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place “of high civilization and great service.” For six years, he served as the head of this University, but his quest to carve out a visionary future was stalled and ultimately cut short by the political unrest that overwhelmed American universities in the 19605. Not until 40 years later, when time and reflection had healed the shock of his Duke career, would Knight return to walk across campus. Now he never will again. Knight died Sunday afternoon at his home in Doylestown, Pa., of complications from pneumonia. He was 83. His family is still finalizing details, but a funeral service will likely be held Thursday in Pennsylvania. The University is also planning a memorial service in Durham. The path of Knight’s life was something of a maze to him, and at many turns he felt trapped by the forces changing around him. A visionary risk-taker in his administrative life, he found him-
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self exiled from Duke and the academic community he considered a sanctuary during his first 50 years. Seeking away to combine his commitment to liberal education with his understanding of the need for active knowledge, Knight turned to industry, Time and continual reflection finally allowed him to find solace in a job as president of Questar .Qprp., a manufacturer of highprecision lenses that are used in medicine and astronomy, In his 1963 inaugural address, Knight imagined Duke’s future: “May men say of us in years to come that, every man according to his talent, we made it a place of wit, of wisdom, of high civilization and great service.” A poet throughout his life, Knight was an academic charged with leading the University as it became a battleground of cultural and political struggle. The racial turmoil on campus masked a behind-the-scenes power struggle between the Board of Trustees and The Duke Endowment, which largely supported the University. SEE KNIGHT ON PAGE 6
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Douglas Knight, who sat at the helm of the University amid great uproar in the 19605, left Duke primed for the top. He died Sunday at age 83.
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Douglas Knight was a man caught in the tumult of an explosive era. As the University’s fifth president, Knight weathered the turbulent years of the a politically charged 1960 campus in transition, leaving behind a legacy marred by controversy and criticism. Following his death Sunday, however, critics and friends alike painted a picture of Knight as a devoted educator, academic and poet who, though unequipped to single-handedly steer Duke through a period of upheaval, translated his love for the institution into steps on the Univer-
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Criticisms aside, others recall Knight as a poet who tried his hardest, a cigar smoker who invited anyone over, a president who left the world with a "measure of peace."
sity’s path to greatness. Praising his work as a scholar and administrator at Lawrence College prior to coming to Duke, William Griffith ’5O, an assistant to the provost during Knight’s tenure, recalled thinking Knight was an ideal choice for president when he was hired in 1963. “He represented, at least in my mind, in the ’6os and ’7os the type ofperson that was great for a university,” Griffith said. But Griffith added that Knight became president of Duke at a time when, amid burgeoning social and political movements, “it was a graveyard for presidents.” Bridget Booher, administrative coordinator for the Sanford Insti-
tute of Public Policy and a friend of Knight’s, said the currents of the decade that permeated Duke’s campus ultimately shaped Knight’s career at the University. “His presidency really marked a turning point in Duke’s history and the history of this country,” Booher said. “The questioning of leadership at that time waspart of what the younger generation, or at least certain factions of the younger generation, were doing, and he was the president ofDuke University, so of course he was
questioned.”
Mark Pinsky, Trinity ’7O and a former student of Knight’s, was SEE REMEMBERED ON PAGE 7
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smoking —at his Malibu home. Carson often had a cigarette in hand in the early years of ‘Tonight,” eventually dropping the on-air habit when smoking to
LOS ANGELES—Johnny Carson, the quick-witted Tonight Show” host who became a nadonal insdtution putting his viewers to bed for 30 years with a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter and heartland charm, died Sunday. He was 79. Carson died early Sunday morning, according to his nephew, Jeff Sotzing. “He was surrounded by his family, whose loss will be immeasurable,” Sotzing told The Associated Press. He did not provide further details, but NBC said Carson died ofeemphysemaa—a respiratory disease that can be attributed
TV became frowned on. But he remained a heavy smoker for some years afterward, said a former associate who spoke on condition of anonymity. The boyish-looking Nebraska nadve with the disarming grin, who survived every attempt to topple him from his late-night talk show throne, was a star who managed never to distance himself from his audience. His wealth, the adoradon of his guests particularly the many young comics whose careers he launched—the wry tales of mul—
tiple divorces: Carson's air of modesty made it all serve to enhance his bedtime intimacy with viewers. President Bush described Carson as “a steady and reassuring presence in homes across America for three decades. His wit and insight made Americans laugh and think and had a profound influence on American life and entertainment.” “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” was the booming announcement from sidekick Ed McMahon that ushered Carson out to the stage. Then the formula: the topical monologue, the guests, the broadly played skits such as SEE CARSON ON PAGE 12
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KIEV, Ukraine Before a vast crowd of supporters celebrating with a burst of orange balloons, doves and chants, newly Viktor President inaugurated Yushchenko promised Sunday to steer a new course for Ukraine—away from corruption and political cronyism and into the European Union. “Ukraine will stand against all evil,” Yushchenko told the crowd on Kiev's Independence Square, where weeks earlier demonstrators cried out that he'd been robbed of the presidency by fraud in a
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For students who are still waffling bea couple of courses, chances are they won’t be getting much help from course evaluations. Student government officials are working to change that. Last fall, after lobbying by Engineering Student Government, the Pratt School of Engineering introduced machine-readable course evaluation forms. For the first time, the new system will allow data from engineering courses to appear on ACES Web, with professors’ permission. “This is something that ESG has had on the agenda for years and years and years,” said lan Shakil, Pratt’s junior class president. Engineering undergraduates should be able to view some evaluations in time for registration for Fall 2005, said Tod Laursen, Pratt’s senior associate dean for education. “Something needed to be done to make this information more accessible,” Laursen said. Shakil said he was pleased to see results from his many meetings with deans, but he added that ESG’s work is not yet finished. Under the opt-in policy that goes into effect this semester, students can only see the evaluations of professors who actively choose to make this data available. “We want more than opt-in. We want opt-out,” Shakil said. In Trinity, which introduced an opt-in system a few years ago, about 87 percent of professors do not respond to the email they receive each semester that asks if they would like their evaluations to appear online. As a result, just 9 percent of professors’ evaluations are on ACES. Efforts to increase that number hit a snag Dec. 9 when the Arts and Sciences tween
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Freshman Margaret McSpadden takes a ride out Saturday night with Asan Kafi, Duke's famed party chauffeur and taxi businessman.
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He has all the trappings of a bona fide Duke pimp. He has a car, for one, and there is almost always a scantily-clad blonde warming the backseat. His cell phone contains the numbers of just about every party queen on campus. And like a few of those other widely-worshiped demigods—Redick or Williams, to name a few—he’s known by his surname-tumed-moniker. ‘They call me Kafi.” A wide Cheshire-cat smile, a throaty chuckle, a cursory glance into the rearview mirror. “Is it okay if we go pick some people up?” he said Saturday night And so his routine goes. An esteemed cab driver, Asan Kafi is something of a grassroots phenomenon. The perks of pimphood aside, Kafi’s easy-going schlepping masks a serious and utter devotion to efficient business. “I won the lottery,” he said, wheeling his
vehicle around the Science Drive traffic circle. ‘The green-card lottery. I was able to come here from Saudi Arabia; originally I come from the Sudan.” He paused briefly to answer his cell phone, his ring a bouncy rap-funk. “Waaassssup? Hiii Nikki—where you at?!” If one thing keeps his clients coming back, he’ll say, it is friendliness—greeting them by name is de rigueur. “I have friends, you know. They tell their friends, and it spreads by word-of-mouth. I don’t
advertise, really.”
In the process of crafting a 24-karat reputation, Kafi has earned quite a devoted fanbase. Case in point: two girls clambered into the back of the van, gift-laden. “I made you a card,” said Jenny Key, a junior, handing over a Sharpie-and-paper creation with “i love kafi xoxo” emblazoned across it in bubbly letters. “I’ll bring SEE TAXI ON PAGE 5
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The University’s second-annual Career Week kicked off Sunday with a sketch comedy performance about career research by Duke University Improv. But for the 1,700 students and more than 200 alumni scheduled to pardcipate in this year’s event, dusting off their resumes and firming up their handshakes are no joke. “It’s like hiring your own personal career coach without having to pay them,” said Sheila Curran, the Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Career Center and Career Week co-director. Events ranging from panels to mentoring dinners, including a capstone event Saturday with a series of workshops led by alumni and focusing on more than 30 fields, make up the week-long program. Panels include such seminars as how to “leverage your Duke experience” or the intricacies of filing taxes in a session titled “Book Bag to Briefcase.” The goal, Curran said, is to help students network and to give them a background in everything from graduate school admissions to working for the government. “We are here to help [students] make smart decisions by getting to know people who pursued paths that interest them,” she explained. Part of that task also includes helping students find which careers appeal to them. Curran noted that many liberal arts students come to Duke with little or no idea about what they want to do in the future.
“The idea is to figure out what the students actually want,” she said. “[Career Week] will bring back so many alumni that it will be very efficient in helping students figure out what they want to do.” That advice was one aspect of the week that appealed to junior Petagaye English. “Career Week can help me with my premed path and in making better decisions for the future,” she said. Among the changes, students will find more free amenities at this year’s events. The personal touches run from complimentary Starbucks coffee in the Bryan Center on Saturday to business cards students can use when networking with potential employers. ‘This will be much more efficient than going up to people and asking them to write your name and contact information down somewhere,” Curran said. One of the most popular events is a seniors-only wine tasting and etiquette dinner Thursday. At the event—the only part of Career Week that requires an admission fee—students will learn how to act properly at a professional dinner. ‘The wine tasting advertises the best part of Career Week, and I wish I could go,” said senior Josh Alien-Dicker, who said he will not be able to attend that night. While most of the week’s events require pre-registration to attend, a career and summer opportunities fair Friday in the Bryan Center will be open for all to try their hand at landing a killer job for the SEE CAREER ON PAGE 9
Artist Andy Friedman entertains at the refurbished East Campus Coffehouse Sunday night.
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The East Campus Coffeehouse no longer lies dark and silent. Now denoted
“smoke-free” but otherwise little worse for the wear, the traditional hang-out spot for alternative culture at Duke made a solid reentrance to campus party life with a lively night of drinks and good music Thursday. At the beginning of last semester, the Coffeehouse closed for renovations after a controversial management switch. Traditionally run by an independent staff of students loosely associated with SHARE,
Duke’s first non-greek selective living group, the Coffeehouse suddenly became a Duke University Union subcommittee. Complaints quickly arose that the University was trying to make the venue more mainstream and squelch Duke’s embatded alternative culture. Thursday night, however, the animosity and divisiveness seemed to drown in the funky beats of Man Man, Mike Uva and Uncle Jemima. “I don’t think a lot of the changes are going to be that big and I feel like a lot of SEE COFFEEHOUSE ON PAGE 9
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Council voted against shifting to an optout policy, under which the evaluations of professors who do not respond would have appeared on ACES automatically. Members of Duke Student Government’s Academic Affairs Committee were disappointed in the faculty response. Senior Chase Johnson, DSG’s vice president of academic affairs, questioned the fairness of withholding information concerning class quality from students who pay high tuition fees to enroll in their courses. ‘What other situation could you name when you’re spending $40,000 to do something, and you don’t know about the person who’s doing it?” Johnson asked. Student government members first ap-
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you chocolate next time,” she said. It was all grins and laughs from the driver’s seat; this type of friendship is not unusual between him and his clients. “I only call Kafi,” Key said. “We have the nicest conversations, and he always remembers my name. Probably because I’m saved as ‘Jenny’ in his phone,” she said teasingly. Kafi flashed a knowing smile. It is hardly surprising that a vast majority of his clientele is female. Safeßides are not always dependable, he explained, and described his rates are “the most reasonable in the Triangle area. You can’t beat us.” Still, he is almost never without a bevy of beauties. “The girls, well, they trust me. And I know them by name.” Pleasantries are certainly plentiful for such an endeared figure. But his success has certainly not come easily; his Sudanese
proached George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College, with their concerns. Potential solutions they aired included promoting the independent, unofficial website ratemyprofessors.com. Although Johnson said he was pleased with McLendon’s openness to his suggestions, Academic Affairs Committee members were concerned that Thompson seemed to have depicted their proposals as somewhat adversarial. Still, they were happy that the administrators had brought the issue to the attention of the faculty. “We got it on the table, at least for a while,” said junior Chris Chin, a senator on the committee. As a result of the reconsideration, the Arts and Sciences Council accepted a resolution to improve the system by which professors allow evaluations to
appear on ACES, despite faculty’s rejection of an opt-out policy. Thompson, who championed the measures in the council, said he was frustrated that faculty had voted down the policy change. He explained that students would have benefitted from greater access to evaluations and expressed his sympathy for their concerns. Tve really appreciated their patience and their working with me,” Thompson said of DSC. “I know it’s got to be as frustrating to them as it is to me.” Student government members consider professors’ opposition to putting evaluations on ACES ill-founded. “[Students] even rate the hard teachers fairly. They really do,” Shakil said. Both DSC and ESC members are eager to see whether the number of evaluations
online will increase without further changes in policy. “If we see very good results, then obviously there’s no need to fight,” Chin said. He was optimistic that more education of faculty members would increase the amount ofinformation online. Johnson echoed Chin’s desire to increase interaction with faculty about the issue. “We do need to communicate to the faculty more about this,” he said. Shakil suggested that if too few professors let students see their evaluations, ESC would be prepared to either create its own website for rating professors or point students to an independent evaluations database. ‘We are more than willing, if they don’t budge,” Shakil said. “It’s our money. It’s our education.”
homeland is now in war-ravaged factions. “Nowadays, things are getting a lot better—we have the peace agreement now. Colin Powell was there, you know.” The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” filled the pauses in his testimony. “But I don’t think I will go back. Only to visit.” And as for the throes of blue-collar America, Kafi has seen his share of the unsavory. Hot and heavy backseat trysts? Yep. The drunken, the disorderly and the violent? Of course. Those ill from over-consumption? “It happens,” he said. “Especially in the fall. What is that party where they drink all day—Piketoberfest? We keep extra bags in the car for that one.” But it is onward and upward for the married father of three and resident of Durham proper. He owns a small fleet of cabs—some of which are driven by other Sudanese immigrants and friends—but also works in a larger cab network. He will roll down the driver’s side window at a
stop, greeting his co-workers in cabbie slanguage. “’Sup, bruh?” His legendary status on campus seems to have translated into lofty workplace standing. And yet, even without the requisite flurry of advertising, the end of Kafi’s popularity is nowhere in sight. Graduates returning to the area still count on Kafi; upperclassmen and older siblings spread the word to incoming freshmen. Margaret MeSpadden, herself a freshman, is already a fawning fan. “Kafi loves Paul Simon. And, he took me to the airport for free once—because he’s a friend.” Once a friend of McSpadden’s lost her cell phone battery, so Kafi lent her his battery until she could replace it. “She used the battery for four days or so. He’s just so sweet,” McSpadden said. “You remember that story?” Kafi called from the front. King of the queens and jack of his trade. “What can I say?” he said, head cocked at an angle. “I’m lucky.”
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KNIGHT from page 1 Knight became caught at the epicenter of the simultaneous struggle to elevate Duke from a regional gem into the upper echelon of .American universities. Driven by an acute sense of the University’s future needs, he laid the groundwork for Duke to extricate itself from the financial control of The Duke Endowment wr hile taking the first steps toward addressing the unrest that characterized the social reforms of the ’6os. “He did all the right things in terms of building programs,” said Dr. William Anlyan, who served as chancellor of the Medical Center during Knight’s tenure. “Buildings come third to recruitment and retention of faculty and students, and he went about it in the right way.” Many of the projects Knight undertook echo in the values of the University today. He began Duke’s first major fundraising campaign—the Fifth Decade Program and more than tripled the annual rate of donations to the University. When Ernest Brummer’s widow offered the University much of her husband’s collection of medieval art, Knight created the Duke University Art Museum to house it. Several members of the Board ofTrustees resisted what they saw as a frivolous expense, but Knight was adamant about the important role art plays in education. Concerned with the social role of universities, Knight encouraged faculty to be more involved in society’s problems, and he reserved apartments near Duke Hospital for low-income housing. On an academic front, he expanded the curricula of many of the professional schools and and pioneered several interdisciplinary programs. He founded the business school. Ultimately, though, Knight is remem—
bered for the controversy surrounding the racial struggles during his tenure. He stepped into Duke’s presidency just as racial tensions exploded to the surface here. With a mixture of timidity and empathy, he met with students who staged a vigil at his house in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The students carried 11 demands, including the creation of a black dormitory and a full department ofAfrican-American studies. When Knight invited 250 students into his home and spent the night negotiating with them, the community and many on the Board of Trustees criticized his “permissiveness.” The tension on campus escalated sharply, with students holding vigils and demonstrating for greater social awareness and racial equality. Thoughtful and proper, Knight considered universities asylums of civility and critical discourse, and the unrest that characterized academia in the ’6os upset him profoundly. He respected students’ demands but was deterred by their methods. His health broke down, and he grew tired of living his life in fear of what might come next. “He was very sensitive to trying to please everybody, and those were very tough times,” Anlyan said. “He could not rest at night if he had not tried to please everybody he saw.” In February 1969, a group of black students took over a wing of the Allen Building, reiterating many of their demands from the earlier vigil. Knight called in local police to help quell the students and Durham residents who had encircled the building. His reaction drew criticism from some alumni and trustees. With the Board ready to fire him, the unrest on campus became too much for Knight and he gracefully offered his resignation.
“It was a very damaging time for him, and it hurt him terribly. And when he left I just can’t say how really torn up he was, and many of us also were,” said former Duke trustee Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, Woman’s College ’3B. “But the marvelous thing about Doug Knight was his ability for forgive.” Bom June 8, 1921 in Cambridge, Mass.,' Knight’s father died when he was five years old. Under his mother’s care, he moved several times a year, attending 13 different elementary schools and skipping several grades. At 14, he enrolled in Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating a year later. Knight earned an A.B. from Yale University in 1942 and went on to earn his M.A. and eventually his Ph.D. in English. He taught 18th century literature at Yale for six years before he was approached in 1953 to become president of Lawrence College, now Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wise. There he was credited with increasing the geographic diversity of the student body and revamping the curriculum. While at Lawrence, Knight demonstrated a blend of aptitude and ambition that appealed to Duke as it strove to elevate its own reputation. After leaving Duke, Knight recoiled from academia. He became vice president ofeducational development for RCA Corp. and in 1971 president of RCA Iran. In 1976, he became president of Questar. Throughout his career, Knight was perhaps best known as a teacher, continuing as a professor throughout his administrations at Lawrence and Duke. Even working at Questar, he found away to teach courses in the great books through his affiliation with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. An avid writer, Knight published more than 10 books, including a memoir and an account of his time at Duke. He used his
Former President Douglas Knight returns to campus to see President Richard Brodhead inaugurated.
writing as away to work out much of the conflict in his life. His son Christopher said it took his father 15 years to move beyond his tumultuous tenure at Duke and he was “happiest at the helm of a boat or a tractor.” Not until former President Nan Keohane reached out to Knight did he return to the University that affected him so deeply. Keohane named the president’s house Knight House in his honor. Knight needed the affirmation to feel comfortable at Duke again, said William Griffith, a close friend who served as dean of student affairs. “I think at that time he realized that some of the things that he had done here were so important,” Griffith said. ‘We were together about four weeks ago, and he had a really great love for Duke.” Knight is survived by his wife of 60 years, Grace Nichols, four sons—Christopher, Douglas Jr., Thomas and Stephen—eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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REMEMBERED from page 1 one of those students who questioned the president’s decisions. Pinsky, whose column in The Chronicle, “The Readable Radical,” regularly criticized Knight’s administration for its handling of the fomenting campus, said student activists took issue with Knight’s responses to their demands. “He didn’t move as quickly or as forcefully or as decisively on a number of issues as we would have wanted him to, particularly civil rights and racial justice,” Pinsky said. “He never felt sure enough of his place in the South as a Northeasterner to maybe act on his better instincts.” Criticisms aside, however, Pinsky said Knight was a “charming person” who was “more at home teaching English and the classics than he was as president.” He said
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. While the Northeast region experienced a snowy blizzard Saturday night, JJ. Redick heated up the Deep South in one of the most impressive shooting exhibitions in recent ACC history. Redick hit a career-high eight three-pointers on DUKE c 88 his wa to a sea31 FSU 56 son-high points in a dominating 88-56 win for the men’s basketball team (15-0, 5-0 in the ACC) over Florida State (10-9, 2-4). Relentlessly heckled in the game’s opening moments, the 6-foot-4 junior did not score until the 13:05 mark before gradually deflating the Seminoles’ frenzied screams into mumbled complaints. By halftime Redick had 19 points and five three-pointers to his credit. “He’s the most phenomenal shooter I’ve ever seen,” a disappointed Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said. “It’s almost automatic.” Duke’s defensive effort was equally effective in the first half. Conceding Florida State’s height advantage, the Blue Devils focused on their perimeter defense in hopes of keeping passes from the post. The strategy worked to near perfection, as the Seminole guards were forced out of their comfort zones and the post players struggled to receive the ball in scoring positions. Duke shot 56.7 percent from the field in the first half while Florida State connected on only 30 percent of its field goal attempts. With 6:11 remaining in the first half, Daniel Ewing executed the game plan by stealing an Alexander Johnson pass and then skying for a two-handed slam dunk to give Duke a 31-14 lead. “I thought the defense was the difference in the game,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We felt the best way to help Shelden [Williams] —because Johnson is really good in the post —[was] to exert even more pressure on top. If you’re fighting that pressure, sometimes you don’t see a guy open if he is open inside.” Offensively, Redick scored the Blue Devils’ last six points of the first half on two three-pointers that proved especially debilitating for Florida State’s morale. With 2:08 remaining in the half, Redick began to attempt a long-distance jumper with Andrew Wilson directly in his face. Just barely avoiding a traveling violation, the co-captain discontinued his shot, took a dribble to gather himself and nailed a trifecta. Then, as the first halfneared its conclusion, Redick again juked Wilson with a head-fake, took a dribble and nailed a three-pointer as the buzzer rang, giving the *
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After taking the first three points of the match Sunday, the women’s tennis team only needed one more. That was all the Blue Devils would get. Eighth-ranked Duke (1-0) eked out a 43 victory over No. 3 TENN. 18 Tennessee (0at Sheffield In2) 4 DUKE door Tennis Center in its first match of the indoor season. Any of the four Blue Devils who were still on court could have provided the final point, but with three players down a set and trailing in the second, the team’s fate lay on the racquet ofKatie Blaszak. Blaszak took the first set of her match 76 and jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second but allowed Tennessee’s Bryce Marable to work her way back into the match. “I lost my concentration for a little while,” Blaszak said. Marable capitalized on Blaszak’s lack of focus with her big serve, coming to within a game of Blaszak at 54. With the Duke senior serving for the match, Marable forced the game to deuce before Blaszak won the next point and then hammered a serve out wide on match point. Marable barely got to the serve, and Blaszak crushed the short return cross-court for a backhand winner and the team victory.
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Less than two minutes into the meet Friday, Duke let Davidson know that it was going to be a long night for the Wildcats at TaishofF Aquatic Center. In front of a home crowd for the first time during the spring semester, the Blue Devils began the night with one-two performances in the medley relay on both the men’s and women’s sides. “If you set the tone at the beginning, its easier to keep it up,” said sophomore Kevin Arthofer, who swam the second leg of the medley relay for the first-place team. The Duke men (3-5) and the Duke women (3-5) never relinquished their leads after the opening races. They dominated Davidson for the remainder of the meet, touching the wall first in 23 of the 26 events. The men won 135-70 and the women’s prevailed 119-95. The meet came between a pair of tough matchups last weekend and a meet against ACC leader Maryland Friday. Assistant Coach Lauren Hancock said Davidson was weaker competition and this was a meet her team should have won. “We knew we had more depth than their team,” Arthofer said. Juniors Cooper Moore and Andy Storm took first and second place in the 1,000yard freestyle, and senior Teddy Heifers and juniorBilly Pearce followed with a similar one-two punch in the 200-yard free. Freshman Matt Rinehart then swam to a first-place finish in the 400-yard IM in a time of 4:13.88, and fellow freshman Ryan
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Sophomore Jacob McCafferty swims the backstroke during Duke's easy victory over Davidson Friday night. Packer captured a win of his own in the 50-
yard freestyle. Divers Tim Hyer, who qualified for the NCAA Zone Diving Championships at the Patriot Invitational in November, and Pattie Frost owned the boards with victories in both the one-meter and three-meter events. In the women’s races, the trio ofKatie Ness, Julia Lewis and Jackie Rodriguez combined for six individual event wins amid a slew ofBlue Devil victories.
Although senior David Peck said Friday’s race against in-state competitor Davidson was not one of the team’s more important meets, he also noted that the shortened meet gave people a chance to try new events. The Blue Devils will not have the luxury of trying new events when they meet Maryland Friday for Senior Night in Durham. “The men have a better shot, but we don’t expect to win,” Hancock said.
While the majority of the Duke track and field team sat idle in the Durham cold this weekend, the men’s and women’s pole vaulters escaped to sunny Reno, Nev., for the annual Pole Vault Summit. Jonathan Fay and lan Cassidy’s performances highlighted the weekend as each set personal bests by clearing a height of 15-7. Fay’s vault was good enough to earn him a first place finish in his section. The mark was still two inches short of the IC4A Championships qualifying height. ‘Jon [Fay] has jumped his best indoors now in his first two meets,” assistant coach Ryan Dali said. “I think this weekend we’ll have a good shot at getting that IC4A qualifier, that’s what we’ll be shooting for.” Lara Jones was the top women’s performer, clearing 12-0 to set her personal best indoors. “I think everyone improved over the last week,” Dali said. ‘That’s what we want to see right now is improvement each week.”
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VA TECH 70 -GA TECH 69 GeorgiaTech's Isma'il Muhammad missed free throws with 5.5 seconds left and the Yellow Jackets (11-5) missed two putback attempts as Virginia Tech (10-6) survived the frantic final seconds for a 70-69 upset Saturday. In addition to winning their first road conference game, the Hokies took their first victory at a ranked team's home floor since Jan. 23,1982. Georgia Tech's BJ. Elder, the team's sectwo
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fender flying, and the junior nailed a wideopen three as the buzzer sounded. Redick gave a pleasant wave and flashed a giant grin in the general direction of the student section. “That was between me and them,” Redick said of the exchange. He later clarified his relationship with the raucous Florida State crowd that had been hounding him from the opening tip. “I love that,” Redick said. “At times I want to go up and... confront some people with some of the stuff they say, but hey, that’s college basketball.” The buzzer-beater took away what enthusiasm was left in the building, and the disheartened Seminoles would never come close to chiseling away the Duke lead. Twenty minutes in, the game was already over. Redick’s three-pointer also ended an outstanding half for him. He went five-forsix from behind the arc in the opening stanza and scored 19 points. The play was not an extraordinary individual effort. The shot was uncontested an attempt that Redick, or any other consistent three-point shooter, should make. The execution necessary to create the open look, however, was flawless and exemplary of the offensive prowess the Blue Devils displayed all night. “I think Duke did a very good job of executing their game plan,” Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said. “Especially early in the first half, they came out and just dribble-drove us time and time again and broke our defense down.” Duke was simply too fast for the Seminoles Saturday, and the speed difference manifested itself on both ends. The Blue Devils prevented Florida State from driving into the interior. Freshman Isaiah Swann, who finished the game with a team-high 13 points, was the only Seminole who could beat Duke off the dribble. Florida State was forced to take long, contested shots, especially early in the game. The home team was never able to convert the tough looks and proceeded to shoot 33.3 percent from the floor. On the other end of the floor, Redick and the Blue Devils ran circles around the Seminoles. Some of Redick’s three-pointers came in extraordinary fashion—deep, quick shots that only he would make. Most of his first-half trifectas, however, came off of standard plays—-high post and baseline screens that are Duke’s bread and butter. “I got open looks, and I got open looks early that got me going,” Redick said. “I really felt like the last 10 minutes of the first half I got in a rhythm, and when I get in a rhythm it feels like anything can go in.” Andrew Wilson, Redick’s primary victim in this contest, said Duke’s offensive game plan was no surprise. “I think for the most part we knew what they were trying to accomplish,” Wilson said. ‘We couldn’t take it away from them. “I really had a good feel for where he was going to be on the court, what screens —
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JJ. Redick (top) hit eight three pointers, just one shy of the school recordJhe junior scored 31 points on the night, including key threes to close out the first half. DeMarcus Nelson drives aroundhis FSU defender. he’s coining off of, and to be honest I just couldn’t stop him. He completely outplayed me,” Wilson added. How did the JJ. who scored only five points at Florida State a year ago net 31 Saturday night? This year Redick is much more mobile, is much more capable of shaking his defender away from the ball,
and, most importantly, now has the ability to beat his man off the dribble. “The biggest difference in him this year and in the past is his ability to put it on the floor,” Wilson said. ‘You have to respect that this year. We felt we had him scouted pretty well coming into the game, but he was pretty much unstoppable tonight.”
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FLORIDA STATE from page 1 Blue Devils a 44-26 halftime lead. Redick waved to the crowd as he exited to the locker room. “He hit some big-time threes from far out. That’s demoralizing when a team’s trying to come back,” Krzyzewski said. “Even that play at the end of the half... we had some plays that would knock back any team. We’re just fortunate we had a number of them on offense.” The first-half defensive effort carried over into the second, as Duke neutralized the three starsof the Seminoles’ recent upset over No. 3 Wake Forest throughout the game. Von Wafer, A1 Thorton and Todd Galloway each scored at least 17 fewer points than they did in Florida State’s win over the Demon Deacons. Following the outside shooting barrage of the first half, Duke maintained its offensive efficiency by mixing up its shot selection. After attempting just two shots in the openhalf, Will’ 'd/ theßl Devils’ as been “He’s
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sis, shooting 5-for-5 from the field. “I’m learning how to manage myself better,” Randolph said. “I can’t wait another two weeks to a month to get it all back. There are going to be times when I’m sucking wind, but I have to be able to do things well.” Krzyzewski also said he was pleased with the “unsung hero” performances ofSaturday’s game, as Sean Dockery finished with eight points, four assists and two steals, and freshman DeMarcus Nelson scored six points and played aggressive defense. ‘We played really well tonight,” Krzyzewski said. ‘That’s the best we’ve played in two halves.”
NOTES: Duke remains one of three unbeaten teams in the nation this season.... Redick hit a career-high eight three-pointers.... Randolph scored in double digits for the first time since returning.... Ewing now has 1,339 career points, placing him 30th on Duke’s all-time points list... The Blue Devils have held all of their opponents to sub-.500 shooting percentage from the field this season.... Duke is the only undefeated team in ACC conference play.... Duke’s 15-0 start is the best since 1991-92, when the Blue Devils began the season 17-0.... Redick now has 250 career three-pointers and moved to fourth on Duke’s all-time list.
Before the Florida State game, did you step up and say you wanted to guard Von Wafer? No, we don't really have hose conversations. Being a good defender like I am, most of the times I'm going to be on the other :eam's best player. It was pretty much a given.
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What's the toughest part about playing on the road? For us it's making sure we play together out there. That's been the key for us these last two games, we've been really together out there. We've played as one and we follow our game plan. We took the crowd of it early in both games.
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North Carolina entered this season thinking it would take control of the ACC after five years of Duke dominance. The Blue Devils lost five key players, while the Tar Heels added post presence to a team returning all of its starters. And Alana Beard was gone—finally. With an early-season loss, the Blue Devils sat eight positions behind the No. 2 Tar Heels three weeks into the season, and North Carolina was confident it finally had a chance to beat Duke. But since then, the Blue Devils reeled off 16-straight victories and UNC has sunk to ninth in the ACC. In the first meeting between Duke and North Carolina since Beard departed for the WNBA, the Tar Heels look to beat their biggest rival for the first time since Beard arrived in Durham. Top-ranked Duke (18-1, 3-0 in the ACC) will travel to the Dean Smith Center to take on the sliding No. 9 Tar Heels (14-3, 1-2). “You can throw the rankings out the window,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It’s just two of the best teams in the country squaring off against one another.” The Blue Devils will be forced to deal with one of the best pressure defenses in the country. Goestenkors has been using six
Sophomore Ivory Latta scored 25 points against the Blue Devils during a regularseason matchup last year. members of the male practice squad this week in an effort to simulate the pressure and physicality of the UNC defense. “They are a really aggressive team,” point guard Wanisha Smith said. “They are going to get out there on defense and harass the ball.” Last year’s UNC team lacked an inside presence, but freshman Erlana Larkins is now in the rotation. Duke has bolstered its front court as well, and this year’s game will not be decided solely on the outside. “We always had to worry about
their perimeter players, and now it just makes it much more difficult because they’ve got such a great post presence as well,” Goestenkors said. With just eight players, the Blue Devils will enter what has traditionally been a physical game with a limited bench. Although it may seem like the lack of depth could be a problem, the team has not faltered since losing Caitlin Howe to injury. Fatigue has not proven to be a problem as Goestenkors has quickly rotated her players during the game. Since losing at Notre Dame, Duke has not faced a team that pushes other squads around like North Carolina. “We definitely know it’s going to be a physical game,” Monique Currie said. ‘They play pressure defense, they have physical players on their team.” The emergence of Smith has been key to Duke’s success, and her defensive prowess will be put to its toughest test tonight. With an impressive performance against Virginia’s three-point specialist Brenna McGuire—holding her to one point Jan. 14—thefreshman will guard the quick slasher Ivory Latta. Latta, one of the nation’s top guards, is averaging 15.6 points per game and is shooting an imSEE UNC ON PAGE 7
one of the most intimidating shot-blocking forces in women’s college basketball. Bales’ defensive potential was never in doubt. At 6-foot-7, she always has had the ability to block and alter shots around the basket. This season, however, Bales has rounded out her arsenal, strengthening many other parts of her game. “I told Alison Bales at the end of last year that I thought, if she would dedicate herself, she’d be the most improved player in the Gail ACC,” head coach Goestenkors said. “She’s probably exceeded my expectations.” In her sophomore campaign, Bales has significantly improved her defense, blocking more than three times as many shots per game. She redirects more shots than just the four she blocks each game. “Not only does she blocks shots,” Georgia Tech head coach MaChelle Joseph said after Duke’s win Jan. 17. “She alters six or seven shots—because ofher size, a game. And if she doesn’t get credit for the block she should.” One of the most important factors for post defenders is avoiding foul trouble, and Bales has excelled at that area this season. She is averaging just two
fouls per contest and has yet to foul out of a game, an impressive feat for the nation’s thirdleading shot-blocker. Bales’ newfound athleticism has improved her game on the offensive side as well. Last season, Bales was a liability on the offensive end of the court, ffequendy struggling to make it up and down the floor with her teammates. As a result, she played less than 10 minutes per game, averaging four points and three rebounds and just one block per game. “Strength is a big part of the college game,” Bales said. “It’s important when you’re a post player, especially, because you have to be so physical.” Now, the stronger, slimmer Bales is an offensive threat, averaging 8.6 points and shooting 51 percent from the field. “She’s really dedicated herself in the off-season,” Joseph said. “Now she’s in shape and she can keep pace with them. In the past she couldn’t.” A new asset to Bales’ game this season is her ability to sink mid-range shots. Frequendy this season, the Blue Devils have used Bales in the high post with forward Mistie Williams in the low post. When Bales can step out and hit a jumper, the defense must adjust, giving Williams space to operate inside. “I think a huge thing for me, Coach Gis always telling me, is offensive aggressiveness,” Bales said. “I seem to be more comfortable going face-up to the basket, instead ofplaying with my back to the basket like most post players tend to do, so [Goestenkors] had me do some different moves.”
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Sophomore Alison Bales has improved her conditioning and now averages four blocks per game after deflecting justone per game during her freshman season.
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Cargill won herfirst set 6-3, but stumbled the beginning of the second as she dropped the opening two games before building a 4-2 lead. Schaub leveled the score at 5-5, but Cargill’s ability to win big points proved to be too much. Serving for the match, Cargill sliced an ace out wide that
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Duke's post depth with Bales, Williams, Currie and Chante Black will prove too much for freshman Larkins. The Blue Devils will also be able to spread the UNC defense by kicking the ball out to Smith and Foley on the perimeter. Foley has been heating up as of late and has scored 20 points or more in two of the last three games.
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Monique Currie has not lost to North Carolina in her four-year career at Duke.
Bales has emerged as one of the best defensive players in the league. The junior is averaging 4.1 blocks per game and keeps most opponents from driving to the hoop. This will be a major problem for UNC since the team relies heavily on Larkins for scoring in the paint. A key matchup will be between explosive point guard Latta and Duke's freshman Smith.
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Even with the recent skid, UNC enters this game hungrier than ever. With Alana Beard finally gone, UNC desperately needs a win at home over its biggest rival. The 21,750-seat Dean Dome will be packed with Tar Heel fans and could be the sixth man UNC finally needs to topple the Blue Devils. Three of Duke's eight are freshmen who have never competed in Chapel Hill
Despite a large crowd clad in powder blue, Duke's inside talent, combined with Foley's hot three-point shooting, will prove too much for UNC's fast-paced defense. Blue Devils win, 74-69. compiled by Patrick Byrnes
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ended Schaub’s run. “A lot of [big points] fell on my service games, and I know that I can win those,” Cargill said. After those two victories, the match got tense for the Blue Devils. Both No. 3 Zika and No. 4 Zawacki dropped the opening sets of their matches. Amidst cries of “Oh my God,” Blue Devil No. 1 Jackie Carleton also lost the first set of her match 6-3 as she struggled with unforced errors. “I haven’t missed this many shots in my entire life,” she screamed to herself. Her woes continued in the second set as Tennessee’s Maharaj kept the ball in play, letting Carleton continue to make errors. “I basically beat myself today,” she said. Zika then lost the second set of her match 6-3, bringing Tennessee to within a point of the Blue Devils. Blaszak finally clinched the match a few minutes later, and Zawacki lost her second set after the team result had already been determined. Head coach Jamie Ashworth was pleased with the result, considering Sunday’s match was the team’s first since early November. “Anydme you beat a team in the top 20 is good,” he said. “Hopefully, we can use this match and the Indiana match next week to prepare us for the National Team Indoors.”
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COFFEEHOUSE from page 4 them are going to be for the better,” said senior Ben Leshin, who noted that the Coffeehouse was a favorite hangout during his freshman year. “The atmosphere is really the same. We’ve got some new couches, some new floors, some things that just really needed to be fixed, but I just don’t think it’s going to change the feel.” Senior Andy Kay, the new manager of the Coffeehouse and head of the Union committee, said changing the feel of the Coffeehouse was never the University’s intent. ‘There was a lack of direction with what [the Union] wanted to do with the Coffeehouse. They weren’t being clear enough about it, so a lot ofpeople didn’tknow what the Union was going to do. The people that had been running it righdy felt that the Coffeehouse had been taken away from them,” he explained. Yet many of the members of the old staff have been incorporated in the new management, and such controversial suggestions as painting over the murals
CAREER from page 4 summer or full-time In between Saturday’s panels on everything from entertainment to business, President Richard Brodhead will introduce keynote speaker Alison Levine, Fuqua ’OO, at a networking lunch. Levine, after multiple heart surgeries, has climbed the highest peaks on each of six continents
never got beyond talk. The committee even matched paint for the new trim to one of the murals, a silent promise that ifthey ever are painted over, it will be by Coffeehouse patrons with a vision, not as part of a University-inspired cultural white-washing. The Coffeehouse certainly seems to be keeping up tradition in its event lineup for the spring. In addition to the thriving local music scene to which the venue has long played host, drawing in patrons from throughout the community, generous Union budgeting has allowed the Coffeehouse to book more ambitiously, pulling in such popular Indie bands as The Butchies (Feb. 4) and The Wrens (Feb. 12) from their nadonal tours. “I actually know people who are coming in from out-of-town because of the bands who are playing [at the Coffeehouse],” senior Macy Parker said. But much more is happening at the Coffeehouse than music. Weekday hours at the Coffeehouse will run from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. on weekends, providing yet another campus study spot. Senior Erica Mutchler will continue
feels welcome—old patrons and new alike. Before enacting changes at the Coffeehouse, he spoke with a group of seniors who had long frequented the venue. “They felt that the Coffeehouse wasn’t inviting to a lot of people, and I think that it’s still possible to stay an alternative environment, but there are a lot of people that had been looking for that on campus that were turned off by the lack of openness in previous years,” he said. Though some have complained about the changes that have been made, such as the bathroom walls that were painted over due to a miscommunication with the administration, Kay continues to smooth things over. He’s encouraged every band to begin anew the tradition of graffiti on the bathroom stalls. “Magic markers can do wonders,” he said.
Natalia Zuckerman, a talented guitarist, singing an enchanting tune.
and was team captain of the American Women’s Everest Expedition. Her journeys include skiing more than 100 miles across the Arctic Circle to reach the North Pole. The opportunity to make connections was a strong factor for students in their decision to participate at Career Week. “I’m interested in consulting and I want to know more about what it’s like to work in an industry,” junior Vinh Nguyen said. Such excitement for the week—large
numbers of students have already registered for various events—has meant that some students registering late found themselves wait-listed for panels or otherwise unable to attend them. An e-mail sent Sunday to the juniors encouraging them to sign up for events resulted in a number of last-minute registrations. “Only one of the activities that I was interested in was available,” junior Keith Lam said.
For students attending the events, Curran offered up some tips and strategies, such as looking at the biographies of the panelists and e-mailing them beforehand. This kind of networking, Curran said, has helped others in the past land their dream jobs. “This way you would build immediate connections and the alumni love that,” she said. ‘The vast majority of jobs are obtained through networking, so try to build up as many connections as you can.”
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An open letter to the Duke Community and The Chronicle Staff: Last week the Panhellenic Association and the Interfratemity Council placed an advertisement in The Chronicle outlining our new policy on off-campus and unaffiliated groups. This step was taken because we felt it was the most effective way of accurately conveying the amendment and reasoning behind it to the greater community. I now feel it necessary to clarify the misinformation and misconceptions that are apparent in The Chronicle's January 18th article and the January 19th staff editorial concerning the amendment. To begin, the article and comments of students seem to indicate that the amendment was either the work of the “Duke and Greek administration” or the Interfratemity Council alone. However, the amendment was conceived, drafted and passed entirely by students with members of the IFC and Panhel participating at every stage. The amendment passed with every affiliated group voting. Both Panhel and the IFC overwhelmingly voted the amendment into force, with Panhellenic chapters unanimously agreeing to its passage. Chapter presidents and delegates had ample time to discuss the amendment with their chapters and national headquarters, and so the passing of the amendment reflects the decision of Greek students- not ‘the administration.’
Additionally, members of two off-campus groups seem to indicate that little will change and that they will, “continue to mix with sororities as they have in the past.” Any Panhellenic group, or IFC fraternity for that matter, that chooses to sponsor such activities will face swift action by the Greek Judicial Board and such actions will not continue. While national policies on this issue have previously existed, the Greek community decided that it was necessary to have local consequences for these actions and actively enforce them at Duke rather than relying solely on national organizations to know everything that happens on campus.
Up to this point, The Chronicle's coverage of this issue has been extremely irresponsible and one-sided in its editing and reporting. We have been informed that members of off-campus groups serving as staff members of The Chronicle have been involved in the editing of the relevant articles, and quoted students have included those closely connected and associated with members of off-campus organizations. The Chronicle has barely made an attempt to contact persons involved with the passage of the amendment that are not in some way tied to these off-campus groups, nor have they made an attempt to thoroughly understand the issue and responsibly report on the actions of the IFC and Panhel to the greater community. On the one hand, Greek Councils are constantly pressed to live by what we claim to stand for and yet when we do, The Chronicle has belittled the process and inaccurately conveyed the decisions made. We do not assume that all we do is perfect; however, good journalism requires that investigations are based in facts, rather than opinions, and that they be well rounded rather than one-sided. Hearsay and rumors do not constitute truth nor are they the basis of responsible reporting.
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CARSON from page 2 “Carnac the Magnificent.” But America never tired of him; Carson went out on top when he retired in May 1992. Actress-singer Bette Midler, who memorably serenaded Carson on his nextto-last show with “One More For My Baby,” recalled him warmly Sunday. “I was his last guest, and it was one of the most moving experiences of my life. He had it all. A little bit of devil, a whole lot of angel, wit, charm, good looks, superb timing and great, great class,” Midler said in a statement. His generosity to up-and-coming comics who got their big break on “Tonight” was lauded by Bill Cosby and others. ‘Johnny was responsible for the beginning and the rise of success for more per-
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formers than anyone. I doubt if those to his three decades with NBC's ‘The numbers will ever be surpassed,” Cosby Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” said in a statement. Carson chose to let Tonight” stand as McMahon said Sunday that Carson was his career zenith and his finale, withdraw“like a brother to me.” ing into a quiet retirement that suited his “Our 34 years of working together, plus private nature and refusing involvement in the 12 years since then, created a friendother show business projects. ship which was professional, family-like In 1993, he explained his absence from and one of respect and great admiration,” the limelight. McMahon said in a statement. “When we “I have an ego like anybody else,” Carended our run on ‘The Tonight Show’ and son told The Washington Post, “but I don’t my professional life continued, whenever a need to be stoked by going before the pubbig career decision needed to be made, I lic all the time.” Carson spent his retirement years sailalways got the OK from ‘The Boss.’” Carson’s personal life could not match ing, traveling and socializing with a few the perfection of his career. Carson was close friends including media mogul Barry married four times, divorced three. In Diller and NBC executive Bob Wright. He 1991, one of his three sons, 39-year-old simply refused to be wooed back on stage. Ricky, was killed in a car accident. “I just let the work speak for itself,” he Nearly all of Carson’s professional life told Esquire magazine in 2002. was spent in television, from his postwar Carson did find an outlet for his creativstart at Nebraska stations in the late 1940 s ity; He would send a joke occasionally to
YUSHCHENKO during the swearing in at a solemn ceremony in the Verkhovna Rada parliament. After Yushchenko took the oath—placing his hand on a copy of the constitution and on an antique Bible—some deputies cheered and chanted his name, but others stood stonily, not applauding. Even in Independence Square, where many chanted and rejoiced, some expressed fear that Yushchenko may face difficulties in fulfilling his electoral promises. “Yushchenko has yet to score his main victory in the east of Ukraine,” said Andriy Koloto, a 29-year-old teacher who came to Kiev from the mostly Russian-speaking east where Yanukovych received the most support. Supporters of Yanukovych, who was backed by the Kremlin, grouped together on the square to wave whiteand-blue flags, the candidate's campaign colors. They chanted “Shame! Shame!” as Yushchenko spoke. Yushchenko insisted that Ukraine’s place “is in the
European Union. My goal is Ukraine in a united Europe. Our road into the future is the road on which a united Europe is headed.” The 25-nation bloc has made clear that membership for Ukraine is not yet on the agenda, saying the country should instead settle for closer ties. “We will create new jobs. Whoever wants to work will have the opportunity to work and get an appropriate salary,” Yushchenko promised. ‘We will fight corruption in Ukraine. Taxes will be enforced, business will be transparent, ...we will become an honest nation.” In a promise clearly aimed at appeasing the country's large native-Russian-speaking population, who widely distrust him, Yushchenko said, “Everyone can teach his children the language of his forefathers.” Monday, he plans to make his first foreign trip as president to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader had shown clear support for Yanukovych, who was seen as likely to bring Ukraine closer into Russia's sphere of influence.
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Yanukovych, who last week vowed to revitalize opposition to Yushchenko, had raised a series of legal challenges to the December vote rerun but his appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court. Still, he said he intended to take his complaints to the European Court of Human Rights, a move that could be an unwelcome shadow on Yushchenko’s intentions to push for closer relations with the EU and NATO. Secretary of State Colin Powell and NATO SecretaryGeneral Jaap de Hoop Scheffer were among the many dignitaries, including representatives of more than 40 countries, who came to the inauguration. Later Sunday, Ukraine’s presidential web site posted a photo ofYushchenko on its home page, showing an image of him before the mysterious dioxin poisoning in September that left his face badly scarred and took him off the campaign trail for weeks. Yushchenko concluded the day with an inaugural ball at the Ukraine House center, where he formally opened an exhibit dedicated to the Orange Revolution.
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A poet, not a politician was characterized by a sense of uncertainty, he remained a warm and was a consummate scholar giving naan who was merely at the and poet. He led us through the right place at the wrong time. He 19605, when campuses nationwide still taught regularly and invited students into his home, were erupting in if i StatlGClltOrial and he strove to sepdemonstrations. arate his work as an Knight’s legacy will administrator from his work as a be marred because his 1968 resignateacher. He was a pleasure of a poet, tion came just six weeks after a student takeover of the Allen Building through and through, but unfortuerupted when state police arrived nately Duke needed a politician at the time. with tear gas, and he was often critiWhen he was caught between a cized for not acting quickly or decisively enough. He was a University rock and a hard place —between the president at a time when it seemed Board ofTrustees and the student acacademic administrators could do tivists—Knight fashioned himself as a liaison between the two groups, even nothing right. But Knight will be remembered as when it made him unpopular with a generous man who loved Duke, both. He stood up to the Trustees and even though he left on less than tried to bring the office of the Presipleasant terms. During his tenure dent more strength, laying the founKnight laid the foundations for much dations for his successor, Terry Sanof the modern University: he ford, to take the University to the launched Duke’s first major capital next level. Knight recognized the importance campaign, founded Duke’s first art of the arts even though many within museum and helped pull the University out from under the thumb ofThe the University community thought his purchase of Duke’s first art collecDuke Endowment. Although he left Durham in part tion frivolous. He recognized the imbecause the presidency had taken a portance of listening to students and toll on his personal health and his finding funding sources for the Unifamily’s sense of safety and well-being, versity other than The Duke EndowKnight found away to forgive Duke ment; He weathered a number of and remained connected until the storms, and he knew when it was time end of his life. Former President Nan to step aside. Knight taught Duke how to think Keohane extended the olive branch like a major research University, alto Knight and brought him back into the fold, and he went on to serve on though his successor was the one to actually take us there. We will reseveral University committees, includmember him for his gentility, genthe museum committee that has ing erosity and genuine love for the Unibeen responsible for the developversity, even when it did not reflect ment of the Nasher Museum. Although Knight’s presidency that love back.
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TOMMY SEABASS gets lucky Frustrated with his inability to get through SEABASS watches a great deal of cable news, and he is therefore very fato the Duke administration, TOMMY miliar with the pending case of Debra SEABASS decided to take his case direcdy to LaFave, the 24-year-old Tampa, Fla., junior the people. Having no experience with issue high teacher and model who has admitted to advocacy, TOMMY SEABASS decided to seek someone more experienced at making passleeping with a 14-year-old student. School sionate pleas for frivolous causes. He knew that his applicaKnowing Veterinary tions could use some more activities, TOMMY exactly where to look. After parking his moped at Papa John’s, SEABASS decided to start a new club: The TOMMYSEABASS walked towards his destinaDuke Society for the Appreciation of the Fourteen-Year Old who Nailed his Smokin’ Hot tion, digging for $5 and polishing his fake ID. Married Teacher “Howdy,” said a stout, watered-down Natural (TDSFTAOTFYLite-reeking 42-year-old with a cowboy hat. OWNHSHMT). TOMMYSEABASS decided to first take his ‘'Welcome to Shooters.” TOMMY SEABASS walked into the saloon idea to Dean Sue, a rather fitting choice seeing and headed straight towards the dance floor, that she too is an educator who resisting a strong temptation has been the subject of many stuto retake the high score of dent fantasies. A bit nervous, Buckhunter from Robert SEABASS walked into TOMMY Keohane, who last spring Dean Sue’s dimly lit office, only to had bested him by two shots be greeted with unpleasant news: before but Dean Sue isn’t bolting to California. “I’m sorry, available at the moment. I’m sure Just as he was about to step onto the vomit enyou could catch her later today at floor, crusted dance the gym. You could stop by Wiltommy seabass TOMMY SEABASS gazed son at 3:00, 5:45, 7:10 or 9:05.” monday, monday over the crowd and instantSure TOMMY enough, ly identified the one he with Dean SEABASS caught up Sue at the gym later that day. ‘Make it quick,” sought; a scantily-clad young woman gyrating she said. “I had two rice cakes for lunch, so I’m on top of a table to the latest Lil’ Jon jointmaking this workout a double.”She apologized strobe lights gleaming off her hair. TOMMY for having been unavailable earlier, saying she SEABASS found himself mesmerized as her had been driving President Brodhead to a denepileptic dancing style sent waves rippling down her slighdy protruding gut. tist appointment. Having had several face-to“Excuse me ma’am, I was wondering if...” face interactions with Duke’s new President, TOMMY SEABASS was highly suspicious of this started TOMMY SEABASS, immediately wishalibi and accused Dean Sue of having something ing he had stopped for some “liquid courage” on the way over. to hide. At this, Dean Sue became indignant, “Hey baby!” the advocate squealed, climbturned the Stairmaster up two levels and refused ing down from the table, grabbing TOMMY to speak to TOMMYSEABASS any further. SEABASS by the hand, and leading him toward Still upbeat, he decided to arrange a meeting with the Duke President himself, both to a cab outside. TOMMYSEABASS attempted to explain his corroborate Dean Sue’s alibi and make the troubles with starting TDSFTAOTFYi case for TDSFTAOTFYOWNHSHMT. TOMMY SEABASS called ahead and OWNHSHMT, but the activist seemed oblivious to his words, instead explaining to him why thought he was making progress, but he realized after several minutes that the seemingly slutty sorority girls epitomize female subjugation while slutty independents such as herself familiar voice on the other end was not President Brodhead’s, but instead that of the epitomize female liberation. TOMMY famed Hanna-Barbara cartoon character SEABASS’s head hurt. Upon arriving at her off-campus love shack, Snagglepuss. TOMMY SEABASS realized that the advocate TOMMY SEABASS was able to find Brodhead later in the day, but only by interrupting was far more interested in “expressing her liba meeting between the president and a group eration” with him than she was in promoting the goals ofTDSFTAOTFYOWNHSHMT via a of Duke students convinced they could end Sudanese genocide without ever leaving campus. campus paper. TOMMYSEABASS decided that Brodhead complimented the students for their the cause could indeed wait. efforts, but then chastised them for impinging TOMMY SEABASS hopes that Chronicle columon the academic freedom of the Sudanese. He nistEric Whats-His-Namefinds this column satisfacthen delivered a one-liner about how many Sudanese it takes to screw in a light bulb and tory. If not, that no-talent a** clown can go %s*! headed off to his $1.7 million home. himself
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Minimum wage argument flawed I’ve always wanted to hear a solid argument for raising the minimum wage. After reading Amelia Herbert’s Jan. 21 column, I’m still waiting. The idea that simply giving minimum wage workers more money will help anything is on par with the idea that the United States could solve its deficit problem by simply printing more money. Let’s assume for the moment another increase in the minimum wage, by $1.50 for the sake of argument. This would only increase the salary of a minimum wage worker to $13,832 per year. This means that paying three workers would cost the same as paying four at the old rate. So three out offour workers are still under the poverty line, and the fourth is collecting an unemployment check to go along with all the rest of his government assistance. To bring the salary up to $25,000 per year would require a minimum wage of $12.1 don’t need to explain the countless problems such an increase would create, but I can sum them
up with one word: outsourcing. For the most part, however, minimum wage jobs are not even held by the poor. Census data indicate that of the 1.6 million minimum wage earners, more than half are under 23 years old. Those over 23 manage an average family income of $38,100 per year. About 80 percent ofminimum wage earners are not the primary income earners in their family. And if all that weren’t enough, two-thirds of minimum wage workers receive raises within the first year, at an average of 14 percent. In other words, the jobs are not dead ends. What does this all mean? No viable increase in minimum wage would bring anybody out of poverty, and most of the money would go into the pockets of kids, as opposed to the povertystricken, anyway. The moral of the story: blindly throwing money at a problem doesn’t solve it, even if the problem is poverty. Grant Degler Trinity ’O6
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