Goestenkors said. “From day one, she’s been the hardest worker on the team. She’s not only talented, but she’s such a hard worker; it’s such a great combination. “She’s only got one speed—all out. She plays wing, she plays point guard, she runs it up and down.... She’s just always all out.” For Beard, the daily challenges she faces in Cameron Indoor Stadium and in Duke classrooms are the best part of being in college. The worst, of course, is the homesickness. “You know every day you’ve got to get up and face a challenge,” Beard said. “College is preparing you for life; Duke is preparing you for life. It’s a big challenge, and you’ve got to conquer it.” At Southwood High School, Beard conquered nearly every obstacle that faced her. She led her team to four state championships without losing a home or district game on the way. In fact, Goestenkors has been so impressed with Beard that she called her high school coach, Steve McDowell, to thank him for such a great young player. ALANA BEARD dribbles upcourt during Monday’s Still, high school hoops are a vastly different game from college basketball. “She’s played in so many big games,” Many highly touted freshman players, the coach said. “This was a huge sumat Duke and elsewhere, experience the mer for her. She played in Argentina sort of letdown that comes with a shift where a lot of the players on the team from being an all-everything star to were higher-ranked players than her. It was a chance to prove herself and she being a teammate among all-everything stars. did. She came in with a lot of confiGoestenkors contends that Beard’s dence, confidence that doesn’t just come experience this summer on the goldfrom high school.” medal Junior World Championship Of course, Beard is still a freshman. team is not quantifiable in terms of how How she develops remains to be seen, much it helped her development. Still, but it figures to be an exciting developthat experience may just separate her ment to watch. from other freshmen. She’s still homesick—and still the

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scrimmage against Uralmash baby of the team, at least by age. But Beard is finding a home within the basketball program, which she describes as having a “family atmosphere.” Even her roommate is a teammate. Beard lives with Rometra Craig, who played against her in the WBCA AllAmerica game. “It’s fun rooming with Roßeard said. “You know you’ll get up on time. We’ll

always be on time—because of me.” And perhaps, aided by Beard’s contributions, the team will be on time in achieving its ambitious goals.

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Sanders. Horvath: Forgotten no more And the freshmen—namely Williams, Boozer and Dunleavy—did not disappoint.

By BARRETT PETERSON The Chronicle

NICK HORVATH shoots a jumperas Casey Sanders looks on during theBlue-White scrimmage. Last year’s forgotten freshmen could make a big impact this season.

The symptoms are familiar—a trace of While those three basked in the sun, howevhomesickness, a little anxiety caused by an er, Horvath and Sanders plodded along in their overwhelming work load, the sensation of being reflected glow. Talk about an identity crisis. lost in the crowd or maybe just not fitting in. The malady attacks most incoming freshmen As this season gets underway, Sanders and on college campuses throughout the country at Horvath look to emerge from the collective shadone point or another. Call it freshman-itis. ow oftheir fellow sophomores—a tall order when And last year, Nick Horvath and Casey you consider that Williams, for instance, is Sanders had it bad. already making preseason All-America teams. Not only did these two deal with the typical But Sanders and Horvath seem unfazed. freshman-year growing pains, they also faced a During the offseason, both players lived at the unique challenge on the basketball court—play- gym, honing their skills and trying to improve ing in the shadows of first-year phenoms Jason in areas they considered weak points of their Williams, Mike Dunleavy and Carlos Boozer. respective games. “Last season, Casey and I, compared to the Sanders headed to Europe to pick up some other three freshmen—Mike, Jason and pointers from other big-man veterans who Carlos—had much more of a typical freshman could teach the spindly center a thing or two year,” Horvath said. “We didn’t have exceptionabout ACC wars in the paint. ally bad freshman years, it’s just that the other “I think I learned a lot about being competithree guys had exceptionally good [ones}. We tive and using what you have to contribute to are more on the four-year plan than the jump to the team,” Sanders said. “One of the biggest the NBA sort of thing.” things I think I learned is that you don’t have At the start oflast season, the familiar faces to be big, so much as you have to be strong menon Duke’s roster were few and far between after tally and physically.” the mass defection of 1999. Shane Battier and And strength, physically speaking, was Chris Carrawell were recognizable faces, but something that plagued Sanders during his Nate James and Matt Christensen were not yet freshman year. The knock on him last year was household names. that he was just too thin to compete at the bigEnter Mike Krzyzewski’s highly touted time collegiate level. Naturally, Sanders spent a freshman class of Williams, Sanders, Horvath, lot of time in the weight room over the summer Dunleavy, Boozer and Andre Buckner. trying to correct that by bulking up. In a diaper-dandy-happy college basketball “We feel that last year we did not have depth atmosphere, the local and national media up front,” Krzyzewski said. “Casey was just too quickly anointed the heralded freshmen as the thin. He has put on some weight, but mostly heir apparents to the throne of Duke basketstrength and he has just grown up. He is a ball, as saviors of a team that wasn’t supposed much better player now.” to be its typically dominant self. See FORGOTTEN FRESHMEN on page 13 �

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whole cow if I could. The biggest thing is Still, listening to the Duke coach, you that I’ve tried to get in the weight room get the feeling Sanders has a long way more often to gain strength and I think to go in his quest to develop a muscular I have done that. Hopefully, this year, frame. So coach, just when will Sanders when I do get a chance to play, that will be as strong as he needs to be? show up a little bit.” “In about eight years,” Krzyzewski Horvath also hopes to prove to coachsaid, amidst much laughter by the es, teammates and fans that he has media. “Is he strong enough to play here improved his game significantly since at Duke right now? Yes. But we’ll look at last season. him when he’s 26 and we’ll say, You’re “In the preseason, Nick has made a big pretty strong Casey’ He’s kind of strong. impression on all the players with how He’s gained about 10 pounds of well he has played,” Krzyzewski said. “He, strength, but more so than anything he I think, last year helped us at times as a is stronger mentally... He is going to be shooter, but all he thought of himself as a better player.” was a shooter, not a player. I think this To his credit, Sanders has tried just year he thinks of himself as a player.” about everything to put on some needThe elder statesmen on the team have ed poundage. quickly taken notice of the new Horvath. “I do it all,” said a grinning Sanders. “The player that I’ve been so “I eat twinkies, I eat steak—l’d eat the enthused with coming back is Nick

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Horvath,” James said. “He’s improved his game so much. He was already a good player, but he came in and refined things to his game.” Horvath, like Sanders, also spent a lot of time in the weight room this summer. Expected to play in the paint more this year as opposed to roaming the perimeter like he did last season, Horvath dedicated himself to bulking up. In fact, Duke coaches have been matching Horvath up with Battier in practices to prepare him for more inside duty. “Going against the player ofthe year candidate in practice will actually probably make the games seem a little bit easier,” Horvath said. “It gets frustrating because Shane is so good, but then after a while you realize that you are getting that much better when you [play against him].”

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Perhaps the one advantage Sanders and Horvath have on their sophomore classmates is they can take people by surprise this season. The expectations placed on them are considerably lower than what Boozer, Dunleavy and Williams face. They really don’t have to worry about the dreaded sophomore jinx. The key for both, it seems, is to put last year behind them and treat this year as a clean-slated break from the past. Horvath summed it up nicely for the two forgotten freshmen of a year ago. “Last year I felt like I was a little more passive being a freshman, backing down maybe when I shouldn’t have,” he said. “This year I am going to be more assertive.” For both Sanders and Horvath, that might be just what the doctor ordered.

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all the running,” Mike said. Krzyzewski old “There’s the expression, You’ll run them into the ground.’ You can certainly do it, and [with Nate and ittl, that is the case.” Thanks to today’s tech)logy, an industrious athstic trainer and a brandnew facility, neither James nor Christensen has missed a day of practice. What the two miss in running drills they make up for in the pool. “Because that constant pounding on the hard court can get to you, they do a lot in the pool in conditioning,” Krzyzewski said. “And Dave Engelhardt, our trainer, has done, I think, a fabulous job of coming up with a workout for them that

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will keep them healthy. They’ve been able to play everyday James and Christensen have different injuries. James suffers from tendinitis in his knees, while Christensen has been hampered by unhealed cartilage tears in his right knee since 1999. The pool is not your generic Olympicsized or even just a normal lap pool. ”

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Idss' cool demeanor melts away By BRODY GREENWALD

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Every year, a new batch of freshman athletes arrives on East Campus, and they all talk about the same things: the harder classes; the longer practices; the faster, fiercer, taller, bigger, better competition. But not Iciss Tillis. For the cool and collected freshman forward, it took less than two months at Duke to understand that the differences between high school and college are not that significant in the grand scheme

ICISS THUS displays her no-nonsense look during a scrimmage Monday. Surprisingly, when she is off the court, Tillis is all laughter and smiles.

of things. “To me, the biggest adjustment hasn’t been basketball or the academic part,” Tillis said. “Those are concrete things that you can really work on, but the abstract things oflove and family you really miss. It’s been thinking about all the things I took for granted in high school that I miss now.” A few weeks before she spoke those words, Tillis learned first-hand how fragile those carefree days of high school can be. During the second week of October, as most students were preparing for Fall Break, Iciss found out her grandfather had passed away. Suddenly, mid-terms and the beginning of team practices were put starkly into perspective. Halfway across the country from her hometown of Tulsa, Okla., Tillis said the news of her grandfather’s death helped awaken her to everything she had left behind in journeying from the togetherness ofAmerica’s heartland to her lonely single on the second floor of Blackwell dormitory. Missing her family, Tillis learned one more thing before she returned home for her grandfather’s funeral. She discovered that while she could never regain her grandfather, she would never be without family on this campus. “My teammates have been my family; they literally became my family,” Tillis said. “My grandpa

died, but my friends were here for me. That kind of showed that I have family away from my family.” When the news broke, Duke coach Gail Goestenkors called her young star to console her. By the time she did, Tillis was already in good hands, surrounded by more than half her teammates, each of whom tried to interject a few smiles during an otherwise melancholy occasion. In some ways, the idea of a roomful of Duke basketball players trying to raise the charismatic freshman’s spirits cuts with a hint of irony, as Goestenkors credits Tillis with the uncharacteristically quick development of cohesion among the Blue Devils. ‘The chemistry on this team is excellent, it’s well ahead of schedule,” Goestenkors said. “It generally takes a road trip or a tournament to get everything going, you get chances to tease people, but Iciss has already given us much opportunity to tease her.” Nine seasons at Duke have afforded Goestenkors the chance to see some outstanding players stroll through Cameron, and she does not hesitate to say Tillis is more multifaceted than any of them. In fact, Tillis’ versatility has already made her the focus of playful banter between her teammates. At a practice last month, Goestenkors worked with Tillis at center and both forward spots, teaching the lanky freshman where to position herself defensively in various scenarios she will encounter this season. But on one particular possession, Tillis made a mental lapse and roamed through all three spots in the same sequence. It was a mishap her teammates enjoy reminding her about. “I had to tell her, Tciss, you only play one position per possession,”’ Goestenkors said. “So the team likes to tease her about playing all five positions by herself.” See

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Tillis, whose confident demeanor and charming smile underscore the contrast between her and typical freshmen, does not shy away from her teammates’jests. Still, her affable, fun-loving personality has taken the Duke coaching staff some time to get used to, especially after an awkward initial meeting two years ago. “The first time I met her up close, I remember that she never changed facial expressions on the court, she never flinched,” said Goestenkors, recalling a visit during Tillis’ junior year, when the two-time Gatorade state player of the year was ranked No. 1 nationally in her class by National Recruiting Report. “She was stone-faced... she wouldn’t even look at me I knew we had no chance at her.” Tillis returned home to Tulsa after that visit, and one phone call later, Goestenkors realized she had erred on two counts. First, the recruiting mastermind quickly caught onto the idea that the business-like Tillis had a might eventually find herself at home in Durham. And more

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importantly, the veteran coach uncovered the real Iciss. She may be an ice woman on the court, but as soon as Iciss steps off the court, her cool persona melts away until nothing remains but laughter and smiles. “I was surprised when she was so energetic on the phone, she was like her personality,” Goestenkors said. “If you just saw her on the floor, you’d never know she was such a fun person. She loves to laugh, that surprised me. And still, on the court, her expression never changes.” The one thing that is ever-changing when Tillis is on the court, though, is the freshman’s position. At 6foot-4, she stands taller than all her teammates except fellow freshman Crystal White, but Tillis will by no means be relegated to a permanent spot in the low post. Her shooting finesse and slender—as Goestenkors has already learned, you don’t dare call her “thin”—frame give her the potential to play almost anywhere on the court. In recent seasons, other tall but “slightly built” women have played under Goestenkors—Payton Black

and Tyish Hall have drawn early comparisons—but their versatility was restricted by a lack of one thing at which Tillis excels. Perhaps, it is best summed up by the two numbers on her back—hint, they are both 3s. “She’s like Ty Hall—Ty Hall with shooting range,” Goestenkors said. Hall, who still holds the best mark ever by a Blue Devil for career field-goal percentage, could hit almost anything she attempted, but in four years at Duke, she never once took a shot from three-point range. Tillis, on the other hand, has a classic shooter’s touch, as she showed fans last Friday by burying 2-of-3 three-point attempts against Athletes in Action. Her 18 points, second only to classmate Alana Beard’s 28, and six rebounds as the starting power forward were a sign of what she has in store this season, but Tillis’ coach is convinced it is only the beginning. “She’s coming along very quickly and she’ll be there before ACC season,” Goestenkors said. “Understand that she’s going to contribute early on, but she’s really going to hit her stride later. She’s going to be a force.” -

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ference season “When Niesha Butler returns, she is an automatic leader on the court with her actions as well as her temperament,” Berenato said. “She has a fiery and enthusiastic attitude that I believe the team needs to be successful.” But Georgia Tech does not have a monopoly on fire and enthusiasm. Virginia likewise flew into turmoil after key guard Erin Stovall left the team. Freshman Schuye Laßue, who had been hyped as a future leader, took leadership upon herself from the beginning, holding her own against seniors on the court and pulling together her teammates off the court. The Cavaliers ended up in first place after the smoke cleared, and the “Schuyes” are blue in Charlottesville this season, despite some concern over a lack of depth at point guard. Laßue joins forward Svetlana Volnaya and shooting guard Telisha Quarles to form the nucleus of the team. Reigning ACC coach of the year Debbie Ryan, a legend of women’s basketball after 23 years, returns after a recent bout with pancreatic cancer. She will guide a Cavs team that is just as durable as Ryan herself. “Schuye has had a terrific summer and has gotten a lot stronger,” Ryan said. “She is

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even more vital. The Tar Heels will also rely more on athletic shooting guard Juana Brown. “I think the only thing we can ask for is to continue to work hard to improve every practice,” North Carolina co-captain Leah Sharp said. “We don’t expect to play our first game at the same level [that] we will be come ACC time or even tournament time. We know we have a lot of work to do to get to the level we hope to get, but we have to continue to work hard, and we can do that.” Work hard, get better, get to a higher level. It could be the motto for the ACC this season. Improvement throughout the season will determine the victors in the postseason.

the next level.” But this year is not without its absences, most notably right down Carolina lane, as N.C. State’s Summer Erb moved onto the WNBA and North Carolina’s Nikki Teasley announced in July she would be taking a one-year leave of absence. Both losses will profoundly affect the two teams. Summer may be over, but it is not all cold and gray in Raleigh. The Wolfpack is very much equipped to bounce back, with senior Tynesha Lewis hoping to return to form after a lackluster junior season. Kaayla Chones should also take on a greater role in the post without Erb. Despite Erb’s loss in the middle of the season due to a broken foot, N.C. State had the opportunity to adjust a little sooner than it might

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senior season. Even Dave Odom twirls these days in his own NIT kind of way. And our drab olive Eeyore sits tapping his finger, surrounded by the media like a well-studied painting in the Louvre, And then he speaks the obvious, “I came back to get a ring.” But it’s not get, not really, it’s more like reclaim. There was a time when he had four rings. One for each of the members of his recruiting class, the recruiting class that would make Duke Duke again, the class that would march to San Antonio and St, Petersburg and Indianapolis and Minneapolis and into the rafters of Cameron. Battier, Brand, Avery and Burgess. Three seasons before the program had fallen apart. A 2-14 ACC record in 1995 signaled the end of one of the most incredible runs in NCAA history—seven Final Fours in nine years. Even in 1997, the bright red gash j/ffk had turned into a bruised purple. In hushed tones, they talked like conspirators in their Bassett dorm rooms, matching the sounds of the North Carolina summer outside. They spoke in a rapid staccato of titles and banners and championships voices rising and falling beat by beat, muted only fl by the dull hum of an air conditioner and the bond of secrecy ■ they had—four against the world. And they talked ofrings, rings with giant diamond studs that W rose like mountains and deep blue finishes that might as well have

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can do. He can show up to the ACC’s basketball press conference in a drab olive suit. He can show up to said preseason press conference in said drab olive suit and make it look good—real good. He can become preseason favorite for national player of the year despite never having been the best offensive player on his team. He can even become the favorite for said award despite a penchant for said drab olive suits. But there’s one thing Shane Battier can’t do: absent-mindedly twirl a championship ring. “Hmmph,” he says, making a sound more Eeyore than pre-

season player of the year, when asked why he came back for his senior season, his thumb tapping his ring finger like he was beating out his own heart rate. His coach, Mike Krzyzewski, twirls. Matt Doherty twirls between jokes about bringing some guy named Michael th d )b:k f' >f (wh« twirls Jord *

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been oceans. “When I came here with the four guys that came in, we talked about winning four national championships up in the night thinking as freshmen,” Battier says, flashing his million-dollar smile that would make you believe the sky was yellow if he so insisted. “That’s why I came back.” They were Remus and they were Romulus and they wore baggy shorts with a D on the side that meant more than any letter had ever before and meant everything and meant just one thing, one number—one. Four years, four guys, four titles, but always No. 1. Second place was like a round earth, it didn’t existuntil somebodyproved it to them. And nobody did until they did and when they did it wasn’t even second, it hopelessly flailed shot and a 17-point lead gone and it was eighth. When it finally was second, it was over. Brand, Avery, Burgess. -*

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year, nobody expected us to go that far, but I expected Y us to“Last be there, and I expected us to win that game, so I was pretty low,” she said. “Every year we lost in the tournament... I take that so hard. I’m so competitive, sometimes it’s not even healthy.” Of course, after scoring 15.6 points per game last season, And don’t expect the senior to be consoled by individual accolades. The reignSchweitzer hears people singing her praise as often as she hears her name announced on the public address system. l ACC player of the year isn’t worried about what she will do for an encore. “People keep asking me, ‘Well, what else are you going to do?’” Schweitzer “Last year, no matter what position she was at, Georgia id. “That kind of thing doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t set personal goals, found away to score,” Goestenkors said. et team goals, and that’s what matters to me. If I scored two points and we Clemson coach Jim Davis was even more complimentary. »n the national championship, I would be happier.” “Georgia is a complete player,” Davis said last year. “I see But in college basketball, only one of the top 64 teams in the country ends no flaw in her game at all.” e year with a win. Would anything besides winning it all make her happy? Though flattered, Schweitzer wasn’t buying it. “Happy, unless I won? No,” Schweitzer said without hesitation. “Hopefully we’ll “There’s plenty of things I’m not very good at,” Schweitzer n the championship so I can go out of here and be happy when I graduate.” said. “I need to improve on my offensive rebounding a little bit Although Schweitzer adamantly denies having individual goals, if she were more. And I’m going to be playing point guard again this year, make a list, it would probably start with staying healthy for an entire season. and I need to learn to slow the ball down and not try to push Freshman year, she had an emergency appendectomy right before the so hard all the time.” Zkk tournament. Sophomore year, it was a bruised knee and a separated Perhaps Davis and the rest ofthe conference had an ulteoulder that caused her arm to pop out of its socket. Last year, it was a frac- rior motive in mind. red ankle and cracked ribs. “When people start telling you stuff about yourself, it’s Amazingly, these setbacks didn’t result in any missed games, but easy to start believing them and then not work hard,” hweitzer decided to do something during the offseason to lessen her bumps Schweitzer said. Maybe Davis thought it was the only way to derail the player id bruises. In order to work on strength, she started training at a club known that scored in double-figures 28 times in 34 games last year. working with football players. “This guy I worked with actually was a former football player, and we But it will take more than words to stop Schweitzer this year.

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not been what it has been in the For years, the ACC has pridBy 1 NORM BRADLEY past,” N.C. State coach Herb the elite con/-i being itself on -ri ed The Chronicle Sendek said. “Many media I’ve ference in college basketball. A talked to have said as much. Many reads list of conference legends like a who’s who of the sport: Everett Case, Art of you came back, looked at it and said, Ton know, Heyman, Bones McKinney, Lennie Rosenbluth, maybe it was not as down as we’ve said it was.’” The optimism can be attributed to the number David Thompson, Ralph Sampson, Michael Jordan, Duncan on on. of returning players. Twelve of the 15 players who Grant Hill, Tim and and earned All-ACC honors are back this season. Of The ACC is accustomed to being called the counthe six teams expected to challenge for try’s toughest conference, and it has the NCAA tournament births, only three accolades to back it up —at least one from of last year’s starters are missthe conference has team ing—Duke’s Chris Carrawell, reached the Final Four in 12 of North Carolina’s Ed Cota the past 13 years. and N.C. State’s Justin But the last two seasons, Gainey. In an era where the NCAA tournament defections to the NBA selection committee has after two years or less of only given the conference college have become the three invitations to the norm for the sport’s top Dance. Last Big year, players, this stability Virginia became the first should lead to success ACC team with a winin high-pressure postning conference record to situations. season be excluded from the ‘The perception we’re since it tournament gonna put out is that we’re expanded to 64 teams. strong,” Krzyzewski said. This year, all observers “We could have had five or six expect the ACC to dominate teams last year, but we had three. the college basketball landscape That’s the reality of it. This year I once again. think we could have six.” “Tell me of a conference that has a better After the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 seasons, the group of teams than the ACC this year,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. ‘There isn’t one. No way.” conference was hit hard by early defections and In fact, the lack of respect for the conference transfers. Vince Carter, Elton Brand, Antawn has become a rallying point, as each coach,, player Jamison, Will Avery, Courtney Alexander, Loren and team is determined to put the ACC back on top Woods, Corey Maggette, Adam Harrington, Chris of the college basketball heap and earn no less Burgess and Dion Glover all left ACC schools for than six bids to the NCAA tournament. other opportunities. But this year, the conference’s See RETURN OF ACC on page 23 � T think maybe the last couple years, the ACC has

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top seniors—Shane Battier, Terence Morris and Brendan Haywood—all decided to return to school. “I don’t think anything happened to the ACC,” Morris said. “It’s just that a lot ofother conferences stepped it up.” The ACC enters the season with a solid core of premier programs—Duke, North Carolina and Maryland. Each of these schools is, barring injury, virtually assured of a NCAA tournament berth. Duke returns Battier and adds last year’s consensus high school player of the year, Chris Duhon. Maryland returns all its starters from a top-10 team, and adds Tulane transfer Byron Mouton and highly regarded freshman center Chris Wilcox. North Carolina’s most important addition may be new coach Matt Doherty, who has injected an

enthusiasm into the program that has not been seen for several years. ‘To be honest, the ACC is loaded this year,” North Carolina forward Kris Lang said. “Everybody’s got a great team. You can’t sleep on [N.C.I State and Wake Forest either.” However, Duke, Maryland and North Carolina have already been shouldering the load for the conference, as those programs have reached postseason play in each of the last three seasons. The key to the ACC’s improvement is whether the second tier—N.C. State, Virginia and Wake Forest—upgrades. Each team made the NIT tournament last year and has the potential to reach the Big Dance, but all three have serious question marks as the season opens. Most pundits expect Wake Forest to finish fourth and make the tournament.

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ready to make the tournament last year, before fading miserably down the stretch. The program has solid players in Kenny Inge and star-in-the-making Damien Wilkins, but center Damon Thorton’s status is questionable after an

alcohol-related arrest last month. Optimism, nonetheless, remains high throughout the entire league. Still, the ACC has yet to be tested in out-of-conference competition. The ACC/Big Ten Challenge should provide the league with a good yardstick to see if the quality of play matches the hype. Early in the season, each ACC team will face a foe from the Big Ten, a conference that put six teams in the tournament last season. “I think [the ACC is] going to be the best conference in America,” Virginia coach Pete Gillen said. “But now we have to back it up. Talk is easy.”

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Tar Heels try for repeat Final 4 under new coach By KEVIN LLOYD The Chronicle

So how good are the Tar Heels? The truth is, for all that everyone has written, no one is entirely sure. In many ways, this is the same North Carolina team that put together a rather lackluster season last year before pulling things together in the -NCAA tournament and reaching the Final Four. But there have been some changes, starting at the top. The much-maligned Bill Guthridge has stepped down from the helm. After a lessthan-private search for a new coach, the Tar Heels managed to keep things in the family, so to speak, by hiring former player Matt Doherty away from Notre Dame to be their new head coach. Doherty promises to bring a higher level of intensity than did his predecessor. “He’s a lot more energetic,” small forward Jason Capel said. “There is a lot more enthusiasm around here.” As he re-familiarizes himself with the ACC, Doherty will have to cope with the loss of point guard Ed Cota, whose departure leaves the Tar Heels a little thin in the ballhandling department. UNC will most likely fill that vacancy with freshman Adam Boone. Boone was Minnesota’s Mr. Basketball last season. “The hole in the team is the point guard; when I came in, I knew we’d lost one of the best point guards in college basketball history,” Doherty said. “I am not sure what we are going to do exactly, but we’ve gotten some good play out of Adam Boone. Things are working out well.” Although much of the attention has been on the changes, what makes the Tar Heels so dangerous is what has remained the same. North Carolina returns four starters from last season’s Final Four team. Shooting guard Joseph Forte was last season’s ACC rookie of the year. Forte, who averaged 17.6 points per game, became the first freshman in North Carolina history to lead the team in scoring. meanwhile, is Brendan Haywood, arguably the best center in the conference.

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Forte’s future: He may hang out at UNC for some time “I think it opened my eyes,” Forte said. “It showed me that Fm pretty good, but Fm not as good as I think I am.” Since he knows he is not yet able to hold his own against the likes of Vince Carter and Kevin Garnett, Forte has been working hard this preseason on a few aspects of his game he feels need

By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

JOSEPH FORTE slices through the lane for an acrobatic layup Some think Forte is the best guard in the ACC, if not the country.

Whether out of necessity, an underestimation of his talent, or a bit of both, Joseph Forte was a pleasant surprise for North Carolina. Forte—the sophomore, who, at the beginning of last season, was lost among the hype ofrival Duke’s recruiting class. In the end, however, he had carried the ailing Tar Heels to the Final Four. He gathered not only the most outstanding player award in the NCAA South Regional, but also the ACC rookie of the year trophy. This year, Forte plans to be even better. So, now that all preseason indications show that the Tar Heels have pulled themselves up from last year’s regular-season mediocrity, the question becomes, How far can Forte take them this season? Really far. Aside from the fact that he now holds the freshman records for total points and scoring average for one of the country’s most storied programs, he was named a candidate for the preseason Naismith and Wooden awards. Forte, who is arguably the best shooting guard in the country, was also picked to be on the preseason first team of both the All-ACC and All-America squads. “It’s an honor,” the Greenbelt, Md. native said. “I’m happy to be recognized for my play last year and hopefully I can be able to keep it up and rise above some expectations.” By the way, on top of all that, there is that smooth mid-range jump shot coupled with incredible athleticism, so much so in fact, that it reminds more than a few people of another Heels’ shooting guard from nearly two decades ago. That one, of course, was No. 23. However, Forte has a long way to go before people start ranking him alongside the legendary Michael Jordan. This summer, he and a team of college stars played against Dream Team 111 in a friendly exhibition before the pros headed to Australia. They got waxed.

improvement. He has made frequent visits to the gym in order to add a bit of inside muscle, and he’s also been experimenting at the point guard position—something he enjoys—in order to work on ball-handling. “I definitely would like to play point,” Forte said. “Not full time because we have a point guard, but I would like to bring the ball up at times.” Also, new coach Matt Doherty has Forte and the rest of the team running in the offseason, a change from former coaches Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge’s ways. Although Forte recognizes its merits, running is not his favorite exercise. ‘The coaching staff has been great,” Forte said. “They push us a lot. I think it’s definitely going to make the team better. We’re stronger and in better shape. It was the most grueling running I’ve ever done before. It was a mental challenge.” Forte—who has been coached by the likes of Morgan Wooten, high school’s all-time winningest coach, and two-time NCAA Final Four coach Bill Guthridge—has taken a liking to Matt Doherty and the new coaching staff because of their youth and energy. That, coupled with the fact he also enjoys playing amidst the history of Carolina basketball, may extend his tenure in Chapel Hill longer than many would expect. “It’s a special feeling,” Forte said. “I’ve gotten to drain a lot of threes here, but I remember I drained one three to go into overtime against Duke and the crowd just erupted. Just to play in front ofthat every game is a special feeling.”

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Maryland still in search of elusive spot in Elite 8 By GREG VEIS The Chronicle

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With the overwhelming talent that Maryland possesses this year, that one score has the potential to halt any Terrapin title dreams.

The Terps, ACC runner-ups last season, headed into their seventh consecutive NCAA tournament hoping to advance past the Sweet 16 for the first time in what had surely seemed like an eternity. They did not even get the chance. In the second round, the Terps were mugged and expressmailed back to College Park thanks to the abovethe-rim domination by the UCLA Bruins. After a long summer to dwell on that disastrous March evening, Maryland has all five starters returning for a legitimate shot at achieving March Madness glory. “UCLA played really well against us that night,” coach Gary Williams said. “What we take out of it is that we have all these guys back. They lost that one game to UCLA, but they also won 25 games. So we have two things: one positive, one negative. We go from there.” The reason why this team has the ability to advance further than other Maryland installments is simple. When the Terps had either Steve Francis or Joe Smith at the helm in previous years, they had excellent individual players. This season, Maryland has a superb team. The trio of senior Terence Morris and juniors Juan Dixon and Lonny Baxter is among the best in the nation. It also provides the balance that Williams feels is necessary in today’s college basketball landscape. “If you have one guy who can score, in college basketball you can put three guys on him,” Williams said. “When you have two or three or four players who can really score, then it becomes a real problem for opposing defenses.” Both Dixon and Baxter earned first-team All-ACC honors last season, while Morris was relegated to a disappointing, yet respectable spot on the second team. Adept ball-handler Steve Blake and gritty workhorse Danny Miller, who started all 34 games last season, round out the starting lineup.

Don’t believe that Maryland is only five deep either. The Terps can throw in at least three big bodies to replace Baxter, immensely decreasing the starting center’s chances of finding himself in foul trouble. Also, Drew

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Season Outlook Maryland thought it had the team to get past the Sweet 16 last year, until UCLA thumped the Terps by 35 points. Can the Terps do it this season?

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LONNY BAXTER taps back a shot against the Clemson Tigers. Baxter was, at times last season, the conference’s most dominating center. Nicholas can bomb from behind the arc, while Tulane a task they have still not proven to themselves or any transfer Byron Mouton has the quickness to play guard hoopster across the country. Under Williams, the terps have consistently been and the physical toughness to switch to small forward. “We’re going into this year looking to win the national among the most talented teams to fade away come springtime. 105-70 and it’s, “See you next fall.” championship,” Morris said. “Anything less is a disapThe talent is again in place for a title run, but the pointing season because of all the talent on our team.” Despite all that bodes well for the Terps this season, Terps’ mental fortitude will eventually determine whether several lingering questions still haunt this team. Above they bask under the Metrodome lights or once again roll all else, the Terps need to believe they can win the big one, over and play dead come tournament time.

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Morris responds to criticism of ‘disappointing’ season By HAROLD GUTMANN The Chronicle Imagine doing your job in front of tens of thousands of people every night. Now, as if that isn’t stressful enough, imagine your boss is screaming at you the entire time, making even impartial observers nervous. How can you work in an environment like this? “It’s a lot of fun,” said senior Terence Morris, one of

the main targets of Maryland coach Gary Williams’ enthusiasm. “A lot of people see his intensity and his screaming and hollering, but it’s not bad. It’s not to embarrass us or anything like that, it’s for iis to go out there and play to the best of our ability. He just wants us to play up to our ability, that’s all.” At least Williams isn’t the only person putting pressure on Morris. Last year, the media tabbed the forward as the preseason ACC player of the year. Although Shane Battier wrestled away the honor this year, Morris still was placed on the preseason

Still, the increased demands last season taught Morris one valuable thing for this year, as expectations have again been raised. “It’s good for people to pick you, but the main thing is how you finish up at the end of the season,” Morris

All-ACC team. Nonetheless, Morris finds himself with a lot to prove. After a junior year that saw Morris average

15.8 points (seventh in the conference), grab 8.6

rebounds (third), block 2.1 shots (fourth) and gather 1.6 steals (10th), as well as shoot 76 percent from the free-throw line and 37 percent from beyond the arc, the all-around star still had to deal with talk that he underachieved. “A lot of people’s expectations of me last year were so high, that even when your numbers go up, people still criticized me,” said Morris, who added he would have to score 22 points each game to appease some critics. “I think I had a great season.” Still, no one criticized the Terrapins’ results, at least in the regular season. Maryland was 24-9 heading into the NCAA tournament, where it lost in the second round to UCLA by 35 points. Morris was the only upperclassman in a starting lineup that featured freshman point guard Steve Black and three sophomores. Williams gives the senior credit for creating a successful, cohesive unit. “He was supposed to be the guy who scored 25, 30 points a game,” said the coach. “But if you look at any good team, you never see that guy scoring that much anymore. There’s more balance. He allowed Juan MARYLAND SPORTS INFORMATION Dixon and Lonny Baxter to develop as players, and all TERENCE MORRIS posts up against Duke last season. Morris is of a sudden we had a lot of ways to score last year and we will this year too.” once again a preseason favorite for the All-ACC first team.

said. “That’s all people remember about you.” Morris would like to be remembered for one thing; winning the championship. Maryland’s track record has not been good on this count—the team’s loss to UCLA last March continued a long line of bad postseason performances. In fact, the team has never advanced to the Final Four. Still, Morris remains unfazed. “My main goal is to win the championship,” he said. “When I came to Maryland, I didn’t really think about previous teams and what they did. I just wanted to come in and do whatever I could to bring this team to a national championship.” So far, Morris’ ability has only gotten Maryland as far as the third round, but he remains focused on the ultimate prize. When asked if winning in* Cameron Indoor Stadium last season was a great win for the program, Morris used the opportunity to hammer home the point. “That was a good win,” he said. “A great win is winning the championship.” But winning the trophy is not the senior’s only goal in life. Unlike one-year teammate Steve Francis, Morris chose to stay in school and complete his degree. “Being an NBA player is always a little kid’s dream, but as you grow up you get more mature about things and realize basketball’s not everything,” Morris said. ‘There’s other things you can do in case basketball doesn’t work out for you.” This was music to Williams’ ears. “He could have gone out and made a lot of money this year,” Williams said. “But he will be a better player at the end of next season than he was at the end of this past season. Every once in a while, you have a player where you don’t have any ceiling to his game. Terence has a chance to be great, and I don’t say that about a lot of players.”

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Wake draws on NIT championship for confidence By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

Dave Odom has something even Mike Krzyzewski cannot yet claim: a win over Matt Doherty.

Odom’s retooled Wake Forest team whipped Doherty’s Notre Dame squad in the NIT final 71-61 last season in Madison Square Garden. And all it took was one change, which made the 12th-year coach look like a genius: moving Robert O’Kelley from point guard to the wing. O’Kelley had gone through a 14-for-52 slump in January. After the change, the Demon Deacons triumphed in eight of their last nine games, won the NIT, defeated Final Four team North Carolina in the ACC tournament and O’Kelley snagged NIT MVP honors. “I think it helps, but I think every team takes on its own design, its own shape, its own form and you have to redo it every year,” Odom said. “It’s like passing and catching. You have to redefine those skills. As you do that, you build a team. If you don’t do a good job with the fundamentals, the fact that we won the NIT will have no bearing and might even have an

adverse effect on our team.” It seems that O’Kelley, Wake’s leading perimeter threat, has been there forever, but the senior and virtually all of the NIT championship team returns this season. Now the Demon Deacons are hoping to go to the NCAA tournament, something they have not accomplished Since Tim Duncan’s senior season in 1996-1997. The other part of that late January switcheroo was Ervin Murray, who at 6-foot-5 is effective for a tall point guard. Although he rarely shoots, Murray is incredibly accurate from the field and he doesn’t have the turnover problems O’Kelley had. O’Kelley, meanwhile, can always make a cameo at point to stir things up, and backup Broderick Hicks can add variety to the mix. If all else fails, newcomer A.W. Hamilton, a 6-3 point guard from Hargrave Militaiy Academy in Virginia, can lead the team. Indeed, this season’s most pressing question for Wake is whether or not it can continue the dynamic that succeeded so well late last season. “We haven’t worked on defense that much, on purpose,” Odom said. “This year, I thought the potential for our defense to be good is so real, I was afraid that if we started with it,

� Head Coach Dave Odom (221-121)

� ’99- ’OO Finish 22-14, 7-9/sth Beat Notre Dame in NIT finals

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(13.7 ppg. 5.5 rpg)

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Sr.

Season Outlook Robert O’Kelley struggled miserably last season, and his team followed suit... until a switch of positions changed everything for O’Kelley and Wake.

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ROBERT O’KELLEY struggled last season, until Wake Forest coach Dave Odom moved him to shooting guard. we’d never get our offense on track. So we’ve spent 85 perdais. As a freshman, he racked up 103 fouls, further evicent of our time so far on offense.” dence that Wake will continue its physical play. In the post, Darius Songaila returns from a summer Wake’s chief man on the glass will be Rafael Vidaurreta, spent earning bronze at the Olympics with the Lithuanian another returning starter. With only 4.9 points per game national team. Although he provides a lot of consistency, and no more than 11 in any one game, the Spaniard is a he also fouled out of seven games last season. rather limited offensive tool, but that belies his 6.9 Not to be overlooked is sophomore Josh Howard, an athrebounds per game. With recovery from a knee surgery letic small forward. Howard led Wake with 33 blocks and 44 actually a bit ahead of pace, Vidaurreta should begin steals, but he was also a frequent culprit in the eyes of offi- “weight-bearing activities” within the next week or two.

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Lithuanian bruiser improves jumpshot at Olympics Tough guy Darius Songaila, who fouled out seven times last season, has added a new dimension to his game By KEVIN LLOYD

As he returned home with the bronze medal, Songaila was not talking about meeting agents, but Ask the casual sports fan to name one player for the rather the value of the experience. Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and you will almost cer“Every time you play a game you can learn sometainly get the same answer every O’Kelley. thing,” he said. “But when you play against the best in This makes sense at some level. O’Kelley is about to the world, you definitely learn something.” enter his fourth year as an impact player in the conSongaila has returned for ACC play with a much v ference. But while O’Kelley gets all the attention, he improved outside range that should make him a more probably is not even the best player on his team. imposing offensive threat from beyond eight feet. That title goes to junior Darius Songaila. “I think his game has stepped up a level,” Odom Songaila, a 6-foot-9 forward from Marijampole, said. “He’s able to step out on the perimeter and shoot Lithuania, led the Demon Deacons in scoring last shots. Maybe his first couple of years, we would have season with 13.7 points per game. He also averaged cringed a little bit at that. He is making shots, and he 5.7 rebounds. is handling the ball a little more.” But for all he accomplished last season, Songaila is The addition of a jumpshot should be a frightening one of the few players in college basketball who is best prospect for ACC teams that were battered and known for what he did over the summer. bruised by the forward last season. Songaila fulfilled his lifelong dream, representing Songaila is among the most physical players in the his native Lithuania in the Olympics. conference. Unfortunately, the referees did not always “[Lithuanians] don’t grow up thinking about getting look so highly upon Songaila’s use of his body. He to play college ball,” Wake Forest coach Dave Odom totaled 116 personal fouls last season. That is an aversaid. “His dream was not to play in the NBA, because age of better than one foul every seven minutes. that is a world away. His dream was to play for his Songaila also fouled out of eight contests. But when country’s national team, and he accomplished that.” he was able to avoid the fouls, he put up some domiSongaila made the most of the opportunity. He nating performances. logged significant minutes, and made them count, Songaila scored 22 points and pulled down nine averaging 9.6 points and 4.8 rebounds. rebounds in the ACC tournament semifinals last year Moreover, he didn’t rack up those totals in games against Virginia. During the regular season, he scored against countries no one can locate on a map. Songaila 25 points against Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium. scored 16 points against Dream Team in round-robin His efforts last season earned him third-team Allplay, and added 12 against the U.S. in a semifinal game ACC honors. that was within a three-pointer of being perhaps the A strong regular season established him as one of biggest upset in basketball history. the conference’s better forwards, but perhaps the Needless to say, Songaila’s play earned him a lot of most important thing Songaila demonstrated was attention back in the United States. his ability to step up his play when Wake Forest ‘The day after he scored 16 points against the needed it. United States, you know at least five agents called,” Songaila had a double-double against New Mexico Odom said. in the second round of the NIT, and 18 points against The Chronicle

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DARIUS SONGAILA drives against Temple last season. Songaila spent the summer playing for the Lithuanian Olympic team. Notre Dame to lead the Demon Deacons to the tournament championship. This season, he hopes to finally lead them to the Big Dance

“We’re ready to start the season,” Songaila said. “Everybody is real excited about what we can do this year. I think the conference is stronger than it was last year.... But I expect that we can prove that we are an NCAA-caliber team.”

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UVa regroups after selection committee snubbing By ADRIENNE MERCER The Chronicle

Don’t discount our quiet rivals up north this year. The slow and steady Virginia Cavaliers have made improvements that might propel them into the top flight of the ACC this season. Last year, UVa finished with 19 wins and tied for third in the ACC regular-season standings, but one thing was missing from its unexpected season: an invitation to the NCAA tournament. “I don’t think it’s something that’s going to knock anybody’s head off, but subtly we’ve improved,” coach Pete Gillen said. “We’re going to be a little better than people think.”

Gillen will do everything possible to achieve that goal this season. From a team trip to Europe in the summer to recruiting an excellent freshman class, Gillen has been searching for away to meet raised expectations. “We were over in Europe for 11 days and played six games over there,” Gillen said. “For the most part, guys played well, but other guys ran over old ladies going to the confession stand and killed a fewr innocent bystanders. Another guy hit a maintenance man in the back of the head so we got a law suit, but other than that we did all right.” In the backcourt, Donald Hand and Adam Hall provide the Wahoos with depth and experience, two areas that were lacking last season. “I think we have good quickness and we’re getting stronger as a team,” Gillen said. “Our quickness and depth are certainly positives, and we have more experience.” Also, the Cavs are expecting big things out of guard Keith Friel, who averaged 17 points per game during the team’s trip to Europe. “He’s a pathological shooter,” Gillen said. “Some guys steal, lie or beat people up; he’s got to shoot the ball. His rule is when he sees the rim, he shoots' it.” As a unit, the Cavaliers displayed dramatic improvements on the offensive end and finished behind only Duke, the highest-scoring team in the nation. In the frontcourt, Virginia has Chris Williams returning to rack up the points. The junior led the team in scoring last

year and scored in double-figures 27 times. “Chris is very versatile. He can play either forward position and can play some big guard if needed,” Gillen said. “He can block shots, create

Head Coach Pete Gillen (33-28)

’99- ’OO Finish 19-12, 9-7/T3rd Lost to Georgetown in NIT

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CHRIS WILLIAMS tries to find a seam in the defense. Williams scored in double-figures 27 times last season.

steals, he gets deflections and helps you in a lot of subtle ways on the defensive end that people don’t always see.” With Williams leading the way, Virginia’s defense created problems for the rest ofthe league last season. The Cavaliers forced a higher differential of turnovers than anyone in the ACC, finishing the season with a turnover margin of +4.5. Still, there’s always away to upgrade. “Our defense has to improve a little bit. I think we’re a pretty good defensive team Gillen said. “We play full ”

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court with a different style that creates a lot of turnovers, but we’ve got to do a little better job on our perimeter defense and our half-court defense.” With rebounding, the Cavs will have to take some of the burden off sophomore power forward Travis Watson, who led Virginia on the glass last season. “We have to do a better job of rebounding,” Gillen said. “Travis did a great job as a power forward playing center last season, but he needs some more help.”

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