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Not again... The men’s basketball team lost on the road again against the Florida State Seminoles, 75-70. See Sportswrap on page 3
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Damaged UConn wins battle of the titans shuttle tiles Huskies jump to huge lead before holding off Blue Devils’ late rally raised heat By NICK CHRISTIE The Chronicle
At a press conference Sunday, NASA officials revealed new information about the space shuttle that was destroyed over Texas.
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HOUSTON Six minutes before the space shuttle Columbia ripped apart, temperatures on the left fuselage spiked sharply by 60 degrees, space agency officials reported Sunday as they detailed a sequence of ominous problems aboard the doomed spacecraft. In a wide-ranging news conference Sunday afternoon, Ron Dittemore, NASA’s shuttle program manager, said there were several indications of an unusual increase in temperatures on the shuttle’s exterior near the wheel well. He said two minutes before the craft broke up, computers detected an increase in drag on the left side, suggesting a rough or missing tile on the shuttle’s protective surface.
Dittemore said the findings did not
necessarily point to the cause of the fatal accident, but did provide potentially important pieces of a complex puzzle. He cautioned that the inquiry was barely 30 hours old and was likely to produce many false leads before it produces a definitive account of the disaster.
See SPACE SHUTTLE on page 12
Undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the nation since the preOctober, Duke eagerly welcomed defending national champion Connecticut and its NCAA-record 58-game winning streak into its home arena for the first time Saturday night. The game offered the Blue Devils a chance to make a statement confirming their rise from also-ran to national contender. Instead, the Huskies made a statement of their own. UConn rudely greeted the first sellout crowd ever to fill Cameron Indoor Stadium for a women’s game by dominating the opening half of play and taking a 41-20 lead into the halftime break. The Huskies would go on to push their lead to 28 points with 14 minutes remaining before a frenzied Blue Devil comeback cut the lead to just six, 71-65, with 45 seconds left on the clock. The comeback fell short, however. Connecticut triumphed 77-65, the Blue Devils having simply too much ground to make up after the Huskies’ overwhelming first half. “I know our defense is good, but it was better than good in the first half,” UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said. “We had a game plan going in, and sometimes plans go awry, but this time the plan worked to perfection.” From the sideline, that plan appeared to include coming into Cameron Indoor Stadium with the in-
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BLUE DEVIL GUARD ALANA BEARD contemplates her team’s loss to traditional powerhouse Connecticut during the post-game press conference.
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Davies readies to Union names Bigelow new leader head new division By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
metric thumb readers instead ofDuke Cards, Paul Davies will be the man who has engineered much of the change in student services—and ensured its profitability. Davies, currently the financial director of Auxiliary Services, will take over leadership of the organization this summer from outgoing associate Paul Davies vice president Joe Pietrantoni. In doing so, he will assume one of the most prominent roles in campus life. From atop his perch he will
The Deuce is loose Sophomore Jonathan “Deuce” Bigelow, was named the next president of the Duke University Union Sunday night. The classics major will succeed senior Jesse Panuccio in May. “I was really pleased with my Union experience over this past year,” said Bigelow, who serves as executive secretary and policy chair of the primary student programming group on campus. “It’s been great being part of such a fantastic organization, and I wanted to try my hand at president.” Bigelow, a soft-spoken Lumberton, N.C., native, has primarily worked on internal Union issues in his current positions, but Panuccio said his successor should fit the role well, bringing a different style and experience to the position. “Jonathan has been gaining over the past year knowledge about the Union and the larger University governance and politics. He has tremendous potential as a leader, both within our Union and externally for
See DAVIES on page 9
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By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
If the Duke University of the future looks more like The Jetsons than Dawsons Creek, with monorails zipping across campus and bio-
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SOPHOMORE JONATHAN BIGELOW will succeed current Duke University Union president Jesse Panuccio in May.
Freshmen share and celebrate their first-year experiences captured on video during an awards ceremony held in Baldwin Auditorium Sunday night. See page 3
Duke graduate Neil Gupta participated in the World Social Forum, an alternative to the Davos economic forum, in Brazil last month. See page 4
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Groundhog; 6 more weeks of winter
By DULUE MBACHU The Associated Press
A powerful exLAGOS, Nigeria plosion tore apart a bank and dozens of apartments above it Sunday in Nigeria’s crowded commercial capital, killing at least 40 people and trapping many others, relief workers said. Looting and bloody fights broke out after the blast as hundreds of people grabbed fistfuls of cash from the leveled bank and battled over them. In the chaotic aftermath, trapped victims cried for rescue and onlookers wailed as rescuers retrieved bloody,
Iraq seeks compromise on key issues
Baghdad is “keen to resolve any pending issues” in the U.N. search for banned weapons, said an Iraqi
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German voters delivered a stinging rebuke to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democratic Party, giving the Christian Democrats record gains in two closely watched state elections, according to exit polls Sunday night. •
broken bodies. The Red Cross said searchers had recovered more than 30 dead and 32 injured. Ten of the wounded died
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Uncertainty regarding war With Iraq caused Tokyo stocks to fall below their 19-year closing low early Monday morning. The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell 54.39 points, or 0.65 percent, to 8,285.55. •
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Two Protestant gang members were ambushed and shot to death in Belfast Saturday night. Police linked the killings to an internal feud that has led to bombings, armed attacks and other terrorist activities.
WASHINGTON President George W. Bush will send Congress a $2.23 trillion spending plan Monday featuring new tax cuts to boost the economy, a conservative tilt to major social programs and record deficits for the next two years—shortfalls that Democrats blame on Bush’s tax cuts. White House budget officials said Sunday the president’s tax and spending blueprint, complete withdozens of agency briefings, will roll out as scheduled despite Saturday’s space shuttle disaster. Bush’s budget outline for the 2004 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, is required by law to be sent to Congress the first Monday in February. The numbers and spending priorities undoubtedly will change somewhat over the next several months as Congress acts on his request.
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later at Lagos General Hospital, hospital workers said. Many more victims were believed caught in the rubble, and the death toll could rise, said Emmanuel Ijewere, president ofthe Nigeria Red Cross. The blast occurred about 12:30 p.m. on Lagos Island, a crowded high-rise district of banks and other businesses packed side-by-side with poor, densely populated residential blocks. The four-story bank building collapsed, bringing three floors of apartments crashing down on the ground floor bank. Fires flared briefly after the blast, which could be heard for miles and sent a tower of smoke into the sky. Two adjoining buildings were heav-
ily damaged, and buildings for blocks around had shattered windows and other marks of the explosion. Residents said some victims had been blocks away from the bank
building. “My uncle was in the balcony of our house talking with a friend and the force of the explosion threw them down,” resident Remi Oyebanji said. “They’re both dead.” An Associated Press reporter saw 10 crushed bodies. One covered corpse appeared to be that of a child. Resident Omololu Kassim, who was helping carry the victims, said he saw 40 dead and as many injured. Local See NIGERIA on page 10
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Central plans gamer mixed views By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle Students expressed mixed reaction to the preliminary plans for the future renovation of Central Campus. Although some of the University’s recently-released initial proposals—which include the creation of a University Village complete with a Main Street, new apartments and a new
transit system—may not be feasible or necessary, the overall direction of the 275-acre area is welcomed, stu-
dents said. “I think that Central Campus, the way it is now, is not inviting for people who don’t live there,” said senior Henny Yeung. ‘You wouldn’t go to Central Campus if you don’t live there or don’t know anyone who lives there.” Yeung said he was most interested in the creation of the University Village. The proposed Main Street area of the University Village could include stores, restaurants, bars, a performing arts center, a health club and a bowling alley, as well as offices, a village square, outdoor vendors and city-like alleys. “I like smaller stores and not necessarily a lot of chains,” Yeung added. “Maybe one anchor store like a Barnes and Noble, but not a lot of big department stores like The Gap. I don’t think that’s appropriate.” Senior Karen Tenenbaum disagreed. “I think it would be great if we could have a J. Crew on Central Campus,” she said. Students said they welcome the possible proximity to such amenities and the unification of East, Central and
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RESIDENTS FROM RANDOLPH DORMITORY celebrate their winning short film presented at the Froshlife iMovie project in Baldwin Auditorium Sunday. The winners were selected based on categories including creativity, videography and content.
Freshmen debut first-year-life videos By WHITNEY ROBINSON The Chronicle
The only thing that was missing was a red carpet and a Joan and Melissa
dination was left to the students Sarah Roberts, an 0 IT-analyst and the Froshlife projects coordinator, said the inspiration for the project came from a presentation she saw at Emory
Rivers E! entertainment preshow. Baldwin Auditorium, bathed in an University a few years ago. “I thought, array of psychedelic fluorescent colors ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if we could Dukeify and geometric patterns, played host this, bring it to Duke, turn it into someSunday night to the first-ever Froshlife thing that really talked about a Duke Academy Awards. experience?”’ The Froshlife iMovie project, sponThe six entries, submitted by Brown, sored by Student Affairs, the Office of Epworth, Giles, Jarvis, Randolph and Information Technology and Apple Southgate dormitories, proved to be as Computer, allowed freshman to create colorful as Baldwin itself. Movies short films about “the first-year experi- ranged from Giles’ 9:10, a Chaplinence.” Teams were supplied with an esque black-and-white film about getApple ißook computer running iMovie ting to class to a one-minute film from digital editing software and a digital Epworth featuring an operatic freshvideo camera. The inspiration and coor- man during the credits.
The panel of eight judges included Provost Peter Lange, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, and three students from the First-Year Advisory Council. En-
tries were judged in seven categories, including creativity, videography, editing, quality of acting, and story. “There was a core group of students that was interested from the start,” Roberts said. “The kids from Randolph attended all the training sessions and were in it from the start.” Their hard work paid off. Randolph’s film The Bus won first place. Each team member was awarded an Apple iPod mp3 player. “It wasn’t just me,” said freshman See FRESHMEN on page 10
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Krzyzewskiville. at the World Social Those were the conditi Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, recently attended by Neil Gupta—who graduated Duke last year and is serving as a Hart Fellow in Health Policy and Social Medicine in Victoria, Brazil. For the third year, the World Social Forum has drawn thousands of people who congregate to address issues of an increasingly globalized world and social problems such as human rights, environmental reform and health care. “Another World is Possible” was the theme of this year’s conference, held Jan, 23-28. “There were about 100,000 people of all different backgrounds chanting and marching for their own crusades, all social programs and social
work,” Gupta said. The forum developed as a response to the World Economic Forum held annually in Davos, Switzerland. Groups that desired to address issues of social ills paralleled the economic gathering with a forum of their own. “I guess it’s kind of channeling all the frustrations with an increasingly globalized world... into actions to promote equality and justice around the world,” Gupta explained. “It’s kind of like dreaming about
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He has a real passion for humanitarian work and issues of social justice,” said Matthew Reisman, Trinity ’OO, a program coordinator for the Haul; Fellowship Program. “I have a feeling he could speak to issues of the well-being of AIDS patients because he has experience of people and communities affected by AIDS.” Along with 100,000 delegates from 128 countries representing over 5,500 non-govemmental organizations, labor unions, human rights groups, leftist po-
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Storey speaks about past, anti-apartheid work By TRACY REINKER
who you are. I learned that freedom is something you carry inside yourself and it cannot be taken Peter Storey’s faith has brought him a long way. from you. I learned that these people lived by faith.” A former South African church leader, journalist Storey also worked in Sydney, Australia, where he and counselor to former anti-apartheid leaders such ran a center that counseled people via telephone. as Nelson Mandela, Storey now serves as a professor Storey then set up the first telephone ministries in of the practice of the Christian ministry at the Dithe United States and South Africa, saying they vinity School. He relayed his experiences during the taught him the “potential for healing through caring.” struggle against apartheid and the role ofChristians Storey then returned to South Africa where he in the contemporary global context at the Multicullived in an area called District 6. Described as the tural Center Sunday night. “East Harlem of Cape Town,” District 6 was home to Storey grew up as a preacher’s child in South a large number ofmixed-race people. Africa and attributes much of his “faith journey” to In 1966, District 6 was declared a white area by his father’s influence. the South African government, and Storey led his “I saw the faith of my father and it left its mark congregation in one of the first protests against on me,” Storey said. “Faith seeps into the nooks and apartheid. A plaque on the side of his church became crannies of your life during worship and reading the first monument against apartheid, and the scripture when you don’t even know it.” church is now a museum. The community in which Storey grew up was Storey then became the senior minister at the multicultural, and he learned important lessons central Methodist church in Johannesburg where he about the interaction between races early in life. exercised his passion for inner-city churches. “The “I saw that blacks and whites were very different gospel comes alive when you live and work among in their cultures,” Storey said. “But the commonalthe poor,” he said. ties so far outweigh the differences, and I learned As the president of the South African Council of that we should cherish our commonalties.” Churches, Storey became close friends with Catholic Storey did not originally intend to go into minCardinal Desmond Tutu, who chaired South Africa’s istry, and instead, had trained to be a naval officer. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and said he After receiving his calling, however, he attended has “deep regard and respect for my relationship seminary and eventually came to terms with what with [him].” he believed was God’s purpose in his life. When questioned about the Israeli-Palestinian After seminary he was assigned as the chaplain conflict, Storey noted that there were many parallels to Robben Island, where many of South Africa’s pobetween the current situation in the Middle East litical prisoners were held. There, Storey ministered and South Africa. first to Robert Sobukwe, an influential activist Such parallels have recently drawn attention on against apartheid, and later to Mandela, who went campus as part of an effort to divest from Israel. on to become president of South Africa. “South Africa shows that people who have hated “I learned a lot from preaching to those prisoneach other for years can live together,” Storey said. ers,” Storey said. “I saw in them immense strength, “Right now the seekers of peace through justice are courage and morale.... I learned that greatness is muted, but I believe that the descendants of Isaac not about what you wear or what you own, it’s about and Ishmael will have reconciliation.” The Chronicle
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UNIVERSITY BRIEFS From staff reports
Athletics trainer killed in vehicular accident Wanda Beth Horton, a trainer for several Duke varsity sports teams and a Roxboro, N.C., resident, died Jan. 31. She was 22.
Horton died from injuries sustained in a traffic accident early Friday morning, just after 5 a.m., the Roxboro Courier Times reported. Her vehicle hit a patch of black ice in the road and she lost control. Her truck skidded off the right side of the road, striking several trees and causing a severe impact at the right front ofher vehicle. The truck then spun around and struck another tree in the driver’s side door before coming to rest against another tree. The accident occurred in an icy curve just four-tenths of a mile from Horton’s Roxboro home. Horton, the daughter of Tim and Wanda Horton, recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a bachelor of science. She worked as a personal trainer at a local fitness center as well as in Duke’s athletics department. She was remembered at a funeral Sunday at Warrens Grove United Methodist in Roxboro.
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Burnin’ the midnight oil Students gather during the Allen Building Lock-In, which lasted from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday. They participated in various fish bowls and other activities.
WXDU Radio, a division of the Duke University Union, is sponsoring a charity event tonight at Krzyzewskiville from 8 to 11 p.m. The event is being coordinated and produced by “The Only Damn Sports Show at the University,” a week-
ly Sunday night sports talk show on WXDU (88.7/103.5 FM or streamed from http://www.wxdu.org). Proceeds will benefit the John Avery Boys and Girls Club of Durham. Raffle tickets are being sold to win one of two basketballs signed by the men’s basketball team. Guests for the show include: Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated, Bob Harris of the Duke Radio Network, Adam Gold of the G-Spot on 850-The Buzz, a prerecorded interview with Jay Williams of the Chicago Bulls, two players from the men’s basketball team to be announced and sophomore Merrill Roller, the captain of Tent #l. WXDU has already raised $BOO for the Boys and Girls Club of Durham and organizers hope to double that figure tonight.
Fuqua minority leadership conference set for Saturday The Black and Latino MBA Organization at the Fuqua School of Business will host its second annual leadership conference Feb. 8.
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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports
Second student reports scam Following a similar incident earlier last month, another student has been the victim of a scam perpetrated by a man who identifies himself as Anthony Gibson. A student reported that during the early evening hours of Jan. 28, while he was walking on Buchanan Boulevard in the direction of Northgate Mall, he was approached by a man who said his name was Anthony Gibson and that he worked at the Gothic Book Shop. He told the student that his car had broken down and that he needed cash to buy new tires. The student said he walked with Gibson to an ATM machine and withdrew the cash, which he gave to Gibson. Gibson told the student he would repay him as soon as his car was fixed. Gibson showed the student a piece of paper from a drug rehabilitation center with the name Anthony Gibson on it. Afterward, the student contacted the Gothic Book Shop and found that no one by that name worked there. He reported the incident to Durham police because it happened off campus. Gibson is described as a black man in his 30s. Duke police advises anyone approached for money to leave and call 911 as soon as possible.
Belongings taken An employee reported that between 3:50 and 5:15 p.m. Jan. 28, someone entered an unsecured third-floor room in the Nanaline Duke Building and stole her
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Larceny charged On Jan. 30, a Duke officer responded to a larceny in progress at the fountain of the lobby of Duke Hospital North. Upon arrival, Godimez Jesus, 55, was charged with larceny. His court date is March 4. Jesus could not be reached for comment.
Breaking and entering charged
At 8:03 p.m. Feb. 1, Duke police responded to Parking Garage I in the Medical Center in reference to a breaking and entering of an employee’s motor vehicle. A $2OO window was damaged and the dash board around the stereo system had another $lOO in damage. Upon arrival, the suspect, Kenneth Hunter, 26, of 714 Massey Ave., was apprehended and charged with breaking and entering a motor vehicle and possession of burglary tools. His bond was placed at $2,000, and he was given a Feb. 3 court date. Hunter could not be reached for comment.
Table taken An employee reported that between 12:30 a.m. Jan. 26 and 6:40 a.m. Jan. 27, someone stole a $450 cocktail table, with a light wood color and green top, from the Blue Devil Beanery.
Tires slashed An employee reported that between 7:02 p.m. and 11:41 p.m. Jan. 29, her vehicle was parked in the parking area of 2815 West Pettigrew St. when someone
cut all four of the vehicle’s tires, causing $4OO in damage.
Pizza pilfered
credit cards, $250 Palm Pilot, $l5O Mitsubishi cellular phone, driver’s license and Social Security card.
Speakers snatched
A Domino’s Pizza delivery driver re-
ported that at 1:35 a.m. Jan. 13, a student obtained a pizza from him by fraud. The driver reported that as he approached the Randolph Dormitory bench a male student accompanied by a female student asked the driver, “You got my pizza?” The driver assumed that the student was the one who had made the order. He gave the student the pizza along with the receipt to sign. The student signed the receipt as the purchaser. He would not show his DukeCard to the driver. The driver was able to confirm that the student was not the person who had
An employee reported that between 8:20 a.m. and 5:05 p.m., his unsecured vehicle was parked in the rear parking lot, of 1121 West Main St., when someone stole his $l5O Pioneer CD player, two Roadgear 10” speakers valued at $4O, two PowerPro 12” speakers valued at $lO, and radio dash brackets valued at $5O.
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ordered the pizza. Subsequent investigation revealed the location of the student who had fraudulently signed the receipt. At this time, the case is being referred to the Dean of Students Office.
An employee reported that between 6 p.m. Jan. 28 and 7 a.m. Jan. 29, someone threw eggs on the Science Drive side of the School of Law, resulting in $250 in damage, and threw toilet paper in the trees on the parking lot side.
Window shattered
Marijuana seized
A student reported that between 12:45 and 1 a.m. Feb. 2, while his vehicle was parked at the Coffee House parking lot on East Campus, someone shattered the $250 rear window.
Duke police responded to a room in House M in reference to the smell of marijuana at 1:08 a.m. Feb. 2. Subsequent investigation resulted in the Belongings stolen Someone entered an employee’s unseseizure of drug paraphernalia, marijuana and alcohol. The smoke detector in cured first floor room between 8 a.m. and the room was also altered, by taping the 4:28 p.m. Jan. 29, and stole her $4O wallet inlets closed with electrical tape. The in- with an address book, containing $25 in cash, credit cards and Social Security card. cident remains under investigation.
Possessions pilfered An employee reported that between 12:45 and 3:45 p.m. Jan. 31, someone entered her office in the South Clinic Red Zone and stole her $3O gray wool purse with black handles, containing a $5O burgundy Agner wallet, $5O in cash,
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Florida State takes out Blue Devils in Tallahassee By EVAN DAVIS The Chronicle
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After losing back-toDuke 70 back road Atlantic Coast Conference games at Maryland and N.C. State, Duke hoped to make a statement in its next such test against Florida State. But Saturday evening at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center, the Seminoles (11-8, 2-6 in the ACC) made a statement of their own and Tomahawkchopped No. 5 Duke down to size with a
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Located in the heart of the research triangle, three has always been a good number for Duke basketball: Three national championships, last year the team had three All-ACC first team players for the first time in the league’s W***? history and the Blue Devils have always relied heavily on three-point Robert Samuel Srea t shooting Cam, Cmmmr, This trend> howevef did not continue Sunday in a 75-70 loss to Florida State, as the Blue Devils shot 32.4 percent from the three-point line in a game where they scored on three con-
75-70 victory. Led by junior college transfer Tim Pickett’s 15 points and nine rebounds,
the Seminoles were able to down the Blue Devils (14-3, 4-3) on their home court for the second consecutive year while recording only their second conference victory this season. “I thought the main thing tonight was that our guys stayed focused, stayed positive and play with a lot of confidence tonight,” Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said. “That’s something that’s been missing for my team.” Despite taking 22 more field-goal attempts than Florida State, Duke was unable to convert on its extra opportunities. The Blue Devils shot less than 35 per-
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cent from the field, while the Seminoles went 30-of-50 from the floor. Freshman guard J.J. Redick scored a game-high 16 points, but did so on a 5of-18 shooting performance, including 4of-13 from behind the arc. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said that Redick’s performance was similar to.
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UConn shrugs off rabid cro UCONN from The Chronicle page 1 tent to bully the No. 1 team in the nation on its home floor, a notion UConn center Jessica Moore confirmed. “Exactly,” she said. “We just wanted to get there and throw the first punch, really come out there and hit them. They probably weren’t ready for that.” Saturday’s contest featured the highly anticipated showdown between Duke All-American Alana Beard and her counterpart Diana Taurasi. Widely considered the best two players in women’s collegiate basketball, Beard and Taurasi made their presences felt from the opening tip. After Beard opened up the scoring with a driving lay-up—picking up the ball after Taurasi dribbled off her knee—Taurasi immediately answered with a basket of her own. “In the first half, we played the worst basketball that we could have played,” Beard said. “I don’t think we were at all relaxed. We weren’t being the aggressor at all.” Finishing with 17 points and seven turnovers, Taurasi’s statistics paled to those ofBeard, who shined with a game-high 26 points and eight rebounds. Taurasi made huge contributions at two key points in the game, though. First, she hit two fading three-pointers to jump start the Huskies to an early 10-point lead, igniting their first halfsupremacy. Then, with Duke down just 62-53 with 3:32 left to play, UConn called a timeout to rally itself, after which Taurasi stepped out and sank back-to-back jumpers, pushing her side back into a position of control. “So much is made of the buildup between two players like they are just going to play one-on-one, and everybody else is going to watch,” Auriemma said. “The games are usually won by the other guys on the team, but what they need is a sense of stability on the floor.” In Beard’s case, however, the game literally was going to be won or lost based on her individual contribution. She brought back Duke from its 28-point deficit almost single-handedly, relentlessly slashing to the basket and either finishing with a basket or drawing enough defenders where her teammates could score off offensive putbacks. Beard scored 21 of her 26 points in the second half, and was the only player from either side to play the entire 40 minutes. Still, Beard could not do enough by herself, and despite her frequent attempts to get her teammates involved, she nonetheless finished with six turnovers against no assists.
Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors acknowledged that for all her quality depth, her team defers to Beard entirely too much. She added that the Blue Devils needed more consistency out ofIciss Tillis, a preseason first-team All-ACC forward, who finished with just nine points and five turnovers. “We can’t rely on one person, and we’ve done that in a couple of games,” Goestenkors said. “We’re not going to be as successful as we want to be unless we’ve got at least two people. Iciss needs to really step up for us in every game.... She’s someone now that we need to be able to rely on night in and night out.” Although the Blue Devils took the floor with a truly raucous crowd behind them—Auriemma cited Cameron as the loudest arena in which he’d ever coached—Duke failed to match Connecticut’s intensityup until the final 14 minutes. The Huskies’ fire appeared to come directly from the charismatic Auriemma, who, even with his team up 27 points early in the second half drew a technical foul after responding to a loose-ball foul called on Taurasi. Auriemma engaged an official in a short-lived discussion that earned him the T, and then went apoplectic, needing several assistants to guide him back to the Connecticut bench. He was hardly recalcitrant. “I don’t care whether we’re/ip 20 or down 20, that was a horrible call,” he said./All the calls were starting to become horrible becadse people start to officiate like it’s the scoreboard: ‘These guys are up 25, what difference does it make?’” Although perhaps strange to the Cameron faithful, Auriemma’s outburst didn’t faze any of his players. “You have to totally trust him because he’s been through everything,” Moore said. “He’s seen 20-point leads [disappear], and then you lose. So, whatever he’s saying we just take it to heart.”
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(clockwise from top left) ICISSTILLIS receives a face-full of Connecticut's ASHLEY BATTLE. BARBARA TURNER leaps to take away Blue Devil ALANA BEARD’S look at the basket while ANN STROTHER looks on. LINDSEY HUNTER and ALANA BEARD jump for joy after a Connecticut foul.
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Duke comeback attempt First capacity crowd to see a women’s basketball game doesn’t disappoint, as frenzied Crazies leave big impression on UConn, Auriemma. For the first time in program history, 9,314 fans packed into a sold-out Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday night for a women’s basketball game. And although the Blue Devils played poorly until a late second-half run lowered their deficit against Connecticut to single digits, the Crazies ■litfji proved throughout the contest A why they are considered the best fans in the country.
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“At one point when we started to make our comeback, I couldn’t hear myself think,” Beard said. “It was awesome. I really appreciate the Cameron Crazies coming out. They did an awesome job.” The Crazies may have been loud, but they were also
generally well-behaved. The only security problem occurred at the start of the second half, when the game had to be delayed while several unruly Connecticut fans were removed from the student section. “We had three UConn fans acting, shall we say, inappropriately,” said first sergeant Larry Michels, who led a full police presence. “When I took them outside, they couldn’t produce tickets, so they were not allowed back in. We want people to come in and enjoy the game, • j “This was one of the best but we just don’t want them to act inappropriately.” Latherme oSullivan crowds at any game t?Ive ever According to the other UConn fans—who were a Game Commentary been to, men’s or women’s,” senior small but loud group—the atmosphere in Cameron Dorsey Rickard said. “Everyone was loud and crazy. It topped that of the Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Conn., was just an incredible atmosphere.” which consistently sells out to a throng of 10,167 The line for ticketed fans started forming around screaming Husky faithful. 7 a.m., and the walk-up line grew to several hundred “I was very impressed with this crowd,” said Constudents before the 7 p.m. tip-off. necticut fan Mary Hill, who travels to most of the “We had to turn away probably more than 100 peoteam’s games. “This is probably the loudest stadium ple line monitor Andrea Walczak said. “This was the that I’ve ever been to. Here you’ve got all the students first women’s game where we’ve ever even needed right on the court and they really bring it. It’s totally line monitors.” awesome. All the older people are close to the court in The fans who did make it into Cameron certainly Connecticut and the students sit higher up.” made their presence felt. In addition to the usual Duke students certainly packed the sidelines Satcheers, the Crazies enjoyed taunting Connecticut head urday night, but opinions varied on whether or not this crowd was a one-and-done deal. coach Geno Auriemma. Auriemma—who drew the ire of Duke fans with his “This game probably intrigued some students and well-documented, brash comments before the game—- will make them want to come back to see the women dislikes his given first name, Luigi. play,” Rickard said. “But it’ll take a while to get the The Crazies picked up on this tid-bit of information crowds like they have at men’s games.” and chanted “Luigi” whenever the Huskies’ coach Other fans, though, were less optimistic. “With a loss a lot of fans won’t want to come back,” made a scene on the sidelines. Auriemma was mocked in near unison when he received a technical foul for said freshman Joanna Hundley, who was one of the first in line at 7 a.m. “At guy’s games, there’s always protesting a call with 13:29 left in the game. Despite the Blue Devils’ 21-point halftime deficit, nonstop cheering. It’s just so unfair.” Only time will tell just how faithful the Crazies really Cameron remained as loud and as full as it was at the are, but, if Saturday night was any indication, attendance opening tip. The fans were rewarded with a strong second half run by the home team, including 21 points and enthusiasm should improve considerably for a profrom All-American Alana Beard. gram that has truly become one of the nation’s elite. “I appreciate the packed house that we had,” Duke The decibel level easily matched that of men’s games during Duke’s 30-11 streak that brought it head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I’m sorry that we within nine points in the closing minutes. couldn’t give them a better game.” j
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shot two-for-seven and had four turnovers. After Vicki Krapohl hit a three-pointer on a set play with 7:20 remaining in the half, Connecticut held Duke scoreless the rest ofthe way in a 15-0 run. “A lot of times in games like this, one team just plays really, really well and the other team gets really frustrated and it gets away from them,” Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma said. “I think that s what happened in the first half. I think the Duke kids got a little frustrated because they couldn’t make any shots and things weren’t going their way. You could see it in
their faces those last seven minutes [of the first halt] For the Blue Devils, the No. 1 team in the country since the preseason polls, all the hoopla and fanfare around the game might have been too much. Cameron sold out for a women’s game for the first time in history, and the press row side of the indoor stadium was full of Cameron Crazies for the first time. The atmosphere surrounding the game was comparable to an important men’s game, and while that’s no big deal for Connecticut, it likely threw the Blue Devils off. The Huskies are used to sold-out, bigger arenas and the noise, albeit more than what they’re used to, was less of a shock than it was to Duke. “At one point when we started to make our comeback, I couldn’t hear myself think,” Beard said. “It was awesome. I really appreciate the Cameron Crazies coming out. They did an awesome job.” Down 28 five minutes into the second half, Duke was on the verge of utter humiliation in front of a home court crowd and a national television audience. Respect for the program was being diminished, if not destroyed. But when Auriemma received a technical foul, and the Blue Devils grew accustomed to their crazed fans and actually used the fan support to bolster them and intimidate the Huskies, Duke showed that it is ready to be a major player in college basketball. As the crowd roared as loudly as in any men’s game of the year, the Blue Devils roared back in a ferocious comeback, that only fell short through Duke’s exhaustion and the clock. “If the game had kept going at the end ofthe game, we might’ve lost by 10,” Auriemma said. Whether the Blue Devils’ comeback will be enough to maintain the interest ofthe often-fickle Crazies remains to be seen, but the way Duke tore back into the game showed the women’s basketball world that though no longer the No. 1 team, Duke is ready to compete in the spotlight. ”
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DIANA TAURASI playfully sends out the message that despite the Cameron Crazies’ best efforts, UConn is now No.l.
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Tennis teams remain undefeated with trio of wins The No. 10 men’s tennis team fought off No. 15 Virginia Commonwealth before brushing off Princeton Saturday afternoon By MIKE COREY The Chronicle
The men’s tennis team continued its trek up the polls with a pair of victories this weekend against No. 15 Virginia Commonwealth and Princeton. The Blue Devils (3-0), ranked 10th nationally, hosted an unlikely tennis power in VCU (6-1) Friday. The Rams continually boast a collection oftalented singles players, as they have qualified for the NCAA tournament for 10 consecutive seasons. In Duke’s Sheffield Tennis Center, VCU battled valiantly on several courts, but in the end the Blue Devils were too resilient, winning 5-1, “The win was really good,” Phillip King said. “We lost last time, so we definitely get that confidence and the new guys get more experience. It was a tough match and we had to be ready.” Freshmen Ludovic Walter, ranked 77th nationally, sealed Duke’s win with a 7-6, 6-3 victory over a Spaniard, No. 80 Pedro Nieto. Spanish tennis players, who grow up playing on clay tennis courts, are often associated with utilizing heavy-topspin strokes,
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and Nieto was no exception. “I saved set point in the first set,” Walter said. “It was really c105e.... He was just playing with a lot of spin—it was really tough, really intense.” Nieto’s wicked spin often forced Walter to be stuck behind the baseline in long rallies. To counter, Duke head coach Jay Lapidus instructed the French native to
play more assertively. “I was much more aggressive in the tiebreaker,” Walter said. He would go on to win the tiebreaker 7-2, and continued to trade strokes with Nieto in the second set. “I won 6-3, but he was even more intense than the first set,” Walter said. “We had so many rallies.... I saved between 10 and 15 break points, that’s how difficult it was.” In order to get himself off the baseline, Walter took command of the net by charging the net after each serve. “Coach told me to play serve and volley, so [I played] serve and volley two or three times in every game.” Preceding Walter’s victory, the Blue Devils picked up singles wins from King, Michael Yani and Jonathan Stokke. King and Yani also produced a key win in doubles. Duke’s top doubles duo trailed 4-0 in the tiebreaker before sweeping the next seven points to win a 9-8 decision. ‘We had not played together in a long time and it was almost like we had to warm up playing with each other,” King said. “Even without it, we probably would have won, but it helped us out as a team.” The win gave Duke confidence and momentum going into singles play. “It’s much better to start with the doubles point for us,” Walter said. The Blue Devils embarrassed Princeton Saturday, playing without King—resting a sore ankle—and still cleaning up 7-0. The going will not be so easy this
week, as the Blue Devils will travel to No. 2 Illinois Feb. 7. The Fighting Illini recently defeated No. 5 Florida State 70, and will be Duke’s first real test of the season.
No. 4 Women’s team crushes unranked Indiana team 7-0 without dropping a single set By JAKE POSES The Chronicle
The Women’s tennis team coasted to
an easy 7-0 victory over Indiana Saturday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. The match, as it was intended to be, was a tune up for the important National Team Indoors that commences Thursday. The fourth-ranked Blue Devils moved to 4-0 on the season and the Hoosiers dropped their first match ,
falling to 2-1.
Indiana struggled with injuries and consequently was forced to forfeit one doubles match and two singles matches. The Blue Devils overpowered the Hoosiers, refusing to drop a single set in the six matches played. “It’s a good match before National Team Indoors which is the reason we scheduled it,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We are a better team than they are, but I wanted people to feel confident going into National Team Indoors. Also, I wanted them to be able to work on some things in match situations instead of just practice.” In the No. 1 singles match, No. 2ranked Kelly McCain defeated Linda Tran 6-1, 6-2. Tran struggled to respond to McCain’s baseline power. “I ended up having pretty easy shots and being able to be aggressive,” McCain said. McCain’s serve was another strong point, compiling a number of aces and
service winners. “She has been struggling with her serve a little bit,” said Ashworth. “This was only her second match in a while so
it was good for her to put herself in the match situation. To go out and go through two sets was good because you don’t have the same focus you do in
practice.”
In other action, 15th-ranked Amanda Johnson looked shaky in her match against Sarah Batty but pulled out a 63, 6-3 victory. At the start of the second set, Johnson played a number of loose games, compiling several unforced errors. At 4-3 in the second, Johnson broke Batty’s serve and served out the match. “Amanda especially has been struggling confidence-wise with her forehand,” Ashworth said. “We talked about having her work on that and about controlling points with her forehand in the match situation.”
Julia Smith and Saras Arasu both coasted to easy singles victories. Smith, on the way to a 6-1, 6-1 victory, used her height and reach to create angles that her opponent has trouble running down. In doubles action, the Blue Devils were again dominant. Katie Granson and Smith downed Martina Grimm and Batty by a score of 8-1. Julia Deßoo and Hillary Adams defeated Tran and Dominika Walterova 8-2. “In the doubles we are trying to work on some serving this with Hillary even though we switched the teams around,” Ashworth said.
The team is confident and looks forward to proving their abilities to the nation when the National Indoors begins Thursday. “We are pretty confident,” said McCain. “We have been winning pretty handily so we should be okay.”
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Swimming enjoys Senior Day Track delivers positive results success, dominating W&M at Penn State and Chapel Hill Men, women romp in home finale against tribe Dividing its forces pays dividends for Duke By JEFF VERNON The Chronicle
Men’s (3-8) and Women’s (7-6) swimming posted resounding victories Saturday against William and Mary (3-6). Men won 169-90, while women won 16183 in celebration of Senior Day, Duke’s last home match this year. Both teams rebounded well after suffering convincing defeats to ACC foe Maryland Friday afternoon. “It was great to leave on a winning note,” senior Matt Mailloux said. Seniors Lauren Afflixio, Drew Disick, Lindsay Hilgers, Kristina Koehler, Mailloux, and Justin Ward were saluted before the match. “They recognized us before the meet and it was exciting,” Afflixio said. “It was exciting to be in a meet where both the men and the women had a chance to win.”
A commonly heard refrain from swimmers was that the team enjoyed performing well for its seniors. “Everyone was very excited to step up and win for the seniors, who have provided a lot of leadership over the last four years,” said junior Matt Olmstead. “We expected it to be a very close competition,
it was very evenly matched on paper, everyone on the team just stepped it up.” Both Duke squads controlled the match from the outset,-as each team took first place in the first four events. The men ended up winning 12-of-13 events to the women’s 10-of-13. The men also dominated the breast stroke, winning the first four places. Teddy Heifers, John Humphrey, Tim Hyer and Katie Ness all won multiple events. Also notable was Katie Harrington’s season-best time of 10:41:90 in the 1000 freestyle. The meet concludes Duke's dual meet season, and is its last competition before the ACC Championships. “Winning Saturday was good mental preparation going into ACC's,” Mailloux said. Although ending well, the weekend began on a bit of a sour note against conference rival Maryland. The 15th ranked Terrapin women’s team blew out their Blue Devil counterparts 150-79, and the Maryland men likewise had little trouble, taking the victory 156-78. Men’s ACC’s begin Feb. 27 at Chapel Hill, while the women begin completion a week earlier.
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Having split the team between the Penn State Invitational in State College, Pa., and the Carolina Fast Times Meet in Chapel Hill, the men’s and women’s track teams saw impressive performances at both meets this past weekend. Relay squads and long- and middledistance runners made the biggest impression in the Keystone State, as two men’s relay teams qualified for the IC4A Championships in March and one women’s relay group earned themselves a spot at the ECAC Championships. The men’s 4xBoo squad registered a season-best time of 7:39.74, coming in third, and a blistering 9:58.31 netted the distance medley relay team eighth place and a place at the table in March’s IC4As. “We’ve had a lot of people get sick, and we were happy to get the results that we got,” said senior Donny Fowler, a member of both relay units. “We’re trying to qualify for IC4As, lower our times and we were able to do that, so we were happy.” Individual distance events went smoothly for both teams, with Michael Hatch notching an eighth-place finish in the 3,000 meter run. Nick Schneider,
who had run anchor in Friday’s distance medley relay, finished 12th in the 1,000meter run. Both men’s times qualified them for IC4As. The women’s distance medley relay squad logged a win Friday night with a speedy 11:27.29, once again qualifying for the ECAC Championships and also provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Championships. “This [wasl our first attempt at the DMR,” senior relay team member Kristen Doody said. “We were hoping to make the NCAA provisional qualifying time, so naturally we were really, really excited when we did.” The portion of the team that remained in North Carolina performed competently in the field events. Tirana McDermott logged a strong lOth-place finish in the women’s 60meter hurdles with a scanty 9.66 seconds. Pole vaulters Laura Chen and Brent Warner registered impressive fin-
ishes: 11th and second, respectively. “The last two weeks I hadn’t jumped as well, and I was hoping to clear 16T” this weekend,” said Warner. “I’d had a good week of classes, and I think that made the difference.”
Seminoles play rude host, hand Duke 3rd straight road loss In a game filled with oddities, Blue Devils’ leading scorer Dahntay Jones is held to a seasonlow two points, unheralded reserve freshman Lee Melchionni scores 8 and Duke can’t dunk floor with a wide-open look from bevath—shoot 50 percent or better for the from page 3 THREE-POINT yond the arc. DUKE from page 3 received such a game, the Seminoles As the shot was released in Redick’s that of the other Duke players. “We missed shots that we’ve hit a lot of times,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s not like these were wild and crazy shots. A lot of them were right on.” Despite their struggles, however, the Blue Devils remained in the game.After a Daniel Ewing three-pointer cut the score to 71-70 with 10.3 seconds remaining, the Blue Devils sent Pickett to the free throw line, where he calmly
converted both of his attempts. But after a Florida State timeout, Duke point guard Chris Duhon began to race down the right sideline before slipping and watching the ball go out of bounds with six seconds remaining. An Adam Waleskowski dunk sealed Duke’s defeat and left Duhon to think about the game’s final seconds. “We needed a three,” Duhon said. “I was just trying to push it up fast and exchange the ball with Daniel [Ewing] to where he could get a shot or penetrate and kick it to the other side to J.J. [Redick]. I just slipped and [the ball] went out of bounds.” Duhon’s struggles were not limited to the game’s final play; the Blue Devil captain went 2-of-7 from the floor while committing three turnovers. Fellow veteran Dahntay Jones, who entered the game averaging 17.6 points per game, also had trouble finding the basket, going l-of-10 from the field for only two points. “I’ve got to do more than just shoot the ball,” Jones said. “I’ve got to have more of an impact on the game than just shooting.” While the Blue Devils had only two players—Lee Melchionni and Nick Hor-
performance from each player in their starting lineup, including Raleigh native Anthony Richardson, whose 14point performance included a jumper that gave Florida State a 48-37 advantage, its largest lead of the game. For the Seminoles, though, the key to the game was Pickett, who was playing against a top-10 Division I team for the first time in his career. “It was a good statement,” he said. “It’s an adjustment to come from junior college to this. It’s a totally different level.” If Pickett or his teammates had any nerves entering the game, they quickly put them at ease. The Seminoles went 19-of-28 from the floor in the first half en route to a 41-35 halftime lead. “Our defense could not stop their offense in the first half,” Krzyzewski said. “They shot almost 70 percent. We played harder and much better defensively in the second half and put ourselves in a position where we had a chance to win the ball game. But the effort that they had throughout—they were not going to be denied.” The Blue Devils also found themselves shorthanded Sunday. Already without the services of center Michael Thompson, who was out with an injured left ankle, Duke also lost power forward Shavlik Randolph early in the game, as Randolph began suffering from a stomach flu, according to Duke Sports Information director Jon Jackson. Pi fking up the slack was freshman Melchionni, who scored a career-high eight points in just seven minutes of action, including two three-pointers.
“Lee’s been practicing well” Krzyzewski said. “Lee gave us a big boost. He is really, really good.”
three had given Duke the momentum going into the second half. “I had good shots from the outside the whole game,” Redick said after he finished 5-for-18 from the field, making him 11 for his last 44. The Blue Devils did nothing with this momentum, however, as Florida State’s Tim Pickett and Anthony Richardson carried Florida State to a 48-37 lead with 15:36 remaining in the game. Duke countered by turning to its three game, as Redick and reserve Lee Melchionni hit back-to-back shots from beyond 20 feet. The Blue Devils were able to capitalize on the momentum this time, as Duke clawed its way to a 49-49 tie after three consecutive lay-ups. Duke was unable to sustain this intensity, as Florida State immediately went on a seven-zero run, pushing its lead to 56-49. The team’s captain, junior guard Chris Duhon, knew how to get his team back on its feet: by knocking down another three-pointer. Duhon followed this play with an athletic drive that ended in a foul on Florida State. Duhon made only one of the two freethrows, but Melchionni made up for the miss by, you guessed it, knocking down another three pointer. The score was now 56-56 with 6:48 left in the game, and the Blue Devils appeared poised to use add another victory to its column because of its mastery of the three. The historical model almost looked perfect the next possession as Redick, Duke’s three-point shooting ace, squared up on the right side of the
trademark picture perfect form, Florida State and its fans sighed as it appeared that Duke would bury another opponent with its mastery of the three. The shot rimmed out, though, and Florida State refused to give Duke another chance to take a lead. “We were very fortunate that they had one of their off nights shooting,” Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said. “I’d like to take total credit, but I realize they had some good looks that just didn’t fall.” Duke almost used the three to squeak out a victory as Daniel Ewing swished a shot from behind the arc with 10 seconds remaining, cutting the Seminoles lead to one. But clutch free-throw shooting by
Pickett and tremendous ball handling by the entire Florida State squad ended Duke’s chances of pulling out a victory in a game where it shot only 35 percent from the field. “We could never get the lead,” Krzyzewski said. “That puts on a little game pressure.” In the end, Krzyzewski felt his team had over-relied on the aspect that played a big role in making Duke a national power. He did point out that, despite such a strong predilection towards the three, his side nonetheless squandered too many easy attempts off the break from close range. Duke performed poorly in the open floor, missing two dunks. “Forget about the three,” Krzyzewski said. “We had numerous opportunities in transition to win, but when we did, we didn’t come through..,. We missed four terrific chances. ”
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DAVIES from page 1 oversee the University’s behemoth dining services, its network of stores, services for the Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C., the post office, the infrastructure of the DukeCard system and the logistical elements of Event Management. Davies will work closely
with other new campus figures
like Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Vice President for Information Technology Tracy Futhey and a new vice president for campus services to be hired later this spring. With the reorganization plan complete, Davies—whose budget will be cut by three-fourths to about $75 million after the departure of elements like publishing, housekeeping and park-
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his first goal will be to stress that Auxiliary Services will not be overhauled again. “There won’t be any major changes,” said Davies, emphasizing that dining, stores and the other elements he will control have a vital need to remain together. “To change anything from the administrative side is to say that the model Joe
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for 10 years before arriving at Auxiliary Services in 1999. That background gives Davies three key assets in his new position—experience in an academic setting, an understanding of how the Medical Center works and intricate knowledge of how services are financed. “It helps you on the operations side if you know how the numbers flow, if you know how money flows through the system,” he said. Davies also noted that, like in Auxiliary Services, the $ 100million budgeted medicine department was expected not just to break even, but to allow funding of more academic programs. Davies, whose title has not yet been determined, may have a steep learning curve in replacing the irreplaceable Pietrantoni, whose impending departure led Executive Vice President Tailman Trask to reorganize campus services this winter. The transition is in part generational. Art drawn by his three daughters adorns Davies’s desk—in contrast to the Gemini and Apollo mission memorabilia lining Pietrantoni’s wall. But their roles will also differ fundamentally, in that Davies’s job will be to maintain and enhance the empire that Pietrantoni had
Pietrantoni has built over the last 30 years isn’t strong and to build from scratch. that’s clearly not the case.” “In many ways, [they have] Arriving on campus in 1987 many of the same characteristics with a background in accountin terms of energy and commiting, Davies quickly went from a ment to continuous improvemember of the internal audit ment,” said Michael Mandl, vice department to a financial Mr. president for financial services, Fix-It in the Department of to whom Davies will now directMedicine, where he remained ly report. “Those are the places
I’d say [Davies is] very similar to J0e.... He’ll play a significant role in advancing the good programs that Joe Piet has put in place.” Pietrantoni gave Davies his blessing and said one of the most important factors abetting his retirement was knowing Davies would be on tap to take over. In an interview last week, Davies, who aims to emulate Pietrantoni’s frank, friendly, open-door demeanor, said that Auxiliary Services has always had good relationships with Student Affairs and the Office of .Information Technology. He spoke about family—both his own and the family of employees within his organization. Although he said he would have a clearer idea of his plans for the organization in the coming months, he provided a glimpse of his own ambitions. Davies highlighted the possibilities that the creation of a student “village” on West Campus will hold for dining and stores and said he hopes every Duke student will regret not
visiting the Marine Lab in four years at the University. He added that he might boost Auxiliary Services’ marketing—noting in a congratulatory way that people simply do not notice Auxiliary Services when its employees do their jobs well. He also made clear that his division will remain independent-minded, with its own direction and vision. “Auxiliaries is my organization, and we’ll run it that way.”
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The undergraduate student body will vote Feb. 28 on a referendum that calls for a $22-per-year hike in the student activities fee for the Union. The increase would help bring more
major attractions and speakers, showcase Broadway at Duke performances for more than one night and lower ticket prices for OnStage and Quad Flicks shows. “Should we get the funds that we’re asking for, it would be a substantial shot in the arm,” Bigelow said. “It will be crucial next year that the money is not squandered, [but is] used as well as possible. Duke students deserve more and
better programming.” Bigelow will also need to serve as a strong voice in the shaping of the new Student Village, as well as work with the new director for student life and prepare the Union for the 2004-2005 celebration of its 50th anniversary, Panuccio said. Another challenge for the Union next year is the lack of experience on the executive and chairs boards. The organization will lose many of its current leaders to graduation. “Some people are a little concerned about that, but I think that’s an exciting thing,” Panuccio said. “There will be a really enthusiastic team of younger people next year.” The other leadership positions for the Union should be filled within the next few weeks. Applications for the executive board, open to all students, are due Feb. 5, while those for subcommittee chairs are due Feb. 11.
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Lawrence Gan, who directed the film. “It was a team effort. Everybody got closer while we were trying to work together. Plus, you don’t get your hands on digital cameras and ibooks all the time.” The ceremonies were not without their share of controversy, however. Freshman Ajay Kori, along with an irate group of Southgate filmmakers, said after the premiere that it was “hard
to represent freshman life when filming a lie,” referring to the rule of not being able to film drugs or alcohol. ‘We thought we’d use technology to get a point across,” added freshman Jason Kops, another Southgate film-
maker. We didn’t feel like doing some funny little spoof.” Kops said they had to “scrap their movie completely after rereading the rules and e-mailing the directors.” Their film Fight the Power commented on Duke’s financial aid program. Southgate was not one of the evening’s winners.
NIGERIA from page 2 radio put the toll at 50 or more. The blast came as many were at church, preventing an even higher death toll. Police said they were investigating a range of possible motives —including speculation that the blast had been set to rob the building’s Prudent Bank. “We don’t know what happened... but our men are already investigating,” police spokesperson Emmanuel
Ighodalo said. Hundreds of police surrounded the damaged neighborhood, dispersing the looters and forcing back thousands of onlookers. Cranes and other heavy equipment moved in to lift up the heavy concrete slabs and other debris. Ambulance drivers fought to navi-
Raffle tickets were sold before the show started, and drawings were held between each movie. Door prizes ranged from $2O gift certificates to Millennium Music to several Palm M515 PDAs, a Hewlett-Packard flatbed scanner, and a Nikon CoolPix 2500 digital camera. Most electronics were courtesy of the Duke Computer Store. Freshman Tara Zepel, an, actp§s ,jn The Bus, said “it is really neat that they care that much about freshmen having unique opportunities because usually you don’t get to do stuff like this as freshmen. You have to wait ’til you’re upperclassmen to do something weird like that.” Roberts said she hoped the project would become an annual event involving all freshman dorms. She said she thinks this year’s participants will help future freshman filmmakers on the projects and encourage them to participate in them. All movies will be available online in the permanent archives virtual collection.
gate narrow streets and push through the throngs to get to victims. Survivors bundled together what possessions they could and set off in search of safe housing. “My husband is dead,” one middleaged woman cried, carrying a bundle on her head and dragging a little boy behind. Lagos Island is one of two islands that, with the mainland, make up this city of 12 million. Congestion on the island has sent many businesses moving to other parts of Lagos in recent years. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, with 120 million people, and urban crowding contributes to high death tolls in disasters and other tragedies. Jan. 27, 2002, a series of explosions at an army munitions depot in Lagos killed more than 1,000 people. Hundreds drowned attempting to escape the blast.
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TAX CUTS from page 2 The administration says, however, that this year’s deficit will be just 2.8 percent of the overall $10.5 trillion U.S. economy—far below the 4.7 percent level hit in 1992 and an amount acceptable for an economy struggling to emerge from recession. But Democrats charge that Bush’s $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut in 2001 and his new request for another $670 billion in tax cuts as part of an economic stimulus program will put the budget on a dangerous downward slide that will rob Social Security of the surpluses it needs to prepare for the retirement of the baby boomers. “The president is pursuing a policy that will dramatically increase our deficits, expand our debts and accelerate our economic decline,” said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. “Just as we face the prospect of war with Iraq,, the president is asking us again for massive
tax cuts we cannot afford.” The president, mindful of the political price his father paid because of his
handling of the economy after winning the Persian Gulf War in 1991—he lost the White House in 1992—declared in his State of the Union address last week that boosting the economy was his No. 1 goal. He urged Congress to vote without delay for his new stimulus plan. The tax cut part of his budget, which Bush previewed in a Jan. 7 speech, has run into heavy opposition, especially his idea of eliminating double taxation of investors’ stock dividends. That would carry a $364 billion, 10-year price tag,
more than half the $674 billion cost of the stimulus plan. Democrats charge the elimination of dividend taxes would not boost the economy this year and would drive government deficits higher
in coming years. The tax plan also would accelerate into this year the rate cuts and $4OO boost in the child tax credit that the 2001 tax legislation would have phased in over seven years.
THE PROPOSED PLANS FOR A NEW MAIN STREET that will cut through Central Campus have garnered mixed reviews from students. Officials say the project could take as long as 20 years and may cost several hundred million dollars
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are currently considering a number of options including a “cable-driven people mover,” a light rail train and an en-
vironmentally-friendly “articulated” bus system. “Monorails haven’t been cool since 1985 and I can’t believe they’re putting one in on Central Campus,” Tenenbaum said. Others said the University should reconsider its priorities. “I think it’s ridiculous that the University has $2 billion and they feel they need to spend it on a monorail,” junior Arthur Wood said. “Given how close Central Campus she said. “An expansion of the student center is to the other major parts of the campus, I don’t think it is needed.” would be a lot more effective in promotYeung disagreed: “It would be expening more student interaction. It would be a better investment than another sive but it would be convenient. It’s however much money we have and however restaurant or a monorail.” The possibility of a new transit sysmuch money we want to spend.” The possibility of new apartments tem to replace the University buses has also sparked controversy. Officials with beds for 800 undergraduates and
from Main West to Wilson [Recreation Center] or all the way to Brodie to work out would be great,” Yeung said, “as would having some kind of place where you can walk around in at night and not have it be desolate.” But senior Jiyoon Im said one possible element of Main Street—restaurants —is unnecessary. “I don’t think we need any more restaurants; we have enough eateries,”
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BRIEFS from page 6 Heart & Soul magazines. The conference will feature a discussion on socially responsible business, led by Gregory Dees, a Fuqua professor and leading researcher in the field of sustainable social enterprise. Top-level executives from Fortune 500 companies will share their views on corporate governance, and regional entrepreneurs will relay their experiences leading innovative and global organizations. Discounted rates are available for students and early registrants. For more information and a complete list of visit events,
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North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty, staff and students on both campuses are eligible to apply. Oneyear grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded. Applications are due April 18, and grants will be awarded soon after that. Funds will be expendable from July 1, 2003, through June 1, 2004.
SPACE SHUTTLE,™ page 1 Tm confident that even what I tell you today will be fluid and will change from day to day for a while,” Dittemore said. He added that officials hoped to retrieve 32 additional seconds of data from NASA computers that they believe was received on the ground after controllers lost contact with the crew. As engineers sought a technical explanation for the disaster, families of the seven astronauts who died and a stunned world mourned the loss and looked for solace. At churches in the astronauts’ hometowns—from Spokane, Wash., to Tel Aviv, Israel, to Kamal, India—thousands grieved for the crew. Makeshift shrines rose at the Johnson Space Center here and at Cape Canaveral in Florida. President George W. Bush attended services Sunday at St. John’s Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Square from the White House. The Rev. Luis Leon, the church rector, said the seven astronauts represented the American drive to explore the unknown. “We grieve because they represented the best in us, because part of us has died,” Leon said. The White House announced that
Bush would fly to Houston Tuesday to attend a memorial service for the shuttle crew. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials
promised an exhaustive investigation that would eventually find the cause of the catastrophe. But none raised doubts about the future of the shuttle program or America’s commitment to sending men and women into space. Sean O’Keefe, the NASA administrator, said that the space program had suffered “an accident of epic proportion” and announced that he had named an independent board to investigate the accident. It will be headed by Harold W. Gehman Jr., a retired Navy admiral, who led the investigation of the bombing of the destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000. Congress and the space agency will conduct additional inquiries into the cause of the disaster. Meanwhile, all shuttle operations have ceased. The White House said Sunday that O’Keefe would brief Bush in the Oval Office Monday and meet later with members of Congress. A senior administration official said Bush would propose an increase in financing for NASA in the budget he sends to Congress Monday. The official said the proposed increase would be to $15,469 billion for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, up from $l5 billion in the current fiscal year and $14,892 billion last year. The official said the increase was settled on long before the loss of the shuttle Saturday, and he said it was too early to say whether the administration
300 or 400 graduate and professional school students—excites many students. “I think they should start over by bulldozing everything and building the apartments from the ground up,” said junior Andy Brandmaier. Tenenbaum said she was eager for apartments “that don’t look like shoeboxes with windows,” have non-fluorescent lighting and no industrial
strength carpets. For most students, however, the Central Campus changes—which could take almost 20 years and cost several hundred million dollars—are too far off to think about. “By the time any of this happens, Til be long gone,” said senior Kyle Smith, echoing a common sentiment. “I hope it’s really nice, but I’m skeptical that it will be as nice as they make it out to be. It’ll be great for the students who are here.”
might support calls for more money to replace Columbia. But he said that an important part of the NASA budget the president will submit Monday will be a “life extension effort” to upgrade the existing shuttle fleet. Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, said the president remained committed to the space program. “From the president’s point of view, the mission of science and the marvels of space exploration will go on,” Fleischer said. As NASA engineers analyzed data here, hundreds of people, including some astronauts and NASA officials, continued searching a 900-square-mile area of Texas and Louisiana for pieces of the shuttle. The debris will be sent to Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, La., for analysis, but officials said it was unlikely that they would find enough of the wreckage to reconstruct the shuttle. The remains of the astronauts will be sent for analysis to the Charles Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, which has identified bodies in other disasters. Russia launched a Progress rocket Sunday on a previously scheduled flight to deliver food and fuel to three astronauts, two Americans and a Russian, aboard the orbiting international space station. American space shuttles have shared space station resupply duties with Russian unmanned rockets.
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Wednesday, February 5 Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Ken Kemphues, Cornell University. “Establishing polarity in the C. elegans embryo.” 147 Nanaline Duke.
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Presbyterian/UCC Ministry Bible Study: 12:15-1 pm, Wednesdays. Bring your lunch and Bible. Chapel Basement, Room 036. Catholic Mass: s:lspm, Wednesdays. Duke Chapel Crypt. Campus Ministry Service.
Wesley Fellowship Small Group: 9:45pm. Meets in the Wesley office. Contact jay.regennitterwith questions.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Duke School for Children Visitation Day: 9-11:30am and 1-2pm, Lower & Middle School; 9-11:30am, preschool. Come visit the campuses to see the project and inquiry-based program of Duke School in action. Registration will be held on each campus. For additional information, visit www.dukeschool.org. After Hours: 5:30-Bpm. “First Course Concert: The Ciompi Quartet,” reception and concert, co-sponsored by Institute of the Arts. $5 Public, $3 Friends and Students, Free to Duke students with I.D.
Reading: 7pm. “Picasso’s Closet,” a play by Ariel Dorfman. Directed by John Dillon (NC School of the Arts and Playmakers Repertory Theater), a featuring a cast of professional actors, this will be a reading of a new work by Durham-based Chilean playwright and writer Ariel Dorfman, which is set during World Warr II and Picasso’s creation of his famous Guernica painting. This reading is part of the series “The Arts in Times of War,” sponsored by the Duke Institute of the Arts and the Franklin
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Upcoming Event; 2nd Annual Latino Issues Conference: Friday and Saturday, February 14 & 15. “Seeds of Change: Latino/a Citizenship(s) in the Here and Now.” Free. Register online at www.duke.edu/web/las. Four panels, screening of two short films. Keynote speaker, Alex Rivera. Questions about conference, visit website and/or contact Jenny Williams, jennysw@duke.edu. Bryan Center, Duke University. Perkins Exhibit: Through February in the main Perkins Library gallery. That Half-Living Thing: a Book’: Extending the Half-Life of the Libraries’ Collections. An exhibit describing the Duke University Libraries’ strategies for preserving its collections: books, journals, CD-ROMs, DVDs, floppy disks, sound recordings, videotapes, and other materials, so that they will be available to scholars now and in the future. Photo Exhibit: Through March in the first floor hallway gallery at Perkins Library. “Photo by Griff Davis” was a common credit on news photographs from the 1940s through the 1980s. Griffith Davis took photographs for the Atlanta Daily World, Ebony, Black Star, and Negro Digest. Exhibit: through February 8. “What’s Left: New Sculptures out of the Heart of the Earth.” Works by Aaron Lee Benson. Duke University Brown Gallery, Bryan Center. Exhibit: On display at FCJL until March 2003. “Horizons: an Aerial Photo Exhibit of Israel” Lent to FCJL by the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta, this collection of 28 breathtaking aerial photographs includes images of historic and religious sites in
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professor hydrology, presented evidence of grade inflation over the past three decades at Duke and about 30 other universities. Unsurprisingly, the data show that the average Duke GPA has jumped since 1969 from a 2.79 to a 3.33. However, grade inflation is not a bad thing; in truth, grade inflation is almost irrelevant. Grading is not an absolute system of comparison, because if it were, almost all Duke students would receive straight-As after being compared with students from other institutions. Grading has always been a relative concept, useful primarily for comparing students from the same school. Thus, since grades serve as a relative measure of a student’s performance against his or her peers, whether the average Duke GPA is 2.79 or 3.33 does not provide any information about how a student performs relative to all the other students. Of course, when the median GPA shifts upward, the system loses some ability to compare students in the upper-ranges of GPA—that is, if more As are being given out, then many ofthe top students’ GPAs probably become grouped more closely together. However, the net impact of this effect is probably minor. If everybody—students, professors, administrators, graduate schools, employers—knows grade inflation is occurring, then they sould take grade inflation into account and it should have no impact. The real problem with grade inflation is that it is unequally distributed through the University. That is, different departments and different professors have different standards by which they grade. So while a C might be the median grade in, say, the sociology department, an A might be the median grade in, say, the economics department. This does not necessarily mean that economics students are smarter than sociology students; rather the two departments might have different standards for how grading should be conducted. These differentials in how grading occurs between departments and professors encourages students to take courses that have easier grading rather than taking courses in which they are truly interested. Some might argue that people know which departments and courses are easily graded and which are more rigorously graded. However, there would still be required courses like Writing 20, where the grading varies widely from class to class. Obviously, these inequities in grading need to stop. Students should be ensured of consistent grading across the University. Whether the median GPA is a 2.79 or a 3.33 is irrelevant, so long as all students can expect to receive the same type of grading across their disciplines. The challenge is figuring out a system that will do this. Two proposals, grading all classes on a curve or an academic indexing system that adjusts the GPA of students relative to the average GPA of other students who have taken the same classes, are inadequate. Curving and academic indexing assume that all classes have an equal distribution of qualified students, which may not be the case. Although the problem appears insoluble from on-high, the University and most importantly professors need to recognize the problem. Perhaps through a collective effort to grade students’ work honestly and consistently, grade differentials between departments can be ironed out, even if grade inflation is not.
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copyright enforcement but note that their decree aims to protect the University and its administrators and not to address student needs. Their e-mail angered me because of its condescending tone and misleading fact. Did the writers of this letter believe they actually were doing students a favor by informing about the “safest action” for personal protec-
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quately fast. It’s easy to guess the outcome of the Moneta/Futhey decree. Few students will stop using KaZaA, and then perhaps in a few months, someone will be caught and an example will be made. Certainly, nobody, including Moneta and Futhey, would
tive that should be satisfactory to students and administrators alike. The library system already pays for an abundance of information
retrieval systems and does so more cheaply per capita than if anyone purchased such services individually. And since we can classify music and movies as information, let Moneta and Futhey establish a contract with a legal music and movie downloading site—there are many good ones—using the library system budget. This way, we can still harness the power of the Internet for entertainment and information while simultaneously obeying the law.
want to see this outcome. So, I propose an altema-
Jonathan Levine Trinity ’O6
Divestment from Israel not necessarily anti-Semitic Walking through my hall on the way to the bathroom today, I found stapled to the wall a copy of Harvard University president Lawrence Summers’s recent speech regarding divestment from Israel stapled to the wall with “READ THIS!” running down its side. I read it. I wish I hadn’t. Summers equates the call for divestment from Israel with anti-Semitism and states that Harvard has categorically rejected this suggestion. Let me state here that I am officially neither for nor against divestment. I was unable to attend Wednesdays conference, and as such I feel insufficiently educated to make a judgment when it comes to this emotionally loaded topic. I
do feel, however, that Summers’s remarks were inappropriate. To compare the criticism of a political policy with the systematic persecution of a religious group is inconsistent and adds unneeded strife to an already tense debate. When college groups around the country pressed for divestment from apartheid South Africa in the mid-80s, their movement was not seen as a
West Bank as justified, the same principle should be in effect. Would the reaction of students here and in other divestment groups in this country be different if Israel were a country of Buddhists? The fact that Israel is a country mainly occupied by those of the Jewish faith should not be a reason to dismiss offhand calls for change in its policies. Divestment from Israel is a subject that is already being debated heatedly throughout the country. Let’s not add more fuel to the fire by making accusations of discrimination in a situation where no discrimination is present.
rally against Christianity, although South Africa is a British-colonized country. In that situation, participants were able to see around racial and religious differences to have an effect on a political policy that was patently wrong. Regardless of whether we see Israel’s actions in Gaza and the
Allison Clarke Trinity ’O6
Letter writer’s facts a product of alternative history It may be, as Diane Nelson
unprovoked attack on Austria. In 1938 Austria became part of Germany in a mostly non-violent coup aided by German troops. Austria then fought in WWII as part
wrote, that we need “to active-
ly make alternative histories.”
She’s off to a good start when she asserts that in World War II Germany carried out an
of Germany. Perhaps Nelson has an alternative story, Lawrence Evans Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics
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tion? Come on. Furthermore, concerns about bandwidth consumption are illogical, yhere has been exactly one case this year where the network failed and was blamed on a user downloading too much—and I doubt, based upon my understanding of technology, that this explanation is accurate. Furthermore, the network seems to be more than ade-
You’ve probably received
Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Chief Information Officer e-mail Tracy Futhey’s instructing everyone at Duke to cease using peer-topeer programs like KaZaA for file sharing. They cite two problems: one, overuse of bandwidth and two, illegal activity. I support calls for
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Divestment discouraged because of unequal scrutiny Israel’s withdrawal “from territories.” Why does the petition not demand that Duke divest from every government that does not recognize Israel and supports terrorism against Israel including the Palestinian Authority. In addition, international law does not require a state to withdraw from land acquired in a defensive war until all sides have made peace. Peace is, therefore, a prerequisite for and end“all claims or states of withdrawal, but al-Bulushi belligerency” in return for has turned international law
The nationwide campaign by Palestinian supporters to divest from Israel has been a total flop for a good reason: The public understands its total hypocrisy and is not willing to absolve terrorism for its role in the conflict. Why, for example, does Yousuf al-Bulushi only want to implement the part of Resolution 242 that makes demands on Israel. It calls on all states to recognize Israel
on its head. While compensation for refugees is proper, with 8.5
million Palestinians and 5 million Jews, a return of all refugees would be the de facto death of Israel. It is also telling that alBulushi’s indignation does not extend to the lack of compensation for the 900,000 Jewish Arab refugees and their millions of descendants. David Marks
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He’ll play a significant role in advancing the good programs that Joe Piet has put in place. Michael Mandl, vice president for financial services, on Paul Davies (see story, page one).
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So long as men can breathe...
She is beautiful. The woman sitting across from me is stunning. The light reflects off her skin in away that simply pulls your gaze to her face. Though you love to see her smile, and to see the I glow of her cheeks, your ' eyes are easily distracted. That’s because her Nick eyes are looking into yours, and then you’re Christie lost. They are intelligent, Rmoim lk inquisitive and playful. Gbss y sheen Whether you’re in a crowed restaurant or an empty parking 10t... it doesn’t matter. When you’re lucky enough to look into them, your peripheral vision is pretty much nonexistent. If you bring yourself to look away for an instant and take a step back, her lean silhouette stands out against whatever background. You find yourself way too envious of her suede jacket. Sure, it’s an unfeeling, unthinking, inanimate object... but it’s lucky enough to be draped over her neck and shoulders. Not a bad life. She is gentle. Words like malice and cruelty don’t even exist in her vocabulary. She sees the world in a compassionate fight and knows no other. She speaks of her passion to be productive not because she feels guiltily altruistic, but because she’ll genuinely enjoy helping others. Simple as that. Occasionally she’ll get a little flustered, frustrated at one of the world’s many problems. It’s a beautiful thing. Her head cocks just a touch to one side, and she’ll blink in the most adorable, seductive of ways. She’ll look back, now confident of what she’s trying to articulate, and you just have to smile. “What?” she asks. “Nothing. Sorry, please keep going,” you say with a slight shake of your head. She continues making her point, but as much as you want to listen to her words with rapt attention... well, you just can’t stop smiling.
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This column is about love, or actually
the pursuit thereof. A lot of people at Duke talk about not having time for a boyfriend or girlfriend, that they have too many things going on or a career to think about. Love will have to wait. I think my fellow Duke students are idiots. There isn’t anything better or greater than love, than having someone to share life with. “All days are nights to see till I see thee,” Shakespeare wrote in his 43rd sonnet. “And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” What I want most in life is to be able to say those words to someone and truly mean them.
Luckily for me, the woman described above really does exist. She is not a figment of my imagination or a literary creation. She is, I think, the most special woman I’ve met in last six months, maybe even in a full year. That’s a strong statement, I know, but I think it’s true. I’ve been in love twice in my life, although it’s been awhile (the last time was sophomore year). The cool thing about having been in love is that you remember these weird fragments, so that when someone else comes along with the potential to be truly amazing, you get little flashbacks. When you find yourself engaged in a glance, a smile or an intense conversation, you have these moments where you pause. It’s not deja vu. No two women are alike, and so your feelings for everyone you meet, particularly anyone unique and special, are not easily comparable. But, there is this kind of recognition. You feel that, and your senses perk up. I felt that Thursday night. I felt it hard.
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side view of her cheek in return, which I’m totally unprepared for. I’ve been fantasizing all night for her lips or her neck. Anything else is a letdown. I get the point. “So, you’d prefer to keep this platonic,” I say earnestly, hoping to keep all disappointment hidden until I get out of the car.
In my room, I’m choosing my music carefully—the right combination of passion and sadness, but without that moping quality. I feel surprisingly great. Yes, I’m really sad. After all, this beautiful human being isn’t going to become my girlfriend anytime soon and probably not She nods. ever. That sucks. But, I feel lucky. I had Always direct, I go a step further. “Can I spent a magical evening with an extraordihave aspirations?” The words mean nothnary woman, and I had said everything I ing, though. It’s my eyes. The look is one of wanted to say just about exactly how I the most delicate you can give. You aren’t wanted to say it. pleading, and you’re not really asking There are no regrets. either. What you’re doing is making a decActually, there is one more reason why I laration: I like you... a lot. You’re not some feel lucky. A question hits me as I close my infatuation. You are someone I want to eyes and lean back on my couch, absorbing pursue with all the force and concentration Barber’s Adagio for Strings as its violins I can muster. fill my room. She pauses. Who would I rather be right now? One “Well, I’m actually kind of dating two of those two guys with whom she’ll be kissguys right now, as legitimately as you can ing and caressing this weekend or me, Okay, I’ll admit that was a little suralone in my room? prising. But I’ve heard stranger things, and Easy choice. besides, I’m focused and confident. I could never share her. I could never I don’t even miss a beat. I run my finshare anyone so special. gers through her hair, slightly grazing her head. “Well, then you don’t need a third... Nick Christie is a Trinity senior and associhave an awesome night.” ate sports editor for The Chronicle. ”
The night had come to an end. We sit looking at each other. Honestly, although I should be nervous, I’m not. The feeling is actually more like... bemusement. I want to see what happens next because it’s sure to be interesting. She leans over and plants this awkward kiss on my cheek. She had moved toward the windshield, so her lips just kind of glance off my face. I get presented a broad-
THEODORE HUXTABLE’S PROTEGE goes to Cameron Amidst all the Alan Davis Band Armadillo Grill conWhy were fans referring to Auriemma as Luigi? cert publicity, thousands ofDuke students Well, Luigi is his actual first name; he just makes trekked to Cameron Indoor Stadium or people call him Genofor some reason. The irony is that tuned in to ESPN2 Saturday night to he has basically the same shape, appearance, and watch undefeated No. 1 Duke’s valiant behavior, not of Luigi, but of another Super Mario Bros, character, the goomba (see picture), comeback run out of time against undefeated No. 2 Connecticut, following a bad Was watching Luigi tramping around the sidelines Wm wKKr start caused by the players being stunned witfl arms exten^ed a schmuck the funniest TfTFO irLLU to actually see a sellout crowd at home. sight at the game ? Anyway, it left Duke fans with many HUXTABLE’S No, actually, it was watching assistant coach Chris questions about the game. Fortunately, ironTm? Dailey restraining Luigi about 57 times when he strutTHEODORE HUXTABLE’S PROTEGE, rKUILIrL ted too far out of his coach’s box. Like a schmuck. With with help from research assistant Dr. Sy- Monday, Monday his arms extended. Her atrocious blond hairdo made it (Snootles)-and-the-Ramblin-(Root-Beer)even funnier, on a side note.... With about 15:30 left in the second half, the refs began Gnome, is here to answer many of those questions. Duke shot 44 percent from the floor in the second half, calling fouls with much more frequency. Why was this? hut hit only 22 percent of their shots in the first half Why? Perhaps they thought they could make up for ignorAh, excellent question. Even weirder, Duke center ing The Most Obvious Offensive Foul Ever, by Diana Mistie Bass actually made 75 percent ofher free throws Taurasi a few seconds earlier, by calling a foul on every in the first half; this indicates that perhaps there was single play for the next few minutes. Then again, there something amiss with the rim. I blame Geno Auriemma. was also the phone call the scorer’s table received from Is there a reason why Auriemma didn’t shake any of ESPN2, saying that it wouldn’t hurt if the game went a little bit over the allotted two hours, because, “We the Duke players’ hands before the game? realize maybe showing everyone the entire Hula Bowl Maybe he’s an a--hole. Hmm. This sellout, game brought many to Cameron who isn’t necessarily the best idea.” Why did Auriemma make those comments before the had never seen a women’s basketball game before. How game about Duke guard Jessica Foley, who is from could you tell the novices from the die-hard fans? Well, obviously the men’s team fans would object to Australia, drinking Foster’s? Apparently he couldn’t think of anything clever 10-second violations not being called, but besides that, if someone compared which team had prettier players involving Crocodile Dundee or Crocodile Dundee 2. Plus, and conjectured about why none of the athletes wore he hadn’t seen Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles yet. He make-up, that would be an indication that they might didn’t really know anything else about Australia. Why did Auriemma go to the effort of insulting not be the biggest offans.
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Duke’s academic reputation before the game as well? Maybe he’s pissed off because he went to West Chester University, a school so obscure that even he probably hadn’t even heard of it until he actually started going there. It is well publicized that Auriemma and Connecticut men’s coach Jim Calhoun despise each other. Why is this? It actually began when the life-size LEGO Auriemma replica started making fun ofthe life-size LEGO Calhoun replica at the LEGO Walk of Fame in Hartford, Conn. Completely out of the blue, Auriemma’s replica said that Dare to Dream, Calhoun’s attempt at writing a book, “sucked,” adding that it made Dean Smith’s A Coach’s Life look like The Great f—ing Gatsby .” Both Peter Lange and Nan Keohane were at the game. To what did we owe their presence? Well, Lange slept through a tent check Thursday night, but Keohane got line monitor Jeremy Morgan to give them a reprieve on the grounds that they had both been really busy lately doing president and provost things, which caused them to be a bit fatigued. “It was also really cold,” she added. Morgan was about to call them a bunch of wimps, but then he realized he had never tented before, so he kept quiet and eventually let them into the stadium. “
THEODORE HUXTABLE’S PROTEGE would like to say that, with all due respect to the Goomba photo, the Atari 2600 is still the best video game system ever made, and remains a conduit of joy amongst the enlightened, not to mention a system whose games you don’t have to blow in to get them to work.
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