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Bylaw confusion sends presidency to runoff DSG election results President—RUNOFF* CJ. Walsh-32.46% Sean Young-25.63% Jimmy Carter— 2l.96% David Cummings— l2.s6% Vik Devisetty— B.B4%

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Drew Ensign-72.01%

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VP for Academic Affairs Abhijit Prabhu—93.4%

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By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

It’s not Florida, but last night’s Duke Student Government election will likely incite plenty of debate and confusion. Juniors C.J. Walsh and Sean Young will head into a runoff for the DSG presidency next Wednesday, even though or-

ganizational precedent would have de-

clared Walsh the winner. The two candidates, who received 32.4 and 25.6 percent respectively, will continue to campaign because neither candidate re-

ceived 50 percent majority, Attorney General Jessica Budoff announced late last night. DSG bylaws state “a runoff election will be held for any position in which the candidate receiving the most votes did not receive over 50 percent of the vote and did not receive a plurality of six percent of those voting over his or her nearest opponent. The top two finishers will compete in the runoff election.” Under these bylaws, all previous attorneys general have ruled that the condition for a runoff is two-fold: the leading candidate receives less than 50 percent of the vote and also leads by less than 6 points. For example, current DSG President Jordan Bazinsky was elected last year with 25.8 percent of the vote, 9.2 points more than the next candidate. However, Budoff believes the bylaw requires a winning candidate to gamer more than 50 percent of the vote as well as a 6 percent margin of victory. “I see how [one] could a make such an argument, but this is what Fm going

with,” Budoff said. “This is how I understand what it says.... It’s unfortunate that previous commissions abided by one standard when another standard was written.” Young agreed with Budoffs interpretation. “It’s worded confusingly, and I think that because there’s confusion, the right thing to do is to have a runoff,” he said. Under this year’s interpretation, Young would not have won his current position as vice president for community interaction because he won 51.2 percent of the vote to his opponent’s 48.8 percent in last year’s runoff. Walsh said he would not file a complaint and looks forward to a runoff. “I’m not from DSG, I’m the outsider. 1 don’t know how this all works,” he said. Former two-term DSG executive vice president Rusty Shappley, Trinity ‘OO, who led last year’s bylaw review, said he hopes Budoff will re-examine her decision. He argued that the rules are complex but clearly state that a runoff is unwarranted. “I’m a little surprised by this decision to have the runoff. I think [Budoff has] done a commendable job as attorney general, but hopefully she’ll re-evaluate her ruling,” Shappley said. “I think the bylaw is worded somewhat confusingly but this was the only way for the commission to write it in one decision.” Executive Vice President Drew Ensign, who was re-elected overwhelmingly, said he understands both arguments and is unsure how the chief justice will See DSG ELECTION on page 8

Team ticket bill Duke meets UNC as underdog heads to House By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

By JAMES HERRIOTT The Chronicle

North Carolina voters will have one fewer state official to choose in 2004 if state Sen. Tony Rand has anything to do about it. The Senate voted 41-9 Tuesday to approve a plan, known as the team ticket bill. Rather than electing lieutenant governors separately, voters would choose a governor-lieutentant governor team—similar to the way the president and vice president are elected nationally. The bill must next gain approval from the House of Representatives and then pass a general referendum. The lieutenant governor presides over the Senate, is first in line to succeed the governor if the office becomes vacant and sits on several state boards, such as the Board of Education and the Board of Community Colleges. “I think it’s a more efficient way of doing government,” said Rand, a Cumberland Democrat, pointing to the potential difficulties of having a governor and lieutenant governor from opposing parties. “What you would really have is a governor and lieutenant governor who are philosophically in tune, and would have mutual respect for each other. I don’t think anybody could imagine President George Bush having Senator [Joseph] Lieberman as vice president.” Rep Paul Luebke, D-Durham, disagreed, saying See TEAM TICKET on page 9

This was supposed to be the big one. High stakes poker, all the chips in the center. ACC regular season title. Top-seed in the ACC tournament. NCAA No. 1 seed on the line. Everything to play for in the last regular season game of the 2000-2001 season. The first time these two would meet to fight for those titles in three years. Then the unthinkable happened. Duke lost, at home, on senior day, to a team that had recently been beat by lowly Florida State. After the loss to Maryland, there will be no high stakes or fuzzy numbers to be decided this Sunday, when No. 2 Duke takes on No. 4 North Carolina at 3:30 p.m. in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels clinched the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament and at least a share on the ACC regular season title and ifthey emerge victorious Sunday, they would almost certainly have a No. 1 NCAA tournament seed in the bag. Meanwhile, the Blue Devils cannot fall below No. 2 in the ACC and DURING SUNDAY’S REMATCH, senior Brendan Haywood will be matched up against See UNC PREVIEW on page 18 � either backup center Casey Sanders or forward Shane Battier.

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The first international agreement to ban human cloning took effect when the Council of Europe said the legislatures of five nations had ratified a protocol designed to prevent abuses* of the technology.

House approves new bankruptcy legislation The House overwhelmingly approved a bill the championed by banking industry and credit-card companies that will overhaul the nation’s bankruptcy system and make it much harder for people to wipe

out their debts.

Bush administration halts Vieques bombing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced the suspension of Naval bombing on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques while negotiators pursue a

permanent solution to the bitter dispute over U.S. military use of the island.

IMF provides aid for Turkish financial crisis The International Monetary Fund has agreed to extend billions of dol-

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His choice could have broad political implications; If approved, adjusted data could be used as the basis for redrawing not only congressional districts but also state and legislative district boundaries over the next year. In a memo to Evans, Barron said he agreed with a Census Bureau committee’s recommendation urging the use of raw numbers. “The committee reached this recommendation because it is unable, based on data and other information currently available, to conclude that the adjusted data are more accurate for use in redistricting,” Barron said.

The Census WASHINGTON Bureau urged Commerce Secretary Don Evans Thursday to approve the use of raw population numbers from the 2000 count for congressional redistricting, despite estimates that 3.4 million Americans, primarily minorities, were overlooked. Evans will now weigh the recommendation from William Barron, the bureau’s acting director, and advice from outside experts and will make the final decision by Tuesday whether to have the numbers statistically adjusted. The bureau’s recommendation

By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press

WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton’s closest advisers—White House chief of staff John Podesta, counsel Beth Nolan and senior aide Bruce

Lindsey—told a House committee Thursday that they strongly opposed his pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich and thought it would never happen. “The staff informed the president that it was our view that the pardon should not be granted,” Podesta told the House Government Reform Committee, which is investigating whether political and other donations or payments influenced the pardon of Rich. Ranking Democrat Henry Waxman of California directly asked all three whether there was a “quid pro

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Most Democrats and civil rights groups have claimed that a census adjustment would better account for millions missed in the count, mostly minorities, the poor and children. But Republicans countered that an adjustment could inject more errors into a 2000 count that proved to be more accurate than 1990’5. They also insist the Constitution’s demand for “actual enumeration” of the population every 10 years bars

alterations.

According to the Census Bureau’s report to Evans, a survey following the census estimated a net undercount in 2000 of 1.2 percent of Americans, or about 3.4 million See CENSUS on page 9 P-

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Paraphernalia found at Shakespeare’s home Several clay pipes found on the site of William Shakespeare’s home may have been used by someone in the 17th century to smoke marijuana, scientists reported.

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quo” of donations for pardons, including $450,000 in contributions Rich’s former wife has made to Clinton s presidential library project. Lindsey, Podesta and Nolan all said no. All three testified that up until just hours before midnight on Jan. 19, they thought Clinton was going to reject the multitude of appeals on behalf of Rich, who fled the United States in 1983 rather than face racketeering and other criminal charges. But Podesta said Ehud Barak, Israel’s then-prime minister who now heads a caretaker government, urged Rich’s pardon in a farewell call he made to the outgoing president that afternoon. When Clinton met with his top aides between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. it was clear that Barak’s call had been “influential” Podesta said.

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Conference links DUMA exhibits new museum plans faith, elderly care By TESSA LYONS The Chronicle

For many of the faithful, Sundays begin with a search of the soul. But for a host of clergymen, scholars and health care workers, this Sunday will be a time to search for faith-based answers to caring for the nation’s aging population. Together with the Gerontological Society of America and the John Templeton Foundation, Duke will host “Faith in the Future: Religion, Aging and Healthcare in the 21st Century.” The conference is based upon two premises: one, that religion can influence longevity and health, and two, that religious institutions are prepared and willing

to deliver services to the elderly. Conference attendees will hear presentations from several notable figures, including John Dilulio, head of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, a Bush agency charged with distributing billions of federal dollars to a variety of religious groups and charities. Although Dilulio’s topic ofaddress is still unknown, Harold Koenig, director of Duke s Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health, hopes to find out how much of the office’s funding could be directed towards aiding religious institutions that care for the elderly. The conference has been driven at least partially by a wave of research that shows a connection between religion and low blood pressure, low incidence of hypertension and a long fife span In the biggest study to date, a random national sample of 21,204 adults was followed from 1987 to 1995, during which 2,016 deaths occurred. When religious attendance was examined, it was found that people who attended church lived to an average age of 81.9 years compared to 75.3 years for those who did not. Among blacks and those who attended church more than once

a week, the differences were even greater. “What is significant is that we have the same, findings in research all over.... Even when you control for psychological, lifestyle factors, social support and even depression and stress,” said Koenig. “While [controlling for those factors] weakens the relationship, it doesn’t do away with it.” And sponsors ofthe conference say this relationship could catalyze a new partnership between the nation’s health care sector and its religious institutions. See AGING on page 7 �

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A MODEL OF THE NASHER MUSEUM OF ART, which will be completed in 2003, can be seen at the current museum on East, By JOSH FEIN The Chronicle

Almost a year after the University chose an archi-

tect to design the forthcoming Nasher Museum of Art,

several drawings and models of the building are on display at the current art museum on East Campus. Officials hope the new museum, expected to cost between $l5 million and $l9 million, will itselfbe a work of art when it opens in 2003. “This will be something new. We are committed to the art of architecture,” said Michael Mezzatesta, director of the Duke University Museum of Art. The building, which is being designed by worldrenowned architect Rafael Vinoly, will not resemble any other structure on the Duke campus. “Rafael Vinoly has developed an expression which is not constrained by the context of Duke buildings,” said University Architect John Pearce. DUMA’s exhibit of the plans, entitled “The Architecture of Rafael Vinoly: Birth of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,” opened Feb. 23 and will continue through April 8. It focuses on Vinoly’s process of creation, including drawings, sketches, plans and models. The first sketches were produced in May 2000 and the exhibit includes all the developments since then. In fact, the design shifted almost entirely during planning, when the architects

discovered that it would not provide enough space. The current design includes five individual pavilions linked by a 9,000-square foot glass-covered courtyard. These pavilions will include a 20th century international art gallery, a special exhibitions gallery and a permanent collections gallery. The other two

pavilions will house an 150-seat auditorium and a large three-story office facility, which will include classroom space. The building will not have one primary entrance, but two equally accessible ones. Currently in the“schematic design” stage, the final museum plans will be presented at the May Board of Trustees meeting. Although the drawings on display at DUMA are very detailed, the plans are still developing. Mezzatesta meets weekly with Viholy’s head assistants to make alterations to the blueprints. The choice of location—the site is bordered by Anderson Street, Alexander Avenue, Campus Drive and Duke University Road—was very important to administrators. The nine-acre site was selected because it has room to grow and because it is adjacent to the Sarah B. Duke Gardens, the fourth-largest tourist attraction in North Carolina. The museum’s groundbreaking will likely take place this fall, Mezzatesta said. The museum was named after Dallas art collector Raymond Nasher, Trinity ’43, who donated the initial $7.5 million gift.

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to show people what my culture’s about. Otherwise try to assimilate yourself to Duke culKim said. “This is just showing everyone o we are and where we’ve come from.” Freshman Cliff Chow is eager to show the Duke community what his culture stands for. He will add Chinese sword fighting to the show, an act that he compares to the martial arts in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. “It’s a kind of new style of martial arts performance. There’s really nothing practical in it, but it looks great... really acrobatic,” said Chow, who is originally from Hong

Onlookers stop briefly to stare, Qy looks of wonderment on their >y faces. The performers remain focused on the task at hand. It is a rehearsal for tomorrow night’s Lunar New Year festivities, the Asian Students Association’s annual celebration ofAsian culture and diversity. Senior Hyonah Kim is m W I teaching some of her friends the Kong and has practiced the techtraditional Korean Fan Dance. “Last year I did a Korean Drum Dance, but nique for over 10 years, this year I wanted to get a bunch of my Acts for LNY are selected on the basis friends together, kind of a nice senior memory,” of proposals submitted during the fall semester, after Kim said. which preliminary cuts are made. At the end of JanBut it’s more than just a big year for Kim uary, tryouts are held and final decisions are made, and her senior friends, performing in their “The whole point is to include everyone, but it’s last Lunar New Year. It’s a big year for the really difficult,” Hsu said. “Every performance event itself; LNY will be held in Page Auchosen has a mission and purpose.” ditorium for the first time, a big step up So does each year’s LNY. This year’s theme from its beginnings in Von Canon. is Horizon, a concept chosen because the organizers are There are also more acts in the show this to push the event even furis being exposed,” Hsu said, year than ever before, with 20 ous aspects of Asian culture, from to modem, including martial gy £[{ cn A/liJkc “Horizon—it’s at the edge, and at the edge, all the colors come together.” All cultures come together in LNY as well. Though originally of Chiarts, spoken word, a fashion show and a capella. 1C Clhronic 1 c nese origin, LNY as a celebration has spread to all cultures at Duke, “lt goes to show how many people are interested... and how our culture is inclusive,” said sophomore Christina Hsu, ASA vice president ofcultural affairs. “This Kim is actually the only Korean American performing the traditional Korean Fan is their one chance to get on stage and celebrate their American heritage and their Dance. And, in her group, nearly all of the girls danced in Diwali, the annual show put on by South Asian group Diya. Asian heritage.” Hsu and the executive board ofASA put together LNY each year. “Diversity is one of our strengths as a culture. Even in the line-up, you’ll see The Fan Dance is meant to portray the elements of nature in its movements and colors and has historically been performed for Korean royalty. Kim originally everyone is unique,” Hsu said. For Chow, the growing popularity of LNYs free show is a sign of the commumlearned the dance from her experiences with a traditional Korean dance troupe at home in New Jersey. The group provided her with the fans and costumes necessary ty’s acceptance ofother cultures. “It shows that Duke is a place that emphasizes culfor Saturday’s performance. tural diversity, and I think that’s why I came to Duke,” he said. No matter what LNY represents to the community, everyone involved has fun The performers have been practicing twice a week all semester after learning the basics of the dance in the fall. As the group practices, sometimes missing beats or with it. And with that, Kim and her group resume formation. “Let’s take it from the steps, the pride and enjoyment is evident in their faces and laughter. “I like being able flower.... 1, 2, 3, 4....” '

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House committee approves President’s tax-cut plan By DAVID ROSENBAUM

lion in total tax relief that the president wants over that period. WASHINGTON The bill, the centerpiece of Bush’s Voting along party lines, the House Ways and Means presidential campaign, was adopted 23Committee approved the heart of Presi15, with all Republicans in favor and all dent George W. Bush’s tax-cut plan Democrats opposed. The Republican Thursday and set up a vote in the full majority voted down a Democratic alternative that offered smaller tax cuts and House next week. The bill would lower tax rates across little tax relief to the wealthy. The legislation was limited to reducthe board. This year, all individuals who owe income taxes would have them reing tax rates. The other parts of the duced by $lBO, and couples would get a Bush plan, like a repeal of the estate tax, lower taxes for married couples and cut of $360. In future years, the tax reductions a doubling of the tax credit for children, would grow and would be much larger were put off until later. for the wealthiest taxpayers. Over 10 “This is the beginning, not the end,” the would Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., chair of $958 measure cost bilsaid years, lion, about three-fifths of the $1.6 tril- the Ways and Means Committee. New York Times News Service

TTA adds route to Hillsborough From staff reports Duke University Medical Center employees may soon be able to take the bus to Hillsborough. The Triangle Transit Authority is planning a new route between Hillsborough and the Medical Center, slated to begin service in July. The bus would leave Hillsborough every hour during morning and afternoon rush hours, likely between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., said Laurie Barrett, TTA operations manager. Fares will probably be $1 to the Medical Center, $1.50 to connect to Research Triangle Park and Raleigh-Durham International Airport and $2 to connect to Raleigh, Barrett said. Both the fares and hours are still in the planning stages. “Hillsborough’s been in the works for probably over a year,” Barrett said. She added that the TTA’s bus services will be expanding in Orange, Durham and Wake counties as well. Most likely, the route will originate in northern Hillsborough in the Fairview community. It may travel then to the Triangle Sportsplex, which could be used as a park-and-ride location, then on to Durham via U.S. 70. It could also go more southward to Daniel Boone Village and reach Durham through Interstate 85, said Margaret Hauth, Hillsborough’s planning director. “It’s a really important connection,” Hauth said. “The Medical Center is one of the biggest providers of health care and one of the biggest employers in the region.” The TTA will hear public input on the stops’ locations at a meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. March 8 in the Town Bam, located at 101 E. Orange Street in Hillsborough. The authority is now waiting for the buses that officials have ordered—-expanded vans capable of holding 26 passengers—to arrive. The TTA operates bus routes and other transportation services in the Triangle area. Passenger fares and the $5 state vehicle registration fee, along with state and federal funds, finance the regional bus operations, ride-sharing program and planning program.

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ASA wins bid to Looking in Club Sp®rts mmat Duke... host conference Women's Ultimate Frisbee The 2002 East Coast Asian Student Union conference, which last came to Duke in 1995, will focus on encouraging dialogue between Asian Americans of different nationalities. By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Only a few days after a bidding victory to host the 2002 East Coast Asian Student Union conference, Duke’s Asian Students Association has already begun making preparations for next February’s festivities. The bidding battle—against the University of Pennsylvania—was held Sunday at Columbia University and finished the 2001 ECASU conference, which annually brings together representatives from Asian student groups from East Coast universities to discuss issues facing their members. “We are very excited about winning the bid,” said ASA president Patty Chen, “especially because this is only the second time in its 24-year history that ECASU will come to the South.” The last occasion was in 1995, when Duke first served as host to the event. Besides coming to Durham six years ago, the farthest south the conference has been held is Maryland. “Students tend to vote for the closest school,” Chen said, and as most of the region’s universities are in the Northeast, transportation becomes a crucial factor. “[Voters] are also a little skeptical about the atmosphere and types ofresources available in the South. I think we were able to convince them that the South needed attention in terms of political and social awareness.” The theme of the 2002 conference will be “Strangers in America,” and will focus on bringing together Asian Americans who are separated by their nationalities. See ASA on page 8 P*

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From staff reports A student reported that between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Feb. 26, someone stole his $2,000 Sony VAIO laptop computer from his unsecured room in Pegram Dormitory, said Maj. Robert Dean ofthe Duke University Police Department.

Music equipment taken: A student reported that between 12 p.m. Feb. 22 and 6 p.m. Feb. 26, someone stole his $7OO music mixer, $5OO silver Fender amplifier and $4OO rDTMF V-/KIMH Takemine black acoustic guitar fr° m the unsecured commons RdTFFC DKlkr o room of Edens 2-A dormitory.

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“This conference goes way beyond religion and health,” said Koenig, who is on the conference planning committee. “It focuses on religious institutions offering services to the elderly. That has a much broader and greater impact.” Attendees also will hear speeches from religiously affiliated volunteer organizations like Faith Works, Faith in Action and Habitat for Humanity.

“This constituency represents a potential army of volunteers who could be mobilized to provide support and care for those in need,” Koenig said. “Volunteers from churches can play a valuable role in providing services—rides to doctors, care in the home—which is how it used to be until the last 300 years.” In the past, the government has been challenged in court for giving funds to religious organizations.

Car entered: Between 7 p.m. Feb. 27 and 4 p.m. Feb. 28, someone stole a 24 CDs worth $3OO and a $230 Kenwood stereo, serial number 90610580 and model number KDC-20115, from a student’s unsecured vehicle, which was parked at 206 Oregon, Dean said.

Window broken out: Sometime on the night of Feb. 23, someone broke the $3OO left-side window of a student’s vehicle, which was parked on Towerview Road across from the Beta parking lot, Dean said. Car vandalized: Between 3 a.m. Feb. 25 and 8:11 a.m. Feb. 26, someone broke the $250 driver’s side window of a student’s vehicle, stole his $250 Sony car stereo and one $3O bag of car cleaning supplies and caused $4,100 in damage to the driver’s side door lock and dashboard, Dean said. Toyota part stolen: An employee reported that between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Feb. 27, someone stole the $5O back-left light assembly from his vehicle, which was parked in the H parking lot at Anderson and Yearby streets. Dean said someone has stolen parts from four other vehicles—all Toyotas—in that parking lot in the past and that Campus Police has increased the frequency of patrols there. He advised anyone who sees someone loitering in the parking lot to call the police.

Student charged: At 8:39 p.m. Feb. 27,

Campus Police charged a student with underage possession of a malt beverage after finding a group of students drinking beer in the lobby of the Old Chemistry Building, Dean said. Nineteen-year-old Phil Taylor, a sophomore, has a court date March 4. Taylor could not be reached for comment.

Fire extinguisher set off: At

2:36 a.m. Feb. 24, Campus Police charged a student with giving a false alarm and damaging the fire alarm system after find-

ing fire extinguisher residue on the floor of a room on the third floor of Mirecourt Dormitory, Dean said. The student, 20-year-old sophomore David Crowe of 112 Anderson, Apartment P, admitted to being intoxicated* at the time, Dean said. Crowe could not be reached for comment on the incident. His court date is March 22.

Wallet taken: Between 8 a.m. Feb. 27 and 8 a.m. Feb. 28, someone stole an employee’s $2O leather credit card holder, credit cards and driver’s license from an unsecured conference room in 7100 Duke Hospital, Dean said.

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The conference will explore laws that could thwart such legal action. Robert Brooks, secretary of health for the state of Florida, will speak on the issue. “Florida is years ahead of us in dealing with the elderly,” said Koenig. “What they are doing right now is what we hope to be doing nationally, if not internationally.” Although those who advocate linking religion and elderly care insist their views are based on scientific research, not everyone supports the government’s funding of such initiatives. “That would not be a wise investment,” said Frank Sloan, a Duke economics professor. “Because personally I might be religious, that does not mean that my care should be delivered from religious institutions. [For thatl, research would need to be much more demonstrative. 1 think we are far from that.”

Duke Women’s History Month March 2001 Monday, March 5,2001 4:30 pm. East Duke Building. East Duke Parlor

Monday March 19,2001 4:30 pm. East Duke Building. East Duke Parlor

Monday March 26,2001 4:30 pm. East Duke Building. East Duke Parlor

Women, Gender,

Women and the

Women’s History: The State of the

and War Warfare is usually understood exclusively as men’s business. But scholars know that women have played many roles in war. What difference does it make to tell the history of warfare from the perspectives of women and gender? Speakers; ‘Alison Rowley, Soviet and East European Studies Program, Duke ‘Penny Summerfield, University of Manchester ‘Kristen Neuschel, History, Duke ‘Miriam Cooke, Asian andAfrican Languages, Duke ‘Leisa Meyer, College of William and Mary *Chair: Claudia Koonz, History, Duke

Law One of the exploding fields in women’s history today is women’s legal history. In law schools, feminist legal theory is challenging old assumptions about the meaning of law. Leading scholars are asking how laws have shaped women’s lives and how gender has shaped the law. Speakers: ‘Laura Edwards History, Duke ‘Felicia Kornbluh, History, Duke ‘Katharine Bartlett, Dean, Duke School of Law ‘Carla Hesse, National Humanities Center, UC-Berkeley ‘Chair: Jean O’Barr, Director, Women’s Studies Program, Duke

Field This survey panel will look at women’s history around the world over a period of 1000 years. What have we learned from the past 35 years of historical research on women? What is the future of the feminist past? Speakers: ‘Anne Flror Scott Emerita, History, Duke ‘Gerda Lerner, Emerita, University of Wisconsin ‘Monica Green, History, Duke ‘Natalie Fousekis, UNC-Chapel Hill ‘Kathryn Burns, UNC-Chapel Hill ‘Karen Krahulik, Program Director, Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life, Duke ‘Chair: William H. Chafe, Dean, College ofArts and Sciences, Duke

'Reception immediately to follow in East Duke Parlor

Women’s History Month 2001 is a project of the Duke History Department. Planning committee chair: Professor Felicia Kornbluh Co-sponsors of Women’s History Month: History Department, Office of the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Women’s Studies Program, Women’s Center, Center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Life, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Soviet and East European Studies Program *The Office of Institutional Equity *Women Law Students Association

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“The Asian community is very split among the different ethnic groups,” Chen said. “If we want to gain political ground, we can’t be strangers to one another.” The conference will include a keynote address, numerous workshops and several panel discussions. ASA is expecting between 900 and 1,000 students to participate. “I think it is great,” said Julian Sanchez, director of the Office of Inter-

cultural Affairs. “We had [the conference! here several years ago, and it was a great success. I attended some of the workshops and they were really well done. I hope having conferences like these helps raise the profile of Duke as a place of diversity.” Two members of ASA, sophomores Ray Tan and Jenny Tung, were elected to the ECASU National Board at last weekend’s conference. “I am very excited because it gives me a chance to network with other Asian students, and to have a chance to get Southern universities more involved nationally,” Tan said. Tan described the national board as a very politically-active organization, noting that the group has been publicly active about its stance on issues such as racial profiling in California, the Wen Ho Lee case and hate crimes at Cornell University and the University of California at Davis.

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kind words for Parker and praised him for running a good campaign. In the student affairs election, sophomore Joshua Jean-Baptiste defeated Allen Thompson in a landslide. Jean-Baptiste said he looks forward to working with the future leadership. “I’m just very thankful that my friends came out and supported me today,” said Jean-Baptiste. “I think that we have very qualified people who got elected and I think DSG next year is going to be a very effective and

rule, if BudofTs decision is appealed. “If there’s ambiguity, it’s best to error on the side of prudence and have a run off,” Ensign said. Candidates will have until 9 p.m. tonight to file complaints with the DSG election commission, which is headed by Budoff. If the commission upholds the attorney general’s decision, candidates have the option of filing an appeal with DSG Chief Justice

Alexis Highsmith. Yesterday’s vote brought to a close the organization’s first online election. Although election officials said they were pleased with the system, the process hit a few snags. One hundred one students were initially unable to vote. DSG computer programmers said the ACPUB login used to vote did not correlate entirely with the list of undergraduates created by the registrar. Voters who called the DSG office received help and voting access within a matter of minutes. “I think for our first go, we were extremely successful,” said junior Alan Halachmi, DSG director of undergraduate computing and online manager for Duke Student Publishing Company, which operates The Chronicle. “By the next runoff, we’re hoping to have fixed most of the problems.”

The online election, however, had little impact upon voter turnout. Only 20 more students voted this year than in the 2000 election. Budoff said she was surprised that only 2,370 students voted but was satisfied in general with the turnout.

efficient-run organization.”

Thompson, who, received 18.8 per-

cent of the vote, said the results exceeded his expectations and that he is

ONLINE VOTING STATIONS were set up yesterday for voters’ convenience. “I’m happy. It’s a solid number,” she said. “I would have liked for it to have gone up, but I’m happy with turnout.” The presidential race was not the only tight race of the evening. While gamering over 50 percent of the vote, junior Carrie Johnson beat out junior Bunia Parker by 6.09 points to become the organization’s next vice president for community interaction. “I’m really pleased,” she said, “and I will work hard to address the issues that I discussed in the campaign.” Parker said he is disappointed but will continue to advocate causes outlined in his platform. “I’m definitely going to go forward with my ideas,” said Parker, who received 45.94 percent of the vote. “I’ll continue to work with Carrie. She’s a good friend and I’m happy for her.” Johnson had equally

happy with his performance. “I don’t even know 400 people, so the fact that I got 400 votes is pleasing to me,” Thompson said. “I knew all along he was the more informed candidate. He’ll do a really great job as vice president and I wish him all the luck.” In the last contested election of the night, Ensign resoundingly defeated current DSG treasurer Henry Ho, a sophomore. “I am honored the student body entrusted me with this new term,” Ensign said. “I really look forward to continue serving them as executive vice president.” In the two uncontested election, junior Abhijit Prabhu and freshman Matthew Slovik were elected vice presidents ofacademic affairs and fa-

cilities and athletics, respectively. Kevin Lees, Matt Atwood and John Bush contributed to this article.

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people. That was down from 1.6 percent of the 1990 population, or about 4 million people, in the previous head count. The survey also generally found that

smaller percentages of minorities and

children were missed this time than in 1990. For example; The net undercount for American Indians and Alaska Natives living on reservations declined from 12.22 percent in 1990 to 4.74 percent in 2000. The net undercount for Hispanics decreased from 4.99 percent in 1990 to 2.85 percent in 2000. However, critics pointed out that the undercount for most minority groups was nevertheless larger overall than for whites: the net undercount for whites •

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decreased slightly, from 0.68 percent to 0.67 percent. “The civil rights community is deeply disappointed by today’s announcement,” said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. “As a result of today’s decision, these communities, once again, will be underrepresented in the nation’s

electoral process.” Rep. Dan Miller, R-Fla., said Americans “proved you can have a great census using only an actual head count.”

“This recommendation by the Census Bureau experts should settle the matter once and for all,” said Miller, chair of the House Government Reform census subcommittee. The Census Bureau committee report

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that philosophical differences between these two officials have not proven to be significant concerns. “North

Carolina had [a governor and lieutenant governor from opposing parties] from 1973 to 1977 and we had it again from 1989 to 1993, and it caused no real problem for anybody,” he said. Luebke added that having an elected lieutenant governor may be good for the state, even if the governor does not agree with her ideas. “Right now it is a weak position..., but it does provide a bully pulpit for the person who is elected independently.” Ted Arrington, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said he is concerned with the constitutionality of the bill. “I’m not familiar with any state that nominates the lieutenant in away different from a general primary—it strikes me as not proper,” he said. Under the bill, political party executive committees would choose the lieutenant governor candidates. The lieutenant governor position grew in prestige during the 1970s when then-lieutenant governor Jim Hunt, serving under Republican Gov. Jim Holshauer, rallied Democrats in the Senate to empower the position. But the trend reversed in the early 1990s when the Senate stripped the office ofits powers after a Republican was elected, Arrington said. Beyond removing potential political differences, Rand believes this bill will eliminate the amount of money spent on campaigning for the lieutenant governor position. “[This bill] would allow the participation for minorities and women more, because it doesn’t need to be a money-chasing candidate,” he said. But Sen. Jeanne Lucas, D-Durham, vehemently disagrees with this logic. She thinks it is ironic that the plan, which could further minimize the role of lieutenant governor, comes shortly after the state elected a woman, Beverly Perdue, to this position for the first time. “If this bill passes, she can’t run at the end of her four-year term, and she may have been the most effective lieutenant governor that we have had,” she said. “I think this is so unfair and all the women in this state should be screaming and hollering to have them treat her like that.... Maybe he has a problem with

feminine leaders.” Lucas noted that Rand proposed to eliminate the position of secretary of state in 1996, shortly after Elaine Marshall became the first woman to serve in that role. Rand denies that either of these bills were intended to remove women from the state government. He originally proposed the lieutenant governor bill in 1999, before Perdue was elected, and it failed. He acknowledged, though, that he knew Perdue was considering running before he introduced the legislation. “I disagree with that [accusation] as much as I posa sibly could,” he said. “I believe that our governor is 1 job, a good [Perdue] does very astute politician, and if again. ticket on the not her putting can’t imagine him Although the bill drew broad support in the Senate have a this time around, many predict the plan will case there is a good think “I tougher time in the House. a for and a good case against, and that usually means close vote,” said Luebke.

said results from the “Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation,” a follow-up survey of 314,000 households following the census, conflicted with results from a separate demographic analysis usually performed after a census to measure its accuracy. “After "careful consideration of the data, this committee has concluded that there is considerable evidence to support the use of adjusted data, and that the Census 2000 and A.C.E. operations were well-designed and conducted,” the report said. However, a comparison to demographic analysis and other possible errors “preclude a determination at this time that the adjusted data are more accurate,” it said. Barron said some of the discrepan-

cies could have been resolved had the Census Bureau been given more time to study the numbers. However, federal law requires the numbers to be used for redistricting, adjusted or not, to be released by April 1. The Census Bureau “needs more time to correct those errors. And I say we should give it to them,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. In Congress, lawmakers from both parties have said an adjustment could add more Democratic-leaning minorities to redrawn districts and threaten the OOP’s narrow House majority. A letter signed by 48 Democratic senators urged Evans to delay his ruling until he can appear before the Senate Commerce Committee.

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at Duke have never—and wiH never —see a clean Duke Student Government executive election. Last night, in the race for DSG president, junior C.J. Walsh received 32.4 percent of the vote. Junior Sean Young received 25.6 percent. The relevant portion of the DSG bylaw that governs elections is worded as follows: “A runoff election will be held for any position in which the candidate receiving the most votes did not receive over 50 percent ofthe vote and did not receive a plurality of 6 percent of those voting over his or her nearest opponent,” There is only one logical way to interpret the bylaw: If a candidate wins a majority of the vote or if a candidate wins by a margin of 6 percent, the candidate wins the election. Walsh bested Young by 6.8 percent. Walsh clearly won the election—but DSG officials seem to think otherwise: DSG President Jordan Bazinsky and Attorney General Jessica Budoff are calling for a runoff election because they have illogically interpreted the bylaw to mean that a candidate must win both a majority and by a margin of 6 percent. However, a runoff in this situation is illegal, according to DSG itself. The language of the bylaw is awkward, but it is in no way ambiguous. A former two-term DSG executive vice president who was responsible for extensively reviewing every DSG bylaw including this one agrees that the stance taken by Bazinsky and Budoff confounds logic. The officials’ misreading of the bylaw could allow for a situation in which elections would continue ad infinitum. If one candidate won the first vote with 51 percent—beating out an opponent who garnered 49 percent—he would have to run again. If in the runoff, the candidates scored the same percentages of the vote, they would have to run again, as neither would have met both the majority and the 6 percent margin conditions. Such a system makes no sense. Budoff, who presided over last fall’s flawed legislative election, and Bazinsky should have taken more care this time by thoroughly considering her misguided conclusion. When she first received tonight’s results, she should have immediately looked back at last year’s results—or at those of any ofthe previous five elections—and wondered how she could be arriving at a different conclusion than everyone else who has held her position. DSG election officials should have conferred with former officers long ago to determine whether their reasoning was, in fact, correct. DSG has been a more influential body this year than in years past. It has demonstrated the power that a student government can wield as both an advocate and a policy maker. However, all of that power is worth very little when DSG botches its fourth consecutive executive election. How can DSG expect students to have faith in its decisions when it cannot conduct one ofits simplest yet most important tasks? Bazinsky and Budoff should come to their senses and cancel an impending runoff. If they fail to take this only logical approach to the situation, Young—and all of the other losing DSG presidential candidates—should take the high ground by realizing the error ofthis interpretation and resigning from the race out of respect for the organization, the bylaw, the student body and the democratic process. Ironically, this year’s election mishap comes not as a result of fraud or candidates’ complaints: If DSG had followed its own rules, graduating seniors would have witnessed their first clean election.

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DSG needs reinterpretation of its reinterpretation The Duke Student ers; and R stand for runoff, on meaning there will be a bylaw Government runoff. Basically, the bylaw runoffs reads “A runoff election will be held for any states: That if there is no M and no P then there is an R. position in which the candiWhich is read: “If the candate receiving the most over 50 didate did not receive a votes did not receive percent of the vote and did majority and the candidate not receive a plurality of 6 did not receive a plurality, percent of those voting over then there will be a runoff.” The antecedent is only his or her nearest opponent.” The DSG attorney true when both M and P are general stated that unless a untrue, which are only true if candidate acquires both a 50 the true values of M and P percent majority and a 6 are both false, meaning that percent plurality there will the candidate does not be a runoff. I disagree with receive a majority, and the this interpretation. candidate does not receive a Let us have M stand for plurality. In this case, R will majority, or the candidate be true, and there will be a received over 50 percent of runoff. Any other combinathe vote; P stand for plurality, tion of values for M and P or the candidate received a make the antecedent and plurality of 6 percent of vot- therefore the consequent

false, and there should not be a runoff. So, if either Mor P or both are true, then there should be no runoff. In this election Pis true, not Pis

false, implying that Ris also false. There was a plurality in this election, so there should be no runoff, The inefficiency and

security issues surrounding elections that had been the cause of so many repeat elections have been eliminated, and now we are being caught on a technicality that does not even follow logically from the from the written word of the DSG bylaw. We need to re-examine the interpretation,

Kate Nowicki Trinity ’O2

Hellish parking situation reveals hidden agenda absolutely Earlier this week, I that there’s parked at the Bryan Center nowhere to park, don’t you?” He responded with apparcircle for two minutes, flicked ran the ent regret, but noted, “You in on my hazards and building to check my mail were parked in the fire lane, and get some cash. When I and that’s a major violation.” Then it hit me: The only came back, I found a $lOO surprise smiling smugly up reason that the Duke at me from my windshield. University Police Department Why did I park in the circle, and its minions were there at you ask? Because there was all was precisely because there were swarms of people not one spot, inch of paveattending Major Events that ment or patch of grass available in the remote BC area, night. The traffic ticketers, thanks to two huge events a.k.a. soulless, heartless going on simultaneously fiends from hell, knew about the events, knew that people Monday night. would be forced to park illeAs I inspected my surprise, I noticed Lucifer’s gally and knew that they third-in-command, the traffic could just pop over to the BC ticketers and their horde of and slaughter a bunch of tow truckers, patrolling the helpless students who simply lane. I accosted the Duke wanted to listen to Spike Lee. Who knew that major police officer overseeing the money-making scam—um, I campus events were really mean the towing—and said just a cover for the ticketers in an angry tone, “You do and their ilk to extort ridicurealize that there is a huge lous sums of money —and event going on tonight and countless Ford Explorers—

from students who value cultural and intellectual stimulation over the nitpicky techidealities of a “legal parking spot?” Yes, I admit I did something “illegal.” Yes, I’m bitter about this $lOO I have to donate to Duke. But the traffic ticketers and their towing lackeys blatantly anticipated, prepared for and took advantage of a major campus event to make a bunch of money, This ranks as the most expensive parking ticket I have received, unless you count the time they charged me with two offenses simultaneously and then towed me. Any way you cut it, THE ARTFUL DODGER is right—people should cry out against the injustice of the ticketing policy here at this wonderful but unfortunately moneyhungry University of ours,

CHARLES AITKEN Trinity’ol

On the record I’m a little surprised by this decision to have the runoff. I think [Budoffhas] done a commendable job as attorney general, but hopefull she’ll re-evaluate her ruling. Former Duke Student GovernmentExecutive Vice President Rusty Shappley on last night s interpretation of runoff conditions (see story, page one)

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Jesus freaks like having fun, too. To help the cause, a new theme park called the Holy Land Experience has arrived in Orlando, Florida. For the first time, travelers will have the chance to walk a mile in Christ's shoes, or push a stroller for a $4 fee. The Christian park features a replica of Herod's Temple (sans Roman orgy), a replica of Jesus' tomb (roll back the boulder and come inside!), a recreation of the Via Dolorosa, the street that Christ walked on his way to be crucified (thorny crown rentals —$2, giant crosses —$5), and a laser light show that features Hebrew prayers. No, we are not making this up. Still, there are things missing—there's no John the Baptist water ride, or Lazarus' Escape from Death drop. There aren't even cartoon versions of sheep, or good Samaritans to help lost visitors. The gift shop does not sell "do-it-yourself Communion" kits. Nor is there a burning bush pyrotechnics show, or a "whack-thePharisee" game. The only real controversy comes from the park's goy-esque owners. If you thought Florida's Jewish population was pissed after accidentally voting for Buchanan, you should see them kvetch now—the park is run by a strange religious hybrid—the Messianic Jew. Messianic Jews are Jews who believe Jesus Christ was the Messiah. (See Smut Peddlers' clas-

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Back when the people were still speculating about the full potential of the Internet, it seemed there could be no limit to all the wonders that freely transmitted information could bring to mankind. The info superhighway would become the ultimate democratizing and liberating force, spreading goodwill among people and even nations. Finally, those wild and starry-eyed pipe dreams have at least partially true, in what may be the biggest step forward in technological convergence since voyeurdorm.com combined home telescope kits

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www.nakednews.com, offers in full streaming glory exactly what its name promises: news delivered by anchors in the buff. Claiming to be "the program with nothing to hide," Naked News offers daily updates on entertainment, health, science and technology, trivial bits of info you wouldn't find anywhere else and a special (unfortunatets clothed) section in which the show goes to the streets to reach the masses. Though the anchors are indeed naked, there is no overt exploitation— the news is still delivered with dignity and enthusiasm. And unlike your typi-

star Aaron Carter and actor Gary Coleman Performance: Chippendale show

cal network talking heads, the newscasters seem genuinely happy to be information conduits to the watching public. Although the initial shock of seeing the technology girl remove her blouse while talking about new envirofriendly cars may be disorienting, at least you are never distracted by the pesky, body-obscuring wardrobes that those CNN types wear, ln one "Naked on the Street" section, the interviewer sought to gauge public opinon on the idea of nude broadcasters, Was the wary public ready for this odd future? Most seemed accepting of the idea, if not outright intrigued and excited—one enthusiastic respondent (probably a grad student) even called it "artistic expression." Unfortunately, many expressed a wish for gender equality through the use of male anchors, of which there are still none, Does that mean that the convergence in Naked News takes more of its influence from porn than the news media? To that, we respond: Would you ever want to see Sam Donaldson or Larry King naked? —By Greg Bloom

Gag Factor: 6. Hey, at least

Carter's cute. If you thought seeing Eminem kickin' it with Elton John on the Grammys was weird, don't worry—wayward record executives and clueless musicians have cobbled together unsuspected pairings for years, almost always to horrific results. Take the soundtrack to the 1993 film Judgment Night, for example. The concept was collaborations between rock and hip-hop—not such a bad idea considering the glut of such material nowadays. Although the Slayer and Ice-T combo went well, pairings like Sonic Youth with Cypress Hill and Dinosaur Jr. with Del Tha Funky Homosapien left people scratching their heads. As for Faith No More teamed up with 800YaT.R.I.B.E. —well, we'll leave that one to the ages. Along with last week's homosexual/homophobe combo, we hear that guitarist Jim Ward of hardcore up-and-comers At the Drive-In is recording a collaboration with bassist Guy Berryman of Coldplay—on a country album. So, in our usual creative spirit,

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Gag Factor: 9. The soul-selling of the vegan vagabond was sickening enough, but the add-on of RATM would be enough to call out Students Against Sweatshops. Pair: Ricky Martin and Tom Cruise Performance: Moving love ballad Gag Factor: 5. Would all but confirm the truth about this ambiguously gay duo, and break the hearts of women everywhere. Pair: Smut Peddlers and D.C. Talk Performance: Interpretive dance Gag Factor: 10. White rappers with a dwarf along with Christian rappers, all dancing? Sounds like one more business crackers should stay out of. —By Jonas Blank

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one thing a reviewer can say about a band that will cause everyone to buy their record, it's to say they sound like Radiohead. Tortoise sound like Radiohead. That's not entirely accurate. Tortoise augment rock with an electronic aesthetic that could send Radiohead back to their precious Oxford flat on their skinny little whiney arses. Their grooves are jazz. Their production is superior to most. And they don't have a singer. But the members of Tortoise are like a lot of Duke students—they're so smart, they can come across as awkward. Songs like the dismal "Blackjack" make you wonder whether the band spent too much time keeping up with the latest in shareware to of a far more primitive invention take notice called melody. On other tracks, though, the geeks astound. "Monica" lays a luscious synth over a funky hook, cuts up the drums and captivates with a barrage of beats. On "Six Pack," Tortoise show off their musicianship with a 9/8 time signature that repeatedly pushes the song over a precipice and brings it back. Like Radiohead, Tortoise can employ stunts like unconventional time signatures to actually enrich a song rather than just to show off. The band should appeal to those fans of Radiohead's more abstract works. The two bands don't sound all that alike, but they're pushing similar boundaries. —By Robert Kelley

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Dave Matthews’ new album, Everyday, isn’t just

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right, a big fat "F' After dominating the college scene throughout most of the 19905, the Dave Matthews Band was poised to head to Nirvana and Radiohead territory—to become the type of generation-defining act you tell your kids about. When a band like that releases a record this poor, it warrants a reaction that would normally be reserved for the most extreme musical mishaps. I confess; I was once a die-hard, tape-trading, tourfollowing Davehead. True, that doesn't gel too well with my current indie-rock snobbery. But over the past two years, I've at least tried to make an amicable separation from the DMB, rather than completely disavow a body of music that, while stagnant and numbingly übiquitous, is still superior to much of the mainstream. Everyday, however, sours my fond memories and the tentative peace I'd made with my embarrassingly unhip musical background. Listening to Everyday wasn't a blast from the past —it was painful. Few albums get worse with every play, but Everyday's blatant mistakes only magnify with repeat exposure. My reaction morphed from disappointment to horror as I realized that those soaring melodies and playful quirks that had made DMB such a joy were gone for good. The collapse begins immediately, with the band's first single "I Did It" rehashing "Too Much" with much less. At first, it's just mediocre, but immediately upon hearing Boyd Tinsley telling me "You got love, don't turn it down, turn it loud," I gagged as if cold tube cheese was poured down my throat. It only gets worse from there. From the clumsy and lurching "When the World Ends” to the sappy and limp "If I Had It AH" to the wimpy gospel of "Everyday" that butchers the old, simple fan fave "#36," Everyday sputters without aim or conviction. Songs that could have been exciting and fresh like "Fool To Think," "Dreams of Our Fathers" and "So

Right" aren't allowed to breathe and are instead rigged with sugar-coated production from studio svengali Glen Ballard (of Alanis and Aerosmith fame) that sounds more like a mix of Peter Gabriel, Sting and bland 'Bos anthems than a refreshing mix of jazz and rock. The final version of Everyday actually represents DMB's second attempt. Matthews introduced some great songs last summer like "Grey Street" and "Bartender," which ranked among his best work. But even respected producer Steve Lillywhite couldn't rescue those classics from the mediocre efforts they were recorded with, and the fledgling album was shelved. Then came hot shot Ballard, who commandeered the band with his own vision of a "new sound." Change is good, but it can't be possible that Dave and the band are so out of touch that they would have made this album on their own. The group has more collective talent than most top-40 acts and their best moments have always been ensemble work. Aside from the fact that these songs were shat out in a mere 12 days, Everyday's most unforgivable offense is the elimination of the "B" in DMB. Leroi has one measly smacker of a solo, Carter Beauford is reduced to playing straight rock signatures (a waste comparable to using a Ferrari as a golf cart) and that "rap" by Boyd Tinsley in "I Did It” is his most noticeable nod on the album. Instead, Matthews' coarse and banal vocals are left way up in the mix, leaving him to spout inanities like "Mother father please explain to me / why our world's so full of mystery / a place so bitter and still so sweet / so beautiful and yet so full of sad sad." It might as well be a solo album. To hear DMB spout off in interviews about how this album is their strongest work casts all faith in their present and past integrity into doubt. But the damage is done. And if anyone wants to relieve this angry fan of his old collection of concerts, check your local yard sale—I'd unload them for 10 cents,a p0p.,13

Wave of Light By Wave of Light (beggars banquet) British mastermind Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) is back on the scene with a new disc, Wave of Light by Wave of Light. This time, Scanner, who brought us one of the first known appearances of mobile phones in popular music, moves away from mindless cellular chatter toward more deliberate word samples. Still, Scanner's great shortcoming is his inability to match the innovation of his previous works this album is not groundbreaking material, but it's still a worthwhile listen. Don't be misled by the title of the first track, ''l Am Calm." Although the statement itself is not necessarily contradictory (since the speaker, who serial killer trying to convince himself of the fact, actually could be), the music bears no correlation with calmness. Instead, Scanner serves up entrancing beats that can, at proper decibel level, transform your personal listening area into your very own approximation of a club scene. With its 10 rather lengthy tracks, this disc works particularly well when played straight through—it keeps you energized the entire time. Standouts are the mysterious "Speechless" and the more trancey "Red Stone Sun." Scanner bears a few similarities to Moby in sound, technique and appearance (he's bald, too), and if that's any indication, his Mobyesque qualities might give him a chance for a breakthrough. —By Abby Rubinson

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Seasons of Paris shows off well-known French photography, sculpture and drawings. By Victoria Kaplan

CITY OF LIGHTS, BY NIGHT: Gyula Halasz Brassai's "Avenue de I’Observatoire."

ou may already have a poster of and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Also of note is Henri de it hanging on your dorm room Toulouse-Lautrec's color lithograph "Eldorado; wall, but if you're interested in seeAristide Bruant in his Cabaret," which, like ing Robert Doisneau's renowned phoDoisneau's "Kiss," has made its way to many a coltograph "The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville" lege dorm room wall. in person, you only have to drive a few The exhibit's design, however, attempts to miles down the road. accomplish too much with too few works of art. Until March 25, UNO's diverse and The pieces are divided into eight categories, such impressive Ackland Art Museum will feature as "The Seine" or "Cafes and Nightlife," which creSeasons of Paris, a small but pleasant exhibition ate chronological confuco-curated by students in a first-year seminar. The exhibition, sion and lead to unnecARXSINFO which includes prints, drawings, photographs and a dynamic essary repetition in the Rodin sculpture chosen from the museum's permanent collecSeasons of Paris text panels. Ackland Art Museum tion, provides an informative glimpse into the growth of the city The quality of the ive ?!?, 0!^ 0rth Carolina of lights from the 18th through 20th centuries. works, of selection The museum's lobby houses the first part of the exhibit, h 6Ver ' a 0 by he ,° 919966.5736 p which examines the aesthetic and historical importance of h h H French lighthearted HoursParis' many monuments through a series of prints and music serenading Wednesday Saturday, 10am-spm photographs. The exhibit begins with an 18th century map visitors in the backSunday, Ipm-spm of Paris that sets the stage for the theme. It is accompaground, makes I nied by an interactive computer station where visitors Seasons of Paris an enjoyable exhibition. It also provides an excellent can explore current maps of Paris via the Internet. Written by the student curators, the text labels for excuse to explore The Ackland's permanent colselected pieces were well researched, insightful and, lection and its other fascinating exhibits, most notably Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' for the most part, professionally written. Henri Rousseau's colorful and poignant "View of the Lithographs and Buddhist Art and Ritual from Nepal and Tibet, which features a Buddhist lie de la Cite" grabs your attention and draws you into the where the focus shifts from Parisian landmonk constructing a sand mandala. second gallery, Parisian and their various people lifestyles But unless you're feeling especially brave, marks to the Doisneau's signature photograph, you may want to postpone your trip and Here you will find avoid the Ackland Art Museum and the several other examples of his work, most along with area altogether this weekend—it is Hill Chapel "The as well as Lady is Shocked," notably the playful Duke vs. Carolina time after all. □ Halasz other excellent photographs by Gyula SPIRITED DEFENSE; Rodin’s “Project for J a Monument to the Defense of Paris.

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On both the big screen and the small that exploit and debase blac By Gr hen the fictional Mantan New Millennium Minstrel Show becomes a nationwide phenomenon with its mocking blackface in Spike Lee's Bamboozled, the satire of Lee's difficult film becomes sharply uncomfortable; Is it because such an idea is so outrageous, or because it's not so foreign? When Lee came to talk on campus this past Monday about Bamboozled, he emphasized the "destructive force of misrepresentation [through] negative images" that have been used from the very birth of modern media to debase racial groups into what he deemed "subhuman" constructs. The state of racialization in today's entertainment culture still feeds on such ethnic exploitation, and the result is that while challenging films such as Bamboozled attempt to engage the culture in serious racial discourse, they are virtually ignored. Instead, moviegoers opt to pay for flicks like Double Take and laugh when a mock ghetto wino snarls for some "Schlitz malt licka!" The spirit of Buckwheat is alive and well in the new millenium.

Just decades ago, television featured the surprisingly sharp social commentary of All in the Family and the relatively deracialized presentation of black suburban life in The Cosby Show, but those lines of discourse never developed. Today, race in TV Land is still exploited by "cooning" for the audience. While television may be expected to pander to the lowest common denominator, racial constructions in film are also troubling. Consider some of the more famous black comedians and their recent showcases. Martin Lawrence is known for crazy antics in various roles such as an unctuous black con man disguised as a cop (Blue Streak) and an unctuous black cop disguised as a fat lady (Big

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Much of Bamboozled deals with network television programming for minority demographics. Ethnic groups on television have been relegated to what Lee calls the "ghetto of the sitcom," confined mostly in the projects of URN and the WB. There, shows like The Wayans Brothers and Homeboys From Outer Space are fueled primarily by comedy milked from ethnic stereotypes. When controversy raged a few seasons ago over the utter lack of minority representation on net-

"COONiNG FOR THE CAMERA": Lee cites The Legend of Bagger Vance as a prime example of the "black mystic" in film/ ■'< <

work primetime television, the debates somehow missed the point. Though the lack of racial characters was a serious issue, the more fundamental problem was the type of roles existing characters were given.

Momma's House). Chris Tucker plays all Will Smith has charmed sidekick to both a square alien-fighting nation a the as wisecracking, Black) and a (Men dude In old white nebbishy Jewish guy (Independence Day) and he uses his mystical powers to help out a struggling white golfer (The Legend of Bagger Vance) this year. Lee has a right to be frustrated at the recent dominance of the "mystical black man" in film. The magical "Supernegro," as he calls this type of character, exists only to help the white man. Such odd hybrids of Sambo and voodoo witch doctor can be found in What Dreams May Come, The Family Man and the afore-

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Lee dubbed "The Legend of Nigger Vance." In an alarming display of racial insensitivity and poor common sense, the Academy gave Michael Duncan Clark a Best Supporting Actor nomination for a role in The Green Mile that fully crossed the line into racial offense. And the portly black woman known as "the Oracle" in The Matrix seems an awful lot like Cleo the Jamaican Tarot Card lady who dominates those late night commercials. Such characters may all be positive forces within their movies, but the manifestation of black-man-as-mystic still makes the correlation between nonwhite and something not quite human None of these roles, when seen through the lens of racial ideology, present strong independent images of black people in today's society. There are at least a few filmic moments where race is dealt with

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people and other minorities. Bloom in a more legitimate fashion. Along with Bamboozled, James Toback's quasi-improvisational Black and White looked at the construction of racial identity through hip-hop in youth culture. However, the reaction to both of these arguably flawed films was not very positive. Nineteen ninety-nine's The Hurricane brought Denzel Washington an Oscar nomination, but the film's message was lost behind Denzel's celebrity presence and complaints of historical inaccuracy. Surprisingly, one of last year's most potent race plots was found amidst the coal of a teen cheerleading comedy, Bring It On, which managed to present conflicts caused by racial segregation and economic disadvantage with maturity and poise Television also has its glimmers of hope. Outside the sitcom ghetto, black characters are allowed to jw* develop free of stereotyping, ,tr s' like Andre Braugher on Homicide or Erin La Salle's LDr. Benton on ER. Tangi m 1 Miller's role on Felicity has developed a complex racial I identity as a black coed under \mL'' % extreme pressure to succeed Another rich source still under development is HBO, where several original movies like Dancing In September have directly confronted racial issues. Unfortunately, these are mere exceptions to the majority of pop culture. The I deeper parts of the racial discourse stream are often avoided so that no controversy is caused. That is why * . films that are ostensibly about \ racial tension, like Remember the Titans and Men of Honor, are often dumbed down and -* sugar-coated so they can be easily swallowed. A better example would be this year's Best Picture frontrunner, Traffic, ■ whose one major flaw was to completely ignore the socioeco«* nomic devastation the drug war wreaks on minority communities. In just one short and clumsy monologue delivered by a smarmy, rich white kid, Traffic tries to sweep the entire sticky mess under the rug—a fatal mistake for a film that considers itself political. It seems as if the studio heads behind the movie didn't want to risk offending anyone other than drug lords. programming on teleThe state

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Recess talks to two writers whose work has been featured in the ongoing Blackburn Literary Festivals

Ron Hansen Ron Hansen is the author of numerous novels, including Desperadoes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Nebraska, Marietta in Ecstasy, and Atticus. His latest, Hitler's Niece, has been chosen as a Literary Guildalternate. Among his many other accolades, Atticus was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1996. According to Contemporary Novelists, Hansen's books "occupy a curious halfway house between popular and high culture; between the worlds of art and entertainment." A book by Hansen provides a good read as well as a searching study of morality. In an article in Publishers Weekly, Hansen said, "For me, the process of writing is the joy of writing. It's putting down individual sentences, making them fit together, making the story interesting. Once you've completed a book, you realize how ramshackle a thing writing a novel is. You've somehow made it seem like it was always coherent." Luckily enough, Recess corespondent Terry Schuster got to chat with him for a few minutes last Tuesday afternoon. Where do you go when you write? My office. It's got a window and a desk and a chair for reading. The furniture is all things I've put together. When you get stuck writing, how do you recenter? Well, there's an old saying that whenever you get writer's block, just lower your standards. I also think it's a good idea to put something away. I'm writing a story now, and I don't know how it's going to end, so I'm putting it away until it can tell me where to go. Sometimes you have too few options, but sometimes you have too many. What do you think is important for a writer to notice? Anything in nature. Little things are extremely important—the fingernails on a baby's hand. If you had a son and a daughter tomorrow, what would you name them? Theresa, because I've known a few great women named Theresa. And maybe Thomas—that's my middle name. Who was your favorite fictional villain? Probably Hitler. I've written fiction about him. In stuff that 1 haven't written, probably Ahab from Moby Dick. He's just a complicated, obsessive person. think we are fascinated by obsessions, whether we have them or not. If you could have any contemporary author besides yourself write the story of your life, whom would you pick? John Updike. He writes autobiographically. I haven't met him, but he is conscious enough of details that I think he would write my story fairly. Do you have any advice for aspiring writers? Keep doing it. If you like writing, don't stop. The real work of being a writer is perseverance.

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Recess Editor Jonas Blank spoke to the Duke English Professor

about his reading yesterday as part

of the Blackburn Literary Festival

Born in a coal mining town in western Kentucky, Joe Ashby Porter has had a career of distinction. From his days at Harvard to the publication of his first novel, Eelgrass, and winning the prestigious Pushcart Prize for short fiction, Porter's writing has shown remarkable creative scope. His characters are refreshingly original, yet honest and human, and their stories are told in a style that is at once luminous and subdued. His latest novel, Resident Aliens, was published last September. Along with fiction, Porter publishes Shakespeare criticism under the pseudonym Joseph A. Porter. He offers both his talents to the Duke community, teaching creative writing and Shakespeare courses in the English department. Tell me about the short story you'll be reading. It will appear in the Kenyon Review and it's entitled Scrupulous Amedee. It's the life story of a man born on an island off of the coast of Tunisia. He spends most of his life on the island, and the story takes him all the way to his death and then a little bit after.... He has a somewhat difficult life; he's scrupulous inasmuch as he attempts to play honorably with the cards he's dealt. He's dealt a very strange hand of cards, including what he believes to be the ability to hear supernatural voices. In a scene in Resident Aliens (set in the mid'7os) four undergraduates show up at a party held by the main characters, one of whom is their professor, and smoke some marijuana. Do you think that was possible back then, and could such a scene take place today? It's a somewhat realistic portrayal.... It's a bit exaggerated—some of the characters do a bit more exaggerated versions of things than 1 remember being the case back then. I don't think something like that could happen today. How do you balance your roles as both a scholar and writer? It's not easy. At the beginning, I balanced them by keeping them separate from each other. Now they stay separate without having to keep them separate.... In the beginning, 1 thought there might be professional difficulty. Shakespearians might think I couldn't be a serious Shakespearian; fiction readers might think I couldn't be a serious novelist because I was committed to doing Shakespeare. Why did you create a pseudonym for yourself? 1 published fiction before I published scholarly work. My given name is Joe Ashby Porter.... When I first published scholarly work, it seemed

to me that "Joe Ashby Porter" didn't sound professional enough, so I created a pseudonym for myself: Joseph A. Porter. ResidentAliens is about French characters, and critics describe it as a very French novel. Would you describe yourself as a Francophile? 1 would. I have a work in progress that's a kind of memoir. Its working title is Deep France, and it's about the connection between myself and France that goes back almost as far as 1 can remember. Even in my youth, in a lost little town in Kentucky, I was interested in France. But my most important anchor is Yves Orvoen. Fie and I have lived together for 30 years.... Because of him, I go back to France very often.... So yes, I'm very Francophile. I can't imagine what it must have been like growing up in western Kentucky. I guess you must have been quite an anomaly. I was an anomaly, maybe quite an anomaly, but I also liked people. I knew how to make myself seem not so anomalous. Maybe my friends thought of me as slightly bookwormish, but in general they thought I was one of the guys. ResidentAliens relies on the dramatization of everyday events. How do you turn everyday life into a work of art? The language in which you tell ordinary events, in my view, has to be even better than if you were telling extraordinary events.... For a page to make an invitation to a reader, the writer has to have weighed every single word, every single phrase. Does teaching writing impact your style? I learn a whole lot from students' writing—a lot of it is good. I learn by watching students do things I have never thought of doing. In away my best model for any kind of artist is Shakespeare. Fie was a complete sort of magpie; he would steal right and left.... I'm a shameless kind of thief from anything 1 read; a lot of the thievery is unconscious, though. I suppose I steal things like the tone of a student's story; I might use it without even knowing how it was created, is Duke a good atmosphere for a writer? The Duke English department is an extremely nurturing place for fiction writers and poets.... There is no division at all between creative writers and scholars. We support each other, we understand each other. Duke is the only place that makes this kind of thing possible, and I'm very thankful to have landed here.D

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Run Like An Antelope: On the Road With Phish gives one guy’s account of life on the road with the band. Too bad he’s a huge poseur. By Andrew Rothman

the back cover of Run Like an Antelope: On the Road with Phish, author Sean Gibbons lists one of his credentials as

being "a huge Phish fan." Of course he is. So it's surprising, then, that this book features Gibbon the Phishhead sharing equal time with Gibbon the Author. The former is at his best when he passionately describes Phish's music and the community that it fosters. The latter is at his worst when he writes with contempt about the nasty conditions he endures while touring. What emerges is a sort of two books in one. The first, aimed at readers who know nothing about th< Phish scene, is an amusing picaresque tale of the hero, Gibbon, as he follows Phish's summer tour of 1999, acco panied by various sidekicks and in search of the answer t eternal question: Why do people go on tour with Phish?' the way, this modern Don Quixote encounters adventure: are sure to entertain his readers, like his experience after suming an "extra-dank" brownie in the parking lot. It's like ing a story about some mysterious, faraway place, where drop everything to chase around four guys from Vermont. The only problem with this element of Run Like an An that there is a huge group of people who actually do live different world. They are the audience for the second book, and they are who Gibbon is insulting. On tour, he doesn't exactly set his gearshift for the high gear of his soul; he instead lingers in third, hesitant to really rev the engine /

Gibbon writes on the first page that, "The idea is to write from the inside out, the crowd's perspective." To the serious ■-‘"'head, however, Gibbon was nothing more than an outising himself in an attempt to write an exposd sh subculture. Run Like an Antelope is what 'uac's On the Road would have been if Sal and Dean Moriarty used a travel agent. Gibbon ited a beat-up GMC Jimmy to drive so he would. out in a clean, new car. He booked hotel rooms jry night of the tour, while typical Phishheads out selling grilled cheese just to be able to afford :s. On tour, Gibbon was little more than a narc a laptop and tape recorder. ■obably the most insulting thing about the book is ibon's negative attitude toward the tour and the <ople with whom he shared the parking lot scene, is descriptions of fellow "phans" are nothing but string of stereotypes, ranging from their armpit jair to the nappiness of their dreadlocks. He seems as if he doesn't want to be on tour at all, itantly cursing the heat or the dirt or the people >e that makes him slightly uncomfortable, saving grace for Run Like an Antelope is the memories it invokes of Phish shows of the past. Reading Gibbon's chronicle of his tour, no phan can help but yearn for the lazy summer days of hanging out with friends, eating extra-dank brownies, kicking back and sharing the groove.□

Another Descent Into Discworld While most writers seem to be scrounging for ideas, Terry Pratchett seems to have them in abundance. Pratchett began the famous Discworld series in 1983; his latest novel, The Truth, is the 25th addition to this set of seriocomic fantasies. Readers unacquainted with Discworld's loony history can still revel in The Truth, but it helps to already be steeped in Pratchett's zany world. For instance, it is nice to know that Discworld rests on the shell of a turtle and that people believe it is flat. In fact, it is rumored that if you venture too far, you just might fall off The Edge (sound familiar?). Similarly, when the subject of death surfaces, a veteran Pratchett reader knows what to expect; Yes, Death really is an old man, with a white horse a handy scythe (useful whenever he's in the mood to

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smite someone) Wacky, bizarre and funny as hell, Discworld novels trans(its populatport us into a world that is different from ours sussomehow all) yet werewolves, after ed by wizards and fantasy. piciously similar. Thus, in a sense, Pratchett writes But in another, he writes reality. our world and Pratchett's stories are hilarious precisely because they examine dozen solemn dwarf wit: A scathing all its quirks. An instance of the author's its than a dwarf. Perhaps faces looked hard at William. No one can look harder the iron round statutory between because there is only a small amount of face are more concentrated. helmet and the beard. Dwarf expressions the news media. He flies readIn The Truth, Pratchett probes the depths of

ers to the magical city of Ankh-Morpork, where his tale kicks off. Protagonist William de Worde is the son of one of Ankh's most well-to-do families. But he doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, which is understandable, considering they were all killers or got killed themselves. (The de Wordes had always considered dying a decent second prize.) With a strong distaste for the military and a soft spot for words, William decides to trade his sword for the pen and become a scribe. That decision doesn't go over too well with his father. Nevertheless, William stays true to his calling, and in a divine flash of inspiration, gets the idea to create a newsletter. Slowly but surely, his newsletter grows until it addresses all sorts of subjects (e.g. remarkable deaths, strangely shaped vegetables). But gathering spicy tidbits is only the beginning of William's adventures. When the Patrician of Ankh, Lord Vetinari, is suddenly charged with murder, William's journalistic instincts tell him that there is something fishy going on. Armed with a frustratingly demure assistant and a vampire photographer who's "reformed" but still turned on by the sight of a fainting damsel, William sets out to find the truth. What he discovers is that corruption runs deeper than you can imagine, and that dogs often know more than they let 0n.... In typical Pratchett fashion, The Truth addresses issues like politics and religion without waxing too philosophical. Reading its unique and fantastic take on reality, it is no wonder the Discworld series has lasted as long as it has. —By Shalini Bongu

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Baldecchi and Lawrence Bender made a brilliant decision when they flowing in the wind in the wake of his recently-departed lover. The picture chose to produce The Mexican. The producers recognized a script that recalls an impressionist painting—his world is crashing down, but he's left with could appeal to virtually every demographic if cast correctly—Julia Roberts a vision of hope. It is a shame that we see this through the eyes of Winston, a and Brad Pitt handled that—and could blend the blockbuster with the newly bad character who gives even worse advice. "art" needed was the director to make film. All they profitable right Worse, Winston's homosexuality is outed only to teach lessons about love it happen—and who better than Gore Verbinski, the genius behind the Budweiser Frogs? through his cheesy philosophical questions, such as, "When is enough [love] (Brad Pitt) dual revolve around to retrieve a plots Jerry trying enough?" He seems to think the answer is "never" —but doesn't that sort of talk The Mexican's called "The Mexican" some mob bosses back the lead to destructive, co-dependent relationships? Is that what men really want? in pistol backstabbing for U.S. But that's not all: Sam (Julia Roberts), is kidnapped by Winston, an assasThe Mexican's concept had potential, but its producers should have known it sin working for one of them. The catch is, Winston isn't big and mean like he would go astray when they agreed to do such blatant product placement for Tab (Roberts guzzles it by the gallon on-screen). But if you're too wussy for Hannibal looks—he's gay, sensitive and full of advice. This truly is a movie for the masses. Men will eat up the hard-core Brad Pitt and too macho for Sweet November, this catch-all might make the cut.Q action flick set in Mexico, and middle-aged women will flock to see Brad sweat. But they will really love the feelings coming from Winston, the gay hit man. 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With weak antagonists and Jim ter of Monkeybone—who resembles Beetlejuice, Jumanji Carrey's and a hero for whom we have no sympathy, it is no wonder the movie so much as an ambulatory nothing Grinch. have invented a new recent I never really comes together. The last 20 minutes are a weak attempt as a simian exprespenis—functions math: derision. long to finally bring Roberts and Pitt on-screen together for the first time GRADE: s jon 0f stu's id—as the kid behind At the very least, this muddled and tie up the loose ends, but we still get a confusing ending full of me put it, "He looks like a weiner." insta-cult confection is equal to the unanswered questions. Still, The Mexican is not a total loss. Dariusz True to form, the film practically sum of its disparate and unwieldy Wolski's cinematography is a festival of color. The retelling of the pisejaculates its sexuality ("I'm going to parts. 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And like most comatose artists, he finds himself in but the production, which suggests nothing so much as Ralph Bakshi playing with "Downtown," a swank-rot metropolis governed by Death (Whoopi Goldberg, previBeanie Babies, defeats him. The failure here is Selick's: He remains an agile visuously thought dead herself). Now abetted al stylist, yet his stop-motion harlequin is by his principal brainchild, the phallically dubbed title creature, Stu must navigate draped over a seriously shiftless story, By Dan Mallory the perilous terrain of his imagination, to with all manner of lions and fraught sex and violence reign Nemesis —tries walk away with g* and bears. Fraught also, I should the entire $3.2 million booty. supreme, it's surprising with the soggy tundra of the sere* that 3,000 Miles to Graceland—a On top of that, there's Cox and aswim in subplots, cliches and pu her son {David Kaye), who Russell's fairly run-of-the-mill shoot 'em up character takes a liking to. 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syllabus, because he says he wants ACES lady is unemployed, maybe to keep us in suspense. Nor did he she could find work here breaking hand out the usual list of books to the news more gently. hunt down, which is what I usually Where my poetry class meets get instead of a syllabus. Then he couldn’t be more different from the announced that an oral exam Sorbonne. The grittier University of Ellen Zander would determine our grade for the Paris VII is an ultra modem conclass. I got scared when I realized crete and steel compound with grafI studied (abroad of course) for that he didn’t mean a checkup for fiti in the stairwells. My class was the first time last week. Since my cavities at the dentist. Luckily, he in the main skyscraper last week, classes started three weeks ago, I is letting the Americans in the and I could look out over Paris and thought I should repair the notes class write a paper instead. hear the wind whistling by. I’ve taken since then. They start out Just before she gave us a break, in French, turn into English when the professor asked if anyone in the the professor goes too fast and occaclass happened to be unionized. She are sionally degenerate into phonetic was going to request a room for the spellings. I didn’t find out until following week, since the class had after my political science class was been originally assigned to an over that “kah-oh” was chaos, unheated trailer. I guess she spelled exactly the same in French. thought that a little help could not The guy who leaned over to look at hurt. Student unions are the French version of Duke Student my notes must think I am illiterate. The class meets at the Sorbonne Government but more politicized more in a neoclassical marble building and militant. The University of commissioned in 1642 by Cardinal Paris II has two unions, and each Richelieu, the bad guy in The Three passes out pamphlets accusing the Musketeers. A few guards posted in other of being left- or right-wing just the hallways keep tourists from outside the cafeteria, where lunch Grades here are posted next to costs a little over $2. wandering into unauthorized Only one of my classes meets areas, for good reason. The U.S. each student’s name on a bulletin Occupational Safety and Health board in the hallway—about a more often than once a week, which Administration would have a heart month after the final. Judging from means my classes are note-taking attack if it could get in. The railings the results from last semester, marathons that go on for hours. On of some of the staircases are shaky, which are still up, a 16 out of 20 (am the other hand, that means that I and paint that looks old enough to American B-minus) is a really high have class only three days a week. have lead in it is peeling off some of grade. Some people just had “failLet’s just say that I wasn’t too ing” written next to their names. interested in the classes that met the walls. But they really are trying to maintain it. Just ask the For in-class presentations, it is not on Saturday. Or Monday, or crew hammering and drilling right unusual for the professor to Tuesday, as it turned out! announce the grade then and there outside the window during class. The professor did not give us a in front of everyone. Now that the Ellen Zander is a Trinity junior.

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No, I’m not wearing these heels for fun. They’re new, they hurt, and they make way too much noise on the Bryan Center walkway. Every time their soles slap the ground, my arches scream, and then my calves cry out in pain. But when I go to change, I see the slope of my legs, the carefully painted toenails (marked in “pussycat pink”), the extra inches pushing me to eye level, and I cave in. “Two more hours,” I think. “Class with him in two hours, and then these cursed things can come off.” Clicking across the quad, my nylon messenger bag bounces on my hip, and the rhythm of my steps spells out his name. You guessed it; it’s crush time. And it’s a big deal. I mean, by the time you’re old enough to park legally in the Blue Zone, stalking some guy better be worth it. My heart is too busy to let someone in without warning, and besides, I’ve been burned before. You know the phrase, “I’m not even looking?” Whatever—-I’m not even looking up. It wasn’t always this way. Last night, I tried to count my freshman

big deal. I mean, by And a it’s the time you’re old enough to park legally in the Blue Zone, stalking some guy better be worth it. flings—impossible. When we hit East Campus, crushing became a shopping list—l had friends who went to the Marketplace just to pick up “dessert.” People said freshman girls were easy, but we wondered if they’d ever tried upper-class guys. Please. Passing “Rocks for Jocks” was harder. For an entire year, we crushed, we cruised, and we felt untouchable. But when we moved to West or Trent via Central, things changed. After tequila, sunrises and some disastrous attempts at true love (like, uh, mine), many of us were ready to go it alone, and I was so scorched that I wouldn’t have it another way. That’s why the crush is a big deal. All of a sudden, I’m totally torn. On the one hand, this stuff is fun. On the other hand, it could hurt. The playwright David Ives said, “When you ffeefall, find if heaven waits.” And if it doesn’t, get ready to eat some sidewalk. Rejection sucks. Most of us will play games, follow stupid rules, or commit to the wrong person to avoid it. And we freeze. Not wanting a relationship is one thing, but running from closeness is a problem. We forget sometimes that guarding our hearts and freezing them are different, and it’s hard to know the difference without taking a giant leap. But giant leaps are scary, so I did something small: I clicked my heels onto a quad where he had class, and I sat. Refusing to look up, I planted myself and pulled out a book. “Okay,” I said. “I will not look up. I have my own life and I will not look up,” and suddenly, a silhouette. I looked up. He smiled. I fell. We’ll see. In the meantime, it’s March and I’m starting to thaw. I don’t dwell on the people who ve hurt me anymore. Instead, I think about the friends who make me grow. I think about which pair of heels I’m going to wear tomorrow when I slide into my crush again. I think about the roller coaster in my gut, how my stomach drops out and I laugh. Like William Finn said, “I feel so much spring.” I’m free; I’m freefalling. And it’s great. —

Faran Krentcil is a Trinity sophomore and Trends editor of Recess.

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Calendar Come hear the unheard voices of Duke women as they recount their personal experiences with disordered eating, 5:00 p.m. at the Women's Center. For more information call The Healthy Devil at 684-5610. Shabbat services (reform, conservative, orthodox) followed by kosher dinner. Reservations required for dinner, $lO. Calf 684-6422 or e-mail jewishlife@duke.edu. 6:00 p.m. Freeman Center for Jewish Life, 1724 Campus Drive, at Swift Avenue. Freewater Films: “Best in Show," Tickets are free to Duke students, $3 tor the public. For information, cal! 684-2911. 7:00, 9:30 p.m., Griffith Film Theater.

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Men’s tennis seeks revenge for 2 losses last season By THOMAS STEINBERGER The Chronicle

The No. 3 men’s tennis team will attempt to build on last Wednesday’s 5-2 win over seventhranked Tennessee when they meet No. 10Florida at Duke Tennis Stadium Sunday. The Blue Devils hope to extend a nine-match home winning streak and continue a strong spring season in which their only loss came against Stanford in the semifinals of the National Indoors Championships. “We’re pretty confident right now,” coach Jay Lapidus said. ‘We’re not surprised we’re doing so well, this team’s good. The matches were tight [against Tennessee], so we expect a tough match.” Florida enters the contest with a young team, having dropped three of its last four, including a 4-0 loss to Stanford. But Lapidus warned that the Gators are talented and he expected a battle Sunday. If anything, Florida should not come to Durham intimidated, having defeated the Blue Devils twice last season. And even though Gator coach lan Duvenhage brings a somewhat different squad from a year ago, those losses have not been forgotten by the home team. “You could say that,” said sophomore Michael Yarn in response to whether the Blue Devils will be looking for payback. “I guess they lost two of their better players and they’re not as tough, but it’s definitely on our minds.” Last match, Yarn teamed with senior Ramsey Smith in an 8-3 route over Tennesee’s No. 12 doubles duo ofAdam Carey and Mark Parson. Smith, who also won his singles match, continues to lead a team that began the season with a tough schedule and faces four more ranked opponents this month.

Duke still has room to grow, as freshman phenom Philip King dropped three of his last four matches. But like most of his teammates, King did have a strong outing against the Volunteers, winning his singles match in straight sets. “It definitely boosts our confidence,” Yard said. ‘Tennessee came into the season at No. 2 and we beat them pretty well. Tennessee’s a little bit stronger than Florida, but [the Gator’s] top guy Nathan Overholser is strong.” Overholser has a good deal of momentum coming into Durham, having defeated Arkansas’ Oskar Johannson, the nationally top-ranked singles player in the country Wednesday. His probable matchup with Smith should be the one to watch, along with Duke’s Marko Cerenko trying to bounce back after a 6-4,6-4 loss earlier this week. Even if Overholser pulls off a second straight upset, Duke’s superior depth ought to give the Gators problems. Florida will put No. 77 freshman Jeremy Wurtzel in the three slot against either Cerenko or No. 19 Andres Pedroso, and the rest of the matchups look just as favorable for Duke. Revenge could also be an issue for Pedroso, a senior, who was routed 6-3, 6-1 by Florida’s Olivier Levant last year at the NCAA tournament quarterfinals. But, Levant will likely see King, who has split time between the No. 1 and

No. 2 positions this spring. As they will play at home just once in the next four weeks, Duke hopes to use that advantage for another dominant performance Sunday. That four-

week stretch will have the Blue Devils spending spring break in Texas where they will play four matches in five days, including a clash with the No. 8 Longhorns March 11.

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Women’s swimming puts frosh in NCAAs Men’s lax travels to By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

In a sign that the non-scholarship swimming program is attracting more talent to Duke, freshman Lauren Comet was invited yesterday evening to this season’s NCAA swimming and diving cham-

pionships. The championships will be held in Long Island, N.Y. starting on March 15. “I’m very surprised,” Comet said. “It’s

an honor, since no one from Duke has made it in some time. I’m really interested to see how it goes.” The Great Falls, Va., native qualified for both the 100 and 200-breaststroke events. She made it in the 100-breaststroke with a time of 1:02.79 set during the ACC championships; the time tied for 24th best in the country. Her time of 2:16.18 in the 200-breaststroke, however,

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“Lauren is certainly the most talented swimmer at Duke since Nancy Hogshead,” her coach Bob Thompson said. “She is so young and new in the sport that her future is so bright and has not reached her potential. She should get better and better as she gets older” By NICK CHRISTIE Hogshead was the last Blue Devil to The Chronicle decades in ago NCAAs, for the two qualify After two games against clearly over1981; she set records in all nine events matched the seventhcompetition, Duke she swam at before competing in ranked Duke men’s lacrosse team travthe 1984 summer Olympics. This season, Comet set Duke records els to College Park this weekend to face four events, including the two events the No. 8 Maryland Terrapins, a very in she will be competing in at the NCAAs as dangerous squad. Unlike its two comfortable victories well as in the 50- and 100-freestyle. She over Drexel and Butler, the Dukewas also a member of four record-breakMaryland matchup should be an ing relay teams. The women’s team finextremely close contest. with of its first win6-3, a record ished In each of the last three encounters The men’s since 1994. team season ning between these two ACC rivals, only a also had a winning season (5-4), the first separated the victor from single goal both the career that time in Thompson’s the vanquished. men and women finished above .500. Not only do the Blue Devils antici“We’ve had a really really good seaa close contest, they expect an pate said. think “I probably Cornet that son,” encourages us to keep getting better intensely physical match as well. “Maryland prides itself on their bluebecause we’ve made so much progress collar approach,” Duke coach Mike during the year.” See MEN’S LAX on page 16 P" Paul Doran contributed to this story.

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Women’s lacrosse battles Patchak, Blue Devils play ACC foe Maryland today rival Terps in College Park By

KEVIN LEES

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The sky is pink as the sun closes on another day over a largely anonymous field behind Koskinen and Wallace Wade Stadiums. It is the site of women lacrosse’s last practice before taking on Maryland and as the sky darkens and the temperature seems to drop

exponentially, practice goes longer than normal. It’s not a typical practice. Normally, coach Kerstin Kimel could not let this happen. She would have to pick up her five-month-old baby from the sitter’s. But this is a special practice because the team Duke is playing Friday night is also a special team, No. 1 Maryland. “For her, there’s a lot at stake and nationally, to put our name out there. It’s big,” said senior Kate Solier. Luckily, on this night Kimel can stay a bit later. But, after gathering her team for one last chat about the itinerary for Maryland, her night is far from over. “Are you kidding? I have to go back to the office and we’re waiting on a scouting report, I have to sit down tonight, break down some more film. Wednesday night is Caroline’s bath night, so she needs a bath. I need to have her stuff packed for a babysitter. I have to pack bags for myself. Sleep is secondary to everything else. I’ll sleep on the bus tomorrow.” Kimel is 1-5 at Maryland, where the Terrapins have won more NCAA championships, including six consecutive, which is more than Duke has won in all

other sports combined. Kimel knows how tough the Terps are because, hell, she was one. As National Defensive Player of the Year, she knocked in two goals in the 1992 championship game that lifted Maryland over Harvard 11-10 in double overtime. “It’s pretty special to go back to

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Pressler said. “They have tough kids and they feed off of that, [but] we recruit that kind of player [too]. Maryland really stresses that style of play, the roughand-tumble game, and so do we.” “We know it’s going to be a war,” said Duke assistant coach Joe Alberici. “We know it’s going to be tight. It always is with Maryland.” Like the Blue Devils, the Terrapins (2-0) also started their season out with a pair of preparation games, winning the

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Preseason first-team All-American John Malone won MVP honors at the tournament, and teammate Andrew Combs scored eight goals in the two-day affair. Together with the brother tandem of Mike and Dan LaMonica, the Terrapins boast a potent offensive attack. One of this matchup’s most intriguing elements is the return of Duke senior attackman Greg Patchak from injury. Patchak, a preseason thirdteam All-American, is a Maryland native and will be making his first start of the season in the hostile confines of Byrd Stadium. “It’s a big game for me personally,” Patchak said. “I have a lot of friends at Maryland and they will be talking a lot of trash.” In addition to facing the notoriously aggressive Maryland fans (who are equally passionate about lacrosse as they are about basketball), Patchak—who scored 29 goals and registered 16 assists last year—will also be expected to revive a Duke offense which sputtered in its first two contests against Drexel and Butler. They scored 10

against the Dragons and 12 while facing the Bulldogs. “We basically had a poor shooting weekend against Drexel and Butler,” Patchak said. “We have to be disciplined. One of our goals as an offense for the year is to shoot 35 percent and my personal goal is to shoot 50 percent. We had 43 shots against Butler and only 12 goals. That’s not a great percentage, so we’re going to try to work on that.” Alberici feels that Patchak is an invaluable resource to the team and will play an integral role in Duke’s aim to increase its offensive lethality. “The fact that he’s on the field gives us a guy who’s been around, who’s been through the wars, and gives us more experience,” he said. Maryland will look to negate Patchak’s scoring ability with Michael Howley, who, although only a sophomore, earned preseason first-team AllAmerica honors. Patchak relishes such a challenge. When asked whether or not he would like to draw the defenseman, he answered, “I hope so. I hope I get that respect from Maryland.” Behind Howley is senior goalkeeper Pat McGinnis, another preseason firstteam All-American and Maryland’s last line of defense. However, Maryland’s other two starting defenders are inexperienced, something the Blue Devils will look to exploit. ‘We’re really focusing on the offense

this week,” midfielder Chris Hartofilis said. “We’re very confident that our defense is going to hold them to singledigit goals. It’s up to our offense to step up and put the ball in the net.”

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ACC STANDINGS

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Saturday, March 3: Florida State @ Ciemson, noon, RSN Virginia @ Maryland, 2 p.m., CBS Sunday, March 4: Wake Forest @ NC State, 1:30 p.m., RJ Duke at UNC, 3:30 p.m., ABC ACC TOURNAMENT Thursday, March 8: Seed #8 vs. Seed #9, 7p.m., ESPN

Friday, March 9: Seed #1 vs. 8/9 winner, noon, RJ Seed #4 vs. Seed #5,2:30 p.m., RJ/ESPN Seed #2 vs. Seed #7, 7 p.m., RJ/espn2 Seed #3 vs. Seed #6, 9:30 p.m., RJ ACC Game of the Week Duke @ UNC, Sunday 3:30p.m. The stage is set for another epic battle between these Tobacco Road rivals. The Boozer-less Blue Devils look to upset the Tarheels in the Dean Dome and spoil Brendan Haywood and Max Owens’ senior day and revenge their 85-83 loss in Cameron a little more then a month ago.

SCORING AVERAGE Games J. Porte, UNC 27 J. Williams, Duke 29 W. Solomon, Clem 27 S. Battier, Duke 29 J. Dixon, UMd. 28 REBOUNDING G No. 272 A. Jones, GT 27 T. Watson, UVa

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“We’re optimistic that Carlos can return for the NCAA tournament” Mike Krzyzewski, on Carlos Boozer’s future

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The Tar Heels topped N.C. State at the Smith Center, 76-63, to assure themselves of at least a first-place tie in the final regular-season ACC standings and the top-seed in the ACC tournament. The tiebreaker between Duke and UNC is record against common foes. UNC beat Maryland twice while Duke and Maryland split the season series 1-1.

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Basketball faces first test as underdog against Tar Heels P UNC PREVIEW from page 1 are definitely playing N.C. State in the opening round of the ACC tournament. Yet this is still Duke versus North Carolina—the fiercest rivalry in sports, and no matter how each team’s season goes, there is still a lot on the line. Pride. Victory. For Duke, revenge after an 85-83 loss earlier this season on their home court. “We have nothing to lose right now,” Shane Battier said. “So we’re going to go into their house and try to get one.” Although they may have nothing to lose, the Blue Devils do have a lot of questions which need to be answered, beginning simply with their starting lineup. Coach Mike Krzyzewski has yet to officially announce if he will go with sixth-man Chris Duhon or back-up center Casey Sanders to replace Boozer; Sanders, however, is listed as the probable starter for the game. Sanders also bring a few question marks if he makes his first career start this Sunday. His 6-foot-11, 218 pounds frame has been pushed around easily at times this year. He also showed he is

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extremely prone to foul trouble, racking up four fouls in as many minutes against Maryland. His hands are also suspect and his 2.3 points per game are a far cry from Boozer’s 14.5 ppg. He has also never been in a situation where he has had to play 20 minutes at the collegiate level. On the other hand, Sanders’ height and incredibly long wing-span will keep North Carolina seven-footer Brendan Haywood from being able to simply shoot over him. And fortunately for the Blue Devils, Sanders has been playing the best ball in his career over the last few games. “I think I can do everything I need to do to the best of my ability,” Sanders said. “That’s the only thing I’m willing to promise right now that I will go out there and help this team as best I can. That’s the only mind set I can have right now.” If Krzyzewski starts Duhon, he will have to put Battier on Haywood which already leaves the Blue Devils four inches and 48 pounds lacking at the center position. Battier will probably be easily pushed around so his teammates will have to shoot lights out because they may only get one shot each trip. “That’s just basketball,” Battier said “Carlos is out, so other people are going to have to step it up.” Fortunately for Duke, Tar Heels as they learned against Clemson and Virginia, are susceptible to upsets. Nobody gave Maryland a shot to beat Duke on senior day, and without Boozer, the Blue Devils are just as big underdogs this weekend. But there is nothing the seniors would like more than to beat the Tar Heels in its last regular season game. It just gets a lot harder without Boozer. “We’re not going to lay down and die just because we don’t have Carlos Boozer,” Nate James said. “We have to go out there and see what we’re made of. We’re a real good basketball team but we’ve had a lot of ups and downs this year. We have to regroup, get over the funk that we’re in and go out there to win. Not just go out there to play and give a good show. We’re a man down but we’re still thinking of winning.”

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North Carolina leads the series 122-85 the Tar Heels won 85-83 last month in Cameron No. 2 Duke 25-4 (12-3) Coach Mike Krzyzewski Guard Jason Williams, So. (20.7 ppg) Guard Nate James, Sr. (13.6 ppg) Forward Mike Dunleavy, So. (12.5 ppg) Forward Shane Battier, Sr. (19.4 ppg) Center Casey Sanders, So. (2.3 ppg)

No. 4 North Carolina 23-4 (13-2) Coach Matt Doherty Guard Ronald Curry, Sr. (5.2 ppg) Guard Joseph Forte, So. (22.0 ppg) Forward Jason Cape!, Jr. (11.2 ppg) Forward Kris Lang, Jr. (11.9 ppg) Center —Brendan Haywood, Sr. (12.1 ppg)

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Oh boy. Brendan Haywood has to already be thinking about doing his trademark two-handed jams. Whoever plays up front may be best off putting the poor free-throw shooter Haywood on the line. But Duke may opt for a small lineup, meaning ball denial may be the Blue Devils’ biggest defensive weapon. Normally, Jason Williams would give Duke a slight edge, but Duke’s lack of a post presence may push the offense too far outside. Although Nate James is arguably Duke’s best perimeter defender, his matchup against Joseph Forte is worrisome after James got lit up for 28 by Juan Dixon on Tuesday.

The Tar Heels would have the clear advantage even with a healthy Boozer, so Krzyzewski will have a huge

challenge just keeping his players fresh. Look for Doherty to give big man Julius Peppers a lot of minutes, with Duke possibly resorting to little used Reggie Love for some bulk off the bench.

Although all the momentum would seem to go against Duke, it isn’t so simple. The Tar Heels have been inconsistent recently, losing two of their last four games. A loss would probably force them to win the ACC tournament to gain a No. 1 seed in the NCAA’s, meaning the pressure is truly on both teams.

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The fact is, Duke’s offense may not be much different than the last time these two met, since Boozer was basically a non-factor. If the Blue Devils can shoot better than they did in that game, it could be an interesting evening. But if Haywood gets enough touches to, Forte could make it ugly. Duke again shoots more than 30 three-pointers, but it is not enough to overcome a huge Tar Heel frontline. UNC wins 82-68. —Compiled by Thomas Steinberger

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Flutie, Grbac, Leaf, Norton turned over to free agency From wire reports Doug Flutie went from popular leader of the Buffalo Bills to unemployed quarterback. Flutie joined fellow quarterbacks Ryan Leaf and Elvis Grbac as free agents, and three-time Super Bowl champion Ken Norton Jr. was released Wednesday—a day when a slew of players were cut to clear salary cap room. More players will be released as teams get down to the $67.4 million salary cap before free agency begins.

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Record-setting running back Corey Dillon will be tract called for a $lO million bonus if he was still on the most accomplished free agent available, but the the roster Friday. Cincinnati Bengals used their transition tag on him, “We have been informed by Elvis Grbac’s agent, Jim giving them the right to match any offer. Steiner, that Elvis wants to pursue the free-agent marThe long-brewing controversy that revolved around ket and would prefer to play somewhere else,” Chiefs Flutie and Rob Johnson ended when the Bills president Carl Peterson said. announced that Flutie, a fan favorite, would be cut, The Chiefs also released two-time Pro Bowl cornermaking Johnson the team’s hands-down starter. back James Hasty and four-time Pro Bowl defensive The decision was made despite Flutie’s 21-9 record tackle Chester McGlockton. as Buffalo’s starter, compared to Johnson’s 8-10 mark. Norton spent six years with Dallas before joining Buffalo saved about $3 million by releasing Flutie, 37. the 49ers as a free agent in 1994. Norton is the only That’s close to $1.4 million more than the team would player in NFL history to win three consecutive Super have saved by cutting Johnson, 27. Bowls—two with the Cowboys, one with the 49ers. “Doug5 s certainly proven with what he’s been able to In other salary-driven moves, the Pittsburgh do that he can play at this level,” Bills president and Steelers released center Dermontti Dawson, and the general manager Tom Donahoe said. “We-felt we could Carolina Panthers released three players who were win with both quarterbacks, but we felt we had to with George Seifert when he won a Super Bowl with select the best quarterback for us. And we did that the 49ers in 1995. with Rob Johnson.” Carolina cut cornerback Eric Davis, fullback The Chargers had high hopes when they took Leaf William Floyd and linebacker Lee Woodall. The moves with the second pick overall in the 1998 draft, right were not unexpected for the salary-cap strapped after Indianapolis took Peyton Manning. Instead, Leaf Panthers, who also released offensive lineman James responded with poor play and boorish behavior. Dexter. Carolina needed to trim $ll million to get Leaf leaves the Chargers with a 4-14 record as a under the $67.4 million cap by Friday’s deadline. Several more prominent players could be starter, having thrown 33 interceptions and just 13 touchdown passes. The Chargers still owe him the released Thursday. Even teams under the salary cap final $2.95 million installment of his $11.25 million were looking for ways to trim the payroll to gain signing bonus, which was part of a deal potentially more flexibility. worth $31.25 million that he signed in July 1998. “There are only so many slices to the pie,” Miami San Diego also released cornerbacks Deßon Jenkins Dolphins coach Dave Wannstedt said. “We’re going to and Darryll Lewis, and running back Robert Chancey. lose a couple of key guys. There’s no way around that.” The Chargers signed quarterback Dave Dickenson Six-time Pro Bowl defensive lineman John Randle from the Calgary Stampeders to a two-year contract is expected to be released by the Minnesota Vikings just a few hours before releasing Leaf. because he wouldn’t agree to restructure his contract. “We are preparing for free agency and the draft, and The Steelers also released a player who had ties to this allows these players to catch on with another their past. Dawson, 36, is the last Steeler to play for team,” Chargers general manager John Butler said. both Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher, and is the only playThe Kansas City Chiefs, who ended last season er other than Mike Webster to play center for the team almost $3O million over the cap, announced Grbac will during the last 25 years. become a free agent. The seven-time Pro Bowler was due a $1 million Negotiations produced one offer from Steiner of a bonus if he was still on the roster on March 9. The five-year contract averaging $8 million a year, Steelers are trying to figure away to keep running back JeromeBettis. including a $2O million signing bonus. Grbac’s con-

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Woods leads way Kimel goes for 2nd win versus Terns at Desert Classic P- WOMEN’S LAX from page 16

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Tiger Woods has that California feeling. An 8-under-par 64 for a share of the first-round lead would go down well anywhere, but fashioned

through a still wind on a dry desert course with a hint of the sea nearby made Woods think of home. Actually, he couldn’t have been much farther away. The slight breeze was coming off the Persian Gulf. The lead he shared Thursday was with Thomas Bjorn in the Dubai Desert Classic, and it marked his first round at the Emirates Golf Club—the best golf course on the oil-rich Arabian peninsula. It was a perfect start for Woods, who is 0-for-5 in tournaments this year and hasn’t even cracked the top three. Even if he doesn’t win, he’s being paid about $2 million appearance money just to show up—enough to make up for the 25 one-and-a-half-hour trip from Los Angeles. It was Woods’ lowest round of the season, although he said he’s played better. Jet-lagged, he woke up at 3 a.m. because “it was three in the afternoon back home, so I was up.” Minutes after he finished dropping a 20-foot birdie putt on the final hole, he slumped in a deep armchair and pulled his cap over tired eyes. “I played good today and hit a lot of good, solid shots,” Woods said. “It’s really nice to putt on some greens that are this smooth and this true. I got up and hit the ball within birdie range and converted. “The temperature was exactly like Southern Cal in the summer where I grew up. You get the ocean breeze coming in at about 11:30, 12 o’clock and it just feels like home. The difference is you look out there and it looks more like Palm Springs.” Seven players were two strokes back at 66. Five of those rounds were completed early Friday after 42 players were left on the course when darkness set in. Spain’s Jose Manuel Lara and Padraig Harrington of Ireland finished play Thursday. The other 66s came from Mark McNulty of Zimbabwe, Philip Price of Wales, Lee Westwood of England, Angel Cabrera of Argentina and Trevor Immelman of South Africa. Sunday’s winner gets about $250,000 —about oneeighth of Woods’ appearance money. Despite a 10,500 sellout in this nontraditional golfing venue, the crowds were subdued. The most frequent sound came from marshals following Woods: “Please put the camera away. No photos, please.” “I was nice and quiet out there. I like that,” he said. Bjorn, who played with Woods in the third round of last year’s US. Open at Pebble Beach, said he’s adjusting to the crush of fans, bodyguards and high expectations that accompany teeing off alongside the world’s No. 1 player. “You have to get used to playing with him,” Bjorn said. “There are a lot of guys on [the European] tour. If you put them out with him, they would not be able

to perform.” Woods’ even-par 71 at Pebble Beach—into high winds and hard greens—was one of the best in US. golf history. Bjorn played with him and shot 82. “That was one of the most impressive golfing performances I have ever seen,” Bjorn said. “He just hit every single shot like his life was depending on it.” Woods and Bjorn both laughed at suggestions there was trouble between them after the Dane was widely reported late last year saying Woods would soon have more trouble winning. “Thomas and I are great friends, and it didn’t sound like Thomas to begin with,” Woods said. “It just got spun around.” Little-known Spaniard Jose Manuel Lara was eight under after 17 holes, but landed his second shot on the final hole in a palm tree and closed with a double-bogey. In his first full year on the European Tour, Lara has career earnings of only $30,000. Woods had a horse named for him on Wednesday “Dubai Tiger”—by the world’s richest thoroughbred owner, Dubai’s Crown Prince Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid A1 Maktoum. “Sit on it?” Woods said when asked about arriving by helicopter to meet his namesake at the Goldolphin’s A1 Quoz Stables. “No, I didn’t quite sit on it, but I did pet it a little bit, and it was very, very playful.”

initely think it’s a special program and way back, I played a pretty good part [to win the championship].... I still wear my championship ring. It still gives me chills to think about it.” Now, however, it is Maryland coach Cynthia Timchal’s turn to get chills. With a Final Four-caliber team, Duke has more than a fighting chance in College Park tonight. The relationship that was once playercoach is now more equal, it is a rivalry of two top-10 coaches. And, despite the rivalry, the two still keep in contact and even help each other. “Yes, we definitely talk,” Kimel said. “Cindy came in as a coach when I was a sophomore. She was like night and day from the coach we had previously, she ran us into the ground.” When Kimel launched Duke’s program and first played Maryland, the Blue Devils lost 1-12 in 1996 against a team that actually featured some of

Kimel’s former teammates while she was playing for the Terrapins. “[lt] were expected, honestly,” she said. “It was an experience for our players to grow and get better—how lucky are we to play against a team such as Maryland? Was it hard? Sure it was hard.” Kimel got her break in Durham in 1998, stuffing a 10-6 loss to Maryland, but the Blue Devils have not beaten their coach’s alma mater since. “We have to start the legacy again, a bunch of us who have been there before,” Sober said. “We always do match up well against them. I think we do have a mental edge on them.” For Kimel, who has taken what was once a club team to the Final Four in four years, the Elite Eight last year and a legitimate shot at a national championship again this season, there’s no limit to what Duke can do. “We are capable of playing any team in the country. We definitely have it in us, without a doubt,” she said.

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Wake Forest 11-16 (3-13) Coach Charlene Curtis Guard Kristen Schaffer, Sr. (10.4 ppg) Guard Bianca Brown, Fr. (2.0 ppg) Forward Eafton Hill, Fr. (11.2 ppg) Forward Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick (10.4 ppg) Center Olivia Oardy, Sr. ($.6 ppg)

ANALYSIS

Tonight, it’s back to Greensboro Coliseum for the women’s basketball team. Over the past several years, Duke has found Greensboro a particularly hos-

pitable playground. “We feel like this is our home away from home,” Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. The Coliseum was the final stop en route to the Blue Devils’ 1999 Final Four trip, and that sojourn included the unlikely upset of top-ranked Tennessee.

And just last season, Duke once again cut down the nets in Greensboro after winning its first conference tournament championship with a victory over North Carolina. “I’m very excited to get back to Greensboro,” said senior Georgia Schweitzer, who was named the NCAA East Region’s most outstanding player there in 1999. “I just love playing there.” Tonight at 8 p.m., the No. 4 Blue Devils (24-3, 13-3 in the ACC) begin their defense of that championship as the top See TITLE DEFENSE on page 5 �

THE NOD

Duke is simply taller and quicker than Wake Forest in the post. Demon Deacon center LaChina Robinson, an offensive threat last season and a sometime starter this year, has been reduced to single-digit minutes in many games. Duke, meanwhile, has found added offense from new starter Michele Matyasovsky. With all three of the Blue Devils’ starting guards being named to All-ACC squads yesterday, it’s difficult for Wake Forest to match up. Senior Kristen Schaffer is a solid three-point shooter, but she and her backcourt mates are no match for Georgia Schweitzer, Alana Beard, Sheana Mosch and company. Like Duke, Wake Forest is deep, with 10 players averaging double-digit minutes. And like the Blue Devils’ bench, the Demon Deacons’ bench includes several former starters. This group, including Robinson and Val Klopfer, is more inconsistent and less successful than Duke’s formidable depth.

Intagibles

Duke is still reveling in its thrilling senior night victory over North Carolina Monday. The temporary Superwoman tattoos on the Blue Devils’ arms may have worn off by tonight, but they likely will not need them to beat a Demon Deacon squad that has gotten used to losing on Friday at the ACC tourney.

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cheering for Florida State (17-10, 9-7), which beat Before revenge, though, lies Wake Forest. Although it Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium, 71-69, on Feb. 8. is tempting to look ahead to Sunday, Duke has learned “It’s in the back of our minds,” Goestenkors said the hard way that no game is guaranteed. about potentially playing the Seminoles, who handed “We’ve learned never to underestimate any team in Duke its only home loss of the season. “Both teams our conference,” Mosch said. “We have to go into any would be difficult matchups right now because both game with the same focus and same intensity.” teams are obviously very capable of beating us. We The Blue Devils took a day off after the regular-seawould be excited to play either team. I don’t think it’s son finale Monday against North Carolina, a game in revenge, but if we were to play Florida State we would which Duke came from behind to beat its rival in a wadefinitely want to redeem ourselves.” tershed of emotion for the Blue Devil seniors, their Clemson, which defeated theBlue Devils in Decemyounger teammates and the coach who has helped be focused against them.” ber, came to rue that upset when the Blue Devils them become the most successful class ever in Duke Although Duke has been upset three times during drubbed the Tigers by 50 points in Cameron. The only women’s basketball. On Wednesday, it was back to this conference season, it is unlikely thatWake Forest, other team to down Duke this season, N.C. State, could practice, though, as the Blue Devils prepare for a very with only three conference wins under its belt, can potentially face the Blue Devils in the ACC champiimportant and draining weekend. beat the Blue Devils tonight. While Duke players say onship game. “Looking further down the road, it’s very important Sophomore Sheana Mosch mentioned both the to win the ACC tournament, because that would mean they are not looking ahead to Sunday and a possible rematch with Florida State, this team’s nature is to be Seminoles and the Wolfpack in her pre-tournament we would be a number-one seed in the NCAA tournawish list. vengeful when revenge is in sight. ment,” Mosch said. “The ACC tournament is so inShould the Blue Devils find themselves in Greens“Anytime we lose a game, we want to get revenge,” tense. It’s the most intense three days of almost your whole life.” boro’s stands tomorrow, it is certain that they will be Mosch said.

seed in the tournament. They will face Wake Forest (11-15, 3-13), which finished a league-worst ninth in the regular season. The victor of this contest also wins a bye for Saturday’s second round and an automatic date with the winner of tomorrow’s game between fourth-seeded Florida State and fifth-seeded Virginia. “I don’t think [motivation against Wake] should be a problem because we played so poorly at Wake Forest and we only beat them by eight,” Goestenkors said. “It’s not like we dominated both games, so we should

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Florida Sta Seminoles Overall 17-10; Conference 9-7 Season

Aside from an eight-game stretch that saw the 'Moles lose six games, FSU was good enough to be nationally ranked. However, it is tough to ignore nearly one-third of the season.

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"t allengers take over ike’s reign as !C champion, and call any of the chalTitty rx igers illegitimate would to greatly underestimate ie parity and depth of the conferee this season. Seven of the eight ACC rivals, from dangerous Clemson at the second seed down to lowly ninth-seeded Wake Forest, have come within single-digits ofknocking off the Blue Devils, while three of those teams have defeated Duke once already this season. If this year’s tournament bracket holds true to expected form, all three will join Duke in an up-for-grabs semifinal-round showdown. However, in a year where upsets and the unexpected have reigned supreme, a one-through-four ACC semifinal would probably be the biggest upset of all. Following is a team-by-team breakdown of the eight squads who will do their best to ensure Duke does not repeat its ACC title from a year ago. Clemson (19-8,10-6 in the ACC) Clemson epitomizes the ACC this season. The second-seeded Tigers are the easy favorite among the eight challengers after their season sweeps of Virginia and Florida State, in addition to series splits with Duke and N.C. State. Jim Davis’ club still has a lot to prove, however, especially after a disastrous four-game slide earlier in the season that began with a 50-point loss in Cameron Indoor Stadium. When Erin Batth pounds the boards and Chrissy Floyd lights it up from outside, the Tigers are as good as anyone. Before they can worry about Florida State, Virginia or Duke, though, Clemson will have to dodge North Carolina—a team that swept the Tigers this season—in the first-round game. N.C. State (18-9, 9-7) After seven consecutive wins over conference opponents, the Wolfpack had a chance to close out a perfect half-season of ACC basketball against the Terrapins, who promptly slammed N.C. State with its worst loss of the season. State has been a team with fickle confidence, and losses have tended to show up in bunches as the Wolfpack has strung together losing streaks of three and four earlier this season. It will be interesting to see if leading scorers Carisse Moody and Tynesha Lewis can return the Wolfpack to its late-season form, or if N.C. State will go in the tank at an inopportune time. Florida State (17-10, 9-7) As if the second and third seeds do not possess enough inconsistency for everyone, Florida State enters the tournament as perhaps the most streaky team ofall. The Seminoles have played great basketball for stretches this season behind the superstar ability of center

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ging to Virginia than some may have predicted, as avaliers suffered five more ACC losses this season they did during their run as conference regularti champs a year ago. Still, ACC-player-of-the-year date Schuye Laßue gives the Cavs a shot against le. A trip to the finals would probably guarantee lia an NCAA tourney bid, but UVa would have to •ough FSU and probably Duke for that to happen. iryland (17-10, 8-8) :e Virginia and Florida State, the Terrapins open \CC tournament drive with a showdown against ime team they finished their regular season st. Maryland has lost four of its last six games,

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She had finally arrived After struggling to adjust to college life, Georgia Schweitzer began to emerge sophomore year when she helped Duke reach the national title game. And as a junior last season she blossomed, finding a niche at shooting guard where she averaged over 15points per game and was named ACC player of the year. But with a vacancy at the point and a surplus of scorers, coach Gail Goestenkors decided the senior would be overhauling her role. At 6-foot-1, Schweitzer may not have appeared like the clearest choice. Still, she could handle the ball and she brought veteran leadership to a team loaded with talent but also burdened with youth. “Next year I can’t imagine not having Georgia out there,” freshman Alana Beard said. “She knows the game. Whatever she tells you on the court, you’d better do it, because it’s the right thing.” It may be cliched to say someone is a team player, but with Schweitzer, the statistics bear it out. Her points are down, but her assists are up—as is Duke’s scoring and their record which, at 25-3, was good enough for a No. 4 ranking this week. “She’s had a great season,” Goestenkors said. “I know people look at some of her stats, but she is by far a better player [than last year] and she is a great leader. She hits the three, she posts up and takes great pride in her defensive intensity. She’s just the consummate leader.”

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Duke’s top player readies for professional ranks Leader has been the buzzword concernin Schweitzer this season, who said she has even had to work on containing her ultracompetitive personality around the younger players. “It’s really hard after the game because I get really upset,” she said. “I definitely make sure to hold it in until after I get off the court. I tell my teammates that they can’t go home and be mean to their friends just because of a loss.” Getting a team that has five freshmen and five sophomores to play together has been a challenge by relished Schweitzer, who openly prefers being the leader than the scorer. She had to face perhaps her biggest challenge of the year in January during the heart

of the ACC season, when leading scorer Beard went down for three weeks with a thumb injury. The Blue Devils responded with tough wins on the road at North Carolina and Virginia

and a 50-point massacre of Clemson in Durham. In fact, Duke has pulled out several close games this year, and Schweitzer is aware that her experience becomes most valuable in such situations. “One thing I said was in

overtime at North Carolina,” she said. “Coretta Brown had

made so many and-ones. Final-

y she missed one even though she got fouled again. The team was still down, but I looked at them and said, ‘Finally we got a break, weTe going to win.’ I just have to stay calm in the end of games.” The team, though, did not return to normal when Beard got healthy. Mosch, who had been on a scoring spree during the injury, struggled to find her shot when the freshman came back, and the team dropped disappointing games to Florida State and N.C. State. Schweitzer believes the team is on track again, something made evident in the home contest against North Carolina last Monday, when in the final two minutes Beard had a huge steal and Mosch scored eight straight points. “I think Sheana got hot,” Schweitzer said of the sophomore’s stretch in early February. “You’re not going to keep that up, even though no one wants to admit that. The only option I had on the break then was Sheana; now I have both of them and I get to choose.” After the season, the senior plans to head to the WNBA, where she hopes to play for about three years before taking a crack at medical school. ACC coaches have agreed that Duke has e to revolve around Schweitzer, and that should, according to WNBA director ofplayer personnel Renee Brown, be a major asset on draft day. “One thing that’s going to help her is versatility,” Brown said. “Putting her at the t guard position shows leadership ability d she’s a shooter.” See GEORGIA on page 9

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the Columbus, Ohio native become Duke’s winningest player. The coach has also established a special bond with the senior, noting how closely her drive on the court matches her approach off it. “I just feel very close to Georgia,” Goestenkors said. “She has the same kind of passion for the game and she’s so phys-

Although it may come as a surprise to those who watch her regularly,

Schweitzer has been fighting for respect ever since coming out of high school. Despite capturing ACC playerof-the-year honors last season, the problem has not gone away.

“When I came here, people told me I wouldn’t do well. I’ll fit in well [in the WNBA]; it’s a fastpaced game, and I like that.” Georgia Schweitzer, in response to her critics Some wonder if she is quick enough ically and mentally tough. She’s one of to guard the perimeter or strong enough the few players I feel close to offthe court. to play inside in the professional ranks. She’s very well-rounded; you can have Although she has the best bench press conversations with her about anything.” on the team and she has shown her ballGoestenkors noted that those who handling skills at point this season, have watched Schweitzer throughout those doubts still linger. T.R. Dunn, dithe season know well that she is the best rector of scouting for the WNBA’s Charplayer in the conference and deserving lotte Sting, said by far the most imporof first-team All-America status. tant thing for Schweitzer will be the Unlike most of the other candidates pre-draft workouts held in Chicago. for first-team honors, Schweitzer plays “She’s a very solid player,” Dunn alongside two of the better scorers in the said. “To say how high she will go, I recountry, Mosch and Beard. Both have exally don’t know. A lot of players go into ceeded 30 points in games this year and Chicago and go up and down a lot.” Beard has established herself as the faSuch talk is fine with Schweitzer, who vorite for national freshman of the year. is confident she can play at any level. But national honors seem unimpor“It’s great. I prefer it that way,” she tant to Schweitzer, who is just happy to said. “When I came here, people told me look at the rise of Duke since her arrival I wouldn’t do well. I’ll fit in well [in the up to the premier program in the ACC. WNBA]; it’s a fast-paced game, and I “It’s funny to look back and realize like that.” now how much more respect we have,” No one knows Schweitzer’s value betshe said. “[Senior Rochelle Parent] and I ter than Goestenkors, who has watched brought basically a winning attitude.”

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By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle For the first eight years after she graduated from Duke, former women’s basketball player Joanne Boyle bounced all over the globe without spending more than

a couple years in any given place. Two years in Chapel Hill so she could earn her master’s degree; three years split between Luxembourg and Germany so she could play and coach professionally. None of her stopovers managed to keep her very long, and in the fall of 1993, Boyle was still interested in continuing her playing career overseas. But then circumstances changed, and the woman who had roamed from country to country in Europe for eight years after college has not budged a single inch in the eight years since. It could have been loyalty to her alma mater or maybe just lucky timing, but instead of jumping a plane to Israel to play another basketball season, Boyle accepted an offer from Gail Goestenkors, then in her second year at Duke, to return as an assistant coach. Now in her eighth year as an assistant ofGoestenkors’, Boyle has again readied herself for a change. The question is no longer, “Will Joanne leave Duke?” It has merely become a matter of, “When will she leave?” “I definitely want to pursue the next step when it’s

Assistant Joanne Boyle pursues head coaching Goestenkors has taken steps to aid Boyle in finding a head coaching position, despite the fact that Duke’s ninth-year coach has her own selfish reasons to want her assistant to stay. For the past six seasons, the allegiance of assistants Shonta Tabourn, Boyle and especially Gale Valley, now in her 12th season with the Blue Devils, has provided a somewhat unique amount of continuity to Duke’s coaching staff. Still, not even the thought of disrupting that stability has stopped Duke’s head coach from placing phone calls and recommendations to anyone who might be interested in having Boyle as their head coach. “I’m sure she will look at some jobs this year, but I know it has to be the right situation for her,” Goestenkors said. “She can afford to be a little picky because she has such a good situation here. But if the right situation does come up, I think she’s ready—l know she’s ready.” One big reason Bo; le and Duke’s other

sistants will have guiding a program themselves is Goestenkors’ insistence on grooming them for the position When she first returned to the Blue Devils, Boyle had some basic coaching

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ence after working with teenagers at the club level in Luxembourg. But the then-

the right thing,”Boyle said, referring to her desire to find a collegiate head coaching job in the near future. not-quite-30-year-old Boyle still had a lot That opportunity presented itself last spring, when to learn, and Goestenkors threw her a the University of Maine gave Boyle her first chance to curve ball to ensure her assistant never be a head coach. She took a long look at the position slid by on what she already knew. Maine athletic director Suzanne Tyler was offering In four successful years playing for her, but after thoughtful deliberation, Boyle decided Duke, Boyle rose to the rank of captain by that the situation was not ideal. topping her team’s charts in assists and In retrospect, Boyle’s decision was possibly the most steals, including setting a single-season astute in her career. This season, Maine has struggled mark for steals by a Blue Devil that lastto a 12-14 record, while two players have left the team ed until freshman Alana Beard broke it earlier this season. AH of this she did mid-season, one of her own volition due to medical reasons and the other removed for violating team rules. from the guard position. Rather than As Boyle realizes, latching onto a downward-spiraling let her assistant instruct Duke’s program would only hinder her pursuit of the helm at backcourt, however, Goestenkors paired Boyle up with Duke’s post a big-time program in a major conference. “If I do take that next step, I want to make sure it’s players in an attempt to make her view a really good situation,” said Boyle, who refused the job the game from a different perspective. “I think it was really good for her because at Maine because she perceived exactly how good No. 4 Duke would be this season and because she did not feel she did a lot of homework and watched a lot entirely comfortable with Tyler’s offer. “I’m definitely of video to make sure she was prepared to coach the post,” Goestenkors said. fortunate that I can be a little picky right now.”

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As time went by, the transition became easier; after four seasons with the forwards and centers, the one-time guard had developed a natural fit for her new role. Time for a change. Goestenkors pulled another fast one, asking Boyle and Valley to switch responsibilities. Once again, Boyle had to acclimate herself to teaching fundamentals for ball-handling and outside shooting rather than setting screens and boxing out. Four years later, the assistant who has made herself one of the top coaching candidates in the nation can look back and say her learning

experience was all for the best. “I wouldn’t have had it done any other way,” Boyle said. “In wanting to be a head coach, you have to learn all aspects of the game.” That is something Boyle no longer has to worry about. She knows how to work with players at any posion the court. She has proven herself a capaxuiter, especially after handling the primary recruiting responsibilities for this year’s freshman class, which was ranked No. 1 nationally. She will have no problems from the sidelines during game situations because,

unlike other head coaches, Goestenkors has never let the possibility of a recruiting trip prevent her assistants from being at one of Duke’s games. Most importantly, however, Boyle can still relate to her players, who know they had better give it their all in the weight room unless they want their 37-year-old assistant coach to out-lift them. Boyle’s resume has no holes in it, and her criterion for selecting a college include only one major premise—she has to be able to have success at that school. According to her mentor, that requirement could be met just about anywhere in the nation. “She’s ready to be a head coach. She’s a very positive, motivated, passionate person who is going to be successful wherever she goes,” Goestenkors said.

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hand at running a program, speculation on her departure revolves not so much about wherever, but rather whenever. And Goestenkors and Duke’s players

are hoping that whenever is later

rather than sooner. “Definitely, she’ll make a great head coach when she’s ready” said Beard, who was heavily recruited by Boyle. “But I hope it’s not during my four years at Duke.”

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Matyasovsky has averaged over 26 minutes with an offensive yield of 11 points per game. “It was definitely hard in the beginning because the wing is my natural position,” Matyasovsky said. “What I feel comfortable doing is making threes.” Goestenkors agreed it has indeed been difficult for the sophomore, but even she has been impressed with the job Matyasovsky has done this season. “1 think it’s been a tough transition because she’s not a physical player, but I think she’s done a great job,” she said. “She is one of those players who will do whatever we ask her to do. She is very, very unselfish and so, although she would like to play more on the perimeter, she knows we need her at the post.” Even Matyasovsky admits she would play soft in practice from time to time, or not throw a hard pass, but tenacity Goestenkors’ and Matyasovsky’s increasing familiarity with her new role have begun to make a difference. really excited,” “I’m just Matyasovsky said. “I just need to take advantage of the opportunity I have and work my tail off.” Last year, she did and Duke won its first conference tournament title. This year, she is just as excited to win a second in a row. “Whatever Coach G needs me to do is what I’ll go out there and do,” she said.

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