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SHELL SHOCKED Terps overcome 13-point deficit to deny Duke title by

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BOSTON The Blue Devils were less than 10 seconds away from claiming the first National Championship in Duke women’s basketball history. Theyjust needed one defensive stop to hold on to their 70-67 advantage and start the celebration. But standing on the right wing just in front of the Maryland bench, /O Terrapin guard Kristi Toliver launched a deep Lml over three-pointer Duke’s Alison Bales. The nearly impossible shot swished through the net to knot the score at 70 and send the National Championship into overtime. The second-seeded Terrapins (34-4) rode their momentum through the extra period to take down the top-seeded Blue Devils, 78-75, and win their first National

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Duke (31-4) had led by as much as 13

during the game, but Maryland slowly chipped away, gaining confidence and shooting accuracy as the game progressed. “Early on we were the aggressor and I thought we did a great job,” Duke head

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Jessica Foley's last-second attempt to tiethe game fell harmlessly away, and Maryland celebrated its first-ever National Championship in women's basketball.

coach Gail Goestenkors said. “But as the game wore on, they became a little more comfortable, and when Toliver hit that SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 14

NAACP leader calls for solidarity, action in troubled times by

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Citing the alleged rape of a black woman by members of the men’s lacrosse team, the

Reverend William Barber preached about the need to speak up and act with “tenacity” during troubled times Tuesday night. Barber, the state conference president of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, released a statement hours earlier detailing 10 steps that he thinks should be taken in order to ensure “justice, integrity and healing” in the wake ofrecent accusations that three members of the men’s lacrosse team raped, choked and sodomized an exotic dancer March 13. “The current events and allegations surrounding the Duke lacrosse team and a twenty-seven-year-old African American student-mother taps into deep emotional and historical themes of our flawed society,” Barber said in the statement. The statement called for a more proactive approach on the part of the University. Barber encouraged the community to de-

nounce any code of silence, show compassion for the alleged victim and push forward, among other things. “We have been there when women have been victimized and the actions of the perpetrators were dismissed by suggestions that the victim herself deserved what happened to her or by statements like, ‘Boys will be boys,”’ he said in the statement. “How we proceed will have great impact on our ability to remain a community and meet the demands of justice.” Speaking from the pulpit of the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel, Barber, Divinity ’B9 and an adjunct professor, said the alleged incident brings to the forefront important issues of violence, racial degradation, alcohol and elitism at the University. “I want to spend a moment talking to you about trouble at the table,” Barber began. “Ain’t no need to run from it tonight. We can’t come here tonight and act like this is an ordinary night and an ordinary service.... There is a victim.” SEE NAACP ON PAGE 7

Rev.William Barber, the state NAACP president, leads a prayerand demonstration in front of the Chapel Tuesday.

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ingly approved a bill Tuesday that would make Massachusetts the first state to require thatall its citizens have some form of health insurance. The plan—approved just 24 hours after the final details were released—would use a combination of financial incentives and penalties to dramatically expand access to health care over the next three years and extend coverage to the state’s estimated 500,000 uninsured. If all goes as planned, poor people will be offered free or heavily subsidized cover-

age; those who can afford insurance but refuse to get it will face increasing tax penalties until they obtain coverage; and those already insured will see a modest drop in their premiums. The measure does not call for new taxes but would require businesses that do not offer insurance to pay a $295 annual fee per employee. The cost was put at $316 million in the first year, and more than a $1 billion by the third year, with much of that money coming from federal reimbursements and existing state spending, officials said. The House approved the bill on a 154-2 vote. The Senate endorsed it 37-0. A final procedural vote is needed in both

chambers of the Democratic-controlled legislature before the bill can head to the desk of Gov. Mitt Romney, a potential Republican candidate for president in 2008. Romney has expressed support for the measure but has not said whether he will sign it. “It’s only fitting that Massachusetts would set forward and produce the most comprehensive, all-encompassing health care reform bill in the country,” said House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, a Democrat. “Do we know whether this is perfect or not? No, because it’s never been done before.” The only other state to come close to SEE BILL ON PAGE 8

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqi authorities filed genocide charges against Saddam Hussein Tuesday, accusing the ousted ruler and six

others in a 1980 s crackdown that killed an estimated 100,000Kurds in northern Iraq. In alleging Saddam sought to exterminate the Kurds, the prosecutors are for the first time accusing him of the sort of farreaching crijnes that the George W. Bush administration has used to justify the war in Iraq. The former Iraqi president returns to court Wednesday in his current 6month-old trial, facing a possible death

killings of more than 140 Shiites. Defense lawyer Khamis al-Obeidi said Saddam plans to make a statement to the court. But that case involves a relatively small number of victims, and the scope of the allegation pales in comparison to the crackdown against the Kurds or the suppression of the Shiite uprising in south Iraq in 1991. Investigative judge Raid Juhi told reporters he submitted the new case against Saddam and the others to the Iraqi High Tribunal—a legal step that is the equivalent of an indictment under Iraqi law. His move paves the way for a second

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trial, which could begin any time after 45 days. Juhi said charges also include crimes

against humanity. Legal experts said the decision to accuse Saddam of genocide is controversial because the charge is difficult to prove. An interna-

tional convention following the Nazi Hologenocide as an effort “to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” The latest charges involve Saddam’s alleged role in Operation Anfal, the 1988military campaign launched in the final months of the war with Iran to crush independenceminded Kurdish militias. caust ofWorld War II defined

Justin Berry, who for five years starred in his own webcam child pornography business, told a House panel Tuesday that the Justice Department is moving too slowly to round up 1,500pedophiles whose information he surrendered last year.

Republicans to replace Delay Republicans hoping to fill the seat of former House Majority Leader Tom Delay stepped forward Tuesday as the 11-term lawmaker said he would resign, leaving the Texas district whose boundaries he drew.

Police clash with protesters Rioting youths swarmed across a downtown Paris pla?a, ripping up street signs and hurling stones and chunks of pavement at police at the end of the largest of massive but mostly peaceful protests Tuesday across France against a new jobs law.

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Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese refugee, speaks on the Chapel Quadrangle Tuesday afternoon.

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on the steps around him. “We thought the photos would provide a human face for the conflict—to kind of make it more real for people,” said junior Carly Knight, who helped organize the event through the Duke Human Rights Coalition. Deng is one of the well known “Lost Boys” of Sudan—orphaned or separated from their families during the Second Sudanese Civil War—who later relocated to the United States. Beginning in the early 1980s, thousands of young Sudanese boys fled their villages in the wake of systematic attacks from the government. Like thousands of others, Deng left his home and began a

In honor of Social Justice Week, ValentinoAchak Deng, a former refugee from Sudan, spoke Tuesday afternoon to campus and community members on his experiences in the war-torn country. Standing on the Chapel Quadrangle, Deng emphasized the challenges confronting his home country and the need for international support. “To someone like me, none of this is a Joke. It’s a reality, it’s a situation I was in,” Deng said. Several photographic posters, depicting the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, were arranged along the Chapel steps. The images framed the speaker as he spoke to the dozens of listeners gathering

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a crime lab. A pelvic exam is also conducted to gather other evidence, including hair and semen. “It’s a very invasive process and will generally take about four hours,” Helderman said. “But it’s the only way to really get the evidence.” The process can be physically painful for victims, she explained. “After having seen so many rape kits done I would say that most people would not go through the kit if they’re lying,” Helderman said. Any clothing from the victim is sent to a crime lab for fiber collection as well. “Any time at

While awaiting the results of testing done on DNA samples taken from 46 members of the men’s lacrosse team, District Attorney Michael Nifong told the media last week that negative test results do not always confirm innocence. Nifong also said that he would not release the results of the tests, which are expected back from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation in the next few weeks. The investigation of an alleged sexual assault begins objects two in the emergency room, come in con“It’s a very invasive process and where rape kits tact there can are collected will generally take four hours. be a transfer by specialized of fibers from But it’s the only way to really nurses, said one individual get the evidence.” Dina Helderanother,” to Dina Helderman, director of man, director said Ralph of community Kenton, execDCRC community outreach for outreach for utive director the Durham for the AmeriCrisis Recan Society of sponse Center. Crime Laboratory Directors. “However, “When someone is raped, their body this type of evidence is not as conclusive is the walking crime scene,” Helderman as DNA or fingerprint evidence.” explained. “They take known DNA, If a collected sample does contain which is the victim’s DNA, and collect DNA, the DNA can be extracted, amplified and compared to other samples. any samples of other DNA.” Physicians and nurses can determine Kenton said the current technology for whether there has been trauma to the DNA analysis is “very reliable.” body but they cannot usually determine “[But] there’s not always sufficient the cause of the trauma, said Dr. Thomas material to get a DNA profile because you may not have the right sample that Sporn, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology. would have an individual’s DNA in it,” “Other than instances in which someKenton said. one has been horribly mutilated, it’s very When comparing two samples to find difficult to tell if there’s been consensual a match for a known sample, the result is sex or rape,” he added. ‘You can’t necesnot always definitive. “You can provide several different scesarily... say beyond a reasonable doubt that a person has been sexually assaulted.” narios ranging from ‘there’s no DNA As a part of the rape kit, samples from found’ to ‘DNA found that’s a complete the mouth, anus, vagina and any visible match provided by one of the tested substains on clothing and skin are collected jects,’” Sporn said. “From a law enforceand smeared onto slides to be examined ment standpoint, it’s a matching game.”

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The American Diabetes Association has predicted that the number of adolescents with diabetes will double by 2060 despite the passionate efforts of doctors, researchers and engineers to improve treatments for the disease. Many of these adolescents will go on to college and have to face a whole other set of challenges related to the disease. They must respond to the explained. Because many campus dining bustle of college life, face the stigmas linked to the disease vendors do not provide nutriand prepare for ups and downs tion information due to concaused by fluctuating blood cerns about eating disorders, Arendt said his greatest chalsugar levels. Hanson, administrative lenge at Duke has been controlJean director of the Student Health ling his diet. “The transition was pretty Center and the wife of a longtime diabetic, said the stigma of drastic. It literally took my freshnot having “normal” health adds man year to adjust,” said Arendt, who was hospitalized at one greatly to challenges faced by students diagnosed with diabetes. point with unstable blood sugar Even students diagnosed with levels. “But, I’m a perfectionist. I embrace the task of dealing the disease long before freshman year said college life has [with diabetes].” Like Arendt, junior Brian served as the backdrop for the most difficult period in their lives, as far as coping with the SEE DIABETES ON PAGE 7

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undergraduate psychology major because the departments share a single director of undergraduate studies, and students take classes from faculty in both departments. Graduate students, however, will experience more of an impact. Because the graduate psychology program is highly specialized, students are currently re-

As part of the new Arts and Sciences strategic plan, the University hopes to recombine its two psychology departments. Though the unification is still tentative, officials said merging the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Department of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences will provide benefits “In the combined form, we befor faculty hiring and relieve they would be a more search, as well strategically effective departas offer more

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Barber emphasized the need to ameliostruggles various members of the community currently face before “seeking grace” and moving on. “We’re in the midst of a crisis. Not nobody, not even a dog deserves to be gangraped,” Barber said. “We don’t want to rush to judgement, but neither do we want

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a small part of his life. People with type 2 diabetes are advised to maintain regular exercise routines and careful diets to keep blood glucose levels in check. Breedlove said it is not difficult to locate healthy foods on campus. In addition, he said he finds no reason students should keep their disease a

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Barber noted that the alleged incident has raised a number of issues that are already forcing the community to strive for change. ‘Yes, there’s trouble at the table, but every day there’s something that gives us hope at the table,” Barber said from the pulpit. “This has bridged what hundreds of years hasn’t been able to bridge. We’re doing something here.” A graduate of North Carolina Central University, Barber said he has seen increased interaction and dialogue among his alma mater, Duke and Durham during past weeks. After the talk, which was held as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture Series, participants walked from Goodson Chapel to the Duke Chapel steps—an action that was in keeping with Barber’s earlier call for students and faculty at the Divinity School to not “hide behind these stained windows.” “I pray tonight that when we leave here, we won’t just leave,” Barber said. “Let’s go

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have a prayer, a consecration in front of the Chapel.” The group held hands and gathered in a circle in front of the Chapel. William Turner, associate professor of the practice of homiletics at the Divinity School, led the group in a prayer. “Forgive us for the divisions we have allowed to exist between us and the community,” Turner said. “Forgive us for not challenging attitudes of arrogance and pride,

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Arendt admits he was “curious” about how his first-year roommate would react to hearing about the disease, but he said he realizes the importance of giving his friends information about what to do in case of an emergency. David Lobach, associate professor of medicine, said in past years students with both types of diabetes have hurt themselves due to negligence in monitoring blood glucose levels. “Most students are pretty responsible in dealing with the disease,” Lobach said. “But there are plenty who ignore the longterm effects that the disease could potentially have.” Most students, however, tend to deal with the disease very successfully, he said. “At a school like Duke, students are often control freaks,” Lobach said. “Being in control is what the disease is all about.”

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members would be hired between the two departments within the next several years. If the departments unify, however, he said two additional positions would be made available, allowing the psychology department to gain 11 new faculty members. “We want to give them resources to be able to advance [their] agenda most effectively,” Lange said. The departments have functioned sep-

BILL from page 2 the Massachusetts plan is Maine, which passed a law in 2003 to dramatically expand health care. That plan relies largely on voluntary compliance. “What Massachusetts is doing, who they are covering, how they’re crafting it, especially the individual requirement, that’s all unique,” said Laura Tobler, a health policy analyst for the National Conference ofState Legislatures. The plan hinges in part on two key

$295-per-employee business and a so-called “individual mandate,” requiring every citizen who can afford it to obtain health insurance or face increasing tax penalties. Liberals typically support employer mandates, while conservatives generally back individual responsibility. “The novelty of what’s happened in this building is that instead of saying, 'Let’s do neither,’ leaders are saying, 'Let’s do both,’” saidjohn McDonough of sections; the assessment

arately since 1991, when they divided from a single department because of “professional issues and apparently some personal differences,” Strauman said.

Faculty and administration in both departments are currently working out the details and plans for reunification, Strauman added. After the departments’ internal deliberations and vote, the plan will be voted on by the Academic Council April 20. The final proposal must then be approved by the Board of Trustees in May, after which officials hope the new department will make its debut in the fall. Strauman noted that there is still much work to be done before the changes are

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Deng said the most important thing ordinary citizens can do to help those in Darfur and other war-torn regions is to contact their congressmen and emphasize the im-

portance of the issue. Yubo Gong, a junior who helped coordinate the event through the International Association, said he hopes the event will make more people realize the problems facing individuals in Sudan. “It’s an important situation to make people aware of,” Gong said. “I think [this event] is just a great way to reach out to the community in a more substantive way.” Deng is currently working with author Dave Eggers on a book highlighting his

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ofeveryday life and popular culture, photography, television, film, video, and the Internet; satellite, science, and medical imagery; advertising, industrial design, games, and comics; how vision is socially coded to inscribe race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and difference, dominate nature and animals, and organize the visual field-including surveillance-from shopping malls, museums, and sports events to both public and private spaces. This course also considers theories ofthe gaze, the spectacle, and scopic regimes. ARTHISTIOBD (Kristine Stiles ALP/CZJCCI) Some lectures include: Stanley Abe, Art History Visual Studies-. ‘The Spectacle of China’ Mark Antliff, Art History Visual Studies: ‘The Cultural Politics ofSpectacle: Rome under the Fascists’ Lee D. Baker, Cultural Anthropology: ‘Fabricating the Authentic: Anthropological Minstrelsy and the Image ofthe ReaT Anya Belkina, Visual Arts: ‘The Digital Visual’ Rachael Brady, Computer Science: ‘Elements of an Effective Scientific Visualization’ Caroline Bruzelius, Art History Visual Studies: ‘Seeing Sells Salvation’ Cathy Davidson, Vice-Provost, Interdisciplinary Studies: ‘The Futures of Thinking: Digital Media and Learning’ Sheila Dillon, Art History Visual Studies: ‘Violenceand Visual Culture in Ancient Rome’ Esther Gabara, Romance Studies: ‘Coloniality and the Visual: Picture the Americas’ Peter Lasch, Visual Arts: ‘The Poverty of the Visual’ Patricia heighten, Art History Visual Studies: ‘Visualizing Dissent: Modernism & Media’ Tim Lenoir, Information Science Information Studies: ‘How They Got Game: Visualizing Gaming’ Neil MeWilliam, Art History Visual Studies: ‘From Caricature to Comic Strip’ Mark Olson, John Hope Franklin Center. ‘Keepin’ It Real; Reality Television and Visual Culture’ Richard J. Powell, Art History Visual Studies: ‘Cultural History of Graphic Reproduction’ Tom Rankin, Centerfor Documentary Studies: ‘The SlipperyTruth of the Documentary Image’ Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Nasher Museum of Art: ‘Visualizing Museum Practices’ Kristine Stiles, Art History Visual Studies: ‘lmages from Cultures ofTrauma’ Hans Van Miegroet, Art History Visual Studies: ‘Copy Culture’ Priscilla Wald, English: ‘Visualizing Contagion: Emerging Infections in the Media’ Gennifer Weisenfeld, Art History Visual Studies: ‘Designing Visual Communication in Japan’

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mail. “I have known faculty and students from Duke over the years, had interns from Duke, and I have never ceased to be impressed by the education given and received.” member of the committee Wyngaarden is the former director of the National InSome of this year’s recipients have direct ties to Duke stitutes of Health and did extensive work as a faculty memor Durham. All of them have made significant strides in ber at Duke University Medical Center. He also served as their respective fields. chair ofDuke’s Department ofMedicine and associate vice Chu is a professor of physics at Stanford University and chancellor for health affairs. the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoConsidered to be a pioneer in the field ofcellular mery. He is a prominent figure in Stanford’s research initia- tabolism research, Wyngaarden is credited with clarifytives and has won many awards and honors for his work in ing the case of gout, leading to one of the best treatpolymer physics and biophysics. In 1997 he and two other ments for the illness. He has earned various awards and medals for his work. He received his medical degree physicists were awarded the Nobel Prize for the development ofmethods to “cool and trap atoms with laser light.” from the University of Michigan. Chu attended the University of Rochester, where he reDuke also usually awards an honorary degree to its ceived an A.B. degree in mathematics and a B.S. degree in commencement speaker. This year’s speaker—John physics. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Hope Franklin, world-renownedAfrican-American scholCalifornia at Berkeley. ar and James B. Duke professor emeritus of history—reLakes is a local leader who has gained national ac- ceived an honorary degree from Duke in 1998. He will claim. He founded Self-Help, a community development not receive a second degree this year because the Univerlender based in Durham that has provided more than sity does not award more than one honorary degree to $3.9 billion in financing to buyers, businesses and nonan individual. profit organizations across the country. He has won numerous awards and fellowships for his work, which addresses lending abuses and detrimental financial practices. As part of the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, Lakes’ organization also bought about 100 houses in Durham’s Walltown and West End neighborhoods to renovate. Eakes received A.B. degrees in philosophy and physics from Davidson College, a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University and a law degree from Yale University. Totenberg has worked at NPR since 1975. She has covered many of the nation’s primary legal issues, such as Justice Thurgood Marshall’s retirement and Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings. She has received honorsfor her work in broadcasting, explaining the ins and outs of the U.S. Supreme Court, and has been honored by the American Bar Association. Totenberg attended Boston University. “I am really thrilled to be getting an honorary degree from such a wonderful university,” Totenberg wrote in an e-

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Accentuate the Positive!

Artistic Imagination and Accomplishments Celebrate the Coming of Spring!

i-midnight Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium iSTIVAL OPENING ARTS GALA Icome by President Brodhead & Provost Lange. Student idings & performances featuring: The Pulsar Triyo, Pulsar Li Jazz Piano, Pegram Violin Ensemble, Jonathan Fisher, Pulsoptional Composer’s Collective, Ikee Gardner, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Rhythm and Blue, The Pitchforks, and Student Dancers. Dance with DJ afterward. Cash Bar; Free snacks & non-alcoholic beverages -

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2:50-4:2opm Branson Theater, East Campus OPEN REHEARSAL: Student-written plays

Noon The Ark Dance Studio, East Campus HAITIAN DANCE LEC-DEMO & Participatory Workshop, w/ Elizabeth Chin, Visiting Instructor. All are welcome—no experience necessary. Noon to spm Main West Quad (Cl & P Quads) (Rain sites: Page Auditorium & Bryan Center) MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES & JAZZ ON THE GREEN Noon: Patrick Phelan (voice and guitar, original songs) 12:30: Dance Slam high-energy dance 1:00: Defining Movement (Def Mo) Hip-Hop & Jazz Dance 1:30: Duke Djembe Ensemble, dir. by Bradley Simmons, w/ students & guest artists 2:00: Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble 2:45: Duke Jazz Ambassadors 3:45: Chris Boerner Quartet 4:45: John Brown Quintet •

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7pm Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center GLAMOUR Reel Moments short films by Dan Levinson, -

Career Center Fannie Mitchell Alumnus-in-Residence, followed by discussion

7:3opm Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus (ss) THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, a semi-staged concert version of Mozart’s famous opera sung in Italian by professional opera singers w/ English supratitles, w/ Duke Symphony Orchestra, Harry Davidson, music director Bpm Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center (ss) THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. Faculty member Jody McAuliffe directs a student cast. Opening Night.

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OPENING RECEPTIONS for three exhibitions: “Striking”; Documentary Work by Students/Alumni

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MEDIA TENT Student films from Program in Film/Video/Digital, student-produced music videos & docudramas. :

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6-dpm West Campus Quad Mainstage BATTLE OF THE BANDS (UNC & Duke) 7:30 & 9pm The Ark Dance Studio, East Campus ARK DANCES, featuring student dancers representing a spectrum of dance styles styles including: On Tap, Lasya Indian Dance, Dance Slam, Sabrosura, Chinese Folk Dance, Duke Dance Ensembles & more.

7:3opm Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus (ss) THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (see April 6) Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center (ss) THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (see April 6).

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2pm Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center (ss) THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (see April 6) Duke University Chapel (ss) MOZART’S GRAND MASS IN C MINOR, performed by the Duke Chorale, Duke Chapel Choir & soloists, w/ Orchestra Pro Cantores, conducted by Rodney Wynkoop.

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7:30 pm Rare Book Room, Perkins Library Reading; JAMES SALTER, Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer

DANCE SITE-INGS improvisatory dances by students in dance classes at various times & places around campus

Bpm Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Visitor Center at Anderson Street, Amphitheater. “MOVIES UNDER THE STARS,” outdoor films by Duke students & others. Bring a picnic! Beverages & snacks will be for sale.

BRIDGE-PAINTING Campus Drive bridge, by Leonardo Christov Moore

Bpm Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center {ss) THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. (See April 6) Bpm Page Auditorium (ss) TERENCE BLANCHARD SEXTET w/ the Duke Jazz Ensemble dir. by John V. Brown

EXHIBITION: “Local Color” Student Photography Center for Documentary Studies, 1317W. Pettigrew Porch Gallery thru May 15. -

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Freshman guard Abby Waner sits dejected in the Duke locker room after theBlue Devils' devastating defeat Tuesday night at the handsof theMaryland Terrapins in the National Championship game.

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BOSTON Duke was the by seniors. But Maryland’s underclassmen showed no fear leading the Terrapins to the program’s first National Championship Tuesday night. “We never really treated them as freshmen,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “From the minute they stepped on campus they didn’t act it or behave like it. They wanted the pressure, they wanted the expectations—they just played with so much confidence.” The Terrapins’ starting lineup features two freshmen and two sophomores along with junior guard Shay Doron. Only one senior, Charmaine Carr, saw action during the National Champiteam led

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BOSTON In a city famous for cursed sports teams, Duke could not exorcise its own postseason demons. Playing on the biggest stage in the sport, the Blue Devils game squandered a analysis 13-point sec. ond-half lead to a young and talented Maryland squad that edged Duke, 78-75, in the National Championship game. After the game, Terrapin head coach Brenda Frese said “Neither team deserved to lose this game,” and in some senses she was ab-

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three minutes. The underclassmen led the way. Point guard Kristi Toliver, a freshman, nailed a three-pointer with six seconds left to send the game into overtime. Fellow freshman Marissa Coleman’s two freethrows with 13 seconds to go in the extra period provided the Terrapins’ final three-point margin. And the Terps’ sophomores were not exacdy shown up by the freshmen. Forward Laura Harper was named the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player after scoring 16 points in the Championship game. And center Crystal Langous offensive threat, rebounded from a slow first half to score 12 SEE YOUTH ON PAGE 17

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Duke curse strikes 1 more time Just when it seemed like things couldn’t

get any worse for Duke athletics, the gods one more zinger the Blue Devils’ way. The women’s basketball team’s disastrous late-game meltdown in the NCAA Championship game Tuesday came after a torturous few weeks for Duke sports fans. The men’s basketball team fell in the Sweet 16, bringing the Blue Devils’ title hopes to a screeching halt. And Duke’s image has been scarred and its student body shaken by accusations that the men’s lacrosse team committed rape. The Lady Blue Devils had a chance to put Duke’s misery on hold last night. But just like they have in years past, the Blue Devils couldn’t win the big one. Gail Goestenkors has now made four unsuccessful trips to the Final Four and two to the championship game. With Duke’s gut-wrenching loss at the hands of Maryland, five Blue Devil teams with realistic NCAA Championship aspirations at the start of the year have now come up short. Besides the pair of basketball disappointments, men’s soccer, women’s cross country and women’s field hockey all opened their seasons with very good chances of winning the school’s eighdi national tide—and each inevitably failed. The soccer team, coming off a thrilling shootout victory over rival North Carolina in the ACC Championship, fell flat and lost its first game of the NCAAs to Creighton. The cross country team dominated the competition all season long and went into the NCAA Championships with an undefeated record and the nation’s top ranking. The Blue Devils even held a 56point advantage at the race’s halfway mark but were sluggish down the stretch and had to setde for bronze. After losing to Wake Forest two consent

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The Blue Devils had a last-second chance to win the game during regulation. But point guard Lindsey Harding’s 12-foot attempt from the right baseline bounced off the rim, and the Terrapins celebrated their second chance. Maryland had not lost an overtime game this season. The extra period was a scramble on both ends. After the two teams alternated scoring for the first four minutes of the period, Maryland forward Marissa Coleman fouled Bales to send the junior to the freethrow line with 47 seconds remaining. Bales made her first shot to give Duke a one-point lead, 75-74, but she hit the front of the rim on her second. The Blue Devils would not score again Tuesday night. Harding fouled Toliver with 34.2 remaining on the clock, marking the point guard’s fifth personal foul and sending her to the bench. Toliver made both her shots to put the Terps ahead, 76-75. After freshman Abby Waner missed a jump shot, Bales was forced to foul Coleman with 13.4 seconds remaining. The Maryland freshman made both herfree throws, pushing the margin to three. On Duke’s last chance to force a second overtime, Waner threw a bad crosscourt pass to senior Jessica Foley, who launched a three-point shot from the left wing. The ball slummed the front of the rim and fell short of its target as the final buzzer sound-

ed, cementing Maryland’s victory. The Terrapin team that won the game was not the same squad that the Blue Devils saw in the first half—Duke held a 10point advantage at the break. “Theyjust continued to gain more con-

fidence the longer they played with us, and they just cut into the lead,” Goestenkors said. “They were better in the second half. I think they became more comfortable. And they were just better, and they hit some tough shots, but they have been hitting those shots all year.” Maryland went on several runs in the second half as Duke’s defense gradually weakened. The Terrapins kept the game moving quickly and shot 53.3 percent from the field, compared to 32.3 percent in the first half. With less than 10 minutes to play in the second half, Coleman made two pull-up jumpers to cut Duke’s lead to three. The Blue Devils’ lead never grew to more than five points the rest of the game. “We didn’t really get the stops that we needed to maintain the lead that we had,” senior Monique Currie said. “And they just crept up on us and took the lead.” In the first half, Duke came out hard against the young Terrapins, capitalizing on the 13 turnovers it forced Maryland to make through high pressure and aggressive play. With 7:30 on the clock, Waner ran toward the Duke bench, stole a Shay Doran pass in midair and whipped the ball behind her back to Harding as her momentum carried her into the bench. Harding quickly drove down the right side of the court for a layup. The basket went in, and Jade Perry fouled Harding as she went up for the shot. Harding completed the threepoint play to bring the score to 27-15. But not all of Duke’s shots fell—the Blue Devils were 2-for-6 from beyond the arc and fumbled several attempts from underneath the basket. “We were so excited coming out of the gate,” Goestenkors said. “We got great looks and didn’t make them pay for it. So I think that probably would have helped

us a great deal had we put those easy baskets down early and gotten a bigger lead.” The Blue Devils opened up a 13-point lead during the first half, as Currie, who led Duke in scoring with 22 points, scored 10 ofDuke’s 38 points. Harding chipped in 13 before the break. “We felt great at half time,” Currie said. “We thought we were playing pretty well. We wanted to do a better job of rebounding, but we felt like we were in a good position to win the game if we continued to play like we played that entire half.” Instead, the Blue Devils walked off the court with tears in their eyes. For Currie, Foley and fellow senior Mistie Williams, the matchup was their final game playing for Duke, and their last chance to help win the program’s first National Title.

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ries in a row, however, to tie the score and senior Jackie Carlton won the decisive If it is by one point or 50, a win is a third set, 6-1, to clinch the victory for the win—but some wins are just a little sweetBlue Devils. er than others. Like those that are decid“The doubles point is important moed by the last point, or those, say, against mentum wise, but I think our singles point an archrival. is at a point where we can win four, five, six Coming off a 4-3 victory against Marymatches, which we proved against Marythat demonstrated land,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. Duke’s strong singles Maryland’s loss to Duke was eerily faplay and proved it could miliar for the Terrapins—just the day bewin tight matches, the fore the Terps had lost, 4-3, to UNC. In VS. 14 Blue Devils (12-5, fact, the Tar Heels also swept Boston Col5-1 in the ACC) plan to lege, 7-0, Sunday right after the Blue Devtake that energy and con- ils did the same Saturday. fidence into their bout North Carolina will be the first of three TODAY, 4 p.m. Ambler Stadium against No. 5 North CarACC matches for the Blue Devils that repolina (22-3, 7-0) at 4 p.m. resents the high level of competition that the conference has reached. Duke will also Wednesday at Ambler Tennis Stadium. As the two schools near the end of the face No. 24 Clemson and No. 12 Georgia annual Carlyle Cup competition, Duke Tech this week. “The conference has gotten unbelievcertainly hopes to be on the sweeter side of the rivalry. ably tough,” Ashworth said. “Four or five “We’ve been waiting for this match alyears ago we could go through and play most the entire season, it’s marked down maybe one team that was in the top 25.... on our calendar so everybody is really fired Every match is a battle and you’ve got to up,” Carleton said. “They’re a really feisty, be ready to play every time you step on scrappy team but we have a lot of talent the court.” and a lot of confidence, so I feel like it With UNC leading the race for the Carshould be a really good match up.” lyle Cup, 10-8, a Blue Devil victory this afThe last time out, the Blue Devils lost ternoon would close that margin to one the doubles point and two early singles with six sports still to be decided. matches to trail the 37th-ranked TerrapAdditionally, a win would move the Blue ins, 3-1, Sunday afternoon. Devils past the Tar Heels and into third Duke struck back with two singles victoplace in the conference standings. by

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Science, Religion,

OCTOBER 27.2005 Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The Expanding Science of Evolution and Why It Matters" DECEMBER 8, 2005 John Naught, Georgetown University "God After Darwin: Evolution and the Question of Divine Providence"

JANUARY 26,2006 Ed Larson, University of Georgia "From Dayton to Dover; A Brief History of the Controversy over Teaching Evolution"

FEBRUARY 7,2006 Simon Conway Morris, University of Cambridge "Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation"

APRIL 6,2006 Daniel Dennett, Tufts University "Darwin, Meaning and Truth"

All lectures will be held in Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center at 5:00 p.m.

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At the end of another CHICAGO U.S. Cellular field ceremony celebrating Chicago’s World Series championship, the Indians ran in the INDIANS outfield and got WHITE SOX 2 loose. And that’s how they played Tuesday when they beat the White Sox 8-2. “The ultimate is to win the World Series and they deserve the right to celebrate that and honor that season,” said Aaron Boone, who took some of the glimmer off the day with a homer, four hits and four RBIs. He also crashed into White Sox catcher AJ. Pierzynski to score. “It was a good shoulder-to-shoulder. He’s a little bigger than me and it was a clean hit,” Boone said. “I didn’t take any exception to it. It wasn’t a big deal. It’s part of it. Whatever,” Pierzynski said. The White Sox unveiled championship banners in the opener Sunday, got their rings Tuesday and will present the World Series trophy to their fans on Wednesday to wrap up their opening homestand. “The rings are great. We can now put last year behind us and move on,” Pierzynski said, adding that the ceremony had nothing to do with the way the White Sox

played Tuesday.

“After tomorrow hopefully all this stuff goes away and we can focus on the season. It had nothing to do with the rings. We fell behind early and (Jake) Westbrook is tough.” And manager Ozzie Guillen, who em...

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The Chicago White Sox received theirWorld Series rings in a pregameceremony Tuesday at U.S. Cellular Field. braced owner Jerry Reinsdorf in a huge bear hug as he went to receive his ring, agreed. It’s been fun, but time to move on. “It was great, nice for the guys. Thank God this thing is over. All the circus is over and we can concentrate on playing baseball,” Guillen said. Westbrook allowed two runs and six hits

in 6 1-3 innings for the Indians, who put ace lefty C.C. Sabathia on the 15-day disabled list before the game with a strained abdominal muscle. After Westbrook left, Rafael Betancourt and Guillermo Mota didn’tallow a hit the rest of the way. “The offense was great and I was able to relax and go right after them,” West-

brook said. Victor Martinez also homered for Cleveland as the Indians roughed up loser Freddy Garcia for seven runs and nine hits in four innings. The Indians bounced back from Sunday night’s soggy season opener, when they lost 10-4 in a game interrupted nearly three hours by rain. Garcia had trouble getting loose and his velocity was down, not a good combination against the Indians’ talented lineup. “I didn’t make a good pitch in the last two innings. I got to forget about it,” he said. Jim Thome hit a long homer in the fourth for the White Sox, his second in as many games against his former team. Martinez staked Westbrook to a 1-0 lead with a solo homer in the second. Cleveland jumped on Garcia in the fourth forThree more as Ronnie Belliard doubled with two outs and Boone, Casey Blake and Grady Sizemore followed with RBI singles. Boone stole second and knocked Pierzynski over at the plate to beat a relay throw. After Jhonny Peralta doubled in the fifth, Travis Hafner hit an RBI single and Martinez walked to chase Garcia. Rookie Boone Logan made his first major league appearance after pitching in Class A last season. After getting two outs, he gave up Boone’s two-run double. Boone batted .243 with 16 homers and 60 RBIs last season, his first after sitting out the 2004 season with a knee injury. “Without having to worry about his leg and having a year under his belt versus not having played for a year and a half, he’s been a different guy from day one this spring,” Indians manager Eric Wedge said.

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er at the end of overtime that finally ended the game. The seniors led during a dominantfirst half that put Duke up by 10 at the break. The Terrapin freshmen were flustered by Duke’s press and transition game. But Maryland, playing in Frese’s first trip to the Final Four, did not fold like another inexperienced team could have. Coleman hit three tough jump shots in less than three minutes to help close Duke’s lead from five down to one during a three-minute stretch that ended at the 6:50 mark. Langhorne and Harper also added hoops down the stretch to keep the Terps in the game. After Toliver hit her miraculous three at the end ofregulation, sophomore point guard Lindsey Harding, missed a tough 12-footer that would have won the National Championship. Seeing that Harding’s attempt had glanced off the rim, the Terrapins celebrated as if they had already won the game. And they repeated the comeback heroics in overtime. “At halftime my teammates, we all just talked and said, ‘we have been in this position a million times before this season,’” Colemansaid. “We just go to dowhat we have been doing all season and play as a team.” In just four years at the helm of the Maryland program, Frese built a National Champion. Entering the Tournament the Terrapins were thought of as up-and-coming, but they beat UNC for the second time in the national semifinals and edged out Duke in the finals to win a first tide earlier than many expected. “All the years I’ve been coaching, never have I seen a team go through a season and play for each other the way they played tonight,” Frese said. ‘You hope that we’re building a dynasty here. But each and every season defines its own.”

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FINAL FOUR from page 13 that elusive first National Championship before Terrapin point guard Kristi Toliver hit a rainbow three-pointer over the outstretched arms of 6-foot-7 Alison Bales to send the game to overtime. What will be remembered most, though, is the final outcome. At the end of regulation and in overtime, Maryland scored when it mattered most, sending Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors and the Blue Devils back to Durham emptyhanded once again. “I just feel utter disappointment right now for my players and specifically for my seniors,” Goestenkors said. “It’s killing me right now. Not for myself but for my players.” The defeat Tuesday night marks Duke’s second loss in the National Championship game in program history and the fourth time the team has reached the Final Four only to lose during the season’s final weekend. Under Goestenkors, the Blue Devils have made the NCAAs 12 times without ever winning it all. Goestenkors’ squad reached its first National Championship game in 1999, catapulting Duke up the short list of women’s basketball’s best programs —a group that includes the likes of Tennessee and Connecticut. But Duke has never been able to break through and win it all, despite topflight recruiting classes, lofty preseason expectations and regular-season and ACC Tournament success. Certainly, the Tournament and Final Four appearances should be respected and revered. So should the five consecutive ACC Championships Duke took home between 2000 and 2004, along with the six straight 30-win seasons the Blue Devils have run off. There is no doubt that each trip to the postseason and specifically to the Final Four has been different. The players have changed and Duke has faced a variety of opponents. Four trips to the final weekend is certainly no guarantee of a National Championship, nor is a certain number of Tournament appearances. In the grand scheme, though, there is no denying that every year Duke has reached the NCAA Tournament, the Blue Devils’ season has ended in a loss. Right or wrong, Duke is a program the media and other institutions look up to, and

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Monique Currie (left), Lindsey Harding (top right) and Alison Bales (above right) combinedfor 57 of theBlue Devils' 75 points Tuesday night.

people will continue to talk about the team’s high-profile failures as much as some of its successes. Many coaches have worn the label of “best coach never to have won a National Championship.” Even before this year Goestenkors had been mentioned in that category. Tuesday’s loss will only serve to drum up more talk about Duke’s inability to take the final step in its meteoric rise to the top of the women’s game. Before Tuesday’s game, Goestenkors said she was not concerned about Duke’s lack of national titles because she knows the school will win one eventually. If history is any indication, Goestenkors is right. Throughout the history of college basketball many great coaches have struggled to break through and win their first.

On the men’s side, just ask Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, or North Carolina coaches Dean Smith and Roy Williams. They all eventually jettisoned that label after several near-wins at the game’s greatest stage. Athletic programs are about the players as much as they are about the coaches. The school’s best women’s player of all-time, Alana Beard, left Duke in 2004 without a title despite making two trips to the Final Four. Senior All-American Monique Currie, who chose to return for a post-graduation year to finish her eligibility, will also leave without one. “I don’t feel very good about how things ended,” Currie said. “We tried as hard as we could and we left it out on the floor and that’s all you can really ask for. But it really

hurts right now.” Goestenkors and the Blue Devils will have to wait at least one more year before breaking through. Seniors Currie, Mistie Williams and Jessica Foley played the last game of their careers in the TD Banknorth Garden Tuesday night, leaving Duke with some holes as it looks toward next season. Goestenkors has recruited another topnotch class, and there are several returning players who are ready to step up into more prominent roles. There is no doubt that Duke will be back in the National Championship game sometime again in the future with a chance to erase a history marked by painful postseason exits. The question is: When will it finally

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secutive times in the title game, the field hockey team seemed poised to capture its first National Championship when it knocked off the Demon Deacons in the semifinals. The Blue Devils, however, fell to Maryland in a crushing 1-0 defeat. Going back just a little further, the men’s lacrosse team was close to bringing a championship back to Durham last season but blew a two-goal fourth-quarter lead over Johns Hopkins in the 2005 title game. Although the number ofNCAA Championships is certainly not the only means of measuring a school’s athletic success, it is quite striking that Stanford has amassed 91, ACC-rival Maryland has captured three this year alone and Duke has just seven championships in school history to hang its cap on. And with these recent near misses, it seems as if the Blue Devils really are the Atlanta Braves of the college world: Always there at the end, but almost always going home empty-handed. But hope still remains for Duke this season. The women’s golf team, which reeled in lucky number seven for Duke last season, has a good shot to repeat as National Champions, and the men’s team and women’s lacrosse team also have very realistic chances to win a title and earn a trip to greet the president at the White House this summer.

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Duke these are tense times when it comes to relations. town-gown Since allegations of first-degree forcible rape, common law robbery, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree sexual offense and felonious strangulation against the men’s lacrosse team surfaced, relations between our campus and our community have suffered immeasurably, and they likely will not be getting better anytime soon. Complicating matters further is the impatience many people must feel. Results of the DNA test that 46 of the 47 lacrosse players were mandated to take have not returned yet, and there are still many unanswered questions regarding what exactly happened on

the night of March 13 With all of the above in mind, the last thing Durham and the Duke community need is a district attorney who seems to take great pleasure in stirring the pot even further. Mike Nifong has spoken to the media in an extremely bold manner, stating that he is “convinced that there was a rape.” Furthermore, in response to a statement of denial issued by the lacrosse team captains, he was quite combative, saying that, “They don’t want to admit to the enormity of what they’ve done.” Someone of Nifong’s administrative and political clout should be looking to promote order and calm in his troubled community. Since he has

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for the time being, why would he whet the public’s appetite with his statements of limitless confidence? Perhaps he should have taken a “wait and see” stance from the beginning. Now his community is on

edge. There is another important consequence to Nifong’s decision to be so bold with his statements to the media. If charges are pressed and this case goes to trial, it may be difficult to field an unbiased jury. Nifong’s inflammatory comments may have compelled many people to think decisively one way or another already, before charges have even been filed. Furthermore, Nifong may have shot himself in the foot. The manner in which the

Durham Police Department went about collecting DNA samples from the lacrosse players may amount to a violation of their constitutional rights. If that is the case, and the DNA tests show what he believes to be true, some very strong evidence in his favor may be thrown out. Lasdy, with his bid for reelection underway, the fact that Nifong so readily volunteered to take this case —despite the fact that he has not personally taken any case in more than five years—smacks of political opportunism. That Nifong has conducted himself with so little professionalism as of late might mean that he is not the person for this extremely important job.

Larry Moneta? NOT an idiot.

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made the above statements, a Duke student has reported being assaulted off campus, and rumors of drive-by shootings at the lacrosse house off of Buchanan Boulevard have circulated. We are not saying that his comments direcdy led to these incidents—just that his words are not doing much to prevent them. And now that Nifong has aroused all of these strong emotions in people, he is going to test their patience. Earlier this week, he announced that he does not intend to release the results of the DNA tests to the public. That is well within his right, but his inconsistency is maddening. If his intention all along was to keep the results to himself

think I know Larry Moneta better than

most students. I met him the first week of my

freshman year. I was in a bind because a bunch of boxes I had shipped from home had yet to arrive. My mom freaked out, but L-Mo calmly led us to a RLHS office th;iat cou.Id heir ielp us find our lost packages. Since then, we have seen the L-Man at several Parents Weekend football games. My folks greg czaja always enjoy his the czaj factor at company Duke events in New York City. I think I know Larry Moneta enough to assure you that he is NOT an idiot. That is why I have been gready disturbed by a rumor that has become widely-known around campus—that Larry Moneta and the Duke administration plan to crack down on Tailgate. Say it ain’t so, L Mo. Although most students are convinced that the death of Tailgate is inevitable, I hope to argue otherwise. My reasoning is this—Larry Moneta is NOT an idiot. Certainly Moneta would realize that ending Tailgate would basically kill student attendance at football games. Larry, I hope you realize that we go to football games because we’re drunk, not in spite of it. I’m not blaming Ted Roof for the team’s ineptitude, but my patience is running thin —I’m pretty sure he’s used nine quarterbacks over the past two and a half years. Moneta must have the iota of foresight necessary to realize that students are going to continue to Tailgate anyway, even if it is not sanctioned by the University. But then again, what possible repercussions could accompany a party scene that is moving further off campus? Oh wait. Furthermore, Larry would never be thickheaded enough to ignore the double standard he would set were he to kill Tailgate. Last year, I saw several students being taken away from K-Ville in an ambulance. Why not shut down K-Ville? Because it looks good in admissions pamphlets? Be-

cause of the influence of a certain Polack? Moneta wouldn’t be dumb enough to further legitimize the belief that the administration doesn’t give a damn about the wishes of the student body. This past season the students permitted more University supervision at Tailgate. The University wanted to ensure the safety of the students, and the students didn’t want to lose their privilege to Tailgate —the “Don’t Fumble the Tradition” compromise was struck and implemented with what appeared to be great success. Surely Larry would understand the message that would be sent to students were he to renege on this quid pro quo. Finally, it is doubtful that Moneta would be brash enough to assume that the students wouldn’t become highly suspicious of the timing of the decision—Tailgate is axed the same week as the rape allegations against the men’s lacrosse team become public. If Tailgate does get cancelled, I would be upset. I would feel that Larry Moneta was just waiting for the student body to f— up, so he could use it as an excuse to radically alter Duke’s social scene such that it resembles that of Harvard, Yale and other boring and pathetic institutions. Of course, Duke students didn’t f up. The administration drops the ball by turning a blind eye to the behavior of the lacrosse team, and the students get screwed by losing Tailgate as a result? That ain’t right. And I’m sure L-Mo understands that ain’t right. Larry Moneta is NOT an idiot. Even if Larry were obtuse enough to go through this irrational thought process and came to the decision that Tailgate had to be killed, there is one superlatively stupid thing that no one would think about doing—not telling the student body and letting the rumor fester. Why wouldL-Mo deny the students the right to know his decision? Why would he suppose that we are not mature enough to understand his thought process? If there was solid rationale behind his choice to end Tailgate, I’m sure he would be brave enough to expect us to understand it. Larry Moneta would tell us if he intended to kill —

Tailgate. Larry Moneta is NOT an idiot. Greg Czaja is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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letterstotheeditor Crying rape? How dare Mallory Pickford accuse someone of “crying rape?” Is this not the same rush to judgement she decries in her column (“The Blame Game,” April 4)? Ms. Pickard, if you tell me that your friend was murdered in such a terrible way, I believe you. I don’t have to see a police report or find out that some crackhead was convicted. If someone reports a sexual assault offcampus, you should believe her. Believing a reported victim and presuming the guilt of an individual are not the same thing. If Ms. Pickard’s point is to criticize the community’s presumption of guilt, which is a valid complaint, she completely discredits herself by ignorantly presuming the victim is simply “crying rape.” Elizabeth Trenkle Trinity ’O3

In Nifong we do not trust

This past Friday, all students received a letter from Larry Moneta warning of the threat of a drive-by shooting at the lacrosse house and reporting other slurs made toward other students in the area. Then yesterday, The Chronicle reported of an assault on a Duke student at Cook Out on Hillsborough Road. To his credit, Moneta alerted students in enough time for them to take precautions against any threat.

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However, there was no warning for the student at Cook Out, and for others in the future. But there is a great amount of blamed to be placed on District Attorney Mike Nifong. Nifong has constantly fanned the flames of this controversy by creating a media spectacle and giving multiple interviews in which he repeatedly makes derogatory and confrontational comments about the lacrosse team. He presumes their guilt, a move that many believe is a ploy to gain an edge in his bid for re-election. While a prosecutor has the right to publicly state his reasons for filing charges, and while an elected official has a right to campaign through his actions, Nifong also has a responsibility to the city that elected him. That responsibility was violated when he took a sensitive case and fostered a dangerous mob mentality in Durham, mosdy to further his own cause. By speaking of the alleged incident in such inflammatory terms before anyone has been formally charged, Nifong has not only slandered 46 currently innocent young men, but he has also charged the community with racial hostility. He made our campus unsafe not only for lacrosse players, but for all other students, as well. Tom Austin Trinity ’OB

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P reet ™OOn For many aim for the stars poor young women in url America, the answer is a disappointing “no.” This realization didn’t come to me by watching Oprah or reading books written by ivory-tower sociology professors. It was something I observed during my first two years out of college when I left the bubble of my stable, middle-class neighborhood in Lexington, Ky., and moved to the socioeconomic mosaic of Los Angeles. As a confident, college-educated woman of the 21st century, I was ready to take on the world. I’d secured a job at a non-profit organization in central LA. The biggest challenge remaining was finding an apartment. Without a car, I preferred to live within walking distance of my office. Luck blessed me, and I soon moved into a cozy, if austere, studio apartment four blocks from work. Over the months, it became obvious that I was demographically out of place. Walking down the sidewalks, I saw that the average young woman my age headed to the grocery store with a chubby baby hanging on her hip, while I headed to the office with a laptop case hanging off my shoulder. The young men headed nowhere. They loitered on the streets and leaned against store fronts. Occasionally, I’d see a young man passed out drunk on the street or sidewalk. Or, I’d hear one blasting his obscene music head-throbbingly loud —or effing this and effing that in front of small children. A culture of machismo prevailed. When I told the wife of the married couple who maintained my apartment building that the young man who lived above me was playing his music unacceptably loudly, she told me she couldn’t talk to him—what man was going to listen to a woman telling him what to do? We’d have to wait until her husband came home. >

Walking to work or running errands, I was a regular recipient of verbal harassment. One time I was mugged. I didn’tknow whether to hate them or pity them; or whether to hate them or to hate the world that created them. An old, slightly boy-crazy friend ofmine from elementary school asked if I had met any cute guys for dating purposes. I laughed. “There’s a shortage of eligible males here,” I explained. “No men make the cut.” Living among such misguided young men provided me insight into why so many poor urban women have children out of wedlock. For a woman looking for a man who doesn’t do drugs, participate in a gang, have a criminal background, engage in violence, fool around with other women or demand subservience, but rather has the social skills and education to maintain healthy human relationships and a stable job, the pickings are slim. According to the 2000 census, 32 percent of the adults 25 and older in my LA zipcode had an Bthgrade education or less; 47 percent lacked a high school diploma. In such a world, a child—not a career —gives a young woman her identity and sense of purpose. And, she’s not going to wait around to marry a Mr. Right who’s never going to show; she’ll make motherhood happen with Mr. Right Now, however unqualified he may be. In May 2003, as the school year drew to a close, my apartment building’s maintenance man told me that his 17-year-old son was beginning to hang out with a questionable crowd. He asked me if I knew of any summer job or volunteer opportunities that could occupy his son’s time and keep him out of trouble. “No,” I replied sadly. “I don’t know of any.” Nearly two years later, in January 2005, I listened to President Bush’s State of the Union address. He announced the creation of an initiative to help at-risk young urban men. It was one of the few moments during the address when I nodded in agreement. A few weeks later, an employee of the federal Office of Management and Budget spoke to a group of students here at Duke. When I asked him about the political frustrations of his job, he cited Bush’s slashing of gang prevention programs the day before the State of the Union. So much for promoting marriage. PreetiAroon is a graduate student in public policy. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Toss in your two cents at: http://preetiontheweb. blogspot. com

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past Friday, we received an e-mail from Student Affairs advising students that their affairs were not good—it seemed there might be a drive by shooting off of East Campus. Sunday, a fellow student on Watts Street had a gun thrust in his face and his money stolen. Monday, one of our peers almost got his head bashed in for get-

ting hamburgers too Stephen miller dose to NCCU. ■.»,*, miner time n Durham boasts not only the finest school in North Carolina, but also the highest murder rate. Given Durham’s relatively small size, it certainly makes for an interesting combination. It’s often lamented that Duke students don’t interact enough with the Durham community and that the Durham community does not think well enough of Duke students. This situation is often described as poor towngown relations. As a member of the gown, the first question I’d ask is why they are not called town-school relations. The second question I’d ask is what people hope to gain from Duke students spending less time on campus and more time in Durham. I have nothing against the town, but I wouldn’t exactly describe it as a rich treasuretrove of life and culture waiting to be discovered by the *•

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eager student. I would more accurately describe it as one of the last spots in America anyone would visit were it not for the presence ofDuke University. In other words, we are Durham’s main attraction. Every time we set foot off-campus, we’re actually leaving the best thing the city has to offer—and in turn, entering some of the most violent neighborhoods in the state. Coming from a violent city myself (Los Angeles), I personally don’t feel unsafe when going off-campus. Mostly, I just feel bored. But unlike the other violent cities that have excellent universities—D.C., New York, LA, Boston Durham is not a hub of civilization overflowing with people, commerce and activity. It’s not even a hubcap. Duke is, in fact, the only thing that keeps this city alive. As the number-one employer in Durham and the city’s only major draw, if we were to pull out, instead of worrying about town-gown relations, the city would have to be worry about becoming a ghost-town. Which it quickly would. Each of us putting money into this University can take pride in knowing we are helping to fund not just Duke but Durham itself—supporting its economy, hiring its workers, providing discounted medical care, free tutoring and childcare, not to mention the wealth of programming Duke offers and makes open to the entire community. Duke is Durham’s lifeblood, plain and simple. So if we want to stay on campus or to limit our interaction with Durham to Cosmic Cantina or perhaps just the delivery drivers, then we have nothing to apologize for. If anything, the insistence on interacting with Durham locals is condescending to the town residents. Durham isn’t a —

petting zoo. The residents won’t get lonely or irritable if we don’t play with them. A good case in point would be when I was a freshman and I was told to make a birthday card for one of the janitors that serviced my dorm. As I enjoy talking with people, I had struck up a few conversations with this janitor, but I knew she would not have expected a birthday card from me anymore than I would from her. Yet we were all sup-

posed to send our birthday wishes to the janitor as though

she had no friends or life of her own. This insulting act of condescension was driven by guilt and the idea that we are in the janitors’ debt. In reality, it’s an issue ofmutual benefit. The janitors need ajob, which we provide, and we need someone to professionally clean the common areas of our dormitories, which they provide. Accordingly, we are thankful for each other, and no one owes anyone anything other than kindness and respect. The newest strain on town-gown relations comes from the lacrosse situation. People have tried to use the alleged acts to paint our student body and our administration as racist. One Durham resident even claimed Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta was racist for warning us about the potential for a drive-by shooting (I kid you not). This slander is as reprehensible as it is baseless. Duke has about as many racists as Durham has museums. I think it’s about time the town started reaching out to the gown.

Stephen Miller is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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