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2 fee hikes fail to pass DSG by

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DSG legislators debate fees to fund Last Day of Classes events and class councils.

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After pushing through more than an hour of gridlocked debate Wednesday night, Duke Student Government failed to pass two resolutions regarding the student activities fee. The first of the two worked in part to balance fund distribution between the sophomore, junior and senior classes; it was struck down in a roll-call vote. The second, which aimed at raising additional funds for Last Day Of Classes events, was tabled indefinitely.

If they had passed, the two resolutions would have been submitted for student approval as part of the DSG executive ballot; pending a majority student vote, the referendums would have become law. “I’m very disappointed that DSG is not trusting students to vote on whether or not they want the fee,” said Brittany Greenfield, treasurer of Campus Council and co-sponsor of the bill. A proposed $6 per semester increase in the student activities fee was intended to raise addi-

tional money for class councils. Funds for all class activities and programming currently come from the residential programming fee. But because of housing discrepancies—those living offcampus do not pay the fee—the senior class has a disproportionately small budget. “People are being penalized by the fact that there aren’t enough beds on campus, and that’s not fair,” Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli said in defense of SEE DSG ON PAGE 6

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY | FROM THE SCHOOL OF LAW TO THE SUPREME COURT

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As a graduate student, Anathea Portier-Young just wanted a safe, convenient

and affordable source of childcare. Unfortunately, that was not something she found readily available on Duke’s campus. She was hardly alone. Now an assistant professor of the Old Testament in the Divinity School, Portier-Young recalled how she and several other Divinity School students tried to establish a parent-run co-op in the fall of 2003 to address the insufficient daycare options. Not only did they hope to avoid the expenses of formal childcare, but they also sought to create a safe environment for their kids. “Child care has been the single greatest issue I’ve had to deal with as a graduate student, and the same is true for many other grad-student parents,” Holly Taylor Coolman, a Divinity School graduate student and parent who participated in the same co-op as Portier-Young, wrote in an e-mail. Professional school students like to maximize the flexibility of their schedules in order to spend as much time as possible with their children, PortierYoung said. “Many graduate students don’t want full time daycare,” she added. The numerous factors that come into play when establishing student-run childcare makes starting co-ops extremely difficult. Coolman said the two most crucial things her group needed from the University were space on campus and an initial investment. “As graduate students, SEE CHILDCARE ON PAGE 7

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As the Supreme Court debates whether to allow displays of the Ten Commandments on government property, two reverends demonstrate outside March 2.

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Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court began reviewing an issue that has plagued

believers and non-believers alike since the ratification of the Constitution—the separation of church and state. At the heart of that current discussion stands Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. Chemerinsky represents defendant Thomas Van Orden in one of two cases currently being examined by the Supreme Court involving the display of the Ten Commandments—a distinctly religious icon that is referenced in Ju-

daism, Christianity and Islam—on public property. Van Orden challenged the placement of a privately funded 6-foot monument of the commandments on the grounds of the Texas Capitol Building in Austin. “There is such a sense of the possibility 0f... making history,” Chemerinsky said of his involvement with the case. “I think that this case really does present the question of whether the government can put a profoundly religious message at the center of the government.” SEE COURT ON PAGE 6

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Lebanon to reinstate pro-Syrian PM by

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Bolstered by a BEIRUT, Lebanon demonstration, massive pro-Syrian Lebanese allies ofSyria moved Wednesday to reinstate the prime minister, who recendy was forced out by anti-Damascus protests. Their action ensures Syria’s continued dominance ofLebanese politics. Outgoing Prime Minister Omar Karami was virtually assured nomination after 71 legislators put forward his name during consultations with pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, parliament members said. Under the constitution, the president is obliged to comply with the choice of a majority of the 128-member parliament. Syria is keen to keep its hold on its neighbor’s decision-making as it pulls its 14,000forces back to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and negotiates with the government in Beirut on the troops’ full removal at a later date. As part of the pullback, forced by international pressure, Syrian soldiers evacuated Lebanese positions in the north and central mountains Wednesday. President George W. Bush kept up the intense campaign against Damascus, saying Wednesday that Syria’s troop withdrawal plans are just“a half measure” and that Syrian intelligence services exercise “heavy handed”influence in Lebanon’s government “One thing a lot of people don’t understand is Syrian influence is heavy handed through the involvement of intelligence services throughout the govern-

Leaders did not order abuse A comprehensive U.S. military review of prisoner interrogation policies and techniques for the global war on terrorism concluded that no civilian or uniformed leaders directed or encouraged the abuse of prisoners, officials familiar with the review said Wednesday.

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Pro-Syrian Lebanese demonstrators fill the streets to support outgoing Prime Minister OmarKarami.

ment,” the president said in a brief question-and-answer session in the Oval Office. “And they must remove both for the election to be free.” U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan also called for a full troop withdrawal and said he was sending an envoy to the region to discuss the matter. A formal announcement about the prime minister’s reinstatement was to come Thursday after Lahoud meets with parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, said an official at the presidential palace.

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The pro-Syrian parliament members apparently were emboldened by a protest by hundreds of thousands in Beirut on Tuesday that was organized by the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. The demonstration showed loyalty to Syria, countering weeks of anti-government and anti-Syrian protests. Opposition member Samir Franjieh describes Karami’s reappointment as a government effort to scutde any attempts at dialogue.“lt is a step that greatly challenges the opposition and the people’s feelings,” Franjieh said.

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Christian frat at UNC gets temporary status by

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Politics and religion form a tough pair, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and its chapter of Christian fraternity Alpha lota Omega are facing the consequences of such a mix. But it appears that AIO has won the first battle. In a preliminary injunction issued March 2, Federal District Judge Frank Bullock in Greensboro ordered the University to grant AIO official status as a student organization while the lawsuit is in progress. The three-member fraternity sued UNC last year for violating its First Amendment rights to free speech, free assembly and the exercise of religion by denying it official recognition after it had refused to sign the University’s Nondiscrimination and Sexual Orientation Policy. As a fraternity defined by its Christian evangelism, the members said it would undermine their mission to accept members who do not adhere to the same beliefs or live by the same code of conduct. The court order read in part: “That a policy which imposes conditions for the receipt ofbenefits on a religious organiza-

imposed on non-religious organizations raises significant constitutional concerns and could be violative of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.” Jordan Lorence, an attorney for The Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based Christian rights organization that represents AIO, said they asked for an injunction because freedom of expression was at stake. “The violation of the First Amendment is so clear-cut that the judge should give an injunction up front, he said. “Those are difficult to get, you really have to prove your case.” UNC’s policy is to decline comment on legal cases in progress. According to an official statement released March 3, “The judge’s order is consistent with the draft consent order proposed by the University this week. The University will comply with the order as the case moves forward.” At a hearing Feb. 16 the University and ADF seemed like they might be able to negotiate a satisfactory settlement that the judge would then approve —a consent decree. During the negotiation process, it tion not

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Duke Endowment remains major by

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Last December The Duke Endowment—the private foundation created in

1924 by University founder James B. Duke that is not affiliated with the University or the Duke University Endowment—proudly announced that it could count itself among a handful of American charitable trusts to have given away a total of more than $2.3 billion. The Campaign for Duke—the University’s most recent large-scale fundraising initiative—raised practically the same amount

of money in just eight years, between 1996 and 2003. The Duke Endowment’s financial contributions to the University are not as fundamental to the institution’s survival as they once were, given that the Endowment provides for only a small fraction of the University’s annual operating costs. “The relationship with the University now is basically one of partnership,” said David Roberson, director of communications for The Duke Endowment. Still, the University announced in January that it would receive almost $l5 million from the Endowment. The funds will go to

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the principal beneficiary of The Duke Endowment—it has received more than $723 million between 1924 and 2003—today the Endowment’s grants account for less than 2 percent of the University’s annual operating costs. [James B.] Duke made it clear that he wanted to help Duke University above any other institution in North and South Carolina,” Roberson said. The governing document of The Duke Endowment, the Duke Indenture, specified that 32 percent of the foundation’s original “

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Altered Pratt curriculum draws praise in first year BY IZA WOJCEECHOWSKA THE CHRONICLE

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Libraries across the country have been targets of several scams, but Perkins Library has not been affected.

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Bogus publishing companies and billcollecting operations have college librarians across the country reading up on a new subject: financial scams. Last July, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Pinacle Publishing and MDSC Publishing—two lucrative scamming operations —for using illegal telemarketing maneuvers against a number of institutions, including several college libraries. The FTC asserted that the companies pretended to have preexisting business relationships with librarians, referred to

nonexistent purchase directories and pretended to have lawyers that would collect on fake accounts if the libraries refused to pay them. Detective Staff Sergeant Barry Elliot of Phonebusters—a Canadian agency that keeps tabs on telemarketing scams—said fraudulent companies are harassing libraries about orders that were never placed, often using tape recordings of false “order confirmations” and calling under the guise of being lawyers. The libraries also get misleading invoices and unordered materials in the mail, Elliot added. SEE LIBRARY SCAM ON PAGE 8

encounter with engineering. “I got to see what actual engineers do

in their careers,” freshman Kevin Wu said The Pratt School of Engineering decurriculum after buted a new undergraduate having taken Engineering 10. “Peothis year, and engineers are feeling the ple who don’t know what they want to major in can see what kinds of careers are changes while they write computer proavailable if they major in engineering.” grams and attend physics lectures. The idea to revamp the curriculum The curriculum revision also led to reemerged in 2001 as a result of student structured physics classes, relating them and faculty interactions and discussions to other courses engineers are taking. “We’ve tried to organize the course in about potential improvements to Pratt. The overhaul aimed to allow students away that the connections to the engimore flexibility between courses and to neering curriculum will be clearer, while link their mathematics and physics still maintaining the physics nature of the coursework with their engineering work, course,” said Joshua Socolar, associate said Barry Myers, professor of biomedical professor of physics. The topics in Physics 61 have been reengineering and chair of the curriculum changes committee. organized to correspond with those in the The primary changes focused on the whole of the engineering curriculum, and the course now incorporates MATreevaluation of Engineering 53 and Engineering 10, and the replacement of LAB—a technical computation program Physics 51 and 52 with Physics 61 and 62. widely used in engineering courses. In addition to these techniques, the professors While some of the changes were implemented in Spring 2004, this year is the have adjusted their teaching styles. “They definitely are gearing it toward first full year in which the new courses are offered. They have been well-received engineering,” freshman Priscilla Hwang and have so far made a positive impact on said. “A lot of times the professors will teach the methods based on how an engithe Pratt community. “The students’ ratings for [Engineerneer will solve the problems instead of ing 53] have gone up tremendously, and I just straight-up physics.” think it’s because the class is more releDespite the school’s attempt to please vant,” said Tod Laursen, senior associate all engineers, some students feel the new dean for education. courses are a little too specific. “[Physics 61] is probably good to have Before the curriculum change, students learned computer programming because it’s still all the basic physics prinskills in Engineering 53, but were not ciples, but some of the emphasis on meexposed to any hands-on elements in chanical engineering doesn’t apply to all the course. The revision introduced a the fields of engineering,” freshman Tim lab component to relate the theoretical Antonelli said. Because the courses are so new, the deaspects of engineering to real devices gree of their effectiveness is still uncerand techniques. 10—a colloquium tain. But Laursen hopes students will be Engineering satisfied with the new courses and will be course in which students experience real-life engineering applications and able to retain and apply the information. “It’s okay if the courses are tough,” he job possibilities —is now offered in the said, “but if they at least leave those fall. Previously, it was only offered during the spring semester. With the switch, this course is now many students’ first SEE PRATT ON PAGE 8

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Former librarian dies at age 83

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From staff and wire reports Bonn Michael Farris, the former librarian of the Divinity School Library, died Saturday, March 5, 2005. He was 83. Farris served as librarian from 1950 to 1992. During his time at Duke, he bought about 250,000 books for the library, according to his own esdmates. Farris was also a member of the American Theological Library Association and served as the organization’s president from 1962 to 1963. He founded the ATLA’s newsletter in 1993 and served as its editor until 1993. Farris also edited Aids to a Theological School Library, which was published in 1958 and reprinted in 1969. Born in 1921 in Welch, W. Va., Farris graduated

from Berea College in 1943. He received his Masters of Divinity in 1947 from Garrett Theological Seminary and his Masters ofLibrary Science in 1950 from Columbia University. He also studied at Northwestern University and participated in the doctoral program in religion at Yale University. Surviving Farris are his wife, Joyce; his son Evan Michael Farris, his daughter-in-law Susan; and his daughter Amy Virginia Kilbride, his son-in-law Patrick; and his grandchildren Autsin, Sean and Kelsea. A memorial service was held Wednesday afternoon in the York Chapel. Memorial contributions can be made in Farris’ name to the Divinity School Library.

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briefly used to sign off the CBS Evening News—couragein anchoring the program for the final time after 24 years Wednesday. In a brief statement at the end of the broadcast, Rather paid tribute to Sept. 11 victims, tsunami survivors, American military forces, the oppressed, those in failing health and fellow journalists in dangerous places. “And, to each of you,” he said, “courage.” He seemed to savor each word of his signoff: “For the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reporting. Good night.” Rather’s career spanned the Kennedy assassination to this winter’s tsunami, and he’s been the public face of CBS’ news division since replacing Walter Cronkite on March 9,1981. He’s the second of the three men who dominated network news for more than two decades to step down in four months. NBC’s Tom Brokaw exited in November, leaving ABC’s Peter Jennings remaining at World News Tonight. Bob Schieffer is Rather’s temporary replacement starting Thursday. CBS expects to name a permanent anchor team to succeed Rather in the coming months. '

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Iraqi security forces find dozens of bodies by

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41 decomposed bodies—some bullet-rid-

dled, others beheaded—at sites near the Syrian border and south of the capital. Officials also said Wednesday the bodies included women and children who may have been killed because insurgents thought their families were collaborating with U.S. forces. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber driving a garbage truck loaded with explosives and at least one other gunman shot their way into a parking lot in an attempt to blow up a hotel. At least four people, including the attackers and a guard, were killed. The U.S. Embassy said 30 Americans were among 40 people wounded in the blast. No Americans were killed. In an Internet statement, al Qaeda purportedly claimed responsibility for the attack on the Sadeer hotel, calling it the “hotel of the Jews.” While Sunni Arab insurgents have repeatedly targeted Westerners in Iraq, Shiite Muslims, top Iraqi officials and civil servants and even Muslim women are no longer safe. Decapitated bodies of women have begun turning up in recent weeks, a note with the word “collaborator” usually pinned to their chests. Three women were gunned down Tuesday in one of Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhoods for being alleged collaborators. And in the northern city of Kirkuk, a woman idendfied as Nawal Mohammed, who worked with U.S. forces, was killed in a drive-by shooting, police said. The decomposed bodies were found Tuesday after reports of their stench reached authorities. Twenty six of the dead were discovered in a field near Rumana, a village 12 miles east of the western city of Qaim, near the Syrian border. Each body was riddled with bullets. The dead were found wearing civil-

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ian clothes and one was a woman, police Capt. Muzahim al-Karbouli said. The other site was south of Baghdad in Latifiya, where Iraqi troops found 15 headless bodies in a building at an abandoned army base, Defense Ministry Capt. Sabah Yassin said. The bodies included 10 men, three women and two children. Their identities were not known, but insurgents may have viewed them or their relatives as collaborators. Yassin said some of men found dead in Ladfiya were thought to have been part of a group of Iraqi soldiers who were kidnapped by insurgents two weeks ago. The gruesome discoveries were among 58 new killings in Iraq announced Wednesday, including the death of a U.S. soldier in a Baghdad roadside bombing. Iraq’s interim planning minister, Mahdi al-Hafidh, a Shiite, narrowly escaped death Wednesday after gunmen opened fire on his convoy in the capital. Two of his bodyguards were killed and two others were wounded. “I’m fine, just sorry about the death of the guards, who were still young,” he told Al-Iraqiya TV. “It is a part of the crisis that Iraq is living, but we will keep going for the sake of Iraq, to get rid of terrorism and build a democratic country.” Qataa Abdul Nabi, the director general of the Shiite Endowment, was shot to death Tuesday as he drove home—the second high-ranking member of the Shiite charity to be killed in a week. A car bombing targeted an American checkpoint outside a base in Habaniyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, and another exploded near U.S. troops close to Abu Ghraib, just west of the capital. No other details were available, and the U.S. military could not be reached for comment. It was unclear if the dead U.S. soldier was killed in any of the attacks. The U.S. military said only that a soldier was killed and another was wounded by a bomb.

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die resolution. “Class councils have nothing to do widi the residential program. We're letting that money go back to the purposes it was intended for.” Concerns about the semantics of the resolution and questions about Campus Council budgetary procedure made the document unfit to become a referendum, some senators said. And though senior Chase Johnson, DSG vice president of academic affairs, attempted to rally support with a stirring speech “I’m going to yield to students and let them decide,” he said—detractors ultimately prevailed. “How confused are the students going to be when they see this on the ballot, which they’re probably not going to read all of anyway? This is going to make us look really bad,” said Senator George Fleming, a sophomore. The roll-call vote would have needed a three-fourths majority from the assembled body in order to pass. The other resolution, ultimately tabled, called for permanently augmenting and codifying the annual LDOC budget with a $7.50 per semester increase in the student activities fee. Greenfield described current budgeting for the popular program as a system of “bartering” without clearly outlined rules; $50,000 of the LDOC budget comes from Campus Council every year. Under the suggested new system, —

have helped secure more widely-known, headlining musical acts. Vitarelli and Greenfield pointed out that mixed reactions surrounding jam band Collective Soul, this year’s LDOC headliner, show that students desire a greater budget. “The concern with tabling is, is it just a way to get rid ofit without voting it down? Is it just going to disappear?” Greenfield asked. “There was so much irrelevant debate—the task was really to decide whether or not the students are given the option to decide for themselves.”

In other business: The Academic Expectations and Responsibilities Amendment, a revision of Section 2 of the DSG constitution, was approved for referendum last night by a unanimous vote. It will be submitted on the DSG executive ballot for vote in the March 31 elections. Joe Fore, a sophomore and a senator on the DSG Academic Affairs Committee, primarily drafted the document. “I’m very pleased,” Fore said, accepting congratulatory handshakes from other senators and executive board members. Fleming also presented a resolution entitled “Health and Safety Intervention” that strengthens the current amnesty policy for dangerously intoxicated students to avoid disciplinary action. The legislation passed and will be presented as a referendum to the student body March 31.

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A constitutional law professor, Chemerinsky began his position as Alston and Bird professor of law at Duke in July 2004. Only three months later, he received the call that would eventually send him to the Supreme Court. Although Van Orden filed suit in the state of Texas himself, he sought Chemerinsky’s aid when he decided to appeal the case to the legal system’s highest body. After flying to the Lone Star State to meet with Van Orden, Chemerinsky was so impressed with what Van Orden presented that he decided to take the case, pro bono. “I found him to be smart and charming,” Chemerinsky said. “In every way he’s been a delightful client.” In both legal cases the Supreme Court will decide whether displaying the Decalogue, as it is also known, serves as an endorsement of religion by the state, or instead acts as a historical document that simply reflects American tradition. “I deeply care about preserving the law separating church and state,” Chemerinsky said, “and this case is an important one with regard to that issue.” Although it is not the first time he has appeared before the Supreme Court, Chemerinsky said his experience March 2 was “exhilarating and exciting and intimidating and frustrating—because you never get to say all the things you want.” Chemerinsky explained that the chal-

lenge of the oral argument before the Supreme Court is that while the lawyer is

trying to articulate his position in a limited amount of time, the justices frequendy interrupt to ask questions. “The difficulty was getting in two sentences without being interrupted,” he said with a laugh. Chemerinsky noted that he tries to keep the experience in perspective. “It’s human beings on the bench,” he said. “And we’re trying to make an appeal to the human beings who will decide the case.”

Although Chemerinsky only recently accepted tenure at Duke, students and faculty alike have remarked that the professor is one of the most popular at the School ofLaw. After teaching at the University of Southern California for 21 years, Chemerinsky joined Duke’s staff along with his wife, Catherine Fisk, a professor of labor and employment law and civil procedure; he said he and his wife plan to continue their careers at Duke indefinitely. “I’m not going anywhere,” Chemerinsky said. “I’m very happy here.” Chemerinsky, who graduated with honors from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, is considered by some to be one of the most prominent lawyers in the country, and his recent visits to the Supreme Court will undoubtedly augment that influence. Chemerinsky will return to the Supreme Court at the end of the month to defend another client who was legally prohibited by a lower court from criticizing famed attorney Johnny Cochran.

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ENDOWMENT from pages corpus, or the original $4O million used to establish the endowment prior to Duke’s death, was to go to Duke University. When Duke died in 1925,less than a year after establishing the Endowment, his will left an additional $67 million to the Endowment. The University continues to receive an amount equal to 32 percent of the original corpus of $4O million as unrestricted

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funds. But in order to receive funds from what has grown from the additional $67 million portion of the Endowment, the University must propose specific projects it wants to fund. In 1924 Duke established The Duke Endowment using shares of Duke Power Company stock. The foundation was to support “selected programs of higher education, heath care, children’s welfare, and spiritual life,” in North and South Carolina, according to the Endowment’s website.

Duke is one of only four “selected” institutions of higher education that receive funds from the Endowment. The others are Davidson College and Furman University, which each receive 5 percent of the Endowment’s original corpus, and Johnson C. Smith University, which receives 4 percent of the original corpus. The same year he created the Endowment, Duke also created and funded the establishment of Duke University through the Endowment’s Indenture ofTrust. Duke had

envisioned the Endowment as a tool to oversee both Duke Power and Duke University. In the late 1950s and early 1960s there was “a period of time where the Endowment probably involved itself in the administration in unhelpful ways,” Roberson said. Consequently, officials decided that such involvement was inappropriate and today The Duke Endowment, Duke Power and Duke University are independent entities with individual governance, staff and goals.

times so they can ensure baby coverage,” said Noah Clements, a law student and parent.

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we already have so much on our plate; we really needed help with the initial organization and administration of the thing,” she said. One of the root causes of the childcare problem is that the University does not offer enough formal daycare facilities, students said, and the services that are offered are prohibitively expensive for many students. For some, the Children’s Campus on Alexander Street provides a potential option. “Childcare is important since this is the stage in life when we tend to start families,” said Heather Dean, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council. She noted, however, that “it costs $lOOO a month per infant at the Children’s Campus, which is ex-

tremely expensive.” The capacity at the Children’s Campus, moreover, is limited to 153 spots—a number that remains inadequate for graduate students’ needs even after the daycare’s expansion a few years ago. This shortage means that many families end up putting their children on the center’s waitlist and fitting academics around childcare. “One law couple, Derek Dillman and Lindsay Pennington, have scheduled their classes at different

In recent years, efforts have been made to establish an on-campus, parent-run daycare center, but few solutions have been produced. “The proposal to provide a facility on campus just didn’t go forward,” said Judith White, assistant vice president for Campus Services. White, who in the fall of 2003 chaired a Women’s Initiative committee aimed at improving childcare at Duke, cited several key issues such as the tight schedules and complex time commitments of graduate and professional school students as counterproductive to establishing on-campus daycare. White also said there were human resources personnel problems and by the time these had been resolved, many families had found alternative childcare sources. Coolman echoed these sentiments. “Childcare is such an immediate need,” she said. “Each student and each family just had to go ahead and make individual arrangements.” The University has partially responded to students’ financial limitations by providing $lOO,OOO a year to help doctoral students with childcare. But he professional schools have not budgeted for expenses of this sort.

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tailor its curriculum to the students’ professed desires. While the current curriculum is being assimilated into the school, a new course focusing on engineering innovation is already in the works. “We’re not finished yet—I think that in any good educational program you need to look at what you’re doing, see if it’s effective and see if you need to make changes,” Laursen said. “It’s a dynamic

courses with a sense of confidence of what they’ve learned and are more able to apply it in their engineering curriculum, then we’ll be happy.” The next step for Pratt is to expand opportunities for students to design things. Many students have expressed an interest in working in a design studio environment, and the school would like to

process.”

LIBRARY SCAM from page 4 Rick .Anderson, director of resource acquisitions at the University of Nevada at Reno, traced his ongoing experience with scams back to when he began as director of acquisitions for the Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro eight years ago. “It’s gotten to the point where I can recognize the voices of these people,” Anderson said of the scammers. “They most often try to call during late hours, hoping to reach student employees.” In one instance, Anderson said, a woman told a student employee she required confirmation for a deadline and pressed the student to confirm the order on the spot. The unfamiliar company later sent a directory with a $5OO bill. “I’m sure that Duke and many other large, more wary libraries have never been fooled, but I would bet that almost every library in the country has been targeted at least once,” Anderson said. Nancy Gibbs, head librarian of the acquisitions department at Perkins Library, said she is not aware ofany scams at Duke.

“I think we do a very good job of working with reliable vendors that we know and trust,” Gibbs said. “We have a record of everything we buy.” Gibbs added that she does not understand how scams swindle other schools’ libraries out of money. But many schools have been so ill-affected that they have set up websites advising libraries about how to detect and avoid scams. lowa State University’s website features a page with a list of the scumming methods fake companies employ and tips staff members can use to avoid being duped when they get suspicious phone calls or bills. Elliot said communication and strict ordering procedures are the most important steps libraries can take to prevent themselves from falling victim to scams. He also emphasized the need for library staff to think carefully about every financial request they receive. “The bottom line is that when someone phones up, it’s fairly difficult to screen the information they give you or verify their legitimacy,” he said. “Do not be coerced into believing that you have to pay any bills that you have not heard of.”

by granting them official status; forcing

UNC from page 3 became clear a simple solution would not be possible, Lorence said. UNC’s statement further specified that “The University is prepared to recognize AIO if it agrees to meet all University requirements and policies applicable to student groups seeking official recognition, including the nondiscrimination policy as interpreted in the court’s order.” Without official status, the organization cannot receive University money for activities, it cannot use University server space for its website and it has more difficulty reserving campus facilities. The fraternity is ultimately suing to be granted official recognition, but underlying this goal is its desire to change UNC’s nondiscrimination policies. “[Our aim is to] get the University to recognize that it has a nondiscrimination policy and the policy must respect the right under the First Amendment,” Lorence said. Furthermore, he added, the University shouldrealize that it has “no responsibility in advocating or endorsing the beliefs”

groups to accept members who do not adhere to the viewpoints of the group “violates common sense.” “It is a shocking statement that doesn’t understand the distinct beliefs of these religious groups,” Lorence said. “The University is confusing religion as a status and religion as a set ofbeliefs.” Currently, Duke does not require its student organizations to sign an official nondiscrimination statement as UNC does. Instead, groups are required to submit their constitution and by-laws, which are then reviewed for discriminatory elements. “[We] make sure that there are no blaring discriminatory statements,” said Gregg Heinselman, director of the Office of Student Activities and Facilities. But there are very few cases in which Duke would deny a group recognition, he said. “Duke very much supports the rights for students to form organizations with common interests,” Heinselman said. “Granting status would depend on the language and the spirit of what the organization is all about.”

RATHER from page 5

knowledged it was a special night. Rather took much of the public blame

Rather, 73, is returning

full-time reporting for CBS’s 60 Minutes broadcasts. He flashed a steadfast defiance in reminding viewers of the phrase “courage.” He was mocked by some for using the word to end his broadcasts for a week in September 1986 before giving up on the idea. For its first 20 minutes, Rather’s final broadcast was all business. No one acto

for a discredited 60 Minutes story last fall about President George W. Bush’s military service. He has been a target for decades of conservatives who accuse the media of bias, since his coverage of the Nixon White House during the Watergate era, and many have exulted in his recent misfortunes. Both Jennings and Williams paid tribute to Rather at the end of their broadcasts.

CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE IN MENTORING

The

Duke University Graduate School proudly

presents the Dean’s Award for Excellence in

Mentoring to recognize the considerable

efforts and accomplishments of faculty who consistently

Reynolds Price will read his translation of the GOSPEL OF MARK Tuesday, 22 March, 7:00 p.m. Duke University, Perkins Library Rare Book Room Mr. Price’s translation of the Gospel of Mark is from his 1996 book entitled Three Gospels. In a New York Times review of the book, Robert Alter writes, “Mark exerts a particular magnetism on Mr. Price because, like the writers of the Hebrew Bible whom Mark kept in mind, he conveys his urgency not through exhortation or theological argumentation but through the terse telling of the tale.” Sponsored by the Duke University Libraries//Free and open to the public Questions? Send a message to ilene.nelson@duke.edu or call 919.660.5816

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has been reserved on the quad in front of the Duke Chapel.

serve as effective mentors. Designed to allow graduate

students to identify faculty who embody both the letter and spirit of mentoring, this award will take its place among the university’s continuing efforts to cultivate a

culture of mentoring Visit the award Web site at www.gradschool.duke.edu/ gsa/mentoraward.htm

for a complete purpose statement, criteria, and an online

nomination form.

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recess If Hostage director Florent Emilio Siri thinks a little Italian swaggering can somehow transform a run-of-themill action/thriller into arthouse poetica, he’s got other news coming. Thanks, but no thanks, Signori. To even •attempt such alchemy he would need to begin with a decent script, proper casting and a remotely original story, none of which are present here. His attempts at peppering mundane fare with artsy flavor simply leave the audience with genre-identity-crisis indigestion. Bruce Willis stars as former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley, who moves out to the suburbs to take charge of a mom-and-pop precinct. His nerves have been shatterd after he failed at talking a suicidal sociopath out of murdering a little kid; a set-up presumably designed to invoke audience empathy. Guilt-ridden and plagued with self doubt, Talley retreats to Bristo Camino. There his marriage is inexplicably falling apart, apparently a result of Talley's obnoxious brat of a daughter (played by Willis' real life daughter Rumer). Meanwhile, mysterious, bling-blinging accountant

Mr. Smith (the typically solid Kevin Poliak in a painfully underdeveloped role) and his family, including jailbait teenage daughter Jennifer (Michelle Horn), have drawn the ire of a trio of local blue-collar delinquents with their infuriating displays of opulence (driving an Escalade). The troubled youths decide to extract some pseudo-Marxist revenge by taking the Smiths hostage.

The game is on.

Unfortunately, we never care about the Smiths or their captors and care even less about Talley’s emotional journey to try to rescue them. The three boys beat up Mr. Smith, stare lustily at Jennifer, and get outsmarted repeatedly by wee little Tommy Smith (Jimmy Bennett, possibly the next Macaulay Culkin), all without engaging the audience in the least. Ben Foster is particularly unconvincing as the third kidnapper, a precocious nihilist whose heart is as black as his badass leather jacket. Spare me. The plot thickens when the teenage kidnappers discover that there are secrets to their captive accountant that they hadn’t, well, accounted for, but this intrigue doesn’t last long. Smith's secrets never really get revealed, contributing to the maddeningly disappointing mess the movie quickly becomes. As for Willis, the negotiation drama is uninspiring and the supposed plot twists only provide him further opportunity to expose what a lousy dramatic actor he is. Give me yippe-ki-yay John McClane or even a wisecracking Hudson Hawk any day over Talley's grating melodramatic drivel. Siri’s casting reveals a blatant disregard for the tried and true rules of successful filmmaking: Don't cast Bruce Willis in a role that includes half a dozen scenes of a grown man bawling, and furthermore, don't try to turn boy-next-door Ben Foster into the anti-Christ. Like the self-satisfied Smiths, Siri deserves to be punished for this transgression. Do your part and stay home.

Devo alum spawns Beautiful Mutants Lexi Richards recess Mark Mothersbaugh's latest artistic endeavor disturbs and captivates the human eye at the same time Beautiful Mutants 2003, Mothers-

baugh's photography travelling exhibit, opens March 11th at The

Temple Ball Gallery in Carrboro. f The collection of photogra- f phy is a study of the human form and challenges the normal and natural configuration of the body. The photographs are symmetrical, creating eerie mirrorlike images. Another technique he uses is the elongation of the human shape. While looking at abnormal images of the human figure is usually unpleasant, the distortions displayed in Beautiful Mutants is sickeningly beautiful. While you may want to look away from the images, your eyes are also compelled to linger on each individual photograph. One particularly disconcerting image is titled “Octoßambino,” a distortion of the limbs of a baby.

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Katie Somers

Kalindri Padia, Siva Allu and Nagi Reddy new type of theater experience to North Cr ming of their Galaxy Cinema in Cary that. Ed to open a

views of the wo. the fact that he is very nearsightI ed and legally blind. While 1 Mothersbaugh has been creating visual art for over thirty years, he is an artist of many media. His accomplishments include filmography and creating soundtracks for movies. He is most well known for his musical work in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and The Royal Tennenbaums. With his rock band, Devo, he has surpassed the normal role of a band in pop culture —reaching a large audience through films, videos, stage shows and printed materials. Mothersbaugh has also acted and played voice roles for ent

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The Mothersbaugh tour has roots in North Carolina—its project manager Michael Tilmer hails see MOTHERSBAUGH on page 4

films, but now it •egun opening films that are currently playing in India. Things have picked up quickly for the new theater. “We are drawing people not just from Cary, but from all over the Triangle,” Sawyer says. The concessions stand provides traditional Indian cuisine like samosas, in addition to the typical popcorn, candy and soda. According to the theater's website, “Galaxy Cinema is going to be a one of a kind movie exhibition location where you can buy authentic food at the concession stands of the country from which a movie is being played.” This translates to items such as spring rolls and other Asian dishes when an Asian film is featured. Additionally, the Galaxy sells gourmet coffee drinks, and also beer and wine. Though the Galaxy contains six screens, just three are currently being used. “The owners [of the Galaxy] are working with the owner of the properties to get the other theaters running. We hope to have all six by May,” Sawyer added. The Galaxy initially had trouble finding films to exhibit see GALAXY on page 4

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sandbox After 10 years together that produced four major label albums, Blink 182 announced that they will be going on an “indefinite hiatus.” A label representative stated that this was in order to, “Spend some time enjoying the fruits of labors with loved ones.” While side projects are reported to be in the works, we here at Recess have a few alternate suggestions: Pull an MC Hammer by spending ridiculous amounts of money until they are forced to make fun of themselves on potato chip commercials in order to support themselves. Release uncensored DVD with bonus footage of “Groupies Gone Wild.” Turn out a dance-pop solo album complete with two-step box kicks and hit thrusts (think: Justin Timberlake). Cameo in the Bollywood-inspired followup to From Justin to Kelly. Turn out an opera-influenced concept record. Author a self-help book from their dogs’ perspective. Turn their skater-inspired clothing line, Atticus, into high couture fashion, taking the runways of Paris by storm. Hype Travis’ new reality show Meet the Barkers, and make sure that the full-frontal nudity of the video to “What’s My Age Again?” is alive and well until 2009. Make soundtrack for Meet the Barkers complete with cheesy, yet steamy pop duets. Work at Michael Jackson’s Neverland. Marry Britney Spears in a polygamous Vegas wedding. Endorse a new energy drink “Blink Juice.” Stab selves in heart a la Elliott Smith and secure eternal fame. Although we’re not sure how open the former members of Blink 182 will be to our suggestions, but hey, if all else fails, there’s always The Surreal Life. Sarah Freeman and Robert Winterode •

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5. Tough Guy Babysitters Hollywood’s infatuation with putting high profile beefcakes in mothering role is no new phenomenon (see Hulk Hogan in Mr. Nanny or Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop ), but it has seen a resurgence this month. Tommy Lee Jones and Vin Diesel each make this returning plot device their own in Man of theHouse and The Pacifier respectively. Does it get any hotter?

4. Audiobooks.com Books on tape have been a secret of successful college students for decades. The problem is that cassettes are just so passe. Audiobooks.com solves problems. For a small fee, lazy scholars everywhere can download that difficult text straight on to an iPod. Maybe those cute little accessories do have educational value.

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3. iPowerHour There’s nothing better than spicing up your power hour with a stirring power hour mix CD. The only trouble is cutting those four-minute pop ballads down to one-minute usable chunks. You’re in luck however, because a group of program-happy lushes have created a computer program that snips up to sixty songs in an iTunes playlist into convenient 60-second shout outs. Download this freeware and you’ll be set for life.

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2. E!’s Michael Jackson Re-enactments No cameras in Jacko’s courtroom? No problem. E! has all your trial queries covered by providing re-enactments ofall the proceeding’s twists and turns via actors and actresses in all the major roles. Maybe most frightening is that the producers at E! found a dead-ringer look alike to play the pigmently chal-

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1. House of Cosbys Have you ever felt like one Cosby just wasn’t enough? Well Internet carenterprising young man would do: he built himself a cloning machine and cloned him some Cosbys. As you might imagine the whole scenario runs amok, and you can watch all their hilarious antics on Channellol.com. toon star Theo did. So he did what any

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recess Indie. Post-Punk. Art-Rock. New Wave Revivalism. It doesn't really matter what you call it. In a scene where it’s commonplace forbands to sport women’s pants and wear eyeliner in order to get a better view of the ’Bos high life, finding an act that can separate itself sonically from its peers can feel like smuggling through a book of Where’s Waldo. In many ways, highly touted New York rockers, The Bravery, fit the stereotypical indie sound ofmuffled vocals, garage electronics, nimble bass lines and wiry guitars. In other ways, they don’t. Since forming two years ago in New York’s Chinatown, the fivepiece fronted by lead vocalist Sam Endicott have polished a brand of heavy electric, synthesized music that will surely draw comparisons to bands like The Killers, Franz Ferdinand and The Strokes when their self-tided debut drops in stores March 29. The album opens with “Honest Mistake,” a catchy song fueled by techno dance beats and a steady bass line. Together they hint at why The Bravery will soon enter the record collection ofclub DJs everywhere. The dance motif permeates the album and, for the most part, it’s a progressive step forward for a genre that often relies on static guitar riffs and deadbeat vocals copied by artists time and time again. Unfortunately, such ingenuity only goes so far on this CD, as the band reverts back to ’7os disco sounds reminiscent of the Village People and Saturday Night Fever on songs like “Public Service An-

nouncement.” The Bravery is a band entering the proverbial scene a few decades too late. It's not that the record is bad; in fact, many parts of it are quite enjoyable. From an artsy perspective, the best song on the LP is “Tyrant,” a slow and ominous love ballad that craftily blends multiple guitar layers with very distinct, laser-like keyboard sounds. By and large, however, the album leaves little for the ear that hasn't already been done before, which is okay if you're satisfied with all the retro-rock on radio these days. Although The Bravery’s live performance is not as tight as their album, expect to see them sporting that traditional rock star swagger as they bring a piece of New York City to the Cat’s Cradle this Friday.

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Duke steps into the cypher Sarah Freeman ther apart rather than create lasting bonds. But here, in recess these small gatherings of MCs, there is no difference beThe beat radiates from Edens and leaks into the halls of tween black and white, Hispanic and Asian. “For me, Wannamaker. Follow your ears and you'll find a kid rapping freestyling is away of bringing people together,”junior Ike like his lines have been memorized for days, but his referMbanefo said. ences to present surroundings would tell you otherwise. He Freestyling finds it roots in the West African griots—stoflows to the beat entertaining his audience, letting his rytellers who taught their villagers the history of their comthoughts be known, sometimes taunting a fellow MC. munity through rhythmic poetry. By the end of the Civil Even with the occasional exchange of insults, there is a War, the culture had transformed into the African Amerimutual admiration between the rappers who are part of can oral tradition of toasting, in which legends and myths the growing freestyle culture at Duke. As junior Shavlik were passed on laced with improvisations as well as profane Randolph said, “If I see the person that I battled the day and sexual content. Although hip hop has strayed from before, it's not like we don't talk. I totally respect him and the storytelling aspect, rhymes and rhythm are still central he respects me and we do that because we both have reto freestyling. While many of us grew up learning to rhyme with Mothspect for freestyling.” Anyone who has watched 8 Mile would interpret er Goose and Dr. Seuss, not everyone has the potential to freestyling as a bloodthirsty competition; however, at Duke be a successful MC. “It takes a certain kind ofcreative wit... most MCs prefer noncompetitive cyphers. “I love [cyphers] you're going off the top of your head, trying to make it way more than batdes because a battle only tests wit and sound coherent,” explained Mbanefo. not flow,” senior Jason Stewart explained. “Yet, even when Most, if not all, of the MCs at Duke will not be going into it is a [cypher], you do not want to be shown up by the the music recording industry after graduation, but it will alother MCs, so all MCs keep each other on their toes.” ways be something that they can enjoy. “Freestyling in an Freestyling has brought Duke students together of all office cubicle may be hard to picture, but picking my kids ages, races and backgrounds. “Freestyling [has become] a up from soccer practice in a chrome minivan with the systotally social event, mainly because we were all so glad to tem bumping sure isn't,” Capone joked. Like riding a bike, meet some other MCs. It was great to get out of the [Pittsfreestyling is a skill that comes as second nature once you have learned how to do it; it's as simple as turning on a beat burgh's] battlegrounds and let that flow become the foundation of camaraderie,” senior Avery Capone said. and letting the words stream forth. As hip hop grows in popularity, the freestyle culture at With racial integration being a continual topic on camDuke will continue to provide an opportunity for both MCs pus, both administrators and student groups have struggled to encourage students to diversify socially. Several and spectators to come together under a common interest. students said that more often than not, those efforts result “Freestyling is just like art to me,” explained Stewart, “Duke in awkwardly forced encounters. These drive students furjust gives another canvas for creating and observing.” by

Name: Anteneh Addisu Year: Sophomore Affiliation: ATA Favorite MC: Tupac Shakur Background: saw 8 Mile, had only written lyrics

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Name: Avery Capone Year: Senior Affiliation: Wayne Manor Favorite MC: Big L Background; battling in Pittsburgh with high school friends. 1 Personal style: on the faster side, witty rhymes to get the crowd going. —

people who are Interested in learning how to freestyle should take these tips from the pros: •Do it alone at first while you get comfortable with a rhyming vocabulary. •Download instrumentals from hip hop songs so that you have a beat to keep your rhymes going. •If you don’t feel comfortable enough to keep up with a beat, go at it a cappella.Practice, practice, practice. Even the most experienced MCs still brush up on their skills. •Most importantly, don’t be afraid of making mistakes. “Anybody will tell you, the first time you do it, it’s like the first time you try to do anything. It’s going to be •

Name: Ike Mbanefo Year. Junior Affiliation: ATA Favorite MC: Nas Background: influenced by his older cousin during senior year of high school. Personal style: loves to use metaphors, takes his time with words so that the audience can hear what he’s saying.

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Freestyling 101 MC: originally referred to the Master of Ceremony, but now used in place of rapper. DJ: chooses and plays samples, scratches, and mixes creating a beat.

Name: Jason Stewart Year: Senior Affiliation: A4>A Favorite MC: Jay-Z

Background: wrote poetry and then started freestyling with friends. Personal style: witty and poetic flows, often uses deeper lyrics.

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recess Kanye is preppy. Eminem is goofy. Jigga is retired. Cube, Andre, and Big Boi are acting. 50 Cent could well adopt an exclamation of his mentor Dr. Dre on N.W.A.’s “Express Yourself:” “It's crazy to see people be who society wants them to be but not me!” While the rap scene around him has begun to cater to the masses, 50 Cent still raps about the menacing life that he lived in Queens, New York. Indeed, 50 Cent's adherence to this lifestyle may be his undoing. Amidst feuds with a dozen other rappers, the once crack-dealing, nine-times-shot, club-loving 50 Cent revels in his world of drugs and violence on his new record The Massacre. While not as accessible as his debut, the LP's rough corners and heavy beats only accentuate its overtly dark theme. On “In My Hood,” 50 describes the life that surrounded him for years, a startling scene of violence and hopelessness. He raps, “Get hit wit’ AK rounds/ ya ass ain’t gonna make it/ You bitches’ll get laid out/ wit’ blood and ya brains out.”

ates a horrifying image. 50 Cent raps over a slow,

eerie sample. He speaks from the perspective of heroin, yelling vindictively at a junkie who's trying to quit, “Now put that needle to your arm princess, stick it in / relapse, back bitch don't ever try that again.” 50 Cent’s dance tracks shine against hese darker themes. For every song chronicle the horrors of his former life, there is a thu »mg beat begging to be blared in the club lil the first two singles “Candy Shop” and “Disco ferat no.” While they might ruin your subwo» es home, the songs’ bass-driven, sexual r will be pounding on the dance flo months to come. On The Massacre, 50 Cent looms as a Prophet, who chronicles the anguishing lo’ ecstatic highs of a life spent confronting But 50 Cent is no philosopher; his ego leads him to glorify the life he lived and er The Massacre is a solid rap album. Tho breaks no new ground, it does forcefully the same themes gangsta rap has encou since Straight Outta Compton.

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GALAXY because of problems with distributors. They were forced to show second-run films at the outset. Now they have resolved this problem and are able to open new movies. This weekend the Galaxy will bring three heralded films to Cary; Academy-award winning documentary Bom into Brothels, the British Rory O'Shea was Here, and the legendary French Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's latest, Notre Musique. Additional information and showtimes at mygalaxycinema.com.

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gad Born Into Brothels Fresh off their February 27th Oscar win for Best Documentary Feature, Bom into Brothels is now poised for a wider release and box office success. Originally, American documentarians Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman went to Calcutta, India to film human exploitation. The prosdtutes proved to be reluctant subjects, so instead the pair gave cameras to the children of the prostitutes. The children's ensuing photography is for us a means to see their destitute world and for them a means to escape it.

MOTHERSBAUGH from Raleigh. Rick Ramirez, Temple Ball’s owner, said that this information left him “that much more inspired to approach Mothersbaugh” to make Temple the first stop of the tour. Ramirez and Tilmer “combined efforts to arrange the photographs within the gallery's space.” This week, a preview of the full exhibit is on display and the gallery has a “tentative plan ofhow the final exhibit will look,” Ramirez said. Ramirez and Tilmer decided to repaint the gallery a glossy black color from its original white to highlight the limited edition prints. Only 20 of each print have been made and authenticated with Mothersbaugh’s rubber-stamp embossment. All of the pieces are for sale with prices ranging from $2OO to $6OO. Beautiful Mutant's grossly distorted and, at times, creepy images challenge photographic and artistic norms. The official opening reception is Friday night, March 11. Temple Ball Gallery is located just past Franklin Street at 307 E. Main St. in Carrboro

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SPOT Congress Deng, Duhon thrive in NBA RODKIE SLUGGER FRESHMAN BRETT BARTLES EXCELS AT THE PLATE PAGE 10

Students desiring tickets to the first round of the NCAA Tournament may register for the lottery Friday, Sign-ups will be at 200 Crowell Building on East Campus between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

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After playing their last game in a Duke jersey—the 2004 national semifinal loss to the Connecticut Huskies —Chris Duhon and Luol Deng expected to go their separate ways. But in a fortunate twist of fate, the two former Blue Devils now find themselves starting for the Chicago Bulls and helping each other make the transition to the NBA. “It makes both of our jobs easier,” Duhon said of the duo’s friendship. “We have a great feel and understanding for one another—we can help each other out in tough situations. I can motivate him and he can motivate me, and that year ofexperience shows that we have a connection out there on the court. I kind ofhave a feel for him a little more because I’ve played with him for a year.” Duhon and Deng’s jump to the pros has caused transformations on three different fronts. The new-look Blue Devils have endured a season-long growing experience as they try to win in spite of their depleted bench. Deng and Duhon have undergone attitude changes as they transition into the professional ranks. And finally, after six losing seasons, the Chicago Bulls have found a team chemistry that works—the former Duke standouts have played vital roles in the revival of the franchise. Deng, picked seventh overall in June’s NBA draft, is the typical youthful player coveted simply for his raw talent. Duhon, who played four years of college basketball, did not have that same potential in eyes of NBA general managers. Duhon was not selected until the middle of the second round. He was not extended a contract until late in the preseason and narrowly avoided being cut from the team. Despite the age difference, Deng and Duhon’s learning experiences have been

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NEW YORK —Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire and four other current major league players were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a congressional committee investigating steroids policy, a move baseball’s leadership vowed to fight all the way to court. Curt Schilling, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro and Frank Thomas also were subpoenaed to appear at the March 17 hearing of the House Government Reform Committee along with players’ association head Donald Fehr, baseball executive vice presidents Rob Manfred and Sandy Alderson and San Diego general managerKevin Towers. Stanley Brand, a lawyer for the baseball commissioner’s office, criticized the committee for an “an absolutely excessive and unprecedented misuse of congressional power.” He said the committee was interfering with the federal grand jury investigation in California into illegal distribution by subpoenaing Giambi, a grand jury witness who might have to testify at a trial. “Not even the Iran-Contra committee attempted to do that,” Brand said. Gene Orza, the union’s chief operating officer, declined comment. Brand and Manfred said baseball will attempt to fight the subpoenas. If the subpoenas are not complied with, the SEE STEROIDS ON PAGE 12

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Luol Deng and Chris Duhon and the young "Baby Bulls"are sixth in the Eastern Conference with a 31 -27 record.

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THE END OF THE "DUKE CHOSE"

Do Duke players still have trouble when they play in the NBA ? When comparing Duke’s top five players to those of seven other powerhouse NCAA programs, it appears theDuke Curse has been lifted. With the resurgence of Grant Hill and the abilities of many recent grads, Duke has arguably the most talented crop of players from any college now playing in the NBA. The Duke “Starting 5” is second in total points per game to Arizona, first in rebounds per game and third in assists per game. There are a total of 10former Dukies in the NBA now, including seven starters. It should be noted that Arizona grad Richard fefferson is out for the year, a fact that hurts the Arizona startingfive. Of the other teams, Con necticut is an up and coming with Okafor and Gordon, while Michigan is sliding.

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N.C. native Brett Bartles adds pop to Duke lineup “I’m seeing the ball well right now,” Bartles said. “I’ve never re-

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How does a freshman manage to post a .483 batting average in

one of the most competitive baseball conferences in the country? Just ask Brett Bartles. “I relax my hands and get my front foot down,” Bartles said. ‘You can’t start your swing until your front foot is down. Once that’s down, you just react and hit the ball. Just try to square it up on the barrel.” This seemingly simple strategy has helped the rookie infielder emerge as the most dangerous offensive threat on the baseball team. Bartles currently leads the team in total hits and RBIs, earning 23 and 15, respectively. “[He’s] been unbelievable offensively,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “I can’t remember ever having a freshman that’s come out of the shoot the way he has.” Hitting has always been the strong point of the North Carolina native’s game. In his senior year at A.L. Brown high school, Bartles earned him a place on the second squad of the 2004 North Carolina All-Impact Team. Even though Bartles enjoyed success in his high school career, however, the infielder says his swing has improved since coming to Duke.

ally hit so much before in my life. Before, I’d foul [pitches] off in high school or summer ball. Now, whenever I see a good pitch, I usually hit it. I don’t foul it off.” A three-sport athlete in high school, the freshman is now able to focus solely on baseball for the first time. Despite participating in both football and basketball, however, Bartles always considered baseball his main sport. “My mom went to college to play basketball, and my dad went to college to play football,” Barties said. “I really didn’t want to have to live in their shadows, so I played baseball.” Bartles said that the opportunity to concentrate on one sport has allowed him to improve his offensive performance drastically. Assistant coach John Yurkow has been working with the freshman’s swing all year. Bardes said that the extra practice has helped him to refine his perception at the plate. “Now I can really see and slow the pitch down,” Bartles said. “A 90 mile-per-hour fastball isn’t blowing me away.” Though Bartles has not shown any sign of freshman jitters in his offensive production, his defensive performance suffered early

in the year at the shortstop position. Duke’s top hitter has committed a team-worst 7 errors on the season. “I think the reason I would mess up the routine play is because I’d try to speed everything up and not take my time and focus,” Bartles said. “The plays that I didn’t have time to think about, like in the hole or up the middle, I fielded them at a pretty high percentage. It’s just the plays that I let get in my head.” Due to the freshman’s miscues, Hillier moved Bartles from shortstop to first base. Since relocating to first base, Bartles has increased his fielding percentage to a respectable .939 and has gained greater confidence on the field. “I think a lot of my fielding problems came from me thinking ‘l’m in the ACC;”’ Bartles said. “That really got in my head for a little while. Now, after being on the field and seeing what the competition's like for a while, I really feel comfortable outthere.” Like his approach to batting, the freshman’s perception of his stellar season thus far is deceptively simple. “The season’s been pretty cutand-dry,” Bartles said. I just go out there and do the job and let it fall into place.” “

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similar. Bulls head coach Scott Skiles likes both players for being “hard workers,” and he noted their ability to work through their struggles with extra practice sessions. Both players understand the higher level of commitment that is demanded in the NBA and acknowledge the cut-throat pressure. “This is business now,” Duhon said. “If you don’t produce, then you don’t play and you’re fired. You have to go out and give it your all and keep fighting for your job. You just have to worry about yourself, run your race and don’t worry about what other people are doing. ‘You just have to know that when you get around the court that you’re going to work. I make the most of my minutes, defend and run the team—and just be Chris Duhon.” Along with the change in scenery and attitude has come a change in lifestyle. Duhon now lives with former Blue Devil teammate Andy Means and has adapted to the rigorous schedule of the NBA. “We take it easy [at night],” Duhon said. “If you want to have that type of lifestyle you can, but this is a job. You have to take it seriously and be in tip top shape. The NBA is just a different life pretty much.” Deng sprained his ankle four games ago and is temporarily inactive on the injured list. Although he is only 19, he has also shown the maturity and commitment to the new lifestyle. “If you’re not responsible off the court, then its going to catch up to you on the court, Deng said. You’re a man now—when you come into the big leagues you make a lot of decisions on your own and you just have to make the right decisions.” The Bulls have a young team, and the older players are now accustomed to coaching the rookies through their first season. “The thing I see in them is that maturity level,” 11-year veteran Antonio Davis said. “Even though Luol is 19, you see he’s very mature. You just look at Chris Duhon, who wasn’t even supposed to be on our team, and now he’s starting for us.” The duo was fortunate to land on a Chicago Bulls team that is just emerging from a long rebuilding process. After losing their first nine games of the regular season, the Bulls decided to start both Duhon and Deng for the first time in their careers Nov. 24 against the Utah Jazz. Chicago won its first game of the season 101-99. Since then, the two have become permanent fixtures on the starting lineup and are on pace to lead the Bulls to their “

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STEROIDS from page 9 committee could vote contempt citations, which would have to be approved by the full House of Representatives, and certified by a U.S. Attorney. If that happened, Brand said the fight over the subpoenas would head to U.S. District Court. Canseco, Fehr and Manfred have agreed to testify. Manfred would speak on behalf of baseball commissioner Bud Selig. “The remaining witnesses, however, made it clear—either by flatly rejecting the invitation to testify or by ignoring our re-

peated attempts to contact them—they had no intention of appearing before the committee,” committee chairman Rep. Tom Davis and Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat, said in a statement. Thomas said Monday he would testify, but baseball’s formal response

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The first half ofLuol Deng's (left bottom right) season earned him a spot in theRookie Challenge Feb. 19.Chris Duhon (top right) leads allrookies in assists per game. first winning record season since they won the NBA Championship in 1998. Deng started out his rookie campaign with a flurry of scoring, averaging 19 points per contest in the first five games of the regular season. His scoring has since dropped a little, but he is still the third among rookies in scoring with 12.2 per contest, trailing former Connecticut stars

mittee Tuesday said he was declining the invitation. “The committee will conduct a thorough, fair, and responsible investigation. It is important the American people know the facts on baseball’s steroid scandal,” Davis and Waxman said. “And it is important that all Americans, especially children, know about the dangers of drug use. Consistent with our committee’s jurisdiction over the nation’s drug policy, we need to better understand the steps MLB is taking to get a handle on the steroid issue, and whether news of those steps—and the public health danger posed by steroid use —is reaching America’s youth.” Brand wrote to the committee Tuesday on behalf of management and the union saying the hearing and what he termed “overly expansive” document requests “present significant constitutional and institutional concerns about the underlying

Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon, who now play for the Charlotte Bobcats and the

Bulls, respectively. In the Sophomore-Rookie Challenge, Deng scored 17 points, tied for the most among rookies. “I never really want to put pressure on me, I just come to play,” Deng said. “I know I work hard enough to be in that

validity and proprietary of the committee’s inquiry.

“It is not clear to us how the committee’s jurisdiction encompasses the privately negotiated drug policy,” Brand wrote, adding that the committee was requesting “highly private and sensitive information.” “The right to the privacy of this information outweighs any asserted interest in the ‘health problems stemming from the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs,’” Brand wrote. Brand said the committee request “goes to the unprecedented and, we must add, destructive length of seeking actual testing results (and) shows no consideration for the legitimate privacy concerns of MLB, the MLBPA, individual players and other members of the bargaining unit.” Another congressional hearing on steroids is scheduled for Thursday, when the House Energy and Commerce subcom-

starting role, so I that’s where I really get my confidence.” While Deng was enjoying the festivities of All-Star Weekend, Duhon appeared in Cameron Indoor Stadium as a spectator for the Duke-Wake Forest game Feb. 20 and even made an appearance at George’s Garage with former teammate Jay Williams. mittee is to hear from witnesses, including labor lawyers from the commissioner’s of fice and the NFL, and representatives of the NCAA and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. “We’re trying to get to the bottom of the steroid problem,” Rep. Cliff Steams said. “Are they being used in high school? Are they being used in college? Are they being used in professional sports? And what are we doing do stop this, because it is a felony. What is the baseball commissioner doing?” Steams, chairman of the House Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection subcommittee, said Selig Was invited to speak at the hearing but declined. Steams said Davis’ committee “cannot legislate; they’re just an oversight committee.” “We can legislate,” Steams said. “We’re trying to understand whether legislation is needed. We’re obviously disappointed that Selig did not want to show.”

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Government pulpits not relevant for civil rights WASHINGTON In contemporary tanks, he became head of the Department American politics, as in earlier forms of of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in the vaudeville, it helps to have had an easy act administration of the first President Bush. to follow. Gerald Reynolds certainly did. He is currently a corporate lawyer in Kansas The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ City, where he has witnessed the handiwork new chairman follows Mary Frances Berry, of an imperial judge who, running the whose seedy career —24 years on the comschool system, ordered the spending of mission, 11 of them as chairman—mixed nearly $2 billion in a spectacular, if redundant, proof that increased financial inputs tawdry peculation, boorish behavior and absurd rhetoric. often do not correlate with increased cogniBecause Reynolds represents such a tive outputs. But about this commission as bully pulbracing change, it is tempting to just enjoy the new 6-to-2 conservative ascendancy on pit: Does anyone really think America sufthe commission and forgo fers from an insufficiency of talk about race? What is in asking a pertinent question: scarce supply is talk about ® Why not retire the commisdPOffie Will sion? the meaning of the phrase guest commentary “civil rights.” Not every need • Its $9 million budget—about 60 employees and six is a right, and if the adjective field offices—is, as Washington reckons is a modifier that modifies, not every right is these things, negligible. So even Berry’s a civil right—one central to participation in flamboyant mismanagement of it—several civic life. Government Accountability Office reports Reynolds, 41, says that the core function have said federal guidelines were ignored of civil rights laws is to prevent discrimination, meaning “the distribution of benefits during her tenure; another report is coming—was small beer, even when including and burdens on the basis of race.” But if so, the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year today a—perhaps the—principal discriminator is government, with racial preferpaid to the public relations firm that mediated her relations with the media. But alences and the rest of the reparations system though the monetary savings from closing that flows from the assumption that disparithe commission would be small, two pruties in social outcomes must be caused by discrimination, and should be remedied by dential reasons for doing so are large. One is that someday Democrats will government transfers of wealth. Reynolds rightly says that the core funcagain control the executive branch and may tion of the civil rights laws, which required again stock the commission with extremists —Berry celebrated “a lot of heavy lifting by the Communist China’s government,” was But about this commission federal educational system in to dismantle a caste system 1977, when she was as- as bully pulpit: Does anymaintained bylaw. But that sis tant secretary of edhas been accomplished. ucation; she made un- one really think America It is, as Reynolds says, substantiated charges suffers from an insuffi- scandalous that so few of vast “disenfranchiseblack 17-year-old males ment” ofFlorida voters ciency of talk about race? read at grade level; that so black teenagers are in 2000 —from the What is scarce supply is many wilder shores of racial not mentored to think politics. The second talk about the meaning of about college as a possibilireason for terminating ty and of SAT tests as imthe commission is that the phrase "civil rights." portant; that many young civil rights rhetoric has Not every need is a right... blacks—6B.2 percent are become a crashing born out of wedlock—not every right is a civil now bore and, worse, a are enveloped in the culcause of confusion: Al- right—one central to parture that appalls Bill Cosby, most everything desiga culture that disparages ticipation civic life. nated a “civil rights’” academic seriousness as problem isn’t “acting white” and celeThe commission has no enforcement brates destructive behaviors. Reynolds is powers, only the power to be, Reynolds says, right that much of this can be traced far a “bully pulpit.” And if someone must be back to discriminatory events or contexts. But this is a problem of class, one that is preaching from it, by all means let it be Reynolds. Born in the South Bronx, the son both cause and effect of a cultural crisis. It of a New York City policeman, he is no is rooted in needs, such as functional famistranger to the moral muggings routinely lies and good schools, that are not rights in administered to African-American conservathe sense of enforceable claims. Civil rights tives. But he says, “If you think I’m conserlaws and enforcement agencies are barely vative, you should come with me to a black relevant. Proper pulpits—perhaps includbarbershop. I’m usually the most liberal ing barbershops—are relevant. Government pulpits are not. person there,” where cultural conservatism—on crime, welfare, abortion, schools—flourishes. George Will is a syndicated columnist for The After working in some conservative think New York Times. ®

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aren’t our favorite type of financial aid—in loan payments after graduation. Low-income students fact, those of us who have loans often complain are entitled to up to $4,000 each year in Perkins loans, in about making monthly payments after graduation. addition to subsidized Stafford loans and any other aid Sometimes, we are forced to forgo certain opportunities that is available to them. Does the White House really like joining the Peace Corps or going on to graduate think this program is of no consequence? school because the monetary input/output becomes too In return for taking away our Perkins loans, Bush nerve wracking as we think “Okay, if I live off of peanut wants to increase Pell grant maximums by $lOO per year butter and jelly sandwiches, share a room with two other for five years, bringing the grand total to $4,550 per year. people and ride my bike everywhere that leaves me While it is important to increase Pell grant funding bewith.... Still not enough money to pay my loans 1” cause this funding is essential to low-income students Even though loans don’t get high marks from stuand their families, this increase in no way makes up for dents, it is important to distinguish belosing Perkins loans. In my own case, I tween the different types ofloans. I might would end up paying higher interest rates not like the idea that I will be graduating and losing loan forgiveness for teaching with $30,000 in debt, but this is federally in a low-income school. In return for lossubsidized debt. No interest accrued while ing over $lO,OOO (including the higher I was in school, my repayment terms are interest rates I would end up paying), I pretty merciful and some of my loans will would get an extra $5OO. I’m not especialeven be cancelled for teaching in a low-inly good at math, but this just doesn’t come school with Teach for America make much sense to me. In fact, the Some of my friends on the other hand, newman more I think about it, this almost seems are burdened with private loan debt. This like some kind of sick joke on poor stulooking for the holes often means that they are graduating with dents. Please, if anyone understands this two to three times my debt, have higher math or why this is a good policy move, interest rates and extremely rigid repayment terms with please let me know. On this issue I really can’t see “the no cancellation terms. The best loans are my Perkins other side”: Bush is taking money away from the students loans because the interest rate is capped at a low 5 perwho need it the most and giving us money for an extra cent, and if I teach for five years in low-income schools, I book each year. This makes about as much sense as takcould have 100 percent ofmy Perkins loans forgiven. ing funding away from the AmeriCorps program, anothI am appalled that President George W. Bush has reer great policy move from this White House. Of all the iscently proposed to end federal funding of Perkins loans, sues our country is divided on, shouldn’t we at least effectively killing the program. When The Chronicle re- agree that a program that helps poor students get an edported on this story, Director of Financial Aid Jim Belvin ucation while encouraging them to give back to society is admitted that Duke would probably have to turn to ana wonderful idea? other lender and students would pay higher interest As much as I am worried about students losing the rates. This means that companies like Citigroup will merciful interest rates of Perkins loans in exchange for probably come in and make a profit off poor college stuhigher interest rates from for-profit enterprises, I think dents while those students lose out on the forgiving inthe loss of the forgiveness terms under the Perkins proterest rate and terms of Perkins loans, as well as their ingram is the most lamentable. While everyone should be centive to serve the public good. While it seems that no encouraged to give back to their community, low-income one at Duke is applauding this decision, where is the outstudents often face difficulties doing so because giving cry? Either Mr. Belvin gave his quote with a certain chutzback doesn’t always “give back” monetarily. This is espepah that the written word tends to miss, or we are just cially worrisome because it is low-income college sturolling over and letting the federal government gut the dents who are often the best suited for community best loan program in the history ofAmerican higher edwork—they come from the same communities as the ucation. people they serve. Cutting off funding to a program that facilitates this relationship between low-income students Perkins loans are available only for low-income students—it is for this reason that this program is limited in and their communities is completely indefensible. Since Perkins loans only affect a small percentage of scope and yet has a deep impact for struggling students. students, it’s difficult to tell how many institutions will The White House has tried to make us believe that betake up the cause and lobby the White House to recant cause Perkins loans are given to a relatively small perits decision to cut funding for this exemplary program. It centage of students, this program is therefore unimportant. Of the $30,000 in debt I will have upon graduation, is my hope however, that at least here at Duke University about $lO,OOO of this is in Perkins loans. That’s $lO,OOO we will fight the good fight for the only “good” loans that I could have cancelled if I choose to teach for at we’ve ever had. least five years in a low-income school. Perkins may be a small program, but it is a lifesaver for low-income stuBridget Newman is a Trinity senior. Her column appears dents who have an especially difficult time dealing with every other Thursday.

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The Bible and interracial marriage

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who has dated someone of another ethnicity knows that not everybody is fine with interracial relationships. Couples often receive awkward looks and stares in public, and many college students don’t date outside of their ethnicity for fear of their families disapproving. Polls show that a significant amount ofAmericans oppose interracial dating, even 40 years removed from the modern Civil Rights Movement. In 1987, fewer than half ofAmericans thought it was appropriate for whites and blacks to date. Today, the number is up, but only to 61 to percent among Southern whites. While some see these numbers as evidence that America is a nation of racist bigots, it’s clear that not everyone who opposes interracial dadng does so out of hatred for other ethnicities. Many Americans are in fact friends and neighbors with people of other races, yet are still uncomfortable with interracial relationships due to their religious beliefs. “Interracial dating is sinful,” some have said, “the Bible says two people can’t be ‘unequally yoked.’” Any Christian using the abojve argument nee. 'ds to reread the part of the Bible he or she is referencing immediately. It has nothing to do with race, and it actually has little to do with romantic relationships. The passage in question ri3t 11311 CdnGtOVl is 2 Corinthians 6:14-15. “Do not be yoked together poker with unbelievers,” it says. “For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?... What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?” The author’s point here is not even cryptic: Christians should not join together as one with non-Christians. That’s it. Whether this means believers cannot be best friends, close friends or friends at all with nonbelievers may be up for debate. What’s not is whether the passage forbids interracial marriage or interracial dating. It clearly doesn’t. Another passage that Christians sometimes cite during discussions about interracial dating is Deuteronomy 7. Here, God discusses marriage when instructing Israelites about living on the land he’s promised them: “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when theLORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them.” Yes, in this scripture God tells Israelites to not marry people from other nations. He also tells them to “destroy them totally.” Clearly, the issue here is not the color of the Girgashites’, Jebusites’ and Perizzites’ skin, it’s their culture. To argue that Deuteronomy 7 proves interracial marriage sinful is silly, as the situation is obviously a specific one, and the people’s ethnicity is not the motivation. A far more relevant passage of the Bible dealing with interracial marriage is Numbers 12, where Miriam and Aaron are speaking bad words about Moses because of his marrying a “Cushite wife.” That Moses’ wife was a “Cushite” means she was from Ethiopia. It also means she likely had much darker skin than Moses, a scenario backed up by passages like Jeremiah 13:23. In this story, God becomes very angry with Miriam and Aaron for criticizing Moses and his wife and even gives one of them leprosy. He offers not condemnation, but praise for Moses, calling him his “servant” and saying that “he is faithful in all my house.” Were God opposed to interracial marriages, he certainly would have said something else here. Other religions may have different things to say about interracial marriage, and hate groups opposed to it will surely keep trying to spin statistics and religious texts in their favor. But the bottom line is that the Christian stance on the issue is extremely clear. There is nothing sinful or wrong about interracial relationships, and anyone who says otherwise has either misinterpreted scripture or abused it. '

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Silence That was the sound in the Dean Dome Sunday afternoon after Lee Melchionni nailed his fifth three-pointer, giving the Blue Devils a nine-point lead over the nation’s most talented team. What transpired in the next three minutes—Duke’s devastating downfall to let North Carolina finish on an 11-0 run —has been well documented. Still, the Blue Devils proved something in that loss, both to themselves and to any doubters: Duke can play with anybody in the country. Considering the team has been plagued by injuries and a short bench all season, Duke’s 22-5 record, which includes an 11-5 ACC mark against the hardest conference schedule in the league, has exceeded many expectations. Although North Carolina and Wake Forest may have been penciled in as No. 1 seeds for the NCAA Tournament, this weekend Duke is primed to perfect its roster and steal a spot ofits own. The third-seeded Blue Devils will embark on their quest for a sixth ACC Tournament title in seven years Friday night, when No. 5 Duke takes on the winner of today’s Miami-Virginia game at 9:30 p.m. The Blue Devils’ “big three” of JJ. Redick, Daniel Ewing and Shelden Williams all average more than 33 minutes per contest. Redick has played eight complete games, and he has averaged 38.3 minutes in the conference slate, sitting out just 32 minutes in those 16 games. “We’re concerned,” Krzyzewski said. “Going into the tournament we’ll have to watch our practices so we don’t go in tired—so we go in real fresh.”

All season long the Blue Devils have had to adjust the length and intensity of their workouts to accommodate for their depleted roster, which includes just nine recruited scholarship players who have combined to miss 26 games this year. Duke will travel to Washington, D.C., this afternoon but, because of the expanded tournament, will not hold a shoot-around in the MCI Center before Friday’s tip-off, which Krzyzewski said concerns him. To make matters worse, Duke’s contest will follow closely after the N.C. State-Florida State game, limiting warmup time. “We have a good feel for what our kids can handle and what we can get across in a two-day or one-day period, depending on how much preparation time you have,” Krzyzewski said. “Instead of changing defenses, it will be more about tempo or something within our defense that we will try to take advantage of.” The Blue Devils will start the same lineup Friday that they did against UNC in an effort to get junior Shavlik Randolph more involved in the game. The forward has been hampered by foul trouble ever since returning from mononucleosis Jan. 16. Krzyzewski also said he hopes to integrate into the rotation David McClure, who is finally nearing 100 percent, health after missing seven games with a knee injury earlier this season. “We are trying to get in good condition, review all of our offensive sets and take areas of weakness and try to make them strengths,” Krzyzewski said. “More so we are preparing ourselves, not for a specific opponent but just trying to be a better basketball team.” SEE DUKE PREVIEW ON PAGE 23

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Lee Melchionni was out in front of every defender, in the stadium he had always dreamed of playing in, with 9,314 pairs of eyes looking just at him. Duke was beating Wake Forest Feb. 20, and the 6-foot-6 Melchionni appeared ready to slam home a rim-rattling dunk that would blow the roof off of Cameron Indoor Stadium. Instead, Melchionni’s two-handed attempt barely cleared the rim. “When he stole the ball I was like, Lee’s about to get his first collegiate dunk,” said Shelden Williams, Melchionni’s roommate. “And then I was like, he should’ve laid it up. It was like, you’re by yourself, and then you get off a little squeaker dunk. You’re supposed to bring the house down.” Melchionni’s teammates must feel like they have to give him a hard time, just to keep him humble. It would seem natural that a player might develop a swelled head in the transition from playing just over five minutes per game last season to hitting big shots in Duke’s toughest conference games. Luckily for the Blue Devils, the junior forward provides ample material for his teammates to use when trying to keep him modest. He has been known to jump on Williams to wake him up, streak in front of the television and, most frequendy, perform repertoire of impressions. His impression of Williams is his favorite, he says, and he launches into it after just a little bit of prodding. “I just,” Melchionni starts out before dropping his voice several octaves, “talk in a deep voice and say, ‘My name is Shelden Williams, and uh, I’m from Oklahoma, and uh, I can block shots.” Though Melchionni is proud ofhis his teammates em mainly for omic relief. ‘Lee does the st impressions of 'lie,” said Daniel ng, who claims lot to be a target of Melchionni’s ,

imitations. “The best impression Lee has is probably talking like he’s Australian, but he uses the same voice for every other impression he uses. So he’s terrible.” But if Melchionni’s impersonations and dunks have been sub-par, his teammates will surely forgive him because they would not be 22-5 without him. The Lancaster, Pa., native has done it all. He has shot from long range and driven to the basket. He has rebounded, set picks, chased down loose balls and made the extra pass. He has banged with big men near the basket and chased guards all over the court. “That’s just amazing, going from guarding the other team’s center to the other team’s point guard,” Melchionni SEE LEE ON PAGE 22

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When they walk into the media room, which they’ll admit isn’t often, they are not swarmed by reporters with recorders and notepads in hand. When they were sophomores in high school, they were not scouted by top-25 Division I basketball programs from across the country. Yet when they enter Cameron Indoor Stadium, they consider themselves just as important as those who are, those who were. The men’s basketball team agrees that the primary contributions the walk-ons make occur during practice, as they push themselves and their teammates hard every day. In game situations this season, Patrick-Johnson, Ross Perkins, Patrick Davidson, Tom Novick and Joe Pagliuca collectively have played 128 minutes, 86 of which belong to Johnson alone. To offer some perspective, JJ. Redick has clocked 998 minutes and previously-injured David McClure has played 143, the lowest among recruited players. Johnson and Davidson have scored the fivesome’s only points and picked up all but one of their rebounds. But the walk-ons’ success cannot be measured by a stat sheet. Their impact, instead, is demonstrated in their teammates’ preparedness for their opponents. Simulating other teams’ sets, patterns and playing styles, the walk-ons help their team>are for

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we can,” Davidson said. “It’s obviously a lot of fun, but really difficult also to compete with these guys because they’re so g00d.... All I can do is stay in front of them to help them work on their game. These guys are playing against some of the best players in the country, so whatever I can do to help them I try to do.” More than in years past, the walk-ons’ contributions havp reached beyond practice and the locker room —partly because of injuries and departures this season, and partly because of the players that walked on to the team. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has called on Johnson especially to play more minutes and add a larger presence on the court.

While defending an N.C. State player Jan. 13, Johnson dislocat-

ed his shoulder, a chronic problem for the former baseball pitcher. Instead of falling back to nurse his shoulder, the senior endured the pain and continued to guard his man. Krzyzewski cited that performance as an example of the extraordinary effort his walk-ons put forth. , In addition to working hard, the walk-ons provide some of the strongest parts of the team’s support system. “We’ve had a lot of emotional team building periods with this group,and a lot of that has to do with the fact that we’ve had these SEE WALK-ONS ON PAGE 24

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On the bookshelf in Nancy Major’s office at the Duke University Medical Center, thick books tided Imaging of Othopeadic Trauma and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Body sit next to One Hundred Years, Duke Basketball: A Legacy of Achievement. A framed poster of Duke’s 2001 National Championship team shares wall space with a certification from the American Board of Radiology. The decoration seems to represent the perfect marriage of medicine and basketball. “There’s a great relationship that we have that’s very unique to Duke,” said Major, an associate professor of radiology and surgery who works closely with the basketball team. “With this easy flow of information back and forth, the athletes get great care.” Major leads a study, sponsored in part by Nike, that is among the first to explore the use of MRIs as a preventa-

tive diagnostic tool. The men’s basketball players at Duke and N.C. Central are her subjects. Before and after the season, each player has MRIs taken of his feet and knees, and then Major and her associates analyze the images to look for irregularities. Often, the images can reveal problems with the bones that have yet to display symptoms, and the players can receive preventative treatment. “One of the things with sports medicine, and I know that’s what we’re trying to do at the K-Lab, is prevent injuries,” Duke men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of Michael W. Krzyzewski Human Performance Lab and other programs. “We’re lucky because they’re doing a study; otherwise getting MRIs is expensive. So they’re able to do it as part ofresearch.” In 2003-2004, the first year of the study, preseason MRI testing showed that two Duke players had each developed SEE FRACTURES ON PAGE 27

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The most crucial sounds on the court are ones most fans won’t hear. Drowned out by the clamor of the Cameron Crazies, the constant chatter among the players is a hallmark of Duke’s defensive success. Talking is something that head coach Mike Krzyzewski preaches from day one, something he says every player needs to learn to be successful. “It’s huge,” Krzyzewski said. “Communication is the key to a unit, and you need it not just from the coach but from people within your unit. You need internal leadership, not just the figurehead leader.” Duke’s man-to-man pressure defense requires constant communication because the Blue Devils switch on nearly all screens and frequently leave their own men from the weak side to assist teammates. Unlike in high school, when the Blue Devils were often the most athletic players on the court, the collegiate level requires teammates to talk in order to play efficient team defense. But for some of the current Blue Devils, being vocal during the action has not always come easy. “I came here real quiet,” Daniel Ewing said. “I didn’t really understand why it was required to talk so much out on the court. In order for you to play, it’s something that you have to develop. It’s something you have to work at.” The senior has made steady progress over the past few years in that regard, as

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director for external operations at Maryland. “Some peo-

Maryland head coach Gary Williams and Terrapin fans everywhere have been waiting for their team to play the ACC Tournament in their own backyard for years. The tradeofffor having a tournament close to home in Washington, D.C.’s MCI Center is that more fans who had hoped to cheer on the Terps—or any other league team from arena seats will be watching the games from their liv—

ing room couches instead. In comparison to past ACC tournaments, the size of this year’s site is relatively small—Ahere are more than 3,000 fewer seats available this year than last year. The recent addition of Miami and Virginia Tech to the conference further reduces the number of tickets available for each participating program to distribute to its supporters. “Our people have known for a while now that tickets would be very, very tight,” said Joe Hull, senior associate

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Maryland and the eight other pre-expansion schools each received 1,941 tickets to be made available for purchase, about 400 fewer than each had last year. Newcomers Miami and Virginia Tech were allotted 647 tickets apiece, a third of the number given to the other schools. All programs will have 100 additional seats behind the bench for games in which their teams are playing. The ACC is traditionally home to some of the strongest basketball programs in the country, and tickets to the SEE TICKETS ON PAGE 23

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To the average basketball fan or recreational player, trash talking seems like an elementary concept. I say, “you can’t shoot,” then you tell me “my momma can’t shoot,” and we continue this conversation until one team prevails. But in college basketball trash talking has become a complex component of the game. First, there is much debate over the effectiveness of trash talking. Second, there is confusion over the prominence of trash talking—some say they don’t notice it, while others say it surrounds them. “That’s what makes basketball so competitive,” freshman DeMarcus Nelson said of trash talking. “I just play the game, I usually don’t talk. Sometimes when opponents start talking I will start, but for the most part I just play the game.” Some players acquire temporary amnesia when discussing who talks the most smack. When asked to recall a specific instance in which a teammate or opponent talked trash, Nelson drew a blank—only seconds after remarking about the abundance of trash talkers in college basketball. “There’s been a few times when there’s been heated discussions on the court,” Nelson said. “But that’s just the nature of the game—the other team is trying to win, and that’s how we communicate out there.” Senior co-captain Daniel Ewing was a little more open than his younger teammate about which specific players talk trash. “On our team, I think JJ. [Redick] is really the biggest trash talker—when it comes to practice,” he said. Ewing still hesitated to say that Redick talks trash during games. This should come as a surprise to the fans, particularly those who remember Redick’s freshman and masons, when the ter’s lips would acinto motion folig many a threeat field goal. This year I’ve fried ;eally tone down,” Redick said. “My rst two years I

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players don’t play well when they are trash talking, and some players perform their best when they trash talk. A prime example of that is a friend of mine, [Boston Celtic] Gary Payton. He’s known for his trash talking, and that motivates him to play. “But a quieter person, like myself, I won’t SEE TRASH TALKING ON PAGE 21

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At the beginning of the season, there was talk of as many as eight ACC teams receiving bids to the NCAA Tournament. Now, only three teams are locks. But of those three teams, all are potential No. 1 seeds. North Carolina, Wake Forest and Duke, each ranked in the top five in both polls and the RPI, will compete this weekend in Washington, D.C., with at least two one seeds most likely emerging. The number of ACC one seeds is contingent on the play of Kentucky and Kansas, since Illinois has already locked up a one seed. The Wildcats and Jayhawks are the two most talked-about non-ACC teams. But if both of these teams falter terribly in their conference tournaments, a third ACC team might gain a one seed by default, as there are few other teams in the running. The fifth-ranked Blue Devils will :d to win the ACC ;nt. If Duke were Wake Forest and to UNC, however, er Wake Forest uke could receive ACC’s second op seed. “If we advance

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son at N.C. State. The Demon Deacons will have to play their quarterfinal game without All-ACC point guard Chris Paul, who was suspended for punching the Wolfpack’s Julius Hodge in the groin. Losing a game without its star player may not harm Wake Forest, depending on the success of other top-tier teams. In the past, the selection committee

NCAA Tournament, you would say that they’ve sewn up a bid. If you were asked the odds of the 118th-ranked team in the RPI making the field of 65, you would say that there is not a chance in the world. What happens if it is the same team, as is the case this year with Virginia Tech? The ACC Tournament this weekend in Washington, D.C., should hold all the answers. As always, numerous teams are fighting for a few bids and who gets in will be determined by the number of entries available, which is dependent on many factors, such as unexpected teams winning their respective conference tournaments and grabbing automatic bids. At .500 in the ACC, the Hokies would have been considered an lock for the NCAA Tournament in the past. “I think our kids have earned it,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said. “Is it one time in history that an ACC team at 8-8 didn’t make it?”

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*RPI estimates from College RPl.com # This year's RPI favors road and neutral games more than last year's. The committee is considering both figures. to Sunday, we’ll have a chance to be an unbelievably high seed,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Anything is possible.” But Blue Devil loss to Wake Forest or a defeat by the the Tar Heels without a victory over the Demon Deacons would most likely not be enough for Duke to garner one of the four No. 1 seeds. By beating Duke March 6, No. 2 North Carolina all but secured a top seed. Even with a loss in the quarterfinals to Maryland or Clemson, it is doubtful that any team would take the Tar Heels’ top spot.

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After an epic comeback victory over Duke Sunday that the No. 1 seed, the Tar Heels (26-3, 14-2 in the ACC) more confident going into postseason play. During th season, UNC dominated the four teams in its half bracket, winning all six games it played against Mary! Virginia Tech, GeorgiaTech and Clemson by an avei age margin of 23.8 points. Maryland was the only team that challenged the Tar Heels —the Terps lost by or two points, taking advantage of the absence of UNC t man Rashad McCants. McCants, a junior, has been cl practice this week, however, and the NCAA’s top offt could be back to full strength by Friday’s quarterfinal Cants is indeed healthy, the Tar Heels could cruise two rounds and into the tournament championship.

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n.c. sum N.C. State has had a rocky year but has m late in the season over Georgia Tech, Mary Virginia Tech to earn the seventh tournament. The Wolfpack (17-12, 7-9 ACC) will probably need to win two gam. this week to have a shot at the NCAATournament. The loss of starting center Jon Collins, who sustained a separated shoul the regular-season finale, will not make i any easier. Head coach Herb Sendek has enced squad, led by senior Julius Hodge, down the pace of play against Florida round. A victory will lead to a rematch without Chris Paul, in the quarterfinals,

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With first-year head coach Vic With Duke poised to win its Trailing by one with 35 secThe Blue Devils fell behind Maryland gave Duke its worst onds left, Duke forward Mark Bubas at the helm, the Blue Devils loss of the season at home on Sesixth consecutive ACC TournaN.C. State by 14 points with 11:29 Alarie buried a jumper over had a roller-coaster season. The nior Night, 91-80, in a game ment, the Terrapins erased a 12- to go in the game. Freshman JJ. Georgia Tech’s 7-foot center John team finished fourth in the ACC when emotional leader Carlos point deficit in the final five Redick then took control, hitting a Salley. On the Yellow Jackets’ fol- but was humiliated by both Wake Boozer suffered a broken foot. minutes of regulation. Eventual slew of treys as Duke chipped away lowing possession, Craig Neal Forest and arch-rival UNC. The The Blue Devils were eager for a Tournament MVP John Gilchrist at the Wolfpack lead. After a monmissed a 20-footer, which was cortwo teams throtded Duke by an avrematch and led by as much as capped the furious rally with a ster Dahntay Jones dunk with ralled by tournament MVP Johnerage margin of 18 and 24 points 14 in the second half, but a Terthree-point play that sent the under four minutes to play, ny Dawkins. The Yellow Jackets respectively. The prospect of the rapin three-pointer with 8.1 secgame into overtime. Battling Redick, who exploded for 23 ofhis sent Dawkins to the charity stripe, Duke’s first ACC Tournament tide ond remaining knotted the foul trouble, Duke stayed within game-high 30 points in the final 10 where he converted his two free seemed slim, especially when it was score at 82. Refusing the timestriking distance during the pe- minutes, went to the line and iced throws to seal the game and give scheduled to face the Tar Heels in out, Jay Williams demanded the riod. Down three with 30 secboth foul shots to give Duke a lead head coach Mike Krzyzewski his the semifinals and the Demon Deaball and raced down the court. onds left on the clock, junior it would not relinquish. The win first ACC Tournament tide. cons in the dde game. But Bubas His ensuing shot glanced off the Daniel Ewing missed a widemarked Duke’s fifth-consecutive and his Blue Devil squad shocked rim, but Boozer’s replacement, open three, and Maryland hung ACC Tournament tide. “This is the ACC world, however, and Nate James, tipped the ball in on to win its first ACC Tournaone of the better games I’ve been pulled off consecudve upsets over for his only basket of the contest ment since 1984. The Terps involved with,” Krzyzewski said. their in-season tormentors, 71-69 to send Duke to the ACC Tourdowned the top three seeds on “This is as intense as ’B6 when we nament title game. their way to the title. and 63-59, respectively. won it the first time.”

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Then again, no critic has challenged the Tar Heels’ talent. Head coach Roy Williams took over the program a season ago and, despite obvious progress, still hasn’t gelled his stars into a team. Defeating Duke in the regular-season finale Sunday, UNC hustled around May and allowed him to lead the team with his fantastic play (26 points and 24 rebounds). From a purely statistical standpoint the regular season champions blow the competition away. Their ACC-leading offense (89.3 ppg) has the highest field goal percentage in the league and outscores teams by an average of 19.7 points per game, easily tops in the conference. They also lead the ACC in rebounding margin, assists and steals. No team in the conference —not even Duke or Wake Forest with their own big bodies—can stop May. Duke does not have the quickness to keep up with Felton or the UNC fast break, especially with Dockery sidelined, and Wake Forest will have trouble containing Marvin Williams and Jawad Williams. And if McCants can make it back into the lineup, the gap between UNC and the other top teams in the ACC grows even larger. UNC will start the tournament against either Maryland (16-11, 7-9 ) or Clemson (15-14, 5-11). Their route to the tournament finals will not include either Duke or Wake Forest as the two other ACC powers are poised for a semifinal matchup less than 24 hours before Sunday’s final.

Wake Forest held off a late charge from Duke, cruised by North Carolina with perfect free-throw shooting and beat a healthy Georgia Tech team. In fact, Wake has triumphed over every team in the ACC. Furthermore, the Demon Deacons are the only team to beat every ACC squad at full strength. Wake beat Duke with Sean Dockery and Shavlik Randolph, North Carolina with Rashad McCants and Georgia Tech with BJ. Elder. Wake Forest’s rapid offense is the main reason it has beaten so many conference foes. Led by sophomore guard Chris Paul, Wake is the third-highest scoring team in the nation at 85.4 points per game. To complement the transition game, Wake also can feed the ball inside to the dominant Eric Williams. On the perimeter, the threesome of senior Taron Downey, Justin Gray and Paul attract attention away from Williams by combining to hit more than five threepointers a game. Even when the Demon Deacons lose, it is not because of a sluggish offense: Wake averaged 92 points per game in its three ACC losses. Wake Forest is able to play at a breakneck speed because of its depth. The Demon Deacons feature eight players that average double-digit minutes and their bench production has been notable, contributing more than 24 points per game. If anything stands in the way of Wake Forest’s fifth ACC Tournament Championship, it is its mediocre defense. The team ranks ninth in the ACC in scoring

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So why will Duke win the ACC Tournament this weekend? Because it has Coach K, and nobody else does. Krzyzewski started the season shorthanded. Then five Duke players who have started games this season lost time to injury. To make matters worse, Duke faced one of the nation’s three most difficult schedules. But despite all that, Duke is 22-5 and is comfortably a top-10 team. And if Krzyzewski can coach that successfully through all that adversity, the ACC Tournament should be a cake-walk. Krzyzewski’s postseason record is one

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of the strongest in NCAA history. Over the past 25 years, Coach K has won three national championships, made 10 Final Fours and won eight ACC Tournament titles, all while facing a laundry list of obstacles that make this year look easier than a Jim Harrick, Jr.administered final exam. In 1991, Duke beat one of the greatest teams in NCAA history on its way to the National Championship. In 2001, Krzyzewski led Duke to ACC and NCAA Tournament triumphs despite the extended loss of Carlos Boozer. In addition, Duke is as healthy as it has been all season long; only Sean Dockery will miss the ACC Tournament. But the Blue Devils appear to have done well enough without him, trouncing Miami and barely losing to No. 2 North Carolina on the road. And if any team in the country can deal with injuries, it’s the Blue Devils. Duke’s talent, though overshadowed by the star power of Wake Forest and North Carolina, is nothing to sniff at the Blue Devils still sport five McDonald’s All-Americans, freshman DeMarcus Nelson, juniors JJ. Redick, Shavlik Randolph and Dockery and senior Daniel Ewing. But despite all that Duke enters the tournament as an underdog for arguably the first time since 1998. Overlooked and overly motivated for the postseason, Duke will win the ACC Tournament yet again on its way to a deep NCAA Tournament run. —

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or eighth-seeded Maryland. Georgia Tech head coach Paul Hewitt’s squad has the best odds of snatching the crown. The team’s defense is tough —second in the ACC in scoring defense, first in field-goal percentage defense and third in blocked shots. Offensively, the Yellow Jackets have sputtered for much of the season, but Georgia Tech has the weapons to get hot in a short tournament. Jarrett Jack is a premier offensive catalyst, and now that BJ. Elder is healthy to complement Will Bynum, Luke Schenscher and Isma’il Muhammad, the Yellow Jackets have five potential double-digit scorers. Factor in the experience gained in last year’s NCAA Tournament final appearance, and Georgia Tech is a bona fide contender. The Terps come into the tournament in a similar fashion to a year ago, when head coach Gary Williams’ sixth-seeded squad beat the top three teams en route to its first tournament title in 20 years. The team has the offensive firepower to make a serious run. The Terps are second in the ACC in scoring offense, first in free-throw percentage and second in offensive rebounding. Forward Nik Caner-Medley, who quietly averages 16.7 points per game, 2004 ACC Tournament

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Demon Deacons back from a five-point second-half deficit, taking the ball to the basket and drawing fouls twice on two consecutive key possessions. In a win over N.C. State March 6, Paul shook off a subpar game to hit a buzzer-beadng runner as time expired and give Wake Forest SEE PAUL ON PAGE 26

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through one of the toughest schedules in the country. The top scorer in the conference has expanded his game beyond Just shooting deep threes. His improved conditioning has allowed him to lead the league in minutes played and elevate his defensive play. Redick has become Duke’s unquestioned leader, demanding the ball late in games and taking big shots. He has been the go-to scorer in all of Duke’s key games, averaging 26 points per game against ranked opponents. Redick’s main competition for ACC Player of the Year will likely be Wake Forest sophomore Chris Paul. Although Paul is a great point guard for the Demon Deacons, he is basically the same player he was last year—Paul has not significantly improved his numbers in any category. In addition, Paul only averages 14.9 points per game, and no player in the last 20 years has been named ACC Player of the Year while averaging less than 17 points per game. This will not be an issue for Redick, who has scored 22.5 points per game, sixth nationally. He has also grabbed more than three rebounds per game and has dished out 2.8 assists per game, second on the team. Redick is also more valuable to his

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TRASH TALKING,™ page,o trash talk unless the guy starts trash talking to me, and then we’re just going to roll ’em up and we’re gonna go at it.” Head coach Mike Krzyzewski, when asked about Redick’s trash-talking tendencies, claimed to be oblivious to his expert marksman’s trash talking. “He does it quietly then,” Krzyzewski said. “J.J.’s been one of the great players in America this year, and I think his actions talk trash more so than him. He may do something in a practice to get somebody going, but,l don’t really hear him.” As the nation gears up for the do-or-die atmosphere of postseason college basketball, many might wonder how heated the trash talking will become. Contrary to what some might think, the high intensity often leads to less talk. “I think it will decrease a litde,” forward Patrick Johnson said of the quantity of trash talking. “Once you get to the postseason, guys are focused more on just the details of winning the game, and there’s less emotion from the crowd so I think it gets toned down.”

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said. “You really just can’t imagine anything wackier.” The Cameron Crazies have grown to love Melchionni’s intensity and his demonstrative nature on the court. Whether waving his arms or slapping the floor to pump up the crowd, leaping into the arms of teammates to celebrate a big play or gesturing to Wake Forest’s Trent Strickland to “bring it on,” Melchionni constantly displays emotion—and his teammates love it. “Lee brings a lot of energy and a lot of emotion when he plays,” co-captain Reggie Love said. “The kid loves to play, you can tell.” After starting the season on the bench, Melchionni found himself in the starting lineup when Love injured his foot in early January. While coming off the bench in the first part of the season, the junior averaged just 12.9 minutes per game and scored only 5.4 points per contest. Since his first career start against Princeton Jan. 5, Melchionni has played 25.9 minutes per game, averaged 9.2 points and made more than two three-point baskets per contest. Of the 18 games Duke has played since then, Melchionni has started 11 and scored in double figures seven times, including a team-high 16 in 35 minutes against St.John’s Feb. 26. “I’ve been on both sides of the fence, where I’ve been the second or third to last guy on the bench, and now I’m playing a huge role,” Melchionni said. “So its just like every time I step on the court, it’s a blessing and an opportunity, and I want to make the most of it. “To be able to come in and be a big contributor is a dream come true.” Melchionni said the turning point of his season occurred at home against Wake Forest. After the junior hit two clutch sec-

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per game in the three games since Dockery went down. Even in the middle of games, Melchionni has worn different hats depending on what his team needed. He carried the offense in the first half against St. John’s, scoring 14 of the Blue Devils’ 28 first-half points. In the second half against North Carolina March 6, Melchionni stepped up when Redick went scoreless in the second half, helping Duke pull ahead of the Tar Heels with five three-pointers during the last 20 minutes. But despite the improbability ofhis success, the bench-warmer turned Blue Devil hero maintains that he is not surprised by the season he is having. Neither are his teammates. “I’m not the

coach, but I thought Lee should’ve played a lot more last season,” Ewing said. ‘You’re finding out he can shoot the ball real well, but Lee’s had that stroke since he got here. But unfortunately for him, the teams he’s been on, he hasn’t gotten time. But his time has come now and he’s showing what he can do, and he’s stepping up big.” Even though Melchionni has grown into a major role for the Blue Devils, he is still the same guy that causes Love to WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE chuckle when asked about his antics. “One time I whipped [Williams] with a Lee Melchionni, one of the most emotional Blue Devils, has been asked to defend both guards and forwards. shirt, whipped him in the eyeball, and I just ran for my life,” Melchionni said when ond-half baskets, the team urged him to mate confidence.” asked to describe the time when Williams Melchionni has an uncanny displayed keep shooting. to whatever role the injurywas the angriest he had ever seen him. “I and Coach to [Redick] [Mike ability adapt “JJ. Krzyzewski] told me not to turn myself off riddled Blue Devils need him to fill. When thought that was kaput for me. He was like ‘Man, what are you doing?’.... So I went and just keep attacking and really have the Love and Shavlik Randolph were sidedown and got him some cookies and a killer instinct out there,” Melchionni said. lined, he stepped in as Duke’s second big Gatorade as a peace offering.” “From that point on I just had the ulti- man, complementing Williams and guard-

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tournament have not been sold to the public since 1966. This year’s reduction made distribution especially difficult for the programs that will play close to home. “We got hit on all three fronts,” Hull said. “The size [of the stadium], the expansion, the location—it was harder than usual.” The placement this year provided North Carolina-based programs, which have played the tournament in their home state nine times in the past 10 years, with a change of pace as well. Because of the distant venue, some Blue Devil fans were reluctant to travel to the tournament, and several declined to purchase tickets when given the opportunity. Still, the demand for tickets greatly surpassed the number that distribution groups like the Iron Dukes, the fundraising organization for Duke athletics, had available. “That has had an impact on our demand,” Jack Winters, executive director of the Iron Dukes, said of playing outside North Carolina. “But there’s no doubt that the loss of tickets has had the biggest impact.” To even have a chance to purchase the $325 tickets, Iron Dukes must contribute at least $lO,OOO a year. The Athletic Department also distributes tickets to students, staff, administration and players’ families. In years to come, the further expansion of the ACC will leave programs with even fewer tickets to distribute when the tournament is played at smaller pre-selected sites. “In 2008 we’ll be playing in the new Charlotte Coliseum,” said John Cherry, associate executive director of the Rams Club at North Carolina. “That’ll be the year you’ll really hear the squawking.”

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WALK-ONS from page 6 things happen to our team,” Krzyzewski said. “So in those times, those two or three day periods, those guys have really been men in how they’ve acted, what they’ve said, and how they’ve supported. The guys on the court would attest to that.” Davidson and Perkins spoke of the special bond the team shares, regardless of position —walk-on or starter. The players come to practice early just to hang out in the locker room with their friends, quoting movies like Anchorman and Eurotrip. Even in more serious discussions, the players act as peers, respecting each others’ opinions. With the many changes the team has been through this season, there have been plenty of periods for growth. The walk-ons, just as much as the other players, play an important role in contributing to the team’s development. “During any of the meetings we’ve had, walk-ons aren’t afraid to say stuff and the other players listen and everyone responds to everybody else,” Pagliuca said. “They respect our opinion. They know how much it means to us and we know how much it means to them. We’re able to communicate with them and everyone has really good interaction on the team.” The shining example of a walk-on’s commitment to the team from this season was the team’s Feb. 20 contest against Wake Forest, when Krzyzewski started Johnson, Davidson and Reggie Love, who began his basketball career at Duke as a walk-on. He explained after the game that those players started because of their effort in practice. “I think it was about going out and competing every day and showing we have a passion to play and a passion to compete no matter who it is,” Davidson said about his first career start. “I know that coach started us for a reason, that he felt we de-

Patrick Johnson has played increased minutes while other big men have been injured or in foul trouble. served it. Coach is honest like that—he wouldn’t do it for no reason.” Although he stayed on the court for a mere two minutes, Davidson intensely guarded Demon Deacon point guard Chris Paul, putting forth his greatest effort. After all, giving everything above all else is the walk-on’s living mantra. When he returned to the bench, Krzyzewski grabbed the sophomore and embraced him, reminiscent of the hug shared by then-captain Steve Wojciechowski after his

Senior Night win over North Carolina in 1998. Davidson said he would cherish that moment for the rest of his life. “[Davidson] was kind of the captain of that team that started. I loved how Jje started us out,” Krzyzewski said after that game. “Some of the great things that happen in coaching are not just coaching Jason Williams or Grant Hill. They’re coaching Patrick Davidson in a moment like that, and I’m glad I was able to share that moment with him.”

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has not punished teams harshly for losses without key players who were suspended or injured if the player could potential return for the Tournament. Beyond seeding, an important implication is location for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Under the

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seeds. If the Blue Devils do not receive a No. 1 seed, the selection committee may otherwise reward Duke by placing it just two hours from home. “We’ve beaten more top-10 teams than anybody, and we have as tough a schedule as anybody,” Krzyzewski said, whose team ranks third in the nation in strength of schedule. “We have the toughest schedule in our league.” Unfortunately for the ACC, and possibly for Duke, since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1986, no conference has received three of the top four seeds.

In truth, nearly all 8-8 teams in the ACC have earned a bid in prior seasons. But this season, the conference abandoned its double-round-robin format, creating unbalanced schedules within the league. The fifth- through eighth-ranked teams in the league standings currendy sit on the proverbial bubble, and a strong conference tournament showing by any one of them could earn that team an NCAA Tournament entry. The Hokies played North Carolina and Wake Forest, the top two teams in die conference, just once apiece—with both games at home. “There are some teams that have had a little bit tougher schedules in the conference,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “That’s a factor. You need to look at that.” In other words, Virginia Tech will need to make a big run in the ACC Tournament, beating GeorgiaTech and possibly North Carolina to advance to the finals. The Hokies, with a skewed 8-8 ACC mark, a poor non-conference record and a low RPI ranking, may not have the necessary resume to gain entry to the competitive field. Many say that Georgia Tech is already in, but looking at its resume, that thinking may be presumptuous. The Yellow Jackets do have a respectable 1710 record, but 12 of their wins have come against teams with RPIs of 101 or worse, and they have only one win against the RPI top 50 and they appear to have benefitted from the altered RPI that gives a lot of credit to teams which play strong opponents on the road, such as Kansas Jan. 1. The committee may look favorably

on Georgia Tech because senior BJ. Elder, one of the team’s top players, missed several games and only recently returned to action. “There’s only one way to erase all doubt,” Hewitt said. “That’s just to keep winning all weekend.” If Virginia Tech does not make the tournament and Georgia Tech does, two otherACC teams are likely to receive bids, said Krzyzewski, who estimates the conference will get six teams in. Maryland, N.C. State and Miami are the contenders for the two spots. Maryland is in a similar boat as Georgia Tech, notching several big wins but also recording many bad losses. The Terrapins swept Duke picking up their two best wins of the season, but also lost twice to lowly Clemson. They have also lost four of their last five games, winning only at cellar-dwelling Virginia—and needing two overtimes to do it. The selection committee gives significant consideration to how a team ends a season, and the Terrapins will need to beat Clemson and at least put up a good fight attempting to beat North Carolina fo clinch a spot. The sixth-seeded Hurricanes will face Duke if they beat Virginia today. A win against the Blue Devils, who have beaten Miami twice already this season, would likely get the Hurricanes into the tournament. The Wolfpack are in a similar position but are probably out without winning two straight, including a victory over Wake Forest—minus All-ACC point guard Chris Paul—in the quarterfinals. N.C. State head coach Herb Sendek feels much like the rest of the coaches on the bubble, wanting to ensure a bid but not knowing exactly how. “How many games we have to win, I really don’t know,” Sendek said.

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REDICK from page 20 eight points, but he set up four ofhis teammates for double-digit scoring nights. Redick’s accurate shooting still re-

JJ. Redick is one of theverbal leadersfor theBlue Devils as communication is key to Duke's success.

TALKING from page 8 that you pick up on and embrace a little bit,” senior Reggie Love said. Krzyzewski said former Blue Devil Chris Carrawell, who spent the past summer in Durham completing his degree, was instrumental in Ewing’s development as a vocal leader. Carrawell, whom Krzyzewski described as a “soda] butterfly,” has spoken to Ewing on a number of occasions about his role as a senior. JJ. Redick, who said he was vocal even during his time on the AAU circuits and in high school, said Chris Duhon and

Dahntay Jones were the verbal leaders when he arrived. While they were still at Duke, he learned from them. And as captain this season, the junior has become the team’s loudest player on the court. All of the players, despite their natural tendencies, have realized Krzyzewski’s trumpeted communication buoys the team’s performance. “I think it’s the way we play, especially on defense—the way we get after it in passing lanes,” Ewing said. “Certain things happen on the court where it’s not always going to happen the way you draw it up. Just being able to talk and communicate helps you a lot on,both ends of the court.”

mains his staple, as he currently ranks fourth in the ACC in three-point shooting despite receiving more defensive attention than ever before. He is often faceguarded for the entire game and must run through multiple screens on each possession to free himself from defenders. Redick has diversified his shots this year, adding effective fade-aways and runners to his arsenal. Using improved ball handling skills, he has been able to drive to the basket and draw fouls. When fouled, Redick remains nearly perfect at the line, as he shot 93 percent this season and has the highest career percentage in history. “He’s the most phenomenal shooter I’ve ever seen,” Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said after Redick dropped 31 on the Seminoles in Tallahassee. “It’s almost automatic.” Redick is also the ACC’s iron man, and he has had to be for a Blue Devil team that goes at most eight deep. He averages

PAUL from page 20 a two-point victory. Even when Paul has not scored at the end of the game, he has led an offense that has been remarkably efficient at closing teams out; the Demon Deacons are 71 in games decided by five points or fewer. Simply put, Paul is the most complete and most outstanding player in the ACC. Redick might have scored a larger percentage of his team’s points and played more minutes, but no player did as much for his team as Paul.

more than 37 minutes and has played eight complete games, more than double the number of his closest competitors. One of Redick’s complete games came at Maryland Feb. 12, where he not only played the 40 minutes of regulation, but also all of overtime—something no one else in the ACC has done this year. Redick has also shown the ability to have breakout games like few players in the country. Three of the top four scoring performances in ACC games belong to Redick, including a game at Florida State in which he hit eight three-pointers, the most in one game by an ACC player this year. Redick averages 3.8 made threes per game; his nearest competitor averages 2.7. All these things show how Redick has carried the Blue Devils and has been a more consistent scorer than his Wake Forest rival. In addition, Paul has possibly hurt his chances with his recent suspension because of an altercation in a win over N.C. State March 6. Redick will become Duke’s 12th ACC Player of the Year because of his explosive scoring ability, his improved all-around game and his value to an overachieving Duke team.

He is among the best scorers, passers and defenders in the conference. He has shot from long range and taken the ball to the basket with fearless abandon. He is Wake Forest’s floor general, starting the offense and taking over when the shot clock runs down. Though Redick has gotten better at handling the ball, creating his own shot and playing defense—his biggest weaknesses from last season—he remains average at best in these crucial areas. Paul, by contrast, has no shortcomings. Believe the hype: Chris Paul is the best player in the ACC.

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a fluid buildup called an edema in one of five metatarsal bones in the foot. An edema is a precursor ofa stress fracture and can be treated before the symptoms appear. The players —one of whom was Daniel Ewing—were treated with orthotics and were able to play all season without complications, even as the bones healed, said Jose Fonseca, an assistant athletic trainer who works with the men’s basketball team. The study was repeated before this season and none of the participants were found to have edemas. One player, however, slipped through the cracks. Blue Devil forward Reggie Love missed the MRI screening date near the beginning of the school year because he had yet to arrive at Duke. Love joined the team late this season when, after the NFL’s Green Bay Packers cut him from their training camp,

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he decided to return to Duke to finish a second major and play basketball. Somewhat ironically, the lone player not to be tested for susceptibility to a stress fracture in his metatarsal Suffered one Jan. 2 and missed 12 games over the course of the next six weeks. Major blames Love’s injury on the team’s busy practice schedule over winter break. “During the Christmas break, the level of activity goes up,” Major said. “Reggie’s in great shape for football, but the jumping and landing is very different [in basketball].” Major said it is unclear whether Love’s injury could have been prevented by the preseason testing, as an edema may only have appeared after Love increased his workload during winter break. “Part of what I have talked with Coach [Krzyzewski] and am talking with Nike about now is seeing them during the Christmas break and taking the image,” Major said. “And get those players who

have now, because of the increase in activity, that have changed the stress patterns.” Stress fractures, like the one suffered by Love, are not caused by acute impact but by repetitive use. Basketball players are particularly susceptible to such injuries because of the amount of jumping and landing they do on hard surfaces. A stress fracture can keep an athlete out ofcommission for six to 12 weeks—or even an entire season. Orthotics, devices placed in the shoe that provide stability for the injured region, allow players to continue playing while the affected area heals. In the world of big-time collegiate athletics, lost players mean fewer wins, and potentially, a financial hit for the program. “There’s a lot of money around all of this,” Major said of why the study was undertaken. “When you look at the big picture —scholarships, seasons, trips to the Final Four—all of these things are gready affected by how healthy a player is.”

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