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Men's lacrosse team faces rape allegations Community members speak out against reported incident. University's response by

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More than 250 protesters attended two demonstrations Saturday night and Sunday morning in front of the residence where three members of the men’s lacrosse team allegedly raped a local woman.

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Organizers at the candlelight vigil and the “wake-up call” at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., said the demonstrations were

acts of support for the black

exotic dancer, who was allegedly raped, sodomized and strangled by three white members of the team. Both protests —which attracted Duke faculty, students and employees, as well as concerned citizens and neighbors—moved to 1103 Urban St., a second house rented by members of the lacrosse team. Residents never emerged from either of the houses during Saturday’s or Sunday’s demonstration. “The students need to realize they live in a community, and people are going to talk back if they do something, or potentially do something, that is disrespectful to women,” said Faulkner Fox, a visiting instructor in the English department and one of the organizers of the candlelight vigil. Vigil participants lined the sidewalks, holding signs that

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In the wake of allegations that members of the men’s lacrosse team gang-raped, sodomized and strangled a dancer at a March 13 party, Duke is facing community outrage and national media attention. Forty-six of 47 teammates were DNA-tested by police Thursday. A Durham Police Department spokesperson said the results of the tests will be known by Monday. President Richard Brodhead said in a statement that not all of the 46 members who were

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tested attended the party. Some community members are calling the situation “the perfect storm”—a heated convergence of issues related to race, class and town-gown relations. The alleged victim is a black exotic dancer who is enrolled in classes at North Carolina Central University; she told police that her attackers are white. In a search warrant issued March 16 for 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., the site of the alleged assault, police wrote that the woman reported that three men were involved in the alleged offense.

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reported incident as first-degree forcible rape, common law robbery, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree sexual offense and felonious strangulation. No charges had been filed as of Sunday night, a Durham Police Department spokesperson said. The players, however, have denied the accusations, Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said. Hundreds of community members protested the alleged incident at three different events SEE LACROSSE ON PAGE 8

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—Treating people who sneak across the to be deported. —Allowing foreigners to stay in the country legally as custodians, dish washers, construction workers and other low-paid employees. —Allowing those Working in the United States a path to citizenship. —Requiring them to get in line behind border as felons

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WASHINGTON Founded by immigrants and praised as a haven for the oppressed, the United States now is struggling to decide the fate of as many as 12 million people living in the country illegally. The Senate takes up the debate on the heels of weekend rallies that drew hundreds of thousands of people protesting attempts to toughen laws against immigrants. Among the ideas that President George W. Bush and members ofCongress are considering: —Erecting a fence on the Mexico border to deter illegal immigration.

everyone else in their home countries who want to become Americans. The Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the issue Monday, and Bush headlines a naturalization ceremony for 30 new citizens at Constitution Hall.- Demonstrations are planned near the Capitol, including a

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prayer service with immigration advocates and clergy who plan to wear handcuffs to demonstrate the criminalization of immigration violations. Bush is going to Mexico this week for a meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday it is important that Mexico “recognize the importance of defense of the borders and ofAmerican laws.” Protests raged across the country over the weekend, led by more than 500,000 people who marched through downtown Los Angeles Saturday in one of the largest

Police found 30 more victims of the sectarian slaughter ravaging Iraq—most of them beheaded—dumped on a village road north of Baghdad Sunday. At least 16 other Iraqis were killed in a U.S.-backed raid in a >hiite neighborhood of the capital.

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Christian convert's case dismissed by Daniel Cooney THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL, Afghanistan A court dismissed the case Sunday against an Afghan man facing possible execution for converting from Islam to Christianity, officials said, paving the way for his release. The move eased pressure from the West but raised the dilemma of protecting Abdul Rahman after his release as Islamic clerics have called for him to be killed. One official said freedom might come as soon as Monday for Rahman, who became a Christian in the 1990 while working for an aid group in neighboring Pakistan.

Muslim extremists, who have demanded death for Rahman as an apostate for rejecting Islam, warned the decision would touch off protests across this religiously conservative country. Some clerics previously vowed to incite Afghans to kill Rahman if he was let go. Rahman was moved to Kabul’s notorious high-security Policharki prison Friday after inmates at a jail in central Kabul threatened him, said Policharki’s warden, Gen. Shahmir Amirpur. Authorities have barredjoumalists from seeing Rahman. But Sunday, officials gaveThe Associated

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Press an exclusive tour of Policharki, which houses some 2,000 inmates, including about 350 Taliban and al Qaeda militants. Amirpur said Rahman had been asking guards for a Bible but they had none to give him. “He looks very calm. But he keeps saying he is hearing voices,” Amirpur said. Rahman was in solitary confinement in a tiny concrete cell next to a senior prison guard’s office. The Associated Press was shown the cell door, but barred from speaking with or otherwise communicating SEE CONVERT ON PAGE 11

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Contenders for DSG VP roles discuss priorities Jetley, Soni vie for academic affairs position Eric Bishop THE CHRONICLE

Between them, the two candidates in the race for vice president of academic affairs have lived in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and South Africa. As Thursday’s Duke Student Government elections approach, sophomore Mark Jelley and junior Jimmy Soni will

compete for the chance to draw on their diverse backgrounds and improve undergraduate academics on campus. The candidates share a number of views. Both see the position as a channel between students, faculty members and administrators, and both hope to tackle longstanding issues like course evaluations and undergraduate research. They differ, however, in their specific

policy goals. Jelley said he would focus on three key initiatives: continuing DSG’s progress on course evaluations, improving advising for students and encouraging undergraduate research. “I’d love to see a

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where upperclassmen speak to underclassmen about what they can expect from certain majors,” he explained. Jelley also said he wants to centralize Mark Jelley

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Melton, Snider hope to lead ACS Committee by

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The two contenders for the 2006-2007 vice president of athletics and campus services are goal-oriented. If elected to the Duke Student Government executive position Thursday, sophomore David Melton and junior David Snider said they plan to turn abstract plans into concrete realities—a sense ofinnova-

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tion that both candidates said has been recent years. The vice president of athletics and campus services oversees safety, transit, parking, dining, facilities and athletics on campus. The student’srole within the organization is to collaborate with Duke administrators in order to find probable solutions to inefficiencies in those areas of the University. Melton is currently a disciplinary advisor for the Office of Judicial Affairs, a member of Duke Emergency Medical Services and a member of the First-Year Advisory Council Board. “An important component of this office is communication between the students and the administration,” Melton said. “I have many contacts with the Duke administrators and with the Duke Police Department from the diversity of positions I have held.” He plans to focus more intensely on

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Charles Buell Reddy, 22, was found deceased off Main Street, across from Duke's campus, Friday morning.

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A 22-year-old Durham resident was found dead Friday morning in the woods across Main Street from East Campus. Charles Buell Reddy was discovered at 9 a.m. by a passerby who saw the top half of a body protruding from a ditch in the ground. Reddy was the son of Bill Reddy, William T. Laprade professor of history and professor of cultural anthropology and Donna Slawson Kuniholm, a visiting lecturer. He was also the stepson ofIsabel Reddy and Bruce Kuniholm, director of the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy. “They discovered him sitting in a hole,” Corporal David Addison of the Durham Police Department said. “It was a naturally occurring pocket. There was no mound of dirt. It was like he stepped into it and stopped there.” Although the exact cause of death will

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a full autopsy, Addison said the police do not suspect the case is a homicide. “We didn’t see any marks, bruises or abrasions, or any indicators that foul play was involved,” he explained. DPS temporarily closed off two lanes of Main Street in front of the West Duke Building and restricted access to the wooded area where Reddy’s body was found. An RV that serves as DPD’s mobile SEE REDDY ON PAGE 9

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A sophomore who fell 40 feet while cave climbing in Arizona will not return to Duke this semester, his father said Sunday. Although David Shipman suffered little physical injury from his accident during Spring Break, he was afflicfed with extensive amnesia, which left him with little memory of life before his fall. Since his release from the hospital, Shipman has been recovering at his family’s home in Sierra Vista, Ariz. “It’s a needed rest,” said Gregory Shipman, the boy’s father. Recalling little from his former life, Shipman has pored over photos and correspondences in an attempt to jar his memory. Shipman’s father, however, explained that his son is moving on to other activities, such as reading and drawing. “There are only so many photos to look at,” he said. The elder Shipman said doctors are continuing to look for the specific injury behind his son’s memory loss but are unsure of when they will be able to make a final diagnosis. Roberto Cabeza, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Duke, said the fact that Shipman retains his language and motor skills, even though he is unable to remember most events from his life, is very typical. “Usually, this type of damage doesn’t impair the ability to learn skills, such as riding a bicycle or speaking,” Cabeza said. The time it takes to recover from a loss of episodic memory—memory of events varies between individuals, Cabeza said. Back at Duke, Shipman’s friends say they are doing thejr best to support him —

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Sophomore David Shipman fell while climbing over spring break. He will not be returning to Duke this year. as he attempts to recover his memories. “We’re putting together a box of things to help him remember,” said freshman Rebecca Porter. Along with Maria WojakowsId, also a freshman, Porter took photos of Shipman’s room, the Bryan Center, the Duke Chapel and other key spots on campus to aid Shipman’s recovery. Shipman’s friends said they understood the need for an extended convalescence at home. “I want him to take as much time as he needs to get back,” Wo-

jakowski said. “We just hope he gets back soon because we miss him like crazy.” Although Shipman’s father explained that his son was recovering well at home, he dismissed the possibility of a quick return. “At this point, David doesn’t even remember being a Duke student,” he said. “We can’t really ask him to go back to Duke.” David Shipman was unavailable for

For the first time in the history of the Duke Summer Reading program, the book selection committee is seeking feedback to aid in the process of picking the Class of 2010 summer reading book. In an online survey, which began March 21, members of the Duke community can submit comments on the four finalists: King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild, My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. The committee will meet to make the final decision at the end of the week. “These four, through the whole process, emerged as the ones that everyone wanted to keep on the table,” said Ryan Lombardi, assistant dean of students and director of orientation. “We just want additional insight on our selections.” Since November, the 12 members on the book selection committee, which consists of students, faculty and staff, have narrowed down the choices from the 70 books that were nominated initially. In years past, the committee would make the final decision without any extra input. Although the committee will not use the results of the survey as a vote, the committee will take the feedback

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Class learns lessons at local drug, alcohol rehab center by

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Many students would think there is nothing exceptional about a weekend at Duke that includes a few games of Beirut in section or a Long Island iced tea at Shooters. But for the residents of the Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers, a substance abuse recovery program housed on several campuses in Durham, a single drink is the first step in a downward spiral of addiction. This past Saturday, students in the psychology class “Alcohol: Brain, Individual and Society” visited the therapeutic community to get a first-hand look at the reality of addiction.

Amir Rezvani, associate research professor of psychiatry, has been using visits to TROSA as an educational resource for 10 years. “In class, we talk about theories of addiction, but here, students can put a face on addiction,” Rezvani said. “It’s an amaz-

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Students were greeted by staff members who are also former addicts and graduates of the TROSA program. “Almost everyone that you see working here is not a staff member,” said tour guide Ashley, who wanted his last name and the last names of others involved in TROSA to SEE TROSA ON PAGE 12

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During his March 24 probable cause hearing, Mohammed Taheri-azar quietly read the Koran. Only weeks earlier, around noon March 3, the alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill drove a rented silver Jeep Grand Cherokee through the Pit, a popular gathering spot at UNC. He struck nine people. At the hearing, Judge Joe Buckner found probable cause for 18 felony charges against Taheri-azar. The charges included nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, five counts of

assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and four counts ofassault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. . A police investigator read the typed letter written to the police by Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old native of Iran, at the hearing in Orange County District Court. In the letter, he admitted he wanted to shoot people rather than run over them with the Jeep. “I would instead use a handgun to murder the citizens and residents of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but the process of receiving a permit for a handgun in this city is highly restrictive and

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of my reach at present, most likely due to my foreign nationality,” Taheriazar’s letter read. District Attorney Jim Woodall called six witnesses during the hearing: UNC freshman Alex Slater, who was hit by the car; UNC senior Bernard Holloway; UNC sophomore Brian Seymour; UNC freshman Jennifer Beilis, who witnessed the incident; Ross Barbee, the patrol officer who first responded; and Matthew Dodson, the investigating officer from the university’s Department of Public Safety. After the two-hour hearing, the driver’s older sister, Laila Taheri-azar, read a statement on behalf of the family. out

She was crying while she told reporters her brother has always been a “kind, gende and pure soul,” who loved animals, fishing, camping and race cars. Laila Taheri-azar wore her brother’s class ring and told reporters he was dedicated to his studies and applying to graduate schools. The letter he wrote, however, stated that Taheri-azar was not interested in academia. “I do not wish to pursue my career as a student any further, because I have no desire to amass the impermanent and temporary fame and material wealth that SEE TAHERI-AZAR ON PAGE 13

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this weekend. A candlelight vigil Saturday night and a “wake-up call” Sunday morning originated at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., and progressed to nearby student- and administrator-occupied houses. The University bought the Buchanan residence, along with 14other properties offEast Campus, in late February in response to a long history of disruptive parties and behavior. Administrators also forced the No. 2 men’s lacrosse team to forfeit its games against Georgetown University Saturday and Mount St. Mary’s College Tuesday because of known actions at the party, which included hiring two dancers and permitting underage drinking—actions to which members of the team have admitted. “The judgment of the team members to host and participate in this event is inconsistent with the values of Duke Athletics and Duke University and is unacceptable,” Alieva said in a statement. Severalmembers of the team declined to cortiment on the situation. John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said Sunday that he has not talked directly to the players, but he noted that there are “two very different versions of what went on at the party.” “My understanding is that some people who have talked to the players have suggested it would be very much

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read “Real men don’t protect rapists,” chanting “shame” in front of one of the lacrosse team’s houses and singing, “This Little Light of Mine.” During the vigil, the Buchanan Boulevard house was seemingly empty, with lights off and shades drawn. Participants then moved to the Urban Street residence. Several said that within minutes of their arrival, lights were shut off. They added that they saw figures move behind the drawn blinds. Some of the vigil participants said the only adequate response to the alleged assault was to expel every student at the party. Others called for Duke to start the eviction process for the three lacrosse captains that live at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. Freshman Jamie Bell said at the vigil she was appalled by the alleged actions. “This is an example ofhow some in the Duke community do not respect Durham,” she said. “They think they are above the law.” At Sunday morning’s demonstration, protesters pounded pots and pans in front of the lacrosse team’s residences, as well as Provost Peter Lange’s house on Markham Avenue. The demonstration was intended to be both a “wake-up call” to raise awareness about sexual assault and a sign of support for the alleged victim. Protesters, who ranged in age from infants to the eld-

in their advantage to get their side of the story out in one way or another,” Burness said. Brodhead released a statement Saturday urging individuals “to cooperate to the fullest with the police inquiry while we wait to leant the truth.” “Physical coercion and sexual assault are unacceptable in any setting and have no place at Duke,” Brodhead said. “The criminal allegations against three members of our men’s lacrosse team, if verified, will warrant very serious penalties.” Parents of some members of the team met with University representatives Saturday afternoon. “The meeting was about keeping the parents informed and focusing on the consequences for theirkids and the way we will proceed pending the conclusion of the investigation,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. He added that the parents were frightened and nervous for their children. According to the search warrant, two women made an appointment to dance for a group of men at the house March 13. Once they started dancing, shordy after 11:30 p.m., the men became “excited and aggressive.” “We started to cry,” the alleged victim said in an interview with The News & Observer. “We were so scared.” Alcohol was involved in the incident, according to a University press release. “The victim and her fellow dancer decided to leave because they were concerned about their safety,” the warrant stated. Thanks to Our Sponsors Rosati Fund Bassett Fund English Department Baldwin Scholars Program SOFC Campus Council LGBT Center University and Cultural Fund The Gothic Bookshop

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erly, banged on trash bins, water jugs and empty beer cans. One protester used a sled and a half-full champagne bottle. “There is a sense that Duke students need to be protected from Durham, but rapes are happening off East Campus at the hands of Duke students,” said Manju Rajendran, an organizer of the event. “We are here to break the silence around sexual assault and violence.” Signs read ‘You can’t rape and run” and “It’s Sunday morning, time to confess.” The protesters left the signs on the front steps of the Buchanan Boulevard residence. The crowd yelled, “Where are their parents?” and called for the lacrosse team’s head coach Mike Pressler to be fired. Some wanted the University to force the group to testify. The protesters then moved to Lange’s residence. After about 10 minutes of loud demonstration, the provost came outside wearing a Duke hat and T-shirt. Lange answered questions about the alleged incident and the University’s reaction. He was often interrupted by people who disagreed with his statements, which included those about the honor code and of the University’s decision to await the results of the police investigation before making any official judicial actions. “We obviously have a difference of opinion,” Lange said. “No large institution behaves in the way the community always wants it to.” The protest ended at the Urban Street residence about two and a half hours after it began. When the dancers were getting into their vehicle, neighbors said they heard party-goers yell racial slurs at the women. One of the suspects allegedly apologized and convinced the pair to come back inside—shortly thereafter, the two women were separated. Two men then allegedly pulled the woman into a bathroom, where three men sexually assaulted her for approximately 30 minutes, according to the warrant. The woman left the residence early March 14. Police

declined to comment about the other dancer. The Chronicle does not identify victims of sex crimes. The three men in question are not being named because no charges have been filed. Jennie Fant, a resident of 711 Watts St., and library assistant in the Gross Chemistry Building, said she thinks she heard someone batting a ball for an hour against the wall of the Buchanan Boulevard residence the night of the party. “I don’t know if it was to cover.the noise,” Fant said She added that she called 911 probably at about 11 p.m. or 12 a.m. with a noise complaint. “I’ve been tempted to call the police and ask what happened that night,” Fant said. “I can’t help but think I might have prevented it.” Sgt. M.D. Gottlieb, a member of DPD 2 Investigations, said March 20 that residents of the house have been cooperative with DPD in locating any suspects. The Herald-Sun reported Saturday, however, that the lacrosse players were initially uncooperative with investigators after the search warrant was issued. The police issued a “non-testimonial” order, which gave police the right to threaten legal action if an individual would not cooperate in the process of gathering evidence. Forty six of the 47 members of the team reported to the Durham Police Crime Lab to be interviewed, photographed and DNA-tested Thursday afternoon. The one remaining teammate was ruled out as a suspect because he is black, and the alleged victim identified the perpetrators as white men. The DNA tests were sent to a state crime lab with a letter from Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong to expedite the results. The March 16 search warrant specified “items to be seized” from the residence, including any DNA evidence available. Police collected laptop computers, cameras, cell phones, a bath rug, five fingernails, a bottle of KY Jelly and $l6O of $4OO allegedly stolen from the victim, among other things. The game against Georgetown was cancelled at 11 a.m. Saturday, said Georgetown Assistant Coach Scott Urick. Several community members staged a protest in front ofKoskinen Stadium at 1 p.m. and condemned Duke for not cancelling the game earlier. Provost Peter Lange said the status of team’s season will be decided in the coming days, as the police continue their investigation. “If the University investigates, it could in fact somehow affect the ability to pursue the criminal investigation,” he said Sunday to protesters. Lange added that if the allegations prove to be false, he would support not canceling the season solely because of the under-age drinking and dancers at the party. He said the University would take appropriate judicial actions with the players if they are found to be guilty. Greg Beaton and David Graham contributed to this story.

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substation was parked in front of the area where officers were working, blocking the view of the crime scene. Covered in a brown blanket, Reddy’s body was carried out from the woods on a stretcher at approximately 12:45 p.m. and put into a police van. The police found evidence at the scene of the crime that allowed them to identify the body, Addison said. Family members confirmed the identification. Reddy was reported missing to the DPD March 17 but contacted his mother March 20, Addison said. No one saw Reddy after that time, he added. Homemade missing person signs with Reddy’s picture and family contact information were posted around campus over the past week. According to a missing person posting on the National Alliance on Mental Illness website, Reddy suffered from a disorganized form of schizophrenia. A statement released by the University on behalf of Reddy’s family stated that “Charles had been struggling with mental illness for the past few years.” “Family members are grateful for the expressions of sympathy they have received, and ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult time,” the statement also read.

His platform also focuses on strengthening Duke’s relationship with Durham by working to increase business for offcampus eateries, expanding circulation of local newspapers on campus and reaching out to the community. As the third prong of his program, Storrs hopes to utilize DSG to enhance

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Duke’s social scene and boost attendance for athletics. In a guest commentary in The Chronicle last June, Storrs proposed several solutions to halt rising student tuition—including reforming the dining plan and urging the University to set a precedent against annual tuition increases. “Duke seems to think it’s all right to increase tuition every year by five percent because that’s what the Ivy League does,” Storrs explained. “If we can break away from that cartel of elite schools, then Duke’s future would be great even if it’s slighdy painful in the short run.” As for dining, Storrs thinks that the key to improvement is to eliminate mandatory meal plans after freshman year. “The food point monopoly stifles competition,” he noted. “Without mandatory plans, business in Durham would increase, competition in on-campus eateries would increase and food quality and service would improve.” Storrs added that the mandatory meal plans encourage students to spend money

extravagantly.

‘We as students spend so much each year, and Duke sucks up so much of it,” he said, adding that if the Durham community benefitted more from the money, the city would be a better place to live. Aside from economic concerns,

Storrs also emphasizes increasing the number of spaces on West Campus—such as fifth floor McClendon Tower and the Intramural Building—to house student parties. Storrs said he would stay in touch with students through weekly office hours when constituents’ could voice their concerns. “I want to broadcast all the DSC meetings on Cable 13 and over the Internet,” he added. “It’s a good way for students to hold the elected people accountable.” A born and bred Blue Devil, Storrs grew up in Greensboro, N.C. In his spare time, Storrs enjoys hunting, fishing and playing squash. He calls himself a “political junkie” because ofhis interest in political literature and news. Storrs is an active member of the Duke in Durham Watershed Initiative and served as Chronicleer for the off-campus fraternity Delta Phi Alpha—formerly

Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Senior Ryan Turner, former vice president of Delta Phi Alpha, said Storrs is a dedicated and dependable leader. “Thomas has directed many social and philanthropic projects for our group,” Turner said. “I know that he’ll bring the same creativity, vision and candor to DSG.” Senior Sara Oliver, publicity chair of the Engineering Student Government, said she is certain Storrs is the person for the job. “Storrs is one of the most approachable people I have ever met, and when you talk to him you know he is listening to you and not just filtering through for his own agenda,” Oliver said. “He has the appropriate balance of sincerity and strongness necessary to take things seriously and get things done.”

THOMAS STORRS Change role of DSG president —Should be advocate for students —Become more accessible to students by broadcasting meetings on Cable 13 and holding regular office hours ,

REDDY from page 3

Strengthen town-gown relations —Expand circulation of local newspapers —lncrease business for off-campus eateries

Slow the rate of increasing costs —Eliminate mandatory meal plans after freshman year —Stand up to the administrators to try and halt annual tuition increase Improve on-campus social life —Open up new venues, such as the fifth floor of McClendon Tower

and the Intramural Building, for house parties

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai. President George W. Bush and others insisted

with him A senior guard said inmates and many guards had not been told ofRahman’s identity because offears they might attack him. But Amirpur vouched for the prisoner’s safety. “We are watching him constantly. This is a very sensitive case so he needs

high security.”

The case set off an outcry in the United States and other nations that helped oust the hard-line Taliban regime in late 2001 and provide aid and military support for

OSG: ACS from page 3 programs like Safeßides, ensure cost-effective management of Transportation and Parking Services, compromise with members of the administration regarding tailgates and rapidly integrate the new student plaza into undergraduate life. With the growing emphasis on safety in “admissions marketing,” Melton said he believes the administration will support his goals of expanding the blue light system, adding more speed bumps and lighting on and near Central Campus. “I bring a much-needed, motivated and energetic vision for campus safety, and want to produce real change—not small superficial changes that do not alter people’s lives in any way,” Melton said. Snider noted that he exposed the overcharging of air conditioning units by Residence Life and Housing as a sophomore. In response, RLHS decreased the rates for the 2004-2005 school year. “The key to finding success is finding inefficiencies in the system,” Snider said.

Afghanistan protect personal beliefs. A Supreme Court spokesperson, Abdul Wakil Omeri, said the case had been dismissed because of “problems with the prosecutors’ evidence.” He said several of Rahman’s relatives testified he is mentally unstable and prosecutors have to “decide if he is mentally fit to stand trial.” Another Afghan official closely involved with the case told The AP the court ruled there was insufficient evidence and returned the case to prosecutors for further investigation. But he said Rahman would Snider has acted as a DSG senator on the Athletics and Campus Services Committee for the past two years. He is also a member of the University’s Parking and Transportation Advisory Committee and the Central

Campus Strategic Planning Group. Snider was responsible for the allocation of funds for the purchase of six 42-

inch plasma screen televisions in Wilson Gym, increasing the number of red zone parking spaces for students and contesting, and ultimately overturning, more than $1,200 in student parking tickets. During the 2006-2007 school year, Snider said he wants to create a task force with students and administrators to improve Edens Quadrangle facilities, add an ATM in Keohane Quadrangle, play an active role in the planning of Central Campus and create an online event space database for students with information on occupancy and reserving. “I have never believed that a meeting alone could get things done. I achieve results by finding resources, finding inefficiencies that need to be fixed, calling people, and emailing,” Snider said. “There is a lot of footwork involved with producing results.”

be released in the meantime “The court dismissed today the case against Abdul Rahman for a lack of information and a lot of legal gaps in the case,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly comment on the case. “The decision about his release will be taken possibly tomorrow,” the official added. “They don’t have to keep him in jail while the attorney general is looking into the case.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who said she had not received official confirmation from Afghan authorities, told

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Fox News the announcement was “a very good step forward.” She said on CNN’s “Late Edition” that the U.S. government had stressed to Karzai that religious freedom is a vital element of democracy. “We’re going to stand firm for the principle that religious freedom and freedom of religious conscience need to be upheld, and we are hoping for a favorable resolution in this case,” Rice said. The uproar left Karzai in an awkward position. While trying to address concerns of foreign supporters, he also has sought not to alienate religious conservatives who wield considerable influence in Afghanistan.

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ting additional credit for it,” Soni said. The two candidates also bring a diver-

the application process for undergraduate research. In addition, he would extend the fall semester reading period, an initiative he is already working on as a current senator on the DSG Academic Affairs Committee. Soni’s platform emphasizes an independent course evaluation system, greater facilitation of undergraduate research opportunities and better access to academic resources. As academic affairs vice president, Soni said he would secure carrell space in Perkins Library for undergraduates, create a test bank—a collection of exams from different courses gathered over the years—for students and promote existing opportunities like the student conference travel fund. He also wants to ensure that students receive more credit for time-consuming lab classes. “It’s an absolute travesty that some students attend class, literally, three or four times more than I do, but they’re not get-

sity of experiences to the table. “One of the biggest things I bring is the continuation of the great work [the Academic Affairs Committee] has been doing this year,” said Jelley, who has been a member of DSC since last fall. “I’m familiar with the issues and I’ve talked to the administrators, so I know what needs to be done from here.” Jelley also recently founded Student Faculty Forum, an organization that brings students and faculty members together for casual dinners. Like Jelley, Soni, a Chronicle columnist, has experience in forming a campus organization. He is co-founder of the Duke Political Union, a group dedicated to fostering political discourse on campus. In addition, Soni has served as a campus leader on the Honor Council and the Academic Integrity Council. “I come to this position with over two years of experience working with the people and organizations involved,” Soni said.

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TROSA from page 5 remain confidential. “Who’s really running the place? The residents are.” Ashley, a former cocaine addict and a graduate of TROSA, explained how the program helped him in recovery and how it continues to help its 450 current residents through vocational training, education, peer counseling and aftercare. Although the program is free, residents are required to work six days a week in one of TROSA’s several on-site businesses, which vary from a moving company to a frame shop. TROSA also encourages participants to explore educational options. “We have a huge GED program,” Ashley said. “Some residents even take classes at Durham Tech.” But the real education at TROSA comes in the form of life skills that help participants deal with their addictions. “I look at it as away to build up tolerance for everyday life,” said Selena, a former heroin addict and graduate of the program. Students got a chance to interact with residents one-on-one in interview sessions that allowed them to hear personal stories ofaddiction and recovery. Dorothy, a crack-cocaine addict who has been in the program for 20 months, candidly discussed her personal struggles. “When I came here I was 105 pounds, and I didn’t have any teeth,” she said. “My children asked me to come, and some-

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demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S. history. Marchers also took to the streets in Phoenix, Milwaukee, Dallas and Columbus, Ohio. The president, working hand-in-hand with the business community that relies on cheap labor, is pressuring Congress to allow immigrants to stay in the country legally if they take a job that Americans are unwilling to do. Judiciary Chair Aden Specter, R-Pa., also supports the idea and has vowed that his committee will advance a bill to the full Senate Monday, even if they have to work “very, very late into the night.” “If they’re prepared to work to become American citizens in the long line traditionally of immigrants who have helped make this country, we can have both a nation of laws and a welcoming nation of workers who do some very, very important jobs for our economy,” Specter said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, RTenn., has said that whether or not a bill gets out of the Judiciary Committee, he is opening two weeks of debate on the issue

thing just clicked. I needed to get well.” Despite the gritty stories, several students said they were touched by the program and its participants. “I think it’s really impressive that people who were so messed up when they first came here are now completely functional,” sophomore Mia Bolling said. “I think it really speaks to the success of the program.” Although many students had never heard of TROSA before, the University has played a role in the program since its inception in 1994. Currently, Duke medical professionals voluntarily provide healthcare on Wednesday evenings, and students tutor residents on a regular basis. ‘You guys can get involved and make a difference in people’s lives,” said Ty, another TROSA graduate. “Lives are being changed here on a daily basis.” Although students were encouraged by TROSA staff to get involved in the program, they were also warned that nobody is immune to the dangers of addiction. “A drug addict could be sitting next to you,- and you’d never know it,” Ashley said. “It’s like your friend who goes out and parties like a rock star on the weekends and then throws himselfinto classes and exams during the week. All that is is a functioning addict.” Rezvani said he hopes that his students will walk away with, if nothing else, a memorable experience. “I think the two things these students will remember about Duke is basketball and this,” he said. Tuesday. He has offered a plan that would tighten borders, add Border Patrol agents and punish employers who hire illegal immigrants because he says the most important concern is improving national security in an age of terrorism. His bill sidesteps the question of temporary work permits, but he has said he’s open to the idea. Democrats have said they will do everything they can to block Frist’s bill. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said Sunday that legislation creating tougher enforcement does not do enough. “We have spent $2O billion on chains and fences and border guards and dogs in the southern border over the last 10 years,” Kennedy said on “Face the Nation” on CBS. “And it doesn’t work. What we need is a comprehensive approach. I think President Bush understands it.” Where Kennedy and Bush differ is on the question of what to do with foreigners who are already living and working in the United States. Kennedy and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., have a bill that would allow those immigrants to apply for citizenship once they pay taxes and a fine and learn English.

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one suffered a head injury that required four or five stitches. Another victim had a broken ankle. Taheri-azar drove over one victim’s hand, breaking this world has to offer,” the letter read. “However, I her finger. She also sustained bruising on her legs. made the decision to continue my studies and graduDuke seniorBilal Aijazi, vice president of the Muslim ate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Students Association, said the incident has been conHill so that the world will demned by local and national know that Allah’s servants Muslim associations. are very intelligent “The justifications that he “[I wanted] to take the lives of as In his interview with Dodis using are really placing a lot son, Taheri-azar said he had many Americans and American of blame on religion, as opbeen planning the attack for posed to the individual,” Aijazi I in as can order to sympadiizers several months and hoped explained. “There has been a to succeed in killing people. the United States.” lot of fallout. We are trying to According to the letter, distance ourselves from this —Mohammed Taheri-azar individual.” he wanted “to take the lives of as many Americans and Taheri-azar was not a memAmerican sympathizers as I ber of the UNC Muslim Stucan in order to punish the United States for their imdents Association. moral actions around the world.” “He was a member of the community in that he is Dodson testified that four victims received minor Muslim, but nothing beyond that,” Aijazi said. bruises or scrapes. Two others had broken arms, and Woodall said the case will now go before a grand jury. ”

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Holding our breath

of press time, no members of the men’s lacrosse team were yet charged with crimes or misdemeanors of any kind—a reminder that in this free country of ours, people

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few weeks, it’s important to consider why the team may be keeping silent. There were many people at the party—an undisputed fact—and those people were in many different states of intoxica-

Yet so many figures in the hubbub surrounding the alleged gang-rape—the reported victim a stripper, single mother of two and a black North Carolina Central University student—presume the players’ guilt as fact. This was the underlying theme of the protests, the media maelstorm and the vigils held over the weekend. Throughout, the nationally ranked team kept its tacit demeanor. As the sordid events of March 13 unfold over the next

be perpetrators among the 47 men on the lacrosse roster, then the University must do all in its power to distance itself from these abominable alleged acts. to

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rooms. These simple facts ensure inconsistencies in allegory; hence, reasons why the team is keeping mum in the short term. Until there is a clear and concise assessment of who was where—and who did what—there is reason

enough to keep quiet. Getting the story straight is the most important thing the team can do right now, because there will not be a second chance to do so. But when the events of that night fully come to light, when the DNA results come in

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other events related to the March 13 party have given the University, the community and the nation reason to doubt the team’s virtue. Neighbors on Buchanan overheard racial slurs shouted at the victim, hardly lending the scene an innocuous, college-party-gonewild air. While there are surely members of the team whose views are not bigoted and backward, the fact that such viewpoints were aired in an

abrasive and public fashion is an embarassment to those more reasoned and tolerant members of the team.

Furthermore, its an embarassment to the entire University. The cost is almost unfathomable town-gown relations could plummet to alltime lows, even after years of effort and service-based work to engender mutual trust and respect. The caricature of a Duke student as a spoiled-brat, hard-partying* Caucasian—hardly an accurate representation of the student body—is only further corroborated. And perhaps most troubling, the same weekend that hundreds of minority students flocked to campus to try on Duke for size is the same weekend that these racially tainted —

allegations emerged. The entire ordeal, regardless of whether or not players

are charged in the hours and days to come, reflects just as poorly on us as it does on our

region. To our peer schools up North and across the globe, we

are still mired in the Civil

Rights Movement. For a university supposedly espousing advanced thinking and open minds, we don’t seem to be walking the walk. From a public relations standpoint, yes, this is a disaster of monumerital proportions. But from a moral and ethical standpoint, the University cannot help break the fall of the perpetrators if their “alleged actions” become simply “their actions.” It is perhaps in our nature to be sympathetic to our own students. Yet to do anything less than draw a hard and fast line between the guiltyand the guiltless is to fail to accord these breaches of morality the true reprehension and condemnation they deserve.

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ontherecord We obviously have a difference of opinion. No large institution behaves in the way the community always wants it to. Provost Peter Lange to protesters that assembled on his lawn Sunday morning to deliver a “wake-up call” to the administrator and the men’s lacrosse team, members of which are accused of sexual assault. See story page 1.

Allegations are disturbing The entire Duke community should be ashamed and outraged by the alleged events that occurred at the lacrosse party March 13. Student athletes have the privilege of representing our University on and off the field, and if allegations of a gang-rape, robbery and assault are proven true, the Duke men’s lacrosse team has truly shamed our

a last-minute decision made in response to the protest that had been planned to take place at the Georgetown game this past Saturday. I sincerely hope that that protest will be rescheduled for the next home game that is played, and I will be in full support-of it. In the meantime, may the community respond with outrage and demand the highest level of

tegrity from the administration, the coaches and the players involved in the alleged incident. And may students come together next week, during Sexual Assault Prevention Week, to firmly state that we will not tolerate such behavior, nor will we associate with people who do.

Instead of appreciating our families, friends, intellects and the countless other trivialities we seek comfort and even find pride in, might we ought instead to be grateful for our very consciousness, the gloriousness of our everyday experiences? To see the blue in the sky, to feel the sun on the skin, even to succumb to the radiant flash from Carrie’s smile as she lit up the room. How do we experience life, the very act of living? The fundamental conscious experience, the perception of being itself, is both the most important aspect of our lives and the hardest to shift. Carrie should know; she certainly tried her hardest to move the immovable. And she wasn’t even alone. She had some of the best psychiatric and psychological help available and the unwavering support of the many, many close to her who loved her. In the end it wasn’t enough

because nothing could be enough. One can only do so much, one can only help so much, one can only be there so many times before the perfect storm strikes. In the end, and only in retrospect, all that could be done was done, and more. However, the absence of satisfactory answers to our questions may provide wisdom in their silence. Listening carefully, we might discover the positive lessons Carrie would surely want to leave with us: Help a neighbor, say a kind word to a stranger and attempt to empathize with the feelings and actions of others. And, most importantly, enjoy our own lives to the fullest with the utmost humbleness, gratefulness and amazement. Editor’s note: Travis Snyder, the author of this remembrance essay, is a first year medical student attending Touro University Nevada School of Osteopathic Medicine. He was a close friend of Carrie Largent’s and of the Largent family.

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making forfi game: but it seem this actio was taken in an effort the team’s rather, it appeared to be team two

Remembrance The death of Carrie Largent was a shock to us all. Carrie was an incredible person, and a great friend, whose memories I will cherish forever. I extend my utmost condolences to her amazing family and friends. But let us dispense with the übiquitous effervescence of description depicting the wonderfulness of our dearest Carrie and return to this initial shock and the questions proliferating from it. There are no easy explanations; as the priest said in his eulogy, sometimes it is best not to search for understanding, as the ‘reasons,’ if it is even accurate to call them ‘reasons,’ are above and beyond us. Here was a beautiful girl with a perfect family, a million caring friends, a brilliant mind, a caring heart, attending a prestigious medical school. Perhaps we are thankful for and see value in the wrong

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JACK BAUER’S BIDET is a man of superhuman strength and capability. Carver Moore, on the other hand, has two midterms and two term projects this week that has nothing to do with the quality of this column.

Genocide in Darfur? We are all complicit.

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we that the U.N. is a bureaucratic sham of crisis in the world.” But a pin on my an organization and that the high and backpack and attendance at a recent will be killed with our families. awareness session pathetically qualify me Philip Gourevitch may have been writ- mighty E.U. failed to intervene when ethnic cleansing was being as a leading activist on the issue. ing about the 1994 Rwancarried out in its own There has not been a single editoridan genocide, but the al, op-ed or even letter on Darfur on tide could just as easily be backyard. Thus, it is up to the The Chronicle’s editorial pages since applied to the coundess United States to prove its March of my junior year—and I am victims in Darfur, Sudan mettle as a beacon of about to graduate. With more than 400,000 freedom and actually Like the national media, we have been people dead and 2 million displaced, our generpromote human rights far too preoccupied with seemingly more abroad by coming to the ation is forced to admit adam yoffie aid of innocent for the first time in our united we stand Africans adult lives that genocide Ideally, I is transpiring in our midst and even worse, that we are doing would love to see the nascent African Union solve very little to terminate it. We all know this is genocide. Our own this problem on its own, but government even said so in September it is simply ill-equipped 2004, more than 16 months ago, and yet mission of this magnitud one day down the line, still has done close to nothing. The entire world knows what is happening will be able to handle its once again—on the African continent manitarian crises, but and refuses —once again—to make any 7,000 troops cowed serious attempt to halt the calculated Khartoum is woefully insufficient slaughter of an entire people. During President From a political standpoint, I admit that I am a strict interventionist. I even George W. Bush’s first believe that with the support of the interyear in the White House, national community, sufficient troops wrote in the margins of and a plan for the aftermath, we could port on the Rwandan g< , such as the Duke Obsrvr. have and should have invaded Iraq in “Not on my watch.” It is the next six months, I ig to students at D order topple one of the worst dictators university ibt that you will hear more of the modem era. But this is not and across the nation, to ma )t Debra Lafave, the 24should not be a partisan issue—-just ask president live up to hi :ar-old bottle-blond Florida word. Senator Sam Brownback or New York \cher who had sex with her I have to admit that Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. In the 14-year-old student, than you case of Darfur, a U.S.-led NATO force of like the vast majority of the stuclose nothabout the government-sponsored will dents have done to at Duke, I ground troops is the world’s only hope, “the humanitarian death squads terrorizing Darfur. But the fact to halt ing greatest when consider you especially

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our own previous superficiality does not mean we are incapable ofrefocusing our efforts and beginning to devote ourselves to this dire situation. I am not saying no one has been doing ainything on campus. To the contrary, there is a small and committed coterie of students who have been obsessing over this issue for the better part of the last two years. But their efforts have waxed and waned during the past three semesters due to the lack of popular support from the rest of the student body. As the national advocacy movement gears up for the “Milices for Darfur” rally in WashingApril 30, Duke students must do mg within their power to raise iess and truly honor the principle of *

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ated at a Jewish parochial I have been learning about the aust since kindergarten. I visthe Yad Vashem memorial in rusalem when I was 7 years old and have read Elie Wiesel’s Night every other year since the eighth grade. But I will not be able to ? bring myself to commemorate Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) this year if I do not get involved in our campus’s burgeoning struggle to end genocide. I urge you to begin by visiting www.savedarfur.org and then to become a foot soldier in this epic battle against true evil.

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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. After leading by only eight points at halftime, top-seeded Duke blew out last season’s national runner-up Michigan State in the second half on the way to an 86-61 victory Sunday at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn. The top-seeded Blue Devils (29-3) used stifling defense and precise offensive execution to pull away from the Spartans (24-10) in a dominating second half. With the win, Duke advances to meet second-seeded Connecticut Tuesday night after the Huskies defeated Georgia 77-75 in a thrilling nightcap.

Senior MistieWilliams scored 13 points on 5-for-8 shooting to go along with five rebounds Sunday night against Michigan State.

For the Blue Devils, the shift in momentum began in the final seconds of the first half, when Waner hit her third three-pointer of the first 20 minutes to end a 7-0 Michigan State run and give Duke a 45-37 halftime advantage. “When Lindsey [Harding] penetrated, it drew a lot of attention,” Waner said. “She kicked it out and it was just an open shot. I think that anytime a team can score going into the locker room, it provides a lot of momentum.” The Blue Devils rode that momentum after the intermission, outscoring the Spartans 18-4 in the first seven minutes of the half to build a 63-41 lead. Duke exploited Michigan State’s matchup zone with superb high-low post execution and quick ball movement.

“I think it was an excellent balanced attack,” Spartan head coach Joanne McCallie said. “They looked to get it inside and out, and I think their high-low game was outstanding.” The Blue Devils outscored Michigan State 24-6 in the paint in the second halfand had 18 fast break points to the Spartans’ two during the game. Duke took full advantage of its depth, as eight players logged at least 17 minutes and six scored in double figures. Monique Currie led the team with 17 while Waner scored 14 in a reserve role. “I think [the bench] brought a lot of energy and we look to them to do that,” Currie said. “[Abby] was really confident in her shot and that’s what we need from her in this Tournament.” Harding added 10 points to go along with seven assists and six rebounds. As a team, Duke dished out 22 assists and only gave up 12 turnovers. Michigan State was smothered by the Duke defense in the second half and never mounted a serious challenge. The Spartans shot only 23 percent from the field after halftime, with as many turnovers—eight —as field goals. “We knew we needed to lock down on defense in the second half and we did,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I thought that was really the difference.” SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 11

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an important win for the Blue Devils, who now must prepare for their toughest stretch of the season—three consecutive games against top-10 competition. “Offensively we did a lot of good things and I felt like defensively when we stepped up and played to our ability we really did well,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. The two teams traded goals during the early part of the game, until the Commodores, led by Cara Giordano’s back-to-back scores, ran off three straight to take a 5-3 advantage with 14:27 remaining in the first half. The short run prompted Kimel to call a timeout so her team could regroup. “The two biggest things we talked about were the draw and we tightened up defensively,” Kimel said. “The kids responded to that. I thought they did a good job.” Thirty seconds later, Duke goalkeeper Megan Huether made a save on a low Vanderbilt shot, and the Blue Devils capitalized on the next possession. Katie Chrest made a no-look shot that caught Commodore goalie Brooke Shinaberry out of position. Over the next six minutes, Duke reeled off four more goals to gain an 8-5 advan-

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Kristen Waagbo was one offour Duke players to score three goals in the victory over Vanderbilt Sunday. tage, and the Blue Devils would never trail again. “We started to just push the ball and be a little bit more savvy on offensive transition,” Kristen Waagbo said. “We just tried to get some fast break goals because we knew that was one of their weak spots.” The Blue, Devils went into halftime with a 9-7 lead, having outshot their op-

ponent 18-14. After the break, Duke continued its aggressiveness on attack. Waagbo scored an unassisted goal from right in front of the cage less than three minutes into the half, and Leigh Jester followed that score with one of her own 32 seconds later. The junior rolled to the middle and fired a high shot into the net for an 11-7 margin.

and scoring on unsettled situations. By the time their 6-1 run was complete, the Blue Devils held a 15-8 lead with just less than 14 minutes to play in the contest. “That’s something that we do very well,” Kimel said of scoring in transition. “We had some great efforts in terms of creating turnovers in our ride, and I thought we did an awesome job of that and we capitalized off a lot of those turnovers, which was great.” Over the final 10 minutes, though, Duke turned the ball over and enabled Vanderbilt to score three unanswered goals. Although the seven-goal advantage that the Blue Devils had built was too much for the Commodores to overcome, Duke’s inability to close out its opponent is something it has struggled with throughout the season. “The reality is that some of the opponents we have coming up in our next stretch of three games are going to beat us on that stuff,” Kimel said. “We need to take a little bit more pride in our ballhandling and our end of the game and tight situations.” Waagbo, Jester, Chrest and Rachel Sanford each finished the game with three goals, and Huether tallied 10 saves. In the first half, Chrest became Duke’s all-time points leader when she passed Tricia Martin. She now has 239 career points. Over the next two weeks the Blue Devils will face 2005 NCAA runner-up Virginia, NCAA champion Northwestern and No. 10 Notre Dame.

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For the second straight weekend, Duke faced the first-place team in one of the ACC’s two baseball divisions, and for the second straight weekend the Blue Devils were swept in a'three-game series After falling to duke No. 14 Miami in FSU 15 Durham last weekend, Duke traveled to TallahasDUKE _L_ see, Fla. for a set FSU 12 with the topranked team in the country, Flori2 DUKE da State. The Blue FSU 7 Devils (8-21, 1-8 in the ACC) fell behind early in all three games and were never able to mount any serious comeback against the talented Seminoles (25-2, 8-1). “Our guys are disappointed with our result,” head coach Sean McNally said. “We played the No. 1 team in the country and played hard. We feel good about our effort and competed playing a team that was 25-2.” On the weekend, Duke was outscored 34-11. The Blue Devils lost 7-2 Friday, 12-4 Saturday and 15-5 Sunday. Duke has now lost eight games in a row. McNally said it was not one specific aspect of the game that caused his team to lose. He said hitting, fielding and pitching all contributed to the outcomes. “Overall we didn’t play well enough in any of the three stages of the game to beat a team like Florida State,” McNally said. “At this level you have to play well in every —

inning of every game.” The weekend got off to an auspicious beginning, with Florida State starter Bryan Henry throwing eight innings ofno-hit ball before Blue Devil left fielderDaniel Palmer led off the ninth inning with a single. Duke rallied to score two runs in the ninth, but it was not enough. The Seminoles had put unearned runs in the bottom of the second to go ahead, 5-0, and they did not look back as Henry went on to pitch his 12-strikeout gem. Duke’s starting pitcher, Danny Otero, allowed five runs—only one earned—in five innings Friday, dropping to 4-2 this year. Florida State jumped out quickly again Saturday. The Seminoles scored two runs in the first, and designated hitter Jack Rye smacked a three-run homer in the bottom of the second to put his team up, 5-1. Blue Devil catcher Matt Williams, who was 2-for-4 on the day, slapped an RBI single in the top of the third to close the deficit to two, but that is as close as Duke would get in the 42-4 loss. On Sunday, Florida State rode the momentum from a six-run first inning on its way to the 15-5 victory. Florida State center fielder Shane Robinson, last year’s National Player of the Year, reached on a two-base error to start the inning, and first-baseman Dennis Guinn homered to left to score the first two runs for the Seminoles. During all three games, Robinson reached base as FSU’s leadoff hitter and came around to score. “There are a lot of good hitters in this league, and he’s definitely one of them,” McNally said.

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At 7-7 in the second doubles match against Clemson Sunday, senior Ludovic Walter drilled a one-handed backhand that fell just inside the doubles line to give the Blue Devils a key break point. With one chance to capitalize, Walter chipped a crosscourt lob from the CLEMSON backhand side over the two opDUKE 5 posing volleyers to his team the give GATECH break. DUKE 6 Walter and sophomore partner Ned Samuelson held serve in the final game to clinch the doubles point, which led the Blue Devils (11-3, 3-0 in the ACC) to a 5-2 victory over the No. 10 Tigers (175, 2-3) Sunday. Consistent doubles play also gave Duke a dominant 6-1 win over No. 27 Georgia Tech (6-6, 0-4) Saturday. “It’s good to solidify doubles by getting up in singles,” head coach JayLapidus said. “We did a good job of that.” Against the Tigers, junior Peter Rodrigues, ranked 62nd nationally, won a baseline battle in the first set, 64. At 1-1 in the second, the lefty found himselfwith a break-point chance. His opponent sent a kick serve wide to his forehand, which he drove cross-court for an angle winner. Rodrigues did not give up any games the rest of the way to win the final set, 6-1, and provide Duke’s first singles win. Junior Joey Atas added to the 2-0 Blue Devil lead with a straight set win, 6-3, 6-3. His teammate Walter, the fifth-ranked player in the nation, trailed a break,4-5, in the top-singles contest against Sander Koning. “Luda started out a little slow,” Lapidus said. “He wasn’t moving well the first nine games, but his urgency picked up toward the end of the first set. He really got his confidence going in the second set.” Walter’s 7-5, 6-2 victory gave the Blue Devils their decisive fourth point and reason to relax, but freshman Kiril Dimitrov did not ease up. After dropping the first

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immediately turned the match around and cruised, 6-1, 6-1 in the next two sets. “He got a little more aggressive the last two sets,” Lapidus said. “The other guy was coming at him a little more early on. But after the first set, he started dictating points a little better.” No. 37 senior Jonathan Stokke was upset after holding a commanding 6-2, 30 lead against Clement Reix. At that point, there were some close calls that went against Stokke and Reix started playing much better, Lapidus said. Against Georgia Tech Saturday, two doubles matches were simultaneously in tiebreakers. But this time, it wasn’t No. 3 Walter and Samuelson who pulled out the first point.

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Atas andStokke, ranked 29th in the country, finished on top, 9-8 (4), in a tiebreaker. “It was good they came through,” Lapidus said. “I think that other team was very dangerous. They were very ex-

perienced.” The 1-0 lead over the Yellow Jackets

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ances. The five singles match victories were all won in straight sets. Duke lost at the sixth position on both days. Sophomore Alex Stone fell against Georgia Tech, and Stephen Amritraj dropped the point to Clemson. “We’ve just been rotating around, trying to give everybody a chance to participate and see who’s playing the best on a given day,” Lapidus said.

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From staff reports The women’s track and field team secured seven first-place finishes at the Wake Forest Open this weekend, the team’s first outdoor event, while the men’s squad earned two top-three marks. Junior Lindsay Owens’ 1:02.2 time in the 400Hmeter hurdles not only earned her first place at the meet, but also qualified her for the ECAC Championships in May. Kelly Reynolds also qualified for the ECAC with her win in the hammer throw, and Daina Pucurs and Beth Maher qualified with their one-two finish in the javelin. Three other competitors garnered individual titles for the women’s team. Freshman Kelly McCann won the 400meter run with her time of 58.9 seconds. Senior Allison Nesbitt captured the 100meter hurdles in 15.16. Freshman Jessica Davlin ran a time of 2:18.31 to take the 800-meter event. Junior Debra Vento placed second at the Raleigh Relays in the high jump Friday. Vento was the only Duke competitor at the N.C. State-hosted event. The men’s team produced several high finishes at the Wake Forest Open, despite not having an individual winner. Junior Brett Taylor placed second in the discus after throwing 45 feet, six inches, while Daniel King ran a 21.95 in the 200-meter race, good enough for third in the event. In addition, the men’s 4xloo relay captured seventh place with a time of 43.62. Friday in Winston-Salem, sophomore Tyler Clarke qualified for the IC4A in his first-career decathlon. Clark totaled 6,393 points, good enough for sixth in the event. Mark Dellavolpe also qualified for the IC4A in the javelin, as the sophomore threw 198 feet, eight inches, the secondbest throw in school history.

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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. The Blue Devils are firing on all cylinders. After limping into the NCAATournament with a loss to North Carolina at the end of the regular season and another defeat to Maryland in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, Duke has cruised through the first three rounds of the Big Dance to make an appearance in the Elite Eight for the seventh time in the past eight years. After easy wins over Southern and USC in the opening two rounds, the top-seeded Blue Devils trounced fourthseeded Michigan State by 25 points in the Sweet 16 Sunday night. game “We felt like we haven’t peaked at all this year and we knew that it was just due analysts time for us to reach our full potential, and I think we’re definitely on track to peak right now,” senior Monique Currie said. “What better time of the season than to do that when it’s the last run? I’m very proud of my team and the way we’re playing.” In the victory over the Spartans, Duke played stifling defense, and almost every Blue Devil helped out in the team’s offensive attack. Entering the game, Michigan State’s Liz Shimek led her team in scoring, averaging 17.9 points per contest. Against Duke however, the senior forward was limited to just five shots and five points in 35 minutes ofaction. “Shimek was one of our focuses this week preparing for MSU,” Currie said. “We know she’s their first or second leading scorer all-time and we know she’s really capable, so we really focused on double-teaming her whenever she got the ball and denying her whenever we can.” The Blue Devils also forced 17 Spartan turnovers and have now forced an average of 20 turnovers per game in the NCAA Tournament. With things under wraps at the defensive end, Duke continued its lethal and balanced offensive aittack. Six Blue Devils scored in double figures Sunday night with Currie leading the way with 17 in just 26 minutes. A testament to Duke’s depth, only point guard Lindsey Harding played more than 30 minutes in the contest and eight players saw more than 15 minutes in the game. “I think our bench is pretty productive, it’s probably as productive as any other team in the country,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It’s quality depth.” With its ability to substitute, the Blue Devils outran the Spartans all game. Duke had 18 fast break points compared to just two for Michigan State. In their half-court sets, the Spartans ran a zone against the Blue Devils and Duke responded well. Harding was proficient passing the ball into the low post for most of the game as Duke recorded 48 points in the paint. In a span of less than four minutes in the first half, the Blue Devils drilled three open three-pointers, which were made possible from assists by Harding and freshman Abby Waner. Just after entering the game, senior Jessica Foley got open on the left baseline and received a crisp pass from Harding. Foley calmly drained the three to give Duke a five-point lead. Foley hit the final trifecta of the spurt as well, giving Duke a commanding 11-point advantage that the Spartans never threatened. “We wanted to attack the baseline,” Goestenkors said. “They were running either a 2-3 or a 3-2 matchup [zone], and a lot of times they were in their 3-2 and when they were, we knew that the baselines were the weakness of that zone.... So we had our shooters set on the baseline, and our guards did a good Job of penetrating, drawing help, and skipping it to the baseline.” Still searching for that elusive NCAA Title, Goestenkors will take her team to the Elite Eight Tuesday night against second-seeded Connecticut in a game that will be played in the Huskies’ backyard. If her Blue Devils keep playing this well, however, they could easily negate the Huskies’ home-state advantage and roll into their fourth Final Four.

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ATLANTA With a trip to the Final Four at stake, LSU’s baby Tigers turned to the biggest Baby of all. Glen Davis found a clearing at the top of the arc, lifted his hefty body off the court and softly spun the ball toward the hoop. His only three-pointer of the NCAA Tournament hit nothing but net. The pordy but nimble player known as “Big Baby” scored 26 points, including the decisive shot in overtime, to leadLSU to itsfirst Final Four since 1986 with a 70-60 victory over Texas in the Adanta Regional final Saturday. “It’s called thinking without thinking,” he said. “The opportunity was there to make the shot. Most of the dme when I’m shooting threes, I’m thinking about it too much. I was just in rhythm, I felt it was a great shot and I made it.” Freshman Tyrus Thomas added 21 points and 13 rebounds. Like Davis, he’s a homegrown Tiger, raised practically in the shadow of the LSU campus. When the horn sounded, Davis marched to the front of the press table, faced the gold-and-purple-clad contingent and saluted. Then he let out a huge scream, pounded his massive chest and was mobbed by Thomas, who was named the region’s Most Outstanding Player. The final margin wasn’t indicative of a game that was close all the way. The lead changed hands 11 times, and there were seven ties. No one had a double-digit lead until the end. But No. 2 seed Texas (30-7), which was trying to become the first Division I school to win national tides in football and men’s basketball in the same academic year, fell apart in OT. The Longhorns were down seven by the time they got off their first shot of the extra period. Fourth-seeded LSU (27-8) turned to Davis —the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year—to finish off Texas. The 6-foot-9, 300-plus-pound sophomore does most of his work banging on the inside, but he stepped outside to make just his sixth three-pointer of the season. “He’s got such a feathery touch,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said. “He’s physical, but it’s his skill that really impresses you.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. Before rushing to cut down the nets, UCLA’s players and coaches stayed on the podium and led their fans in a popular school cheer. “UGLA! UGLA!” That’s right, the Bruins are back. College basketball’s most storied program is going to the Final Four again. Arron Afflalo, coach Ben Howland and the rest of the Bruins have returned UCLA to the lofty level ofits glory years. Afflalo scored 15 points and shut down Memphis leading scorer Rodney Carney, helping No. 2 seed UCLA defeat the top-seeded Tigers 50-45 Saturday and earn a trip to Indianapolis for its first Final Four appearance since the school’s 1995 NCAA championship. “This is special and this is a special group of guys,” UCLA senior Cedric Bozeman said. “We play defense. That’s what we do. We didn’t let them walk over us.” Ryan Hollins added 14 points, nine rebounds and drew two charges on defense as the cold-shooting Bruins won their 11th-

straight game to capture the Oakland Regional in the lowestscoring regional final since the shot-clock era began in 1986. UCLA (31-6) will play in next Saturday’s semifinals against LSU, a 70-60 overtime winner over Texas in the Atlanta Regional final earlier in the day. The Bruins have 11 national titles—more than any other school —10 under Hall ofFame coach John Wooden starting in the mid-19605. They are making their 16th Final Four appearance, tying North Carolina for the most ever. “I think our team embodies the spirit of what Coach [Wooden] is all about, which is teamwork, which is unselfish play, which is a commitment at both ends of the floor to play together,” Howland said. After the final buzzer Saturday, the ecstatic Bruins quickly pulled on new T-shirts and hats. Hollins cradled the regional’s Most Outstanding Player trophy with his right arm while Darren Collison climbed the ladder to be the first to clip the net. see ucla ON page 11

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year’s Final Four —certainly not top-seeded Connecticut. Buoyed by a partisan crowd and playing some 20 miles from their campus, llth-seeded George Mason overcame huge disadvantages in size, athleticism and history Sunday to stun the Huskies 86-84 in overtime, ending a stranglehold that big-time programs have enjoyed for 27 years in college basketball’s biggest showcase. Improbable as it may seem, the powers-that-be are going to have to STEVE DESLICH/REUTERS

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make room for a suburban commuter school from Fairfax, Va., that was a dicey choice to make the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team. “I was kidding with one ofmy assistants,” Larranaga said, “We’re not just an at-large team, we’re an at-extra-large. And if we win today, we’re going to be an at-extra-double-large. I can’t tell you how much fun I’m having.” The Patriots overcame their deficiencies with heart and tenacity. They were never raided, even when they trailed by 12 late in the first half and nine early in the second. They hit six straight three-pointers in the second half, shot 5-for-6 in overtime and outrebounded UConn 37-34 even though the Huskies have three starters taller than any of the Patriots’ frontcourt players. There was also motivation from Larranaga, who fired up his team during timeouts by telling them that UConn’s players didn’t even know which conference George Mason is in. “That’s a litde bit of disrespect,” guard Tony Skinn said. “Coach told us the CAA stands for ‘Connecticut Assassin Association.’” Of course, as more people are learning, CAA stands for Colonial Athletic Association, a league that has never had a team get this far before. The Patriots (27-7) are only the second double-digit seed to make the Final Four, matching LSU’s run, also as an 11th seed, in 1986. They are the first SEE G. MASON ON PAGE 10

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Sophomore Joakim Noah was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Minneapolis regional.

MINNEAPOLIS With Florida minutes away from the Final Four, Joakim Noah threw his head back, screamed and pounded his chest as if to announce the Gators’ arrival. Noah and his sophomore teammates dispatched the last No. 1 seed standing, and are suddenly heading to Indianapolis —perhaps as the favorite. The young, third-seeded Gators beat a steep learning curve with a 75-62 win over top-seeded Villanova in the Minneapolis Regional final Sunday, and are going to the Final Four a lot sooner than anyone could have thought. Noah had 21 points, a career-high 15 rebounds, five blocks and was selected Most Outstanding Player of the regional. Fellow sophomore A1 Horford added 12 points and 15 rebounds. “When you’re young and you don’t play in these situations, you just don’t know,” Noah said. “I think the more we play in these situations, the better we’re going to become.” Point guard Taurean Green scored 19 points for Florida

(31-6), which will face No. 11 seed George Mason next Saturday in the national semifinals. No. 2 seed UCLA plays No. 4 seed LSU in the other game. This marks the first time since the field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that no top-seeded team advanced to the Final Four —and the second time in tournament history. “We’re the Gator boys. The Gator boys are hot right now,” said Noah, whose father is 1983 French Open champion Yannick Noah. Villanova star Randy Foye fouled out with 28.9 seconds left and walked slowly to the bench to hug his coaches and teammates, as tears streamed down his face. He carried the Wildcats (28-5) for the second time in three days, without any help from fellow senior Allan Ray. “Like Randy said, this is going to hurt for a while,” said Ray, who had 11 points on 5-for-19 shooting. Foye had 25 points, but Lee Humphrey helped keep him from getting free behind the three-point line. Foye missed SEE FLORIDA ON PAGE 11

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Shelden Williams scored 23 points Thursday against LSU, but theBlue Devils' supporting cast struggled. Only five Blue Devils scored, and otherthanWilliams and JJ. Redick, the team shot 7-for-29 from the floor.

Blue Devils' offense sputters in Sweet 16 loss below its regular level Thursday. According to statistician Ken Pomeroy’s website, Duke ATLANTA During the under-12 averaged 117.8 points per 100 possessions minute television timeout Thursday for the entire season, with 100 points connight, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski sidered average. Thursday, the team’s rattold his team, which trailed 38-35, “We’re ing was 75 points per 100 possessions. LSD’s defense focused largely on JJ. going to win.” Over the next three-plus minutes, it ap- Redick, holding the nation’s second-leadpeared he was cor- ing scorer to just 11 points on 3-for-18 shooting. Duke’s role players were unable rect, as the Blue Devperspect s went on a 10-2 run to make the Tigers pay, as Shelden coming out of the Williams was the only other Blue Devil to timeout to take a five-point lead. But Duke reach double figures. “Our rule was, if we’re in doubt, demanaged just one field goal the rest of the game, a JJ. Redick three-pointer to give fender leave the screener and both ofyou run at Redick and. leave the other guy the top seed its last lead of the NCAA Tournament. The late-game struggles were open,” LSU head coach John Brady said. characteristic of the Blue Devils’ sluggish Just two minutes into the game, senior Sean Dockery passed up an open three offense throughout the game. “Plays down the stretch didn’t lose the with five seconds remaining on the shot game, our play throughout the game lost clock. Greg Paulus was forced to put up an the game,” DeMarcus Nelson said. air ball as the clock expired, and KrzyzewsThe numbers reflecting Duke’s offenki quickly substituted for Dockery, where sive performance —or lack thereof—- on the bench the coach implored his senthroughout the game are staggering. The ior guard not to be hesitant with his shot. team’s 54-point output was the lowest since Krzyzewski’s message seemed to get 1996, Krzyzewski’s first year back from an through to the team, as throughout the extended absence from the team. The second half, the Blue Devils’ perimeter Blue Devils had shot at least 40 percent in players did not hesitate to shoot open every game this season. Against LSU, Duke shots. Still, they went 2-for-14 from behind shot 28 percent, making only 7-of-33 shots the three-point line in the period. “I don’t think anyone on this team is in the second half. The team that led the nation in offenscared of anything,” freshman Josh sive efficiency for much of the year fell far Mcßoberts said. “We weren’t scared to lose, by

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it just kind of happened. We didn’t get shots to fall, I don’t think it had anything to do with people being too timid to shoot.” Many Duke players echoed the fact that they had decent opportunities, but just could not knock down open looks. ‘You’ve got to shoot your shots with chutzpa,” Lee Melchionni said. “I think our guys did that, but it’s just a tough place to shoot in the dome here, in the big arena, and they didn’t go down.” While the Blue Devil shooters were misfiring from the outside, LSD’s defense kept Duke from making up the difference inside. The Tigers recorded nine blocks, led by Tyrus Thomas’ five, and altered numerous other layups. “It’s the first team we played all year that could really block shots like that,” Krzyzewski said. “It wasn’t just their onthe-ball defense or off-the-ball. Their ability to block shots made us change some shots inside. And I don’t know if we ever adjusted to that.” Further hindering the Blue Devils’ offense was their inability to produce easy buckets off their defense, a problem that had been present all season. Duke used seven points off turnovers during a firsthalf stretch to cut LSD’s nine-point lead to two, but forced just five turnovers in the second half. Even when the Blue Devils did get out in transition, LSU was able to use its athleti-

cism to halt the break—and stop Duke’s run at a fourth National Championship. “At the very start of the game we had a couple of fast breaks, and we tried lobs and they blocked two lobs,” Krzyzewski said. “And we talked about that before the game. That if we get a fast break, don’t throw a lob, try to get something strong to the basket. Because one of the things they do is chase you down... LSU is a team that doesn’t give up on plays.”

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The 10th-ranked women’s tennis team beat Virginia Tech, 6-1, in Blacksburg Sunday, but suffered a disappointing 5-2 loss Saturday at 43rd-ranked Virginia. Saturday marked the first conference loss for the women’s team this year and the first loss to Virginia in 25 years. For underdog Virginia, it was the first win over a top-10 team in school history. The Blue Devils (10-3, 3-1 in the ACC) lost the doubles point for only the second time this season, dropping close matches in the top two doubles spots. Kristin Cargill [ 6 and Jessi Robinson were the only VATECH victorious doubles pair. “It was more the way we lost DUKE than the fact that we lost,” said VIRGINIA Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth, who added that the Blue Devils are a much more talented team than the Cavaliers. Both Robinson and freshman Melissa Mang captured singles points against Virginia but the Cavaliers took four singles matches to secure the victory. Mang attempted to set a winning pace for the Blue Devils when she quickly defeated her opponent to, tie the team score, 1-1. Nevertheless, Virginia took the next two singles points, as both Tara Iyer and Daniela Bercek fell in straight sets, giving Virginia a 3-1 lead. Duke’s three remaining matches on court had all dropped first sets to Virgiriia (8-5, 2-2). Robinson and Jackie Carleton both pushed their matches into a third set with Robinson eventually defeating her opponent. Cargill, however, was defeated in a second set tie-breaker at the No. 5 position, clinching the match for the Cavaliers. “We were out-hustled and out-scrapped,” Ashworth said. “We’ve lost matches before, but not in that way.” The loss motivated the team to come back strong Sunday, as they rolled over Virginia Tech, 6-1. After experimenting with some different doubles combinations in the past few matches and losing the doubles point Saturday, the Blue Devils returned to the pairings used for much of the early season against Virginia Tech (10-7, 0-5) Sunday. The move was a success as the team captured the lead early by taking all three doubles matches. Bercek and Robinson clinched the point at the No. 1 position and Cargill and Carleton followed shortly at the second spot. Mang, who played at the No. 3 singles position against Virginia, lost the only match of the day in the No. 2 spot when Anat Elazari of Virginia Tech was able to break her eight-match winning streak, defeating Mang 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Despite the loss, Ashworth said Mang has been playing good tennis all season and has been able to perform well at a number of different positions. The 122nd-rankedMang had captured her team-leading 20th win against Virginia. Freshman Iyer, playing in the No. 3 position against the Hokies, was the first off the court, handily defeating her opponent 6-3, 6-1. Jennifer Zika clinched the win for the Blue Devils at the No. 6 position. After losing her first set, 4-6, Zika bounced back to win the next two, 6-4, 6-3. Robinson was the only player to win both singles matches this weekend. After losing her first set Sunday, 6-4, she only gave up three more games, winning the next two sets, 6-2, 6-1, for her third straight singles win. The Blue Devils will face sixth-ranked Florida when they return to their home court Tuesday at 5 p.m.

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The Tigers led 59-52, and Texas never got closer than five the rest of the way. “When Glen hit the three, that was the turning point,” said Darrel Mitchell, the only senior in the youthful LSU lineup. Indeed, Davis’ nickname is most appropriate for this group, which includes three freshmen starters. Most of them have known each other since they were kids. They grew up together, went off to school together and now they’re heading to the Final Four together. “We’re like brothers,” Mitchell said. “Brotherhood and

togetherness.” LSU, which has never won a national title, will face

UCLA next Saturday in the national semifinals. In regulation, Davis hit a soft, turnaround jumperin the lane Just before the shot clock expired to give the Tigers a 52-49 lead with 1:04remaining. “Big Baby, he’s just a load down there,” said Texas forward Brad Buckman, who spent part of the game guarding Davis. “Some ofhis moves are incredible.” Texas tied it after a wild sequence that epitomized the frenetic pace of the game, which was sloppy at times but thrilling all the way. PJ. Tucker’s hook was blocked by Thomas, but Tucker chased the ball down in the corner. He passed off to Kenton Paulino, the hero of Thursday’s victory over West Virginia, but he missed a jumper. Two LSU players failed to corral the loose ball near midTIAN, QINZHENG/THE CHRONICLE court and Paulino got it back, only to have his jumper swatted away from behind by Garrett Temple. The ball went After dropping Duke Thursday, LSU reached the Final Four behind Texas’ way again—right to Daniel Gibson, who made the the effortsoffreshman Tyrus Thomas. tying three with 32 seconds left. LSU squandered three chances to win in regulation. matchup with Davis, making only 2-of-14 shots to finish Davis had a mental blunder, firing up a wild three off an in- with four points. bounds pass that didn’t hit anything. Thomas got the re“It’s tough when your big man can’t score,” Tucker bound, but his baseline jumper was blocked by LaMarcus said. “He just missed them, but he kept playing.” Gibson led the Longhorns with 15points and the unAldridge. The ball deflected off the back of the goal, giving the Tigers one more opportunity. heralded Buckman chipped in with 13. Paulino, who They swung the ball around to Temple, but his open beat West Virginia with a three-pointer, went 0-for-5 jumper from beyond the arc barely hit the rim before from outside the arc this time, settling for 10 points. time ran out. Overall, Texas made 21-of-69 from the field—a disLSU bounced right back from that disappointment. The mal 30.4 percent. Barnes creditedLSU’s defense, which Tigers won the jump and Tasmin Mitchell scored on a layin. limited top-seeded Duke to its lowest point total since Texas turned the ball over, and Temple scored off a double1996 in a 62-54 upset Thursday. The Tigers were equally stifling against the Longpumping banker from beneath the hoop. The Longhorns threw the ball away again, and Davis clinched it. horns. Texas, which dominated the lane in its buzzer-beating “They turned in an outstanding defensive effort,” win over the Mountaineers, faced a much more physical Barnes said, “both inside and out.” team in LSU. The Longhorns were outscored by an asWhen it was over, LSU gave the Georgia Dome a bit tonishing 38-10 in the lane and had only a slight edge on of Mardi Gras feel. Davis wrapped a feathery, gold boa the boards, 45-42. around his neck, grabbed a microphone and let out a Texas couldn’t overcome poor games by its two leading “Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaah!” that he hoped could be heard all scorers. Tucker was held to 10 points on 4-of-ll shooting. the way back in his home state, still recovering from Aldridge, a 6-10 center, was dominated in the head-to-head Hurricane Katrina.

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true outsider to crash the quartet since Penn and Indi-

ana State both got there in 1979. George Mason next plays No. 3 seed Florida in Saturday’s semifinals in Indianapolis. This marks the first time since the field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that no top-seeded team advanced to the Final Four, and the second time in tournament history. The Patriots’ at-large selection was roundly criticized by many, including CBS commentator Billy Packer. George Mason’s fans chanted Packer’s name in the postgame celebration. “I think it’s been working for us, calling us Cinderella,” Skinn said. “We were not supposed to get into the Tournament, we got into it. We were not supposed to beat Michigan State and we beat them. Weren’t supposed to beat North Carolina and we beat them. We definitely weren’t supposed to beat UConn. I think we’ll stick to the script going into whoever we play. We don’t mind being the Cinderella.” All five Mason starters finished in double figures. Jai Lewis had 20, and Lamar Buder and Will Thomas each scored 19. Larranaga’s team kept the same five players in the game from the 10:37 mark of regulation to the very end of overtime. Butler was chosen as the Most Outstanding Player of the regional, and he and his father were in tears as they hugged at length on the court after the game. “I feel so good, through my own sadness, for Jim Larranaga,” UConn head coach Jim Calhoun said. “Playing at that level is not easy. I can only imagine the feeling they must have on that campus, in that locker r00m.... It’s something they probably never imagined. We’ve imagined it, and we’ve done it. They could never have imagined it.” George Mason, having by far the best season in school history, had never won an NCAATournament game until it beat half of last year’s Final Four —Michigan State and No. 3 seed North Carolina—back-to-back in the first two rounds. Now it can say it has beaten the last two national champions—Connecticut and North Carolina. Rudy Gay scored 20, and Jeff Adrien had a career-high 17 points for Connecticut (304), which never could put together a complete game in the Tournament. The Huskies had to rally from double-digit second-half deficits to beat Albany and Washington and barely held off Kentucky. “They played tough and have a lot of heart,” Gay said. “That’s all that really matters when you play a game like this.” Folarin Campbell’s tough baseline fadeaway gave the Patriots an 84-80 lead in overtime, and UConn suddenly looked like a rattled underdog from a mid-major. Rashad Anderson tossed up an air ball three-point attempt that could have cut the lead to one, and Adrien missed l-of-2 free throws in the final 30 seconds. But Mason gave UConn a chance to win with poor free-throw shooting. Lewis missed three attempts in the final 15 seconds—the last two with 6.1 seconds to go giving the Huskies a final possession to tie or win. Denham Brown, who made the reverse layup at the regulation buzzer to send the game to overtime, was off the mark from the left wing with a potential game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer. UConn started 7-for-10 from the field, yet couldn’t pull away from the tenacious Patriots, who somehow managed to pull down and chase rebounds despite their height disadvantage. When the Huskies went cold, missing seven straight field goals, George Mason pulled even. The second of back-to-back steals by Skinn led to two free throws by Thomas that put the Patriots ahead 29-28, their only lead of the first half. But the Huskies responded with a 15-2 run. Their lead was 12 when George Mason got a boost just before halftime—Campbell’s three-point play with less than one second remaining cut the deficit to single digits, 4334, at the break. The Patriots pulled within one early in the second half with an 8-0 run. For the next six minutes, the teams punched and counter-punched, with neither leading by more than two until Skinn’s 3-pointer with five minutes to go put Mason ahead 67-63. Marcus Williams’ steal and three-point play cut Mason’s lead to 71-70 with 47 seconds remaining, and the Patriots went 2-of-5 from the foul line in the final minute to give UConn the chance to send the game to overtime on Brown’s buzzer-beating layup. But Mason didn’t wilt in the overtime, making Butler’s Final Four prediction come true, a prediction he brashly made when he was recruited to George Mason. “I think I was joking when I said that,” Butler said. “I started dreaming when I got to college. It shows you anything can happen.” —

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six of his eight three-pointers. “We’ve won games that way. We’ve shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense,” Villanova head coach Jay Wright said. “They were just too good.” This was Florida’s eighth straight trip to the Tournament under coach Billy Donovan, but so many of his previous teams—minus the national runner-up in 2000—failed to fulfill their postseason potential. This tight group of sophomores, led by the fiery, ponytailed Noah, vowed to change that after bonding during their first few weeks on campus. Despite a second-round loss in the Tournament last year to Villanova, the Gators are a nation-best 15-1 in March over the last two years. “They were unselfish,” Donovan said. “They wanted to win, wanted to learn. They wanted to work, and they wanted to get better.” Noah and Horford were too tough for the Wildcats to use much of the flashy, four-guard attack for which they are known. Foul trouble made it impossible in the second half, as Foye drew his third at the 18-minute mark, Kyle Lowry picked up his fourth with 14 minutes left and Ray’s third came soon after. A smooth, sweeping layup across the lane by Ray cut the Gators’ lead to 54-47 with seven and a half minutes to go. But after a foul by Will Sheridan, a timeout, and two more free throws by Noah, it was a nine-point edge for Florida. The cap came when Horford, slowly backing down with the ball in the post, spun and dropped an easypass on the baseline to a streaking Noah—who powered up and threw down a rim-bending dunk for a 66-54 lead with less than three and a halfminutes left. “I can’t say I’m surprised,” said Gators reserve forward Chris Richard. “We’ve been playing together a while and impressed a lot of people in the summer. I’m not going to pinch myself. You know, I’m not cocky, but I knew we had a great team.” Before that, every time the Gators opened up a healthy lead the Wildcats came right back.

UCLA from page 6 “At UCLA, no other banners but national championships go up,” Bruins point guard Jordan Farmar said. “We haven’t really done anything in the eyes of UCLA

and UCLA fans.” As both teams expected, this wasn’t nearly the highscoring game they played last time, when Memphis (334) won 88-80 behind 26 points from Shawne Williams in the semifinals of the Preseason NIT in November at New York’s Madison Square Garden. UCLA won despite going 4-for-17 in the second half and shooting 35 percent. “We never got going offensively but they didn’t either,” Farmar said. “I know I didn’t do anything special offensively, but I’m the happiest guy on the planet.” Memphis’ only field goal in the first 8:24 of the second half Saturday didn’t even go in the basket. Washington got credit for the points on a goaltending call. UCLA got this far by surviving close games, and this time by surviving serious free-throw woes. The Bruins, 20-of-39 at the line, pulled off an improbable 73-71 comeback win over Gonzaga in the third round after beating Alabama 62-59 in their second NCAA game. UCLA rallied from nine points down in the final 3:27 to beat the Zags. Memphis shot 2-for-17 on 3-pointers and Carney was held to five points on 2-for-12 shooting in his final college game. Afflalo swarmed Carney at every chance, only two days after defending national scoring leader Adam Morrison. The Pac-10 regular-season and tournament champion Bruins acknowledged they hadn’t seen a team as athletic as Memphis, then outplayed the Tigers all game. It was the first true test of the tournament for Memphis after three straight 16-point victories. Memphis coach John Calipari has produced 20-win seasons in each of his six years at the school but failed to become the 13th person to lead two or more schools to the Final Four. Calipari took Massachusetts to the Final Four in 1996. “That’s quite a somber locker room in there,” Calipari said. “They had visions of winning this whole thing. It’s not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it’s

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Duke held All-Big Ten selection and Michigan State’s all-time leading scorer Liz Shimek to only five points, 12 below her season average. The senior attempted only five shots from the field. “I think our post players did an excellent job denying [Shimek] the ball and trapping her when she did get the ball to make her force some uncomfortable shots,” Currie said. In the first half, Michigan State was able to answer all of Duke’s runs, cutting a 12-point deficit to five before Waner’s deflating three-pointer. The Spartans had previously fought back from seven points down to pull within two before the Blue Devils extended the lead again. Duke used hot three-point shooting to build the advantage, making six of its 11 shots from beyond the arc in the first half. The Blue Devils have now outscored their three tournament opponents by an average of almost 43 per game. “We made the decision we were going to work on the little things, we were going to get better, and that our best days were ahead of us,” Goestenkors said of the team’s attitude after the ACC Tournament. “Every game we just want to feel like we’re getting a little better and gaining a little momentum.”

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