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Cameron to host Death Cab, Franz Ferdinand by

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Indie pop band Death Cab For Cutie is teaming up with alternative rockers Franz Ferdinand to take Cameron Indoor Stadium by storm April 7 at 7 p.m., Duke University Union officials confirmed Sunday. The concert is spearheaded by the Union’s Major Attractions committee. The show is

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the first in the “Cameron Rocks!” series, a commitment on the part of the organization to try to plan a yearly concert in the venue. “We were looking for a show that appealed to students and the Duke community alike,” said Union President Chris Kallmeyer, a senior. “We feel that it’s going to be really successful.” Although Cameron Indoor Stadium has traditionally been a venue for bands on campus playing host to such acts as Cyndi Lauper, Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys —it has not been used for major shows in recent years, Kallmeyer added. Before the Union brought Atlanta-based rapper Ludacris to Cameron in September 2003, the facility was last used for a musical act in 1996. “We view this year as a good test to see if Cameron is a viable venue for annual shows,” Kallmeyer said. ‘We’re going to do everything we can for it to be successful.” The two groups will play in Cameron in the middle of their North American Tour. They will come to Durham

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Bill Cowher receives a Gatoradebath in celebration of his first Super Bowl title in 14years as Pittsburgh's head coach.

Pittsburgh captures sth title by Barry Wilner THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT Paint this Super Bowl black and gold. With a whole lot of satisfaction for Jerome Bettis, Bill Cowher and his Pitts-

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The final Bus stop featured a little trickery starring MVP Hines Ward, a bunch of help from the

Seattle Seahawks and a huge boost from the Terrible Towels, -a handful of football fortune that added up to One for the Thumb. The Steelers’ 21-10 victory in the Super Bowl Sunday was their record-tying fifth, but the first since 1980 and the first ever for Bettis and Cowher. “It’s been an incredible ride,” Bettis said. Moments after the Rolling Stones rocked a Ford Field that

could easily have been Heinz Field—or Hines’ field—Willie Parker broke a Super Bowl record 75-yard touchdown run. The Steelers earned that elusive ring and completed a magic Bus ride that made Bettis’ homecoming—and farewell —a success. “I’m a champion. I think the Bus’ last stop is here in Detroit,” Bettis said. “It’s official, like the SEE SUPER BOWL ON SW PAGE 7

Duke prevails in OT thriller G&P schools invest PERSPECTIVE I MENTORING

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with 1:12 left in overtime and turned to run down the court, pounding his chest and breathing a small sigh ofrelief, as Duke ained a Qfi S cci PSUI 94-91 adZ? DUKE 197 vantage. The senior was relieved that he had finally gotten a three-pointer to drop—he shot just 3-for-10 from beyond the arc and missed a three that would have won the game in regulation —but knew Saturday’s game against Florida State was still far from over. A chaotic sequence of events followed before Duke (21-1, 9-0 in the ACC) narrowly escaped the Seminoles (13-6, 4-5) at SEE M. BBALL ON SW PAGE 4

Although JJ. Redick struggled from the outside, he still managed to score 36 points and became Cameron Indoor Stadium's all-time leading scorer.

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When Christopher Brady arrived to start his first year at the Divinity School three years ago, he had never set foot in North Carolina, not to mention on Duke’s campus. Not knowing even survival basics—like where to get a haircut or see a movie—made entering a professional school particularly overwhelming. Inspired by the experience of adjusting on his own, Brady went on to start up Koinonoi, the mentoring program for first-year students at the Divinity School. Mentoring has become a valued commodity in graduate and professional education in recent

years, as studies confirm what personal anecdotes have revealed: Mentoring relationships are crucial in helping students order their personal, academic and professional lives. “Satisfaction with mentoring correlates very strongly with student satisfaction,” said David Jamieson-Drake, director of institutional research, noting that the conclusion was drawn from a comprehensive survey of the graduate and professional schools in 2004. Administrators have recognized the value of mentoring programs and are working to improve the University’s resources. SEE MENTORING ON PAGE 12

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Violence escalates over caricatures by

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BEIRUT, Lebanon Muslim rage over caricatures of the prophet Muhammad grew increasingly violent Sunday as thousands of rampaging protesters—undaunted by tear gas and water cannons—torched the Danish Embassy and ransacked a Christian neighborhood. At least one person reportedly died and about 200 were detained, officials said. Muslim clerics denounced the violence, with some wading into the mobs trying to stop them. Copenhagen ordered Danes to leave the country or stay indoors in the second day of attacks on its diplomatic out-

posts in the Middle East. In Beirut, a day after violent protests in neighboring Syria, the crowd broke through a cordon of troops and police that had encircled the embassy. Security forces fired tear gas and loosed their weapons into the air to stop the onslaught. The protesters, armed with stones and sticks, damaged police and fire vehicles and threw stones at a Maronite Catholic church in the wealthy Ashrafieh area—a Christian neighborhood where the Danish Embassy is located. Flames and smoke billowed from the 10story building, which also houses the Austrian Embassy and the residence ofSlovakia’s

consul. Protesters waved green and black Islamic flags from broken windows and tossed papers and filing cabinets outside. Witnesses said one protester, apparentiy overcome by smoke, jumped from a window and was rushed to the hospital. Security officials said he died. Thirty people were injured, half of them members of die security forces, officials said, making it the most violent in a string of demonstrations across the Muslim world. All the injuries were from beatings and stones. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said before SEE EMBASSY ON PAGE 6

lAEA weighs repercussions for Iran by

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UNITED NATIONS The campaign stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon has now moved to the U.N. Security Council, but countries there have vastly different ideas of-what the council should do. The five permanent council members are split, with the United States, Britain and France hoping to pressure Iran into backing down with the ultimate threat of sanctions. However, China and Russia do not want to incite Tehran and would prefer that the to

council play a limited role, with the International Atomic Energy Agency keeping the lead in handling Iran. The Iranian government on Sunday ended all voluntary cooperation with the lAEA, saying it would start uranium enrichment and reject surprise inspections of its facilities. Uranium enriched to a low degree can be used for nuclear reactors, while highly enriched uranium is suitable for warheads. However, in an apparent reversal, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hamid Reza Asefi said the government was open to negotiations on Moscow’s proposal that

Iran shift its plan for large-scale enrichment to Russian territory in an effort to allay suspicions. A day earlier, an Iran representative at the lAEA meeting said that proposal was “dead.” For the U.S.-led faction, the lAEA’s decision Saturday to report Iran represented a great success. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton had pushed for Iran to be brought before the council since his days as U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security in 2001-2005. “It inevitably changes the political dy-

An al Qaeda operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemeni prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.

Bar suspect dies in shootout A teenager suspected in a brutal rampage at a Massachusetts gay bar died Sunday from wounds suffered in a shootout with Arkansas police after he fatally shot an officer and a woman acquaintance, authorities said.

Specter chides spy program Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not adequately justified why the GeorgeW. Bush administration failed to seek court approval for domestic surveillance, said Sen. Aden Specter, R-Pa., the senator in charge of a hearing Monday on the program.

Ga. church remembers King Hundreds mourned the loss of Coretta Scott King at the Sunday services of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her late husband preached in the 1960 and the civil rights matriarch remained a member until her death. "Praise God for Coretta Scott King,"the Rev. Raphael Warnock said.

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DUMC to collaborate with Peking

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In order to be eligible for the scholarmust be a full-time junior and rank in the upper quarter of his or her class. Melissa Malouf, professor of English and director of the Truman Scholarship Program at Duke, said 35 juniors listed themselves as interested in applying for the scholarship at the information meeting held in the fall, but only five submitted applications. “These applicants were then interviewed by a committee of faculty and administrators,” Malouf said. “In the end,

Duke University Medical Center’s top brass recently inked a letter of intent with representatives from Peking University Health Science Center, agreeing to explore the possibilities of a long-term partnership that will further the University’s global health inidatives. Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs at Duke and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, and Dr. Yang Ke, chancellor of Peking University’s Health Science Center, signed the letter of intent Jan. 25. “We are both interested in each other,” Ke said. “If we eventually generate a solid program over there, Duke will further enlarge its global influence.” DUMC officials are currently working to set up steering committees that will work out specific strategies to put the partnership to work. “We want to make substantial progress over the next year,” said Robert Taber, DUMC vice chancellor of corporate and venture development. Although a specific timetable has yet to be worked out, DUMC administrators are optimistic about the future of the joint venture. “If everything works well and we do have a center set up, eventually one day when there is revenue, it may be able to benefit both institutions,” said Dr. Chunming Dong, assistant research professor in the division of cardiology. Officials at Duke first began exploring the idea of building an academic relationship with Peking University in 2002. Dzau expects to visit Peking University in June, but Duke’s head of cardiology and the chief of medicine have already journeyed to the institution in Beijing, China.

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Senior Marsha Simmons (right) watches the opening minutes ofSuperbowl XL with a friend at the Varsity Ale House Sunday night.

Duke nominates 1 Truman candidate by

CatherineFisher THE CHRONICLE

Despite Duke’s increasingly strong undergraduate population, this year admin-

istrators nominated the smallest number of Truman Scholarship candidates since the award’s inception. Although the University is entitled to nominate up to four candidates for the award, this year it put up only one—junior Jimmy Soni, president of the Duke Honor Council and a Chronicle columnist. The Truman Scholarship, a meritbased award created as a memorial to President Harry Truman, awards between 75 and 80 scholarships worth

$30,000 each to undergraduates with aspirations for careers in government or public service. Scholarship candidates must be nominated by their academic institutions. If selected by their college or university, students enter the national applicant pool. Last year three students were nominated. Current senior Hirsh Sandesara went on to be a Truman Scholarship winner. The Truman Scholarship Foundation looks for winners who show involvement in community service, commitment to potential careers in government or public service and strong leadership and communication skills.

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Maxed out: Law school alum promotes book by

Tucker Max, a former Duke law student, promoted his book at theSouthpoint Barnes & Noble Friday night.

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A long line of devotees wrapped around bookshelves Friday night at the Southpoint Barnes & Noble to see Internet celebrity Tucker Max. The fans hoped for autographed copies of Max’s new book and a dose ofhis signature acerbic banter. Max, Law ‘Ol, is famous for TuckerMax.com. His website is characteristically riddled with dry insults, drunken lunacy and alternately hilarious and disastrous tales of womanizing. He also claims to hate Duke basketball more than anyone else does. Max will be on tour through the end of February promoting his newly released book, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. The book, like the website, is a collection of short stories chronicling Max’s adventures as a partying misanthrope.

He claims his time at Duke Law was filled less with class than with parties. Upon graduating, Max was promptly fired from his first job at a law firm. “It just didn’t fit my personality. I’m just not that guy,” he said. “Law school is awesome. Being a lawyer sucks.” His friends counseled him to turn his talent for writing into a career. The e-mails they regularly sent during their time in college regaling one another with tales of raucous weekend nights inspired the provocative and combative TuckerMax.com. “It’s not a blog,” Max insisted. “A blog is dated, sequential entries. I’m a writer, not a blogger.” The site quickly drew a great deal of quiet attention, and now Max is riding the wave of his first major book deal. SEE MAX ON PAGE 6

Judge rules to suppress ALE evidence in UNC case by

Dan Englander THE CHRONICLE

Last semester, more than 50 Duke students dodged citations issued by Alcohol Law Enforcement agents when a judge ruled to suppress the evidence collected against them. Last week, several students at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill caught a similar break from the courts. Orange County District Court Judge Charles Anderson ruled Thursday that some of the evidence ALE agents collected in a September raid of a UNC literary fraternity house will be suppressed. Anderson ruled that the search warrant granted for the raid was not valid for certain actions taken by the agents. Eighteen people were cited Sept. 22 on 27 misdemeanor charges, including selling alcohol without an ABC permit, underage drinking and possession of marijuana. Students were allegedly running a speakeasy out of the house’s basement. Agents confiscated $4BO in a cash box behind the bar, more than 40 liters ofalcohol and about 35 grams of marijuana, officials said. Officials entered the house after someone reported

the students to law enforcement. “It was a complaint of a full running bar that was set up in that location,” said JeffLasater, the Raleigh district supervisor for ALE. “The information was that the alcohol was being sold on a regular basis to students, so we obtained a search warrant there.” AT E agents worked in conjunction with the Chapel Hill Police Department and the Chatham County Sheriff s Office during the raid. The judge ruled that he will allow evidence collected in the basement of the fraternity house to be used against those cited. Evidence will not- be allowed, however, if it was collected after ATE agents told students they would use drugsniffing dogs to search the upstairs rooms. In his decision, Anderson wrote that officers did not have a valid search warrant to act on such a threat. As of Friday afternoon, ALE officials said they had not received a copy of the judge’s decision. Lasater said that the charges would have been the same if the dogs were not brought in because agents were convinced of illegal activity through other investigative means. SEE ALE ON PAGE 9

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill literary fraternity house was the location of an Alcohol Law Enforcement raid Sept. 22,2005.

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Duke officials also plan to send personing clinical research programs. “There is an exchange of faculty memnel to Beijing to help Peking University hers, and there is some discussion adopt an advanced informational technolowhether we would advise them and estab- gy system in its hospital. DUMC has one of lish a second the most admedical school vanced hospital , IT systems, in Peking,” said j i At r-v Duke we certainly consider Gil Merkx, vice calied c;mput erized Provider provost for interPeking University as our peer. national affairs. Order Entry. t. We can gam mutually as far as dumc plans “We will not transfer to begin with a simply is reputation concerned.” 1 focus on cardiolour technologDr. Chunming D<mg ical product ogy and advanced clinical like com niterized provider training —areas Duke is known order entry there,” Dong said. Instead, we will train for. As part of the first phase, Peking University will send hospital leaders to Duke their technical personnel to set the stage for training. DUMC officials have a menu for Peking University IT system to have of ideas for Peking University, which inthe best IT system in China and in Asia.” clude adding a clinical research program Peking University is ranked the top university outside Europe and North and training their residents and fellows, America, according to the 2005 Times Taber said. One of the major projects of the partHigher Education Supplement. “At Duke, we certainly consider Peking nership will involve adding Peking University’s research on the human genome to University as our peer,” Dong said. “We DUMC studies. can gain mutually as far as reputation is “We are doing genome association studconcerned. We can advance Duke’s influies to identify candidate genes for difference in China, in Asia and in the world.” •

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According to the website, 162 books were signed Friday night. Max was joined at the signing by a Duke Law school buddy, a lawyer who appears in many of the stories under the

only one candidate emerged as a truly competitive Truman nominee. We wish it had been otherwise.” Malouf explained that this year’s smaller applicant pool is a product of a new process and not indicative of broader trends within Duke’s junior class. She attributed the decline to a revised national application procedure that denies students access to applications until their academic institutions confirm that they meet grade point average qualifications. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the applicants for diis scholarship were down nationwide,” Malouf said, adding that statistics on national trends in Truman Scholarship applications will be available next month. Barbara Wise, administrative coordinator for the Office of Undergraduate Scholars who is also assisting with the Truman Scholarship nominations, suggested that this year’s slump in applications may also have to do with the deadto midterm line’s proximity examinations. The deadline was Nov. 17. Regardless of the exact causes of the drop in the applicant pool, Duke is determined to bring applications back up for next year. “I don’t think this suggests anything about the quality of our undergraduates,” Malouf said. “I do think we need to find ways, other than an information session, to get the word out earlier and more broadly,” she added. The 2005 Truman Scholarship winners will be announced in late March. Duke’s undergraduate population has produced 37 Truman Scholars in the program’s 29 years of existence.

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meeting with top Islamic leaders that about 200 people were detained, and police said they included 76 Syrians, 35 Palestinians and 38 Lebanese. The first apparent victim of the political fallout from the violence was Interior Minister Hassan Sabei, who submitted his resignation. It was not immediately clear if the resignation was accepted. Sabei said authorities had tried to prevent the protest from turning violent. “Things got out of hand when elements that had infiltrated into the ranks of the demonstratorsbroke through security shields,” he said. “The one remaining option was an order to shoot, but I was

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not prepared to order the troops to shoot Lebanese citizens.” Sabei, like other Lebanese politicians and Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, spiritual leader of Lebanon’s Sunni Muslims, suggested Islamic radicals had fanned the anger. Kabbani said outsiders among the protesters were trying to “distort the image of Islam.” The United States accused the Syrian government of backing the protests in Lebanon and Syria. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement that the resentment over the caricatures “cannot justify violence, least of all when directed at people who have no responsibility for, or control over, the publications in question.”

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“This is amazingly entertaining,” PWJ said. “It would be like if your best friend right now got famous for doing stupid s Most of the publicity for Max’s tour has been achieved through his online call for grassroots advertising. He was overwhelmed Friday when one fan at the autograph table told him he would be using his pick-up line from page 89 of the brand new book. “He just quoted, chapter and verse, my book,” Max said, comparing the adoration of a few fans to the dedication of “trekkies” to Star Trek actor William Shatner. A nervous female fan slipped Max a note in her copy ofhis book. He told her to come to the after party. He counseled one man to send him pictures ofhis daughter—so that he would know to leave her alone. Max defended his attitude—what he calls a disregard for social norms—as standard fun with his friends. “Everyone does what we do. I just wrote them down,” Max said. Max’s publicist Darryl Pierce, however, acknowledged Max’s at once average and unique personality. “The funny thing is that people see one side of Tucker,” Pierce said. “He has a normal side too. It just doesn’t make for great stories.” Debbie Kempel, community relations manager for the Barnes & Noble, was pleased with the event—but seemingly somewhat startled by Max himself. “We were happy to have him,” Kempel explained. “Every author deserves a chance.”

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BANDS from page 1 after playing in Atlanta April 5 and before playing in Camden, N.J., April 8. Death Cab For Cube, a Seattle-based quartet, released its latest album, Plans, last August. The album’s first single —’’Soul Meets Body”—combines emotional lyrics with up-tempo electronic beats. Franz Ferdinand, a Scottish new-wave rock quartet, has gained prominent recognition in the alternative scene in the United States and United Kingdom in the last few years. Known for its hit single, “Take Me Out,” the group released its latest album, You Could Have It So Much Better, last October. Duke students and employees will be able to purchase advance $25 tickets beginning Feb. 8. All college students will be able to buy tickets Feb. 13 for $3O. The general public will be able to purchase them for $35 the same day. All tickets will be sold at the Duke Box Office in the Bryan Center. Total capacity in the stadium is expected to be approximately 3,000. Kallmeyer noted that appropriate security measures will be taken to ensure Duke hosts a safe show. Fans ofDeath Cab For Cutie said they are looking forward to seeing the group perform. “My sister got me into them, and I’ve been listening to them, and I download their music,” said sophomore Nathalie Basile. “I am excited. That’s a good choice to bring them here.” Other students now anxiously anticipating the show said they find the indie and alternative genres to be refreshing selections. “It’s like a good alternative to hip-hop. It should be a large audience,” said juniorKevin Ma, adding that he will most likely attend the concert.

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ANOTHER RECORD SHATTERED Senior Clara Horowitz breaks the Blue Devil record in the 3,000-meter run by more than two seconds.

Unstoppable Thornton frustrates Blue Devils Athletic forward exposes Duke's defensive holes by

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Against Georgetown, the play of athletic big man Jeff Green cost the Blue Devils a

chance at a perfect season. Saturday, they were lucky that A1 Thornton, Florida State’s slashing forward, did not hand Duke its second loss and ruin its unblemished ACC mark. Thornton was a force game whom no one on Duke analysis could contain, let alone combines He stop. power and size with quickness and agility like few players possess, creating an overwhelming matchup problem for the Blue Devils. He took advantage to the tune of 37 points and 15 rebounds. “We had no answer for [Thornton],” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “His performance was nothing less than spectacular.” At 6-foot-7, Thornton was too big for any of Duke’s perimeter players to guard. DeMarcus Nelson, who is listed at 6-foot-3, did his best—and probably the team’s best—attempting to shut down Thornton, but the Seminole seemed to be able to elevate and score over Nelson at will. When guarded by Nelson, Florida State frequently tried to post Thornton against his smaller defender. “It was hard for me to guard him just because, obviously the size and him being a low-post player,” Nelson said. “They tried to post me and keep him around the basket so that he could use his size.” What made Thornton especially difficult to stop, however, was that he was simply too quick for any of Duke’s big men to guard on the perimeter. He dribbled around Josh Mcßoberts and Lee Melchionni on several occasions. Even when reigning Defensive Player of the Year Shelden Williams tried to check him, Thornton maneuvered around the Duke big man with ease. With 3:50 remaining and the game tied at 78, the Landlord, who was playing with four fouls, met Thornton at the top of the key. The Seminole junior was unfazed, as he put the ball on the floor and quickly drove past Williams and down the lane for a go-ahead layup. “He’s got more quickness than me or Shelden,” Mcßoberts said. “At the same time, he’s a little bit bigger than the other guys we have, DeMarcus or Lee. So he posed some mismatch problems for us.” Duke’s starting lineup, which features 190-poundJJ. Redick at the wing position, SEE ATHLETICISM ON PAGE 5

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Al Thornton used hisathleticism to shoot over and drive past Duke defenders Saturday.The juniorfinished with a game-high 37 points and also grabbed 15rebounds.

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Duke falls short of finals berth in loss to Longhorns by

Peter Wyman

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Riding a veritable hot streak into the semifinals of the National Team Indoors Saturday, the Duke women’s tennis team fell short of the finals, losing to No. 19 Texas, 4-3. The 13th-ranked Blue Devils (4-1) had advanced to the semifinals of the

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which was hosted by Wisconsin, by beating No. 8 Baylor (3-1) Thursday and No. 18 California (3-1) Friday. “It was a little weird,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said of the match against Texas (3-2). “It was the first match all weekend where I thought we were favored, and I think that had a negative effect. We didn’t play with the same intensity as against Cal and Baylor. Tm not sure if it was an issue of being nervous, but I don’t think we were mentally sharp.” As in its two previous matches of the tournament, Duke took the doubles point, getting wins from senior Jackie Carleton and junior Krisdn Cargill at the No. 2 spot and Jennifer Zika and Melissa Mang at No. 3. The victory kept the 41st-ranked pairing of Zika and Mang undefeated in dualmatch play this season. After the first five singles matches finished, Duke found itself locked with the Longhorns, 3-3. Cargill, the last Blue Devil on the courts, faced a must-win third set to keep Duke’s streak alive. “I felt a little pressure, but I was also really excited to have the chance to win it for the team,” Cargill said. “My teammates

had a few points gone their way the outcome may have been different. “We didn’t get beat, we lost,” Ashworth said. Duke had dispatched California in Friday’s quarterfinal match, 4-2, to make its ninth semifinal appearance in the last 11 years at the USTA-ITA Indoors. “I thought that was the best match we’ve played all year,” Ashworth said. “Cal was in the same position we were, being one of the top five teams in the country but, based on where they finished last year, not ranked so high. I knew it was going to be a good match.” Duke took all three doubles matches no small feat considering the opponent. “Usually Cal has the best doubles in the country,” Ashworth said. “I’m really happy with how we played in the doubles.” But the Blue Devils had a slower start to the singles matches, as both freshman Tara Iyer and Zika fell to their opponents in straight sets. Making matters worse, Bercek lost her first set to California’s Suzi Fodor, the nation’s 19th-ranked player. “I was a bit worried about where we were physically at that point,” Ashworth said. “The doubles took a lot out of us—we came out on such a high, so we wanted to make sure that we didn’t have any letdown.” Freshman Melissa Mang ignited the Blue Devils with a 6-2, 6-3 victory at the No. 4 spot. Bercek followed with a convincing comeback win, finishing off Fodor 5-7, 6-1, 6-3. And with freshman Jessi Robinson’s match still underway, senior Jackie Carleton clinched the contest for Duke. No. 27 Carleton ousted California’s 14th-ranked Susie Babos, 6-3, 7-5. —

Junior Kristin Cargilllost the decisivematch in the semifinals ofthe USTA-ITA National Team IndoorsSaturday. were behind me the whole way.” Texas’ Ristine Olson, however, proved too much to handle, as Cargill lost the set and the match, 7-5, 6-7(6), 6-1. “I was extremely disappointed,” Cargill said. “I don’t think I should have lost the

first set, but after the tiebreaker in the second set she came on fire. The actual score doesn’t represent the match—it was much closer in the third set.” Ashworth said the Blue Devils let some of their opportunities slip away, and that

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The men’s tennis team split a pair of matches against two ranked opponents this weekend at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. The No. 9 Blue Devils fell to No. 3 Illinois Friday night, 6-1, before regrouping to edge out No. 26 ND Notre Dame, 4-3,

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With the match against the ILLINOIS Fighting Irish (2DUKE 3) knotted at three, Duke senior No. 9 Ludovic Walter and No. 8 Stephen Bass were still batding at the top singles flight to determine the dual match’s outcome. Duke (2-1) dropped the doubles point but rebounded to win three of the first five singles matches to set the stage for Bass and Walter’s decisive match. Bass broke Walter’s serve to take a 3-2 lead in the third and decisive set. The Duke senior bounced back, however, and won the next four games to claim his sixth win against a ranked opponent this season and to clinch the Blue Devils’ narrow one-

point victory. “He stayed aggressive. He competed really well,” Duke head coach Jay Lapidus

said. “He was down a break in the third, and he just competed really we 11.... It helped that Ludovic got new balls in the third. The balls were faster, and Ludovic

likes the faster balls and stuff.” After exploding to a 4-1 lead in the match’s opening set, Walter hung on to claim a 6-4 victory. The Vannes, France native stumbled in the second set, falling behind, 4-1, and he eventually lost, 6-2, to force the decisive third set that would determine the winner of the top pairing and the overall match. “He started really well in the second set,” Walter said of Bass. “He hit two or three return winners, and he held serve the whole time. I was trying to come back. I had a couple chances, and he played great points every time. In the third set, it started out the same. He broke at two-all. At that point I told myself, ‘Just make him play. Don’t miss,’ and I won the big points.” In Friday’s top-10 matchup with the Illini (3-0), Duke dropped the doubles point and went on to claim only one victory in singles matchups. At the No. 4 position, junior Peter Rodrigues pulled out a three-set victory over No. 59 Ruben Gonzales. Rodrigues also notched a victory in Duke’s win Sunday to improve to 3-0 in dual meets this season. “He’s just a totally different player in dual matches,” Lapidus said. “He takes his level up about 50 percent from the fall to the spring.” Walter and No. 20 Jonathan Stokke both put up good fights for Duke, but each of them ultimately lost in tight three-set matches. Peter Henle contributed to this story.

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M. BBALL from TC page 1 Cameron Indoor Stadium, 97-96 “It was a long dogfight game,” senior Shelden Williams said. “We played 45 minutes, and it was just a battle for the whole course of the game, and it feels great for us to come out with a win.” After Redick hit l-of-2 free throws with 21 seconds left on the clock to extend the Blue Devils’ lead to four, Florida State’s Todd Galloway took the ball up the length of the court for a right-handed layup that closed the gap to two. Then for the second straight game, Duke turned the ball over on an inbounds pass under its own basket in the final minute, giving the Seminoles hope with 12 seconds to go. Florida State could not capitalize, however, as Williams stole the cross-court inbounds pass. With the chance to ice the game at the line, Williams missed both free throws giving the Seminoles yet another opportunity. Galloway turned the ball over on a driving layup though, and Williams connected on a pair offoul shots that put Duke ahead by four with 3.3 ticks left on the clock. A last-second three-pointer by Galloway accounted for the final margin. “It was one of those games where whoever had the ball last was going to win,” Redick said. “When Shelden was at the free throw line you almost knew he had to make them both to seal the game, and of course Galloway comes down and hits a running-floater from about 40. So that’s just the way the game was today.” The wild game featured 17 lead changes and 26 ties, with neither team gaining an advantage of more than seven points. And as the tension heightened down the stretch, so did the physical nature of play. With 9:23 remaining, Williams went up for a dunk and the Seminoles’ Alexander Johnson intentionally fouled him, sending the Duke senior crashing to the floor. Williams immediately jumped up and bumped Johnson. Both were given technical fouls, disqualifying Johnson because it was his fifth foul. “I thought it was an unnecessary foul,” Williams said of Johnson’s flagrant. “That’s why I kind of jumped back up like that, but it’s part of the game, and you need to fight through it.” The skirmish set the tone for the rest of the game, as the two teams traded baskets back and forth. A1 Thornton did everything in his power to try and give Florida State its first win in Cameron. The 6-foot-7 forward finished the game with an eye-opening 37 points, 15 rebounds, five assists, three steals and one block.

Shelden Williams was forced to play the final nineminutes ofregulation and all ofovertime with four fouls.Hefinished with 27 points and 13 rebounds. Even though they tried to mark him with several different players during the course of the game, the Blue Devils had no answer for Thornton. AfterWilliams powered his way to the basket for a layin that put Duke ahead, 84-82, with 1:36 left, Thornton responded on the next possession. He blew past Williams for a layup that knotted the score at 84, where it wouldremain until the end of regulation. “He seemed like he never got tired, and every time they needed a bucket when we got a little bit of a lead, Thornton would do something,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There aren’t many players like him. He is one of the best players in the country.” But Redick and Williams proved once again why they were both named preseason All-Americans. The Blue Devils’ duo combined to score 63 points, including all 13 of Duke’s points in overtime. Coming off their draining contest against Boston College Feb. 1, the Blue Devils appeared sluggish at times in the

first half. With 5:03 remaining, Greg Paulus caught an inbounds pass, and in a temporary lapse of concentration, had the ball stolen from behind by Florida State’s Jerel Allen.. Discouraged by his team’s lack of energy, Krzyzewski barked at Paulus and senior Sean Dockery and called a timeout to rouse his team. “His message was that basically we weren’t playing hard, and we weren’t playing tough,” Redick said. “We didn’t do a lot of things well today. We didn’trebound well. We didn’t really take care of the ball well, but we did enough things well to win the game.” Duke allowed 45 points in the first half and were outrebounded 26-17—including 12 offensive rebounds during the period. They trailed by only two at the break, however, and overcame their exhaustion in the second half overtime to gut out the win. “This is one of the toughest games I’ve played since I was here,” Dockery said. “They never went away. You’ve got to give that team a lot of credit tonight.”

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news&notes Irani SaAwdan^s Dockery temporarily blacks out With less than five minutes remaining in regulation, Sean Dockery was hit in the temple and fell to the court. The senior laid motionless on his stomach for a short period before walking off the court. While he was down under the basket, Florida State grabbed three offensive rebounds before finally scoring on its fourth attempt —none of which Dockery recalled

happening.

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Dockery sat out the rest of regulation and re-entered the game with 3:59 left in overtime to a standing ovation.

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Although he scored only three points, freshman Greg Paulus dished out seven assists and only turned the ball over once against the Seminoles.

Nelson nearing 100 percent Duke’s best athlete was a step slow against A1 Thornton Saturday. Nelson, who missed 12 games with two different right foot injuries, is still reacclimating himself to the tempo of games and is not yet 100 percent

“I’m getting closer and closer by the days,” Nelson said. “As far as how close, we’re still not sure yet. I still have a long ways to go as far as physicallyrecovering and getting my steps back, getting my strength back, and also getting my condition, my wind, back where I can play as long as I did today at the level I did in the first half.” Nelson was a perfect 6-for-6, including three three-pointers, in the first half for 15 points, but he did not score after halftime. Redick coping with sore back, needs IV after game Battling a sore back and coming off a complete game against Boston College Wednesday, JJ. Redick was forced to play 43 minutes Saturday. After the game he was treated intravenously for exhaustion. “Obviously, we’re exhausted,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We feel good, but exhausted. JJ. is getting an IV We came into the game, his back was not good. Shelden should probably have a sore back from carrying us. I’m proud of the fact that we found away to win.”

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In contrast to the frenetic month of January, when Duke played 10 games—four against ranked opponents and five on the road—February has been a time for retooling and improvement. The Blue Devils (20-1, 7-1 in the ACC) will go into to tonight’s 7 o p.m. game against Virginia Tech (15-5, 2-5) in Blacksburg, Va., having rested eight days since their first loss of the season Jan. 29 to North CarTONIGHT, 7 p.m. olma“This entire week has Blacksburg, Va. been about focusing on us instead of focusing on our opponent,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Because we had 10 games in January, we didn’t really have time to focus on us and get better. We were constantly worrying about our next opponent. So I’ve taken this entire week really to just focus on us.” In practices, Goestenkors has had her players hone in on weaknesses exposed in Duke’s 74-70 loss to North Carolina, particularly their physicality, competitiveness and endurance. [The Tar Heels] were a very physical team, and we needed to be more physical than we were, and we needed to take better care of the basketball,” Goestenkors said. “We had 20 turnovers, and most of those turnovers led to easy shots for them. We need to be able to take care of the ball when we’re being pressured and against athletic teams and against traffic. We’ve been really working against presses and traps and changing defenses just so that we have to think on our toes and make good decisions with the basketball under duress.”

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The Blue Devils have had a week off since their loss to North Carolina Jan. 29 and will resume play tonight.

In an attempt to become more physical, Goestenkors has intensified or altered several aspects ofher team’s practices. Goestenkors approached the men’s practice squad and told them to play much more physically when they scrimmaged against her players. Additionally, the coach has used open spots in the starting line-up to encourage her players to be more competitive during practice. Against UNC, sophomore Chante Black started in place of the more frequendy started post player, junior Alison Bales. This season, seven Blue Devils have started six or more games, and 11 players are averaging more than 10 minutes of playing time. “Our starting spots have always been open,” Goestenkors said. “I’m not quite sure who’s going to start in that spot in our next game. I think it could vary depending on the game and depending on who’s playing well. I definitely think we’re trying to push each other. We all have the same common goal, so we want to make one another better. I think the fact that the starting spots, that they know they’re open, I think that just adds to the competitiveness of the practices.” Duke’s work in practice has not been solely focused on offense, however. The team has been running more to try to overcome what Goestenkors identified as one of the team’s most significant problems in its loss: transition defense. “Carolina beat us for some layups in transition,” she said. “We need to do a better job with our transition defense. So I think that includes running, making sure we’re in top condition and able to run the floor on both ends. I think we run really well offensively, but sometimes we get beat defensively when we’re not willing to run as hard.”

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is not equipped to handle a player like Thornton. In the past, the athletic wing has been a staple of the Blue Devils at both ends of the floor. Names like Dahntay Jones, Nate James, Shane Battier and Grant Hill pepper the storied history of the Krzyzewski era, but the 2005-2006 version of Duke is sorely lacking in this department. Dave McClure would be an asset, but he’s redshirting this season with a knee injury. Jamal Boykin may be able to help, but at this point in his career, it does not appear he has the quickness, strength or savvy to check a player like Thornton. “[Thornton] plays that position that we’ve used so well for 20 years—that mismatch at the four,” Krzyzewski said. Don’t get it wrong: nothing should be taken away from Thornton or his play Saturday. Krzyzewski was completely accurate in calling his performance “spectacular.” He surpassed his season averages in points and rebounds by halftime, with 19 and eight, respectively. There are not that many players in the country who combine power and speed as well as he does, but those that can are the stars of some of the teams the Blue Devils could be playing late in March or early in April. If Duke cannot stop Thornton, finding a solution for 6foot-9 Rudy Gay of Connecticut will not be any easier. Duke barely handled Memphis’ Rodney Carney in a threepoint victory in November, after which Krzyzewski called him one of the premier players in the country. The Blue Devils’ best defensive option in these situations will continue to be Nelson. Currently, the sophomore is struggling with conditioning after missing nearly two months with a right foot injury. But he will certainly need to get into game form if Duke wants to use him against Gay or Carney or any other number of athletic wingmen that the Blue Devils will inevitably face during the remainder of the season. “DeMarcus, if he was in shape, could stay with [Thornton] a little bit better,” Krzyzewski said.

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The Blue Devils need to find a more effective way to defend athletic big men like Al Thornton in preparation for the NCAA Tournament.

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Clara Horowitz set a school record for the second-straight weekend, with an impressive performance in the 3,000-meter race Saturday at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational in New York. With a time of 9:13.45, the senior blazed past the previous Duke indoor record of 9:16.86. “The field was very, very strong, so she didn’t take the lead immediately,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “When she did, she definitely took control of the race and looked incredibly strong the whole time.” Her previous career-best time was 9:27.53, which she ran at the ECAC Indoor Championships as a freshman. The record-setting finish qualified Horowitz for the NCAA Championships, and it is the fourth-fastest time in the event in Division I this year. She is the first Blue Devil athlete to qualify automatically for the NCAAs. “What’s really remarkable is the set of races she has run in the last seven days,” Ogilvie said. Last weekend at the Terrier Classic in Boston, Horowitz set the school record in the 5,000-meter run. She followed that performance by anchoring the Duke distance medley team Friday, running the 1,600-meter leg to help the team finish with a NCAA provisional qualifying time. Horowitz wrapped up the weekend with her performance in the 3,000, which set the all-time meet record. “Duke’s distance dominance was really demonstrated in this meet,” Ogilvie said. “The next time Clara will run for us won’t be for three weeks until the ACC Championships. She’ll just be training until then.” Other Duke athletes found success this weekend as well, with 16 women and eight

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men achieving qualifying times for the ECAC and IC4A Championships. On the men’s side, junior Alex Romero raced to Duke’s top 5,000-meter time of the season, finishings in 16th place with a personal best of 14:39.11. Fellow junior Keith Krieger was just a few seconds behind, finishing 22nd in 14:45.05. Both runners surpassed die IC4A qualifying time by at least two seconds. “This was the first lime Romero has broken 15 minutes indoors, and it was a big mark for him," Ogilvie said. “He has pleasantly surprised us and is asserting himself as the top distance runner on our team.” Another success for the Blue Devils came in the men’s mile event, in which sophomore Chris Spooner placed 18th. His 4:10.87 time is Duke’s best of the season and a personal best. Freshman Geary Gubbins raced to a 8:29.39 finish in his first collegiate 3,000meter race, good enough to also qualify him for IC4As. In the men’s relays, the 4xBoo-meter team of John Brockardt, Peter Lewellen, Chris Rowland and Spooner qualified for IC4As with a dme of 7:43.45. “It’s a very young group that has great potential,” Ogilvie said. “With a little more experience, they’ll really be great.” The fastest leg of the race came on a stand-out performance by freshman Rowland, who ran his portion in 1:53. Two members of the Blue Devil’s field squad also qualified for championships. Junior pole vaulter Jonathan Fay placed fourth, while clearing 16 feet for the first time and qualifying for IC4As. Sophomore -Kelly Reynolds reached the ECAC qualifying requirements in the weight throw with a distance of 53-03.75, an improvement of two feet from her previous best this year. -

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Over the past two weekends, Clara Horowitz has set school records in the3,000- and 5,000-meter races.

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The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams fell to Clemson Saturday in their last dual meet of the 20052006 regular season. The Tigers {5-6, 3-4 in the ACC) topped the Duke women (5-6, 1-5), 153.5129.5, and Clemson’s men’s team (5-5, 34) swam past Duke (3-6, 1-4), 144-132 on senior day for the Blue Devils. Despite the loss, the team swam well, head coach Dan Colella said, with seven different swimmers turning in career bests. “For the last dual meet of the season and it being senior day, I thought we performed well,” Colella said. “We had some people starting to come together and really look sharp, and I have a good feeling going into the ACCs. It was a great day of performances, and we are on the right track to have great performances in a couple of weeks.” Fittingly, seniors Katie Ness and Julia Lewis were the top finishers on the women’s side. Ness recorded victories in the 100 backstroke, 200 IM and 200 backstroke. She dominated all three events finishing at least three seconds ahead of the second-place finisher in each, and she set a season best in the 200 IM with a time of 2:05.01. Lewis turned in her best meet of the

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Clemson defeated both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams Saturday in Duke's season finale. season, setting season-bests in both the 50 and 100 freestyle. She won the 100 free with a time of 53.23, and was out-touched at the wall in the 50 free, coming in .05 sec-

onds out of first with a 24.32 finish Freshman Emily Kelly set a personal best in the 100 butterfly, but was barely out-touched by Clemson’s Nikki Deering

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and finished second in the 200 freestyle. Also setting career-bests on the women’s side were freshman Katie Bieze in the 200 IM, sophomore Diana Westly in the onemeter dive and senior Stephanie Taylor in the 50 freestyle. The men’s team displayed a balanced performance as four different swimmers won events and two more set career bests. Senior Billy Pearce won the 200 backstroke in his final meet at Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion with a time of 1:55.08. Sophomore Scott Champagne set two personal bests on his way to a victory in the 200 freestyle and a fifth-place finish in the 100 backstroke. Sophomore Jacob McCafferty won the 200 IM with a time of 1:57.49, and junior Kevin Arthofer took the 200 breaststroke tide in 2:08.95. Two freshmen, Justin Mullen and Luke Waggoner, each earned two different personal bests in their young careers. Mullen swam a 1:50.78 in the 200 freestyle and a 51.65 in the 100 freestyle. Waggoner, who joined the Duke lineup less than a month ago, attained his best marks in the onemeter and three-meter dives. This meet concludes the regular season for both teams, and they will now prepare for the ACC Championships at the University of Maryland. The women’s event will be held from Feb. 15 to 18 and the men’s from Feb. 22 to 25.

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After dropping their first eight dual of the season, the Blue Devils rolled over Campbell, 37-3, Saturday night at Carter Gymnasium in Buies Creek, N.C. The victory marks DUKE the first win of the CAMPBELL 3 season for Duke and improves the team’s record to 1-8. “It was a nice win,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “I’m obviously real pleased with the outcome of the match.” Duke got an early nine-point advantage over the Camels (3-9) when Kellan McKeon defeated Richie Apolinar in the 125pound weight class and freshman Michael Degli Obizzi pinned his opponent 2:49 into the 133-pound fight. Obizzi’s pin was the only fall recorded by the Blue Devils in the meet, but Duke’s grapplers won nine of their 10 bouts after winning fewer than four in each of the team’s eight previous dual meets. “Basically, we had more confidence,” Anderson said. “We felt we could beat these guys, and I think we need to learn to wresde to this level every time we go out.” meets

The Blue Devils’ lone defeat came in the 197-pound weight class when Campbell’s Jason Cook erased an early deficit to top junior Patrick Keenum, 9-5. “I kind of feel bad for Patrick,” Anderson said. “He was leading in the match and was caught in a five-point move and ended up not being able to come back.” Cook’s victory put the Camels on the scoreboard, but with Duke already leading 33-0, the outcome had been determined long before the final two bouts. In the last match of the night, freshman Wade Van Sickle notched Duke’s fourth major decision of the dual meet in a 13-5 victory over Jeremiah Fennell in the heavyweight division. Van Sickle’s win put the Blue Devils up 34 points and brought Duke’s total to 37, the most the team has scored all season in a dual meet. The Blue Devils previous high was the 16 points they recorded in a loss to Appalachian State Nov. 13. With a win finally under their belt, the Blue Devils will now prepare for their matchup against Virginia Tech Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium before wrapping up their home schedule next weekend.

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with 9:04 remaining. It was the first Super Bowl touchBowl tides. down pass by a receiver. Super Bettis, with 43 yards on 14 carries, had a minimalrole in Perhaps the most special moment for Cowher came what was the final game for the NFL’s No. 5 career rusher. referee whistle.” when he presented the Vince Lombardi Trophy to 73-yearSo did quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The most noteOn this night, satisfaction was more than Mick Jagger’s old owner Dan Rooney. “I’ve been waiting a long time to do this,” Cowher said worthy play for the youngest quarterback to win a Super signature song that closed the halftime show. Bowl was a horrid pass that Kelly Herndon of the SeaIt was sweet validation for Cowher with a tide in his “This is yours, man.” hawks (15-4) returned a record 76 yards. 14th season as their coach, the longest tenure in the NFL. The Steelers certainly got plenty of help from the SeaThat set up the Seahawks’ only touchdown, a 16-yard The tough guy, who lost his only previous Super Bowl 10 hawks. Seattle was plagued by penalties, drops, poor clock to to of to Jerramy Stevens—Joey Porter, his verbal sparring interception pass Dallas, to teared as he walked midfield and a critical fourth-quarter up management years ago Matt Hasselbeck just when the NFC Champions seemed partner all week, was nowhere in sight. Neither was All-Pro embrace Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren. safety Troy Polamalu. “A lot of people tell you you can’t do it, but you know ready to take the lead. Instead, Cowher the score with But with Parker’s burst and Seatde’s self-destructive (15-5) got clinching it doesn’t mean don’t out and try,” Pittsburgh you go what, tendencies, the Steelers completed their postseason said. “History was not going to determine our fate. Our the kind of trickery that has carried it through an eightmarch through the NFL’s top four teams; Cincinnati, Ingame winning streak. effort today decided this game and that’s what’s great. Versatile wideout Antwaan Randle El, a quarterback dianapolis, Denver and Seattle, with all the wins coming “It’s surreal. I’m going to tell you, this is a special group of coaches, a special group of players. I was one in college, took a handoff from Parker, sprinted right away from Heinz Field. “I could’ve had an even better day,” said Ward, who had and threw perfectly to Ward for a 43-yard touchdown small part of this.” five receptions for 123yards and the touchdown. Seattle, looking nothing like a team that rampaged through its conference, damaged itself all day. It had four penalties for 40 yards in the opening half, one that nullified a touchdown pass. The second half wasn’t much better, and Ike Taylor’s 24-yard return with Hasselbeck’s poor throw gave Pittsburgh the one last opportunity it needed. “This is a tough pill to swallow, but we accomplished a lot this year.” Holmgren said. “While you don’t have a great feeling after a game like this, I want them to remember this feeling, so they can build on it.” The 23-year-old Roethlisberger achieved it more with his legs than his arm. He dove into the end zone from the 1-yard line late in the first half, barely reaching the goal line —if at all—according to a replay, and converted enough second-half first downs to wind down the clock. Usually, that is Bettis’ job. But this Sunday, he was just along for his final ride. What a journey it has been. The Steelers were 7-5, then won their final four regular-season games to secure the AFC’s last playoff spot. They went to Cincinnati and won a wild-card game. They won at Indianapolis, which had the league’s best record. And then they handed Denver its first home loss in the AFC championship game. And now they have their “One for the Thumb”—the first four came in their Steel Curtain days, won by the likes of Mean Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw and Franco Harris. Early on, the noise seemed to unnerve the Steelers, who had two motion penalties on their first offensive series. Of course, none of their active players Sunday ever played in a Super Bowl. Seatde forced another three-and-out on Pittsburgh’s next possession, keeping Bettis on the sideline, then took the lead. Josh Brown made a 47-yard field goal with 22 seconds left in the first quarter after the Seahawks lost a touchdown MANDIWRIGHT/KRT on Darrelljackson’s pass interference in the end zone. JackSunday night. son still had 50 yards on five receptions in the quarter. thefourth of the Steelers' -10 in 21 quarter victory touchdown catch celebrateshis honors, HinesWard, who earned Super Bowl MVP

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ALE from page 4 “We didn’t tell anybody that the dogs were going to find drugs or anything like that,” he said. “Throughout the investigation it was determined that there was a lot of drug use going on inside and outside the house,” he added. In the fall, a Durham District Court judge ruled that evidence collected in a raid of a house off East Campus in August could not be used in court. ALE agents did not procure a search warrant, which the judge said was necessary. “Around Duke University, the judge felt that we should have had a search war-

IRAN from page 2 namic when their nuclear weapons program has been considered in the Security Council, which is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security by the U.N. charter, rather than in a specific agency of the U.N. system,” Bolton said Friday. “The Iranians know full well what they’re doing, which is trying to acquire a nuclear weapons capability, and I understand why they don’t want people talking about it in the full light of day.” In recent days, the diplomatic debate at the United Nations on the issue has focused on two words—“reporting” Iran to the council or “referring” it. The distinction reflects a fundamental difference in view. The Russians and Chinese do not mind if the council is informed of the lAEA’s dealings with Iran, but they do not want the lAEA to “refer” Iran to the council. That, they believe,

rant,” Lasater said. “It could have been different if a different judge had heard the case.” Evidence collected in another off-East raid was challenged soon after. District Attorney Mike Nifong decided to drop the cases, predicting that the judge would rule the same way. Although three house raids have resulted with dropped charges or suppression of evidence, Lasater said he is confident that the methods ALE agents use are lawful. He added that the organization has a regular internal review process. “We definitely sit down and review what we did and decide for the future if a similar thing comes up,” he said.

Aug. 25,27, 2005 —■ Local Alcohol Law Enforcement agents cite 194 people—including numerous Duke students—-at two parties off East Campus.

ALE agents lacked a search warrant.

Mid-December 2005 Durham District Attorney's Office dismisses court cases stemming from ALE citations issued at an August party at 910 Gregson St.

Sept. 22,2005 ALE agents cite 18 people at a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Orange County District Court Judge rules to suppress some evidence collected at the UNC fraternity house because agents did not have a search warrant to act on certain threats they made.

literary fraternity house. Nov. 3,2005 Durham District Court Judge Craig Brown rules to suppress evidence obtained at 1206 Markham Ave. because the

would give the impression that the lAEA And though its resolutions sometimes was washing its hands of Iran and asking go ignored or unheeded, there is also a the council to take the lead. symbolic shaming that goes along with “We and China can accept informing of bringing a country before a body whose the Security Council, which is quite nor- mandate is to maintain international mal,” Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Andrey peace and security. Denisov said. Iran’s In “That is the case, the counright of the Secil’s options inMrrtl T r The Iranians know full well clude ssuing a anity Council ublic to get any inferstate P what they’re doing, which is trymation it needs. without ment mg tO acquire a nuclear But not referral, imposing any ac1 n PU n g Wea P° nS CaPabillty’’ de r handing it to U.S. Ambassador Bolton manding Iran Security stop its activities the Council.” and threatening The debate is punishment if it so important in part because the Security does not. The punishment could include Council is unique among U.N. institutions an oil embargo, asset freeze and travel ban. as the lone body with the power to impose Standing in the way of any such action sanctions or other punitive measures, de- is China, which has been blunt about its ploy peacekeeping missions, and grant or distaste for punitive measures, “I think, as a matter of principle, China deny legitimacy to military action. .

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MENTORING from page 1 But while many of the professional schools at Duke have broad mentoring programs in place, the disparate nature of the departments, divisions or specialities in some schools has made organization difficult—and students have stepped in to fill the mentoring void. Those involved, however, are hoping to see all types of mentoring—formal and informal, institutional and studentled—continue their growth at Duke in the coming years.

A need for more? The 2004 survey found that about two-thirds of students were satisfied with faculty mentoring, compared with a 90-percent satisfaction rate when it comes to relationships with faculty as strictly researchers and teachers. Officials and students in the graduate and professional schools attribute the 75-percent statistic to various factors—and have varying opinions on the number. Mentoring at the Graduate School differs in strength from department to department because the focus on research makes advising so specialized, explained David Bell, associate dean of the Graduate School. “Mentoring in a research situation requires experts in that field,” Bell said. Much of the mentoring occurs on a personal basis, as a student and professor establish connections. “I don’t know that any articulated, established mentoring program is going to make a difference,” said Alexander Rosenberg, professor of philosophy and biology. “I think the first step has to be the faculty member reaching out.” Rosenberg is one of three recipients of the 2005 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring—a student-nominated honor created in response to the survey results. Some point out that mentor relationships should be allowed to grow organically. “I think if you put too much structure into it, it will put things off-kilter,” said Elizabeth Essary, a graduate student in sociology. “Mentor relationships need to emerge, not be forced.” Others, however, acknowledge that more official organization may be appropriate to foster mentoring. “There are people who are very invested in mentoring, and I think these people have an ad hoc program, but there’s nothing that teaches ‘Mentoring A-B-C,”’ said William Reichert, associate professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry and another recipient of the 2005 mentoring award. “Maybe we should be doing something more organized and concerted.” Students take the helm Brady is the leader of a student-initiated mentoring program run in cooperation with a professional school at the University. Koinonoi offers prayer to incoming Divinity School students before their arrival and more guidance afterward. The

Divinity School student Christopher Brady (right) organized Koinonoi, one of many mentoring programs that have emerged at Duke recently. program assigns second- and third-year volunteers as mentors to students during orientation and encourages them to keep in touch weekly throughout the first semester. “The amount and type of work involved [in graduate studies] leads people to just study and go into seclusion,” Brady said. “We help them become part of the community.” But Brady is not the only student leading the mentoring push. “I’ve been at Duke for three years,” said Tong Ren, a graduate student at the Pratt School of Engineering. “However, I’ve never heard of an official mentoring program.” Like Brady, Ren responded to a perceived lack of structured mentoring by founding the Women in Science and Engineering Mentoring Program, commonly called WISE. As Internal Vice President of the Duke Bar Association, third-year law student Chris Kocher currendy coordinates the Law School’s peer mentoring program. “It’s really easy to feel overwhelmed and like you don’t know anybody,” Kocher said of the first-year experience. ‘You don’t have a lot of opportunity to have one-onone, in-depth conversations,” he added. “It is really important to have a strong support system.” The student mentoring program run by the DBA matches upperclass law students with first-years through an online form based on either career goals, geographic background or extracurricular interests, explained Kocher. The focus of the mentoring likewise ranges from career-oriented—sharing advice on clerkships and job inter-

viewing—to informal, getting students together for DBAorganized bar nights. Both Koinonoi and the DBA peer mentoring program round out professional mentoring efforts organized by the Divinity School and the Law School. For example, senior workshops prepare Divinity students for working in their field. At the Law School, a second mentoring organization pairs up students with recent graduates for career guidance and potential job networking, said Christopher McLaughlin, assistant dean for aca‘

demic and student affairs at the Law School. The School of Medicine provides structured mentoring by assigning an advisory dean to each student for individual weekly meetings every year he or she is at the school. In addition, students engage with personal supervisors in laboratory work and mentors in their department of specialty, said Edward Halperin, vice dean of the School of Medicine.

Mentoring for women Within the graduate student world, mentoring for women has received special attention. The WiSE Mentoring Program, specifically for female students in the sciences and engineering fields, pairs undergraduate and graduate mentees with faculty members, professionals and upper-level students. Still in its first year of operation, the WiSE program makes matches primarily according to career interests. Ren said the WiSE program fills a need for personal interaction with mentors, as Pratt offers only an online system of communication called MentorNet. “I want to meet with someone that I can actually meet, have lunch with, talk to, face to face,” Ren said. MentorNet finds online mentors in the professional community for female and minority students in science, engineering and mathematics. Nineteen students have registered this year as of Jan. 5, said Linda Franzoni, associate dean for student affairs at Pratt. Women in all disciplines can find mentoring through programs at the Women’s Center. The Graduate and Professional Women’s Network hosts bi-weekly dinner discussions on personal, academic and professional topics. GPWN and WiSE also teamed up on Jan. 19 to host a school-wide networking event for women to provide opportunities to meet mentors. “We work in cooperation with the Graduate School,” said Donna Lisker, director of the Women’s Center. “In fact, they provide a lot of financial support.”

Continuing initiatives Despite the efforts of administrators, professors and students, many agree that mentoring remains an area that can be improved. Newly appointed Graduate Student Dean Jo Rae Wright has listed improving mentoring programs as one of her main goals in office. Jiayu Song, chair of the mentoring committee of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, plans to examine the situation in the GradSchool to determine what steps should be taken. More networking events is one of her priorities. “The committee kept hearing from students conveying the message that we did do a lot of good things to promote mentoring on campus,” Song said. “But there’s still a lot to do.” uate

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Campus has to do with the chaotic driving conditions the area engenders. The roads on Central are so tom up and full of pot holes that drivers are constantly weaving anywhere and everywhere. The mess makes it all the more dangerous for students to be crossing the roads because they cannot predict the movement of oncoming cars. Furthermore, numerous tall bushes line the roads there, making it difficult for drivers to see pedestrians. The last good reason for crosswalks is pretty straightforward: It’s not hard—or expensive—to paint some lines on the road and put up a street sign reading, “Yield to Pedestrians.” Two of the roads on Cen-

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Columnist’s awkwardness relatable As one of the most awkward people on campus, I was ecstatic to read Laura Zwiener’s column, “Why Am I So Awkward?!” (Feb. 3) Finally, someone has documented the terror which is any time I set foot on campus. Miss Zwieher is right: There are people who often fake cell phone conversations to avoid stop-and-chats. I should know. I am one of them. My favorite trick is to walk really, really fast and pretend like I am late for some very important business. This usually sends the message to the world to back off. Indeed, just walking from the bus stop to myfavorite cubicle in Bostock can be terrifying! Are we the first generation to revel in our awkwardness? Larry David is certainly awkward—is his a different kind? Will my awkwardness affect me later in life? Will I lose out on jobs? Help me please. I hope Miss Zwiener’s column is just the beginning of a campus dialogue on this very important issue.

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tral—Pace and Yearby—are private; the rest are public. But it does not seem like Duke administrators would have to navigate a complex bureaucracy to put this plan into action. They could work with the City of Durham to get the lines on the public streets —and as neither party wants to see students or motorists getting hurt, it seems likely the lines would be drawn. Even though Central Campus will be torn down soon, many people still live there, and they do cross the roads. Accordingly, the area cannot be neglected when it comes to proper safety precautions. The residents there are entitled to safe conditions, just like everyone else who lives on campus.

Anti-Bush doesn’t mean far-left liberal I can’t help but find it ironic that Jamie Deal moans about blatant stereotyping of Duke’s conservatives while in his column, “A Matter of Tolerance” (Feb. 2), he treats everyone else with the same disregard. At Deal’s Duke, if you’re not a conservative, you’re flady a “leftist” or at least “liberal.” Describing such a black-and-white world is easy enough but is an inherently flawed perspective. If Deal is so sensitive about glares at his orange hat, why does he proceed to himself poke fun at others’ bumper stickers near organic food and independent bookstores? Deal assumes anyone who opposes the current administration is by default a liberal. I think Bush is a bumbling, war-mongering fool, but I agree with various tenets of the conservative platform, if not their implementation. For instance, one who opposes Bush’s push for domestic surveillance is not necessarily a leftist hippy; the purist conservative beliefs value individual privacy as well as an uninvasive government. Nader Mohyuddin Trinity ’OB

Career Week does not focus on i-banking I lament that Greg Czaja fails to grasp in his column “For the Love of Money” (Feb. 1) not only the depth and breadth of Career Week programming but also the evolving nature ofon-campus career preparation. Let us begin at the assumption that the crown jewel ofCareer Week was its Career Fair. Au contraire. The piece de resistance of the third annual Career Week was a conference of dozens ofalumni represent ing a myriad of career fields and offering their insights—on a Saturday morning, ahem —as to strategies for developing one’s career. One would be hardpressed to find many institutions of higher learning, the Alumni Affairs Offices and Career Centers of which work so diligendy to make this invaluable resource so accessible to undergraduates. Had the columnist attended any of the panels designed to foster a transaction of career and life advice to students ofevery background from a bevy of willing alumni, he no doubt would have shifted his focus away from the tired, traditional Career Fair, which clearly serves a fixed constituency of students. Perhaps most concerning, however, is Mr. Czaja’s sadly simplified pidgeonholery of the modern student, coupled with a cloudy-eyed fatalism that one would do well not to adopt until middle age. An analysis of a student body that focuses on two factors—1) “experience” as defined by GPA and resume and 2) self-identification of career goal—lies in the direction of the problem. I would normally now launch into my tightly wound dialectic regarding the gift of flexibility possessed by “The Undecideds” the undeniable importance of networking; the numerous opportunities one has to build experience after graduation with internships, fellowships and seemingly menial entry-level work; the lack of on-campus recruitment by worthy organizations of all types; the beguiling nature of career certainty at the age of 22; and the futility of benchmarking against investment bankers. But I just spent last Saturday giving that spiel during the ThirdAnnual Fannie Mitchell Career Conference.

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semester, Professor Norman Finkelstein, who currently teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago, chastised me and The Chronicle for allegedly committing libel by calling

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Finkelstein managed to get the editors to print a clarification that refined his position on the systematic eradication of 6 million Jews in Europe. Finkelstein, the child of Holocaust survivors, recognizes that Hitler’s “final solution” transpired but believes that major Jewish organizations in the United States exploit the sufferingjews endured under the Third Reich in order to defend Israel. Finkelstein does not see anything wrong with comparing supporters ofIsrael to the Gestapo. Amused by his antics last semester, I was seriously wondering what kind of academic spends his time “googling” his name on a daily basis to see what a 22-year-old college student mentioned in passing in a campus paper. Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to hear Professor Finkelstein

speak at Duke University. His mind-numbing two-hour rant about the abusive policies of Israel and all-powerful, pro-Israel, Zionist lobby in this country revealed a deeply disturbed man willing to resort to name-calling and empty rhetoric. Professor Finkelstein spent the second hour of his lecture spouting conspiracy theories about why his most recent book Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History had not been reviewed by any major media oudets and decrying the alleged plagiarism ofHarvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. A strong supporter of Israel, I have been openly critical about the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and the treatment ofPalestinians in the occupied territories. I have even written in this paper that anti-Israel activism should not be automatically equated with anti-Semitism. But Finkelstein who rarely—if ever—criticizes the Palestinians, offers an unparalleled anti-Israel bias that is coupled with a distorted view of supposed Jewish power and money in this country that reeks of archetypal Jewish stereotypes dating back to the Middle Ages. Yet as a supporter of academic freedom, I do not believe that Duke should have tried to block Finkelstein’s visit. In conjunction with Cultural Anthropology Professor Rebecca Stein, who is known for her Palestinian activism and teaching, the farleft student group Progressive Alliance organized the event. Although delighted by the pro-Israel showing and pathetic repre-

sentation of sympathetic students—less and coalesce behind a centrist ideology. than 25 by my count, many of whom were That begins with condemning radical speakers bent on attacking the Jews and graduate students—l was ultimately disappointed to see that there were no left-leanopposing the moral fiber underlying basic ing, non-Jewish leaders in attendance to American ideals. denounce this veritable fanatic. Thus I propose that the center-left reAs was the case with the selection of assert itself on campus by leaving publicity Harry Belafonte as the Martin Luther stunts to the right and political debates to King, Jr. keynote speaker, I kept hoping the Duke Political Union in order to tackthat someone from the political left le the issue of a “living wage” on campus. would denounce Finkelstein. In the case Imagine a scenario in which the Black Student Alliance (concerned with the of Belafonte, only the far right ideologues of the Duke Conservative Union rights of African-American employees), and Chronicle columnist Stephen Miller the Duke Democrats (dedicated to providpublicly opposed Belafonte, who has re- ing health care to all American workers) peatedly compared President George W. and the American Civil Liberties Union Bush to Adolph Hitler and a terrorist. (devoted to defending workers’ right to The left on campus, outraged by the curunion organizing), all joined forces with rent reign of the Republican Party and the newly formed group “Duke Organiztroubled by Israel’s policies toward the ing” to advance the conditions of full-time Palestinians, has surrendered its princiand contract Duke employees. At the end of last semester, students, ples to a dialectical form of extremism that leaves its proponents to support or at faculty and union supporters worked toleast pretend to ignore anyone willing to gether to overturn an unjust decision by attack the president and Israel. upper-level management and won a I am not yet ready to believe that the Gilbert-Addoms housekeeper back her left-leaning leaders on this campus actual- job. I will address this incredible example ly support the Finkelstein and Belafonte of effective student organizing in my next invectives showered over this campus in column, but I just want to urge these stuthe last couple of weeks. Perhaps the leaddent groups to combine forces in order to ers of the Duke Democrats, American Civil quash the radicals on campus and work toLiberties Union, Black Student Alliance, ward the common good of all workers etc., are justapathetic or out of touch with right here. campus politics. But regardless of the reason, the center-left groups on campus Adam Yoffie is a Trinity senior. His column need to leave mock Alito filibusters behind runs every other Monday.

A (fake) conversation with Larry Moneta JACKBAUER’S BIDET pulled some strings and lined up an exclusive interview with Vice President for Student Affairs, The GoodDoctor Larry Moneta: JACK BAUER’S BIDET: Uncle Larry, thanks again for agreeing to this farce. Do you mind if I call you Uncle Larry? JBB: You most certainly may not. Wait—that was weird. Uncle Larry; What? JBB: That was completely out of order UL: Oh, yes, the perception of “cause” and monday, monday “effect” is somewhat fuzzy in this building. jack bauer's bidet JBB: Oh, like when there’s an ever-increasing number of DUIs, and to combat the problem you decide to deny or restrict a viable non-greek, on-campus social sphere? UL: Exactly. JBB: I see. Well, I’m going to edit our conversation into a more traditional, “sequential” chronology. It’s for the reader’s sake. I really like making things easy for them, especially as I hope to sleep with some of them from time to time. I hope that’s okay with you. UL; The polygamy? JBB: No, the editing. UL; Oh, certainly. Go ahead. JBB: Can you describe our surroundings? UL: Are you blind? JBB: No, Uncle Larry. I just simply hate to break into italicized, non-transcriptual information this early. UL: I see. Well, in front of us is the hearth, whereupon the very bones of my arch-nemesis, Exuldur, Purveyor of Kegs, lie crushed and wreathed in eternal blazing inferno. Shall we move hearthside? go on. JBB: Maybe later. DoWould you like me to describe my UL: Yes. Yes, indeed. chair? It’s quite exquisite. Used to belong to Nan. JBB: It 100k5... UL: Comfy?

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UL: I’faith! Its back is hewn from mahogany timbers taken from Hitler’s bunker, then lashed by Montezuma’s viscera to the seat, which you’ll notice [ Uncle Larry here begins to levitate. Sepulchral voices fill the air ] is on the tablets containing the original llth-15th commandments. [Lowers again ] JBB: “Thou shalt not park conveniently to thy destinations, lest ye can afford a multitude of Talents?” UL: All makes sense now, doesn’t it? JBB: No. Not at all. Now, around you I count 30 pieces of silver, arrayed in a distinctly unwholesome pentagram

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UL: Oh, a trifle. Just a birthday present from ARAMARK Notice I pronounce things in capital letters. [Suddenly, an otherworldly, disembodiedhand begins writing a Sanskrit incantation on the wall. All locks on Central Campus and residence hall bathrooms suddenly click open. Meanwhile, the two hideous gargoylesflanking Dr. Moneta begin spewingfire and offal, howling with a soul-crushing sound andfury.] JBB: What does that signify? UL: Nothing. JBB: Predictable. So, on to my prepared questions. What is your least favorite part of the job, and why? UL: Going to student events. Not that Mezcla and Awaaz aren’t great shows. JBB: Really? So what’s the problem? UL: Sometimes I run into popular administrators and it'gets really awkward. JBB: Like Dean Sue, Todd Adams and Stephen Bryan? UL: People like Stephen Bryan? JBB: They recognize he’s just enforcing your policies. Anyhoo, what’s your favorite perk of the job? UL: Primogeniture. JBB: Excuse me? UL: Oh, my fault. I meant Primae Noctis. JBB: Yes. I think we can both agree that maiden is the hood of choice for claiming. UL: Oh, that’s the one about the virgins? of In loco parentis? JBB: Yeah. Maybe you’re thinking UL; That’s the one! This necessitates a toast! distinct[ Dr. Moneta moves to a phone on his desk that was and perverse carved the most opal, there It is ly not before. of

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UL: Rupert! Send in my manservants! [Dr. Moneta replaces the receiver, and the phone disappears in a sulfurouspuff Two tormented nosferatu enter the room from the hearth, their collective grotesque visages dripping in the blood of Christian infants. Christian infant blood is like pornography. JACKknows it when he sees it.] UL: Elkus! Manfredi! Two scotches And make mine a double! JBB: Um, thank you UL: To In Loco Parentisl JBB: To Primae Noctisl Nosferatu: To The New Central Campusl JBB: Glad to have that over with. No— UL: AGAIN! AGAIN! [The glasses refill themselves. Simultaneously, the nosferatu exsanguinate a feral campus cat.] To Daddy Money! JBB: To Virgins! Nosferatu: To Phil Kurian! UL: Many thanks. So, you were saying JBB: Right. Okay, so, you’re in a room with Hitler, Stalin and Greek Life. You have a gun and two bullets. What do you do? UL; Shoot Krzyzewskiville. Twice! JBB: Can you think of any other applicable Latin

phrases?

UL: Non Sequitur. one. So, at the risk of sounding rude, I believe this train-wreck is about 50 words too long. We’re done here. UL; I agree. Actually, I have another engagement, and my transportation should be here shordy. JBB: Certainly. Thanks again for your time and candor. May I ask where you’re going? UL: CAPS staff cuts meeting. [A DATA bus, driven by the Prince of Darkness, materializes in the antechamber, displacing some furniture and flattening the nosferatu. Dr. Moneta climbs aboard. In an instant, the bus, the devil, and Dr. Moneta are gone in a puff of logic.]

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