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Historian Franklin discusses Historian John Hope Franklin had no intentions of becoming an author.

It took a lot of persuading to encourage him to write his first book about the history of African-Americans.

“I found myself under enormous pressure from a big publishing company in New York... and finally it became irresistible,” he said. “I could not decline.”

Franklin, an active supporter of civil rights and namesake of the John Hope Franklin Center, spoke to a gathering of fans Friday evening to cap off a day-long symposium in his honor.

The symposium, “Cross Currents: Conversations about Collecting and Documenting African and African-American History and Culture,” commemorated the 10th Anniversary of Duke’s John Hope Franklin Collection for African and AfricanAmerican Documentation.

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Following their third straight loss in the National Championship game,theBlue Devils were depressed and disappointed.

Duke falls short of title bid by

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Another year, another disappointing outcome to the Blue Devils’ final game.

For the third season in a row, Duke’s DUKE pla ers MARYLAND I 1 were forced to tearfully pack up their equipment and watch from the sidelines as another team celebrated a victory in the NCAA Field

Hockey Championships. The third-seeded Blue Devils (18-5) were shut out by first-seeded Maryland, 1-0, in the finals of the NCAA Tournament. It was the first 1-0 championship game in tournament history.

After avenging its last two championship game loses with a 3-2 win over second-seeded Wake Forest Friday night, Duke’s players entered Sunday afternoon’s game confident that they would finally bring the National Championship trophy

home to Durham. Yet despite dominating the majority of the game, the Blue Devils were held back by a relentless Terrapin defense that held them scoreless for the second time this season.

For Bozman, the loss was the fifth of her career in the National Championship game and her third as coach of the Blue Devils.

Bozman said this tide-game loss was particularly painful because it was the first time that she felt SEE TITLE GAME ON SW PAGE 1

Three Duke seniors were awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarships Saturday.

Adam Chandler, William Hwang and Rahul Satija were among the 32 Americans selected to study at the University of Oxford for two or three years with die scholarship. All tuition and expenses are covered for as long as an individual needs to complete his or her course of study.

Duke had eight finalists for the scholarship going into this weekend’s regional interview process.

“I don’t think anyone ever expects to win something like this,” Satija said. “It’s an amazing honor and an amazing opportunity.”

Last year, for the first time since 1992, no Duke student was chosen for the scholarship. In the past four years, seven students from the University have been selected as scholars.

All three of this year’s winners said though the University was supportive in helping them submit applications and prepare for interviews, they did not see any institutional change officials made from years past that may SEE RHODES ON PAGE 8

Redick, Williams overpower Davidson by

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After absorbing a 29-point beating by No. 1 Duke, Davidson head coach Bob McKillop

Professor emeritus John Hope Franklin spoke about writing his autobiography at a symposium this weekend.

resorted to a comparison from his high school days in New York City to describe the way the Blue Devils played “This is an entire DAVIDSON 55 team that plays like DUKE 84 they live on Park Avenue, but they refuse to give the court up on West Fourth Street,” McKillop said. “West Fourth Street’s a pretty darn competitive park, and it’s asphalt, and these guys aren’t afraid of getting their knees bloody and their fingers stuck in the chain rims. And that’s what makes them so special.”

The Blue Devils needed that toughness to defeat Davidson (0-1), 84-55, Saturday night, McKillop and Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski both said. The Blue Devils (54)) used a 14-5 run that spanned from the last minute of the first half to the 15:42 mark of the second peri-

od to push an 11-point advantage to 20.

The run, sparked by JJ. Redick’s threepointer as time expired in the first half and capped by back-to-back threes by Redick and Lee Melchionni, effectively ended Davidson’s chances for an upset. Redick’s three-pointer to close the half was also particularly devastating, McKillop said.

The Blue Devils’ lead never again dipped below 18 points, and they closed the game on a 14-4 streak to win going away.

Redick and forward Shelden Williams— Duke’s two preseason All-Americans—provided much of the offensive punch in a game when only one other Blue Devil reached double figures. The two combined to shoot 18for-31 and finished with 49 total points.

Redick’s season-high 29 points included four of Duke’s 10 three-pointers.

Williams avoided the foul trouble that plagued him during Duke’s win over Seton Hall SEE DAVIDSON ON SW PAGE 1

Shelden Williams was one blockaway from a triple-double, as he tallied 20 points, 10rebounds and nine blocks.

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opened fire inside a busy shopping mall Sunday, wounding several people in the halls and taking three people hostage in a music store before police arrested him, authorities said.

Witnesses described hearing a noise and then seeing a man walking backward through the mall, firing.

At least six people were injured, one critically, as shoppers and store clerks scrambled for cover.

Tacoma Police spokesman Mark Fulghum said the suspect, arrested about four

hours after the shooting began, was a young man but he had no other details about him or his possible motives.

Police were interviewing the victims and hostages, he said.

While the suspect was still inside the Sam Goody music store, employee Joe Hudson was able to pick up the phone and say he and others had been taken hostage. Hudson said little more but could be heard telling others that he was talking to The Associated Press.

Authorities got the call about 12:15 p.m. that shots had been fired inside the Tacoma Mall. The caller said there was a gunman, “He was in the mall, walking

along, firing,” Fulghum said.

State Patrol and police units from nearby agencies clustered around an entrance at the south end. Inside the mall, Stacy Wilson, 29, of Bonney Lake, heard a popping

noise and turned around.

“I saw the gunman randomly shooting. I ran with a group of women to Victoria's Secret,” Wilson said. She said they crouched behind a wall in the store, and when the shooting stopped, an employee ran out and closed a security gate at the front.

Wilson said she heard 15 to 20 shots “He was walking backward and shooting. I couldn't see his face,” she said.

“Everyone was running and screaming.”

U.S. forces seal off house in Iraq by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al Qaeda members died in a gunfight—some by their own hand to avoid capture. The White House said Sunday that it was “highly unlikely” that the terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead.

Insurgents, meanwhile, killed an American soldier and a Marine in separate attacks over the weekend, and a British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the south.

Saturday, police Brig. Gen. Said Ahmed said the raid was launched after a dp that top al Qaeda operatives, possibly including al-Zarqawi, were in the house in the northeastern part of the city.

During the intense gun battle that followed, three insurgents detonated explosives and killed themselves to avoid capture, Iraqi officials said. Eleven Americans were wounded, the U.S. military said. Such intense resistance often suggests an attempt to defend a high-value target.

But Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman, said reports of al-Zarqawi’s death were “highly unlikely and not credible.”

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In May, the group said he was wounded in fighting and taken out of the country for treatment. Within days, it reported he had returned—though there was never any independent confirmation that he was wounded.

The U.S. is unprepared for the next flu pandemic, lacking the manufacturing capacity to provide 300 million doses of a vaccine for three to five more years, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Sunday.

Bush abates attack on critics After fiercely defending his Iraq policy across Asia, President Bush abruptly toned down his attack on war critics Sunday and said there was nothing unpatriotic about opposing his strategy. "People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush said.

Labor party puils out in Israel Israel's dovish Labor Party voted Sunday to pull out of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition government, virtually assuring early general elections in March. The decision came in a show of hands at a Labor Party convention in Tel Aviv.

Rebels react angrily to election Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels reacted angrily Sunday to the election of hardline President Mahinda Rajapakse and his inaugural speech, saying they showed the country's Sinhalese majority had no understanding of Tamil aspirations for a homeland.

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Law students aid in Guantanamo cases Workers net bonus with gainsharing by

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It’s an opportunity most future lawyers could never imagine having before making partner.

Under the guidance ofProfessor Madeline Morris, six School ofLaw students are researching and drafting briefs for military lawyers representing prisoners detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The School of Law established the Guantnamo Defense Clinic in October in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Defense. Students have provided welcome assistance for the defense team, said Marine Corps Major Michael Mori, an attorney representing one of the Guantanamo detainees.

“We are the only law school in the United States or anywhere else that is serving in this capacity,” Morris said. “The students have been made an integral part of the defense teams in each case.”

Students said they appreciate the complexity of the Guantanamo cases, which raise questions of constitutional, domestic* international and military law.

The proceedings are unusual because they take place in a special military tribunal rather than in the federal judicial system or a traditional military courts-martial.

“One of the questions is whether or not these cases should be tried in civilian courts,” said David Thompson,, a secondyear law student involved in the clinic.

“That’s kind of the big question that is overshadowing all the little questions we’re dealing with.”

Thompson has helped author briefs for the defense of David Hicks, the “Australian Taliban” who was captured while fighting American forces during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

Mori, Hicks’ counsel, said the students provide valuable assistance to an understaffed defense team. “The staffing in the defense office has been deliberately undermanned,” he said. “Until recently, we only had a staff offive and the prosecution had 24.”

Mori, who won a Medal of Liberty from the American Civil Liberties Union for his criticism of Guantanamo tri-

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Duke University Health System administrators are debating if they will continue last year’s gainsharing benefit program, which gave around 11,000 employees $5OO in benefits each.

DUHS started the program in July 2004 in order to provide incentives for

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Six students are working with a defense team on cases involving detainees in Guantanamo Bay (above).

bunals, said the students’ contributions allow defense attorneys to explore other aspects of the cases. “Without outside assistance like the clinic at Duke, there would be a lot of areas that wouldn’t be thoroughly researched,” he noted.

In addition to unbalanced staffing, third-year law student Coalter Lathrop said he was concerned by the extra-constitutionality of the Guantanamo courts.

“It’s a bit of a loaded system, loaded against the accused,” he said. “The Defense Department writes the rules ofprocedure. And they change. It’s not Just an uneven field, it’s an uneven field with a moving target.”

Despite his concerns, Lathrop said he was happy to work on what he called, “the most exciting international law and federal law question that has come up

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Michelle Park, another third-year law student, echoed Lathrop’s enthusiasm.

“This has to do with our basic rights,” Park said. “Trying to uphold them is something I think, as a lawyer, we all have an obligation to do.”

Students said Morris’s experience in international law and extensive contacts in the Pentagon were crucial for the establishment of the Guantanamo clinic.

Since joining the School of Law in 1990, Morris has assisted tribunals exploring genocide and war crimes in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone.

For the past six years, she has served as a consultant to the Office ofWar Crimes at the U.S. State Department.

Morris added that the clinic will grow to include 24 students next semester.

Administrators are now re-evaluating the initiative, which did not reach all of its goals in the last fiscal year.

“We’re in discussion evaluating the program from last year,” said Paul Grantham, director of human resources communications for DUHS. “After only one year of the program, it’s hard to say whether it has been fully successful.”

When administrators started the program, they set target goals that DUHS would have to meet for employees to receive the bonuses. The goals took into consideration both patients’ “likelihood to recommend” DUHS for future patient services and net operating income for Fiscal Year 2004-05. The amount of the bonus hinged on the hospital’s fiscal performance.

Grantham said the program has led to some improvements, but did not achieve all of its patient satisfaction objective.

“One of the goals of the program is to help change behavior so that we become a more patient-centered organization,” Grantham said. “We’ve gone through the program for one year, and we have seen indicators of improvement.”

The goal was to increase DUHS “likelihood to recommend” rating—a score that is derived from inpatient surveys conducted by a third party company. The target score last year was a rating of at least 89.3.

But it was 88.3 at the end of last year.

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Engineers help teach science in N.C. schools by

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Research associates in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering are showing teachers in several North Carolina schools how to get-their hands dirty in the classroom.

Individuals from Pratt’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have worked for the past two years to develop tools that enhance learning and retention of scientific concepts for students in kindergarten to eighth grade. They are operating under under the Teachers and Scientists Collaborating grant.

“What we want to do is teach science as a process, and that process is characterized by inquiry-based learning,” said Norm Bud-

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The Pratt School of Engineering sends representatives to local schools to teach children about various topics.

nitz, training director of TASC. “Let students do science, not just learn the facts.”

Eight public schools throughout central North Carolina have participated by training teachers in each grade level to use four science learning kits that aim to make students think like scientists.

The four kits target particular goals of the standard course of study for each subject. Teachers undergo training with the kits to learn about the mysteries of dirt and the physics of roller coasters and rubberband racecars.

By approaching the kits as if they were students, teachers learn how to integrate the kits more effectively in the classroom.

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The University may soon have a Latino studies program, as officials are exploring logistical possibilities for the program’s development and working toward recruiting faculty.

Such a program was in a fledgling stage several years ago, and a Latino studies certificate was slated to be implemented in 2003.

Complications with resources and faculty deterred officials from establishing the certificate, said Peter Lasch, visiting associate professor of the practice of art and art history and interim director of

the Latino studies program.

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“Latino Studies as an academic field has been on the cutting edge for the last 50 years, so we feel like there’s a lot we could contribute there,” Lasch said.

Other issues are also being discussed, including finding potential office locations and hiring a program coordinator and other collaborators.

A search for a director will not begin this year. It will occur only after other positions have been filled.

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Harvard profs band together in criticisms of president Seventeen Harvard University professors have submitted a statement expressing their frustration with president Lawrence Summers, who told faculty members he was considering firing an important university dean.

“This kind of backbiting is more than unprofessional,” said a statement signed by 17 professors sent to Harvard

Corp. Tuesday.

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PLENTY currency (above) was developed by the group NCPienty to help boost thelocal economies in Carrboro, Durham and Chapel Hill.

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There are plenty of ways to support the local economy.

Members of the local community organization NCPienty say that one way is to utilize the Triangle’s local currency, the Piedmont Local EcoNomy Tender.

NCPienty is a non-profit organization working to promote local commerce, fair wages and environmental responsibility in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Durham through the implementation and support of the PLENTY currency, which was first minted in 2002.

At NCPlenty’s fourth annual meeting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sunday, the organization’s Board of Trustees launched a program called Local Occurrences of Organized PLENTY Spending.

The LOOPS project aims to entice new member busi-

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The 1,000 or so PLENTYs in circulation can be used at almost 200 locations in Durham, Orange, Chatham and Alamance counties.

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Southern Illinois programs found to be discriminatory The U.S. Justice Department plans to sue Southern Illinois University because of three fellowship programs reserved for minority-group members or women.

Among the three programs being challenged is one that is financed by the National Science Foundation and operated according to NSF guidelines, university officials say.

In a November 4 letter to the university, Bradley Schlozman, the acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said his agency would file a lawsuit against the Southern Illinois University system’s Board of Trustees and administration

by November 18, based on its finding that the system has “engaged in a pattern or practice of intentional discrimination against whites, nonpreferred minorities, and males.”

Yale surpasses Harvard in early action applicants For the first time in recent history, Yale University received more early applications than Harvard University this fall.

Yale accepted 4,065 applications, while Harvard took in nearly 4,000.

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stops Franklin made during a tour promoting his autobiography, Mirror on America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin, which was released Nov. 2.

A James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, Franklin has authored a number of books on the history of the American South and the contributions AfricanAmericans have made to the development of the United States.

“His wisdom and knowledge and input to the history department... has long distinguished our University,” former Duke President Keith Brodie said when introducing the author.

Franklin spoke principally about his 40year quest to write the biography of George Washington Williams, who is credited with the 1882 publication of the history of African-Americans, making him the first historian to document the AfricanAmerican experience.

His effort to write Williams’ biography was an inspiration to write his own auto-

“You can’t hire a senior-level, toptier intellectual as a director who does not have a coordinator, so the infrastructures have to be put in place,” Lasch said.

He added that a Latino studies program previously has not been high on the list of the University’s academic de-

biography.

“It takes patience. It takes time. You have work at it, and you need resources,” Franklin replied to a question about what is necessary to write biographies.

Franklin amused the audience with a humorous anecdote about obtaining support to write his biography ofWilliams. He said he did not know how to ask for money, because it was the first time he ever had to do so.

“Historians need paper. And paper clips,” Franklin joked.

He then gave examples of the perseverance and patience he exhibited while doing his research.

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Writer and activist John Hope Franklin signs his new autobiography at a symposium Friday. to use the library and archives for one week while they were closed to the public.

“He still kept going, and he’s an amazing person for that,” said Nick Neptune, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Franklin spoke of another barrier he had to overcome while obtaining research.

“I remember once I wanted to see a set ofpapers of a man who was a British representative in The Congo,” he said.

When Franklin was finally granted access to the papers, he was forced to sit in a cage in the middle of a room so that he could be viewed from all sides.

“It turned out that the man whose papers I was reading had been hanged for treason [in World War I],” Franklin added.

Franklin said the many obstacles he encountered steeled his will.

“Whatever it took, that’s what I did,” he said.

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also included panel discussions on various topics and a conversation with the author about writing an African-American autobiography.

Attendees spoke of their admiration for Franklin.

“He’s renowned,” said Vensen Ambeau, a third-year Divinibty student.

Others agreed, commenting on Franklin’s knowledge of Southern and black history.

“I just feel like his entire experience—there’s so much we can learn from it,” senior Michelle Cox said.

Others just attended the speech for the opportunity to meet the author.

“I actually just came to get the book signed,” junior Carmen Boykin said.

Franklin’s works are not just about African-American history, but the history ofall Americans, Neptune said.

“I feel like I have the opportunity to hear a legend speak,” Cox added.

Duke to see the potential and the necessity for the Latino studies program,” Lasch said.

He said the program’s implementation now falls under the umbrella of the imminent Strategic Plan, which will include a focus on faculty equity, among other things.

Support for the establishment of the new program has come through Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education.

Before officials began planning for faculty recruitment and concrete programming this year, Lasch and other professors associated with the program brought various speakers to campus to discuss Latino issues.

The program hopes to reach out to other University groups and departments to form partnerships.

“We don’t think women’s studies should be just women,” Lasch said. “[So] we really want to work against attracting only [Latino students].”

The program will collaborate with the African and African American Studies Program, the Freeman Center for Jewish Life and the Women’s Studies Program, among other entities, to forge connections based on interest in minority and cultural issues.

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Triple-threat: 3-point barrage lifts Blue Devils by

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In college basketball, it is often said that live or die by the three-point shot.

Saturday night against Davidson, a barrage of key three-pointers on the offensive end and smothering perimeter defense gave Duke the life it needed to teams

overcome a pesky opponent.

Time and again, the Blue Devils were patient in their offensive sets and hit decisive threepointers with the shot clock winding down.

“When you play 29, 32 seconds of defense and they come in with that three-point shot, it’s a dagger in your heart,” Davidson head coach Bob McKillop said. “It gives them energy, it inflates the crowd and it really deflates you. You’ve just exhausted yourself and you come up empty, and they have three points with the crowd cheering.”

The Wildcats hung close to the Blue Devils for much of the firsi half, but a JJ. Redick three-pointer with dme running out in the period put Duke up 15 and gave the team momentum entering the second half.

Not wanting to let Redick end the half with a long-range bucket, the Wildcats double-teamed him on the wing closest to their bench. The defenders then lost focus for just a moment, thinking Redick double-dribbled. The momentary lapse gave Redick a tiny opening to dribble once to his left and launch a long fadeaway shot—it hit nothing but net.

“It gave us a lot of momentum,” said Redick, who was 4-for-6 from deep. “It was something we talked about when we had a timeout with about 2:30 to go [in the first half] when we were up 11, and we talked about going on a silent run. We got the last four points of the half to go up 15—it’s a

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big momentum swing.”

Duke’s shooting started slow in the first half; the team only made 3-for-ll from beyond the arc. But after Redick’s three to close out the opening period, the Blue Devils picked up the pace. Duke hit 7-of-10 threes in the second half and extended a 15-point halftime lead into an 84-55 blowout victory.

Every time it looked as if Davidson would make a game of it, the Blue Devils hit threes to push their lead higher.

Redick and Lee Melchionni hit consecutive treys to extend the lead to 20 with 16 minutes to go in the second half.

Redick’s three came off of a Melchionni drive-and-dish and Melchionni hit his after DeMarcus Nelson drove baseline and kicked the ball out.

With Redick causing all sorts ofproblems for the Wildcat defenders on the outside and Shelden Williams eating up space inside, all Duke had to do to open up longrange shots was be patient and keep its spacing. Late in the second half Greg Paulus

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Lauren

The top-ranked women’s cross country

team has won every single one of its meets this season, but none of those races

crowned Duke as National Champions.

When the Blue Devils compete against 30 other teams in Terre Haute, Ind. today, however, they will have the chance to earn the first NCAA title in program history.

Last year Duke surprised some when it finished second behind the University of Colorado at the 2004 NCAA Championships. This year, however, the Blue Devils have a better knowledge of where they stand against their high-caliber competition.

“Going in last year we weren’t sure how good we were,” head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “There were a lot more unknowns.

The difference is now we have a second year of experience. We know we’re a lot better spot for spot.”

Duke has shown consistency and depth all season, winning every meet with 33 points or fewer. In their most competitive meets of the season so far, the Blue Devils garnered the NCAA Southeast Regional title and defended their ACC Championship crown against a field that included four other ranked teams. Every Blue Devil that is slated to run at the NCAA Championships earned all-ACC honors at the meet Oct 31.

“This is no cakewalk, but we’ve dominated any team we have run against this season,” senior co-captain Laura Stanley said.

“There’s no reason why we can’t run with these teams, we’re just as good as anyone.”

This season Duke has not run against several of the top teams that it will face at the NCAA Championships, including No. 2 Stanford, No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Notre Dame and the 2004 NCAA Champion No. 10 Colorado. Yet, the Blue Devils do not feel they need to prove that they deserve to be ranked on top.

“I would say we’ve never felt any kind of external pressure from the outside world, just from ourselves,” Stanley said. “There’s more of an excitement factor, not a pressure factor. We’re more confident than we’ve ever been.”

Stanley is one of six seniors—a group that also includes Clara Horowitz, Sally

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Shannon Rowbury (left) and Clara Horowitz (right) have finished in the top two ofevery meet this season.

Meyerhoff, Natasha Roetter, Shannon Rowbury' and Elizabeth Wort—that will fill all but one of the slots for Monday’s squad. Freshman Whitney Anderson, the 2005 ACC Freshman of the Year, joins the experienced group that has spent the past three years working towards a national championship.

“It’s sort of emotional,” Stanley said.

“It’s our last big race all together. It’s added a camaraderie element to this season, and we’ve matured a lot since we got here three years ago. We look at it more as the opportunity to make the most of it.”

Together, Rowbury and Horowitz have led the Blue Devils by placing first and second in every meet this season. Although Jermyn said either of the two girls have a chance to win Monday’s race, Duke does not have a lock on the individual title. out

“There’s several top contenders,” Jermyn said. “It’s a little bit more of an unknown this year, but Shannon and Clara are hoping to finish in that top pack.”

Although she has won her last four races, Rowbury said she will not be concentrating on individual accomplishments during today’s race.

“Really my main focus is just on the team,” Rowbury said. “Of course I want to race well, but winning for the team would just be the best experience ever. It’s scary to have the team goal, but it takes some of the pressure off individually.”

The Blue Devils will begin the race, hosted by Indiana State University, at 1:15 p.m.

“We’ve been ranked No. 1 all year,” Jermyn said. “We’re going in knowing that we have a good chance of winning, but here you’ve got to do it all in one day.” .

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The women's swimming and diving team finished third at the Patriot Invitational this past weekend.

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Coming down the final stretch of the the women’s 400-yard individual medley final, senior Nora Stupp was neck and neck with two Yale swimmers.

As they approached the wall, Stupp was touched out by her opponents to finish third, within .54 seconds of first place. Despite the disappointing finale, head coach Dan Colella said Stupp’s performance was one of the many strong showings for Duke at this weekend’s Patriot Invitational.

At the three-day meet, the women’s swimming and diving team finished third behind Yale and the University of Maryland—Baldmore County, while the men placed fourth behind Yale, UNC Wilmington and UMBC. Eleven schools swam in both die men’s and women’s divisions at the meet hosted by George Mason in Fairfax, Va., Nov. 18-20. “[We were] hoping to be a little higher in die standings, but truthfully we saw

some great races,” Colella said.

Although the women’s team held a slight lead after the first day of competition, Colella said Friday’s races were the most difficult but praised the fact that his teams’ performances improved over the

In its final meet of the season, the men’s cross country team won its first IC4A Championship in program history Saturday.

The Blue Devils edged out runner-up Cornell University by 14 points along with the other 19 teams in the field to win the 97th annual ECAC/IC4A Championships held at Fordham University in New York.

“It’s a great exclamation point on the end of a great season,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “Our goal was to improve on every meet this year, and we did that. We won a championship. We’re very happy with our progression.” .

Three Duke harriers earned All-East honors Saturday, including junior Keith Krieger who led the Blue Devils in the five-mile race with a fifth-place time of 25:14. Sophomore Chris Spooner crossed the finish line ten seconds later to earn 10th place, followed by junior Dan Daly with a 23rd place time of 25:44.

The victory was a significant improvement from Duke’s showing last season at the meet when it placed 14th overall.

This weekend’s competition was the toughest the Blue Devils have faced all season, Ogilvie said.

“This is the biggest cross country meet next to the NCAA Championships,” Ogilvie said. “We’re a young team this year, and every meet we’ve just gotten faster and faster.”

Senior co-captain Chas Salmen finished 29th with a 25:50 time followed three seconds later by freshman Geary Gubbins who placed 31st. Ogilvie said Salmen’s performance was a significant improvement on his past showings.

“He finished higher than he had in the past,” Ogilvie said. “He really came through big for us.”

Of Duke’s top seven harriers, Salmen is the only one that will not be returning next season. Ogilvie said his team will continue to improve as it gains more experience.

“We have everyone returning next year, so it’s a great starting off point for next season,” Ogilvie said. “We’ve really laid the groundwork for next year.”

The women’s cross country team’s B squad also traveled to Fordham this weekend. Seven freshmen ran forDuke to earn ninth place in the ECAC Championships.

Maddie McKeever placed fourth and Anna Farias-Eisner finished 11th with times of 18:05.5 and 18:24.6, respectively, in the 5K race to earn All-East honors.

following two days.

“It’s a tough lesson, but an important lesson to learn going into the ACC Championships,” Colella said of his team’s ability to regroup.

Freshman Emily Kelly swam a personalbest time in the 500-meter freestyle to finish third, and senior Katie Ness took Sat-

urday’s 100-meter butterfly.

“Katie swam a technically correct race,” Colella said. “She took control from the start, led from the first 25 meters and did an absolutely terrific job.”

The meet concluded a successful fall season for both teams, and Colella said he will continue to emphasize the same mantra he has throughout the fall: “Focus on the process, and the results will come.”

Keith Krieger earned All-East honors as Duke captured its first IC4A Championship.

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Duke’s transition NORFOLK, Va. game and fast tempo played a pivotal role in the Blue Devils 93-56 rout of Old Dominion Sunday.

The Blue Devils pressed early and often, allowing them to set anc* control the qame pace throughout the analysis game. Duke forced the Monarchs into 26 turnovers by constantly switching defenses and utilizing half-court traps. The Blue Devils, in turn, translated Old Dominion’s miscues into quick, easy baskets. Duke tallied 16 fast-break points compared to just four for the Monarchs.

“We want to be a full-court pressing team, we want to be a transition team,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Pushing the tempo frustrated them early on, and allowed us to get a lot of easy buckets. It was key to our success.”

Duke’s pressure defense was also apparent in its 93-67 season-opening win over Penn State. The Blue Devils forced 20 Nittany Lion turnovers and capitalized on these mistakes to shoot better than 70 percent in the second half.

The fast-paced style of play especially benefited Duke guards Abby Waner and Lindsey Harding. Midway through the first half against Old Dominion, Harding had back-to-back fast-break layups—one coming off a steal and the other coming off a block by center Alison Bales. Harding used such easy looks to put up 16 points, all of which were scored in the first half.

In an attempt to deny the Blue Devils uncontested looks in the paint, the Monarchs often left the perimeter unguarded. Duke’s guards took advantage, shooting 63 percent from beyond the arc in the first half and hitting eight trifectas in the game.

“We have a great post game, we have a great perimeter game,” Goestenkors said. ‘You cannot take everything away.”

The depth of the Blue Devils allows them to constantly press and push the ball. Eleven different players saw double-digit minutes Sunday and Duke’s fresh legs helped wear down the Monarchs. The Blue Devils held Old Dominion to just 32 percent shooting in the second half.

Duke’s new starting lineup also reflects its commitment to play a fast-paced game. After not featuring a true pointguard last year, the Blue Devils now start two gifted ball handlers, allowing them more options when running the break.

Goestenkors has also chosen to bring Bales off the bench and start the more mobile Chante Black, who is better suited to the run-and-gun style that Duke has employed early in games.

Additionally, the fact that three oflast year’s starters —Bales, sophomore Wanisha Smith and senior Jessica Foley are now coming off the bench helps maintain the same level of intensity throughout the game on all fronts.

“Our defense really ignites our offense,” Goestenkors said. “When we become a great pressing team, we are really going to take it to another level.” »

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Senior Monique Currie, who was named a preseason All-American, scored 15 points in Duke's 93-56 rout ofOld Dominion Sunday in Norfolk, Va.

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NORFOLK, Va. The top-ranked women’s basketball team was led by veteran stars and new talentas Duke opened its season with two road victories this weekend.

The Blue Devils (2-0) handed the Monarchs (0-1) their worst home defeat in history, 93-56, DUKE 93 two nights after Penn ODU 55 ending State’s 20-game home win streak, DUKE 93 93-67, Friday.

67 PENN ST. Just two and a half minutes into Sunday’s game against Old Dominion and Duke leading 5-4, senior Monique Currie knocked down a three-pointer that triggered a 21-0 Blue Devil run that blew the game wide open. Six different Duke players scored during the stretch, while Old Dominion committed seven turnovers and was held scoreless for nearly seven minutes.

Duke’s up-tempo style frustrated Old Dominion all afternoon and led to 26 Monarch turnovers.

“We want to be known as a team that loves to press, that changes up defenses and that is a great transition team as well,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “With all the players that we do have on the team, it enables me to play more players when we play that pressing, running style of play.”

In addition to Duke’s pressure defense, the early Blue Devil run was keyed by strong inside play. Senior forward Mistie Williams had four points, while centers

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After sitting out last season for a violationof team rules, Lindsey Harding returned to the court this weekend.

Chante Black and Alison Bales each had the Blue Devil attack by hindering Duke’s inside attack with consistent double-teams two blocks during the 21-0 stretch. Duke dominated the paint for much of the first for the rest of the game. The Blue Devils countered by finding their open shooters ten minutes of the game. on the perimeter, resulting in Duke shootWhile consistendy pounding the ball inside, the Blue Devils avoided turnovers ing over 40 percent on three-pointers. that the Monarchs could have used to “You could tell that their goal was to stop our post game and they did a good jump start their offense.

“From film it looked like they got a lot of job with that, but that left our guards their points off of steals and in transition, open,” Goestenkors said.

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GA. TECH 14-MIAMIIO Georgia Tech sacked Kyle Wright seven times, took advantage of key penalties on two touchdown drives and made a pair of late defensive stands to upset the third-ranked Miami Hurricanes 14-10 Saturday night.

Wright still had a chance to win the game and moved Miami 62 yards to the Georgia Tech 27 with 1:46 left before he was intercepted by Dennis Davis, and the Yellow Jackets ran out the clock, The Hurricanes lost for the first time since their opener and were eliminated from contention for a berth in the national championship game. (AP)

CLEMSONI3-S. CAROLINA 9 James Davis rushed for 145 yards and his 2yard touchdown run lifted Clemson to its eighth victory in the last nine tries against South Carolina.

Trailing 9-6 and facing first-and-35 after two

penalties, Clemson quarterback Charlie Whitehurst completed consecutive passes of 9,14 and 28 yards to South Carolina's 27. Davis then burst through for a 23-yard gain and, two plays later, bulled into the end zone for the game's only touchdown.

South Carolina had a final chance, driving to Clemson's 43 with 3 minutes (eft. But on fourth-and6, Blake Mitchell's pass was intercepted. (AP)

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The Victory Bell CHAPEL HILL swung back and forth on its pendulum throughout Saturday’s gridiron batde between Duke and North Carolina, flipping sides with every game-changing moment.

Ultimately, the bell remained in Chapel Hill after UNC’s DUKE 21 24-21 victory.

The momen24 UNC turn changed for good with under four minutes left in the contest, with the Blue Devils (1-10, 0-8 in the ACC) up, 21-17. The Tar Heels (5-5, 43) faced fourth-and-one at the Duke 31yard line, and running back Ronnie McGill took a handoff to the right hash, where he met Duke safety Chris Davis and landed perilously close to the first-down marker.

The referees brought in the chains and determined that McGill had gained a first down by the nose of the football.

“I don’t want to talk too much about the refs, they do their job, just like everybody else did their job,” said freshman linebacker Michael Brown, who had 14 tackles on the day. “McGill is a hard runner, and he kept driving his feet, and the refs said he got it, so he got it.”

With a fresh set of downs, UNC marched toward the goal line, and McGill ended what he started, pounding it into the endzone and putting his squad up three for good. The junior tailback finished with 168 yards rushing on 28 carries, accounting for more than 40 percent of the Tar Heels’ total offense.

After the ensuing kickoff went out of bounds, Duke got the ball back on its own 35 with T.38 to go. Although freshman Zack Asack had played quarterback the entire game, the Duke coaching staff decided to insert former starter Mike Schneider into the game to run the 2-minute drill. After completing his initial pass for eight yards to Ronnie Elliott, Schneider proceeded to throw his next pass into the hands *of UNC linebacker Tommy Richardson, whose interception effectively ended the game.

Blue Devil head coach Ted Roof defended the team’s decision to use Schneider, who had not started since Duke’s loss to Wake Forest Oct. 29.

“Mike [Schneider] was our two-minute guy,” Roof said. “Zack [Asack] has come along, but Mike is more comfortable on the practice field and has produced better in the two-minute.”

Asack, who completed 10-of-26 passes for 155 yards and ran for Duke’s first score, supported his teammate.

“I have all the faith in Mike Schneider,” Asack said. “Every single time I got off the field he was always there, supporting me and helping me with my looks and stuff. He knows what’s going on in that two-minute.”

Although the Duke defense could not stop McGill at the end, the unit was responsible for keeping the Blue Devils close the whole game. Senior Phillip Alexander and junior Jeramy Edwards created early opportunities by forcing first-quarter fumbles, both recovered by Duke. Brown led the attack on the UNC backfield, contributing three tackles-for-loss and one of the team’s five sacks. With his effort, Brown ended the season leading the Blue Devils, as well as all Division 1-A freshmen, with 92 tackles.

“It feels good on the inside, but there’s always a greater goal,” the linebacker said.

“That’s what we were going for today. But it definitely feels good to know that I can help out the team in that kind of way.”

Down 17-14 at halftime, Brown and the defense shut down the opposing offense throughout the third quarter and into the fourth, waiting for the Blue

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The lead changed four times in Saturday's back-and-forth game, which the Tar Heels won 24-21.

Devil offense to break through. Beginning a drive with 13:42 to go in the game, Asack and his crew put together 14 plays for 62 yards, setting up a fourth-and-goal from the one-yard line with just over seven minutes to play. Roof gambled and decided to go for the touchdown with backup tailback Re’quan Boyette, a smaller and quicker back replacing injured power runner Justin Boyle. Boyette was stuffed at the line of scrimmage and was unable to convert.

But the defense held UNC to only one yard on the next three plays, forcing the Tar Heels to punt and handing the offense incredible field position at the opposition’s 41-yard line. With six minutes to go, Asack completed his first pass to tight end Andy Roland down the right side for 17 yards. On the next snap, Duke ran a reverse blit the offensive line collapsed quickly, forcing Asack to pitch the ball to tailback Ronnie Drummer instead of handing it off. Drummer made the play look designed and took it 24 yards for the

touchdown, putting the Blue Devils up four with five minutes remaining.

Drummer’s successive celebration drew a penalty, enabling UNC to begin their next drive—the game-winning drive—at their own 32 yard-line. In a game with six personal-foul penalties, Roof thought this one was damaging, but not the deciding factor of the game.

“Obviously that penalty, that was 15 yards of field position, which was a critical factor,” Roof said. “That’s the rule, it’s interpreted different game by game, but I don’t know what to tell you.”

But the coach did know what to say about the pride he had in his players after such a close final game.

“I told them that I was proud of them, and I’m sorry that we didn’t send the seniors out with a win,” Roof said. “It’s tough to empty your tank and come up short on the scoreboard. The way it happened was the last drive there. But I give North Carolina credit because they made plays when they needed to.”

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Junior Casey Camera expresses his frustration with Duke's three-point loss to North Carolina Saturday in Chapel Hill.The Blue Devils finished the season 1-10 and did not defeat a Division l-A opponent.

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CHAPEL HILL For a moment in Saturday’s game, it looked as if Duke had finally put it all together.

When Ronnie Drummer took an end-around 24 yards into the Tar Heel end zone with five minutes left, the Blue Devils took a 21-17 lead, putting themselves in a position to win an ACC game for the first time this season.

But in the end, just as they have all season, things fell apart again for Duke.

“I hope they use this game to motianaiysis vate them and to propel them about how fine the line between winning and losing at this level is,” head coach Ted Roof said. “Whether it’s one decision, one play, one spot, one anything is the difference in a game like this. We came up a little short.”

No words could have described the Blue Devils’ loss better. A matter of seconds determined the difference when Tar Heel linebacker Tommy Richardson stepped in front of Duke tight end Ben Patrick for the game-sealing interception. Down 17-14 with approximately seven and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter, mere inches stopped Duke running back Re’quan Boyette from giving Duke the lead on a fourth-and-goal play from the North Carolina one-yard line.

Yet with three minutes remaining and a tenuous 21-17 lead, the Blue Devils came up a little short when it mattered most. The Duke defense needed to hold the Tar Heels, who entered the game with the ACC’s worst rushing offense, on a fourth-and-one at the Duke 31-yard line to reclaim the ball and the Victory Bell. But tailback Ronnie McGill converted with just inches to spare, and five plays later, McGill cruised into the Blue Devil end zone to give the Tar Heels the decisive touchdown.

“If we stop them for an inch less, or not even an inch, we’re off the field, and our offense has got it, and we’re forcing them to bum timeouts,” Roof said. ,

Instead, Duke will enter the offseason thinking of what could have happened despite the team’s most spirited showing of the season.

The Blue Devils, which had been outscored by an average of 10 points a game in the third quarter, played the Tar Heels to a scoreless draw during the period, forcing four North Carolina punts. The much-maligned Duke defense, which had forced just 14 sacks all season, had hounded Tar Heel quarterback Matt Baker for five. And the Blue Devils’ third-down defense, which had given up some of the season’s biggest plays, stopped North Carolina on nine straight conversion attempts during the second and third quarters.

“We were rolling there for a while, and guys were making plays,” head coach Ted Roof said. “We’re just one play away. One play, one decision, one whatever. There’s just such a fine line between winning and losing.”

Unfortunately for Duke fans, the Blue Devils were on the wrong side of that line for every Division I-A contest this season. Yet with so much youth on Duke’s roster, there is hope that Duke can climb its way to respectability soon.

Freshman linebacker Mike Brown led the team in tackles with 92, a figure unmatched by any other first-year linebacker in the country this season. Sophomore Justin Boyle had nine touchdowns this season, including one against the Tar Heels Saturday. In fact, all ofDuke’s rushing touchdowns were taken by either true freshmen or sophomores.

“I feel like this is the first conference game where we’ve been in it in the final score,” Boyette said. “I feel like we’ve been in a lot of close games. Maybe in the first half we came out sharp, did this, that and the other, or maybe in the second half we came out sharp, we just didn’t put two [halves] together. I feel like this game we put two [halves] together, and we came out and it showed.”

TIAN, QINZHENG/THE CHRONICLE Although it does little to mitigate the bitterness of Zack Asack was sacked times Saturday, fumbling the Duke’s 15thloss to North Carolina in the last 16 games, it Quarterback four does offer a glimmer of hope for the future. ball once and throwing one interception. ,

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trouble getting good shots on goal throughout the game. The Blue Devils failed to register a solid shot in the team’s

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —As the clock ran four penalty corners after the break. down to zero in Duke’s third champiloss three the Blue For each corner, Duke would send the in years, onship game Devils realized that this was the one that ball to the top of the circle and either misplay the pass or fail to take a strong shot got away. two before the Terrapins rushed out from the the title both games, previous In against Wake Forest, Duke was dominated cage. On one occasion the Blue Devils did by a stronger team. This not even send the ball back into the circle and lost possession immediately.

1-0 loss to Maryyear’s game In the final minute, as the team desperland was different. analysis After a quick Ter- ately tried to knot the match at one, Duke rapin goal 8:34 into the had multiple scoring opportunities but first half, the Blue Devils turned up the Maryland cleared the ball each time, taking precious time off the clock and crushintensity and spent most of the remainder of the game in Maryland’s half of the ing the Blue Devils’ final hopes. field, constantly pressuring the Terps but Maryland did not even create its own good scoring opportunity for the game’s failing to score.

“Quite honesdy, I felt like this is the first only goal, but instead got a favorable time we’ve been in the final game and we bounce off a Duke player’s stick and took probably deserved to win,” head coach advantage. Even Jackie Ciconte, who Beth Bozman said. “Not to slight Maryland scored the lone goal of the game, admitted her score was not one based on skill. at all they scored, they won but we “[l] prayed and hit it in,” Ciconte said. played quite dominating, especially in the second half.”

“I got lucky.”

In the end, all that matters is that the Duke was constandy on attack the entire second period, but was not able to Terps made the most of their only opporbreach the circle as Maryland sat back in tunity, and the Blue Devils did not capitalize on any of their numerous chances. its zone and played tight defense.

The Terps never sustained an attack Control of a game only matters if a team in the half, only momentarily sending wins, and the Blue Devils did not. the ball downfield to stop the Blue Dev“What does that mean—to control the ils’ assault. game? You have the ball more? The bot“I think we did have our chance to tom line is the goal,” Maryland head coach have a few good shots off,” senior Katie Missy Meharg said. “If you get the ball a Grant said. “We just didn’t really capitalcouple times and go down and score a goal ize. I don’t know.... I felt like we broke and then you keep it out, it might not be them a lot.” the prettiest [way to win] but the reality of Despite its dominating play, Duke had the game is that.”

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Freshman Laura Suchoski was one offour Blue Devils to earn spots on the NCAA Alt-Tournament team.

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The volleyball team defeated both Virginia and Virginia Tech at Cameron Indoor Stadium this weekend, securing its first undefeated home record since 1993 and gaining sole possession of third place in the conference standings.

Entering their VIRGINIA Nov. 19 match DUKE 3 against the Cavaliers, the Blue Devils (21-7, 15-5 VA.TECH in the ACC) were DUKE 3 tied with Virginia (19-10, 14-6) for third in the conference standings, but had suffered a 3-1 loss to the Cavaliers in Charlottesville, Va. Oct. 7.

Because the ACC eliminated its postseason tournament beginning this year, the regular-season standings will have a greater importance in deciding which teams earn bids to the NCAA Tournament. In the last five years, only once have three teams from the ACC received NCAA Tournament berths.

After failing to take a lead in Game 1 and trailing by as many as six points halfway through Game 2, Duke’s perfect home record seemed to be slipping away.

“We weren’t playing the way we were capable of in Game 1,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We missed opportunities that were given to us. We weren’t sealing the net on our block. We weren’t working together out there as a team. We were disjointed.”

With the Blue Devils trailing 21-15 in the second frame, the momentum suddenly shifted in Duke’s favor. The front _

4,” Nagel said. “Tealle’s serve really turned it around, and I’d say up until that point in Game 4 it very much could be anybody’s.

Then she started serving so well and we were able to take advantage of that. That’s when we began to gain confidence. It was great to be able to make a run there, and her serve allowed us to do that.”

In Duke’s first match point, middle blocker Carrie DeMange, who recorded her 21st double-double of the season, blasted the ball over the net to Virginia’s left sideline to seal the win. The sophomore finished the match with 18 kills and a career-high 25 digs.

Freshman Jourdan Norman recorded her first career triple-double against the Cavaliers, with 14 kills, 11 digs and a school-record 15 blocks. With her record-setting performance at the net, Norman broke the single-game block mark of 14 set in 1995 and is 10 blocks shy of Duke’s single-season record of 164, posted in 1987.

[Virginia] had really good hitters, so I think it was easier to block because they were all so strong,” Norman said.

In addition to their record-setting defensive effort, the Blue Devils’ offense had a strong showing. Setter Ali Hausfeld’s match-high 62 assists brought her season total to 1,414, the third-highest single-season mark in team history.

On Senior Night Nov. 18, the Blue Devils topped Virginia Tech (11-17, 6-13) in four games, 30-21, 26-30, 30-22, 30-18.

Going into the final two matches of the regular season, Duke has won six straight ACC contests and 11 out of its last 13 matches. “

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Tealle Hunkus’ service, Duke went on a 155 run to take the game.

“Everyone justlooked at each other out there and said, we’ve got this game,” said Hunkus, who posted 13 kills and 26 digs, “This is ours. We’re not going to lose.”

Duke rode its momentum from the second game into the third, taking that frame

with relative ease, 30-17 But Hunkus’ strong performance on the serve would prove critical again at the end of Game 4. The Blue Devils fell behind early, but Hunkus’ service capped the comeback, when she extended the Duke lead to five, 28-23.

“After we got Game 2,1 started to think we were going to be OK, and then we got down and made too many errors in Game

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TITLE GAME fromTC page 1 her team deserved to win “They’re all very tough, but this one is especially tough,” she said. “I think anyone looking at the game, really watching the 70 minutes, would probably be surprised if they looked at the score. As much as it is a game of capitalizing opportunities, it is also a game of errors. Errors are the difference between championships and second place, and that’s what it was today.”

Maryland (23-2) scored the only goal of the game on a bizarre turn of events 8:34 into the first half. After losing possession in the offensive zone, forward Katie Grant attempted to prevent the Terrapins from clearing the ball by'using her stick to try to block the clearance pass. Instead, the ball hit awkwardly off of Grant’s stick and flew in the air towards Duke’s goal.

It landed 25 yards away from the Blue Devil cage and next to Terrapin leading scorer Jackie Ciconte. The senior rushed past the Blue Devils defense before sneaking what she called a “lucky” shot past goalie Christy Morgan.

“We had a communication breakdown and they got numbers up on us,” Bozman said. “Unfortunately, that one mistake determined the championship.”

Despite giving up the goal, Duke never stopped its attack, pressuring the Terrapins for the remainder of the contest. After failing to score in the first twenty-five minutes of the second half, Bozman called a timeout to try to mount one last charge in the final ten minutes of the game.

“We just really wanted to move the ball forward,” Bozman said. “We weren’t worried about transferring the ball, we weren’t worried about hitting a safety and

DAVIDSON

Nov. 16—even after he picked up a foul away from the basket on Davidson’s first offensive possession. Williams finished just one blocked shot shy of a triple-double, with 20 points, 10 rebounds and nine blocks.

Redick and Williams’ 49 combined points were a season-high for the duo.

“It’s kind of a thing that we have to do every game,” Redick said. “Shelden and I have to come up and play big every game and we know that.”

Redick and Williams were key figures in Duke’s major run of the first half, which increased a 10-9 Blue Devil advantage to 21-10 over a five-minute stretch in the middle of the period. Redick’s threepointer with 13:30 to play started the streak and a one-handed breakaway dunk

by Williams finished it.

The pass that sprang Williams on his

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then organizing our attack—we were just trying to get into our attacking third. And we did that, I think. We had a number of opportunities we just couldn’t finish.”

Though the Blue Devils’ broke the Maryland defense on several occasions and forced them to give up comers and fouls, the Terrapins never caved. Both Grant and Nicole Dudek were hounded by Maryland the entire game and could not pass the ball effectively as Duke’s offense was held without a shot on goal following the timeout.

Dockery scooped up the loose ball and fed a streaking Williams with a long bounce pass.

The play demonstrated Dockery’s trademark hustle, hard-nosed perimeter defense and his continued improvement running Duke’s offense.

Though his long-range shot did not fall against the Wildcats, Dockery recorded six assists and committed just one turnover.

“It’s just experience,” Dockery said. “I worked hard and I’m a good point guard now. I get calls from [former Duke point guard] Chris Duhon every day... so I’m learning more and more and getting comfortable with it every day. I feel like I can do a great job out there of leading my team.”

In between Duke’s three major runs, Davidson played the more-talented Blue Devils close. Duke scored only four fast break points in the contest after registering 19 against Seton Hall in its previous game.

Davidson forward lan Johnson led his team with 19 points—many off a wide array of post moves while being guarded

by Williams, the reigning National Defensive Player of the Year.

“I am shocked at the margin ofvictory because it just seemed like it was a two-possession game the whole game,” Krzyzewski said.

“They have such a good winning attitude....

There are some teams who are going to be in real big trouble against this team.”

NOTES:

Sander (1) Ist Half: 37.0, 2nd Half: 40.0, Game: 38.6

Nelson Williams Mcßoberts Redick

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Although the Blue Devils controlled possession in the second half they could notnet a goal.

breakaway came from point guard Sean Dockery. After Williams knocked the ball away from Davidson guard Kenny Grant,

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Redick’s four three-pointers gave him sole possession of fifth place on the ACC’s all-time rankings. He is three, three-pointers shy of Wake Forest’s Randolph Childress...

Williams’ nine blocks tied a career high...

Forward Lee Melchionni scored 16 points on 5-of-13 shooting. He was l-for-5 from three-point range until hitting two long-distance shots in the game’s final minute...

Duke shot 52.5 percent for the game, and 47.6 percent from three-point range.

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“Whenever I got the ball everything I saw was white,” Grant said. “We weren’t working off each other like we did on Friday and that was kind of the difference, I think.”

In the national semifinals Friday night against Wake Forest, the Blue Devils utilized a three-goal run during a nineminute stretch in the second half to knock off the second-seeded and threetime defending champion Demon Deacons (21-2), 3-2.

Down 1-0 at halftime, Duke came out of the intermission with renewed intensity and began to take advantage of the fast turf field. After the Blue Devils received a corner 14 minutes into the second half, Hilary Linton took the inbounds pass at the top of the circle and sent a shot in the direction of Grant.

The Leighton, Pa. native redirected the ball into the right corner of the goal, tying the game and shifting momentum toward the Blue Devils.

Less than eight minutes later Duke struck again as Dudek took a pass from Grant and flicked it into the top left corner of the cage to give the Blue Devils theirfirst lead of the game. Dudek scored once more a minute later off assists from Grant and Marian Dickinson to give Duke an insurmountable 3-1 advantage.

Given the teams’ previous NCAA Tournament history, the semifinal win was especially sweet for the Blue Devils.

“After two tournaments losing to Wake Forrest and just knowing the level they play, it’s great to beat them,” Bozman said Friday. “It speaks volumes for our team because we know we had to play, and it was really going to be a battle, and it was. I couldn’t be prouder of this group.”

nailed one of his two triples on the day, and Melchionni broke out of his shooting slump by hitting two more to ice the victory.

“People have to play [Redick and Williams] a man and a half to two men,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We kept good spacing, so when they doubled, guys were right on the [three-point] line and you make a kick and we have open shots.”

The 10 three-pointers Duke made, do not even tell the whole story. A Davidson defender knocked Redick down while he was shooting a three from the comer early in the second half and Redick coolly sank all three free throws.

On top of scoring in multiples of threes on the offensive end, the Blue Devils also shut down Davidson’s shooters. The Wildcats averaged almost nine three-pointers per game last season while going 23-9; Duke held them to just l-for-8 Saturday night.

“With the three-point shooting as a whole, if you look at their numbers versus ours, we’re usually a good three-pointshooting team and they did not give us any looks,” McKillop said.

If guys like Sean Dockery and Nelson can harass shooters on the perimeter like they did Saturday, it does not look like the Blue Devils’ opponents will have much success shooting this year.

And on offense, Duke will continue to capitalize on its depth of shooting talent.

Beyond having what Krzyzewski called the “best shooter in the country” in Redick, several other options have emerged including Melchionni, Paulus, Nelson and Dockery.

“As long as they come within our offense and they’re good shots, we’ll take as many as we can,” Melchionni said.

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Black (4), Bales (3), Williams (2), Kurz (TJ Ist Half: 60.7, 2nd Half: 47.5, Game: 52.9

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Triggs (1), Jordan (1), Pym (1) Ist Half: 36.7, 2nd Half: 31.6, Game: 33.8

ODU from page 3 the second half and pulled away at the end as freshman Abby Waner had five points in the final 42 seconds to finish as the game’s leading scorer with 17 points.

Playing in just her second collegiate game, the freshman guard did not show typical rookie nerves, shooting 7-for-9 from the floor and 2-for-4 from three point range in only 19 minutes of action.

Sunday’s game against the Monarchs was the second straight game in which Duke exhibited its extraordinary depth, uncharted territory for a team that ended last season with only eight scholarship players. Against both Penn State and Old Dominion, no Blue Devil played more than 25 minutes and all 11 active players scored.

Against the Nittany Lions, the Blue Devils were led by Bales, who scored 15 points and their senior All-American Currie, who added 12. Waner was also impressive in her collegiate debut, recording 15 points, six steals, and six assists.

The two teams were locked in a close battle for much of the first half, before the Blue Devils built an H-point lead just before the intermission. Duke came out of the locker room on a tear, sprinting to a 21-point lead as Waner knocked down two three-pointers in the run. The lead never dipped below 20 as the Blue Devils cruised to the 26-point victory.

NOTES: Sophomore guard Wanisha Smith had 11 assists against ODU, the fourth-highest total in school history...The Blue Devils registered 25 assists against PSU and 28 against ODU...Duke set an NCAA record with 267 blocks last season and began the year in similar fashion with 7 against PSU and 10 against ODU...Emily Waner’s Duke debut was put on hold, as she was diagnosed with a stress fracture in right foot last week. No date has been set for her return.

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have resulted in the selection of three scholars. “I don’t think it’s anything specific to this year except good candidates and good luck,” Satija said.

In previous years, many of Duke’s Rhodes Scholars were drawn from the pool of the Angier B. Duke scholarship, one of the University’s major merit-based awards.

Five Rhodes scholars since 2001 have had the scholarship. Of the three winners this year, however, only Hwang is an A.B. Duke.

“It’s just indicative of the quality of the Duke student body that it’s not just our merit scholarship students that win these things,” Chandler said, noting that three of the finalists were A.B. Duke scholars.

This year, The U.S. Naval Academy produced four Rhodes Scholars, the most of any school. Duke, the University of Chicago and Yale University each had three winners.

Chandler is a math major and president of the Duke Symphony Orchestra as well as a Goldwaterand Byrd Scholar. He plans to study applied and computational mathematics in England. Hwang is a triple major in biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering and physics. He has won a Marshall Scholarship and is a member of the men’s volleyball team. He will study biological physics at Oxford next year. Satija is a double major in biology and music and is concertmaster of DSO. He was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship and plans to study bioinformatics and computational biology at Oxford.

PLENTY from page 5 dollars inflate prices to offset transportation costs and interest.

U.S. dollars enter and leave the Triangle, while the PLENTY stays and strengthens the local economy, members said.

“These local currencies are being used to encourage people to be patrons of their community businesses,” said R. Neil Fulghum, North Carolina Collection Gallery keeper at UNC. To accept the PLENTY as payment, a business must join NCPlenty as either a “provider” or an “employee.”

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Seniors Adam Chandler, William Hwang and Rahul Satija (left to right) are recipients ofRhodes Scholarships. They will each have the chance to study in England. part of its employees’ wages in PLENTYs local currency in the United States.

Businesses and patrons have used and, in turn, accepts PLENTYs as payment American local currencies for more than in exchange for goods or services.

Annual member200 years. ship fees are $l2 for lection Gallery, Fulproviders and $6 for “This is a very important employees. ghum works to prepart of our history both serve the PLENTY. Participating businesses advertise their “This is a very imlocally and nationally.” membership in the portant part of our R. Neil Fulghum, history both locally program with signs North Carolina Collection Gallery keeper at UNC and nationally,” Fulin their windows.

the public recognition of what we’re doing here is growing,” Fulghum said.

The PLENTY is not the first or only

ghum explained. also Fulghum noted that the PLENTY is unique in comparison to other local currencies that have appeared in North Carolina’s history.

Other currencies have been created for

temporary or emergency situations.

Raleigh created its own temporary currency during the Civil War to help the local economy, Fulghum said.

Other local currencies have been issued

by municipal governments, businesses, banks and the military.

The PLENTY, on the other hand, was the brainchild of a concerned group of local citizens.

“There has never been an attempt in North Carolina’s history where a currency like this has been implemented on a community-wide level... looking out for the economic quality of the community,” Fulghum said.

TASC from page 4

GAINSHARING from page 3

Additionally, TASC grant stipulations require visits from research associates who run the program to demonstrate concepts in depth.

“Unlike traditional lecture mode, this leads them to an appreciation of the science concepts they’re learning in school,” said TASC coordinator Gary Ybarra, an associate professor of the practice ofelectrical and computer engineering. “It makes it relevant immediately.”

In addition to strengthening what many educators claim to be a weak introduction to science in early education, one major benefit of the program will be sprucing up North Carolina students’ knowledge of scientific processes. Educators hope this will help children perform better when federally mandated science testing is added in 2007 through the No ChildLeft Behind Act of 2001.

Megan Bierne, a fifth grade teacher and science kit trainer at Pleasant Grove Elementary School in Alamance County, said the concept has definitely changed students’ passion for science in her classes and that the kits are sure to benefit student performance.

“I’ve realized it used to be where most teachers just used the book,” she said.

“Lots of my kids really don’t like reading, so they hated science.” She added that the program has a range ofother benefits, in-

mark, it was still an improvement over previous ratings, Grantham said.

Because only one target was reached, officials decided to hand out only a partial payout from the program. In September, it gave employees $5OO bonuses.

Gainsharing became popular in the 1980’s, when businesses were looking to create stronger incentives for employees.

In recent years, hospitals and other health-care companies have begun to employ gainsharing in one form or another, Grantham said.

“It’s a growing trend,” he said. “About 30 percent of hospitals and health-care systems now have a type of gainsharing.”

Employee opinions about the success of the program varied.

Georgette Brown, a radiology technologist, said setting targets is a good incentive for employees.

Denise Lyons, a lab technician in the transfusion services department, was more skeptical about the targets.

She said applying the same benefits for all employees means that some departments will be held responsible for complaints that are beyond their scope.

“It helps some people, but it’s going to penalize others,” Lyons said.

Grantham said DUHS will decide whether or not to reinstitute the gainsharing program within the next month.

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Individuals involved in the TASC program make science concepts come alive for young students. eluding the potential to teach non-English speaking children, encourage girls to pursue careers in sciences and give students confidence.

Bierne said teachers showed apprehension when they first heard about national science testing, but now they feel more comfortable since the school has adopted TASC. Many schools, however, remain on a long waiting list of those interested in the project. Because of this, many may not benefit from the TASC program before

testing is implemented. Ybarra said he and collaborators through TASC hope to significandy expand participation in the program—which has more than doubled over the past two years—once it transitions to an independent nonprofit program in 2008, called the Center for Inquiry-based Learning. The program is currently funded by Pratt and private grant money.

“The program taught me you have to be more creative, even when there’s no kit,” Bieme said. “Diverse learning creates diverse participation.”

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rise in the quality of Duke’s athletic again, the field hockey team has come so close. For the third program in the past few years. Several non-revenue producing sports time, the team advanced to the men’s soccer, men’s and women’s NCAA championship only to suffer a lacrosse, women’s cross country, loss and watch the nationdevastating women’s al tide bestowed on someone else golf—stand realistic chances of winning ACC and NCAA while they setded for second place. titles this year. After a Although the Duke long dearth of tides that community would have StdlfeultOricll made attempts seemed loved to welcome home the field hockey team with a naplagued by curse-like futility, this potential suggests Duke might at last tional championship in hand, secbe coming into its own as a legitiond place is hardly a consolation mate sports school. Last year’s fifthprize. It is an impressive accomplace finish in the Director’s Cup for plishment that rests on the team’s talent and hard work all season. general athletic excellence is testato ment to that arrival. the skill of the In addition In these past few years, women’s team, this is yet another accolade for sports in general have been better Beth Bozman and a testament to her than men’s sports. The field hockey coaching. She has advanced to the team has been an example of what championship game in each of her appropriate resources can lead to three years here. Three years and for an all-female sport. Much of the three title games is a marked achievement. It speaks to the ability success of Duke’s women’s teams can be attributed to the resources of a coach to bolster a program imand scholarships they are guaranmediately and could serve as both teed under Title IX. With so many hope and an example for multiple male scholarships going to the footother Duke programs that have unball team, women’s sports have bendergone recent coaching changes. efited from the need for gender-balMoreover, this rise to the top of anced resources. the nation is indicative of a general —

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almost all graduate students, I have gone a student’s success. It can be extremely validating to through times when I thought that I was not have someone to talk to about concerns and issues. cut out for grad school. Completing a graduDiscussions about surviving graduate school in venate or professional degree is hard. It is challenging ues such as the Graduateand Professional Women’s Network, the Women’s Initiative focus groups or the academically, and it can be a real blow to the ego. dissertation support group organAll of us come to Duke very confiized by Counseling and Psychologdent in our abilities. Those admitted to ical Services have certainly been graduate or professional school were certainly accomplished as undergraduhelpful to students. ates or in careers undertaken before reThe good news is that no one at Duke is alone, and it is possible to for a degree.

Unfortunately, turning finish, as I can now attest. You see, these feelings often change as the semester progresses and stresses and chalI recently regained my motivation. lenges mount. It almost certainly beAttending the Society for Neuroheather dean comes more difficult to stay positive as science conference last week rethe other half newed my enthusiasm for science exams approach.

Conferences are a terrific opportuMany students think they alone feel this way, but it seems nearly every student faces these nity to learn about the exciting new frontiers of a frustrations at some point, usually in the beginning field and rekindle the interest that brought each of of their time here. The Women’s Initiative, completus to graduate school. ed in 2003, found that the confidence of graduate At the conference, I also committed to a postdocand professional students decreases after entering toral research position in a new lab at New York UniDuke before increasing as graduation approaches. versity beginning next June. I am excited about the This drop in confidence is more significant and next phase of my life—four to five years of pure research with no classes, no teaching responsibilities, challenging for women than for men. Many students I know, especially women, have experienced no thesis to worry about. I’m already nervous about the “imposter syndrome” or the feeling that they are living up to expectations, but I have certainly found waiting for the letter from Duke that states that their my motivation to excel. admission was a mistake.

I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Perhaps this is not surprising. Everyone at Duke Now, instead of being content to run one more exis intelligent and accomplished, and comparing periment or write one more paper, I know that I yourself to professors and other students can be dis- need to finish my degree this spring. I have loved my couraging. When everyone around you appears to time at Duke, despite the ups and downs intrinsic to have it all together and when you feel as if you can’t graduate school, but I am eager to move on, to learn keep up with homework, research, writing and new skills and to meet new people.

I hope that everyone who experiences the crisis everything else involved in graduate study (that happens to all of us), it can be easy to feel as if you don’t of confidence that I have seen so many students belong. What most students don’t realize is that suffer knows that she is not alone and that she even those who seem to be on top of everything usudoes belong here.

There are resources, including student groups, ally share the same doubts and insecurities.

Mentors can play a big part in keeping students CAPS, the Graduate School and more. Getting to motivated and on track. Students need encouragethe next stage definitely makes the challenges worthwhile. ment and positive feedback, which can be rare in to school.

We are more receive critiMaybe I’ll see you at NYU when you finish likely graduate cal feedback on presentations or papers, which Heather Dean is a graduate student in neurobiology. women especially tend to internalize.

Support networks and friends are also critical to Her column normally runs every other Wednesday.

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Why o parties get shut down? Fire code Why violations. couldn t people see Powell? Fire code violations y aren t we allowed to freely burn any and all furniture we desire after Duke wins basketball games. . . . reasonable expectation that we’ll proba y want to sit on that couch in the future.

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I have learned, is best viewed in a darkened back room. The tables that fill this room, each just large enough to support a copa de vino or two, are so numerous as to prevent moving from place to place other than by the slim catwalk near the bar.

The cafe crowd chatters until two men in black step onto the hardwood stage. One raises his hands and begins to clap deliberately as the other issues guttural notes from his throat. Then, another man, impossibly tall and gangly, steps onto the stage.

“Just wait—you’re going to fall in love with him,” Jess says, “as soon as he starts to dance.”

His arms swoop and glide as his feet pound a rhythm, transforming him into a force of emotion.

I turn to Katie and nod as the crowd applauds. We look toward the front of the narrow room through a screen of upwardly curlmz ing cigarette smoke. A woman with a lace shawl and a long, frilly red dress comes onto the stage, and a hush descends Madrid is intoxicating.

At once traditional (flaemily rotberg menco) and progressive modern Cen(the wholly common language tro de Arte Reina Sofia), it has refreshingly wider boulevards, greener parks, tidier plazas and later nights than Florence. And since anyone who didn’t study in Florence spent their semester abroad in Madrid, plenty of people had advice for my trip to Spain. “Check out the Rastro,” “Go out one night in Barcelona,” “See flamenco in Sevilla,” they told me.

So I did.

Arriving from Madrid, Barcelona—with its modernista architecture and strange Catalan spelling—seems like a city underwater. For his Casa Batllo, Anton Gaudi created balconies that look like fish jaws and a roof shaped like a dragon. Even the sidewalk tiles are works of art. All along the Passeig de Gracia I feel I’m swaying.

Besides the sea, Barcelona is inspired by the night. We start with dinner close to midnight and move to Soph’s favorite Thursday night spot on the beach, where we dance until closing time. Then to another place, up some stairs, champagne on ice, somebody bought a bottle, clinking columns of amber liquid and someone is dancing on the table and more dancing and mixers and....

Morning. I don’t want to leave, but I have a ticket to Sevilla.

In that slow-moving town, the saffron from paella shows up on sidewalks and walls, complemented by arabesque tiles or matador-red trim. It goes without saying that bullfighting is part oflife here: It was in the city’s oval bullring that men began to fight bulls on foot, rather than from horseback.

Sevilla is like Charleston, but Spanish. It has the largest Catholic cathedral in the world and a Moroccan-style palace built for a Spanish king. On one of the narrow streets in the Santa Cruz area, we duck into a red door. It looks like it might open to a garage or a storeroom, but instead there are benches and benches of people waiting for more backroom flamenco. The woman in the red dress waits until every eye is on her. She begins to dance.

Studying away from the United States allows students to live in completely different places than anywhere else they may ever live. But one of the most rewarding aspects of spending a good chunk of time in any city (specifically, European) lies in leaving —that is, in the chance to travel through Europe from a European base. Thanks to nofrills airlines, the price of a decent dinner out in Florence can get you to Barcelona and back on the weekend.

I did not get to see or do everything I’d hoped for during my time in Spain. I didn’t take a cafe con leche in Madrid’s Plaza Mayor, and I can’t believe I didn’t make it to the Picasso museum in Barcelona. Each time I had to leave a city, I wondered if I was going too soon. Then, upon arriving in the next place, I would be happy I had moved on, only to experience the same regret when again I had to leave. This type of traveling is like tapas —you taste a little bit of everything, and by the time you find a dish you like, it’s gone.

But it must be best, I think, to leave a place already

wanting to return.

Where to next?

Emily Rotberg is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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