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Cross country runs aground The men's and women's cross country teams finished lower than they would have hoped at the NCAA tournament yesterday. See page 12

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Blue Devils squeak by Penn State Duke launches No. 3 Duke genomics center edges No. 9 By DAVE INGRAM

Nittany Lions by 1 point

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By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle

88 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Late Penn St. 87 in the first half, the 9,001 Nittany Lions fans in attendance sensed an upset was in the making, but Duke’s Crystal ball said otherwise. Crystal White, who made scant contributions in Duke’s first three victories, jump-started the Blue Devils from the defensive end late in the first half.

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Meanwhile, fellow freshmen Alana Beard and Iciss Tillis each

poured in career-highs as No. 3 Duke withheld a few attempts at late-game heroics by No. 9 Penn State last night in an 88-87 thriller at Bryce Jordan Center. “I just thought it was an excellent basketball game; both teams played with a lot of heart,” Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. “You had a feeling it was going to come down to the last second. We are very excited to come away with a win.” See PENN STATE on page 14 >

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FRESHMAN GUARD ALANA BEARD scored 21 points in 25 minutes to lead the Blue Devils to a razor-thin margin of victory.

The University entered a new era in the field of genetic research Monday with the formal launch of its Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. During a daylong program that culminated with a panel discussion moderated by President Nan Keohane, officials from a diversity of backgrounds inaugurated the $2OO million institute, which promises to catapult Duke to a prominent role in genome research and public policy. The discussion was immediately preceded by a keynote address from panelist Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute and Medical School 77, who discussed the importance of genetic research but also explained some of the complexities involved in the relatively new field. “The practical applications of genomics permeate all aspects of our culture and how we express ourselves,” he told a crowd of about 300 gathered in Reynolds Theater. “The single most important and dramatic discussion in biology in the next century will play itself out at this type of institution.” Describing some of the specifics of cancer research, Klausner exalted the ability of genetic information to determine cancer risks. Cancer is caused by a “genetic instability,” he explained, that results in diseased cells after a series of six to 10 stages. Using a person’s genetic information, he continued, doctors are able to better determine a patient’s susceptibility to certain cancers. While he praised the value of such technology, Klausner warned about some ofits pitfalls, including the public’s ironic tendency to put too much value on genes.“Genetics in virtually all cases is about shifting our understanding of risk, not about determining absolute fates,” he said. “Genomic information is just one filter of probability.” See GENOMICS on page 7

ELECTION 2000 �

Florida Supreme Court hears hand count arguments By R.W. APPLE

groping toward a timetable of their own devising that would allow the disputed WASHINGTON The resolution of manual recounting of votes to proceed a momentous political question—who but still permit the legal underbrush to will be the next president of the United be cleared away in time for Florida to States—passed Monday, at least for participate fully in national political denow, into the hands of the justices of the cision-making. Florida Supreme Court, seven men and And they seemed to be raising the women little known in their state let possibility that their decision would not alone the nation as a whole. be a straight yes-or-no verdict on Their verdict, even if it is challenged whether to count contested votes. in other courts of law, will powerfully inFor all the learned discussions of fluence whatever ensues in the struggle chad, certifications and the like, several for Florida’s pivotal 25 electoral votes. of the judges, especially Chief Justice What their verdict will be, or when it will Charles Wells, seemed to be focusing come, remains unclear, but it was evident most intently on the possibility that the from their questions what worried them. legal wrangling would still be taking The Florida justices are appointed place on Dec. 12. Federal law specifies but subsequently face retention elec- that by that date, six days before electors tions, and they know a little about the meet to vote, a “final determination of practicalities of politics. So they seemed any controversy or contest” under state to be searching for some way to reconcile law must be completed if the choice of competing imperatives; how to ensure electors is to be deemed conclusive. Whether the specter of 1876 loomed in that the vote of every Floridian would be counted, to the degree possible, without theirminds, no one could say. In that year, taking so long that the final result no conclusive right to the electoral votes NEWSMAKERS would come too late to be reflected in of four states was ever established at the the Electoral College. state level, and ultimately Congress, act- FLORIDA SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES WELLS and the court heard arguments from See ELECTION on page 6 � Republican and Democratic lawyers yesterday. They are expected to rule in the next few days. They seemed, in other words, to be N.Y. Times News Service

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Israel rejects United Nations observer force The Palestinian U.N. envoy called Monday for quick deployment of U.N. observers to protect Palestinians against a “dangerous escalation” of violence. But Israel again rejected the force, insisting on peace talks. Prosecution rests in Lockerbie case The prosecution rested in the Lockerbie trial Monday, calling as its last witness Pierre Salinger, the former ABC News correspondent and press the in spokesman Kennedy White House. Concerns grow over Lyme disease vaccine Federal authorities are investigating people who received the vaccine against Lyme disease and later developed severe cases of arthritis and even Lyme disease itself as a result.

Airlines face labor trouble as holidays near Two major U.S. airlines, United and Northwest, wrestled Monday with labor disputes that could disrupt the busy holiday travel season as early as this week. A slowdown has already resulted in flight delays and cancellations. Holocaust survivors dispute settlement Many victims who suffered under Adolf Hitler’s rule appeared in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to offer arguments about the distribution of the cash given by Swiss Banks as lawsuit settlement money in July. Ben & Jerry’s appoints new executive A Unilever eecutive was appointed chief executive at Ben & Jerry’s Morlday in what may mean a speedy exit for the ice cream company’s hippiecapitalist co-founders.

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Peru president Fujimori resigns With a resignation letter from Japan, he caused turmoil over his successor his “errors” but decade in power.

By BILL CORMIER Associated Press

Fujimori’s resignation caught the country’s leadership off guard and angered allies who complained he should have stepped down at home. The president was on a visit to Japan and issued his decision in a letter to Congress President Valentin Paniagua. “I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic,” Fujimori wrote in the letter, a copy of which was faxed to The Associated Press by the Peruvian government. The opposition wrestled control of Congress away from Fujimori last week for the first time since his

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Fujimori, who brought leftist insurgencies and economic chaos to heel

but ran roughshod over Peruvian democracy, cut short a third term and resigned Monday. The son of Japanese immigrants, Fujimori soared into office 10 years ago in a stunning election upset. But he has left popular indignation and confusion as Peru struggles to find his successor. His popularity eroded by a corruption scandal he was unable to control, Fujimori sent a resignation letter to the president of Congress Monday that acknowledged

own 1992 coup in which he seized unprecedented powers. He closed an opposition-controlled Congress, drafted a new constitution and took special powers he deemed needed ,

to battle Marxist insurgents. In the letter Monday, Fujimori said his support crumbled. “I am the first to acknowledge that there is a new political scenario in the nation,” he wrote. In Japan, officials said Fujimori had not requested political asylum. But Mary Countryman, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council, said Monday that Peruvian officials have informed the U.S. government that Fujimori will stay in Japan indefinitely.

Japanese leader survives challenge By HOWARD FRENCH N.Y. Times News Service

TOKYO After a week of parliamentary hardball, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori narrowly escaped a noconfidence vote Tuesday from within his own party. The no-confidence measure fizzled out in a session of Parliament when a major faction of the governing Liberal Democratic Party decided to abstain before the vote. That ended a game that involved stem threats of punishment by the party for those who might make common cause

was delayed Monday when a supporter ofMori’s threw a glass of water on opposition members after they booed his speech. Angry opposition members then rushed the dais, and the session was suspended until

order could be restored. Many political observers said that Mori’s survival as prime minister is likely to be brief. The compromises to prevent his forcible eviction from office probably included a back-room agreement by governing party elders to ease him from office gracefully in the near future. with the opposition. The crisis in the long-governing party was brought In the vote held earlyTuesday morning in the 480-seat about last week when Koichi Kato, a former party secbody, there were 237 votes against the measure and 190 retary general and foreign minister who has long in favor. More than 50 members boycotted the vote. aimed for the prime minister’s seat, declared that his In a measure of the high political tension, the vote faction within the party would abstain in the vote.

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Genomics

certificate takes shape Graduate School administrators are preparing to debut the certificate program in bioinforraatics in fall 2001. By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

Following a national trend of developing new fields to deal with advancements in genetic research, the graduate school has begun work on a new certificate program in bioinformatics and genome technology. Administrators hope that the certificate program, which will be offered through the Institute ofStatistics and Decision Sciences and the Department of Genetics, will be a first step in the creation offull degree granting program. When the program debuts in fall 2001, it will only be available to students currently in doctoral programs. “I think it’s pretty exciting, and we hope it will be a positive step for us,” said Lewis Siegel, dean of the Graduate School. “It is the way biological science is going, and it’s something we had to do. Very few people in the United States are trained in this, and there’s an unbelievable market demand for those who are trained in bioinformatics.” To respond to this increasing deSee BIOINFORMATICS on page 6

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THE DURHAM CITY COUNCIL picked Slavin Management Consultants last night to direct their search for outgoing City Manager Lament Ewell’s replacement.

City council selects interim manager By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

lieve Mr. Bethea had greater seniority within the organization.” Mayor Nick Tennyson agreed. “[Bethea has] extensive experience with almost all of the operational departments of the city,” he said. “He has been in a leadership position as assistant city manager for a very long period of time.” Bethea said he had not yet determined his interim plans. “I haven’t really had a chance to sit down with council members to see what priorities they want me to address,” he said. “There’s certainly a lot

cil had not made an explicit decision to vote unanimously. The Durham City Council unaniThe council also selected a search mously appointed the more senior of firm, Slavin Management Consultants, Durham’s two assistant city managers to find a permanent replacement for to the post of inEwell—a task they hope to complete terim city manwithin six months. ager at a meeting Tennyson said the new city manager last night. should be able to deal with Durham’s Gregory unique needs. “Durham is a city that Bethea, who has needs a manager who is able to work in served as assisan environment of rich diversity and tant city managwho can bring creative solutions to bear er since 1985, on our problems or challenges with our will replace Lamkind of redevelopment,” Tennyson said. ent Ewell as city on our plate.” Ewell also pointed out some of the manager starting Gregory Bethea McKissick said the council had dis- challenges Bethea and his permanent Dec. 28, after cussed both candidates in the closed sesreplacement will face. Ewell leaves to become assistant city sion, but that the number of members “I think at this point it will just be to manager for San Diego, Calif. who were opposed to the choice of continue to work on the American ToThe council members met in a closed Bethea had not been significant. bacco [project]... and to work on the session preceding the meeting to decide He explained that the 13-0 vote in 5,000-seat theater,” Ewell said. “I think whom to appoint as interim city managfavor of Pedersen reflected the council’s we need good smart growth as a princier. John Pedersen, the other assistant desire to present a united front behind ple ofphilosophy.” city manager, was also considered for the interim city manager. Bethea said he was not interested in the position. “I think everybody believed there becoming permanent city manager. “I think they were both excellent canwas a need to show unanimous support Tennyson said he did not know if didates who could have served equally for the person we chose as city managPedersen would apply for the permawell as our interim city manager,” said er,” McKissick said. nent position, and that he was not council member Floyd McKissick. “I beTennyson agreed, but said the counaware of any other internal candidates.

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By SHALINI BONGU The Chronicle For a short time this month, a Pulitzer Prize-winner was on the Department of English’s faculty. Richard Ford, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day spent last week visiting with students as part of a new take on the department’s Blackburn Professorship. Ford’s visit marks the first time a writer in this program has come to Duke for such an abbreviated period. In the past, the program brought authors for a semester as visiting professors. Recently, the department condensed the program into a workshop-packed week. “This is an experiment,” said Maureen Quilligan, chair of the English department. The department has already invited a poet to come in the spring, and if all goes well, the project will be continued in future years. For this pilot visit, professor of English and novelist Joe Porter invited Ford to visit the campus for a week. Quilligan noted that the Blackburn Professorship was often hard to fill, especially given funding concerns. “It’s difficult to get [writers! to stay for a whole semester. You have to pay them as much as they would make hacking away on their typewriter...,” she said. “And right now, the Blackburn Professorship doesn’t have enough funding.” During his stay, Ford lectured in classes, gave a reading in the Rare Book Room, and chatted and snacked with budding writers. He even had office hours. Ford said he tried to show young writers the impact they could have on readers. “Writing can’t be taught like chemistry. It’s an art...,” he said. “It can be encouraged, entertained, but you can’t tell [students] that writing is necessarily their vocation. There are a lot of drawbacks to it, a lot of reasons for people not ,

to succeed.” Ford said the best part of his visit has been “sitting down in a relaxed manner with students... being assured that they are interested in literature, knowing that what I’ve dedicated my life to has consequences, that it’s not just self-interested.” Quilligan said Ford’s visit was successful because he

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Richard Ford spent a week lunching with and lecturing to English faculty and students. made himself accessible to students. She noted that he was chosen because he seemed like someone “who would give good value in a short, intensive time.” And students seemed to enjoy their time with the writer. “Ford obviously knew what he was talking about and did an excellent job of leading class discussion,” Joshua Simko, a first-year law student, said. He slid into the role of professor easily.”

James Silver, another law student, said he appreciated Ford’s openness. “He’s totally willing to talk about his style ofwriting as well as his life,” he said. “He told us about why he writes and how. Does he get up at 8:00 in the morning and write in a dark room? Does he write at cafes?” -

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Eight students treated for alcohol-related trauma

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Eight students were treated for overconsumption of alcohol this past weekend, most late Saturday night and early Sunday morning. All of them were underage, and five were freshmen. The seven students sent to the Emergency

Department brings the total number of

Duke students sent 1 OLICE to the emergency |}|? p rrc UKij room this year to 34, Avm nD up eigi t over the total number of students sent there during all of fall 1999. At 11:08 p.m. Nov. 18, Durham EMS found am intoxicated 20-year-old student who had slipped and hit his head in a shower in Sigma Alpha Epsilon Dormitory, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department. He was taken to the Emergency ,

Department. At 1:42 a.m. Nov. 19, Duke Police and Duke and Durham EMT found an intoxicated 18-year-old student who was vomiting on the first floor of Wanna-

maker Dormitory. Durham EMS transported the student to the Duke Emer-

gency Department. At 1:54 a.m. Nov. 19, Campus Police and Duke EMS found an intoxicated 18year-old student who had vomited several times on the third floor of Randolph Dormitory. The police transported the student to the Emergency Department. At 2:19 a.m. Nov. 19, Campus Police found an intoxicated 18-year-old student who was vomiting on Edens Drive near Kappa Sigma Dormitory. The police transported the student to the

Emergency Department.

At 3:05 a.m. Nov. 19, Campus Police, Duke EMS and Durham EMT found an intoxicated 20-year-old female student on the third floor ofHouse G. She refused to be taken to the Emergency Department. At 4:59 a.m. Nov 19, Duke Police, Duke EMS and Durham EMT found an intoxicated 18-year-old student who was vomiting and complaining of chills on

the first floor of Alspaugh Dormitory. Duke Police transported the student to the Emergency Department. Another 18-year-old student was

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taken to the Emergency Department at 1 a.m. Nov. 18. Assistant Dean for Judicial Affairs Stephen Bryan said that another junior went to the emergency room at 3 a.m. Nov. 19. Neither the police nor Bryan had any details yesterday.

Police respond: In response to last Friday’s release of David Patrick Malone, the man who entered President Nan Keohane’s office Sept. 6 and threatened to kill himself with a loaded gun, DUPD has stepped up security in the Allen Building and around Keohane’s office specifically. As part of the increased security measures, a police officer has been stationed at the entrance to the second floor.

Group dispersed: At 2:30 a m. Nov.

the Brodie Recreation Center or on Central Campus, Dean said. There were no signs of forced entry, into the vehicle.

Student charged: At 2:45 a.m. Nov. 18, Campus Police charged a student with possession of beer by a person under 21 years of age, Dean said. He was standing at the West Campus bus stop holding a 24-pack of Icehouse beer. The student, freshman Russell Bennett Cook, said he was with his brother, who is over 21, and that he was simply moving the beer. Cook has a court date Jan. 3.

Student charged: Early in the morning of Nov. 18, police were called to Few Quadrangle in reference to students hitting golf balls through the first and second floor windows of Wayne Manor

19, Campus Police responded to Sigma Nu Dormitory in reference to a reported fight, Dean said. They found a student with a busted lip, who said he had been in a fight with a resident of the dorm. The officer was unable to identify the other student involved in the fight, and then the officer left the area. The officer returned when a group of residents of the injured student’s dorm—SAE—had gathered in front of Sigma Nu. The officer cleared them from the area.

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that between 6:45 and 9 p.m. Nov. 18, someone stole the $663 rear bumper from his 1999 Saab, which was parked on Whitford Drive near the grandstands of the baseball field, Dean said.

Wallet taken: Between 1 a.m. and 12 p.m. Nov. 18, someone stole a student’s $25 wallet containing $l5O cash and credit cards from the back floorboard of her secured vehicle, which was parked a

Dormitory, Dean said. They found one student swinging a golf club near the entrance to Round Table Dormitory and another standing with him. The students began to run, and one was apprehended. He was charged with $lOO worth of damage to real property, underage possession of an alcoholic beverage and resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer. The student, freshman Paul Stranahan Miller, said he was with other students but was caught because he stopped for the police officer. He reported that a group of students were playing quad golf and accidentally hit a window, but that he never hit a ball. He said the policeman, Officer Steven Wong, told him to hire a lawyer and that ‘“these things usually take care of themselves in court.’” Miller’s court date is Jan. 3.

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Attorneys disagree over court’s schedule-making ELECTION from page I ing on the recommendations of a special 15-member commission, chose the presi�

dent, splitting along partisan lines. But some of the justices certainly seemed to have in mind the possibility of a similar sequence of events with regard to Florida this year. They made it clear that the ostensible question before the court, whether the votes now being manually recounted would count, was only part of the problem. “What I’m concerned about,” Wells commented at one point, “is the rights of those voters who may not have their votes counted, if we don’t honor the recounted votes, and the rights 0f... all the voters who might have their rights denied if the certification doesn’t get in within the time limit and on the basis that it will be accepted.”

Justice R. Lewis made the point that recounts “come to the eve of rethe if porting day” Dec. 12, there would be “insufficient time, just as matter of fact,” for either candidate to contest the result. So they started counting back from Dec. 12, trying to figure out how much time would be needed to complete the manual recounts in three counties, for those to be certified, for Vice President A1 Gore or Gov. George W. Bush to contest the recounts, and for the contests to clear the courts. Several judges even asked the lawyers, without success, to suggest dates to them. Presuming that mounting and adjudicating the contests would take something like a week, two weeks would be available to complete the recounts. Officials in Dade-Miami have suggested that they need more time than that.

There was disagreement among the lawyers in the courtroom about the wisdom of the court stepping in to draw up

a timetable that would deal not only

with the requirements of state election law but also the special circumstances of a presidential election. David Boies, the lead lawyer for Gore, said: “I think it is clearly within the power of this court to say, in order to meet the date of Dec. 12, you’ve got to have all of your votes manually counted that are going to be included in this initial certification by a particular date, and then the contest, if there is one, takes place between that date and Dec. 12.” But with his eye fixed squarely on the political as well as legal realities, Boies added that he would want the court to specify that the initial certifica-

tion would not definitively establish

which electors had won, pending the outcome of any contest. The Gore camp has long contended that any move in that direction would prove a psychological setback to their effort. Wells pressed Joseph R Klock Jr., the lawyer for Katherine Harris, the Florida secretary of state, along the same lines that he had pressed Boies, asking him: “On what date does the secretary of state take the position that her duty to certify those votes is going to be jeopardized?” Klock stuck to the argument that Harris has used from the start, that she “is mandated to certify the election results seven days after the election and then to pick up the overseas ballots later.” The state Supreme Court issued an order Friday temporarily barring her from doing so.

Certificate program-building presents unique challenges � BIOINFORMATICS from page 3 mand, a number ofother universities have already created their own bioinformatics programs. Both lowa State University and Boston University, which both started up their programs within in last five years, have relied heavily on government funding. Government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have been generous in funding schools that have expressed an in-

terest in bioinformatics. bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies data from genomics and DNA research. Converting data from such research into numerical form, scientists can program computers to interpret various genetic factors and make predictions of possible DNA combinations.

Scientists believe bioinformatics applications are endless, and include predicting reactions to medicines and determining the origins of some genetic abnormalities. “We’re looking at ways to deal with that large amount of genomic information there is out there,” said recently named Vice Provost for Research Jim Siedow, who will serve as the program’s director until one is tapped next year. “We take genomics studies, statistics and computational biology and use those disciplines to make computer algorithms that will help us interpret that data.” Taking the elements of each department and fusing them together to create bioinformatics is proving no easy task. Duke had no courses dedicated to bioinformatics and had to create all new classes for the certificate.

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said that the move is particularly timely as Perkins readies itself for a multi-million-dollar renovation. Perkins is an obvious choice because that’s where many students choose to work,” said junior Ben Allen, Duke Student Government co-director of computing. “Having wireless access will make it easier for them to work.” The concept behind wireless technology is fairly simple. Wireless communication is made possible via an access point. The shoe-box size access point acts as a transmitter, emitting radio signals over a range of about 500 feet. The addition of wireless technology to specific areas on campus has gone remarkably smoothly thus far. OIT officials say they deploy the new systems with great caution and confidently predict only minimal problems. A larger concern is whether students will use the new system. Though few complain about the working of the Bryan Center system, general awareness and use remains fairly low. Freshman Katherine Thorpe said she did not even know wireless technology was available. “Of course, since I don’t have a laptop, it doesn’t really matter,” she said. For those that do have laptops, a wireless card will cost them about $l5O. “While our sense is that we will continue to need our wired access to the network, many portable devices will be able to take advantage of wireless access in the near future,” Pickett said.

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say the cure is worse than the disease by reinforcing the idea that genetics determine our fate.” The issue of whether employers should have access to genetic information also raised concern among panelists. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed out that such privacy is already a myth because emergency room patients must waive their rights to privacy. “If we think we are going to get privacy from our boss, I think we’re kidding ourselves,” he said, adding that genetic information also risks the privacy of family members whose genes are related to those of an employee. Eventually returning to what they described as the public’s ignorance about genetics, the experts emphasized the role that the new institute would play in debating ethical questions of genomics.

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Administrator soup In case you were confused, the following is a joke. is a time for sharing and giving. It is a time to offer your help to those who are less fortunate. That’s why several members ofthe Duke community headed yesterday to a local kitchen. Oddly, President Nan Keohane chose not to go, and soup instead stood outside ringing a bell next to a jar labeled “The Capital Campaign Army.” According to most sources—except Vice President for Community Affairs and Government Relations John Bumess—what happened inside was, well, less than a complete success. For some members ofthe community, especially the media, it was hard to get into this soup kitchen. The Herald-Sun of Durham tried to see the benevolent administrators in action, but Board ofTrustees Chair Spike Yoh and University Secretary Alison Haltom stood like two powerful roadblocks, halting the press’ access. In any case, The Chronicle was not planning on covering the excitement, and only wanted to take a picture, as Thanksgiving is an annual event. Duke University Hospital CEO Mike Israel arrived early with a team of high-powered lawyers to break up an effort, led by the now-homeless David Miller, to organize the soup kitchen regulars into a local of the International Union of Operating Engineers. Apparently, they were demanding better food and comfier beds. Some ofthe homeless activists included former residents ofOld House CC, led by Duke Student Government President Jordan Bazinsky. Sources also report that there were some major problems with the distribution of food at the event. Jim Wulforst, director of Dining Services, announced that most ofthe food for the homeless would be arriving late. He estimated the Thanksgiving meal would be delayed until at least Dec. 1. However, the absence of food did not stop mens’ basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski from naming all of the turkeys “Coach K Turkeys.” Others suggested that he name some of the hams for himself. While everyone was waiting for the food, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Jim Clack urged all of the homeless people to eat in moderation, warning them that eating too much and too rapidly could cause a “big bad belly-ache.” There were difficulties with the entertainment as well. Jim “Laz” Lazarus brought a band to play at the shelter, but no one really paid attention. Most of the homeless were distracted by a ruckus in the line for food. Head Line Monitor Norm Bradley ejected Assistant Dean for Judicial Affairs Todd Adams for posing as a homeless person to get a free meal. He was not wearing a bracelet. Meanwhile, when the ruckus started, Kacie Wallace, associate dean for judicial affairs, looked the other way. The only successful part ofthe entertainment was former head football coach Fred Goldsmith, who described how every single homeless person looked like either Robin Williams, Joe Pesci or Molly Ringwald. Some administrators were involved in other ways, except for Dean of the Chapel William Willimon. Taking his lead from The Chronicle Editorial Board, Willimon spent the entire time sitting on a pedestal, taking down observations and passing judgment. The Chronicle wishes its readers a relaxing and happy Thanksgiving.

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Letters to the Editor

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team

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It is with some dismay commercials and coverage), I and frustration that we have suggest that the Duke footwitnessed a no-win football ball administrators begin season to be added to other inputting Ivy League schools not too successful schedules. into the schedule. I realize this takes a long Therefore, not considering the financial rewards of time to accomplish, but it playing such teams as can be done and is sure to Florida State and North build renewed team spirit Carolina (like television and support. I do remember

Gothic Queers respond Gothic Queers, Queer Grads and Duke Allies feel that the Duke Conservative Union’s Nov. 2 and Nov. 14 full page ads criticizing the current challenge to the University policy banning same-sex unions in the Chapel warrant a response. It is no longer productive to engage in a debate in

which we will clearly begin and end on opposite ends of the spectrum, as we have done time and time again. Instead, we have decided collectively that our energy would be better spent helping others. To this end, we will be conducting a fundraiser that seeks to raise the amount of money DCU spent on its full page ads

that in the past, Duke did play Penn and might have played other Ivy teams. Now that Duke is equating itself as an “Ivy-type” school why not include some of the Ivy schools in the schedule? Joseph Cooper Trinity ’5O

to DCU’s

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($1,000) and will then donate this money to several Triangle area charities. To accomplish this, we will be tabling the week of Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the Bryan Center Walkway with a collection box for donations. We have decided to donate to three organizations: different First, we will adopt a family for Project Share. Then, we will give the excess proceeds raised Monday through Thursday to Lambda Youth Network. Finally, any money we collect on Friday, World AIDS Day, will go to a local AIDS organization.

marginalized in our communities. It is our hope that this action, which will be our only “official” response to DCLTs letters, will remind the University community to think carefully and thoughtfully about how we can spend our time and money for a better purpose.

We encourage everyone on campus to come out and support our efforts to help rather than hinder those who are

And 24 others The writers are members of Gothic Queers, Queer Grads and Duke Allies.

Katy

Wischow Trinity ’O2

Jules Sewer Trinity ’O2

Michael McElroy Trinity ’Ol

XA. defends undergrads against Willimon’s Venom’ I take issue with the slaphaphazard academic perin-the-face doled out to the formance,” I see (and factual undergraduate student body research can show) things in Dean of the Chapel quite differently. William Willimon’s recent Did Willimon know that report, “Old Duke, New when election season rolls Duke.” From the excerpts around, over 30 percent of cited in the Nov. 17 Chronicle, Duke students engage in the “study” seems rife with political activity that goes overgeneralizations. What is beyond the simple act of voteven more unfortunate is the ing? Willimon, while your paper’s lack of rigorous report portrays Duke students as “savvy consumers” looking analysis and its condescending attitude to the young for “their ticket to power in a adults who have chosen to lucrative profession,” why is it attend Duke. As an example, that when I walk into the referring to the students I Bryan Center on Career Day, I teach as “adolescents” and see more students lined up at portraying them as minors in the Teach for America” inforneed of “adult supervision” is mation area than at the lucraa petty and unwarranted tive dot-com tables? attack upon a talented group If Willimon wants to begin of hard working citizens, a responsible conversation Although Willimon appears regarding alcohol consumpto view undergraduates as a tion and young adults, try bunch of rowdy drunks who looking look at published, “have too little to do, too peer-reviewed work on the much discretionary time, and subject. The conclusions made too little accountability for by public health officials writ-

for referenced

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ing articles in journals such as Public Health Reports and College Student Journal find that the tendency toward over consumption is driven largely by America’s draconian 21year-old minimum drinking age. Rather than make an almost certain-to-fail attempt at establishing zero-tolerance policies on American campuses, people like you who are concerned with the dangers around binge drinking would be well advised to rethink the consequences of such laws. In closing, Willimon, a common phrase heard at Duke football games this year is “Back Duke or Back Off.” My suggestion is that you remember this statement the next time you have the urge to unwarranted spew your venom at the undergraduates.

Thomas Scotto Graduate Student, Department of Political Science

story, see http:/ / www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle / 2000/11 / 17/ 01Deanofchapel.html

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He told us about why he writes and how. Does he get up at 8:00 in the morning and write in a dark room? Does he write at cafes? Law student James Silver, referring to Pulitzer Prize winning author James Ford’s week-long visit to the University (see story, page four)

Announcement Do you have an opinion? Do you want to share it with over 30,000 people? The Chronicle is looking for columnists for the Spring 2001 semester. Are you only interested in being funny? The Chronicle is also looking for next semester’s Monday, Monday. Interested applicants should e-mail mfbs@duke.edu for more information. Applications are available outside 301 Flowers Building. The deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 28.

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Willimon misses the target

Although the Dean of the Chapel’s report brings up important problems, it offers mediocre solutions Giulianis corner

where the University has progressed and strayed from its “founding vision.” Duke is now one of the country’s leading

research universities, not the small, undistinguished, mediocre pseudo-community college it was in Jimmy D’s day. Dave Nigro It would be a step backward to cling to the outdated visions of a long-dead This past Friday, Dean of the Chapel tobacco magnate. William Willimon released his report on Willimon also derides the modern undergraduate life at the University. I do conception that we are merely, “somenot know why he even wasted his time. what savvy consumers.... Surely this is He could have gotten that information by a perversion of the term higher educatalking to any undergraduate over coffee. tion.” Here, Willimon displays more outThe report is filled with points that dated visions of the concept of a univerhave been widely known for years. Not sity. The fact is that we are consumers only did Willimon not cover any new of education. We should view ourselves ground, but also in that manner. much of his analyOur $33,000 a year sis clearly misses is buying us the not cannot opportunity the target. I wonto der why he was explore the acasame concept chosen for such a demic world. We study instead of should be able to as someone with and demand

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more expertise in

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have the of education James Duke did in 1924.

the field. We should leave religion to the clergy and education to the educators One ofWillimon’s main points is that the University has strayed from its original purpose. He says that the founder’s, “noble originating purposes of the liberal education of the young” is being corrupted by the modem research university. He is right, but this “corruption” is not a bad thing. The founder’s vision (and by founder I mean James Duke, not the founders of Trinity College) is obsolete. We should not and cannot have the same concept of education as James Duke did in 1924. James Duke’s vision also did not include the equal education of women or minority groups. That is just one area

obtain

tion means nothing if it is forced. Only professors who want to interact with students positively contribute to their students’ education. This type ofinteraction

cannot be institutionalized. Willimon is correct, however, in his assessment of the University’s teaching. The University places absolutely no value on the quality of a professor’s teaching ability. A professor’s researching ability, measured by the number of papers published and the amount of grant dollars acquired, is the sole determinant of a professor’s worth. Professors with higher values are granted tenure to cement their careers as academics. This system has given us a world-class research faculty but not necessarily one that has any interest in undergraduate teaching. By opposing an organized course evaluation, this faculty resists any attempt to hold it accountable for its teaching ability. I know that course eval-

uations are “in the works,” but that has been the case all my years here at Duke. The closest we came to an honest evaluation system, DUET, was closed down after only a few months of service. I join Willimon in asking the University for policies that reward and encourage undergraduate teaching. As consumers of education, we should have proof that the education we buy is of the quality the University would like us to believe. Willimon’s report does little other than to crystallize just some of the problems we have been living with for years. Although his evaluations are sometimes off the mark, Willimon has at least formed a list of issues for the administration to address. It is from this starting point that the University can begin to fix some of the problems that have plagued it for most its recent history.

Dave Nigro is a Trinity senior.

certain

things from the University. This is not a perversion of

higher education; this is being an intelligent consumer.

Increased faculty interaction is another area where Willimon finds fault with the University. He thinks this will somehow enhance our educational experience. The problem is more complicated than it seems. The Faculty-in-Residence program, which exists only on East Campus, does nothing more than help sell the

University to prospective parents. The faculty member who lived with us my freshman year hated us. He did not want to interact with us, only to “put in his time” so he could get a sabbatical after his residence was over. Faculty interac-

And the band played on Everyday Dharma Kevin Pride I was at Duke over the weekend for Homecoming. The place felt different. There were visible differences, namely the disappearance of the Ocean parking lot. The students seemed younger for some reason; the clothes they were wearing seemed more uniform than ever. The things on the minds of students somehow seemed more trivial than before. And it sure felt cold (I’m now sick from the weather). During my visit, I was involved in or witnessed a number of events suitable for a column, but I’d like to elaborate on one particularly unsettling story—a story of mass misunderstanding and gross over-reaction. In short, it was a minor tragedy. On my first evening in town, Thursday night, my friends and I went to an “open mic” event at a local bar. My friends and I have a band, called Dupa Nice, and we saw the event as the perfect opportunity for us to showcase some of our music. There are five of us: Casey is the lead singer, Doug plays harmonica, Mike plays drums, the other Mike plays guitar and I am the bassist. Because we live in four different cities and don’t rehearse too often, it’s important for us to take advantage of our time together and practice. With this in mind, we arrived early and signed up for some stage time. While a number of other talented acts performed, we played pool and took advantage ofthe drink special ($1 drafts), downing several beers each. Finally, around midnight, it was our turn to take the stage. We warmed up a bit and started off with our most

familiar song, called “Billet-head, Bille-thead.” Unfortunately, the instruments that we had borrowed from some other musicians were a little out of tune, and our sound was a little off. But we adjusted and played on. But not for long. About five minutes into our performance, the event’s moderator, a guy who looked like Lenny Kravitz wearing a cowboy hat, stepped onto the stage and interrupted our song. Apparently, this guy

is an experiment in harmonic instinct; each performance one ofmusical intuition. And because of this, we are not popular. After a few minutes of verbal abuse, we were literally pushed and kicked off of the stage. A brief melee ensued, and in the end, Dupa Nice was effectively ostracized (and I think Mike got hit in the head with a microphone, though he doesn’t remember this). In other words, we were censored. There’s a long history of censorship in music. Almost every musical innovation has, at one time or another, been forced to carry the heavy baggage of public misunderstanding. Protests erupted during was my the initial public performance of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” now considered an innovative classic. events Parents and religious leaders alike set vinyl records a to ablaze in the streets after hearing Elvis Pressley’s unusual style of singing and witnessing his aggressive hip gyrations on national television. And, most on one unsetrecently, would-be censors set their crosshairs on gangsta rap and antichrist heavy metal, seeking to story mass story clean up the musical messages heard by unsupervised children. In other words, many of history’s finest artists have been completely misunderstood and subsequently rejected by the masses during their own time. And while I would not venture to put us on any didn’t like the way we sounded. He tried to kick us kind of historical level at this early point in our off the stage, but we kept playing. We were not fincareers, Dupa Nice certainly was misunderstood by a ished. He consulted the crowd: “How many of you public unprepared to hear something new, something want to hear more of Dupa Nice?” A few claps. “How fresh, something clean. And that’s OK. Dupa Nice will continue to evolve. many of you want Dupa Nice to leave?” An uproar of applause. The band will play on. And, someday, we’ll return to So we kept playing. Now, granted, the Dupa Nice that same bar on open mic night and play our music. sound takes a little while to get used to. We’re not After all, you cannot stop art. Even if you kick it your typical band, and we don’t have your typical off the stage. sound. We are more like artists than “musicians,” and the basis of our art is improvisation. Every song Kevin Pride, Trinity ’OO, is a former editor of Recess.

During involved in visit, I or witnessed a number of

suitable for column, but I’d like particularly elaborate ding rnisun—a of derstanding and gross over-reaction. In short, it was a minor tragedy.

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In the Nov. 20 edition ot Sportswrap, The Chronicle incorrectly described the location ot Duke's second round men's soccer NCAA tournament game.The match will be held at Brown University's Stevenson Field at 1 p.m. Sunday.

� Grapplers blooming The wrestling team competed over the weekend in the Bloomsburg Invitational in Pennsylvania. Junior Harry Clarke finished at a team high of third place in the 141-lb. class. Two Blue Devils, Luke Palmisano and Stuart Holzer, finished fourth, whileFrank Comely took fifth place.

� Battier, Duhon take ACC honors

� Recount! Recount! In the latest AP poll, No. 2 Duke trails No. 1 Arizona by only one vote. Duke had 30 first-place voles to the Wildcats’ 33. Duke leads Arizona in the EPSN/ Coaches’ Poll by only four votes. This latest development comes after Arizona’s seven-foot-one center Loren Woods was suspended lor six games following an undisclosed NCAA violation.

� Sommer named to AllAmerica second team Senior field hockey back Courtney Sommer took second team honors for the second consecutive season. Sommer led Duke with nine goals and nine assists for 29 points over the last season.

� Redskins scalp Rams Washington defeated St. Louis

last night 33-20, bolstered by an onsides kick and a fumble recovery on another kickoff. Jeff George also racked up three touchdown passes.

� FSU leapfrogs Miami Yesterday's BCS rankings show that the Seminoles are now in second place and in a position to be national champions after a 30-7 rout over Florida Saturday night. Oklahoma now leads with 2.95, followed by FSU with 5.55 and Miami with 6.06 “It seems that the current state of the program seems to rest on a game-bygame, year-by-year, season-by-season situation.” —UNO athletic director Dick Baddour, on his decision to fire three-year football coach Carl Torbush.

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Blue Devils hit snag at NCAA meet By WILYORK The Chronicle

The Duke men’s and women’s

cross country teams competed

at the NCAA championships in Ames, lowa, on Monday. Following extremely successful

ACC campaigns, in which the men took the conference title

and the women matched their best-ever finish, hopes were riding high. The women, competing in their second straight NCAA Championship meet, placed 24th out of 31 teams, checking in with 539 points. They improved over last year’s finish by one place,

leaving the team with a possible rallying point for next season. Also providing inspiration for the 2001 campaign was the fact that the team’s top runner in the race was sophomore Sheela Agrawal, who completed the 6,000 meter course in 20:50.4, See

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From staff reports North Carolina football coach Carl Torbush was canned yesterday, despite taking his Tar Heels to a possible bowl berth and a 65 record. Athletic director., Dick Baddour said that in reviewthree years at ing Carolina, in which he totalled a 17-18 performance, the program was not in a position for long-term success. Torbush took over as head coach in Dec. 1997 after Mack Brown left to coach at Texas. His first win was a 423 drubbing of Virginia Tech in the Gator Bowl The soon-to-be unemployed coach said in a statement released yesterday that he will now concentrate on getting his Tar Heels ready for a possible

bowl. Torbush is the second ACC

football coach to be handed walking papers in as many days. Maryland coach Ron Vanderlinden was fired Sunday after a 35-22 loss to

Beard, Tillis run into fouls, run up points UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Six and a half minutes into last night’s thrilling 88-87 victory over Penn State, Duke coach Gail Goestenkors had to make one of the tougher decisions of the young season.

Brody Greenwald Game Commentary Both of her star freshmen, Iciss Tillis and Alana Beard, were riding the bench after picking up a pair of early fouls. Beard and Tillis left the game at a television timeout five minutes into the first half with their team down by three points, but as they sat on the sideline, the deficit began to hesitation, Without grow. Goestenkors sent Beard, the preseason favorite for ACC rookie of the year, back to the scorer’s table hardly a minute after she first left the game. Goestenkors was bucking the odds, hoping her flashy but inexperienced guard could restrain herself from picking up her third foul. It was a plan that backfired. Less than two minutes after Beard re-entered the Duke lineup, she was called for her third foul and forced to leave the REGAN HSU/THE CHRONICLE game with the Nittany Lions in ALANA BEARD, stealing the ball from the Nitanny Lions last night, led the Blue possession of their largest lead of the night. Devils with 21 points in Duke’s closest win yet.

In for one foul-stricken freshman starter came another, as

Tillis replaced Beard after the game’s second television timeout. Two brief minutes of play later, she too picked up her third foul. Neither freshman returned the rest of the half, as the duo combined for a mere 14 minutes of play and seven points. Without Tillis and Beard, the Blue Devils struggled through a dismal half of offense, but Goestenkors never once questioned her decision to re-insert her young play-makers. “No, I don’t really secondguess because at the time I felt like we needed to regain momentum,” Goestenkors said. “I felt like the game was slipping away.” Duke survived the first half without Tillis and Beard, entering halftime tied with Penn State at 36-36. The next 20 minutes would be an entirely different story for Duke’s offense, though, as the two freshman starters began the half determined to make up for lost time. Both players exploded en route to careerhigh scoring performances, lifting Duke to a 52-point eruption of offense in the second half. Beard and Tillis, the two highscorers for the Blue Devils, contributed 21 and 16 points, See

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Nike Cup half full for Duke swimmers By CLINTON McHUGH The Chronicle Both swimming teams performed impressively at their first appearance in the annual NCAA Nike Cup

Invitational hosted by the Tar Heels last weekend Both teams finished fifth out of a field of 13 women’s teams and 14 men s teams. The Tar Heels won both sides of the invitational, their women outscoring the second place team by over 700 points and their men, by nearly 300. In a meet filled with teams comparable to Duke, the fifth-place finish is something that everyone on the team is excited about. “We beat a lot of teams that could have beaten us,” senior captain Jack Newhouse said. “The team did very well, it’s always exciting when both the men and women step it up to swim faster than they have all season.” It wasn’t only the best times of the season. The swimmers also posted a multitude of personal best times and the women’s team knocked down five school records, some of which were decades old. Once again freshman Lauren Comet led the women through the meet, setting two individual school records and participating in all three record-breaking relays. She finished second in the 100-yardbreaststroke, setting a new Duke record in the preliminary session with a time of 1:02.86. Comet also broke one of Olympian Nancy Hogshead’s long-standing records, setting a new mark in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.70 in the preliminaries en route to a 4th place finish in finals. “I just wanted to go a best time in my swim,” Comet said. “It turned out to be a school record, which was really exciting for me.” Comet was also part of a fourth place finish in the 200-yard medley relay which set a new school record of 1:47.56. The same squad came together to place third in the 400-yard medley relay, setting yet another record in 3:53.14. In the 800-yard freestyle relay, Duke finished fourth with a time of 7:39.86, breaking a record that had been standing since 1979. On the men’s side, sophomore Ryan Spoon continued a strong trend, dropping a second in his 200-yard breaststroke each meet. Spoon finished fourth in the event with a personal best of2:03.18, putting him within two seconds of the NCAA qualifying time. He also finished eighth in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.15 and was named co-ACC swimmer of the week yesterday. JuniorChris Fleizach also performed well, placing 9th in the 200-yard backstroke in 1:53.23, and 11th in the 100yard backstroke with a time of 52.10. “I truly believe at the ACC Championship this February we’ll be the best team Duke’s had in years,” Newhouse said.

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Tennis team nabs two top recruits By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle

The women’s tennis program has been nearly flawless this fall season, and those successes continued with two more triumphs in the state ofFlorida earlier this month. One year after signing Ansley Cargill, Duke’s most talented player since national champion Vanessa Webb, coach Jamie Ashworth hauled in another toprate recruiting class by obtaining signed letters of intent from high school seniors Susie Abromeit and Kelly McCain. Both hailing from Florida, McCain and Abromeit represent two of the nation’s top juniors at the under-18 level. Although they were recruited separately, both players sent in their letters of intent a few weeks before Homecoming weekend, when they returned to campus for official visits with their future teammates. McCain and Abromeit will replace current seniors Megan Miller and Kathy Sell in Duke’s lineup a year from now, ensuring that the winningest Duke program in ACC play of the past decade remains on top. “It’s great for our program,” Ashworth said. “It’s great to have two people who really, really want to be here, who want to be a part of our program.” Abromeit said her sights were set on Duke as early as junior high school, when an impressionable 12year-old listened to her older sister tell tales of a university that had just about everything. “She used to tell me, Tou have to go to Duke, it’s the best school ever. The campus is beautiful, the school is great, the guys are hot,”’ Abromeit said behind flushed cheeks. “I have always really wanted to go to Duke.” For McCain, who was pursued heavily by the Florida Gators, the road to Duke required a little more convincing. Currently ranked third in the nation among juniors, McCain attracted the attention of nearly every college coach when she held the No. 1 ranking in the nation last year. But more than what any coach could possibly tell her, the senior at Saddlebrook Prep was persuaded to come to Duke by three current Blue Devils. Longtime friend Hilary Adams, fellow Saddlebrook Prep alum Prim Siripipat and Ansley Cargill, who has traveled to tournaments with McCain, all played influential roles in landing the most sought-after recruit out ofFlorida. ‘The girls on the team pulled me in the most,” McCain said. “They are real enthusiastic, you want to work hard for them because of how hard they work.” Although Abromeit did not have as many ties to the Duke program, except for a casual acquaintance with Sell more than five years ago, she was equally drawn in by the current players. The honor roll stu-

dent at Boca Prep in Boca Raton, Fla., who was ranked in the top 25 nationally last July among girls 18 and under, committed to Duke because of her perception of the women in Ashworth’s program. “I didn’t really have the great friendships with them that Kelly has had in the past, but when I came here, I was just blown away,” Abromeit said. ‘There is such great camaraderie on the team.” With the upcoming spring season still a couple months away, it is difficult to tell where Abromeit and McCain will factor into Duke’s lineup in 2002. Both will likely be immediate contributors to the team’s starting six, but their energy and enthusiasm for the future program is what has Ashworth most excited about their commitments to Duke. “It makes it a lot easier in recruiting to have people that want to be here,” Ashworth said. “I’ve always felt if you have to beg them to come, you’ll have to beg them to be happy.”

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SUSIE ABROMEIT (left) AND KELLY McCAIN pose for a photo during halftime of the men’s basketball game Friday night.

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Last-second trey not enough to deny Blue Devils narrow win P PENN STATE from page

Up by four points with 16.7 seconds left, Duke freshman Rometra Craig floated a lazy pass inbounds that Penn State senior Lisa Shepherd intercepted, dribbled up the floor and heaved toward the basket.

The desperate three-point attempt clanked off the backboard, rattled around on the rim and finally sank through the cylinder with 6.2 seconds remaining to give her team one last gasp. The Blue Devils nearly gave the ball away again on the subsequent inbounds play, as a length-of-the-court pass intended for senior Georgia Schweitzer passed her and into the arms of Craig, who was fouled and given two free throws to ensure no less than a tie. Again, however, the freshman could not put the game away, as she steered both foul shots long off the iron. When the Nittany Lions failed to box out on the rebound attempt, Craig snatched the ball away and waited patiently as the last couple ticks of the clock disappeared on the scoreboard. “How hard is that? The ball is right there, it’s a freebie,” said a frustrated Rene Portland, now in her 21st year as coach of the Nittany Lions. “Go out and get it, show some heart. Right now, that’s a concern.” Penn State ended up out-rebounding the Blue Devils 40-37, but her team’s inability to box out in the paint was a point Portland hammered home time and again in the postgame press conference. “I thought checking out on the foul line, that aspect of the game was awful,” Portland said. “We need to develop a heart. There was a time when there were blank stares out there.” But the stares were focused in the final minutes of the game, when Penn State responded to an eightpoint deficit with less than three minutes to play. The Blue Devils had seemingly sealed the victory when, with 1:26remaining, Schweitzer dumped a pass inside to White, who scored on an uncontested lay-up and ran Duke’s advantage to seven points, 86-79. Penn State rallied with three free throws and a lay-up before Shepherd buried an improbable three-pointer that could have been the biggest shot of her career.

“It really didn’t surprise me, [Shepherd! has hit so many big shots,” Goestenkors said. “The way it bounced around, when it went in, it was a little

nerve-racking.”

“I learned that Crystal White can come in and be a presence on the defensive end,” Goestenkors said. “The first things she did was come in and block a very big shot and I thought that was a momentum-turner for us.” After White gave the Blue Devils back the lead, they trailed only once, 66-65, the rest of the way. Penn State saw both its 16-game home-winning streak and its mark of 11 consecutive victories in home openers come to an end last night against Duke. “It could have gone either way and I’m just happy it went the way that it did,” Goestenkors said.

Nerves were especially tense on the Blue Devils’ bench early in the game, when Penn State jumped out to a 25-15 lead 12 minutes into the game. Duke had trouble executing its offense in the first half, as the team turned the ball over 10 times to only three assists and failed to make a single three-pointer. Both Beard and Tillis played only seven minutes due to extensive foul trouble, while Schweitzer battled through a funk in which she shot 3-for-13 and committed four turnovers Late in the half, as Duke tried to again even the contest, it was an unlikely hero who swung the momentum. White, who entered the game last night with three minutes left in the first half and her team down by two points, 28-26, helped the Blue Devils draw even for the first time since the score was 5-5 two minutes into the contest. A powerful rejection by White led to an easy transition basket by Rometra Craig to square the game at 2828 with 2:44 remaining. Less than a minute later, the 6-foot-5 center hauled in an impressive offensive rebound, drew the fourth foul on Penn State forward Kate Upshaw and converted two free throws. White then put the Blue Devils ahead 34-30 with another electrifying blocked shot that led to a coast- MICHELLE MATYASOVSKY, running the ball down the court against Penn State, scored only to-coast lay-up by Schweitzer. three points, but stayed on the court for 16 minutes last night before fouling out.

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respectively, while their team scored as many points in the first 12 minutes after halftime as it did during the entire first half. “At halftime, after I realized I might not be going back in, Alana and I, we said, We’re gonna crank it up a notch,”’ Tillis said. That might have been the understatement of the night. Tillis and Beard were directly involved in the first 18 points ofthe half, as Duke rode its hot hands to a 54-50 lead following Tillis’ second three-pointer in a three-minute span. At one point in the run, Tillis swiped the ball on the defensive end and went coastto-coast for a casual lay-up that probably could have been a slam dunk had there been more separation from her opponent. Tillis’ sudden touch from three-point range also snapped Duke’s 0-for-4 first-half funk from beyond the arc and spread Penn State’s defense even thinner. “I said if I was open, I was going to take it, but I wasn’t going to force anything,” Tillis said. “I think those two threes were critical because it forced them to step out and guard me and that opened things up for other people.” Beard, meanwhile, had to wait a while to take over the game after she picked up her fourth foul on a loose-ball scrap on the floor six minutes into the half. When she returned to the lineup a couple minutes later, the freshman displayed a considerable amount of poise and managed to stay in the game without fouling out. Beard’s presence late in the game helped the Blue Devils maintain a slim lead, as she began to go to work with just under six minutes remaining. After Penn State tied the game at 74-74, Beard slithered through the defense, dropped in an acrobatic lay-up and fouled out Nittany Lions center Rashana Barnes. One play later, she picked the ball from Penn State’s Lisa Shepherd and went coast-to-coast for a basket that put the Blue Devils up by five points. “I learned I can focus in tough situations,” Beard said. ‘There was a lot of commotion and stuff going on outside the court. And I think I played halfway smart.”

C. COUNTRY from page earned All-American honors for the second straight year The race’s top 30 runners were named to the AllAmerican team., Agrawal placed

seventh overall. The team’s lone senior, Megan Sullivan, finished 119th with a time of 22:07.3. Junior runners Maddy Katie Atlas and Woomansee finished 149th and 195th, respectively, with times of 22:36.6 and 22:51.0. The Blue Devils also had three freshman runners competing: Lisa Nagorny, Laura Schmid, and Allison Hoffman. The trio finished 211th, 222nd and 237th, respectively.

For the men’s team, the season ended with thoughts of what might have been. The team gained confidence at the ACC Championship meet by upending perennial conference powerhouse N.C. State to take first place. at NCAA However, the

Championships, the men were unable to capitalize on that momentum, placing 31st out of 31 teams. The men’s team placed only one runner, Sean Kelly, in the top 100. Kelly, a junior, placed 94th with a time of 31:42.8 on the 10,000 meter course. Trailing him were senior Terry Brennan, coming in 129 th in 31:57.1 and senior

Brendan Fitzgibbon, who finished in 208 th place with a time of 32:45.2. Junior Jay Champi (33:14.2/228th), freshman Chris Williams (33:32.9/240th), senior

Mike McKeever (33:32.9/242nd), Adam Perez Junior (33;52.8/244th) also ran for the Blue Devils. Arkansas captured the men’s team title, with 83 points, while Colorado took the women’s title by scoring 117 points. Keith Kelly of Providence College and Kara Gargas-Wheeler of Colorado took the men’s and women’s individual crowns, with respective times of 30:14.5 and 20:30.5.

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