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The Chronicled

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2006

THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

PERSPECTIVE

ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 113

Errors discovered in 4,000 October SATs

DINING

College Board investigates

cause Duke to review 83 students scores ,

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by

Saidi Chen

THE CHRONICLE

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Students at UNC enjoy a meal at the Ram's Head, a large on-campus eatery. ARAMARK has a comprehensive contract with UNC.

Choosing a model for meals by

Rob

Copeland

THE CHRONICLE

As the administration debates internally the merits of renewing its dining contract with ARAMARK Corp., in June, several of the University’s neighboring institutions are also examining and explaining the advantages and disadvantages of their own dining systems.

Duke Student Government and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Commit-

tee have voted no confidence in ARAMARK for the past three years, and Jim Wulforst, director of dining services, has said the conglomerate is a “company that can’t do its job.” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask noted that ARAMARK has not “fulfilled students’ needs.”

In contrast, dining administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University said their facilities are

highly rated by students.

UNC has a comprehensive with ARAMARK, contract SEE DINING ON PAGE 5

Dining administrators weigh the pros and cons of dining conglomerates and privatization of eateries.

see pg. 5

Approximately 4,000 high school students received incorrect SAT scores when an error in the scanning process resulted in lowered test grades.

Eighty-three of the affected students sent their scores to Duke, said Christoph Guttentag, dean of admissions.

He noted that not all of the students may have ended up applying the University.

The admissions office will re-examine the application of every student whose score was reported incorrectly, he added.

Guttentag cautioned, however, that the corrected scores—most of which were within 100 points of the original—may not make a significant difference in admission decisions.

“Of the 83, only 11 of them had a total increase of over 50 points in all three sections,” he said. “SATs are only one of the six areas we rate. I just don’t expect that it’ll make much of a difference, but we want to check so we can make sure.”

Admissions officers were no-

tified of the mistake Tuesday via an overnight letter, and affected students were notified Wednesday through e-mail, said Jennifer Topiel, executive director of public affairs for College Board, the company that owns the exam.

She added that the company is still investigating the exact nature of the scanning error, which affected less then 1 percent of the students who took the test in October 2005.

Regular admissions results for Duke will not be mailed until the end of the month, but 1,501 letters have already been sent out to students who applied early decision.

Applications of students affected by the scoring snafu who applied early admission will also be reviewed, Guttentag said.

He added that he does not know how many of the 83 applicants applied early. But Guttentag also explained that it is doubtful ’ a decision will be changed based on the corrected test scores.

SEE SATS ON PAGE 6

Officials uphold Students alter housing plans Hudson’s firing by

Jared Mueller

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Administrators declined to give a former custodian at Cameron Indoor Stadium his job back Wednesday after reviewing his case.

Johnny Hudson was fired Feb. 10 during his probationary period—a trial time before workers become permanent Duke employees —on claims of poor work performance from his supervisor. Kernel Dawkins, vice president ofcampus services, determined that Hudson’s discharge was appropriate and presented him a letter documenting the review.

Dawkins and John Bumess, senior vice president for public Cameron Indoor Stadium custodian Johnny Hudson was fired by Duke Feb. 10.

'SEE HUDSON ON PAGE 8

Duke’s acquisition of party houses in Trinity Park may please neighbors, but many students said they resent the University’s effort and see it as a move to curtail the off-campus social scene.

Many undergraduates noted that the conversion of rental houses to owner-occupied homes will drive parties farther off-campus. And some expressed frustration that the purchasing negotiations were not announced until late in the year, leaving students to scramble for alternative housing at the last minute.

“It’s a huge disappointment,” said senior Bryan Cappelli, who lives at 704 N. Buchanan Blvd. one of the affected houses—with several of his Delta Sigma Phi fraternity brothers. “You’d think I wouldn’t care because it’s my last —

SEE HOUSING ON PAGE 8

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Some students are rethinking housing because ofDuke's recent property purchase.

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Gunmen take Sunni hostages

lran:'Harm and pain'could come to U.S. by

George

Jahn

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Iran threatened the United VIENNA States with “harm and pain” Wednesday if the U.S. tries to use the U.N. Security Council—which has the power to impose sanctions —as a lever to punish Tehran for its suspect nuclear program.

Washington warned that Tehran has enough nuclear material for up to 10 atomic bombs.

The rhetoric reflected the intensity of the debate at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy’s 35-nation board over a critical report on Iran’s nuclear program.

The meeting ended late Wednesday, for-

mally opening the path

to

Security Council

action that could range from a mild statement urging compliance to sanctions or even military measures.

The meeting also set the stage for a potential struggle between Washington, which seeks harsh measures against Tehran, and Moscow, which advocates a softer line.

But the head of the lAEA—the U.N. nuclear watchdog—cast Security Council involvement as a continuation of diplomacy with Iran.

Mohamed Elßaradei also suggested that Washington might need to talk to Tehran directly if negotiations reach the stage of focusing on security guarantees to Tehran

in exchange for concessions on its nuclear program.

“Once we start to discuss security issues my personal view [is] that at one point the U.S. should also be engaged into a dialogue,” Elßaradei told reporters.

The lAEA put the Security Council on alert over the issue last month but delayed any action to give more time for diplomacy under an agreement by the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain—the five permanent Security Council members that wield veto power. Iran has been under growing international pressure over the past three years as the lAEA compiled worrying details about its nuclear activities.

House committee stops ports deal by

Liz Sidoti

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In a congressional WASHINGTON election-year repudiation of President George W. Bush, a House panel dominated

by Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block a Dubai-owned firm from taking control of some U.S port operations. Democrats clamored for a vote in the Senate, too.

By 62-2, the House Appropriations Committee voted to bar DP World, run by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, from holding leases or contracts at U.S. ports. The landslide vote was the

strongest signal yet that more than three weeks of White House efforts to stunt congressional opposition to the deal have not been successful. Bush has promised to veto any such measure passed by Congress. But there is widespread public opposition to the deal, and the GOP fears losing its advantage on the issue of national security in this fall’s elections. The White House said the president’s position was unchanged.

“This is a national security issue,” said Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House panel, adding that the legislation would “keep America’s ports in American hands.”

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As the committee acted, Democrats on the other side of the Capitol maneuvered for a vote in the GOP-led Senate.

Republican leaders are trying to block a vote on the ports deal through a procedural vote that could occur as £arly as Thursday. That tactic is likely to fail, which could prompt Republicans to pull a lobbying reform bill from the floor in order to avoid defeat on the ports measure.

“We believe an overwhelming majority will vote to end the deal,” said Charles Schumer (D-N.Y), whose attempt to force the issue to the floor brought the Senate to a late-aftemoon standstill.

Men wearing uniforms of the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry on Wednesday stormed an Iraqi security company that relied heavily on Sunni ex-military men from the Saddam regime, taking 50 hostages.

The ministry denied involvement, calling the operation a "terrorist attack"

Students set fires for laughs

Three college students were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine church fires across Alabama last month.The defendants claimed that the first few blazes were set as "a joke" and that the others were started to throw investigators off the track.

Indian police raise tensions Security forces deployed to holy sites across India on Wednesday after terrorist bombings killed 20 people in Hinduism's holiest city, sparking anger among its residents and worry about possible widespread sectarian violence.

Google settles 'click fraud' suit

Google agreed Wednesday to pay up to $9O million to settle a lawsuit alleging the search engine giant overcharged advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through "click fraud"—-repeated clicking on ad links by malicious users.

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Career Center on Central to offer improved facilities by

Katherine Macllwaine THE CHRONICLE

Plans for a joint Career Center, Alumni Center and Visitor Center on Central Campus were discussed at a Duke Student Government general body meeting Wednesday night.

Sheila Curran, executive director of the Career Center, presented the idea to DSG members.

She said although the venue’s future inclusion in the reconstructed Central Campus is definite, its structural details are still in the works.

She said the joint location would build upon the “symbiotic relationship” that has developed between the Career Center and the Alumni Center in recent

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DSG heard a presentation on the Career Center and passed two environmental resolutions Wednesday.

years. In 2004, the Alumni Affairs office began to fund the alumni careers initiative to aid both graduates searching for careers and students seeking their advice.

The establishment will also include a visitor center to tie into the expected appeal of the revamped Central Campus. Curran said administrators in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions are considering conducting afternoon tours for prospective students in the area after it is completed.

Curran added that the new space would be utilized by not only undergraduates, graduate students and alumni but also by prospective employers, who she said have complained about Duke’s sub-par Career Center facilities in the past.

As it stands, recruiters and prospective employers conduct interviews in small spaces, which Curran said are not conducive to the process.

“We’re really trying to get an ambience that’s gong to work for us,” Curran said, citing problems with the current interview space below Page Auditorium. “Apparently the only place they can get cell phone service in Page is in the bathrooms.”

According to current plans, the Central Campus building will be constructed in line with environmentally friendly “green” standards.

The facility will also include larger interview spaces and common areas that will help facilitate communication between career counselors and potential employers.

It may also feature technological innovations like flat-screen televisions that continuously play films depicting the typical routines of certain professionals.

By creating an atmosphere that would appeal to prospective employers, the center would be beneficial to students, Curran said.

SEE DSG ON PAGE 6

Officials said Perkins Library, currently undergoing renovations, will offer a new 'information commons.'

Modernized Perkins slated to open in fall by

Daniel Feinglos THE CHRONICLE

When Perkins Library closed in October 2005, the first floor’s interior was straight out of the ‘605—1968, to be exact.

But when the first floor re-opens, Duke administrators sayit will be a 21st-century information commons, much like the first floor of neighboring Bostock Library. The grand re-opening is set to happen this fall.

“It really is an expansion and enhancement of the first floor of Bostock,” said Associate University Librarian Robert Byrd.

Along with the new Bostock building and von der Hayden Pavilion, the cost of the first phase of the Perkins renovation project comes to $55 million.

In addition to housing the main circulation and reference desks, the new Perkins will have several dozen of the computer workstations and outlet-equipped desks familiar to users of Bostock.

Appearance-wise, the revamped space will also look very much like its newer sib-

ling. “It will have the same carpets, the same furniture, the same cherry wood that’s in Bostock,” Building Manager Ashley Jackson said.

But there will be differences. The revamped Perkins will be much larger, with approximately 32,000 square feet of floor space, compared to only 24,000 square feet in Bostock.

Library officials will fill the space with five group study rooms, as well as private consultation rooms where librarians can offer patrons individualized attention.

Although the renovated Perkins will have fewer offices than it did in the past, the Duke Writing Studio will maintain a satellite office close to the new entrance.

The newly built entrance to Perkins will mirror Bostock’s, down to the stone flooring and gothic arches.

So far, the Board of Trustees has approved funding for the renovation of the SEE PERKINS ON PAGE 8

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Registration starts with no snafus by

Case Western passes ‘no confidence’ vote Arts and sciences faculty members voted by a wide margin Thursday to express “no confidence” in the leadership ofCaseWestern Reserve University president Edward Hundert over budget and other issues.

The vote by professors representing about 9 percent of the full-time faculty is nonbinding. Only trustees can terminate his contract. The college of arts and sciences faculty voted 131-44 to express “no confidence” in Hundert’s leadership and 97-68 to express “no confidence” in John Anderson, provost and vice president.

Faculty members opposed to Hundert have expressed concerns about budget deficits and uneven fundraising on the campus of nearly 10,000students.

Meg Bourdillon THE CHRONICLE

Sunny skies and smooth sailing have characterized the first week and a half of summer registration, which began Feb. 27.

University administrators said no major problems have arisen, and about two thirds as many students as attended last year’s summer sessions have already registered for Suamer 2006.

“Summer registration has been very smooth so far,” University Registrar Bruce Cunningham wrote in an e-mail. “We’ve had no system issues, and students seem to be getting the classes they need.”

Since the institution of a new registration schedule a year ago, enrollment for the summer has begun several weeks earlier than fall registration. Students also no longer need a personal identification number to register for summer classes.

Cunningham described the changes as beneficial. He explained that the lack of a PIN requirement is away to relieve strain on advisors and students, who still have an opportunity to discuss summer plans during the advising period for fall classes. '“The earlier registration period also allows students to have a more concrete feel for what they will be able to take in the summer before planning their fall sched-

ules,” Cunningham wrote.

Because summer registration involves fewer students and now takes place over a longer period, the opening of the dme window does not place the same burden on the ACES course selection website as regular semester registration.

“We don’t feel a load crunch, but we do feel a heavy activity crunch,” said Kathy Pfeiffer, director of Student Information Services and Systems, the office that administers ACES. For students, the lower load means that SEE REGISTRATION ON PAGE 8

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Many graduate studentstake language, physical education and other types of undergraduate classes.

G&P students mix with undergrads in courses by

Holley Horrell THE CHRONICLE

For several hundred graduate and professional students, undergraduate courses are not just a thing of the past.

In the Spring 2006 semester, 380 students from across the graduate and professional schools at Duke have registered for 100-level or below courses, according to statistics provided by University Registrar Bruce Cunningham.

The vast majority, 280, of the students come from the Graduate School.

Although a wide variety of departments—including

biology, English,

mathematics and music—attract graduate students, language and physical education classes are the most popular.

The need to catch up on basics may drive students—especially those in interdisciplinary fields such as biomedical engineering—who take undergraduate-level biology courses, said Ron Grunwald, associate director of

undergraduate studies in biology.

He added, however, that their age does not always give the students an advantage.“ These are pretty rigorous and demanding courses,” Grunwald noted. “The graduate students are often not the best students in the class. It’s often some freshman who shines.”

While some academic programs such as the master’s degree in East Asian Studies—require proficiency in a language, some graduate and professional students take language courses voluntarily. Cate Mills, a graduate student in the religion department, audited elementary Arabic to go with her concentration in Islamic studies. She also enrolled in the undergraduate religion class “Local Islams.”

“There was a limited number of classes taught on the graduate level on Islam,” Mills said. “Also, the content... was a little more hands-on, and I —

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Tyler Downey, 19, who fell Feb. 24 from a window in Stacy Residence Hall, was discharged Friday from UNC Hospitals, said his father, Stephen.

“He's got some significant rehab to go through, but he's making progress every day,” Stephen Downey said Tuesday. ‘He's doing quite well—we expect a full recovery. He's absolutely planning on being back at UNC in the fall semester.”

Tyler Downey suffered significant head injuries, including bleeding in the brain, as well as neck and shoulder fractures, his father said.

Tyler and Keith Shawn Smith were running down the dorm hallway when they went through a window at the end of the hallway and landed on a concrete ramp leading to the basement.

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DINING from page 1 whereas NCSU runs its dining facilities

privately.

The two models are competing options some University officials and students are putting on the table as possible first steps toward better dining at Duke.

UNC lauds ARAMARK Just eight miles down Tobacco Road, UNC entrusts all of its dining operations to ARAMARK The conglomerate only runs six locations at Duke.

Mike Freeman, director of auxiliary services for UNC, explained that he needed “a company that has depth” to aid him with research, development and training of employees.

“We like the idea of putting [campus dining] under one vendor,” Freeman said, noting that in 2001 he looked at all “the major players”—including Sodexho USA and Chartwells—before ultimately choosing ARAMARK. Freeman maintained that those three companies—by far the largest college dining providers in the country—have similar business models.

“They have all gone through growth spurts and periods of time when they’ve lost accounts,” he said.

The key to a successful relationship with a major conglomerate is to strike a balance between maintaining control over food quality and antagonizing the management company, Freeman said.

“The university can set it up so they have the oversight,” he said. “Remember, the companies are in it to make money, too.”

Because UNC has a voluntary meal plan and nearby Franklin Street offers a variety of privately owned restaurants, making oncampus food competitive with off-campus vendors is crucial, Freeman said.

“Students vote with their feet,” he explained. “If we don’t give them what they want at a price range they think is fair, they’ll find somewhere else to go.”

Finicky finances Freeman said there are several safeguards in place to ensure that ARAMARK continues to provide cutting-edge services at UNC. The company is required to pay the university approximately $30,000 per month as a “use fee” that is reimbursed if the dining program ends up in the black.

“If I have a bad year, then ARAMARK has to pay me back their use fee,” Freeman said. “Basically they would work forfree.”

Another precaution that Freeman took when ARAMARK was chosen as UNC’s main provider was to secure the right to demand specific, high-quality foods for all on-campus eateries.

“We made them buy premium meat.

They can’t buy just a flank steak or lowquality deli meat,” he noted.

UNC’s contract with ARAMARK is set up as a “fee account,” which means that the conglomerate receives 2 percent of the university’s gross dining revenue, Freeman explained.

The university also reimburses ARAMARK for all food costs; in turn, UNC is responsible for the profits or losses in the account.

Freeman said that overall, the dining system is successful “Other than the first year, UNC has never to-date lost any money,” he noted.

More than meets the eye There are distinct differences between UNC’s ARAMARK contract and Duke’s contract with the company.

The conglomerate’s contract with UNC runs for 10 years, while Duke’s only lasts for five—meaning it is up for renewal this summer. Wulforst told The

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All dining vendors at UNC operate under ARAMARK. Unlike their Duke counterparts, dining administrators at UNC said they are pleased by ARAMARK's performance.

Chronicle in January that he personally tion in any university dining system think Duke’s term is too long. should be food quality.

“Nine years ago, the Marketplace was Additionally, the overall financial all about ‘look at this beautiful facility,’” arrangement between Duke and ARAMARK is centered on a different philosoWulforst said.

He added that he has worked to rediphy than the one underlying UNC’s dining system. “ARAMARK pays us to be here rect the administration’s focus toward the on campus as opposed to us paying them,” goal ofbetter food quality.

Wulforst said.

A broader financial picture also reA private perspective veals differences between the two Across the Triangle in Raleigh, NCSU schools’ dining services. has a different approach to its student dinIn 1998, UNC borrowed $l4 million ing experience. to renovate one ofits major dining halls, Unlike UNC or Duke, NCSU dining and last year it borrowed another $22 has been privately run for the past 28 million for its new flagship “Ram’s Head” years, explained Arthur White, associate vice chancellor for student affairs. eatery, Freeman said.

Before ARAMARK was hired by Duke Every UNC student currently pays $37 per semester to help ameliorate the debt. in 2001, the University’s dining system Even at that rate, however, it could was composed of a group of private ventake another 25 years until the debt is off dors, much like NCSU’s is today. Lowthe books. service quality by the independent operDuke however, Freeman acknowledged that UNC’s ators, spurred dining model is not designed to “make a administrators to seek the oversight of a lot of money.” management company.

Wulforst noted that Duke’s dining is But at NCSU, dining operations have been “much more successful” without a largely self-sufficient.

“We try to run ours like a business that conglomerate, White said.

“They don’t have anything to offer expays its own way,” Wulforst said.

Karen Cutler, communications direccept management,” he said. “I don’t understand it. It doesn’t make sense. It just tor for ARAMARK, noted that the compadoes not have model that it singular a ny separates the university from ownership.”

White said that, to his knowledge, applies to all of its accounts.

NCSU does not have a lower level of stuRather, it develops an individual apdent dining satisfaction than any other proach to each campus, she said.

“We follow the direction of our clients,” school in the area.

What sets NCSU apart is that it operCutler said. “That’s why we’re there.”

Although Freeman is satisfied with ates with a $2- to $3-million profit every UNC’s model, one Duke student leader is year, White noted.

With the extra money, White said he is skeptical that the neighboring school’s approach would be the correct choice for able to invest in remodeling existing fathe University. cilities and to open new locations without Senior Andrew Wallace, co-chair of DUSworrying about debt service, DAC, said he has eaten at UNC’s Ram’s “We build our own buildings, pay our Head, which is operated by ARAMARK own loans and pay rent in the buildings we’re in,” he said.”We have not lost money He said he was “significandy underwhelmed” by the overall experience. in the last 20-something years. I don’t “The whole place looks beautiful, but think Chapel Hill or Duke can say that.”

Duke needs to renovate some locathe food is just average,” Wallace explained. “It’s a lot of glitz and glamour for tions that are “tired and old,” Wulforst said. He added that improvements cannot a lot of actual delivery.” not be made until his department generUNC is not focusing on the correct priorates more funds. ities, Wallace added.

For now, however, dining services’ fu“They’re putting a lot of money on the ture remains unclear, as the jury is still wall and not a lot on the plate,” he said.

Wulforst declined last week to direcdy out as to whether University ownership of dining or a conglomerate—AßAMAßK compare Duke to other institutions.

He noted in January, however, that in or another company—is the right choice for Duke. his mind, the most important considera-

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Bringing in a large conglomerate to manage food operations at a university is not an easy decision to make.

Dining officials at Duke, UNC and NCSU noted that there are pros and cons to such a relationship. One official noted that he completely disapproves of any conglomerate control over dining.

Although a university typically does lose some control over day-to-day food operations if it decides to hire a conglomerate, it can also gain a host of benefits.

These include cutting-edge food concepts, employee training and national brand presence, administrators noted.

The cost for these benefits to a university varies with each account, but dining officials at UNC and Duke agreed that one way a conglomerate-such as ARAMARK—makes money is to charge the school more for the food products than the actual cost to the company.

For instance, Duke may pay ARAMARK $5 for a bottle of syrup that the company is able to purchase at a cost of only $4, netting the conglomerate a $ 1 profit.

ARAMARK is able to get the lower price because it can negotiate bulk discounts for all of its campus accounts from its headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. It is unlikely that an individual school would be able to negotiate such benefits on its own.

With thousands of meals served each day with an even greater variety of ingredients, the costs to an institution can add up very quickly.

Wulforst told The Chronicle in January that this "gouging" of prices was one reason he is exploring other options for when ARAMARK'S contract expires June 30.

At UNC, Director of Auxiliary Services Mike Freeman explained that he has a system in

place to help prevent the price differences.

Each year, ARAMARK submits a list of its costs for each individual item, and UNC counters with an estimated costs list of its own.

The two organizations then haggle over what the ultimate reimbursement will be.

"Sometimes we agree, and sometimes we disagree," Freeman said.

He added that by his estimates, the company does not make more than a 2.5-percent profit overall from the reimbursement.

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SATS from page 1 “It’s very unlikely that an early appliwho we denied would have their decision affected by this,” Guttentag said.

The error will also have little, if any, effect on who will be awarded merit scholarships, said Jim Belvin, director of financial aid.

Admissions officers will have time to revise their assessment of applicants before the awards are handed out, and no merit scholarships have been awarded to early applicants, Belvin added.

The mistake was discovered after a number of College Board hand-scorers who re-score exams for a fee at the request of students—noticed a “systemic issue” within the October 2005 test.

In February, the College Board rescanned all of the approximately 500,000 answer sheets administered on the October testing date, as well as answer sheets from two other dates, to ascertain the cant

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reach of the glitch “As soon as we realized what the extent of the problem was we reached out to schools and to the students affected,” Topiel said.

Although the exact cause of the “highly technical” scanning error is still unknown, Topiel said the mistake affected students from all over the country, with a concentration on the Eastern seaboard and the middle states.

Both Guttentag and Topiel said this was the first time they had encountered an error of this type.

“Given the millions of tests they administer it doesn’t surprise me that this sort of thing would happen,” Guttentag

explained.

The SAT underwent major revisions in 2005.

The new exam includes, among other changes and additions, an essay. Each section of the test is graded on a scale of 200-800, with two writing subscores for multiple-choice and the essays.

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“Companies are being very careful about where they recruit,” Curran said. ‘You really have to be better than other places.”

She emphasized the need for student input in deciding how to create the desired milieu.

Curran added that she approached both DSG and the Graduate

sionai dent Council

the project. In the meantime, however, Curran said the Career Center will continue its current programming and work to expand DukeConnect—an Internet database for students to contact alumni in their career field,

In other business: Members of DSC voted to enact two resolutions presented by the un-

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“This has of Information and Technology not had stuand Duke Univerdent input in sity Libraries to set double-sided printing a formal way,” Curran said.

“This is really the beginning of that,” as the default option on all campus comshe added puters beginning in Fall 2006.

It will also require students to downTo provide an example of such student initiative, DSG President Jesse Lonload new ePrint software with the default goria, a senior, said the organization setting and will encourage OIT and passed a resolution last spring to ensure Duke University Libraries to purchase a future space for the Career Center on environmentally friendly paper made Central Campus. from recycled materials or sugar cane.

The second resolution calls for the “The Career Center is open to student input,” said Longoria. “Our main goal is to placement of recycling bins next to all trash cans in every dormitory. It also calls make sure students have a role.” for housekeepers to be instructed on Although Curran expects the architect’s schedule later this month, no con- proper recycling protocol. to encourage

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Some students said taking a course out of their designated fields of study was an enjoyable break from their usual classes.

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Still others value the broad scope of undergraduate classes.

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Mike Joyce, ajunior Delta Sig brother who had planned to live at 704 Buchanan before the sale eliminated the possibility of renewing the lease, said he had to change his housing plans at the last minute.

“I will not be living in the house next year, the same house that I had placed a down payment for when I was a freshman,” Joyce wrote in an e-mail.

“Instead, I will be living in an off-campus apartment which I will not disclose, for the fear that in response Duke will buy the apartment complex and turn it into housing for lemurs,” he added.

John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said he doubts the purchase will drastically affect the housing supply.

“If one looks at the rental housing market for areas around campus, it’s pretty vibrant,” Burness said. “We’re not anticipating that there’s going to be any great difficulty for students to find rental housing around the campus. There’s plenty.”

Some students said the University’s purchase will only temporarily improve town-gown relations, suggesting that seniors will simply disperse to other houses in neighborhoods that are unaccustomed to having students live in them.

Henry Colen, a junior in Delta Phi Alpha—formerly Sigma Alpha Epsilon—fraternity, said via e-mail that he was planning to live at 508 N. Buchanan Blvd., a house his fraternity brothers have leased in recent years. “[We] now are looking at other options through other realtors,” Colen said.

A current 508 Buchanan resident, senior Ryan Turner described the University’s

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to race to get into their chosen classes. “I woke up 30 minutes late, but I am taking [organic chemistry], and I got into my classes fine,” sophomore Blair Carter said.

Ifstudents find thatclasses are filling, the summer school office tries to adjust course offerings in response to student demand.

Cunningham said the office desired an earlier registration to facilitate this process. The deadlines for faculty organizing summer classes have not altered, he noted.

The difference between summer and academic-year registration does not lead the SISS office to take summer registration lightly. Pfeiffer said at least 20 to 25 people from SISS and the Office of Information Technology were on duty when the summer window opened—the same as during

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Hudson, however, said the evidence the administration gathered was inaccurate.

“They did the investigation but didn’t talk to any of my co-workers,” Hudson said. “It was basically my word against [the supervisor’s]. And my words, testimonies from other workers and a letter from the basketball team weren’t good enough.”

Dawkins lifted Hudson’s “no-trespass” order Wednesday and said he will recommend lifting his “no-rehire” order when he discusses the case with human resources officials Thursday.

Hudson noted that he does not wish to work for the University again even if the “no-rehire” order is lifted. “If I apply, for a Job at Duke, look who I’m going to have to work for,” Hudson said. “These are the worst people on the planet, so I don’t want to work for them again.”

Students gathered outside the Allen Building Tuesday urging the University to reconsider Hudson’s dismissal. Members of Duke Organizing—”a campus group committed to changing the cultures of working, living and learning at Duke”—are now frustrated with the administration’s review decision, said Laura Grattan, a fourthyear graduate student in political science. � “I thinkthe result shows that the review system is deeply flawed, and the administrators don’t trust testimony and evidence from housekeepers,” Grattan said.

Duke Organizing will continue working with Hudson to help him find a job soon and urge the University to review its current contract with the local union regarding probationary workers.

Duke's purchase of several student-occupied houses off East Campus has upset some undergraduates.

purchase as a “Band-aid” and said Duke’s “highly adaptive social scene” will simply relocate to other parts of Trinity Park and Durham.

“Many people are fed up with the oncampus life at Duke that the student life people have tried to engineer,” Turner said. ‘Just because there won’t be parties on Buchanan doesn’t mean they’re not going to be on Gregson or on Clarendon.”

Another issue with the purchase arises from Duke’s promise to strictly enforce zoning regulations in the houses it

bought.

The properties’ previous owner, the company Trinity Properties, laxly eneach of the fall and spring registration windows. They also thoroughly test the system prior to student use.

“Our system is there and our folks are there to help the students,” Pfeiffer said.

Students seem pleased overall with the ease of the summer registration system.

“I logged on and registered,” said Soojin Park, a junior. “Everything was open.”

Sophomore Jordan Preiss said Duke’s system compares favorably to those at other universities. “I am registering at a different school, and it’s impossible,” she said.

Cunningham noted that administrators are also happy with how well the new structure has been functioning.

“At this time we have no plans to change the registration process for either the summer or regular academic terms,” Cunningham wrote. “Barring unforeseen circumstances, it should remain pretty much the same.”

forced a city regulation that prevents more than three unrelated people from living in a single home.

As a result, students say Trinity Properties charged rents as high as $6,000 a month for poorly maintained homes because the rent could be split among the many students who illegally crammed into a house.

Now that Duke will prevent more than three unrelated people from living together, even students with existing leases may find them prohibitively expensive.

“There is no way parents are going to shell out $2,000 a month in rent,” Turner noted.

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first floor. The project, however, is significantly larger in scope and will eventually encompass the entirety of Perkins.

Library officials hope all construction and renovation will be completed by 2009.

The renovation is being done in stages in order to keep the library system functioning. “We hope to go before the trustees in May to ask for funding for the next phase of construction,” Byrd said.

Jackson said the next phase will include the bottom two floors of Perkins, which will hold storage space and computer workstations, among other things. He hopes this phase would be completed by 2007. “The schedule hasn’t been set. That’s a preliminary esti-

Jackson added that patio furniture will be set up outside Perkins and the von der Hayden Pavilion by this summer.

Although Perkins is set to re-open with the resumption of classes in the fall, there are some concerns that changes in the construction plans would result in delays. “We’re not certain at this point whether it will be open by the beginning of classes, but we think it will be by fall break,” Byrd said.

Jackson remains optimistic, however, and he expressed confidence that the opening of Perkins will not experience the same delay as Bostock’s did last year.

“We hope to take possession of the buildings by mid-August,” Jackson ex-

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Hollywood’s most glamorous night—and all the buzz preceding it—is, at last, over. With some predictions on target (Philip Seymur Hoffman got himself a shiny statue) and others disproved (the shocking loss of Brokeback Mountain ), how successful film critics are in forecasting or influencing both public and industry opinion is a subject of hot debate.

In some instances, small films that receive critical acclaim are pushed to the forefront ofOscar consideration, when they might have otherwise remained in anonymity like most low-budget or indie flicks. In these cases, says Ed Gonzalez, head critic and editor of Slant Magazine, the film usually owes its success to the critical voice of a more publicly recognized critic, such as Roger Ebert.

“I’m sure he wields considerable power,” Gonzalez said, “One has to wonder if actresses like Charlize Theron and Halle Berry, or a film like Crash would have impacted Oscar voters the way they have if it weren’t for Ebert’s pervasive stressing of their gifts.”

Chris Barsanti, film writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer agreed that critics wield a noticeble influence over the success of a film.

“Without all the critical acclaim, there is absolutely no way that a movie like Capote would have gotten anywhere near the Oscars,” Barsanti said.

While those who vote for the Oscars usually take cues from critical acclaim, there are occasions when the Academy will stray from this trend, film critic Craig Lindsay of the Raleigh News & Observer said.

“Oscar voters are made up of people in the industry.

It’s more about what’s influential in the industry as opposed to what a critic will say,” Lindsay said.

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With record sale slumps at major labels and the closing or reformatting of dozens ofradio stations, the future of the music industry seems to have shifted toward the Internet. This is where the website Last.fm is quickly becoming a darling to music-sawy net surfers, with more than 1.5 million registered users.

Founded in early 2003, Lastfra is the marriage of two separate programs, the Last.fm website and the media plug-in Audioscribbler. The overall website can be described as “a two-sided coin of the music consumer and music promotion,” said Martin Stiksel, one of the founders ofLastfm. “We needed a new way to promote unknown artists and to connect music to the right ears.”

The Audioscribbler program connects to a user’s

music player, such as iTunes or Windows Media Player, and records the name and artist of each song as well as the number of times each song is played. This information is then organized and displayed on the user’s Last.fm profile. Additionally, the user is connected to other users who have similar listening patterns, called “neighbors,” and to several personalized streaming radio stations.

“It’s a social network based on music,” Stiksel said. “Instead of having a top-down approach widi editors in place telling people what to listen to, we have something fun damentally differentand more bottom-up. It’s basically the difference between a dictatorship and democracy.”

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Very few college students—or artists for that matter—can claim that a piece of their work was displayed in a local Neiman Marcus. Junior Annie Shinn, however, nonchalandy mentioned that she received this distinction as a junior in high school.

Though painting has always been natural for her, Shinn only began seriously honing her craft in high school art classes. Yet, the abstract expressionist, who works in oils and mixed media, has had more commercial success than artists with much longer career spans than her own.

Her natural aptitude for painting has driven her to create art for most of her life, Shinn said. Still, she noted the difficulties inherent in transitioning from her small hometown ofWinter Park, FI., where her talent was well known, to the larger and more anonymous Duke community. “I didn’t even take any art classes here first semester,” she said.

Shinn was inspired to continue painting at the collegiate level after being exposed to Duke’s art department. She said the small department’s amazing professors keep her knowledgeable about happenings in the art world, she added.

As a double major in Public Policy and Visual Arts, Shinn has found the balancing act manageable, although this semester her schedule was too full for an art class.

Considering that most Blue Devils pursue majors with a profession in mind, many might assume that her decision to double major was spurred by a desire for job security. However, that isn’t the case for Shinn. “I love the Public Policy major,” she said, “But I still think I’ll go more into the art world when I graduate.”

Shinn has no illusions about the difficulty of her career choice.

Though she knows she’ll need to continue commissioning work in order to “make it,” Shinn has decided not to let the pressure for commercial success define her work. “I don’t have any plans when I start painting,” Shinn said. “It’s just my emotional state at the time.”

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The study details the outrageous To help these both unaware and activities of girls gone Spring Break, outraged parents, the AMA also preconcluding that Spring Break may be sented a list of ten things to discuss hazardous to women’s health in the with your college-aged student before same way as, say, smoking.* AccordSpring Break, including, “Give them to of the the 40 27 a pre-paid calling card and establish a study, percent ing percent ofwomen who had gone on a regular check-in time.”

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The study did not say whether the nous. “Unfortunately, Spring Break is other 90 percent enjoyed the group no longer an innocent respite from sexual activity. the rigors of academics. It’s potentialThe AMA also released an unrelatly life-threatening,” said J. Edward ed study showing that parents were Hill, MD, AMA chair-elect.

It is unclear why all the people cur“outraged” at the practices of Spring Break promoters. rendy running AMA were unavailable “Ninety-one percent of parents say to comment, but the person who is scheduled to be press secretary in two it’s time to stop spring break marketthat said they may be vacationing in years and promodonal practices ing promote dangerous drinking,” the Cancun.

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Felicity Huffman. Pre-op transsexual? The plain-looking desperate housewife? Felicity Huffman was all woman, mu and a sexy one at that, in a plunging Zac Posen dress com- ■fp plete with sheer side panels. Free from her (reportedly) catty co-stars, Huffman shines without looking desperate (see Teri Hatcher’s boy-shorts-showing Grammy ensemble). Huffman’s always had the acting chops; it’s about time she had the chance to show of her body too.

Naomi Watts. Australian accent? Check. Pale skin and hair? Check. Tiny little figure? Check. Call her Nicole Kidman-lite, but Watts hasn’t absorbed any fashion sense from her BFF. While Kidman was stunning in an ivory Balenciaga gown, Watts chose a skin-toned Givenchy number that washed her out and added bulk in all the wrong places. King Kong didn’t make her an A-list actress like she expected, but someone should tell her a spot on the Worst Dressed list isn’t a good substitute.

Jessica Alba. Did anyone else notice that the sexy Sin City actress seems to have lost some of her spice?

Slimmed down to the point it’s getting scary, W she’s lost all the curves that made her stand out in the first place. With a gold Versace dress and some seriously bronzed skin, Alba looked like Oscar himself. Maybe she figured that’s as close to the statue as she’ll ever get.

Michelle Williams. Who ever told blondes it was a good idea to yellow? Williams’ mustard-colored Vera Wang dress, turquoise necklace and vibrant red lipstick made a great color combination—for a table cloth, not a red carpet appearance. recess applauds any woman who can look this good three months after giving birth, but Williams sees enough baby vomit in a day—she doesn’t need to wear a dress that looks like it.

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And, of course, there’s the steak. Bin offers approximately 10 different types and cuts of grilled meats, ranging from a USDA Prime bone-in ribeye to a 32-ounce T-bone for two to a venison chop with juniper berries. The bone-in ribeye is an impressive piece of meat and could also easily feed two. Grilling over hardwood gave the steak a notably smoky char md juicy interior. Bin also features a variety of fish, ining salmon, black grouper and local big eye tuna. The jig eye tuna was grilled with a crust of Szechuan peppercorns that gave a spicy new life to the large, meaty cut offish.

Even vegetarians can enjoy a satisfying meal at Bin. The sides of pureed sweet potatoes, mushroom ragout, jalapeno cheddar polenta and farro risotto could easily stand on their own. The farro risotto is an especially interesting preparation that involves slowly cooking the farro, an ancient variety of wheat from Italy, in ladlefuls of broth and wine. The resulting dish was satisfying, although! the texture took some getting used to.

After such an onslaught of notable food, it would be easy to forget dessert, but missing these delicacies would be a shame. The blood orange souffle cake is likely a Triangle first, and the molten chocolate cake with orange sauce and buttermilk ice cream simultaneously evokes childhood memories of both creamsicles and those retro chocolate oranges.

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The “steakhouse” label is a bit of a misnomer, however, as Bin is much more than a temple of delectably grilled meats. Executive Chef Dale Ray has worked with many of America’s culinary legends, including Michel Richard of Citronelle, Jean-Lous Palladin of Jean-Louis at the Watergate Hotel, and Patrick O’Connell of the Inn at Litde Washington. Ray, a Durham native who began his cooking career at Cafe Parizade, uses his experience in top kitchens to put a distinctively refined touch on Bin’s cuisine. Even the unique glass and silverware evoke some of the urbane sophistication of dining in New York or Chicago that is all but absent in the Triangle.

Bin exudes a welcoming but moment you walk in the door. Tall leather worth a spec] trip. ordering intellige. booths with dark wood tables dominate read: heavy on the sides—Bin is no m the perimeter, while majestically set expensive than dinner and a mow linen-topped tables fill the rest of the Southpoint. Now that the bar has space. An attractive bar and lounge raised, you owe it to yourself to is partially separated from the what the hype is all about. main dining room. Private dining for large parties is available in both the “board room” and the wine cellar.

Bin offers more than just a sexy space, however.

“We try to manipulate food to enhance it but not to change it,” said Ray during a recent visit. “We’re clean, simple, and we focus on the best quality.”

Bin’s food illustrates this philosophy beautifully. From the inhouse baked rolls and butter seasoned with sea salt to the grains and produce sourced from small, artisanal producers, Bin demonstrates how carefully selected ingredients can make simple food exceptional.

A seared foie gras dish was served with fig butter and crispy polenta from Anson Mills, one of the nation’s premier artisinal grain distributors. The hedgehog mushrooms that accompanied an appetizer of caramelized that supplies Thomas Keller’s T ic Frenc lundiy and Per Se, Bin 54 offers quality food and raises the bar for dining in the Triangle Area. /

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Ordering off a traditional steakhouse menu can be an unfamiliar task to the novice diner. No, you likely won’t have a choice between a cup of soup or a house salad. And chances are your server won’t ask you if you want those potatoes mashed, fried or baked.

A proper steakhouse offers a true a la carte dining experience, meaning that diners build their meals piece by piece, from appetizer to main course to sides, based on the depths of their stomachs and their wallets. The disadvantage to this type of dining is that everything, even the sides, has a price. To the resourceful diner, however, this can actually be a good thing.

As was mentioned in the review (see left), steakhouses often serve large portions of meat—too large to be finished by one diner with a moderate appetite. Sides, too, are often large enough to be split by two, and sometimes three, guests. A party of two could easily share a salad, steak, a side or two and a dessert and have a more than adequate meal. This isn’t budget dining, but it won’t break the bank either.

As far as ordering the steaks themselves, medium-rare is probably the best way to go. This way you give the grill enough time to put that satisfying char on the outside of your steak while still leaving it juicy in the middle. Fattier cuts of beef like ribeye can go until medium—the extra cooking time allows for more of the prized intramuscular fat to dissolve into the meat itself. If you insist on getting your steak well-done, just know that you are probably being served an inferior piece of meat. This is common practice at even the best of restaurants and should deter diners from ordering their meat in the form of a hockey puck.

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Beeaii is fore and rece ar when headed anvwhere Here in North Carolina, getting dressed is always an adventure. In a single day, the weather can go from snowing and miserable to a sunny 80 degrees, rendering your galoshes ridiculous and scarf stifling. Packing for Spring Break can cause similar wardrobe dilemmas.

Who knows whether a morning shopping trip will turn into a spontaneous walk on the beach or those mid-day margaritas will last until 2 a.m.? Moreover, urban chic might look great while you are visiting family in New York, and Cali Casual is perfect for vacationing in Malibu, but when you don’tknow where the week will take you, trends are nothing but trouble. But never fear, native North Carolinian and recess fasion critic Michelle Stansbury has composed three terrific outfits that will take you from day to night and will look just as good on the spring break party cruise as they will in 311 SocSci.

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White Victorian blouse, denim miniskirt, wedge boots As cute as the flouncy minis that we have seen the past two summers are, stick with the classic denim, and you won’t have to worry about it flaring up Marilyn Monroe-style at the first breeze. And don’t even think about putting your wedge boots away so soon—they are just the thing to combat those still-chilly L.A. nights and avoid stilletto-sink in muddy destinations everywhere, including the soft clay soil of Main West Quad.

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Gauchos, pumps, belted extra-long tank, cropped blazer Even though jersey gauchos have been hot for almost a year now, they are not going to be fading anytime soon.

How could anyone write off pants that look great on every body type, feel like sweatpants, are chic enough to dress up and make everyone look graceful? And the new extra-long tanks and tees look great underneath just about everything—elongating the torso and hiding belly bulge in one.

UNC grad explores rivalry in book Lexi Richards recess President Richard Nixon is rumored to have stolen the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill’s mascot, Ramsey the Tarheel, while he was a law student at Duke. On another occasion Ramsey once again suffered at the hands ofDuke fans when students stole the live ram, barbequed him and ate him before a Duke-UNC game. Both stories are part of the history of the cross-town rivalry that led UNC graduate Will Blythe to write To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever.

“I got started writing the book because I began to wonder as I reached middle age why I hated Duke so much,” said Blythe, who grew up in Chapel Hill.

To Hate Like This is a sociological and psychological study of the rivalry as well as a sports book. Blythe hypothesizes that the schools are rivals not only because both have successful basketball programs but also because the two represent different ideals and identities.

“Duke is the university as a launchpad, propelling its mostiy out-of-state students into a stratosphere of success,” Blythe writes. “North Carolina, by contrast, is the university as old home place, equally devoted to the values of community and local service.”

While the author and former literary editor of Esquire magazine admits that the book is only an “occaby

sionally unbiased” account, it is not the anti-Duke diatribe one might expect. Rather, Blythe took the time to go behind enemy lines and attempt to enter the mind of the Duke fan.

In order to do so, he befriended the crazy towel guy Herb Neubauer, who he considers to be his “counterpart in an alternative universe.” Blythe also interviewed men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski and met several players such asJJ. Redick, who he said is actually “a pretty nice guy.”

The book contains in-depth anecdotes about watching both Duke and UNC games last season as well as a greater thematic exploration of the rivalry’s causes. While many sports-based books appeal only to the avid sports fan, Blythe’s ability to infuse humor into the book makes it a good overall read.

A passage detailing Blythe’s interview for Esquiremth actress Uma Thurman die day after the Tar Heels’ loss to Santa Clara is particularly comical. “Thurman was going through a hard time with her divorce from Ethan Hawke,” Blythe wrote. That was nothing compared to Blythe’s own pain, however. ‘You could always get another spouse. This was basketball.”

Duke and UNC fans alike will appreciate this lighthearted yet insightful look into one of sports’ most famous rivalries.

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Some Like it Haute may be light reading, but it distinguishes itself among the overpopulated chick-lit genre with detailed description and some witty satire of the fashion industry. Dam’s experience in easy and popular reads is apparent throughout—this frilly thriller is tailor-made for Spring Break reading.

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But 1491, a look at pre-Columbian America by Charles C. Mann, is cooler than your average anthropological study of population development. It postulates that the Americas were not ferocious, untamed wilds teeming with beasts (and scruffy Colin Farrells). Rather, the so-called New World was a land much more civilized and technologically developed than previously thought, thanks to the engineering breakthroughs of various native tribes. What does it all mean? Things like the Amazon rainforest, thought of as an unscathed natural phenomenon, might be more fiction than real.

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“This project just seemed Secret: Extraordinary Confessionsfrom Ordinary Lives. natural for where I was in the excitement of nature, to ofhuman to appealing PostSecret speaks the curious side my life,” he said. finding out someone else’s hidden experiences or feelings. Warren attributes the popuReaders of any stage of larity of the book to the idea that hearing about other people’s innermost thoughts and sharing our own helps connect us. “The secrets that make us feel so alone are the most life will be able to identify with at least one of the human part of us,” he explained. “They bind us together.”

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Morrison’s voice still hints more at Willie grammed beats. Electronic adornments play less of a role on try genre, resembling Mr Beast than on Mogwai’s other recent recordings, giving way Ireland than at Texas, keeping the album from total country twang. Pay the Devil to a more visceral but less captivating approach. The electronincludes covers of artists like Leon Payne and Bill Anderson. Although Morrison £ ics they do use, however, tastefully complement the band’s adds bits of himself to the old chestnuts, the entire album is filled with a gener9 serene instrumental offerings. Mr Beast might make great al rambling country sound featuring lap steel guitar, fiddle and honky-tonk background music for studying, but Mogwai has only Just piano. “This Has Got to Stop” is Morrison’s strongest original, but the others • hold up. For lovers of country this album is something fresh; if the only Morriplanted the seeds of a truly remarkable instrumental rock album. Their music feels good—but it needs to grow, son song you know is “Brown Eyed Girl,” you might think twice before buying this —Eric Bishop —Colin Tierney % album.

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“I like charting my own usage and seeing what I like a lot and what my friends are listening to. I also like looking at neighbors and finding new music.”

Other students have just recently been introduced to Last.fm. This semester Assistant Professor Jeffrey Forbes’ Computer Science 1 class has been using Last.fm as one of its ongoing projects.

“We’re using Last.fm to track listening habits—it’s an iPod class—and use those listening habits as a case study for recommender systems,” Forbes said. “I do think this project could be very fruitful in the future, both in terms of being a good way to teach the material about recommender systems and social networks and as away of showing some of the more interesting applications of computer science.”

The students’ reactions have also generally been favorable to the project. “It’s pretty cool, considering it’s for a class,” said sophomore Courtney Cole-Lovelace. “I like seeing all the music I listen to and what everyone else in the class is listening to.”

Last.fm is hoping that reactions like Cole-Lovelace’s will become the norm as it attempts to expand and attract an even larger range of users.

“Right now the music industry is stuck between a rock and a hard place,” Stiksel said. “They’re hoping their problems will go away by looking the other way. iTunes has demonstrated there is a future in digital music. The industry needs to come to embrace new systems like us.”

With its ability to track the combined top artists and songs of all its users, it has been suggested thatLast.fm has the potential to replace traditional music charts. Currently, charts, such as Billboard, rank artists and songs based on units sold per week.

But some are skeptical of this happening in the near future.

“It can’t necessarily replace traditional charts because not everyone uses the Internet like that now,” Brehm said.

But if Last.fm continues in its exponential growth, the music industry could rely on it as an important marketing tool.

“The labels need to reposition themselves,” Stiksel said. “The label is for marketing and packaging, not producing anymore. Anybody can make their own music in their basement these days. Now they need to make interest in products, something interesting to own.”

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After a decade of dissolution, the Buzzcocks rejoined for a reunion in the early ’9os and have since continued to produce memorable albums; Flat-Pack Philosophy is no exception. The album has classic pop lyrics full of longing, mourning and hopeless love, simple chord progressions, almost Beatles-esque harmonies and, naturally, the distorted guitar and frantic tempo characteristic of punk. All in all, if British punk is your thing—and even if it isn’t—do yourself a favor and pay homage to this band that helped kick start the punk movement, directly influenced dozens of groups such as The Smiths, Orange Juice and the Undertones and, somehow after 30 years, is still cranking out instant classics.

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“We actually liked the fact that we didn’t grow up in a large city,” said guitarist Jon Eaton. “It allowed us to evolve without the pressure of being lumped into a particular scene.”

Although they enjoyed growing up in Delaware, their location stopped them from being signed for many years. In fact, they put out seven records themselves before a label picked them up. However, one day New Jersey-based independent mainstay record label Bar None called Eaton and the rest of the band and asked if they would be willing to sign.

“It came to us as a surprise,” Eaton said. “None of us were really expecting anything in terms of getting signed, so when the opportunity came we jumped at it.”

Since their signing, the band—whose music consists of light NewWave-influenced pop—has been touring the country and gamering quite the reputation after releasing their critically acclaimed album Nice and Nicely Done. “I don’t even know what happened to us,” Eaton said. “All of a sudden we’re getting press and people are singing along to our songs in shows. I guess all I can say is that we’ve been really lucky.”

The Spinto Band is currently in the middle of another national tour, and the band is playing many shows with rising stars —and currently the holders of the number one position on the U.K. charts—the Arctic Monkeys.

Unlike most independent rock bands, however, Eaton said that the Spinto Band would not mind going mainstream. “As long as we got to keep creative control, I’d love to get bigger,” he said. “But I guess that, like most other things, comes in time. We’re just in it right now for the experience.”

Because of the Spinto Band’s rapid success, Eaton said that the band is ready for anything, but expecting nothing. “I can’t say what will happen next,” he said. “But from the looks of it, it’s going to be pretty sweet —Matt Dearborn Spinto Band, from a small town in Delaware, is currently touring the country.

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Critic’s Choice Award, an event which according to the official site is “the barometer of what the Academy of Motion Pictures would do when it came time to vote for the Oscars.”

Yet, Brokeback failed to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

Film critics are even less willing to concede to their purportedability to sway public opinion, suggesting that certain audiences may actually shy away from the acclaimed and typically more serious movies. The reverse tendency, according to Lindsay, explains the box office success ofmovies like Hostel as opposed to critically acclaimed, yet less-moneymaking films such as Capote, or GoodNight, and GoodLuck.

“When a movie reaches widespread critical acclaim, audiences are a little leery of that. It’s not that they don’t want to see it, they just don’t want to sit there for two hours to see a movie that’s all swollen in the chest—all bigheaded,” Lindsay said.

The fact is that most people don’tknow how to discriminate among the throngs of positive and negative reviews

now easily accessible through the Internet. To tackle this problem, a new statistical model has been created that takes into account positive, negative, neutral and even the silence of critics. The study was conducted by marketing Professors Peter Boatwright ofCarnegie Mellon University, Suman Basuroy of Florida Atlantic University and Duke’s own Wagner Kamakura “Some critics might be always reflecting the consensus... others might be more unpredictable. If you’re adding in the unpredictable people with good bellwethers, you’re sort of diluting the message. What you’d really like is to get a consensus,” Boatwright said. “We have a statistic model that has away of extracting a consensus among all these reviewers.”

One part of the study that is garnering attention is the so-called “silence” factor, wherein a reviewer’s lack ofcommentary bears a relationship to the quality of the film.

Gonzalez argued that while senior writers do get first dibs, there is no conscious desire on the critics’ part to stay silent about a film. Other times, films simply don’t receive press screenings.

However, Kamakura said that the study does not look at the reasons why film reviewers do or do not review certain films, simply that it happens and that this silence can provide telling information.

“For some reason critics will not write a review. When they don’t, in general the movie is not very good,” Kamakura said, “that’s where the critics got upset. It’s not to say that they choose to only review good movies... We have absolutely no information about motives.”

If this new model is a bit perplexing, there’s no need to worry. There are plenty of more user-friendly film rating sites out there that tabulate an average of critical reviews for the curious moviegoer. Take for example Metacritic, which lists numerical ratings on a 100 scale. Or, for the film aficionado that wants to get a visual taste of how a new movie will be, it’s a good bet to check out how “fresh” the movie is at Rottentomatoes.com. Even the Academy couldn’t deny the use of the Tomatometer readings.

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Douglas, who is prosecuting his daughter’s tree-hugging teacher for burning Kozak’s lab, gets bitten by the mystical dog and becomes endowed with the uncontrollable ability to become canine. Predictably, 1950’5-appropriate hilarity ensues when Douglas starts sniffing people’s butts and chasing after cats, with an added bonus of Douglas accidentally tackling an elderly woman. On top of all this thrilling insanity, Douglas must deal with a high-profile case with pressure from his grumpy boss (Danny Glover), while dealing with an ultimatum from his neglected family in the meantime.

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even a gratuitous shot of NFL Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw’s old, droopy backside can save the failed Failure to Launch.

The movie has a somewhat interesting premise (for a romantic comedy): McConaughey is a 30-something yacht salesman who lives at home. His frustrated parents (Bradshaw, Kathy Bates) enlist the help ofSarah Jessica Parker, a professional interventionist, whose specialty is fake-dating men who live with their parents and convincing them to move out. Where the line lies between Parker’s profession and prostitution, however, is unclear. Predictably, he finds out she’s been paid, he doesn’t take the news well, he gets mad at his parents... Yawn. Hilarity does not ensue. One of the few funny lines occurs when Parker tells McConaughey he’s being an idiot, and he retorts, “I think those pants make you look fat.”

Bizarrely intertwined in the film is a sort of creepy “animals sense a lack oflove and therefore attack mercilessly and repeatedly until love is found” motif. These moments (which occur with a dolphin, chipmunk, lizard and culminate with giving CPR to an enraged mockingbird) are utterly off the wall, and not in a cute, quirky way.

Not only does the movie fail to launch—it also fails to entertain. Here’s the real question: What would Carrie Bradshaw think about Terry Bradshaw’s butt?

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No. 1 Duke failed to win in its third consecutive tournament after finishing third at the California Guadalajara Invitational in Mexico Wednesday.

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CHAPEL HILL In the first Duke-North Carolina matchup since last Saturday’s event in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils took some revenge WednesDUKE day night in Chapel UNC 8 Hill, defeating the No. 3 Tar Heels, 10-8, at Fetzer Field.

The trio of Michelle Menser, Kristen Waagbo and Leigh Jester led No. -2 Duke (5-0, 2-0 in the ACC) to victory. The juniors combined for six goals, four assists and 10 ground balls as the Blue Devils ousted the Tar Heels (3-1, 1-1).

“Waagbo had a lot ofassists and handled the ball great on offense,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Michelle Menser had a great game and Leigh Jester played really well with nice composure. We just had really balanced scoring.”

With the game tied at one, Menser took a pass from Rachel Sanford and beat goalie Kristen Hordy to jump-start a 5-0 Duke flurry seven minutes into the game from which the Blue Devils never looked back.

Duke controlled the next 14 minutes as Waagbo slowed down the offense and kept the ball behind the Carolina goal. She assisted on the next two scores, first feeding Katie Chrest, who quick-sticked it to

Katie Chrest's goal with less than a minute to go, iced the win for theBlue Devils in Chapel Hill Wednesday night.The score was her second of the game.

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“I believe we might be trying a bit too hard,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “Sometimes, when you know how good you are, and you know what you’re capable of, you can be really intolerant of your own mistakes.”

Duke showed its potential with a final round score of 3under-par 284, which was the second best round by any team in the three-day contest. But the effort was not enough to make up for the underachieving Blue Devils’ first two rounds of five-overpar 293 and 9-over-par 297.

After starting the final round in fourth, Duke’s late surge helped them to pass Arizona State by eight strokes. The team finished 10-over par—10 strokes behind the winner, No. 2 UCLA. The final-day charge was led by the Blue Devils’ two freshmen, first-ranked Amanda Blumenherst and No. 23 Jennie Lee. Both players carded their best rounds of the tournament with a SEE W. GOLF ON PAGE 10

BASEBALL

Duke sweeps LaSalle with blowout victory by

Tim Britton

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LaSalle’s white hats might as well have been white flags.

By the second inning Wednesday afternoon, Duke was LASALLE JL on it’s way to a DUKE 19 mini sweep of LaSalle, leading 91 with its best pitcher throwing strike after strike on the mound.

The Blue Devils (7-10) won the final game of the two-game set, 19-3, at Jack Coombs Field as pitcher Danny Otero picked up his team-leading fourth win of the season.

Duke scored at least once in each of the first seven innings and plated multiple runs in each of the first four. Meanwhile, the Explorers’ (1-9) offense mustered just five hits.

“We were really focused from the first

pitch, putting the ball in play with two strikes, making their pitchers work, and getting into their bullpen,” head coach Sean McNally said.

Following a three-run first, the Blue Devils broke the game open in the second.

Duke quickly loaded the bases with a single, hit by pitch and a walk before Jimmy Gallagher reached on an error to push the lead to 4-1. A sacrifice fly and an RBI groundout plated two more runs, and three additional two-out hits from the bottom of the order extended the lead to 9-1.

The Blue Devil offense did not let up there. It pushed across two more runs in the third and three more in the fourth, building a 14-2 advantage after four.

“We’ve worked really hard as a group starting in the fall,” said McNally, who is trying to bring new life to the program after

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SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 12

Coming off a complete game last Friday, Danny Otero picked up his fourth win ofthe season Wednesday.

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’Cuse

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NEW YORK Gerry McNamara has made plenty of big shots for Syracuse.

This one might have topped them all.

The senior guard drove the length of the court and hit a 3-pointer with a halfsecond left, leading Syracuse to a rivet-

SYRACUSE 74 CINCINNATI 73

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SeniorLudovic Walter won both his singles and doubles matches at N.C.State Wednesday.

Blue Devils slide past N.C. State by

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No. 5 Duke edged past No. 25 N.C. State, 4-3, in the ACC opener for both teams in Raleigh Wednesday by taking the doubles point early on and then splitting the singles matches.

The Blue Devils (7-2, 1-0 in the ACC) swept the doubles DUKE 4 comoetition in all N.C. STATE 3 three spots, handing the Wolfpack (14-2, 0-1) only their third doubles-point loss of the season.

Senior Stephen Amritraj and junior Peter Rodrigues took control of the No. 2 spot with an 8-3 win. The pair at the third position, seniorLudovic Walter and sophomore Ned Samuelson, followed in their teammates’ footsteps with a strong 84 performance, clinching the doubles point.

“Our doubles is definitely looking a lot better,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “We came together at the National Indoors in Seattle and really found our combination.

I’m really pleased.”

The Blue Devils could not carry their momentum into singles competition, however, immediately dropping the first two matches in straight sets to go down 2-1.

No. 59 Peter Rodrigues, who has recently struggled, lost 6-3, 64.

“Normally Peter’s a really good starter in matches,” Lapidus said. “Today he just didn’t start as well as he normally does.”

The day was saved, however, with another crushing performance from Walter, who is the fifth-ranked singles player in the nation. The senior won in straight sets 64, 62 over No. 64 Nick Cavaday, tallying his 113th career match win.

The Blue Devils received two comefrom-behind wins from freshman Kiril Dimitrov and No. 22 Jonathon Stokke.

Stokke, a junior, won 6-3 in the deciding third set to grab the team’s fourth point and clinch the win over N.C. State.

After dropping the second set 6-1, Dimitrov took the final set 6-4.

“Momentum wasn’t with Kiril in the third set,” Lapidus said. “He was down 2-3, and elevated his game 10 to 15 percent. He seems to be able to raise his game when he needs to, a sign of a great player.”

ing 74-73 victory

over Cincinnati on Wednesday the first in round of the Big East tournament. The Orange greatly improved their chances of earning an at-large NCAA berth.

“I think this, with the situation we're in and under the circumstances, is probably the most important to me right now,” McNamara said. “This is the most important shot I’ve hit.”

With the Orange (20-11) trailing 7371 and just more than 6 seconds to go, McNamara dribbled through the Cincinnati (19-12) defense and hoisted a onehanded shot between the NBA and college 3-point lines.

Official Curtis Shaw immediately ruled the shot a 3, and the play was reviewed and upheld. McNamara was then serenaded by chants of “Gerry! Gerry!” by the Madison Square Garden crowd.

“I wanted to take what I got,” McNamara said. “IfI’m going to take a runner, I’m not going to step on the line. I made sure I was behind the line.”

Jihad Muhammad took a desperation shot from near half court that hit the front of the rim at the buzzer, sealing the win for Syracuse.

“We had our opportunities and we didn’t take advantage of them,” Bearcats coach Andy Kennedy said.

“When you give a team like Syracuse and you let Gerry McNamara have a window of opportunity, unfortunately sometimes you have to live with the feeling we currently have.”

The Orange, who lost their previous three games, will play top-ranked Connecticut in the second round Thursday.

The Huskies (27-2) earned a firstround bye.

BILL KOSTROUN/REUTERS

Syracuse guard Gerry McNamara celebrates after hitting the game-winning three -pointer Wednesday.

McNamara finished with 17 points on 6of-17 shooting, including 5-of-8 from 3-point range, for ninth-seeded Syracuse. Terrence Roberts added 16 points and nine rebounds, and Darryl Watkins had 15 points.

McNamara helped the Orange win a national championship when he hit six 3pointers against Kansas in 2003, and scored 43 points against BYU in an NCAA tournament win the following year. But this shot was something else.

“Every kid dreams of making a shot,” McNamara said. “I’m glad I made it. More importandy, we won the game. That’s really all that matters here. We move on, and we need to.”

Coach Jim Boeheim angrily responded to comments by unidentified assistant coaches in Syracuse-area newspapers that

called McNamara overrated “Without Gerry McNamara, we wouldn’t have won 10 games this year,” Boeheim said.

James White scored a career-high 32 points for the eighth-seeded Bearcats (1912), whose NCAA tournament hopes hinge on the decision of the NCAA selection committee. It’s expected the Big East will get at least eight teams into the field of 65.

“I think it is a positive that we have the chance to put ourselves in a position to make the NCAA tournament,” White said.

“A lot of people said we couldn’t. I mean, we’re looking for more.”

Eric Hicks added 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Bearcats, who won three of their last five regular-season games.

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JuniorAnna Grzebien's 72 Wednesday helped the Blue Devils to move up to third place.

pair of 2-under-par 70s Blumenherst finished tied for fifth overall at 1-under par, which left her a full 12 strokes behind overall winner Irene Chow of USC. Lee finished in a three-way tie for 20th place with two fellow Blue Devils, senior Liz Janangelo and sophomore Jennifer Pandolfi. No. 5 Janangelo, the 2004 National Player of the Year, followed up her disappointing second round 77 with an even-par 72.

Junior Anna Grzebien, ranked second nationally, aided the Duke comeback by also posting a 72. The reigning NCAA Champion closed out the tournament in a tie for seventh place, two strokes behind Blumenherst.

The Blue Devils will have a chance to end their drought when they tee off in the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational in Austin March 17th. Until then, Brooks seems unfazed by his team’s recent performance.

“I’m not at all concerned regarding the way the spring is progressing,” he said.

“I’ve seen considerable good play from our players in Mexico.”

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Gerry McNamara has NEW YORK made plenty of big shots for Syracuse.

This one might have topped them all.

The senior guard drove the length of the court and hit a 3-pointer with a halfsecond left, leading Syracuse to a riveting 74-73 victory SYRACUSE 74 over Cincinnati CINCINNATI 73 on Wednesday the first in round of the Big East tournament. The Orange greatly improved their chances of earning an at-large NCAA berth.

“I think this, with the situation we're in and under the circumstances, is probably the most important to me right now,” McNamara said. “This is the most important shot I’ve hit.”

With the Orange (20-11) trailing 7371 and just more than 6 seconds to go, McNamara dribbled through the Cincinnati (19-12) defense and hoisted a onehanded shot between the NBA and college 3-point lines.

Official Curtis Shaw immediately ruled the shot a 3, and the play was reviewed and upheld. McNamara was then serenaded by chants of “Gerry! Gerry!” by the Madison Square Garden crowd.

“I wanted to take what I got,” McNamara said. “If I’m going to take a runner, I’m not going to step on the line. I made sure I was behind the line.”

Jihad Muhammad took a desperation shot from near half court that hit the front of the rim at the buzzer, sealing the win for Syracuse.

“We had our opportunities and we didn’t take advantage of them,” Bearcats coach Andy Kennedy said.

“When you give a team like Syracuse and you let Gerry McNamara have a window of opportunity, unfortunately sometimes you have to live with the feeling we currently have.”

The Orange, who lost their previous three games, will play top-ranked Connecticut in the second round Thursday.

The Huskies (27-2) earned a firstround bye.

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Senior Ludovic Walter won both his singles and doubles matches at N.C.State Wednesday.

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No. 5 Duke edged past No. 25 N.C. State, 4-3, in the ACC opener for both teams in Raleigh Wednesday by taking the doubles point early on and then splitting the singles matches.

The Blue Devils (7-2, 1-0 in the ACC) swept the doubles DUKE 4 comoetition in all N.C. STATE 3 three spots, handing the Wolfpack (14-2, 0-1) only their third doubles-point loss of the season.

Senior Stephen Amritraj and junior Peter Rodrigues took control of the No. 2 spot with an 8-3 win. The pair at the third position, senior Ludovic Walter and sophomore Ned Samuelson, followed in their teammates’ footsteps with a strong 8-4 performance, clinching the doubles point.

“Our doubles is definitely looking a lot better,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “We came together at the National Indoors in Seattle and really found our combination.

I’m really pleased.”

The Blue Devils could not carry their momentum into singles competition, however, immediately dropping the first two matches in straight sets to go down 2-1.

No. 59 Peter Rodrigues, who has recently struggled, lost 6-3, 64.

“Normally Peter’s a really good starter in matches,” Lapidus said. “Today he just didn’t start as well as he normally does.”

The day was saved, however, with another crushing performance from Walter, who is the fifth-ranked singles player in the nation. The senior won in straight sets 64, 62 over No. 64 NickCavaday, tallying his 113th career match win.

The Blue Devils received two comefrom-behind wins from freshman Kiril Dimitrov and No. 22 Jonathon Stokke.

Stokke, a junior, won 6-3 in the deciding third set to grab the team’s fourth point and clinch the win over N.C. State.

After dropping the second set 6-1, Dimitrov took the final set 6-4.

“Momentum wasn’t with Kiril in the third set,” Lapidus said. “He was down 2-3, and elevated his game 10 to 15 percent. He seems to be able to raise his game when he needs to, a sign of a great player.”

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Syracuse guard Gerry McNamara celebrates after hitting the game-winning three -pointer Wednesday.

McNamara finished with 17 points on 6of-17 shooting, including 5-of-8 from 3-point range, for ninth-seeded Syracuse. Terrence Roberts added 16points and nine rebounds, and Darryl Watkins had 15points.

McNamara helped the Orange win a national championship when he hit six 3pointers against Kansas in 2003, and scored 43 points against BYU in an NCAA tournament win the following year. But this shot was something else.

“Every kid dreams of making a shot,” McNamara said. “I’m glad I made it. More importandy, we won the game. That’s really all that matters here. We move on, and we need to.”

Coach Jim Boeheim angrily responded to comments by unidentified assistant coaches in Syracuse-area newspapers that

called McNamara overrated “Without Gerry McNamara, we wouldn’t have won 10 games this year,” Boeheim said.

James White scored a career-high 32 points for the eighth-seeded Bearcats (1912), whose NCAA tournament hopes hinge on the decision of the NCAA selection committee. It’s expected the Big East will get at least eight teams into the field of 65.

“I think it is a positive that we have the chance to put ourselves in a position to make the NCAA tournament,” White said.

“A lot of people said we couldn’t. I mean, we’re looking for more.”

Eric Hicks added 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Bearcats, who won three of their last five regular-season games.

W. GOLF from page 9 pair of 2-under-par 70s Blumenherst finished tied for fifth overall at 1-under par, which left her a full 12 strokes behind overall winner Irene Chow of USC. Lee finished in a three-way tie for 20th place with two fellow Blue Devils, senior Liz Janangelo and sophomore Jennifer Pandolfi. No. 5 Janangelo, the 2004 National Player of the Year, followed up her disappointing second round 77 with an

even-par 72.

Junior Anna Grzebien, ranked second nationally, aided the Duke comeback by

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JuniorAnna Grzebien's 72 Wednesday helped theBlue Devils to move up to third place.

also posting a 72. The reigning NCAA Champion closed out the tournament in a tie for seventh place, two strokes behind Blumenherst.

The Blue Devils will have a chance to end their drought when they tee off in the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational in Austin March 17th. Until then, Brooks seems unfazed by his team’s recent performance.

“I’m not at all concerned regarding the way the spring is progressing,” he said.

“I’ve seen considerable good play from our players in Mexico.”

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multiple losing seasons. “It’s nice for these guys to see some tangible results.”

Otero (4-0) has been a major piece of the Blue Devils’ limited but encouraging early success, allowing just a single earned run in five innings Wednesday.

“Danny threw strikes today, pounded the zone, mixed his pitches well, and did a good job for us,” McNally said. “I feel good with him on the mound.”

Otero’s four wins have accounted for more than half of the team’s total, and he has allowed only two earned runs in 25 innings. His 21 strikeouts also lead the Blue Devils.

“I’ve just been throwing strikes, and the defense has been playing well,” Otero said.

“I’m justtrying to give the offense a chance to win.”

Duke will try to extend its winning streak when it hosts Winthrop Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m.

Caroline Cryer ended the spurt, emerging from a crowd to take a pass from Jester in front of the goal and buried a quick shot past Hordy to put the Blue Devils up 6-1.

“I guess I expected [UNC] to maybe come out a little harder than they did out of the gate,” Kimel said.

Though Duke led the rest of the evening, the game was back and forth for the remainder as the Tar Heels stepped up their intensity and attempted to come back.

Meg Freshwater responded with a goal straight off the next draw, and then whipped an assist to midfielder Kelly Taylor on the next Tar Heel attack to make it a 6-3 Duke advantage.

They could not cut the lead further, however, as Waagbo set up Jester in front of the goal for a with just 18 seconds left. Duke went into the half up 7-3.

Although the Blue Devils had 24 shots in the first period, only seven got past Hordy.

“Their goalie is really great, she was probably their player of the game,” Kimel said. “I thought we took some bad shots, and I thought that was part of what kept them in the game. If we had finished on some of our shots in the first half, I think there could have been a greater score differential.”

The Tar Heels continued an attempt at a comeback, opening the second half with a bang, scoring just 35 seconds into the period. The Blue Devils started slowly, and took over ten minutes to get their first score of the half, with Menser taking an open lane to the goal for her third score of the game.

“I just think our overall consistency needed to be improved,” Kimel said. “I want the girls to feel more confident in our ability to sustain that intensity and momentum into the second half, which we didn’t do. Now, Carolina came out really hard and strong, to their credit, but we have to be able to get our level back up there too.”

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“This game is always a one or two goal game, either way, it doesn’t matter. It’s like throw out all the rankings, throw out who’s supposed to win,” Kimel said. “I know we’re closely ranked this year, but it’s always that kind of game with them.”

Duke finally finished off the Tar Heels as leading scorer Katie Chrest took the ball to goal and scored on a wide open shot with just 55 seconds left to solidify the Blue Devil win.

“What [Carolina] did in the second half, I totally expected. I felt like we definitely let down in the second half which I was disappointed in,” Kimel said. “But, you know, it’s Carolina, and it’s a great win, and we feel really happy to have come out on top.”

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Walking back onto Coach K Court after the March 4 loss to North Carolina, senior forward Lee Melchionni had one message for the thousands of fans who remained in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“We lost tonight, but this season’s nowhere near over,” postseason Melchionni said, causing the crowd to preview erupt in cheers.

Melchionni and the Blue Devils are not buying into the idea that consecutive losses to Florida State and North Carolina to close out the conference slate have shown why Duke cannot win head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s fourth National Championship this season. Since the loss Saturday night, the Blue Devils have had an opportunity to take stock in what they accomplished so far, and what they still have left to do.

“This week is a fresh start,” said J.J. Redick, who was named ACC Player of the Year for the second straight year Tuesday.

“We all wanted to accomplish something special and try to go 16-0 in the conference. Unfortunately that didn’t happen.

“We were 27-3, we were a top-five team all year, we accomplished some great things. But now it’s just time to pack all that stuff away.”

The Blue Devils (27-3,14-2 in the ACC) will attempt to regain their focus when they travel to Greensboro for the ACC Tournament, which takes place Thursday through Sunday. Friday at 12 p.m., topseeded Duke will face the winner of today’s Clemson and Miami contest.

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Krzyzewski has maintained that Redick is not worn down physically, but that the media scrutiny has taken an emotional toll

on the senior. After the loss Saturday night North Carolina, the Blue Devils took Sunday completely off from basketball activities and did not work out Monday.

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Williams content to produce out of the limelight Soft-spoken by nature, Williams said the lack ofattention has never concerned him.

It’s tough to overlook a player when And his roommate, fellow senior Lee Melhe’s leading the ACC in rebounding and is chionni, added that Williams’ personality third in scoring. is better suited for a supporting role out of It’s difficult not to notice the ACC’s the limelight anyhow. most prolific shot-blocker in more than a “During my time here, I’ve never really decade, especially when he’s only 6-foot-9. been in the spotlight as much as J.J. has It’s hard to ignore a senior that passed been,” Williams said. “It’s never been a up NBA riches for a chance to make one problem for me with doing whatever my final run at a National Championship. team needs me to do to win a ball game.”

But playing alongside J.J. Redick, the His play on the court has proven that his face of college basketball this season, that presence is just as important as Redick’s to is the reality for the success of the Shelden Williams.

Blue Devils.

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It’s T.T. never 21, Williams ga’s Adam Morrison Jan. iir been a problem for me. for the national scorscored just four ing title and Player of Shelden Williams P° inls and was for the Year. the most part, a nonfactor on the offenThrough it all, Williams has existed sive end. in Redick’s shadow, putting up All-AmeriYet against Georgia Tech Feb. 22 when can numbers and doing whatever it takes Redick was struggling to a 5-for-21 shootfor Duke to win, all without the constant ing night, Williams carried the Blue Devils fanfare his teammate has garnered. to a victory. He scored the team’s first 11 “He’s handled it like a man, and he’s points of the second half to tie the game been very mature about it,” Redick said. and shot 11-for-17 from the field on his “We talked the other day, and he looked at way to 26 points. me and said, ‘Man, I just want one of those “He is the best inside player in the counup there,’ and glanced up at the rafters at try,” Maryland head coach Gary Williams the championship banners. I think that said. “Generally, nobody stops him.” we’re in the same boat in that regard.

But despite Williams’ offensive reperNeither one of us are that worried about toire—which he has expanded this season who gets what kind ofattention. Both of us are here for the same thing.”

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Seniors value Duke experience in last campaign by

Gregory Beaton THE CHRONICLE

Before the disappointing loss to North Carolina on Senior Night in Cameron Indoor Stadium March 4, Duke’s seniors held a dinner to honor the occasion at the Washington Duke Inn. On the eve of the group’s final regular-season game together, the six senior players, the senior managers and head coach Mike Krzyzewski and his family sat down over a fancy meal to evaluate their accomplishments together.

Krzyzewski said his wife and daughters asked the seniors if the Duke experience, to this point, had been what

they expected.

Player after player, the response was, “and more,” Krzyzewski said.

“To see them express that makes you feel good,” Krzyzewski said. ‘You think of those kids when you recruit them, you promise them a total development. And then for them to be able to say ‘it was better and I expected the best,’ that’s a neat thing.”

Although the players told Krzyzewski that the overall experience as Blue Devils has been more than they had hoped, the graduating class of 2006 has yet to live up to the lofty expectations it set for itself when the players committed to the program in 2001.

Back then, there were six recruited players in the class—and many considered it one of the best groups in history. JJ. Redick, Sean Dockery, Michael Thompson and Shavlik Randolph were McDonald’s All-Americans and Shelden Williams was thought to have just as much potential. The sixth, Lee Melchionni, was no slouch himself—he was a top-100 recruit who agreed to walk on during his freshman year because of a since-repealed NCAA rule limiting teams five scholarship newcomers per year.

The group had astronomically high hopes for its time in Durham. Melchionni drew a comparison between his class and Michigan’s ‘Fab Five’ from the early 19905, which went to consecutive National Championship games in 1992 and 1993.

In 2001, Redick even predicted his class would win “tons of games and tons of championships.”

The class of 2006 has been extremely successful. All told, the group has won 111 games so far, including two SEE SENIORS ON PAGE 28

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Media pressure takes emotional toll on Redick by

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In the locker room after Duke’s loss to North Carolina March 4, JJ. Redick walked from the shower over to his locker.

He reached into a cabinet, picked up a bottle of soap and walked back over to the shower area.

By the time he got back, the media horde was already lined up two deep around Redick’s chair, even though the senior’s teammates were available for interviews in other parts of the room. The travelling press circus parted to allow Redick to pass through, allowed him to dress and then descended.

Six television cameras recorded the action from directly in front of Redick, three cameramen kneeling and three standing behind them. More than 20 reporters leaned in, trying to get a microphone in the superstar guard’s face and interrupting each other to get a question in.

Redick sat in the middle, the lights from the cameras in his eyes, trying to make sense in a public forum of Duke’s second-straight loss and his fourth-straight poor shooting game.

For JJ. Redick, this is life.

The type of season Redick is having—for the type of team he plays for—has caused the media crush he faces every day.

But being the anointed one, ranked among the all-time greats on television every day, comes with its own set of pressures. That pressure can—perhaps —throw off something as delicate as a jumpshot.

And when the jumper stops falling, or the team stops winning, that just makes the horde hungrier for answers.

“There’s always pressure from media attention, from family, friends,” Redick said.

“When you play here, when you play at a big-time program in college basketball, you’re always in a fishbowl. The past couple of weeks, I haven’t even been able to watch ESPN. It just drives me crazy. I don’t want to watch college basketball. I don’t want to watch SportsCenter and see NBA highlights. They can’t stop talking about us or me. Give it a rest for a couple of days.”

The recent media focus on Redick is nothing new. As an All-American returning to the preseason national title favorite, he has faced it since the beginning of the year.

But when the senior guard broke the NCAA career three-pointers record and the Duke and ACC career scoring records in a span of four games in late February, the media demands intensified.

Meanwhile, Redick’s game declined he shot just 28.8 percent in the four games after breaking the Duke scoring record, including 22.2 percent from long distance.

“JJ- was emotioned out,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He needed to get past all that, it was just a lot.

“I’ve seen it with a lot of guys and because it doesn’t happen [often] you don’t understand the complete impact.”

Now that he’s past his record-breaking stretch and past the part of the season where Duke’s—and his—championship merits can only be debated on television, the task for Redick is to move on.

“My confidence or whatever swagger I play with, it’s not that it’s shaken,” Redick said. “I just think I put a lot of pressure on myself, I feel a lot ofpressure from outside sources, and it hasn’t been fun for me.

“Really, we just need to have fun, and I think the ACC Tournament, for our team, can get us headed in the right direction.”

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JJ. Redick has been bombarded by the media, taunted by opposing fans and even stalked by an entire Wal-Mart staff while grocery shopping.

He has been labeled as the most hated player in college basketball, and also witnessed masses of girls screaming his name and holding up signs asking the star to marry them.

Two years ago, however, 31-year-old Lara Lee decided the sharp-shooting Duke guard just was not getting enough attention.

After scouring the internet for information on Redick, Lee, now a database marketing supervisor in Los Angeles, bought the domain name for the website she would create to showcase Redick and his accomplishments —www.jjredick.net.

“I was out there myself looking for information online about him, but it was scattered everywhere,” “Nobody else has done it, so I just decided I would.

He is the focus of so much animosity.

That’s been focused on a lot, and I knew there had to be a lot of us out there who support him. We didn’t have any place to call our own. It’s a counter-balance.”

Lee said she initially spent three or four days putting together the website, which focuses solely on Redick, and has consistently updated its content since it was launched March 20, 2005, nearly a year after she bought the domain name.

The website—which eventually grew so large Lee was forced to rent her own server to support it—now contains announcements, news articles, photo galleries, video clips and forums. And despite the conflicting attitudes he invokes, the site is strictly for Redick’s fans —as Lee said,

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Signs professing fans' love for senior JJ. Redick appear regularly at games in Cameron and on theroad. “haters are not allowed.”

Even so, there’s no lack of interest in Lee’s project. Currently, the website has registered more than 294,100 visitors—approximately 4,000 of those hits came over the past weekend.

“The negative attitudes toward Duke and toward me get publicized more, but there are people that like me out there,”

Redick said. “When we go on the road, there’s always people and fans and signs forme.... It’s been something that over the past four years I’ve learned to deal with.”

Redick’s fan base spans all demographics. Through the website, Lee gets approximately 70 emails per week from fans of all ages and backgrounds. Although she works full-time, Lee spends

www.jjredick.net for an ever-increasing number of fans.

“When I started this website it was just kind of a thing—l had no idea,” Lee said.

“I get emails from all over, from 10-yearolds to 75-year old women, from all over the country and from all over the world.

It’s unbelievable how many fans he has.

It’s unbelievable what he inspires in people, it goes beyond the average player.

There’s little kids, 12-year-old boys who look at pictures of him shooting and tell me they want to be him, and then there’s 65-year-old women who just see him as that good Christian boy.”

Hundreds of other web pages devoted to Redick exist on the Internet, mosdy as personal home pages.

Redick has his share of admirers in the real world, too. Although he said he is not usually approached by his fellow students on campus for autographs, Redick said he draws attention wherever he goes.

“I mean obviously any time we come to practice there’s usually people hanging around Cameron—visitors or the eßay guys, chilling out around by K-ville,” Redick said. “Now in Durham, stuff happens.... At Kroger a few weeks ago some girl followed me around saying that she was my bodyguard, and then you know, it’s normal autograph stuff.”

Lee, a graduate of Drew University, has been a Duke fan for 16 years, but made her first-ever trip to Durham to see Redick play against North Carolina March 4 in his final game in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

She has never met the athlete she has spent so much time researching, though.

“Not yet, anyway,” Lee said. “We’ll see.”

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Where Sean Dockery grew up, being able to walk around looking straight ahead is a luxury.

In the South Chicago neighborhood Dockery comes from, gangs run the streets, young men are killed all the time, and college is either a pipe dream or not a dream at all.

So when Duke’s senior guard said getting his diploma in May is as important to him as anything he accomplished on the basketball court, he was not just taking a page out of Coach K’s prepared-for-life handbook.

“I know I’m the first person in my neighborhood to basically go to college, stay four years and graduate,” Dockery said. ‘You never see anyone from my area get a degree, so you never have that vision of someone getting it. And for me to do that, getting that degree widiout seeing someone else do it, shows a lot about my personality.”

Four years ago, Dockery emerged from the type of neighborhood that most Duke students only read about in public policy class. A couple ofmonths before he got to campus, the then-19-year-old was in a car that was shot into. While he was in high school, some of his close friends were killed. Dockery still gets phone calls nearly every other week telling him that someone else from the neighborhood has died.

Coming to college was a culture shock, made worse by the fact that no one thought the inner-city kid could cut it at rich, prestigious Duke.

Dockery’s GPAand ACT score in his senior year of high school were short of the NCAA minimums for Division I scholarship recipients. On Sept. 4, 2001, The

Chronicle ran a staff editorial declaring “It is sad that a top-10 institution like Duke is even considering Dockery.”

While Duke’s elitists were criticizing Dockery for being dumb, the people from his neighborhood disparaged him for being too ambitious.

“Theyjust wanted to see me come back and fail just like everybody else from there,” Dockery said. “That’s all they see, negatives, through their whole lives, so they’re going to be negative towards me.

And that’s what they were doing.”

For a college freshman, all of the pressure probably should have been too much.

On the court, Dockery—a scorer in high school—had to turn himself into a playmaking point guard to please head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Dockery was unsure of himself around his world-famous coach and didn’t see much of the court.

In the classroom, Dockery had to learn to study. He would stay up until 4 a.m. reviewing with classmates, trying to understand material that he might have been taught in the elite high schools his classmates attended.

Everywhere else, the freshman felt no one understood where he was coming from. He was close with his roommates, JJ. Redick and Shavlik Randolph, but as the first inner-city public school product Krzyzewski ever recruited to come to Duke, he was in uncharted waters.

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Duke blue runs in the family for Melchionnis by

Tim Britton

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When Lee Melchionni’s name was introduced on Senior Night, the 6-foot-6 forward walked to center court to a raucous ovadon.

Rather than simply waving to the crowd, though, Melchionni got down on his hands and knees and in an emotional display kissed center court.

“I’ve sweated, I’ve bled, I’ve cried on this floor, and I’m so grateful to have played here,” Melchionni said. “To be a part of this and to be on the team, it’s awesome. To actually come here is the culmination of a dream.”

Just like hundreds of other kids growing up, Melchionni dreamed of playing for Coach K, wearing Duke across his chest and performing in front of the Crazies inside college basketball’s most famous arena.

When that opportunity presented itself to Melchionni as a star high school basketball player at Germantown Academy in Lancaster, Pa., he couldn’t resist. After all, Lee, the son of two-time Duke captain Gary Melchionni, who played from 19701973, spent his childhood dreaming of wearing the blue and white.

“Growing up, I always watched Duke, wanted to be a part of Duke,” Melchionni said. “We’d come to watch practices, come to games. It’s just that I grew up on Duke. Ever since I can remember I wanted to be here.”

Because his father had a connection to the program, Lee had the opportunity to attend games at Cameron Indoor Stadium and meet players on occasion.

“I remember one time going back to talk to my dad in the locker room [after the old timers’ game] and there was the

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rebounds. assists ’92 team lined up to play their blue-white game,” Melchionni said. “So it’s like Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, Brian Davis, all standing right there. It was amazing to see those guys.”

By the time Melchionni emerged as a star in high school, the idea of becoming a

part of that storied tradition had become firmly entrenched in his head.

“I remember freshman year [of high

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school], I got a questionnaire from Duke that they sent out to a thousand kids,” Melchionni said. “But of course, at the time being a little naive, I thought I was one of a select few so it was super exciting.”

Scholarship offers from major programs such as Kansas, N.C. State, and Villanova were not enough to dissuade Melchionni from chasing his dream.

Melchionni was forced to walk-on his

freshman year with the understanding he would become a scholarship player the following season. An old NCAA rule prohibited Duke from extending scholarship offers to more than five members of a single recruiting class. Despite the cost and the threat of limited playing time, Gary Melchionni said it was never a hard choice.

Lee’s decision, however, did not pay immediate dividends. Melchionni barely played his first two years, averaging a mere 4.5 minutes per game. Sitting on the bench behind Shelden Williams and Shavlik Randolph sparked doubts if he had made the right decision.

“When you put your heart into something—you know, basketball is your life—and it doesn’t go the way you want it to, sometimes you question it when you’re not playing that much,” Melchionni said.

That all changed his junior year, however, when Melchionni found himself playing more than 21 minutes per game and starting 14 games.

Due largely to his strong finish junior year, Melchionni followed in his father’s footsteps by being named a senior captain.

“It was a great honor to be named a captain of this team and to be a part of something bigger than yourself,” Melchionni said. “It’s something that can’t ever be taken away from you.”

His dream to play at Duke began when he was a kid, staring wide-eyed at a team that had won the National Championship.

Now, more than a decade later, he hopes to be on a championship team himself.

“Our season’s not over yet,” Melchionni said. “There’s still a lot of business to take care of.”

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Hot ticket: ACC Tourney draws high demand by

Katie Riera

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For Duke students, getting tickets to the ACC Tournawinning the lottery.

Literally.

The Duke Athletic Ticket Office held a lottery to raffle off available student tickets Jan. 21. Lottery winners were allowed to only purchase one ACC ticket book per person.

The $363 package allows the holder access to all ACC Tournament games in Greensboro Coliseum March 9-12.

Fortunately for Duke students, all those who entered the lottery were awarded tickets to the sold-out venue.

ACC Tournament tickets have not been sold to the general public in 40 years. Instead, the ACC distributes an allotment of tickets to each of the 12 schools in the conference. Each individual school is responsible for privately distributing them between their own students, staff, season ticket holders and alumni.

Not surprisingly, Duke has no problem selling out its allotment each year.

It is not only in perennial powerhouses that interest level is high. Even ACC newcomer Boston College—playing its first tournament game Friday and located more than 750 miles from Greensboro—sold out its allotment of tickets by January.

“We have not had a problem selling our allotment,” said Jim O’Neill, Boston College’s associate athletic director of ticket operations. “Things have gone very well. Like our regular season games, there’s been a lot of interest in ment is like

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there for tickets for the ACC Tournament.”

Boston College, however, was only allotted one-third of the tickets given to the nine members who made up the conference before expansion two years ago. The reduced ticket share for this year was part of the agreement made when the Eagles Joined the ACC. Miami and Virginia Tech each got one-third of the allotment of the nine original members last year in their first season in the ACC. This year both schools will receive two-thirds of the regular allotment, and will get the full allotment next year. Boston College will follow the same pattern in the next two seasons.

Like students at Duke, Boston College students did not come out in droves to look for tickets.

“Well, they could have made an inquiry at the box office and we would have tried to help them,” O’Neill said.

“But this is during the week of our spring break so there really wasn’t any interest on the part of our student body.”

Although tickets are as always in high demand at each ACC school, the further spread of the total allotment caused by the expansion will be somewhat offset by a return to the 23,500-seat Greensboro Coliseum this year.

Last season, the ticket crunch was aggravated by the ACC holding the event in the 20,000-seat MCI Center, since renamed the Verizon Center.

All ACC programs, however, will have to sacrifice as the three expansion teams progress to a full allotment status.

But conference programs agree that too much interest is not a bad problem to have.

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Williams'young Tar Heels exceed expectations by

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After finally getting the monkey off his back by winning his first national title last year, the question was what North Carolina head coach Roy Williams could possibly do for an encore this season.

How about having his young team go ape-wild in the ACC? With the top seven scorers off last year’s National Championship squad gone, North Carolina was picked by many experts to finish in the bottom half of the ACC and to spend much of its March in the NIT. But Williams has led his freshman-laden team into the ACC Tournament as the second seed, having won seven straight games.

Despite all the doubt from outside sources, the attitude from within the program was much different all along.

“Don’t count this team out next year,” Raymond Felton said last April as he declared for the NBA Draft. “This coach over here just won the National Championship.

He can coach. They will be prepared.”

Juniors Felton, Sean May and Rashad McCants, along with freshman Marvin Williams, left early for the NBA. Ail four were taken in the first 14 picks of the draft June 28.

The exodus left the Tar Heels with senior David Noel, who averaged just 3.9 points per game last season, and junior Reyshawn Terry as the returning leaders. They were joined by a talented incoming class.

Although no one besides Noel had played more than seven minutes per game last season, Williams warned his players from the start that he would not let them use their lack of experience as a crutch.

“I told them I was not into moral victories and I was not into using as an excuse how young you are,” Williams said. “And they haven’t. They have tried to be the absolute best they can be and they have competed their tails off.”

The young Tar Heels have responded by posting a 21-6 record this year, climbing to No. 10 in the most recent AP poll and knocking off then-No. 1 Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium March 4. Williams’ coaching job with this surprising team has

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UNC head coach Roy Williamsled the youthful Tar Heels to a surprising second-place finish in theACC.

placed him as a favorite for his fifth National Coach of the Year award.

Despite all the obstacles, this season was not even the most challenging in Williams’ three-year tenure at UNC, he said.

Williams’ first year in Chapel Hill was difficult for him both because of the work that went into changing the culture of a talented team, and the emotion that went into his decision to leave Kansas, where he had been head coach for 15 seasons.

The 55-year old coach inherited a team that had a strong rising sophomore class but had been labeled as soft and selfish the year before as it went 19-16 under thenhead coach Matt Doherty.

“When I got here, I think the attitude was affected by human nature,” Williams said. “When things aren’t going well, you try to find some way that you can have some success. And sometimes in basketball

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The Tar Heels went 19-11 in Williams’ initial campaign as he tried to instill his team and defensive philosophies. Williams, who had served as an assistant coach at North Carolina for 10 years under Dean Smith, often said during the 2003-2004 season that he was frustrated with the progress, but the Tar Heels made the NCAATournament for the first time since 2001.

“It wasn’t an easy year, but that doesn’t mean the kids were bad kids,” Williams said. “I was proud that we won 19 games and we went to the tournament and nobody had ever been to the tournament.”

The labors of Williams’ first year truly paid off the next season, as North Carolina tallied a 33-4 record and captured the program’s fourth National Championship.

The tide was the first for Williams in his

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•The UNC graduate has won at least one NCAA Tournament game in each of the past 16 seasons.

•Williams has a career record of 491-122, and his victory rate of 80.1 percent is highest in the country among active coaches with 10 or more years of experience.

•In his 18 years as a head coach, Williams has been recognized as conference coach of the year eight times.

•Williams' teams have averaged 80 or more points per game 16 times. fifth Final Four. The UNC alumnus’ system had fully caught on, as the Tar Heels averaged 88 points per game and held their opponents to just 40 percent shooting.

Despite the success with the players he inherited from Doherty, Williams said this season has been easier because his younger players are his own recruits. The talented freshman class includes point guard Bobby Frasor and All-ACC first teamer Tyler Hansbrough, the Tar Heels’ leading scorer and rebounder.

“When young kids come in and we have gone through the recruiting process, I’ve been in these kids homes, I’ve told them my vision of what I want this to be, told them what I thought they could accomplish,” Williams said. “When you don’t recruit the kids, you don’t have that foundation, and with this group I did have that foundation.”

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Much of Redick’s legacy has yet to be written. If the senior can lead the Blue Devils to an NCAA title his HT ranking may change.

Despite many remichael quests, head coach Mike Krzyzewski refusmOOTG es, and appropriately so, to rank or compare any of his former players to Redick, so I must go at it alone.

“He stands with anybody who has played here,” Krzyzewski said Feb. 6. “He probably should be mentioned [among the greats], then its however much you guys want to mention him.”

Right now, Redick sits sixth on my list, behind Christian Laettner, Johnny Dawkins, Grant Hill, Mike Gminski and Jason Williams.

The sixth-place ranking is certainly not a dig at Redick, who has had the greatest scoring season in Duke history, even with his recent slump. The senior is Duke’s alltime leading scorer and three-point shooter and will certainly garner a share of the National Player of the Year awards.

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performance in last year’s Tourney.

Dawkins greaUiess is in his impact on the Duke program as much as his play. Dawkins makes up for his lack of athleticism on the put the Blue Devils back on the map and cedefensive end, Redick is usually matched up mented Krzyzewski’s job security by leading against the opponent’s weakest outside the Blue Devils to the final game in 1986. threat. The senior has become a better passIt should not be forgotten that Dawkins er each year of his career, but continues to was also the team’s leading scorer each of his four years, even while playing point average nearly as many turnovers as assists.

The players ahead of Redick are characguard as a freshman. terized by their well-roundedness. Gminski Williams is the most talented player to averaged a double-double for his career and ever play at Duke. His resume is certainly was the career leader in blocks until Shelden hurt by only staying three years, but that Williams passed him this season. Hill could can only drop him so far. Williams was do it all on offense and was his team’s shutnamed National Player of the Year in both down defender. Laettner certainly took, and his sophomore and junior years and would hit, all the big shots, but he was also an unhave obliterated Dawkins’ scoring record derratedrebounder and interior defender. had he stayed for a senior campaign.

And in contrast to many of the comIf Redick does cap off his tremendous prable Duke greats, Redick still seeks his career with a great NCAA Tournament first National Championship, something performance and a national title, I would he certainly has a chance to change over argue that he could jump Williams and the next month.

Gminski into fourth place. If he suffers anLaettner remains ahead of Redick on other postseason flop, he could fall below my list mainly because of his postseason Shane Battier or Bobby Hurley. dominance. The biggest knock on Redick Regardless, Redick has exceeded any of his whole career has been his performthe expectations that anyone could possiance in the biggest games, a criticism that bly have had for him. Redick was not even the top-ranked player in his freshman class is not unfounded.

Redick has averaged 14.8 points per and will leave Duke as one of the greatest game in the NCAA Tournament on just 37 players in school and ACC history—and percent shooting, including a 10-for-38 there is no coin flip needed for that.

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The Train says to forget back-to-back losses Oh, baby.

It’s money-makin’ time on The Train, and I am feeling good.

The Blue Devils are going into the conference tournament as the ACC’s No. 1 seed. They’ve had a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament locked up since the end ofjanuary. And they’ve got the country’s best offense, they’re tops in the RPI and—last I checked—they’ve still a ex got JJ. Redick. frankly> Quite that’s all you need.

(Um, scratch that. We all saw what happened to the Patriots.)

Alex, are you kidding me? Have you spent the last week on Mars? Were you hiding under a rock ? Duke lost twice. There’s no wayyou can spin this one. The Train is derailed. It’s flipped over sideways in a ditch outside Cameron Indoor Stadium. Admit it. This stupid column idea is kaput, over. Tell the people to take off their “Get on The Train t-shirts and go home.

The Blue Devils lost in Tallahassee to Florida State which hadn’t had a .500 record in the conference since 1993. If that isn’t enough for you, they lost to North Carolina on Senior Night at Cameron. This team is in the toilet.

To paraphrase Tar Heel coach Roy Williams, The Train couldn’t give a [poopy] about North Carolina.

And to paraphrase anyone that has ever cared about ACC basketball (ever), The Train couldn’t give a [poopy] about Florida State.

The Train (U.S. Patent No. 83946006 pending) didn’t even make the trip to Tallahassee for the Florida State game. It was actually worried about being crushed in

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(Those kids might have rushed the court if the Seminoles lost. It was crazy in there. They sell beer in the Donald L. Tucker Center. Imagine the Carolina game with kids getting drunk at the game instead of before—that’s what it was like.

One kid lost his shoe and had like 25 people fall on him in the first stampede and then still participated in the second one.)

As for the Carolina game, The Train couldn’t get in because its tenting group didn’t get to the white registration secret location fast enough. Not that it wanted

to anyway. No, The Train spent last weekend in the shop, tooling up for the stretch run to Indy.

Was I surprised to see Duke lost two games in a row to close the season? Of course. It’s always shocking when a Blue Devil team suffers consecutive losses.

But before we convene the Cameron Crazie Woe Are We Our Momentum Is Gone (And Right Before The Tournament) Convention, featuring special guest speakers Nancy Negative and Polly Pessimism, let’s examine what, exactly, the Blue Devils lost by dropping two games last week.

Long answer: a perfect ACC record, a rivalry game and a chance to close the Cameron career of one of the best senior

classes in program history with a win Short answer: Absolutely nothing.

After the Carolina loss, Coach Ksaid the game was only big because it was against North Carolina. He added that he thought maybe his team had already mentally moved on to March after clinching the ACC regular season championship Feb. 22.

Redick said the game didn’t mean a lot “in the big scheme of things.” Shelden Williams said the Blue Devils were lucky to lose the games last week and not later, more important contests. Sean Dockery said that the team would learn from the loss and proclaimed, “WeTl be back.”.

The Train never likes losing, but these two losses—in two completely meaningless games—can only help the Blue Devils down the road. Duke has a week of practice before the ACC Tournament and another week before the Road to Indy begins in earnest. Every mistake the Blue Devils made in losing back-to-back games this week will almost surely come up in those practices.

And Krzyzewski, the consensus choice for Best Coach in the Universe (ask Jerry Colangelo), will fix them. Redick said Coach K uses those weeks of practice better than anyone.

Maybe 27-3 isn’t as good as 30-0. Maybe 14-2 isn’t as impressive as 16-0. But The Train was chartered for a trip to Indianapolis, and The Train is going to get there. I, for one, still have my ticket to visit the home of famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley (it’s only fitting that they made it into a museum).

And, oh, one last thing. The last time a Duke team lost its final home game of the season was 2001.

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No. 2 North Carolina (21-6,12-4) This fall, North Carolina was th team since Kansas’ 1988-89 National Championship squad to

win the title one season and begin the next year unranked.

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No. 3 Boston College (24 The No. 11 Eagles joined th their three leading scorers from a year ago, but dropped first three ACC matchups before grabbing an ACC wi against the Seminoles Jan. 14.

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Cavaliers were picked to finih in last in the conference, it new head coach Dave Leitao guide them to their most since 2002. Only a three-game luding a 45-point drubbing at close the conference schedule ihy of a .500 ACC record.

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With veteran guards Guillermo Robert Hite and Anthony HarMiami’s backcourt is always igerous. The Hurricanes lead ic ACC in scoring defense, alpoints per game.

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Virginia Tech (14-15,4-12) Virginia Tech returned one of the best backcourts in the ACC led by point guard Zabian 'wdell and shooting guard >n Gordon. it the Hokies were never able to >ver from the shock of Sean :kery’s buzzer-beater Dec. 4., ;ing eight other conference tan six points.

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A Q£A with Pick Vitale Before the Blue Devils’ matchup against North Carolina March 4, The Chronicle’s Andrew Yaffe sat down with ESPN analyst Dick Vitale to talk about the Duke-UNC rivalry, J.J. Redick, Blue Devil bias in the media and more.

I’m 66 years old and I act about 12 in this environment. They make you feel so young. They’re so passionate about their teams, I think it’s phenomenal.

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AY; How impressive is the Duke-Caroli-

na rivalry?

DV: Both programs set the standard of excellence from this standpoint: Not only do they win, not only do they basically graduate players, but they do things the right way according to the rules, according to the NCAA regulations. You never hear about any violations, you don’t hear about cheating. You hear about intense competition. It’s the best rivalry in all of college sports. Some people could say Ohio St.Michigan, but being a basketball lover, and only being eight miles apart from each other, this is so special. And usually, this game features great players, great coaching, and there’s usually a lot at stake.Teams Tjhly rated nationally.

I have probably done 40 [Duke-UNC] I don’tknow exactly. And you know t, I still get, when I walked in outside, the kids mobbed me, I got goosebumps.

play in Duke’s success?

DV: They provide so much adrenaline, they’re such a part of the Duke atmosphere.

It’s a combination, it’s a formula. It starts with winning—without winning, they’re not the factor they are. But they play a part in the winning. Great coaching, great players, winning, and super fans usually equates to success, and that’s what they’re all about.

They’re a vital part to the success of the Duke program. The adrenaline, the lift they give the kids, you can’t measure it.

AY: Digger Phelps called you “the ambassador” of college basketball. What are your thoughts on that?

DV: I’m very thankful that he feels that way. My role has been, since I got hired, to be an analyst. This is my same personality when I coached. I was labeled Mr. Enthusiasm by the Detroit

media before I ever got in television. I just tried to be myself and it’s been a love affair.

I’ve had 27 years of a love affair with kids across this country. They treat me like royalty. They pass me up the crowd and all that jazz... You can’t plan for those things. My point is, they make you feel so good. All I’ve tried to do is promote the game. I have a great love affair for the game... Let me tell you, basketball has been better to me than I have been to basketball. It has given me a life that has exceeded my dreams.

AX: What are your thoughts on JJ. Redick’s season and where do you rank him in the annals of ACC history?

DV: Well, he’s a true definition of a player getting the maximum out of his ability.

I’ve watched him grow from a freshman who could stand still and shoot to become a prolific scorer, learning how to balance the use of the three-point shot with the medium range shot.... If you look over the history of the ACC, and Dick Vitale says this—people I could respect may not agree with me—he’d be in my top-20 of all-time [players] in the conference. There’s been a lot of great players in this conference: Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, David Thompson, Johnny Dawkins, Perkins, Worthy, John Lucas, Lenny Bias, Mark Price, the list goes on—and he’d be in my top 20

AY: People say you are biased toward Duke. How do you respond to that?

DV: I’ve always tried to be objective. I just reverse the question, I’ve done so many Duke games in 27 years—what has been the common denominator is those years? Always top five in America, always winning, wins five consecutive ACC Tournaments. Six players who go on to be Defensive Players of the Year, all kinds of National Players of the Year, all kinds of 25-win seasons, 10 Final Fours, three national championships. What is there for me to rip Duke? Sure, I love going to Duke and doing games. I love great basketball, I love excitement, and this has anything that anybody who loves basketball should really want. But Duke is part of society in that we have a mental situation where a lot of people like to hate the guy that’s on top whether it’s Duke, the Yankees, Notre Dame in football.

I don’t apologize for praising Duke. I would apologize if they were 14-14, 1 and I’m singing their praises, then a would have a right. Duke’s 27-2.

Krzyzewski is in the Hall ofFame, he’s g to coach the Olympic team. What is not to praise? Anybody that makes that ment—yeah, I hear some of that from people, and I laugh at it. Anybody knows basketball knows that’s not a valid gument. All that is is somebody that Duke and hates people on top —

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ESPN sets new bar with 'Full

Circle'coverage by

Andrew Yaffe

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As it is every year, it was one of the most anticipated

days of the year.

Krzyzewskiville was rocking all day in anticipation of the matchup between No. 1 Duke and No. 13 North Carolina.

In three production trucks located on the concourse of Wallace Wade Stadium, hundreds of people were at work making ESPNU Full Circle—a multi-platform broadcast using multiple ESPN entities—come to life.

As stressful as the maiden voyage of ESPN’s all-encom-

passing broadcast would seem to be to an outsider, it’s all part of a day’s—or week’s—work for an ESPN employee.

“It’s what we do,” said Barry Sacks, senior coordinating producer. “I’m sure it’s hard and I’m sure it’s a lot harder looking at it, but we’re in a routine. This is week seven.”

Sacks, who is in charge of the Gameday pregame and postgame shows, emphasized that everyone who works on the show loves to immerse themselves in college basketball. Without that passion, it would be impossible to work the long hours that they do, he said.

As soon as Rece Davis, Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas step off the set, they are in the production truck, meeting with producers and watching every major game, deciding what should be featured on the rest of the day’s shows.

“Digger’s in there watching Notre Dame. We were all glued to the end of the GW game,” Sacks said. “We’re college basketball, Saturday is a college basketball day.”

The secret to the ease of the broadcast is the delegation of responsibility. Sacks is responsible for piecing together Gameday and prepping his on-air talent. With or without Full Circle, he and his crew would be running their operation in the same way, Sacks said.

What also helps is the work environment. With tents, chanting Students and blue skies in the background," Kville seemed to be the perfect place to host the show.

“The energy of the crowd is, at the end of the day, going to raise the energy of your show,” Sacks said. “There was a good crowd out there. They were loud, the pep band was there and they were good. They had a lot offun with Jay and Digger.”

And the production of the game broadcast works in exactly the same way. Dan Steir, a coordinating producer for ESPN, treats this game like any other. To him, what makes it different is the physical constraints of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“This is an unbelievable facility, but there are limitations,” Steir said. “If this was an NBA arena, we’d have three separate trucks, three separate groups of equipment and there would be much easier broadcasts.”

He added that camera location in Duke’s famous arena is less than desirable, noting that an NBA game of this magnitude would feature up to 30 cameras whereas this game used 13.

Neither of the producers, however, diminished the pressure added by the importance of this storied rivalry.

“It’s definitely not just another game,” Sacks said.

“Duke-Carolina is certainly special.... We’re glad that Carolina lived up to what they hoped they would. We’ve been talking about the Full Circle thing since well before the season started. One of the first meetings we said, what if Carolina is 2-20? Thankfully, they’re not.”

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THE CASEFOR JJ. REDICK

Redick proves himself in tougher league by

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Senior JJ.Redick has broken the 30-point barrier 14 times this season, setting the Duke school record.

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On paper, it appears that JJ. Redick and Adam Morrison remain neck-andneck in their year-long battle for National Player of the Year supremacy.

Morrison leads the nation in scoring, pouring in 28.4 points per game while Redick nips at his heels, averaging 27.6.

There remains one important distinction between the two, however, that should have Duke’s all-time leading scorer holding the Naismith, Wooden and Rupp Awards at season’s end: Redick is way out of Morrison’s league, literally.

Yes, Morrison averages more points than any other player in the nation, but he has done so against laughable teams in the WCC. Gonzaga’s strength of scheduleranks 93rd, a far cry from Duke, which holds the top spot. The Bulldogs have not won a single game against a current top-25 team.

As the most visible player on college basketball’s signature team, Redick has endured unparalleled attention from opponents, fans and the media. And through it all, he has still managed to separate himself from his west coast rival.

With 2,638 points in his career, Redick is the all-time leading scorer in the ACC, making him the most prolific offensive player in the history of the sport’s most storied league.

Redick has poured in 833 of those

points this season despite facing the toughest schedule in the nation. The sharpshooter has averaged 28.1 points per game against ranked teams while guiding Duke to an 8-1 record against top-25 squads.

In leading the Blue Devils to a 27-3 record, an ACC regular season tide and a No. 1 RPI ranking, Redick has taken every team’s best shot in stride. Opposing coaches have tried everything—double teams, triple teams, box-and-ones—to stop him.

With a combination of deadly shooting, exhausting athleticism and deceptively quick off-the-dribble scoring, Redick has become the most unstoppable force in the game.

Some might argue that Redick has lost a step to Morrison after four consecutive subpar games in which the Duke senior shot 29percent from the field, a percentage uglier than Morrison’s trademark mustache.

Away from the oppressive media scrutiny Redick has faced throughout his recordbreaking senior season, Morrison has quietly suffered through a scoring slump of his own. The Gonzaga senior has averaged 23.6 points over his last five games while shooting 37 percent from the field.

Redick may have shown signs of mortality in the past few weeks, but the buzz surrounding his scoring drop-off to a meager 20.3 points per game (come on people) only further proves what an astonishing offensive presence he has been this season.

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THE CASE FOR ADAM MORRISON

Morrison carries Zags to national forefront by

Patrick Byrnes THE CHRONICLE

The choice for National Player of the Year is clear.

Adam Morrison is the nation’s leading scorer and has led Gonzaga to a No. 4 national ranking, a perfect conference record and the Bulldogs’ third-consecutive West Coast Conference title.

Although J.J. Redick has made his case for the top individual honor in college basketball, his recent struggles should cost him.

Morrison and Redick had been one upping each other with 30- and 40-point performances all season. But the Duke guard recently lost his golden touch and has shot 22 percent from beyond the arc and 29 percent overall in the Blue Devils’ last four games. More importandy, his team is 2-2 over that span.

In Gonzaga’s last four games, Morrison has averaged 23 points and 5.5 boards while guiding the Bulldogs to their seventh WCC tournament championship in eight years.

True, Morrison does play in the weak WCC, but Gonzaga does not have nearly as talented a roster as Duke—Morrison is basically a one-man show in Spokane.

Redick plays alongside fellow preseason All-American Shelden Williams and a host of McDonald’s All-Americans. Most college basketball fans probably could not name another player on Gonzaga’s roster.

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The ACC is clearly superior to the WCC, and Redick faces better defenders on a daily basis, but the Bulldogs have still played many worthy opponents. Gonzaga was one of five ranked teams at the Maui Invitational and Morrison led his team to wins over Maryland and Michigan State, who were ranked 23rd and 12th at the time, respectively.

In the Bulldogs’ triple-overtime victory over the Spartans, Morrison scored 43 points and was 11-for-12 from the line while playing 52 minutes.

A few weeks later against Oklahoma State, Morrison also did something Redick has failed to do this season: hit a gamewinning shot.

With his team trailing by one, Morrison banked in a three with the clock expiring to send the Bulldogs to a 64-62 victory. Redick has not been in the same situation as Morrison was against the Cowboys, but he did misfire on a three pointer with six seconds left that would have beaten Florida State Feb 4. and negated the need for overtime.

Morrison and Redick have had a battle for the ages atop the scoring charts, but in the end, Morrison deserves to beat Redick out in player of the year balloting.

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Let the Madness begin.

March is finally here and so is the season of conference tournaments, which leaves the main event—the NCAA Tournament on the minds of basketball fans everywhere.

So as brackets fill up with automatic qualifiers, the question remains; Which ACC teams will hear their names called on Selection Sunday?

In a year when the ACC lacks experienced talent, the Missouri Valley Conference could relieve more bids to the Big Dance than a conference that has yearafter-year been called the nations’ best.

And with just the ACC Tournament remaining, there are precious few games left for bubble teams Florida State and Maryland to make their case for admittance.

Regardless of the outcome of the conference tournament, the ACC’s top four teams—No. 3 Duke, No. 10 North Carolina, No. 11 Boston College, and No. 25 N.C. State—are locks to make the NCAA field.

Each team ranks in the top-25 in the AP poll and none have an RPI ranking worse than 40th. Even after two straight losses, the Blue Devils—still first in RPI and strength of schedule—remain poised to earn a No. 1 seed for the eighth year in the last nine.

Similarly, the fates of the teams at the bottom of the ACC standings are most likely already sealed. Unless they cut down the nets in Greensboro, giving them an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, the —

six teams with losing records in conference are all but out of the 65-team field.

That leaves two teams, Florida State (97 in the ACC) and Maryland (8-8), which have a chance to make or break their seasons during the ACC Tournament. Even though a record of .500 in the ACC has recently been enough to seal an NCAA bid, both teams may not have made a strong enough case.

The Seminoles rank just 317th in nonconference strength of schedule. Their best non-ACC win was over Nebraska, which is 111th in RPI. But FSU significantly improved its resume March 1 by upsetting then topranked Duke, handing the Blue Devils their first league loss. Although that was Florida State’s first win over a ranked foe, three of the team’s seven conference losses were near upsets against top-25 programs.

Florida State lost by three to BCJan. 14, fell by just one to UNC Jan. 22, and took Duke to overtime Feb. 22 in Cameron Indoor Stadium before losing 97-96.

“I feel very confident we’re one of the top 64 teams,” Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said. “I’m just hopeful people will have respect for the ACC.” A win against Wake Forest today should earn the Seminoles a ticket to the NCAA Tourney.

As for Maryland, the Terrapins’ 12thplace standing in strength ofschedule is impressive, but their 2-7 record against RPI top-50 teams is not. So far they lack a signature win to impress the selection committee.

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“Anytime you get two wins the last week of the season it helps your chances,” said Maryland head coach Gary Williams, whose team defeated Miami March 1 and Virginia March 5. “I don’t

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Losing two games in a row to end the season is never a good omen when it comes to postseason success.

Fortunately for the Blue Devils, they have the one attribute that has proven successful in recent years. It’s not being the hottest at the beginning of the Tournament or being the top-ranked team in the country. It isn’t an ingenious system or a ton of depth, either.

The common thread that runs through many successful teams is simply having the best players, and no one can doubt that

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Freshman point guard Greg Paulus leads the ACC in assists, averaging 5.2 per contest.

Duke has two of the best players in the country in seniors J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams.

It seems simple and obvious, but it holds true. In the end, talent wins out.

The team whose best players have been the best has won the national title over and over.

Think about the national champions dating back to Duke in 2001. Last year, North Carolina featured Sean May, Raymond Felton, Rashad McCants and Marvin Williams. And even though they tanked in the ACC Tournament the Tar Heels rode those stars to a national title.

They beat out a great Illinois team with some very good players. But the mini’s talent simply did not compare to that ofUNC. The year before, Connecticut used stars Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon to beat out Duke’s squad led by Chris Duhon and a young Redick.

The theme holds true farther back, from Carmelo Anthony and Hakim Warrick in 2003 to Shane Battier and Jason Williams in 2001: The team that has the best star players just doesn’t seem lose.

Why should this year be any different?

Redick, a reigning first-team AllAmerican, is hands-down the best guard in the country. He is second in the nation in scoring and is in a two-man battle for National Player of the Year. Sure, he’s —

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There has been little debate all season that Connecticut is the most talented team in the country. The top-ranked Huskies may not always have played like the best team, but their athleticism and skill have come together and they are ready to cut down the nets in Indianapolis.

UConn began the season with star point guard Marcus Williams suspended for his involvement in “Laptop-gate.”

Without him, the Huskies won the Maui Invitational anyway.

Connecticut knocked off then-No. 9 Arizona and No. 8 Gonzaga with freshman Craig Austrie running the point in Hawaii, and the team remained undefeated until Williams’ return.

Although UConn dropped the first game that Williams suited up for, the team has lost only one game since—on the road to No. 2 Villanova—and has developed a roster so deep head coach Jim Calhoun can substitute five players at a time. Super-athlete Rudy Gay headlines a star-studded Huskies’ squad that can go as deep as 11 players.

No UConn player averages more than 33 minutes, and the team’s fresh legs will be a tremendous advantage when forced to play two games every weekend in the NCAA Tournament.

Down low, the Huskies are anchored by 6-foot-ll Hilton Armstrong and 6-foot-10 Josh Boone, both of whom have tasted an NCAA title before. The duo has combined

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Freshman Jeff Adrien and former ACC Rookie of the Year Ed Nelson—a transfer from Georgia Tech—come off the bench to average 5.3 and 3.4 rebounds per game, respectively. The two give Armstrong and Boone the luxury of playing aggressively all game without worrying about foul trouble.

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Villanova’s seniors walked on to campus in 2002 with the expectation of bringing Wildcat basketball back to prominence. Since that time, head coach Jay Wright’s program has endured NCAA violations, injuries and only one NCAA Tournament appearance.

But it has all come together for No. 2 Villanova this year, which finished the regular season as co-Big East Champions.

Last season, the Wildcats were a questionable traveling call away from defeating eventual national champion North Carolina in the Sweet Sixteen. This year, Villanova will be the ones cutting down the nets in

One of March Madness’ greatest attributes is its ability to showcase Cinderella teams. Fans cheer for schools they have

never heard of in hopes that those schools will knock off the nation’s giants. But this year, the teams the country has been accustomed to calling Cinderella are no longer sneaking into the Big Dance. Instead, they own it.

George Washington, Gonzaga and Memphis are all from mid-major conferences and are making big-time noise this year. However, the perennial Achilles’

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Nevertheless, Memphis has what it takes to bring glory to the mid-majors and an even higher level of parity to the sport.

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The knock against Villanova is that its four-guard lineup will not be able to contend with the bigger and tougher teams in the Tournament. Nonetheless, Foye and Ray, along with Mike Nardi and Kyle Lowry, have been able to hold their own in the Big East—arguably the nation’s most physical conference—winning 14 of 16 games.

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Will Sheridan who proved to be the difference. The junior was the answer for the Huskies’ big men, scoring 13 points and pulling down 10 rebounds. To add to an already impressive offensive performance, Sheridan also played all 40 minutfes while holding Connecticut forwards Josh Boone and Hilton Armstrong to just 13 points and 11 rebounds—combined.

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When players started to leave college early for the NBA draft, the era of dynasties dominating the NCAA Tournament ended, and the age of parity began. This March, depending on how the matchups in the brackets work out, there are .several teams who may not receive No. 1 seeds, but who could be lifting the National Championship Trophy April 3.

Most people on the East Coast only know fourth-ranked Gonzaga from the attention centered around who should win National Player of the Year: Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison or Duke’sJJ. Redick. But

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ACC Tournament titles and one trip to the NCAA Final Four.

But still absent from the resume is the elusive National Championship that Redick said he would bring home to Durham during his career.

“You come to a program like Duke and your goal every year is to win championships,” Melchionni said. “It’s a program built on championships.”

Four years later, the group is not the same as it looked when the six came in as freshmen. Randolph left for the NBA last spring, and Thompson left the program during his sophomore year. Still, having four recruited seniors at a high-profile program like Duke’s is almost unheard of in college basketball these days.

Over their four years, the four players who have stayed—all of whom are on pace to graduate in May —have matured.

Redick, for example, has transformed from a cocky, trash-talking freshman into a confident team leader as a senior. Melchionni and Dockery—two fairly highprofile recruits—have adjusted to playing in a program loaded with talent, gracefully adjusting to complementary roles.

Williams passed up the opportunity to be a likely first-round pick in last June’s NBA draft to finish his career with the guys he came in with. At the time, Williams said he came back to win a National Championship.

But even though that is still the ultimate goal for these Blue Devils, the seniors are singing a more humble tune about the meaning of achieving that goal with the sunset of their college basketball careers on the horizon.

“I don’tknow if we’ve overachieved or underachieved,” Redick said. “I can only

two outcomes —it could wear the Blue Devils out or it could refocus the team before the NCAAs begin the following week.

“If you are any kind of competitor you don’t want to take thatkind of action,” senior forward Shelden Williams said in reference to losing early in the ACCs. “Any time a player is in the Tournament, you plan on going to that championship game, and that’s something that we plan on.”

And with three losses now on its resume, the ACC Tournament could now have a significant impact on Duke’s NCAA seeding. A little more than a week ago, the Blue Devils seemed a lock for a No. 1 seed—and they still are likely to receive one as they remain No. 1 in the RPI —but now there is still work to be done.

“So much could happen with seeding Just based on conference tournaments,” Redick said. ‘You look at us last year, going into the tournament, no way were people talking about us being a one seed.

We win the ACC Tournament, we’re a one seed.”

If the Blue Devils can put together three straight wins this weekend, it will not be something new for the team. During Redick and Williams’ time at Duke, the Blue Devils are 8-1 in the tournament overall—including championships in 2003 and 2005—with the only loss coming in the 2004 tide game to Maryland.

“I think this week is a very important week for us,” Williams said. “Our first goal this season was to be regular season champions, and we became that.

“Now we have to move on to our second goal, which is to try to win the ACC Tournament. Once we see ourselves doing that, we move on to our third goal.”

Four out of the original six players of the Class of 2006 remain and are on pace to graduate in May.

speak for the four guys who are still here.

We’ve all turned out to be pretty good guys. We’ve all grown a lot and we’re all on pace to graduate in May. “We’ve done a lot of great things here and obviously we would like to cap it off with a National Championship, but that can’t be what we put our whole focus into.

We don’t put all our jelly beans in that jar, I guess.”

Championship or not, the class of 2006 has left its mark on Duke’s basketball program and college basketball as a whole.

Redick will almost surely have his jersey retired next season. Even after a late-season slump, he will be a first-team AllAmerican and is in the running for Na-

tional Player of the Year.

Williams has already won one National Defensive Player of the Year award, will likely join Redick as a first-team All-American and could have his jersey hanging in Cameron’s rafters too.

Redick said the group would not consider its time at Duke disappointing without a championship, but the seniors will work hard over the next month to make their old dreams come true.

“I think it’s a fine line that all the seniors are walking,” Redick said. ‘You want to be obsessed with a championship... but you don’t want to put everything into that so that if you don’t do that, you feel like you’re a failure.”

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season at the top of the RPI standings and produced two Final Four teams last year in Michigan State and Illinois.

No. 7 Ohio State has slipped under the nationalradar.

The athletic Buckeyes edged out Illinois for the conference regular season title, fueled by the play of senior forward Terence Dials, who is averaging 15.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game. In addition, head coach Thad Matta knows how to take a team deep into the Tournament. In 2004, Malta’s 7th-seeded Xavier squad nearly upset No. 1 Duke, losing 66-63 in the Elite Eight.

Last year’s national runner-up No. 9 Illinois (25-5, 115) could also make a run this postseason. The team returns two key senior starters in point guard Dee Brown and forward James Augustine. Junior forward Brian Randle, who medically redshirted last season, has contributed by consistently defending the opposing team’s strongest player. The Illini are one of the best defensive teams in the country, holding opponents to a mere 58.0 points per game and 40.1 percent from the field.

No. 8 Texas is a veteran team that been streaky throughout this season, losing to several unranked opponents, including a 46-43 loss at Texas A&M March 1. The Longhorns, however, have had several quality wins over teams that were ranked in the top-25: West Virginia, lowa, Memphis, Villanova, Kansas and Oklahoma. With junior PJ. Tucker, who is averaging 16.1 points and 9.0 rebounds per game,and a good draw, Texas could easily be playing in April.

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The Tigers have beaten Gonzaga, No. 13 UCLA and No. 14 Tennessee already this season, and nearly took down No. 3 Duke in the NIT Tip-off Classic, falling in the last minute, 70-67.

It’s the Tigers’ balanced offense that has them second only to the Blue Devils in points scored per game this season. The team has a formidable trio that starts with sophomore guard Darius Washington Jr., who is a premier marksman and an unselfish passer. He and the other Tigers frequently feed star forwards Shawne Williams and Rodney Carney, who combine for an 30.9 points and 10.7 rebounds per game playing on the wings and in the low-post.

Memphis is aggressive, scrappy and relentless. Their size—seven players 6-foot-7 or taller—and tremendous athleticism make them very dangerous. They have the ability to dish it down low to their prime-time post players, or pass it out to their talented shooters on the perimeter. Memphis certainly can score multiple ways, and it is also their size, athleticism and overall intensity that enables them to shut teams down.

The Tigers are the complete package. Their non-conference schedule at the beginning of the year was strong enough to offset the weaker competition within Conference USA, and the team has only gotten better since then. Head coach John Calipari, a man who has distinguished himself as an incredible program-builder, will guide this team well beyond their critics’ expectations.

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struggled in recent games, but there’s a lot of motivation on the table for him.

If he doesn’t pick it up during the NCAA Tournament, he can kiss the NBA lottery—and possibly the first round —goodbye. What’s more, Redick has talked all about how important he considers his legacy at Duke. It seems likely that even if his shot isn’t going down, he’ll find away to get his points and get his team a win.

The Landlord isn’t half-bad, either.

Several experts have named him to their All-America first team and he was named first-team All-ACC Monday.

The NCAA Tournament is decided on the interior in each game’s final minutes and the referee’s whistles in their pockets. There’s no player in the country more perfect for that situation that Williams.

With the nation’s best inside-outside combination, featuring two of the best players in alb the land, Duke will be a force to be reckoned with.

team goes as Foye and Ray go. In Villanova’s three losses —at West Virginia, at Texas, and at Connecticut on Feb. 26 the duo shot a collective 29.9 percent from the field and turned the ball over 21 times. For the Wildcats to make it to Indianapolis, these two must be able to consistendy knock down shots to alleviate the lack of interior scoring.

Villanova is also helped by their depth—eight players average over 10 minutes per game. Senior Jason Fraser, a 2002 McDonald’s All-American, has been plagued by injuries throughout his disappointing career. Still, few teams have a big man as talented as Fraser coming off the bench. Freshmen Dante Cunningham and Shane Clark also offer valuable size at the forward position.

When it all comes down to it, no team in America has guards as athletic and talented as Villanova. Consistent perimeter play as well as an underrated post presence is why the Wildcats will be cutting down the nets April 3 in Indianapolis.

UCONN from page 26 games back, Williams, who led the Big East in assists his sophomore season, has racked up 152 dimes while only turning the ball over 67 times. The junior’s speed and court vision have made UConn one of the most dangerous transition teams in the nation.

In addition to their dominance in the paint, excellent ball handling, slashing forwards, tremendous depth and a coach that has won two National Championships, the Huskies can also shoot the three ball.

Senior Rashad Anderson comes off the

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The Huskies have all the pieces to win their third championship since 1999. No team in the country can match their skill and depth and Calhoun has proved tough to coach against in the tournament, winning both his trips to the Final Four while besting Mike Krzyzewski each time.

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to include an improved 15-foot jumper and more finesse around the basket—it’s the defense that elevates him to All-American status.

Still, a player’s offensive impact can be easily measured, although his defensive contributions are more difficult to quantify. The media doesn’t glamorize blocks and steals the way it does dunks and threes.

“A lot of people can’t really relate to playing defense but everybody can relate to shooting a basketball,” Williams said.

“Of course, it’s going to be more glorified for a shooter to be well known and recognized than a defensive player.

That’s just how it goes.”

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said he has not seen a player that possesses Williams’ shot-blocking ability in his 26 years of coaching in the ACC. And Krzyzewski has repeatedly said Williams is just as important to Duke’s defense as Redick is to the offense.

Williams is leading the Blue Devils in steals and has increased his block averages from a year ago. For his efforts, the senior collected the ACC Defensive Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year, and he could repeat as National Defensive Player of the Year.

“He’s a beautiful shot-blocker,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s one of the best ever to play in college basketball, and he’s not this 7-foot center or not this leaping athlete. He has this tremendous sense of timing and he can block with both hands. And he personifies verticality, your space.”

Rather than stealing the headlines when he broke Duke’s career blocks record, however, Williams’ accomplishment was a mere footnote. His chase of Mike Gminski’s rebounding mark has

been a secondary story line with Williams currently 52 boards away from the record.

Instead, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said his star forward has recendy received publicity for all the wrong reason —for his propensity to block shots without being called for what some in the media have perceived to be blatant fouls.

“The only thing in the last month that’s been celebrated about Shelden is him committing fouls,” Krzyzewski said.

Williams’ 17-point, 16-rebound performance against Florida State Feb. 4 was overshadowed by a controversial double technical involving Williams and the Seminoles’ Alexander Johnson. Although the ACC later suspended the officiating crew for assessing Johnson with an unwarranted technical, the game set off a firestorm of criticism after Duke attempted 32 more free throws than Florida State did in the overtime win at Cameron.

For the past month a debate has raged over possible preferential treatment from referees, and Krzyzewski said Williams has become the poster child for the movement.

“It’s unfortunate that it happened for us,” Williams said. “To be displayed in that manner has been kind of hurtful for our basketball team, but it’s something that we have to fight through.”

For Williams, whether he’s drawing the media’s eye for fouls or playing a secondary role to Redick, his focus on the team’s ultimate goal has been unwavering and he knows that winning a National Championship will bring plenty of press to vault him into his NBA career.

“It’s the tendency when you have two stars on the team, but I don’t think anybody’s gotten upset,” Melchionni said of Williams being overshadowed. “JJ. certainly deserves every accolade he gets, and Shelden deserves every accolade he gets. I think that’s the type of team dynamic you need to have to win.”

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DOCKERY from page 10 place where people understood him “It’s different, and it’s tough—that was

Krzyzewski’s legendary ability to form relationships with his players helped break down the barrier, but not without help from the man that Dockery calls his big brother.

Dockery said. “My mother and father—that’s me, that’s my passion that’s my everything.”

At an inner-city school like Dockery’s Julian High School, the temptation to do any-

thing but attend class and study was strong. my first time feeling like I couldn’t do this, Dockery said he recalled classes in which all but five students I couldn’t be here,” were absent. The Dockery said. “They graduation rate at just said, ‘You can “I talked to my father about do good things, you Julian is only 62 perit, and he said, This is a great cent, and in 2002can graduate—no 2003, less than 25 one in this area ever step—you’ve got a chance to percent of students graduated—and met standard readyou could be a role prove someone wrong.’ And ing levels. model to kids.’ that’s what did four I my years In that environof kind “I ment, Dockery needthought about it—I here, every year just proving ed guidance to make could do that. So someone wrong.” sure he persevered. that me gave Loren Jackson, strength right Sean Dockery there Dockery’s coach at Julian, made sure his Since that night, star guard attended hasn’t Dockery looked back. He’s improved as a player—- class. And Dockery’s parents emphasized the tangible reason for their son to do his best. moving into the starting line-up as a junior—and is on pace to graduate with a de“They just raised me the right way,” Dockery said. “They showed me that gree in African American Studies. through basketball I could go to school—l could be successful in life.

Sources of strength On the inside of his right wrist, just below “They were just role models, being there, his palm, Dockery has one of his several tat- being strict and guiding me all the way.” toos. Isaiah 46:4 is inked above a cross, and the names of his parents, Sherry and Steve, Big brother When he got to Duke, the freshman’s appear alongside.

Isaiah 46:4 reads, “Even to your old age previous role models were 800 miles away and gray hairs, I am he, he who will sustain in Chicago. Into their place stepped you. I have made you and I will carry you; I Krzyzewsld, a larger-than-life figure for a 19-year old that had dreamed of going to will sustain you and I will rescue you.”

The tattoo—which Dockery got during Duke since the fourth grade.

“Seeing Coach K was like meeting the his junior year—serves as a constant reminder for him to love and cherish his parpresident—[Sean] didn’t know his attitude or anything like that,” Steve Dockery said. ents, who not only convinced him to stay at Duke, but who helped him avoid trouble “He was just star-struck seeing Coach K on TV all the time, and now he’s your coach so long enough to make it there.

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Dockery came to Duke needing help relating to Krzyzewski and adjusting to the new culture of college life. Duhon, who had spent two seasons living at Duke and playing for Coach K, became Dockery’s mentor.

“I say he’s like my big brother—if Ido anything bad or anything stupid, he’s going to be the first to let me know,” Dockery said. “He told me how to come at Coach and how to approach him.”

Duhon has since moved on to the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, but the two still talk almost every day. Duhon has always pushed his former teammate to take more shots.

Dockery said Duhon’s counseling has been instrumental in his transition from a freshman who scored less than four points per game to the senior who takes—and makes—some ofDuke’s biggest shots.

Along the way, Dockery’s relationship with Krzyzewski blossomed.

“I love Sean,” Krzyzewski said. “I don’t think any kid has ever loved me more or listened to me any better. He has accepted anything that would be good for the team without flinching. Coming from his background and some of the opportunities that he missed out on—whether it be educationally or whatever—he has worked hard to where he is going to graduate on time.”

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happy Just to be at Duke talking to him.

The implication was that Dockery knew how easy it could have been for him to be in a much worse place.

Four years later, Dockery has reached a place that his freshman-year detractors said he never would. He’s on pace to graduate; he’s starting for one of the best teams in the country; and Krzyzewski said he’s the best teammate he’s ever coached.

‘You come in here worrying that people think you’re coming here just for the game of basketball,” Dockery said. “I talked to my father about it, and he said, ‘This is a great step—you’ve got a chance to prove someone wrong.’ And that’s what I did my four years here—every year just proving someone wrong.

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