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Women roll to ACC final with Carolina by

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GREENSBORO Smarting from a regular season-ending loss to North Carolina, the Blue Devils MARYLAND entered DUKE 74 the ACC Tournament in an unfamiliar position. Despite having won 15 consecutive tournament games and having never lost in the Greensboro Coliseum, second-seeded Duke

Monique Currie and Wanisha Smith celebrate as Duke cruises past Wake Forest.

ing up at UNC for the time since 1997. But after a recordsetting first two rounds, Duke’s women will come face-to-face with their arch nemeses in tonight’s final. The No. 6 Blue Devils hit an all-time tournament scoring high Saturday and blew past Wake Forest, 107-50. Then Sunday, Duke did it with defense, holding No. 25 Maryland to just 11 points in the first half—another tournament record —en route to a commanding 74-44 victory. “I think our defense set the tone for the game,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Our defense in particular in the first half was some of the best defense we’ve played all year.” That might have been the understatement of a season blemished by a sweep at the hands of the Tar Heels. At one point Sunday, Duke held Maryland without a field goal for more than 13 minutes. The Blue Devils used superior size inside—three of Duke’s eight players are taller than Maryland

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attempt to gain access to admissions decisions from the country’s top business schools Wednesday, including the Fuqua School of Business. But while some applicants at other schools were successful in viewdecision information, ing Fuqua’s separate database and firewall systems thwarted such access at Duke. The hacker, using the pseudonym “brookbond,” posted hacking instructions on an online forum at Business Week’s website early Wednesday. The post, which told applicants how to access confidential admissions de-

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cisions weeks ahead of schedule, affected several dozen business schools, including Fuqua and those at Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Dartmouth College. All of the affected schools use ApplyYourself, a Fairfax, Va.-based company that specializes in online admissions application systems. “When it was decided to use Apply Yourself, Duke decided that [admissions decisions] would be kept separate from the ApplyYourself website,” said Chris Cramer, information technology security officer. “All of the information is kept locally SEE HACKING ON PAGE 5

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Shelden Williams struggled to keep UNC forward Sean May, who scored 26 points and grabbed 24 rebounds, out of the paint.

UNC RALLIES IN FRENZIED FINISH by

Mike Van Pelt

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CHAPEL HILL When Duke inbounded the ball clinging to a two-point lead with 36.8 seconds DUKE 73 left Sunday, North UNC Carolina head coach Roy Williams had already instructed his players to foul. They didn’t have to. Daniel Ewing broke the Tar Heel press, but he lost control of the ball near center court, letting loose a chaotic scrum that North Carolina emerged from with the ball. Rather than having the chance to run out the clock, the Blue Devils, who had witnessed a nine-point lead vanish in just three minutes, were back on their heels, desperately trying to hold off North Carolina. After being fouled on the next play, UNC point guard Raymond Felton sank his first free throw, but then his game-

JJ. Redick scored 17 in the first half but was silenced after thebreak.

tying attempt ricocheted off the back iron. Another frenzied battle for the ball left it in the hands of Tar Heel freshman Marvin Williams, who banked in

the putback and was fouled, sending UNC back to the line to complete a four-point possession. JJ. Redick’s final three raided in and out and a Ewing jumper fell short, sending the Dean Dome into pandemonium as North Carolina (26-3, 14-2 in the ACC) celebrated its first outright ACC regular season championship in 12 years with a 75-73 win. “Somebody told me one time that every game somebody gives in,” Williams said. “But I don’t think either of these teams gave in today. I asked my team to not bring anything back to the locker room, and those last three minutes I promised them we would have a chance.” The Blue Devils (22-5, 11-5) led 73-64 with 3:07 remaining, but the Tar Heels closed the game on an 11-0 run, during which Ewing turned the ball over twice. ‘You’ve got to have the mentality to bear down,” junior Lee MelSEE UNC ON SW PAGE 6

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Hezbollah mobilizes support in Syria by

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The militant BEIRUT, Lebanon group Hezbollah, largely on the fence since anti-Syrian protests erupted in Lebanon last month, switched gears Sunday and threw its weight behind Syria and its allies—calling for massive rallies in Beirut to show loyalty to Damascus. The move by Hezbollah’s powerful and politically savvy leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, could prove crucial: The Iranianfounded, anti-Israeli Shiite Muslim group, which the United States calls a terrorist organization, has emerged as a key player during Lebanon’s latest slide into political

instability—capable of tilting the balance either in favor of the pro-Syrian government or the anti-Syrian opposition. Although Hezbollah is backed in part by Syria, the opposition had been court-

ing the militia’s support in its efforts to oust Syrian troops. Opposition leaders had said Hezbollah would not be forced to disarm if Syria leaves—while also warning that if the group tilted toward Syria, it would lose support from many of the Lebanese people. But as the Syrian army is being driven out of Lebanon under international pressure led by the United States, the 23-year-old Hezbollah movement, whose name means

The Party of God, is clearly feeling the heat, believing it could be the next target. Among other things, its existence as a military force could be at stake after the dizzying changes in recent weeks, which culminated Saturday with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s announcement of a twostep withdrawal of his 14,000 troops after nearly 30 years in Lebanon. A Lebanese official said Sunday that Syrian troops will start moving toward eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border in a pullback that will take two or three days. The withdrawal will begin right SEE SYRIA ON PAGE 6

Italian contests U.S. account in Iraq by Angela Doland THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME Left-wing journalist Giuliana Sgrena claimed American soldiers gave no warning before they opened fire and

said Sunday she could not rule out that U.S. forces intentionally shot at the car carrying her to the Baghdad airport, wounding her and killing the Italian agent who had just won her freedom after a month in captivity. An Italian Cabinet member urged Sgrena, who writes for a communist newspaper that routinely opposes U.S. policy in Iraq, to be cautious in her accounts and

said the shooting would not affect Italy’s support for the Bush administration. Sgrena’s editor at the daily II Manifesto, Gabriele Polo, said Italian officials told him that about 300 rounds were fired at the car. Italian military officials said two other intelligence agents were wounded in the shooting; U.S. officials said only one other agent was hurt. Sgrena said she believed it is possible that she was targeted because the United States objected to methods used to secure her release. “The fact that the Americans don’t want negotiations to free the hostages is

known,” the 56-year-old journalist told Sky TG24 television by telephone, her voice hoarse and shaky. “The fact that they do everything to prevent the adoption of this practice to save the lives of people held hostage, everybody knows that. So I don’t see why I should rule out that I could have been the target.” Sgrena said she knew nothing about a ransom payment, and no details have emerged about how authorities won her release. An Italian Cabinet minister said money likely changed hands. SEE

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newsinbrief Parties debate retirement age A leading Republican senator is proposing to raise the Social Security retirement age from 67 to 68, while Democrats maintain their opposition to the president's plan to overhaul the retirement program with private investment accounts.

Peace plans discussed in Israel Jordan’s foreign minister met Israeli leaders Sunday in the first such visit in more than four years, signifying renewed diplomatic efforts to resolve long-standing regional

conflicts involving Israel, the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.

Managment changes rumored Sony is considering changes to its top executive ranks Monday, amid growing fears about the Japanese manufacturer's ability to improve results at its faltering core electronics business. Sony officials refused to comment on media reports of changes in its chair position.

50 Cent cuts ties with protege Another day, another feud for 50 Cent This time, he's beefing with his own protege, best-selling rapper The Game. In a radio interview on Hot 97 Monday, 50 announced that he was kicking The Game out of G-Unit for disloyalty to the group. News briefs compiled from wire reports "Tomorrow is another day." —Scarlett O'Hara

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Freshman Jenny Shull did what most people would do when black liquid started pouring down from the sprinkler in her Blackwell dorm room Thursday night. “I just started screaming,” she said. “I didn’t know what it was, and a million things went through my head.” The sprinkler head in Blackwell Dormitory’s room 206 broke when Shull’s roommate put a hanger on it, causing it to spew a flame-retardant liquid that was a combination of sulphur and water, Shull said. After 40 minutes the torrent subsided, leaving Blackwell residents with the unpleasant task of cleaning up inches of standing water and the resulting damage. Because the flooding was relatively shallow, most of the damage was restricted to things that had been on the floor, like books and clothing. Residence Life and Housing Services provided residents with free laundry services Friday to help them clean up and ensure that mold would not grow. Blackwell Graduate Assistant Sarah Andrews said as of Sunday night, the dorm was declared “almost 100 percent dry.” Residence Coordinator Clay Adams sent an e-mail to Blackwell residents urging them to “take pictures, log detailed notes, and hold onto any items that you may wish to claim against a parent’s homeowners insurance policy.” Although Duke holds insurance for the building itself, residents said they were not aware of a policy covering their personal possessions. This is the third time a dorm has flooded in recent years —Keohane Quadrangle in 2002 and Randolph Dormitory the year before. After the previous incidents, students complained that the University was not responsive enough and did not cover all of the damages. Dorm residents worked for three hours Thursday night to clear the standing water from dorm rooms and hallways into bathroom drains or down stairwells and out the building’s side exits. “The RAs and residents who helped to clean the standing water saved a huge

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drews said. “By the time the cleanup crews got here, there was almost no standing water anymore. They just had to dry out the carpets.” The University contracted AfterDisaster, a company that specializes in flood and fire cleanup, to deal with the aftermath of the flooding. The company arrived at Blackwell about two hours after the sprinkler broke and proceeded to install industrial-sized fans and dehumidifiers in the affected hallways and dorm rooms. In total, about a dozen rooms on the second floor and about seven rooms on the first floor were flooded. For the past few days, residents in those rooms have slept in other rooms on campus or in commons rooms. “There’s a lot of damage in my room. It got everything in the closets drenched with sulphur and water,” Shull said. “I still can’t get on my laptop because my power cords were underwater. All my hair appliances and cords and things

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like that don’t work.” When the sprinkler broke, fire alarms throughout the dorm sounded and Blackwell residents evacuated the building. They waited outside for 45 minutes while the Duke University Police Department and the Durham Fire Department responded to the flooding. “There’s a fire safety issue with turning off the sprinklers,” Andrews said. ‘You can’t turn off that one sprinkler, you have to turn off the entire system.” After the emergency crews determined that there was no threat of a real fire, they shut off the water flow to the building. When students were finally allowed to return to the dorm, the hallway with the broken sprinkler and the first-floor hallway direcdy beneath it were submerged in a few inches of water. “I was walking through Blackwell when they allowed us to go back in, and everything was dry. Suddenly we turned the corner and our hallway was completely flooded,” second-floor resident Joy Basu said.

A man who has been banned from the University campus and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because of harassment allegations has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for resisting arrest at Duke. Jurors in Durham County Superior Court deliberated only a short time before convicting 65-year-old Samuel William Ferebee 111. The case was on appeal from a lower court. The charge arose from an April 19, 2002, incident in which Duke officers attempted to question Ferebee. Duke security officer Joshua Strausser testified that Ferebee fled the campus and disappeared into some woods when officers tried to stop him. Other officers apprehended him a short time later. “He had had some questionable confrontations with female students on campus,” Strausser said ofFerebee. “He generally made females uncomfortable. He would ask questions that were inappropriate. He started doing inappropriate things... like coming up against them, rubbing their shoulders.” In addition, Ferebee occasionally asked young women for their telephone numbers and addresses, Strausser testified. If the women said no, “he would become aggressive,” the officer added. “He would tell them he had ways to get that number.” This is not the first time that Ferebee had been charged with resisting arrest. He was convicted in 1997 of resisting arrest in Craven County. He has also been previously charged with being a peeping tom, stalking, assault on a female, breaking-and-entering, attempted first-degree rape and assault with a deadly weapon.

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Science dean adds pep to Duke band’s tide “When he first showed up I didn’tknow quite what to expect,” said sophomore Like most research professors at Brian Hanson, a fellow trombone player. “Now, he’s just one of the guys—he says Duke, Stephen Nowicki is deeply involved in his work. things more befitting of a student than a Nowicki leads a group of biologists in dean. The little kid in him comes out every studying how animal communication is a time we have a basketball game.” model for understanding behavior. The The dean of natural sciences undernoted professor is also putting the finishstands the importance of forming exing touches on his book, The Evolution of tracurricular bonds with students. “As you Animal Communication. He was appointed move up —although I really think the addean of natural sciences a year ago and is ministration here is great—there is a fear in charge of overseeing the activities of of getting stuffy,” he said. “Being in the eight natural science departments. Adding band is a good counterweight for that. I to that resume, Nowicki can also be found never wore a tie more than this year, but heckling opposing players as a member of I’ve never rolled on a hardwood floor so the “wild” trombone section of the Duke much before this year either.” His fellow bandmates see Nowicki as an University Marching Band. asset to the group, but Nowicki is willing to Browsing the sea of blue-and-whitestriped rugby shirts, Nowicki would be accept the fact that student band members nearly impossible to spot among the should reap the benefits of attending tourloud, spunky pep band members—if it nament games before he does—although were not for the 49-year-old’s gray hair. he notes that he may play for the women’s He swings his trombone with pride and basketball team at the first few rounds of dives onto Cameron Indoor Stadium’s the NCAA Tournament, which will likely hardwood floor along with the rest of his be in Chapel Hill. bandmates to allow the Blue Devil mascot “I would be kidding myself if I said I wasto surf on top of him during long basketn’t sad, but I’m an adult—l can get over it,” ball timeouts when the band plays “Wipesaid Nowicki, who also explained that his out.” Linking academics with athletics, lab work and responsibilities as a dean Nowicki has bridged the student-profeswould prevent him from being able to travsor social gap. el very far during the week. “It’s not like I “Who wouldn’t want to?” Nowicki said can just get a dean’s excuse,” he joked. ofhis decision to join the band. “I used to Nowicki entered his career as a memplay in high school, I like Duke students ber of the Duke University Marching Band and Duke basketball. Why not?” expecting it to last no longer than a year. Nowicki, who claims to have spent his But he has found his experience over the college years at Tufts playing in a funk last season invaluable and is considering band, joined the Duke band in November returning for another stint. after receiving word that there would be an open spot. SEE NOWICKI ON PAGE 6 by

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HACKING from page 1 until it is time to release it. It’s very tightly monitored.” Because Duke keeps admissions decisions on a secure internal server separate from the Apply Yourself database, the one applicant who attempted to hack Fuqua’s system was unable to access any admissions decision information. The next round of admissions decisions is scheduled to be released March 24. Some schools—such as Harvard, which had more than 100 attempted applicant hacks —did not keep the application infer-

JOURNALIST from page 2 U.S. officials object to ransom payments or negotiation with kidnappers, claiming that only encourages further hostage-taking. The shooting has fueled anti-American sentiment in a country where people have deeply opposed the war in Iraq, but it did not provoke mass protests this weekend like those that have drawn tens of thousands of people into the streets. At least 10,000 people, however, lined up in the rain to pay their respects to Nicola Calipari, the agent who died trying to shield Sgrena from the American bullets. Draped in an Italian flag, his casket lay in state at Rome’s Vittoriano national monument. A state funeral was planned for Monday and Calipari has been awarded the gold medal of valor posthumously. Calipari was struck in the temple by a single round and died instantly, the ANSA news agency reported, quoting doctors who did an autopsy. White House counselor Dan Bartlett

mation and admissions information on two separate systems, and applicants were able to view available decisions. “We are backslapping with our IT people today,” Jim Gray, associate dean of marketing and communications at Fuqua, said Friday. “We’re congratulating them on that today.” While officials, both at Fuqua and other business schools, have remained mum on whether applicants who attempted to access the information would be ultimately rejected, all indicated that the move would raise a flag on their applications. “[This incident] won’t be positive,” Gray said. “His application has not been

finally acted on, but it’s clear that this incident will have a negative impact on his

application.” The name and e-mail address of the applicant who attempted to illegally access his Fuqua decision information has been turned over to the Office of Information Technology, Gray said. “I can’t really speak to the specifics of this case. However, it is important to note that because of the way we were using ApplyYourself with the secondary system, the student did not actually see the confidential information,” Cramer said. “Any grievance would be by the ApplyYourself company.”

ApplyYourself CEO Len Metheny told The Associated Press that applicants were only able to view their own personal admissions information. Some schools had not yet reached admissions decisions on the candidates, meaning they were unable to see if they had been admitted. Most business schools, including Fuqua, conduct admissions for their daytime MBA programs in multiple rounds. “There were only a small number of students who actually had a decision,” Metheny said. “For the vast majority of applicants, decisions were not available in the system to be displayed. A blank page would appear.”

said Sunday the shootings were a “horrific accident,” saying President George W. Bush called Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi to offer condolences and promise a full investigation. “As you know, in a situation where there is a live combat zone, particularly this road to the airport, has been a notorious area for car bombs, that people are making split-second decisions, and it’s critically important that we get the facts before we make judgments,” Bartlett said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” The U.S. military has said the car Sgrena was riding in was speeding and Americans used hand and arm signals, flashing white lights and warning shots to get it to stop at the roadblock. But in an interview with Italian La 7 TV, Sgrena said, “There was no bright light, no signal.” She also said the car was traveling at “regular speed.” The shooting was a setback for Berlusconi, who has kept 3,000 Italian troops in Iraq despite the public opposition at home, and both sides appeared to be mov-

ing swiftly to contain the damage Communications Minister Maurizio Gasparri urged Sgrena to be more careful about what she said. “I understand the emotion of these hours, but those who have been under stress in the past few weeks should pull themselves together and avoid saying nonsense,” ANSA quoted Gasparri as saying. Gasparri also said the shooting would not affect Italian support for efforts to secure postwar Iraq. “The military mission must carry on because it consolidates democracy and liberty in Iraq,” he said. Sgrena, who gave a series of interviews to Italian reporters from her hospital bed in Rome, revealed few details about the circumstances surrounding her release by the insurgents but said her captors blindfolded her and drove her some distance before turning her over to the Italians, who headed directly for the airport. Asked whether ransom was paid, Agriculture Minister Giovanni Alemanno said it was “very probable.” An Iraqi politician, Younadem Kana, said he had “nonofficial”

information that $1 million was paid, Italy’s Apcom news agency reported, although that could not be confirmed. “I remember only fire,” Sgrena wrote in II Manifesto. “At that point a rain of fire and bullets came at us, forever silencing the happy voices from a few minutes earlier.” She said the driver began shouting that they were Italian, then “Nicola Calipari dove on top of me to protect me and immediately, and I mean immediately, I felt his last breath as he died on me.” In an interview with RAI, Italian state television, Sgrena recounted her final moments before freedom: “When they let me go, it was a difficult moment for me because they told me, ‘The Americans don’t want you to return alive to Italy.’” Sgrena, who was abducted Feb. 4 by gunmen outside Baghdad University and later pleaded for her life in a videotape, returned to Rome Saturday. She said she had no intention of going back to Iraq. Her captors, she said, made it clear that “they do not want witnesses, and we are all perceived as possible spies.”

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“Aside from a lot of bruises, I’ve gained a great seat at all basketball games, good friends and I get to interact with Duke students in different ways than before,” he said. “It’s a unique way to get on the inside of that energy—it’s easy to be up above and see it on TV. It’s different to be in it.” Students and other basketball fans at Duke alike often look to the pep band to provide, well, pep during the games, and fellow bandmates said Nowicki is as much a source of the energy as anyone else.

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after a meeting in Damascus of the presidents of the two countries. Hezbollah had remained mostly neutral in the three weeks of anti-Syrian protests triggered by the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Although it has participated in meetings of the pro-Syrian camp and has the backing of Syria, the group had not taken active part in any campaigns. That changed Sunday. Nasrallah called for a massive peaceful demonstration Tuesday in central Beirut to show loyalty to Syria. The protest, he said, was to denounce international interference, show support for resistance movements and foil any attempts to make a peace deal with Israel. The protests also, despite his denials, are apparently designed to show Hezbollah’s political strength. Hezbollah is the best-armed group in Lebanon. It is widely admired both within Lebanon and across the Arab world for driving Israeli forces out of the country’s south. It also has the organizational capa-

“He does a better job than most students,” Hanson said. “It’s refreshing. You wish more professors would get involved with students like that—it’s great for the University. You realize that professors are

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“quite fond of Rock Lobster”—a crowd favorite at Cameron—refused to reveal whether he is as wild as some of the other Crazies in the band, but his joy for the energy and intensity of the game is apparent. “Let’s just say this,” the distinguished professor said, “I was once a college student, and I still am.”

bility and party discipline to mobilize massive street protests, drawing its strength from the Shiite Muslim community, Lebanon’s largest religious sect with 1.2 million people. Yet a Syrian retreat under U.S. pressure could make Hezbollah vulnerable. Both the 1989 Taif Accord ending Lebanon’s civil war and a recent U.N. Security Council resolution call for Syria’s withdrawal to be accompanied by disarmament of all militias within Lebanon. Hezbollah rejected the demands in the U.N. resolution, saying they were Israeli-inspired. The pro-Syrian Lebanese government backed them up, saying Hezbollah—which has thousands of fighters armed with rockets and mortars, maintains positions along the Lebanese-Israeli border and occasionally shoots at Israeli soldiers in a disputed area—does not count as a militia but rather as a resistance movement. Official status aside, Hezbollah’s military role could be “neutralized” without Syrian troops for backup, said Ahmad Moussalli, associate professor of political studies at the American University ofBeirut.

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UPSETTING TERRS The 12th-rankedBlue Devils pull ahead of No. 3 Maryland 10-8 Sunday in their first ACC match.

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Raymond Felton drains his first of two free throw attempts with 19 seconds left. Felton would miss thenext, but Duke failed to corrall the rebound. Then, Marvin Williams madethe game-winning three-point play.

Final 3 minutes reveal Duke's holes by

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CHAPEL HILL

Murphy’s

that can go wrong, will go wrong. Sunday, the law applied to college basketball. nine Up pom than three game

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and lost a game they should have won. Unfortunately, when people will look back on this instant classic everyone will remember the collapse. Nobody will recall the incredible basketball Duke played in Chapel Hill against one of the best and most athletic teams in the nation. But to chalk up this Duke loss to a few JJ. Redick threes that rimmed out or to several no-calls at the end is wrong, because the last three minutes of the game highlighted the Blue Devils’ biggest weaknesses. The Tar Heels’ offense was fueled the entire game by a combination'offurious effort on the offensive glass and Duke’s abysmal defensive rebounding. Sean May, a gifted 6-foot-8, soft-handed for-

ward, grabbed 12 offensive boards,

and UNC had 21 as a team. Duke had 22 defensive rebounds. After Felton’s second free throw hit the back rim with 19 seconds left, Patrick Johnson who had just entered the game to block out Marvin Williams failed to keep the athletic forward from corralling the ball. To top it off, Johnson added a touch foul to allow UNC to extend the lead to two points. Foul trouble exacerbated Duke’s woes on the boards, which were obvious even from the out—

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Randolph, who was actually energetic and effective for a stretch during the second half, fouled out with three minutes left after sitting much of the first half. Shelden Williams was also affected by foul trouble and often had to tone down his aggressiveness for fear of picking up fouls. If it wasn’t for some timely steals or blocked shots by Williams, the Tar Heels might have scored on every possession. But the biggest problem for the Blue Devils—and one which has no solution—is the absence

of a point guard. Daniel Ewing is not a point guard. He is a very good ball handler and is usually capable of bringing the ball down the court, despite coughing up the ball twice in the final three minutes. But Duke loses a lot because Sean Dockery is hurt. Ewing has to sacrifice energy fighting pressure advancing the ball and marking the fastest player on the opposite team. ‘You play with the hand that you have, and that’s the way we’ve done it all year long,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “More so

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Sean May powers through the lane for a three-point play, giving him 26 points for the game. 73-71 DUKE

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Jawad Williams' tipin stops a 2:43 UNC scoring drought and a 9-0 Duke run. 73-66 DUKE

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J.j. Redick misses a deep three, and Ewing's desperation jumper falls short.

than that, it has a cumulative effect on Ewing. Maybe a turnover or two is not so much the result of not having Sean down, but not giving Daniel a chance to rest up off the ball a little bit.” Despite all that went wrong throughout the game and during the final three minutes, it does not do the game justice to forget about all that went well for Duke. The team’s exceptional outside shooting gave the Blue Devils a chance at the upset. Redick in the first half was nearly automatic from long range, and Lee Melchionni took over in the second half, nailing five threes. Yes, Redick missed a good look from long range to win the game, and a wide open three from the corner with one minute left that would’ve put Duke up five, but everything was going wrong in the last three minutes. Duke also, for one of the first times this season, maximized Shelden Williams on offense. During the stretch when Duke was down six at the half to when it took a nine-point lead, Williams touched the ball on

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WRESTLING

Comely takes ACC title again

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GREENSBORO Frank Cornely proved once again that he knows how to be a champion. Just like last year, Comely entered the ACC Tournament as the No. 2 seed in his weight class, and once again he reached the final to face a wresder who had beaten him earlier in the season. Comely came out on top again, this dme defeating No. 1 seed Steve Borja from Virginia Tech 72 to claim the championship. “Having to do the same thing last year, that experience definitely gave me the confidence to go out and win,” Comely said. “It was one of my big goals of the season, and it was nice to get it

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Goalie Aaron Fenton made 16 saves, holding an explosive Maryland offense to eight goals as Duke won its ACC opener Saturday.

Duke comes back to upset Maryland by

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. Before his team took the field against third-ranked Maryland, Duke men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler told his players if they were going to win, it was going to be close. Pressler’s predictions played out. Although it looked like PUKE 10 t h e MARYLAND 8 N o

mean, we haven’t beaten these guys in two years.”

scored three times in the first quarter, and for a while, it looked it might be a blowout. But Pressler’s team began to take care of the ball and went into halftime down 5-4. “We had to settle down and make plays on defense,” Fenton said. “When we setded, we got our poise.” Down 6-4 in the third quar. 1 2 ter, Duke’s Matt Zash scored Blue Devils were going to be his second goal of the game overwhelmed at the start, they on a shot in front of the controlled much of the sec- crease. From that point, ond half, scoring five straight Duke’s slow, patient possesgoals on their way to a 10-8 win sions began to make the differover the Terrapins Saturday. ence. The Blue Devils scored five Duke (4-0, 1-0 in the ACC) remains perfect, getting a leg more times following Zash’s up on the four-team ACC, goal, which came after the while Maryland dropped its midfielder slipped underfirst conference game and fell neath his defender on a dodge to 1-1. coming from up top. Midfielder Kyle Dowd “It’s interesting, I told our guys, ‘Hold them to singles, evened the score at 6-6 with a we’ll get to doubles, and it’ll well-placed shot off the left work out,”’ Pressler said. “Not hip of Maryland goalie Harry that it always happens the Alford, who made eight saves. coach’s way, but that’s the way After a goal by midfielder it was today.” Fred Krom, freshman Zack Duke failed to pull out Greer gave Duke all the scorclose games against highering it would need. Greer was ranked teams last season—the in the right position to put in 2004 squad lost three games a rebound off of Maryland’s Alford and then beat Alford by just one goal, the differon a high shot just 42 seconds ence between a winning season and a losing one. later. Duke’s biggest moment of After making adjustments in the faceoff circle, Pressler the pivotal third quarter came said, Duke won 8-of-20. Faceon a man-down situation. offs were die team’s biggest Down two players, Duke’s deweakness in 2004, but the Blue fense did not give up a score Devils held their own Saturday. despite a deluge of Maryland “It’s hard to put into words shots, one of the day’s several right now,” said goalie Aaron SEE MEN’S LAX ON PAGE 8 Fenton, who made 16 saves. “I

Maryland

done at the end.” Duke had hoped to contend for the team tide, and three finalists gave it the firepower to do so. But only 165-pound Steve Smith was able to get through the consolation bracket to take third, and the Blue Devils finished fifth. Comely was the only Duke wrestler to advance to NCAAs. Comely was the aggressor from the opening whisde, and his efforts paid off with 37 seconds left in the first period. After Boija shot in and got a single leg, Comely hit a cutback and stayed on top to lead 2-0 after the first. He increased his advantage with an escape and a takedown in the

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Three Blue Devils reached the finals in their weight classes, but Duke placed fifth. second period, then cemented the victory with one more takedown in the third. “Frank finally wrestled at the level we knew he could all year,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “He has really turned it on at the end of the season, and I hope he continues to turn it on.” Mark Thompson at 197 pounds and heavyweight Venroy July both upset higher seeds to

reach the final in their respective weight classes, but both lost there in overtime. Thompson, the No. 3 seed, beat Virginia’s Scott Smith 4-1 in the opening round and then beat No. 2 seed Zach Garren of N.C. State 5-3 in the semifinals. Thompson met North Carolina’s David Dashiell in the final, and each wresder came close to earning a third-period takedown before the match went into overtime at 1-1. After one scoreless overtime period, Dashiell held Thompson down in the second and then scored a reversal in the third. Thompson earned an escape, but it was not enough, and Dashiell won 3-2. July, the defending conference champion at 197 pounds, had not won an ACC match all season and entered the tournament unseeded. July upset No. 2 seed Spencer Nadolsky of UNC 6-4 in overtime in the first round and then beat N.C. State’s Jainor Palma, the No. 3 seed, 4-2 in the semifinal. Facing nationally ranked Mike Faust of Virginia Tech in the final, July came out aggressively, but Faust quickly took control of the match. After a 1-1 score at the end of regulation, Faust scored a double-leg takeSEE WRESTLING ON PAGE 8 •% .

WOMEN'S GOLF

Duke drops 2nd straight by

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After a perfect fall season, the No. 1 Blue Devils have opened the spring with consecutive losses. The third-place finish at the Lady Gator Golf Invitational marks the first time since 2002 Duke has failed to win back-toback tournaments. “We play to win,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “But we are human beings, and we cannot win every time.” The Blue Devils trailed by 11 strokes heading into the final round of play Sunday at the University of Florida Golf Course. Led by Brittany Lang and Liz Janangelo, Duke carded a second-best 302 but failed to come close to Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons shot a 292 and won the tournament -by 19 strokes. “I don’t feel bad abouthow we played golf,” Brooks said. “Wake Forest just played really well, and I’m actually very happy to say that because recendy the ACC has been so weak.” Although some Blue Devils struggled, Lang and Janangelo both finished in the top 10 individually. Lang fired a two-over-par 72 Sunday to move out of a seventhplace tie with Janangelo and into fifth place. The sophomore played her most consistent round Sunday, carding four bo-

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Sophomore Brittany Lang carded rounds of 74,75 and 72 to earn her fourth top-five finish of the year. *

gies and a pair of birdies. Lang won last month’s Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge for her fourth individual crown since arriving at Duke and has now finished in the top five in four tournaments this year. Janangelo missed the last tournament and practice time be-

cause of pneumonia but showed no ill effects from the time off as she finished sixth. The reigning NCAA Player of the Year struggled in windy conditions Saturday, turning in a seven-over performance, but she SEE GOLF ON PAGE 8

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Grand slam carries Georgia Tech to sweep Leslie Cooper THE CHRONICLE

It was almost the stuff of baseball legends. In a bottom-of-the-ninth rally, Duke scored two runs off three hits. Unfortunately, the Blue Devils were in the middle of a rout by Georgia Tech and were losing 194 going into a -rcru r 10 GA.TECH 19 the inning. “We don’t duke have a clock,” head coach Bill Hillier said. ‘You’ve got to get 27 outs. Sometimes, you wish you could run the clock out.” The baseball team received a harsh welcome to conference play at Jack Coombs Field this weekend as No. 13 Georgia Tech swept Duke in its first ACC series of the season. In Sunday’s culminating matchup, the Yellow Jackets (11-2, 3-0 in the ACC) unleashed an offensive onslaught on the Blue Devils (6-11, 0-3), hammering Duke 19-3. Notching at least one hit in every inning, the Yellow Jackets pounded the Duke pitching staff for 23 total hits and four home runs on the day. “When an* offense gets hot, sometimes it is hard to stop that,” Hillier said. “Obviously we had trouble slowing them down.” Georgia Tech catcher Matt Wieters led his team with five hits and six RBIs for the game. The freshman went 12-for-14 on the weekend. “[Wieters] had a great series,” Hillier said. “The first five or six guys in their order just wore us out.” Wieters’ grand slam in the fourth contributed to an eight-run Ramblin’ Wreck rally. Designated hitter Michael Fisher opened the inning by knocking a homer to right field. After Blue Devil starter

Jim Perry pitcheD four innings in relief Sunday, giving up seven hitsand three runs against GeorgiaTech.

Danny Otero struck out the next batter, Tyler Greene reached base on an error by shortstop Adam Murray. Green went on to steal second, then score off a Jeremy Slayden single. After Otero hit the next batter, Tony Bajoczky replaced him on the mound, but

the sophomore reliever was unable to stop the bleeding. Yellow Jackets leftfielder Cameron Lane immediately singled off Bajoczky to load the bases for Wieters’ grand slam. First baseman Whit Robbins followed the base-clearing hit with a double, and

Mike Trapani singled to drive him across the plate. A Bajoczky wild pitch advanced Trapani to third, and the shortstop went on to score unearned the eighth and final Georgia Tech run of the inning. The disastrous frame showcased control problems the Duke pitching staff battled all weekend. In Sunday’s game, the Blue Devils threw five wild pitches and hit three Yellow Jacket batters. Duke pitchers also walked seven batters in Friday’s 11-3 loss and eight in Saturday’s 11-5 decision. “When you’re playing a good team, you can’t give that many free baserunners,” Hillier said. “That’s the biggest thing that we did.” Otero was charged with the loss in Sunday’s matchup, with sophomore David Torcise taking the loss Saturday and senior Greg Burke doing the same Friday. “Whenever you struggle with your control and you pitch behind the count, you turn .300 hitters into .400 hitters,” Hillier said. The Blue Devils also struggled to convert hits into runs, stranding 16 runners Friday, 11 Saturday and seven in Sunday’s game. “It just seemed like we couldn’t get a key hit,” Hillier said. Two individual Duke hitters performed well offensively. After breaking a 12-game hitting streak in Wednesday’s loss to Elon, infielder Brett Bardes had six hits in 10 at-bats over the weekend. The freshman is averaging .483 and slugging over .600 this season. Murray went 4-for-5 in Friday’s game, including an RBI. This weekend’s losses extend the Blue Devils’ losing streak against the Ramblin’ Wreck to 16 consecutive games. T told [the team], ‘Welcome to the ACC, guys,’” Hillier said. “There aren’t any easy weekends, that’s for sure.” “

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Blue Devils win 2 with explosive offense by

Galen Vaisman

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Behind the explosive scoring duo of Katie Chrest and Kristen Waagbo, the No. 4 Blue Devils (5-0) overpowered a pair of unranked opponents, defeating Richmond 18-7 and RICHMOND 7 William & Mary DUKE 18 17-8 in weekend action. Duke needed a W&M strong overall ef-17 fort before enterDUKE ing the heart of its schedule—and the attack answered the call. With a flurry of goals, the Blue Devils controlled the tempo of both games and prevented their feisty opposition from clawing back. “I think this weekend was a big weekend for us,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Both of these teams presented tough challenges for us, both from a mental and physical standpoint, and I thought we responded really well.” Chrest, a junior, served as the catalyst for much of Duke’s offensive success, scoring key goals early in both games to get the Blue Devils’ offense going in the right direction. Against William & Mary (0-2) Friday, Chrest tied the school’s single-game scoring record with a six-goal outburst, _

then followed it up Sunday with a threegoal performance against Richmond (0-2). In addition, Chrest tallied three assists and forced two turnovers over the weekend. “She’s unbelievable,” freshman Rachel Sanford said. “She’s probably the best player I’ve ever seen play. Her consistency really helps the team in every form. You’ll watch her do an unbelievable play and everybody gains energy off of that.” Although Chrest’s numbers topped the stat sheet, Waagbo’s play nearly matched her teammate’s efforts. The sophomore scored five goals against William & Mary and added another three against Richmond. Combined, the two players accounted for nearly 50 percent of Duke’s goals. “I think that the placers that we have attacking and scoring in the system are Just awesome,” Chrest said. “It’s been re-

ally helpful.”

Duke’s sheer number of offensive weapons was instrumental in Sunday’s win over Richmond, as the Spiders’ defense was ultimately overpowered by the Blue Devils’ attack. In addition to Chrest and Waagbo, Sanford and sophomore Leigh Jester each recorded hat tricks and three other Blue Devils netted two goals apiece. Duke’s success ultimately rested on its abilSEE WOMEN’S

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Duke picked up 21 ground balls to William & Mary's 10, dominating on the offensive end as well with 17 goals.

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Team lifts offensive load

from Currie's shoulders by

Gregory Beaton THE CHRONICLE

GREENSBORO

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dominant,

record-setting ACC-Tournament victories

Currie wins ACC's top honor Duke junior Monique Currie was named ACC Player of the Year Saturday by the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association. Currie, a junior, received 54 of the 74 votes and continues a six-year run of Blue Devils taking home the award. Currie has averaged 7.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists this season, helping Duke to a 28-3 record. Currie is also considered a candidate for numerous other player of the year awards.

NCAA implications Coming into the ACC Tournament a number of teams were sitting on the bubble. Now that Duke and LINE are in the final, the picture looks a bit more clear. Seventh-seeded Virginia Tech likely played itself out of the NCAA Tournament with an opening-round loss to Wake Forest. Both teams will likely receive WNIT bids. Maryland and Virginia likely cemented NCAA bids with trips to the ACC semifinals. Third-seeded N.C State and fourth-seeded Florida State are also locks for the tournament, despite being upset in the quarterfinals.

Miami wins one, scares UNC In a final play reminiscent of Laettner to Hill, Tamara James caught a full-court pass

from from teammate Yalonda McCormick and converted a layup with time expiring to lead Miami to victory, 60-58, over Georgia Tech in the opening round. The Hurricanes rode their momentum into Saturday's game against UNC, leading until there was less than two minutes left. The ninth-seeded Hurricanes finished their first season in the ACC below .500. Despite motivated tournament play, Miami is ineligible for postseason play. b\

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No. ILSU 65 No. 5 Tennessee 67 No. 2 Stanford 73 USC 69 No. 3 Ohio State 63 No. 15 Minn. 66 No. 4 UNC 78-Virginia 72 No. 8 Mich. St. 83 No. 23 Penn St. 76 No. 9 Rutgers 69 St. John's 45 No. 10Notre Dame 70 -W. Virginia 59 No. 12 DePaul 77-TCU 87 No. 14 Connecticut 82 Syracuse 56 No. 16 Temple 64-Xavier 61 No. 18 Vanderbilt 73- No. sTenn. 76 No. 19 N.C. State 56-No. 25 Md. 63 No. 21 Georgia 65-No. 1 LSU 79 No. 22 Boston College 37 Villanova 41 No. 24 Gonzaga 66 Santa Clara 77 -

over Wake Forest and Maryland, Duke’s women’s basketball team served notice to the entire nation this weekend that they, not North Carolina, are the best team in the ACC. The concept of “team” is something that has been lacking all season long for the Blue 0 Devils. Early on it beclear that came Monique Currie was fully capable of filling the leadership and scoring void left by Alana Beard. But during the regular season, Currie’s teammates often relied on her too much and stood around waiting for Currie to make something happen. This weekend, Currie was honored for her regular-season accomplishments when she was voted ACC Player of the Year. At the same time, though, Duke showed that its key to success in postseason play will be more balanced contributions on the offensive end. “We know that it will take a team effort for us to be successful,” Currie said. “We’re looking to get everyone involved.” While running up tournament scoring records, Duke had no player score more than 20 points in either game. Duke’s leading scorers against Wake Forest were Mistie Williams and Wanisha Smith. Every Blue Devil except Jessica Foley, who had nine points, reached double figures in the game. Against Maryland, Duke had five players in double figures with Williams and freshman Chante Black leading the way with 14 each. Currie scored 13 in the game but was extremely selective in the shots she took. Over the two-game stretch, Currie held herself to 19 shots, well below her season average of about 13 per game. “It shows that we don’t just rely on Monique,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I think for a while we were beginning to rely on her a bit [too much].” When Currie shoots less, it means there are many more shots to go around for her teammates. Duke whipped the ball around the perimeter, finding open shooters all over the place. In the Wake Forest game, it almost looked like shooting practice, as Currie, Smith, Foley and Laura Kurz each connected from long range. In doing this, the Blue Devils showed that diey can pick apart a zone defense with three-point shooting. They'made an ACCToumament record 12 during that game. When outside shots weren’t open, Duke targeted cutters and dropped the ball over the top of defenders hopelessly attempting to front 6-foot-7 Alison Bales, Williams and Black. Up 45-15 against Maryland, Bales hit Wynter Whidey cutting backdoor, and she converted the bucket and got fouled. The two posts leaped into the air and chestbumped to celebrate. The teamwork exhibited by plays like that was demonstrated diroughout both games. The Blue Devils tallied 29 assists against the Demon Deacons, more than ten above their season average. The team also assisted on 16-of-26 made field goals

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against Maryland. Most importandy, the assists were distributed evenly among all the Blue Devils.

Chante Black, who goes up for 2 of her 14 points against Maryland Sunday, is one of the players who is taking some of the scoring load off of Monique Currie. Smith led with six against Wake Forset, but three other players had five each. Against Maryland, Currie led the way with four. The increased distribution has allowed more ofDuke’s players to gain confidence, especially the freshmen. After being timid all season coming off injuries, Black is now playing the best basketball since she’s been at Duke. She recorded double-doubles in both games and dominated the offensive boards, providing Duke with an edge on the glass it has been missing most of the season. Smith is also playing better than ever right now. She only turned the ball over three times all weekend, allowing her to shift her focus to her offensive output. She knocked down four treys over the Demon Deacon defense and had an efficient ten

points versus the Terrapins. “We’ve made a conscious effort to really move the ball around, and other people are stepping forward now, which is important come tournament time,” Goestenkors said. With so many more players contributing, Duke looked scary-good this weekend. The huge leads in both games allowed Goestenkors to rest Currie, who should be able to use her fresh legs against a tired Tar Heel squad Monday night. In the realm of Duke women’s basketball, things have not looked better this season. After both game, there was a glow emanating from Goestenkors saying that this team may just be onto something special. Of course, things also looked that way before last Sunday’s defeat at the hands of North Carolina. Monday night’s tilt will show if this time is any different.

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Monique Currie scored a combined 46 points in Duke's two losses to UNC during the regular season.

Duke cruises, UNC slides into ACC final by

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GREENSBORO Duke will get its chance to avenge two regular-season losses to top-seeded North Carolina when they meet in the finals of the ACC Tournament Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Greensboro Coliseum. “We’re looking for another opportunity to redeem ourselves,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. On their way to earning that opportunity, the second-seeded Blue Devils rolled over Wake Forest and Maryland in the first two rounds. The Tar Heels, on the other hand, had a much more difficult time in their halfof the bracket. North Carolina needed late comebacks against Miami and Virginia to squeak into the finals. Down 11 points at halftime to Virginia in the semifinals, the Tar Heels rallied behind the 19 second-halfpoints of point guard Ivory Latta to win, 78-72. The same quickness and shooting capability Latta showed in the last few minutes of the Virginia game also proved key in both ofUNC’s victories over Duke. Her three-pointer with less than two minutes remaining Feb. 27 proved to be the decisive bucket in a game that determined the ACC regular-season champion. Even though it has only played two games since UNC, Duke looks like a different team in the ACC Tournament. It is unlikely the Blue Devils will be able to

score 62 points in a half or hold the other team to 11 like they did this weekend to Wake Forest and Maryland, respectively, but Duke will need to take away the positive lessons from the first two tournament games. The Blue Devils will try to take advantage of a big size advantage over North Carolina, and centers Alison Bales and Chante Black will have to focus on winning boards for Duke to succeed. Carolina’s quick guards will likely find trouble inside against the Blue Devil post players. The Tar Heels, on the other hand, will look to exploit Duke’s lack of quickness like they did in conference play. The Blue Devils will need to avoid turnovers and stay calm against UNC’s pressure defense. One factor that could affect North Carolina’s intensity is fatigue. While Duke eased by its two opponents, North Carolina was forced play Latta all but two minutes so far in the tournament, including all 40 Sunday afternoon. Monday night, though, both teams will come out hard with the ACC tide and a likely No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament on the line. Duke is also looking to capture its sixth consecutive tournament tide. “Coach has told us we’re not defending our championship, we’re pursuing another one,” Monique Currie said. “That has just stuck in my mind throughout the tournament, and we’re looking to pursue another one tomorrow.”

NOTES:

Monday’s matchup against North Car-

olina will mark the fifth time in the past six years that Duke and UNC have met for the ACC championship. Duke won all four previous contests.... The Blue Devils showed excellent ball movement against both Wake Forest and Maryland, tallying 42 assists in the two games.... Duke benefited from balanced scoring against Wake Forest, too—despite the 107-point effort, no Duke player scored more than 17 points....

MARYLAND FG 3-PT FT REB PF A TP Perry 04 0-0 0-0 0 2 1 Langhorne 2-8 0-0 7-8 5 11 2 Doron 3-9 0-3 0-0 5 0 1 France 2-12 0-1 1-2 7 0 2 Smith 6-11 0-0 0-1 3 4 2 1 Newman 0 14 1-3 0-0 2 1 Carr 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 Henson 1-5 0 1-2 44 1 2 Ross 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Noirez 0-3 0-0 OO 1 2 0 Gilchrest 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6 TEAM TOTALS 15-57 2-9 12-15 29 19 3 4 Blocks—none Steals—Smith (2), Doron (1), France (1), Henson (1) FG%: Ist Half: 13.6; 2nd Half: 34,3; Game: 26.3 FT%: Ist Half; 71.4; 2nd Half: 87.5; Game: 80.0 DUKE FG 3PT FT REB PF A TP Williams 4-6 0-0 Currie 4-11 1-4 Bles 0-0 2Smith 30-2 Foley 2-9 1-4 Kurz 0-0 2-4 6-7 0-0 Black Whitley 1-3 0-0 TEAM TOTALS 24-52 2-10 24-27 42 Blocks—Bales (3), Black (3), Kurz (1) Steals—Whitley (5), Smith (2), three others with 1 FG%: Ist Half: 41.4; 2nd Half: 52.2; Game; 46.2 FT%; Ist Half: 100.0; 2nd Half: 84.2; Game; 88.9

foray into the paint. “I didn’t think it could get much worse than when we played Duke at home offensively [in a 60-49 loss], but it did tonight,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “It’s a hard team to prepare for when you have 6-foot-5 [Chante Black] and 6-7 [Alison Bales] in the middle. We adjust our shots around it, which really throws us off a lot.” The results were nothing short of stunning. At the end of the first half, Maryland had been outscored 20-0 in the paint, was shootingjust 13.6 percent from the floor and had more turnovers than points. At the end of the game, Maryland had just three assists compared to 20 turnovers. In fact, things were going so badly for the Terrapins in the first half that Black had converted more field goals (five) than the entire Maryland team (three). “I felt like everything that could have gone wrong went wrong today,” said guard Anesia Smith, who led the Terps with 12 points. “We were frustrated. We did our best to keep our composure and try to work through the tough times, but there are days like this where you can’t hit baskets.” In addition, the Maryland twopronged attack of Langhorne and guard Shay Doron never found any kind of rhythm during the opening stanza. The duo, which entered the game averaging more than 35 points combined, finished with just 17 for the game. “They are two incredible players,” Goestenkors said. “I thought our team all understood very well where those two were at all times, and I thought they did a great job helping one another out.” Meanwhile, Duke used a balanced offensive attack to pick apart Maryland’s aggressive man-to-man defense. Five Blue Devils scored in double figures, led by Black’s 14-point, 13-rebound effort. The all-around effort convinced Goestenkors that Duke’s offense is not just centered around ACC Player of the Year Monique Currie. “For a while we were beginning to rely on her, and I think we really made a conscious effort to move the ball around,” Goestenkors said. “And I think other people are stepping up right now, which is really important come tournament time.” But as impressive as Duke’s win over Maryland was, its tournament-opening victory over Wake Forest was more onesided in nearly every facet. In addition to setting a tournament record with 107 points, Duke’s 57-point

final margin tied for the second most lopsided outcome in tournament history. “That’s the best 40 minutes of basketball I’ve ever seen any team play on any level,” Wake Forest head coach Mike Petersen said. “You’ve got to give tremendous credit to Duke to how well they played, for how hard they played and how efficient they were.” Efficient, indeed. Duke tore up the Demon Deacons’ zone defenses by putting on a shooting clinic, hitting more than 68 percent of its shots and more than 58 percent from beyond the arc. Duke’s success on the perimeter allowed Bales, Black and forward Mistie Williams to have a field day inside as the Blue Devils raced to a 62-26 first-half advantage. The second half of the game was essentially garbage time, allowing seven of eight Duke players to score in double figures. The only exception was junior Jessica Foley, who finished with nine points.

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VA. TECH 86-MARYLAND 76 Jamon Gordon scored a career-best 23 points and had seven in a 12-1 run over the final two minutes Saturday as Virginia Tech beat Maryland 86-76 to secure a first-round bye in next week's ACC tournament. The Hokies(ls-12,8-8 in the ACC) led 74-72 after two free throws by James Gist for Maryland with 2:36 left, but Gordon hit a jumper to start the run. Virginia Tech was 8for-11 from the line the rest of the way. Maryland (16-11, 7-9), hoping to bolster its case for a 12th consecutive berth in the NCAA Tournament, instead lost its third straight and fourth in five games. (AP)

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For most of the second half the Duke defense, even withoutSean Dockery, forced the nation's highest scoring offense into numerous turnovers and difficult shots.

UNC fromTC page 1 chionni said. “We shot one free throw in the last three minutes with a nine-point lead, and that’s unacceptable. You can’t do that and win a game. We’ve got to take care of the ball and force them to foul us, and we didn’t do that.” In addition to the Blue Devils’ inefficiencies on the offensive end, they could not control the boards. North Carolina outrebounded Duke 48-30 and repeatedly kept possessions alive, leading to second and third chances. Junior Sean May grabbed 12 offensive boards on his way to a dominating 26point, 24-rebound performance. After trailing 47-41 at the half, Duke’s defense began to settle in and slow the Tar Heel attack, allowing just six points over a 10-minute stretch. “We played a great second half and put ourselves in a position to win,” freshman DeMarcus Nelson said. “It’s just that the game of basketball is a 40-minute game, 20-minute halves. We played 17 strong minutes, and the last three minutes we kind of gave up—not gave up, but we just played a little sloppy.” Redick, who scored 17 points on 5-for-7 shooting in the first half, was held scoreless the rest of the way, but Melchionni and

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Williams picked up the slack. Melchionni, who was repeatedly left open when his teammates penetrated, made five three-pointers. Shelden Williams bullied around UNC’s pair of Willliamses—Marvin and Jawad—on his way to 22 points. “Our defense in the second half was terrific and some of our offensive execution, but they made some big plays down the stretch and we didn’t,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They won, and they deserved it because they did that.” With the regular season finale complete, the Tar Heels and Blue Devils turn their attention to next weekend’s ACC Tournament, which they enter as the first and third seeds, respectively. Duke’s road to the title game—and a potential rematch with UNC—starts with eitherMiami or Virginia Friday at 9 p.m. Until then, however, the Blue Devils will focus on the mistakes that plagued them in the final minutes of Sunday’s heartbreaking defeat. “I think it’ll linger a little bit,” Shavlik Randolph said of the emotions from the loss. “Obviously we would have liked to come out here and win. But, with the exception of the last few minutes, we were happy with the way we played. We just can’t have let-ups like that in the final moments of the game.”

DUKE FG 3-PT FT REB PF A Melchionni 5-13 5-11 0-0 5 0 2 1-3 0-1 1-2 3 5 2 Randolph Williams 10-13 OO 2-5 4 Redick 5-13 4-9 34 6 2 1 9 Ewing 4-10 2-7 1-2 3 2 Love 0-1 OO OO 0 11 Nelson 1-3 0-1 1-3 3 0 7 McClure OO OO 2-3 0 0 0 Johnson OO OO 0-0 0 1 2 Davidson 00 OO OO 0 0 0 0 0 0 Perkins 00 OO 0-0 5 TEAM TOTALS 26-56 11-2910-19 30 20 17 Blocks—Williams (6). Randolph (1) Steals—Williams (4), Ewing (2) FG%: Ist Half: 54.2; 2nd Half: 40.6; Game: 46.4 FT%: Ist Half: 69.2; 2nd Half: 16.7; Game: 52.6 NORTH CAROLINA A FG 3-PT FT REB PF 3 3 0 Williams, J 3-10 0-3 2-2 Hooker OO OO OO 0 0 0 Everett OO OO OO 0 Manuel 5-6 0-0 2-4 1 2 2 Scott 0-2 0-2 0-0 3 0 1 Felton 3-13 0-3 5-8 3 6 1 10-19 0-0 6-7 3 24 3 0 Williams, M 3-9 0-1 3-3 7 Noel 2-4 0-1 0-0 1 4 2 0 1-1 2-2 2 2 Thomas 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0

tion of spin moves, head fakes, power dribbles and hook shots, he was able to score almost at will against May. And when UNC compensated and began to double and triple-team him, Melchionni was left wide open on the perimeter. Between the 16 and the three-minute marks in the second half, Duke had one of its most impressive offensive stretches of the year, given the caliber of the defense it was up against. Finally, Duke showed the ability to disrupt the highest scoring offense in the nation. At times in the second half, the Tar Heels looked silly on offense—unable to even get decent looks at the basket. Even though the Blue Devils were often matched up against more athletic and talented players, they fought through screens to stifle North Carolina’s dribble penetration and easy looks on the interior. So as die smoke from bonfires soars in the Chapel Hill air, the Blue Devils and their fans should have reason for optimism. In today’s college basketball game without any dominant teams, Duke is showing that it might actually have the pieces to have success in the postseason, so long as it can avoid Murphy’s Law down the stretch.

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Blue Devils blank Terps in first outdoor match Jordan Koss

Charles did a good job of hanging in there in the second set.”. The men’s tennis team opened its outPlaying in his first singles match this door season with a bang, thrashing conferseason, freshman Alex Stone won 6-3, 6-4 ence foe Maryland 7-0 Sunday. at the No. 6 spot. Stone had a bit of trouAlthough the Blue Devils (8-2, 2-0) won ble controlling the ball in the gusting wind, but overcame this equalizing factor MARYLAND and put away his opponent. “There were times when the wind was DUKE 7 swirling winds. Because this was the blowing a little harder, and on some of my first match Duke played in the elements, it flat shots I was going for the line and I was was tough to adjust to the imperfect condimissing wide,” Stone said. “Overall I was tions, head coach Jay Lapidus said. grinding pretty well, I was getting him off “It’s a different feel to play outside, so I the court, and hit a winner the other way. think it’s going to help us going into next “My serve was not as good as it usually is week and the following weeks,” he said. because the wind would take it in whichevLapidus utilized several non-starters er direction on the toss.” and put three freshmen into the singles Duke’s Ludovic Walter, the secondlineup against Maryland (44, 0-3). The ranked player in the nation, used a devasshining member of the group, however, tating combination of power and placewas the old man of the pack, Peter Shults. ment on his serves to win 6-2, 6-2 at the No. The senior dominated his opponent at the 1 position, making him 7-1 on the season. No. 4 position with a 6-0, 6-0 victory to imPeter Rodrigues also won 6-2, 6-2 at the prove his record to 6-1 on the year. No. 3 position, and freshman Ned Samuel“Peter Shults had a good day today, he son put up a win at No. 5 by the count of played very well,”Lapidus said. “At the col6-1, 6-0. Rodrigues is now 6-1, and Samuellege level, that means you played a really son remains one of two undefeated Blue good match. I think he was the guy that reDevils at 4-0. ally stood out.” “I always have confidence in this team, In contrast to Shults’ easy victory, freshall 12 of us can win on any given day,” man Charles Brezac narrowly avoided a Stone said. “We didn’t give away any third set by overcoming a second-set games, and we fought real hard.” deficit in a 6-2, 7-5 victory at second sinDuke had. little difficulty taking the gles. Brezac was down 4-1 before holding doubles point, as all three pairs won conserve twice and using a break to even the vincingly. Walter teamed with No. 61 match at 44. Then up 6-5, the freshman Jonathan Stokke at first doubles to win 8-2, broke his opponent to end the match, imBrezac and Samuelson won by the same proving his record to 6-2. count at second doubles and Shults paired “Charles did a good job,” Lapidus said. with Stone to win the No. 3 position, 84. “Their player started playing well in the Duke plays its next three matches over second set, he was serving real big, and the spring break, when the squad travels to the wind was starting to swirl a little bit, which Lone Star state to take on Texas, Texas makes for some difficult conditions. But A&M and Texas Christian. by

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“She definitely had

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being fully healthy,” Jermyn said. Perhaps the strongest Blue Devil performance of the weekend came with a one-two punch in the 3,000-meter race, in which Sally Meyerhoff and Paige Miller took the top two spots, respectively. With times of 9:19.88 and 9:20.68, the two ran together and earned victories nearly 10 seconds ahead of the competition. The men’s team had also a number of outstanding individual performances. Freshman Jade Ellis placed first in the long jump and third in the triple jump, exceeding the seeded expectations. Ellis was seeded third in the long jump in what he considered “strong competition” and was in second place going into his last jump. But on his last jump he took a longer running approach to the jump to gain more speed, resulting in a leap of 24-foot-1.5, enough to overtake the leader and five inches greater than his previous best. not

The women’s track team continued to set new school records as it placed second—its highest ever—at the ECAC Championships in Boston this weekend. The men’s team placed 11th at the IC4A Championships, the ECAC’s counterpart, which also featured top talent from the East Coast. Nearing the end of the meet, the 4xBoo relay team’s come-from-behind, first-place finish clinched the Blue Devils’ big day as they jumped past Cornell into second place. The team of Liz Wort, Lauren Made, Meaghan Leon and Shannon Rowbury trailed Georgetown by 20 meters going into the last leg, but Rowbury had enough kick to oust the leader and claim a victory by a second in 8:49.47. Rowbury had run the 800-meter distance twice previous to the relay, her final race of the weekend. The “Twenty-four is a step up from 23, so that’s what’s imjunior placed second in the 800-meter finals with a time of 2:07.45, trailing Cornell’s Morgan Uceny, whom portant to me,” Ellis said. “I don’t really care about my Rowbury had beaten in the preliminary round. Rowplace; I care if I do well.” The men’s 4xBoo relay team of Ryan McCann, lan bury, however, started the finals slow and could not reCronin, Chris Spooner and Nick Schneider set a new gain the distance lost after being boxed in. Leon had also run two races prior to the 4xBoo. She school record with a time of 7:29.15 in a race that feabroke the Duke record in the 1,000-meter run twice tured a tight finish. Spooner handed off to Schneider in the preliminaries and in the finals—as she took first for the last leg, and Schneider fell back two places to place in “dominant” fashion, assistant coach Kevin fourth but rebounded to claim second. “Nick got the stick and was challenged but respondJermyn said. Leon started the finals aggressively and ran ed and was great,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “He strong throughout the distance, finishing with a nationreally put the hammer down in the last 50 meters.” ally competitive time of 2:45.79. Sophomore Debra Vento, who was hampered by Spooner, Cronin, Schneider and teammate Peter sickness in her last competition two weeks ago, found Lewellen all traveled to Notre Dame Friday for the Alex Wilson Invitational, seeking a qualifying time for NCAA herself hobbling again because of a sprained ankle suffered in practice last week. But with the ankle taped, nationals in the distance medley relay. Racing on a fast Vento was still able to claim first place in the high jump track with top competition, the group bested the previwith a leap of 5-foot-10.50. ous school record by two seconds, finishing in 9:41.11. —

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Meaghan Leon teamed with Liz Wort, Lauren Matic and Shannon Rowbury to win the 4xBoo relay at theECAC Championships.

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Duke’s other two golfers, Niloufar Aazam-Zanganeh and Anna Grzebien both finished out of the top 25 and had difficulrebounded in the final round, parring 16 ty adapting to the long course. Aazam-Zanholes and finishing three-over on the ganeh played her way to the top spot in the 5,927-yard course. lineup during winter training and finished “It was great to have Liz back,” Brooks 12th at the Northrop Grumman Regional said. “It was difficult just playing with four Challenge. But the senior failed to get on players, but more importantly, she’s a vital track in Florida, as she notched only three birdies in as many rounds and finished 22 part of our team’s chemistry.” Freshman Jennifer Pandolfi could not over par. find her stroke until the last few fall tour“I think the whole team was just trying a naments but was on track by winter break. little too hard,” Brooks said. “It was a very Her spring rebound took much less time. challenging course for both the long game Pandolfi finished 48th at the Northrop and the short game, and we just got frusGrumman Regional Challenge, but retrated.” The Blue Devils will not have to wait turning to her home state, she finished 30 places higher than she did in the team’s long to try to end their uncharacteristic last event. The Navarre, Fla. native struglosing skid. Duke will travel to Austin, gled closing out her first two rounds but Texas, next weekend to search for its first shot better on the back nine Sunday, spring tournament victory at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational. notching two birdies.

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The Blue Devils slowed the pace of the game as they maintained a lead in the final minutes.

MEN'S LAX from page 2 defensive stands. “I’m sure it kind of broke them down after that, knowing they couldn’t score, so that felt pretty good,” Fenton said. “We knew we were going to win it after that.” Greer was one of four Blue Devils with two goals—Matt Danowski, Zash and Dan Flannery were the others. Joe Walters led Maryland with three scores. When Duke was not taking long posses-

sions and careful shots, Maryland peppered Fenton with inaccurate attempts. The Blue Devils converted 10-of-26 shots while Maryland missed 42-of-50. Up 9-8 coming out of a timeout with 2:42 left, Pressler made a snap decision and put the ball in Greer’s stick. The freshman held the ball for more than a minute. Then Flannery scored an insurance goal with 1:28 left, and the Blue Devils held on from there. “That’s the kind of day it was for us,” Pressler said.

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down with 26 seconds remaining in overtime to win 3-1. “Venroy has done a great job getting in shape and learning to compete at heavyweight, picking up a different style,” Anderson said. “It’s too bad he couldn’t get just one more win.” Bryan Gibson, Antwone Floyd and Levi Craig all lost in the consolation final round to get fourth place. “We knew we were going to have to win those matches and we knew those were going to be the tough ones,” Anderson said of the consolation finals. “Unfortunately, theyjust didn’t go our

way.”

The ACC sends its champions and five wildcard entries to the NCAA Championship Tournament March 17to-19. No Duke wresders were chosen by the coaches as a wildcard.

ity to respond quickly and decisively to every Richmond .score, preventing the Spiders from gamering any Momentum. “Richmond is going to come out and try to do whatever they can to us,” Sanford said. “Every part of our team really worked together and we really tried to shove it back down their throats.” In Friday’s victory over William & Mary, the Blue Devils jumped out to an early 7-0 lead and never looked back, relying on their defense to force 11 turnovers to keep the Tribe at bay. In addition to Chrest’s record-tying performance, freshman Caroline Cryer scored a career-high four goals in the effort. “Our goal was to come out of this weekend feeling like we had a lot of really good things to build on, and I think we do,” Kimel said. “We’ll look to get better from here.”

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Justice Kennedy’s foggy reasoning serving the right “to impose capital punishWASHINGTON In 1992, before deliverthe Court’s an abortion ment... for crimes committed by persons below Supreme ruling in ing 18 years of age.” The United States never ratiwho has a Kennedy, penAnthony case. Justice fied the other convention Kennedy cites. In his chant for self-dramatization, stood with a journalist observing rival groups of demonstrators extra-judicial capacity as roving moralist, and mused: “Sometimes you don’t know if Kennedy sniffily disapproves of that nonratifiyou’re Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or cation as evidence that America is committing Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.” Or the cardinal sin of being out of step with “the perhaps you are a would-be legislator, a dilet- world community.” Kennedy the sociologist says “any parent tante sociologist and freelance moralist, disknows” and “scientific and sociological studies” guised as a judge. Last Tuesday Kennedy played those three show that people under 18 show a “lack of maroles when, in yet another 5-4 decision, the turity” and an “underdeveloped sense of recourt declared it unconstitutional to execute sponsibility” and susceptibility to “negative inunder Such fluences” and a weak aptitude for “cost-benefit who murder when 18. expersons analysis.” All this means, he says, that young ofecutions, it said, violate the Eighth Amendfenders “cannot with reliability be classified ment proscription of“cruel and unusual” punishments because... well, Kennedy’s opinion, in among the worst offenders.” Well. Is it gauche to interwhich Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David nipt Kennedy’s seminar on ■ adolescence with some perSouter and John Paul Stevens 960T96 is tossed salad of reahaps pertinent details? The 17a Joined, giiest commentary sons why those five think the year-old in the case the court was considering bragged about court had a duty to do what state legislatures have the rightful power and, planning to do what he then did: He broke into a woman’s home, put duct tape over her arguably, the moral responsibility to do. Although the court rendered an opposite eyes and mouth, wrapped her head in a towel, bound her limbs with electrical wire, then decision just 16 years ago, Kennedy says the nation’s “evolving standards of decency” now threw her off a railroad trestle into a river rank such executions as cruel and unusual. where, helpless, she drowned. One proof of this, he says, is: Justice Scalia, joined in dissent by Justices Of the 38 states that have capital punishWilliam Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas (Jusment, 18 bar executions of those who murder tice Sandra Day O’Connor dissented separatebefore age 18, five more than in 1989. So he ly), deplores “the new reality that, to the extent constructs a “national consensus” against that our Eighth Amendment decisions consticapital punishment of juvenile offenders by tute something more than a show of hands on adding a minority of the states with capital the current Justices’ current personal views punishment to the 12 states that have decid- about penology, they purport to be nothing ed “that the death penalty is inappropriate more than a snapshot ofAmerican public opinfor all offenders.” ion at a particular point in time (with the timeBut “inappropriate” is not a synonym for frames now shortened to a mere 15 years).” “unconstitutional.” Kennedy occupies the seat that 52 Senate Kennedy simply assumes that those 12 Democrats prevented Robert Bork from filling states must consider all gapital punishment in 1987. That episode accelerated the descent unconstitutional, not just wrong or ineffective into the scorched-earth partisanship that was or more trouble than it is worth—three deraging in the Senate Judiciary Committee at the very moment Tuesday morning that scriptions that are not synonymous with “unconstitutional.” Kennedy was presenting the court majority’s While discussing America’s “evolving stanpolicy preference as a constitutional imperadards of decency,” Kennedy announces: “It is tive. The committee’s Democrats were browproper that we acknowledge the overwhelming beating another appellate court nominee, foreweight of international opinion against the jushadowing another filibuster. venile death penalty.” Why is that proper when The Democrats’ standard complaint is that nominees are out of the jurisprudential “mainconstruing the U.S. Constitution? He is remarkably unclear about that. He says two inter- stream.” If Kennedy represents the mainstream, it is time to change the shape of the national conventions forbid executions ofpersons who committed their crimes as juveniles. river. His opinion is an intellectual train wreck, That, he thinks, somehow illuminates the but useful as a timely warning about what hapmeaning of the Eighth Amendment. pens when judicial offices are filled with injudiKennedy, self-appointed discemer of the cious people. national consensus on penology, evidently considers it unimportant that the United States atGeorge Will is a syndicated columnist for The tached to one of die conventions language reWashington Post.

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Many of you were puzzled last week by the absence of a Monday, Monday column. The writers of that column—seniors Garrett Jones and Zebulon Smathers, who wrote under the pseudonym “Tommy Seabass”—were unable and unwilling to turn in columns that met The Chronicle’s standards for what is appropriate to print in a humor column in a campus newspaper. After repeated attempts to work with the writers, we we were unable to continue printing columns that fell below our standards. As a result, we will temporarily discontinue Monday, Monday for the remainder of the semester. Monday, Monday columns have run in The Chronicle for years, with a new anonymous humor columnist selected before each semester and revealed in the last column of the term. The columns have generally poked fun at various as-

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Trent Revisited: the future of housing?

the autumn of 2004 I returned to Duke as a gradstudent, and many things on campus had changed. Here at the age of 23 I began to feel old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out to bars. I developed proprietary claims to certain seats in the classroom. I regularly drank three bottles of beer with dinner, never more or less. My interest in coursework had waned and little remained except the chill bonds of law and duty and custom. Occasional talks still intrigued me, and it was for this reason that I planned to attend an event organized by the Social Science Research Institute “Where is it taking place?” I asked a

The view from the room consisted primarily of an embankment of dirt. If one stooped down he could see the sky in the background and somedmes make out the top of trucks driving noisily down Erwin road. We were supposed to have air conditioning, but the unit was broken for most of August and September. To make matters worse, the windows had been painted shut. The sdfling hot dank of the warmer months was rivaled by the intense heart of the radiator, which had only two positions—on and off—in the winter. The RA next to us, an older gendeman returning to school to get a masters in education, showed us a modest scar on his arm, which he got from touching the radiator one night in his sleep. Our hallway was half populated colleague. “It’s over in Trent—a building you with people who had chosen Trent bebill english have probably never seen before.” cause they disliked human company. the crlticai theory My eyes widened. ‘Yes Hooper, (for Being a good 10-minute walk from the that was what I had chosen to call him) I edges of West, Trent was an island of solihave. I’ve been there before.” The words seemed to ring tude in terms of undergraduate life. back to me enriched from the vaults of my personal It was thus that I remembered this peculiar brick dungeon. I had been there before; I knew all about it. building, a sort of undergraduate Alcatraz, and for I had first visited Trent with my roommate Chris these reasons that I was delighted by the construction more than 5 years earlier. It was the end of freshman of the new dorms on West, which meant that no underyear and this excursion was tinged with apprehensive grads would be forced to live in Trent again. Ironically, fear. We had just selected—l should say were forced to I still inhabit Trent on Mondays this semester, for that is select—a room in Trent to inhabit during our sophowhere I spend some eight hours in courses. However, more year. We were, going to assess this catastrophe. the building is not that bad when it is not one’s home. But Duke dorms are still home for most undergradThings were not supposed to turn out this way. We had assembled an ideal housing block and hoped for, if not uates and that is why so much rides on the impending Main West, at least Edens. However the housing lottery selection of a director of housing. Residential life is viturned out disastrously for us. It took a few days to tally important for a student community. While RLHS comprehend the results—we had drawn the very last can boast achievements like getting rid of Trent, problems such as those recently chronicled on these pick in the entire male undergraduate community. To this day I do not know if there was a conspiracy pages—paternalistic alcohol policies, pointless linking afoot and whether this was housing’s way of getting and artificial quad organization—still plague the cameven with the members of my block—all six of whom pus. Although Duke will likely never attain circumhad been written up, many of them multiple times, for stances as ideal as Yale or Oxford’s residential colleges, violations throughout freshman year. There was a students could at least be spared the hassle of senseless chance too that our number might be so bad that they policies and the vicissitudes of autocratic administrawould run out of rooms to accommodate us, and we tors. As things stand, undergraduates are registering might end up on the waiting list with a shot at West. too many valid complaints about residential life. The Hope turned into horror, however, as we approached purpose in abandoning Trent was precisely,so that this the assignment desk at the end of room picks. THERE would no longer need to be the case. WAS ONE ROOM LEFT IN THE BASEMENT OF Bill English is a political science graduate student. His TRENT. We landed in what was, by definition, the least column appears every third Monday. desired room on campus. uate

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Duke Sudan Coalition faces an interesting dilemma. Students who disagree with DSC’s political lobbying hesitate to take up the same banner of .human rights, against the genocide that has claimed nearly'3oo,ooo lives in Darfur. Others, who may not disagree on policy, fail to back the initiative for a slew of reasons: disinterest, apathy or lack of information and time. Sophomore Carly Knight, one of DSC’s organizers, has been frustrated by the curious development. “There ended up being a huge debate from some people who felt it would be impossible to work together,” she said. “I just want to ward offany possibility of politics breaking things apart.” Their challenge, while daunting, is all but uncommon. It is a perennial problem, not only at Duke but throughout the world. There are thousands of causes, and thousands of ways to contribute to each. A fair and appropriate question: Why should I sacrifice my limited resources for THIS cause, when there are so many who need, hunger and die each day? Perhaps the most salient argument against intervention in Sudan is national sovereignty, notes Michael Munger, chair of Duke’s political science department. “The U.S. was criticized for invading Iraq. Those opposed to the invasion of Iraq cannot now say, ‘But, we should ’ f( th<eir invav \de Sudan, ou. ror own good.’ If you think that the U.S. president has the obligation to intervene when repressive regimes are killing their people, unilaterally, then you have to give George Bush the power to philip kurian use his own discretion. You can’t have it both ways,” the pen is mightier Munger wrote in an e-mail. However, mass murder should concern policymakers. Political disagreement on Sudan or any other issue is unavoidable, as long as compulsory brainwashing eludes us. But we must not kid ourselves: We either tacidy accept a foreign policy that values some lives over others, or we acknowledge its hypocrisy. We disagree because different life experiences derive different conclusions about society and human nature. While liberals consistendy hark back to structural or environmental inequality, conservadves exalt the power of individuals to overcome. The left sees only injusdce; the right, stricdy responsibility. Yet both suffer from a myopic understanding of fundamental human needs. As usual, the best way to find common ground is to search for higher ground. The vast majority ofAmericans identify as Christian. Christians believe that we human beings form one body in Christ. Thus, all human beings—regardless of their stead in life, regardless of their culture or their creed—are integral members of one global family. On this point there can be little quibbling. But, if Christianity is our common guiding philosophy, why do we disagree so much when members of our family are dying? Frankly, we have become complacent. Our leaders have become complacent in their lives of excess. And—contrary to the teachings ofChrist—we have become complacent with moral hypocrisy, in order to fuel our voracious, insular lifestyles. We tolerate poverty, violence and rape against our fellow brothers and sisters. We hoard wealth for our immediate families and keep others at distance, ignoring the larger family beyond. And then we wonder why the world hates us. We reap what we sow. The Darfur Accountability Act, introduced by Sen. Jon Corzine, D-NJ., on March 2, is a means toward ending that complacency. You can e-mail your senators to support the bill, and your representatives to introduce a House version, at www.senate.gov and www.house.gov. However, ending our collective complacency must start from within American hearts. It will mean treating beggars, criminals, or outsiders as you would your own blood. As you can imagine, this will not be easy. In the movie HotelRwanda, during the first weeks of the genocide, Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) expresses the hope that international peacekeepers will save his country. Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolle) prompdy rebukes him: “We think you’re dirt,” he says. “You’re not even a nigger. You’re an African.” After the tragedy in Rwanda, the late Sen. Paul Simon, D1.L., reflected; “If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, then I think the response would have been different.” We must live up to the ideals of our faith by treating the world as family, not dirt. And hopefully, this time, we will act before it’s too late. ,

Philip Kurian.is a Trinity senior. His column appears Mondays,.

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