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Rowdy behavior typical of lax players Police enter Edens for Students report is known for culture interviews of alcohol abuse team

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Lawyers question legitimacy of e-mail from player's account

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A party-hard mentality and the heavy alcohol consumption that comes with it are the norm for many men’s lacrosse players, numerous students and administrators said. The lacrosse team was as visible as any social group on campus even before the national media swarmed Duke after rape allegations last month.

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Players frequent-

ly walk around with

girls—sometimes called ‘lacrosstitutes’ by their peers—in tow and proudly dis-

play the Duke Lacrosse name on their chests. Most players come from wealthy Northeast and Mid-Adantic suburbs where the bond fostered by the sport begins early. Still, the behavior of members of the team is not a sharp departure from a similar conduct exhibited by some other undergraduates, including members of some fraternities, both students and administrators said. The athletic department reports a 100-percent graduation rate for the team, and players frequendy go on to highly coveted jobs on Wall Street. Duke’s administration has been concerned about the lacrosse team’s culture of beer guzzling and out-ofcontrol partying from tailgates to dorm rooms to the streets off East Campus for some time. Fifteen of the 47 members of the team have been charged with misdemeanors, mostly for alcohol violations, noise violations and public urination. “I can’t think of an absolutely despicable, egregious offense, but the cumulative nature and the fact that the sanctions that were imposed by the coach and by the disciplinary process did not seem to have long-term effects,” said

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Sue Wasiolek, dean ofstudents and assistant vice president for student affairs. The behavior is well-known by undergraduates, in part because of the players’ visibility at football tailgates. Exemplary of the team’s social presence on campus, players are credited with helping to transSPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE form tailgate from a small pre-game gathering to a campus-wide drinking event in Senior captain Dave Evans (top) and senior KJ. Sauer (above right) take part in raucous tailgate the last several years. “Laxers,” as they are frequently called activities, of which the lacrosse team is often a part. Players, such as senior William Wolcott SEE LACROSSE ON PAGE 4 (above, far left), also party at off-campus houses.

idence hall without executing a search warrant late Thursday night and attempted to interview lacrosse players, defense attorney Robert Ekstrand said Sunday. The officers hoped to confirm which members of the lacrosse team were not at the March 13 party at which three players allegedly gang-raped an exotic dancer, Ekstrand added. “They cornered a number of [players],” he said of the police. “One young man was interrogated in his room with the door closed, with his roommate having been excused by the police officers.” Ekstrand said to his knowledge the players promptly called their lawyers and did not talk to the police. The weekend was also marked by confusion about the origin of a suspicious e-mail sent from one of the player’s accounts and by defense lawyers preparing for District Attorney Mike Nifong to present his evidence to the Grand Jury as early as Monday. The e-mail sent from a player’s account, which read “sorry guys” in the subject line, contained a brief message: “I am going to go to the police tomorrow to tell them everything that I know,” it said. Ekstrand said the player denied sending the message—he said he was in class when the time-stamped message went out. Defense attorneys for the players have speculated that police are attempting to entrap the players. The DPD has e-mail account information for some team members from earlier in the investigation, Ekstrand said. DPD officials did not respond to requests for SEE ALLEGED RAPE ON PAGE 8

Freshman's guest ransacks Gilbert-Addoms by

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Residents of Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory awoke Friday morning to find broken ceiling tiles above their heads, overturned trash cans on their floors and peanut butter smeared on their walls. According to a police report, the perpetrator—who was a guest of a resident in the dorm—was arrested by Duke University

Police Department officers at 4:48 a.m. on charges ofresisting, delaying and obstructing an officer. The perpetrator admitted that he had been smoking marijuana and taking pain killers, the statement read. The young man has since been banned from Duke’s campus. Students who live on the first floor of the dorm said they were awakened

around 2:30 a.m. by yelling and other noise disturbances. “A lot of times you hear drunk people walking down our hall making a lot of noise, but this noise didn’treally go away—it just got a lot louder,” said freshman Sophie Lehman. The suspect pounded on her door and shouted expletives, she added. Freshman Alex Senior invited the visi-

campus. Senior said he was asleep during the entire incident and only found out the next day.

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“I have talked to him about it, and he feels bad,” Senior said. “The fact is, though, he was being an idiot that night.” The commotion also awoke freshman Katie Beck, who lives next door to SEE

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U.S. drafts bird flu pandemic plan by

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WASHINGTON In the event of a bird flu outbreak, U.S. money could be produced overseas and Americans checked in drive-through medical exams for signs of infection, according to government plans being finalized. Federal officials say the first case of bird flu could show up in the United States in the coming weeks or months as birds migrate from overseas. President George W. Bush is expected to approve a national response plan in the next week or two laying out how agencies should respond if it were transmitted to humans.

The plan assumes a worst-case scenario that as many as 90 million people in the United States would become sick and 2 million would die during a worldwide flu pandemic. It envisions that people may need to avoid human contact and stay home from work, school and other large gathering places, according to officials familiar with the draft. Some details of the draft, which appeared first in Sunday’s Washington Post, were confirmed by officials at the White House who spoke anonymously because the plan has not been finalized. Dr. Bruce Gellin, director of the Na-

tional Vaccine Program Office at the Health and Human Services Department, said the report builds on the strategy that Bush outlined six months fluvaccine technology and greater stockpiles of vaccines and antivirals. The government had focused on health issues in that earlier report, but a pandemic would affect every aspect of government, Gellin said. The response plan, assembled by the president’s Homeland Security Council, lays out who should be the first vaccinated and proposes that other countries make SEE FLU ON PAGE 8

Iran to give Palestine SSOM in aid by Nasser Karjmi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran Iran said Sunday it would give the Palestinian Authority $5O million in aid, moving in for the first time with money after the United States and Europe cut off funding to the Hamas-led government. Iran has long had close ties to the Islamic militant movement Hamas and is believed to have given money to the movement in the past —though the Shiite clerical-led government in Tehran has denied that, saying its support has only been moral. But the new money, if given, would be

the first time Iran has provided funds to the Palestinian Authority, the government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that until now was led by the moderate Fatah movement, which carried out peace negotiations with Israel, a policy shunned by Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced the aid package Sunday during a conference held in Tehran in support of the Palestinians. Tehran had promised previously to help the Palestinians if other international funds were cut off, but Sunday’s remarks were the first time Iran has specified an amount.

Mottaki said the pledge was based on a long-standing policy to support the Palestinians, Iranian state television reported. “Cutting the West’s financial aid to Pales-

tine should not affect the will of the Palestinian people,” he was quoted as saying. Iran’s hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for other Islamic nations to give money as he met with Hamas political leader Klialed Mashaal. “Muslim governments and nations should provide comprehensive support to the Palestinian government to liberate

In his first Easter message as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged nations to use diplomacy to defuse nuclear crises and prayed that Palestinians would one day have their own state alongside Israel.

General defends Rumsfeld Richard B. Myers, the Air Force general who was chair of the Joint Chiefs from 2001 until last fall, dismissed criticism that military leaders failed to stand up to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President George W. Bush when they disagreed with those civilian officials.

Canada finds more mad cow Canada confirmed a case of mad cow disease Sunday at a farm in British Columbia—the country's fifth case since May 2003, when the United States closed its

border to Canadian beef.

Man wrote of cannibalism The Oklahoma man accused of killing a

10-year-old girl who lived next door to him for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism in his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned "dangerously weird" fantasies, among otherthings. News briefs compiled

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"Don't stop believin' hold on to the feelin." —Journey

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Congratulations to Seymour

Mauskopf 2006 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award Winner

“He took a

deep pride in us students and our work, always seeking to congratulate us for our successes with ‘bushels ofbrownie points but never allowing us to become complacent in his patience or generosity. ’

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“He deserves theADUTA for serving as an

enthusiastic teacher; perceptive mentor, supportive adviser, and compassionatefriend. ”

Prof. Mauskopfs classes next semester include: History 103.05, “Science and Technology in the Modern World” (This is the first time this class is being offered, and Prof. Mauskopf will be teaching this with Prof. Alex Roland. Space is still available.)

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Springtime celebration Durham high school joins UNC system The 16-campus University of North Carolina system soon may have a new, younger member. The system’s Board of Governors voted to let the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics in Durham become the 17th campus in the system April 11. The Legislature must approve the motion for the school to become a member. The science and math school enrolls 635 high school juniors and seniors from across the state. The UNC system is trying to increase its commitment to improving teaching, especially science and math teaching. As part ofits 2006-07 budget requests, the board is asking the Legislature for $21.2 million for programs to bolster K-12 teaching in the state. “I cannot overstate my concern about this,” UNC system President Erskine Bowles told members of a Board of Governors’ committee about the teacher shortage. Trustees with the science and math school unanimously approved the affiliation in March.

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Community members gather in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens for an early-morning Easter Sunday worship service.

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For the launch of the Duke Global Health Institute, the Nasher Museum will host more than art today. The Duke Global Health Symposium will bring together faculty, administration and international global heath leaders for two days of speeches and discussions. Among those featured at the Symposium are Paul Farmer, Trinity ’B2 and founder of Partners in Health, Joep Lange, former president of the International AIDS Society, and Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize winner in economics. Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, said his vision for the institute can be broken down into three main goals: to improve

health care for the local Durham community, to bring together the best minds from the University for an interdisciplinary approach to global health and to increase “global health literacy” so that both graduate students and undergraduates can better understand the issue. “This is unique for Duke,” Dzau said. “I’m not aware of any other place that has spanned this broad a vision—and most other centers are not located at universities.” Dzau, who called global health “the defining issue of our time,” said he hoped to bring together doctors, patent lawyers, ethicists, economists and others to lend their own expertise to the field of global health research. “We see this involving everybody,” Dzau said. “My impression is that we can be-

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come like the Sanford Institute of Public Policy [in that we] can eventually start evolving into something bigger.” The Global Health Institute was created in response to recommendations issued in May 2004 from a committee composed of students, administrators and faculty. The committee proposed the Global Health Initiative, which aimed to re-examine the way Duke handled global health issues. In addition to proposing the creation of the Global Health Institute, the committee also proposed both an undergraduate and a graduate certificate in global health issues. The graduate certificate has already SEE SYMPOSIUM ON PAGE 6

N.C. mayors call for improved justice system An overburdened court system with antiquated technology and tight staffing is hurting the criminal justice system and the quality oflife in the state’s largest cities, a group of mayors, including Durham Mayor Bill Bell, said April 13. “Whether it’s Charlotte, Raleigh or Winston-Salem or any other city represented, we’re arresting the same people over and over and over again and nothing is happening,” Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory said. “People are being mugged on the streets. People are stealing cars. People are robbing stores and nothing is

happening.”

McCrory and other members of the North Carolina Metropolitan Coalition were in Raleigh for an organizational meeting and to meet with state Supreme Court Chief Justice Sarah Parker and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to discuss ways to improve the court system. The topic is expected to be the coalition’s top issue during the legislative session that starts May 9.

WUMbNISWIIiIIM Women’s Studies Honors Recipients reflect on climates of sexual disparity and assault, both on and off Duke’s campus. In this time of great conflict, come hear our most accomplished Seniors analyze these

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be too willing to follow each other, rather than make decisions for themselves. “Obviously this is a group that is extremely tight-knit in ways that may be good on the field but may lead to some pretty difficult situations off the field,” Wood said. “I mean, at what point does team loyalty become blind obedience? “That’s a question we all have to answer, whether we’re on a lacrosse team or in the Army or anywhere else, and that’s one of the things you learn at college —when do I go along with the group and when do I stand up for myself and say what I think?”

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afraid to show their level of intoxication at the Saturday morning parties. At the final 2005 tailgate, players set up a foam pit where they further became the center of attention. “I think they are associated with an extreme amount of arrogance,” said junior Carly Knight, who lived below several lacrosse players in Southgate Dormitory two years ago. “The particular individuals tend to be very much thinking they are above normal dormitory rules just in the way they interact with people.” Knight said players urinated out their windows, kicked in one of her friend’s door several times and were generally disruptive during frequent parties in their room. Other students have cited numerous examples of raucous and inappropriate behavior by members of die team. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, who oversees the athletic department, is aware of similar incidents in recent years, mostly related to alcohol consumption. Trask also said team members have been caught hitting golf balls onto East Campus near the location of 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., the site of the notorious March 13 party and alleged rape. For years lacrosse team members have been among the students who lived in the houses bordering East Campus, where the team hosts “lacrosse parties.” Trinity Park residents have complained about the behavior, in part prompting the University to purchase 15 properties, including 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., in February. Sophomore Heath Gray, a former Duke football player who is friends with several members of the lacrosse team, said people should look beyond the partying stereotype. not

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The men's lacrosse team, which is under investigation for rape, will not play again this season.

“If students were to actually look at the people who they were summarizing, they would see that they are some of the most outstanding members of this University both academically and with their social and community lives,” Gray said. Gray—a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, one of the high profile frats that attracts varsity athletes—drew parallels between the lacrosse team and greek organi—

zations. Members on the team go through the same experiences together, both on and off the field, and even hold a semi-formal during the school year, he said. “It’s a lot tighter than most fraterni-

ties, just because of every day spending all day long together,” Gray said. “Pledging for them is just their preseason practices and all the hell they go through, and they still do community service like all the fraternities do. “I would say they are exactly like a fra-

ternity.”

The team hierarchy from captains all the way down to freshman walk-ons is exemplary of the fraternal atmosphere, said Peter Wood, a history professor who frequendy teaches members of the team and played lacrosse at Harvard University. Wood said he worries that the players may

Wearing Duke on their chests Trask and Wasiolek both said the team is similar to a fraternity, but they noted that the program’s national visibility requires players to act with greater responsibility. “They are athletes, they walk around with Duke’s name,” Trask said. “Everyone agrees that athletes need to be held to a higher standard. So even if they were just the same as some other group, that’s problematic. “It’s all a matter of degree and so forth. I happen to believe that representing Duke University as an intercollegiate athlete is a privilege, and it carries with it some additional responsibilities that don’t flow to all students.” Wasiolek said she and other administrators appealed to former head coach Mike Pressler at the beginning of the year to get him to curb his team’s behavior, especially at tailgates. Beginning this year, Pressler agreed to have his players meet him at the flagpole in front ofWallace Wade Stadium at kickoff. Wasiolek added that the team was generally out of the parking lot by game time but does not know how well the team listened to Pressler. Last year Trask took an in-depth look at SEE LACROSSE 2 ON PAGE 5

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sport. Like football stars in the South, lacrosse players tend to be the social center of their high schools. “There is that whole [partying] stereotype associated with them, and that girls go for lacrosse players, that’s really similar to here,” said junior Chris Bierbower, who attended The Landon School, a Maryland prep school where five members of the current team went to high school. “They keep to themselves a little bit. It’s a bit of elitism—you have to be a jock to hang out with them.” Jack Watson, assistant professor of sports

the team’s recent disciplinary history, examining all legal and other incidents.

Trask found a culture of “boorish behavior” but did not believe the problems warranted major changes in the program. Much like fellow students and administrators, other faculty members have reported having mixed experiences with the players. Paul Haagen, Duke Law professor and chair of both the Student-Athlete Counseling Committee and the Academic Council Execupsychology at tive Committee, West Virginia has heard varyUniversity, said “TheyJ keep1 tO themselves a little mg reports from some research bit. It S a bit of elitism—you that professors consuggests “ er S have to be a jock to hang out [e of ho lacrosse team. contact sports with them.” “Some people such as lacrosse, r /u t* i C/ITIS nISTDOWST have said, ‘I are more likely know these kids, m—mm—mm—mam— tO have higher and they are reallevels of off-thely great kids,’ and some people have said, field aggression in their personal lives than ‘Yeah, they’re really rowdy,’” Haagen said. “I non-athletes. Such athletes are also more certainly have heard a great deal that the likely to commit aggressive crimes. team has a bad reputation—that, I have “I think that collision sports are probaheard. Now I don’t know if people are bly—l’m not going to say recruiting—but speaking from actual experience with them more likely to attract people that are agor whether they are repeating what other gressive,” Watson said. “I think that once people have said, but there’s no question you are in there and you are taught aggression, that you. are more likely to use it in they have said they have a bad reputation.” different situations.” The cultural roots Lacrosse differs from other collision The “tough-guy” attitude exhibited by sports, like football and ice hockey, in that it members of the team is not isolated to does not gamer immense popularity and Duke and may be indicative of contact recognition after high school and college. “It’s not football—highly organized and sports in general. At elite prep schools throughout the if you’re good at it you make a whole lot of Northeast and Mid-Adantic states—the remoney,” Haagen said. “It’s something that gion where lacrosse predominantly is you do basically as some sort of expression played —it has become the alpha-male of identity.” ?

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The funding could increase Iran’s influence with Hamas at a time when Tehran is also under international pressure to change its ways. The United Nations has demanded Iran give up uranium enrichment amid accusations from the United States and Europe that the country seeks to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran denies those claims, saying the aim of its nuclear program is to generate electricity. The United States and the EU have cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority following Hamas’ victory in Palestinian legislative elections in January, demanding the

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group renounce violence and recognize Israel. Hamas has askedArab countries to provide funds, but despite promises to give the authority $55 million a month, Arab

wary of seeing the Hamas government succeed, fearing it will inspire other militant groups. Up until the Hamas victory, the Palestinian Authority had received about $1 billion in aidfrom the West. Israel also has halted the monthly transfer of about $55 million in taxes it collecti on behalfof “Cutting the West’s financial aid the Palestinians. The Palestinian government is alto Palestine should not affect the ready two weeks late in paying March will of the Palestinian people.” salaries for its 140,000 employees, and it is unclear when it will have the Manouchehr Mattoki, needed funds. The Palestinian AuIranian foreign minister thority is the largest employer in the West Bank and Gaza, sustaining about one-third of the population. nations have not given any money since Mashaal reiterated the group’s refusal the Hamas election victory. Washington to meet the West’s demands, saying Saturhas been pressuring Arab countries not to day in Tehran that his government would give money, and some governments are “never recognize Israel.”

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ground and pushed Beck’s roommate against a wall. “They were just trying to get him to

Lehman “He and his buddies had been drunk and under whatever influences they had been under since mid-afternoon,” Beck said. “He went from a very happy drunk to an extremely belligerent one.” Beck said she and her roommate called the police when they looked through their peephole and saw the visitor with his ear pressed up against their door, yelling to be let in. Students who were studying in the commons room tried to restrain the perpetrator, but he resisted, Beck said. The guest wrestled one student to the

stop and stay in the commons, but he obviously didn’t want to be detained,” Beck added. The suspect evaded the students and continued to vandalize the dorm, knocking over more trash cans and smearing peanut butter on the walls. When DUPD officers arrived at GA, the visitor began running up and down the stairs and through various hallways before exiting the dorm, several students

reported.

“The cops were kind of on a wild goose chase,” Lehman said. “[The visitor] jumped off the GA balcony and hid

in the bushes.” The perpetrator was eventually found—after an estimated hour-long chase—hiding under a car in the Southgate Dormitory parking lot, students re-

ported.

Both Beck and Lehman said residents in GA were initially angered by the disturbance, but they added that they were assuaged upon hearing the visitor has been banned from campus. “I don’t think he really would want to come back here anyway,” Senior said. “I’d imagine if [residents] saw him around the dorm he would get some nasty stares.” There were no damages officially reported, and DUPD is still investigating the incident. ,

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SYMPOSIUM from page 3 been approved, said Laura Sample, a research coordinator at the Center for Health Policy. Sample is also a presenter at the Symposium and a member of the committee. She explained that the Institute will bring together results from global health research conducted across the University of which scientists may not have even been aware. “We have such a huge strength in the medical field—locally we are doing a lot of work, as well as internationally, but none of this has really been brought together,” Sample said. “But now all this good work we already have been doing and the strengths of our University will come together to really create a strong program while not duplicating efforts,” she added. Currently, however, the launch of the Institute at the Symposium is little mere than a verbal commitment. The $3O-million-plus Institute has yet to acquire a building and the search for a director for the Institute did not begin until recently, Dzau said. Although Duke is maintaining its commitment to global health concerns—such as a Singapore medical school that is currently being developed—Dzau also emphasized the importance of examining health problems in Durham as well. “Global includes local,” Dzau said. “We have always recognized we are a part of Durham, and we need to do a lot for Durham—especially those of us in the medical community.” Dzau said the Institute’s local focus will include issues such as substance abuse, diabetes and obesity.

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Defending national champion Duke proved this weekend that it is possible to repeat as champions not twice, but 10 times. The No. 1 Blue Devils defeated Virginia by 19 strokes at the ACC Championships at Pinehurst No. 8 to capture their 11th consecutive conference tournament. In what has become a pattern, when freshman Amanda Blumenherst led the Blue Devils to victory, winning the tournament by seven strokes to become Duke’s 12th ACC Individual Champion. She was the only player to finish in the red with a three-day total of 4-under-par 212. “I hit the ball very well and putted very well the first two days,” Blumenherst said. “To get this win is so amazing.” Bluemenherst’s tournament-high 13 birdies led her to her third first-place finish of the year. She is currendy the top-ranked golfer in the NCAA and her 22 rounds of even par or better is a Duke school record for a single season. “I hate to compare,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “But I think she’s an extremely talented player.” After skipping Duke’s last tournament to compete in the LPGA’s Rraft Nabisco Championship, Anna Grzebien returned to the Blue Devils but struggled over the weekend. The junior finished in a tie for 15th place, the lowest of all the Blue Devils, and her opening-round 80 was her second-worst performance of the season. “If you look at her numbers, those certainly aren’t numbers she can shoot, but I feel great about her game,” Brooks said. “Anna Grzebien can win this tournament hands down.” Grzebien looked poised to make a move Sunday after making the turn at 1-underpar. But the junior went on to bogey holes 10 and 11 and quadruple bogey number 14 en route to a 4-over-par 76. Sophomore Jennifer Pandolfi continued the best stretch of her career with her second top-10 finish in as many tournaments. Her final tally of 10-over par was good enough for a three-way tie for eighth place. Pandolfi was accompanied by teammate Liz Janangelo, who moved into eighth after posting a final-day 73. After carding a 2-over-par 74 on the first day, freshman Jennie Lee was in fourth place, but an 81 Saturday dropped her all the way to 13th place. “They are all players who are capable of finishing onetwo-three-four-five, that’s how good we are,” Brooks said. “The fact that we didn’t finish that high shows we’ve got a little work to do to play at the level we’re capable of.” The win puts the defendingr champion Blue Devils back on track after failing to play up to the high standards they have set for themselves in recent years. At one point this year during a stretch from November to March, Duke finished out of first place in three consecutive tournaments—the first time the team has done so since its 19971998 campaign. But the Blue Devils have since recovered with two wins this spring. “We’ve got people who are happy on the team and those who think they can play better,” Brooks said. “It really remains an individual sport. But this team is very excited about winning.”

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Amanda Blumenherst won the individual championship (top). The women's golf team won its eleventh-straight ACC title Sunday.

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NEWTON, Mass. Duke disposed ofits final ACC opponent of the season on the strength of two 9-0 runs in its 19-5 win over Boston College Saturday. It was the first time in more than four years that the Blue Devils played as DUKE 1 f the No. 1 team in the country. 5 BC Duke (12-1,4-1 in the ACC) scored the first goal of the contest after Katie Chrest buried the ball into the corner of the net 20 seconds into the game, and the team never looked back. The Blue Devils’ offense overwhelmed the Eagles with a barrage of 21 shots in the opening period and converted on nine of them. Boston College (7-6, 1-3) finally got its first goal 29 minutes into the game on the Eagles only shot in the entire first half. “We just wanted to get out there, push tempo right away and get the lead quickly,” attacker Caroline Cryer said. “Everyone contributed in this game, so they couldn’t really stop one person.” After sustaining the 1-0 lead until 10 minutes into the game, the Blue Devils began to break open the contest. Seven goals by six different players extended Duke’s advantage to 8-0 in less than nine minutes. The two teams exchanged goals in the final minutes for a halftime score of 9-1. “Shooting was something we’ve really worked on all week,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We were nine for 21, which is okay. This goalie, the way she plays, gives us the kind of problems we already have, because she’s good high.” The Blue Devils improved their shooting in the second half, going 10-for-15, including another 9-0 run to finish off the Eagles. The unselfish Blue Devils spread their 19 goals over 14 different players. Cryer led the way with three goals. Teammate Kristen Waagbo became just the seventh player in Duke history to notch four assists in a game. Leigh Jester accomplished the same feat a week ago against then-No.l Northwestern.

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The top-rankedBlue Devilsfinished their ACC regular season slate with a 4-1 record and split the regular season title with the Virginia Cavaliers.

Defensively, Duke maintained a highlevel of effort as it kept Boston College off the scoreboard for nearly 14 minutes to open the second half. The Eagles’ last four goals did not come until starting goalie Megan Huether had been replaced by freshman Kim Imbesi and sophomore Regan Bosch.

“I think we did a really great job ofantic- tured a share of the title with thirdipating and not giving them what they want- ranked Virginia, Duke maintained its No. ed,” Kimel said. “Our defense played really 1 ranking until at least April 21 when the aggressively, really smart, took away some of Blue Devils face No. 16 William & Mary, the things we knew they were looking for. I Duke will be the No. 2 seed for the ACC was really pleased with their effort.” Championships in Baltimore April 28, bea successful ACC hind die Cavaliers, the only team to deup reguwrapping In lar season, in which the Blue Devils cap-

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BASEBALL

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Deacons nab 3 from sliding Duke Blue Devils gear up for ACC meet by

Katie Riera

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Although the baseball team consistently drew full crowds this weekend at Jack Coombs Field, the Blue Devils could not hold off Wake Forest’s offensive power, dropping all three games of the series. On Friday, Duke (12-29, 4-14 in the ACC) scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth to close within one in the series opener, but the WAKE Blue Devils failed DUKE 3 to close the final gap as they lost a tough, back-andWAKE _LP forth game to the DUKE 2 Demon Deacons (28-12, 12-6), 10-9. Saturday and

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comes as the Blue Devils fell to the Demon Deacons 10-2 and 13-3, respectively. The Demon Deacon bats were on fire, as Wake Forest scored 33 runs to Duke’s 14 in the series sweep. Overall, there were 11 home runs knocked out over the weekend, with 10 of the 11 coming off Demon Deacon bats. “Wake Forest has a really good team and they swung the bats well the whole series,” Duke head coach Sean McNally said. “[Give] a lot ofcredit to them.... We swung the bats well and batded and competed. Theyjust swung the bats a little bit better.” Sunday afternoon, Wake Forest wasted no time before scoring as lead-off hitter Matt Antonelli laced one over the left-field fence to immediately put the Demon Deacons on the board. Evan Ocheltree, who had already homered twice in Saturday’s contest, knocked a two-run homer over the right-field wall to give Wake Forest a 30 lead in the first inning. After the Demon Deacons scored one run each in the second and third innings to bring the score to 5-0, Duke powered its way onto the board with a solo shot to center field by first baseman Jonathan Nicolla in the fourth. The following inning, Blue Devil Jimmy Gallagher advanced to second on a throwing error to first. Making his way to third on a passed ball, Gallagher scored on an RBI double laced into right field by Javier Socorro. Although Tim Sherlock plated Socorro with a hit down the right-field line, Sherlock was thrown out trying to stretch his double into a triple to end the inning, bringing the score to 5-3. That was the closest the Blue Devils

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Duke's pitching was partly responsible for the weekend's three losses, allowing 11 runs per game. would get to the Demon Deacons, as Wake Forest scored two more runs in the sixth and then broke away with a five-run seventh inning. They sealed the game with a solo home run by first baseman Brendan Enick in the ninth inning to end the scoring at 13-3. Although Duke batted .316 as a team over the weekend, the Demon Deacon pitchers shut down the Blue Devils with runners in scoring position. “I thought they gave us some opportunities,” McNally said. “We hit the ball hard at times, but it’s just as much as when you hit it as howyou hit it.... We just didn’t get any big hits. We didn’t get any two out hits. But, you also have to give credit to the guys

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Wake Forest had on the mound because the pitchers always get a little bit tougher in that spot, and this weekend they were certainly better than us.” Although the Demon Deacons’ batters hit Duke’s pitching very well, the Blue Devils played well in the field to turn in a solid overall defensive performance. Duke committed only two errors compared to Wake Forest’s seven. “One thing we did do the whole series is we caught the ball well,” McNally said. “We gave ourselves a chance in that regard. At times we caught the ball well and made the routine play—that’s what we stress. We did that this week and I feel good about that.”

The Blue Devil field squad posted season bests in several events while the majority of Duke’s runners rested up for this weekend’s ACC Championships in Winston-Salem. The field events for the ACC Championships will begin Thursday, and the bulk of the meet will take place Friday and Saturday. “We rested the runners this weekend,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “We’ll turn them loose at the Championships and see what they can do.” Sophomore Lara Jones tied her career best pole vault of 12-5.5 for a NCAA Regional qualifier mark at the Tennessee Sea Ray Relays. The men’s pole vaulters had season best vaults with sophomore lan Cassidy and junior Jonathan Fay both jumping an IC4A qualifying height of 16-0.75. The Blue Devil women’s throwing squad continued its record-breaking season with freshman Jessica Tanner breaking Duke’s discus throw by nearly five feet. Her mark of 141-4 qualified her for the ECACs. Tanner becomes the third Blue Devil on the women’s throwing squad to break a school record this year. “I project us having the most points in field since I got here in 1991,” Ogilvie said. “It’s been a very good year for the girl’s team, and we have two of the top five men’s javelin throwers in Duke’s history.” Part of the track team also competed at the Carolina Fast Times over the weekend, placing in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Senior Liz Wort, who is redshirting the outdoor season and ran unnattached, won the event with a time of 10:31.17. Freshman Maddie McKeever came in second and her time of 10:56.37 was good enough for second in Duke’s history. Graduate student Kelly Fillnow took fourth while freshman Patricia Loughlin came in seventh. Both Wort and senior teammate Shannon Rowbury are redshirting the spring season to concentrate on the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships in June. Wort will compete in the steeplechase, and Rowbury qualified for both the 1,500 and 5,000-meter races.

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WOMEN'S TENNIS

Duke splits pair of matches on Florida trip by

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Junior Daniela Bercek and the Blue Devils finished the regular season with a 9-2 mark in ACC action.

Miami thwarted the women’s tennis team’s bid for sole possession of the ACC regular season tide Sunday, defeating the Blue Devils, 4-2, at the Neil Schiff Tennis . Center in Coral DUKE 3 Gables, Fla |4 No. 7 Duke MIAMI (16-6, 9-2 in the ACC) entered the DUKE _L_ contest riding a five-match winFSU 1 ning streak after defeating Florida State, 4-1, Saturday. The No. 13 Hurricanes (17-5, 9-2), meanwhile, were coming off a crushing loss to Virginia, in which Miami squandered a 3-0 lead —dropping each of the final four singles matches to fall, 4-3. Head coach Jamie Ashworth won the 225 th match of his coaching career Friday against the Seminoles, and he currendy has the highest winning percentage of any coach in ACC history. Against the Hurricanes, the Blue Devils continued their strong performances in doubles play, securing the point with a 2-1 victory. Daniela Bercek and Jennifer Zika captured their biggest upset of the season, defeating the fifth-ranked pair of Melissa Applebaum and Audra Cohen, 8-7. “That was a really good win for them,” Ashworth said. “I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum.” It didn’t last for long. After winning the doubles point, the Blue Devils quickly dropped matches at the No. 1 and No. 6 positions less than an hour into singles competition. In a matchup featuring two top-10 players, No. 2 Cohen breezed by No. 6 Bercek, 6-3, 6-0, while Caren Seenauth quickly defeated Jessi Robinson, 6-1, 6-1.

“Miami was coming off of a tough loss and I thought if we got that doubles point we would have a lot of momentum,” Ashworth said. “We couldn’t capitalize on that momentum and that’s unusual for us.” After Melissa Mang fell to Monika Dancevic, 6-3, 6-2, senior Jackie Carleton won Duke’s only singles match of the day, defeating Applebaum, 6-2, 64. Patricia Starzyk then killed any hope of a Blue Devil comeback, sealing the Hurricanes’ victory with a 7-6 (9-6), 64 win over Clelia Deltour. Ashworth believed that the stifling Florida heat may have played a factor in Duke’s loss to Miami. “It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days,” Ashworth said. Against Florida State (9-12, 2-9) Friday, the Blue Devils made quick work of the Seminoles. They swept the doubles point and won the first two singles matches in straight sets. Although Robinson lost her match at the fifth flight, Deltour secured Duke’s 4-1 victory by winning the last two sets of her match, completing a comefrom-behind win over Whitney Eber at the sixth spot. Both Duke and Miami, along with No. 12 Georgia Tech, completed ACC play with identical 9-2 records to finish in a three-way tie for first place in the conference. Seedings for the ACC Championships, which begins Thursday in Cary, will be released today. Ashworth said he does not think the loss will crack the confidence his squad has exhibited throughout its five-match winning streak. “We had a good chance to win the ACC outright this week and we didn’t do it, but we have a chance to [win the ACC Championship] this week,” Ashworth said. “I think we’ll be fine. We’ve done a really goodjob all year coming back after losses.”

MEN'S TENNIS

Blue Devils upset in final regular-season matchup by

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Head coach Jay Lapidus told the Blue Devils the same thing each of them had been thinking after they swept Virginia Tech Friday—“Sunday’s going to be a war.” On Senior Day VIRGINIA 5 at Ambler Tennis ~

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Peter Rodrigues was one of the many Blue Devils who lost Sunday, falling in three sets, 2-6,6-2,6-3. won his first set, 7-5, on the second court, and Peter Rodrigues leveled his thirdflight match after dropping the first set. For all diree players, however, everydiing went wrong. Amritraj had five chances to close the first set, including two consecutive set points at 6-4 in the tiebreaker. After a competitive first set, the senior quickly dropped the second, 6-1. “The guy just came up with good stuff,” Amritraj said. “He played really well in

those

my game, it was that point.” Stokke struggled to win crucial game points in the final set, which led to the misleading 6-1 final score. Rodrigues, on the other hand, did not play his best tennis in the third set, losing the match, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3. “I really thought we were in good shape there,” Lapidus said. “P-Rod didn’t feel that great on the court, but I still thought he was going to win. I just expected it because he’s had such a great year.”

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Rodrigues completed his regular season with a 20-2 dual-match record. His teammate, Kiril Dimitrov, was down, 6-3, 4-1, at the sixth-singles position, but the resilient freshman from Bulgaria roared back to win the second set in a .tiebreaker and go up, 3-0, in the third. At that point, his opponent Darrin Cohen retired from the match with cramps. In doubles competition, the crowd’s gaze was on the second-doubles pair. Amritraj and Rodrigues were trying to hold serve at 7-6 and put away their opponents to capture the doubles point. At 40-0 with triple-match point, Rodrigues followed his first serve with a high forehand volley at the service-line that landed in the middle of the net. On the next point, Amritraj crushed an overhead that should have ended the match. Instead, the returner blocked the ball over the heads of both Duke players for an unusual winner. With its last match-point opportunity, the doubles duo converted on a crosscourt volley.

Against the 57th-ranked Hokies (12-14, 3-8) Friday, the Blue Devils were flawless, winning every singles and doubles match. Despite losing just its second conference match of the season, the Blue Devils look forward to a possible rematch with the Cavaliers in the ACC Championships later this week.

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2006 5

DURHAM BULLS

Upton blasts grand slam in Bulls home opener by Sam Levy THE CHRONICLE

BJ. Upton said everyone in the International League knows he has trouble with the inside pitch. After one dramatic swing of the bat Friday night, the Toledo Mud Hens would TOLEDO 7 argue otherwise. With a Durham T“ DURHAM Bulls Athletic Park record 11,060 fans TOLEDO 3 on hand—includDURHAM 2 in g JJ- Redick, who threw out the game’s first cereTOLEDO monial first DURHAM 5 pitch—Upton delivered a two-out, walk-off Grand Slam in the bottom of the ninth inning off Mud Hen reliever Mark Woodyard to give Durham (8-3) a 5-4 win over Toledo (5-6) in the Bulls’ home opener. The Bulls dropped Friday and Saturday’s games, however. “It was my first Grand Slam and my first walk-off, and I helped my team win the game,” Upton said. “It couldn’t have come at a better time.” Friday, the shortstop’s drive, which barely cleared the Blue Monster in left field, was the only pitch Upton saw from Woodyard. “I’m really happy for 8.J.,” Durham manager John Tamargo said. “He finally turned on one. It was a great finish to a great game.”

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Shortstop BJ. Upton helped theBulls defeatToledo with a walk-off GrandSlam for a 5-4 win Friday.

Entering his final at-bat, Upton was 1-for-3 with a single in the third inning. Facing a new pitcher in the ninth with the game on the line, he did not know what to expect. “I didn’t see it coming,” Upton said. “He threw it and I just reacted.” For the first eight innings, Durham struggled mightily against Toledo’s quartet of hurlers, amassing only one extra-base hit and leaving seven runners on base. Nonetheless, Mud Hens righty Lee Gard-

ner walked three Bulls in the bottom of the ninth to load the bases for Upton. “It was pretty exciting,” Tamargo said. “They had us stifled all game, but we got guys on base at the end at the right time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a walk-off Grand Slam before.” The Bulls’ spotty defense and Upton’s heroics overshadowed a solid performance from starter Jamie Shields. The righty went 6.1 innings, allowing three un-

earned runs on six hits while striking out six and walking none. “Jamie pitched great,” Tamargo said. “He should have cruised through seven [innings], but he threw some extra pitches. He deserved to get off the hook.” Durham struck first in the bottom of the second, as Elijah Dukes scored on Shawn Riggans’ double-play grounder to shortstop. Toledo responded by taking advantage of untimely errors by Upton and Bulls’ third basemen Brent Butler. In the fourth inning, with the Mud Hens trailing, 1-0, Toledo second basemen Kevin Hooper led off and reached base on Upton’s wild throw. One batter later, Jack Hannahan knocked Hooper in with a single to center field, knotting the game at one. In the seventh, Buder’s fielding error kept the Mud Hen inning alive, as two runners eventually scored to give Toledo a 3-1 lead. Brian Peterson homered in the eighth off reliever Chad Orvella, providing the Mud Hens a comfortable 4-1 lead entering the ninth. Nevertheless, Upton’s ninth-inning blow quickly erased Toledo’s advantage and sent the sellout crowd home with a victory. Toledo bounced back over the weekend, however, defeating Durham 3-2 on Bart Miadich’s wild pitch in the top of the ninth Saturday. In Sunday’s contest, the Mud Hens topped the Bulls, 7-4. The series comes to a close Monday at 1 p.m. Durham will send Edwin Jackson to the mound to face the Mud Hens’ Zach Miner.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Mets top Brewers, ready for rival Braves by

Hal Bock

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NEW YORK

The New York Mets are

already looking ahead after beating the Milwaukee Brewers 9-3 Sunday to set two

franchise records for best starts to a season. Atlanta is coming to town, and the Mets are looking for a fast start against their NL , East rivals. BREWERS 3 “They’re the division champiMETS 9 ons,” said manager Willie Randolph, whose team opens a three-game set against the Braves (6-7) on Monday. “Those are the guys we’ve got to go through to be where we want to be. “We feel good going into the series. We want to feel good going out.” New York is feeling good after taking two of three from the Brewers (7-5) to improve to 9-2, its fastest start ever. The Mets also set a franchise mark by winning their first four series of the season. Xavier Nady drove in three runs with a home run and a sacrifice fly and Carlos Delgado hit a three-run homer against the Brewers, who snapped New York’s seven-game winning streak with an 8-2 win Saturday. David Wright, leading the National League in hitting with a .421 average coming into the game, had a single and double and scored twice for New York. The Brewers left eight runners on base in the first three innings against Brian Bannister (2-0), who was making his third major league start. He threw 112 pitches over five innings, but allowed just one run and left the game leading 4-1.

“My approach is I don’t give in,” Bannisgive them a pitch they can drive. I’ll keep making my pitches all day.” ter said. “I’ll walk guys before I’ll

He left the Brewers and manager Ned Yost frustrated. “We just let too many opportunities get by early,” Yost said. “We got his pitch count up and three times we had runners in scoring position and fewer than two out. We just couldn’t put the ball in play. That has away of catching up with you.” The Mets had a 4-3 lead before scoring five runs in the ninth. Delgado hit a threerun drive and Victor Diaz doubled home two more runs. Nady’s third home run of the season gave the Mets a 2-0 lead in the second. He connected against Milwaukee starter Ben Sheets (0-1) following a leadoff single by Wright. Sheets was activated from the disabled list before the game and had not pitched since last Aug. 26 because of a right shoulder strain. He worked five innings and was satisfied with his first start. “I felt good, really good,” he said. “I’m not happy we lost but for myself, I’m happy to be back out there. I’ll get better.” Bannister escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the first when he got Corey Koskie to bounce out. Then Milwaukee loaded the bases with none out in the second on a leadoff double by Bill Hall and walks to Prince Fielder and Damian Miller. But Bannister struck out Sheets and Gabe Gross and gotJJ. Hardy on a fly ball to end the inning. In the third, singles by Jenkins and

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Third Baseman David Wright had two hits and scored two runs in the Mets 9-3victory Sunday afternoon. Koskie and a walk to Hall loaded the bases again. Bannister then struck out Fielder and got Miller on a fly ball. Milwaukee reached Bannister for a run in the fourth on a double by Gross, a wild pitch and an infield out. GeoffJenkins followed with a two-out double but Carlos Lee flied out, ending the inning. The Mets got the run right back in the bottom of the fourth when Wright opened with a double, moved to third on an infield out and scored on Nady’s fly ball. Jose Reyes singled with two out in the fifth, stole second and came home on Paul

Lo Duca’s second hit of the game, making it 4-1. Lo Duca stole second and went to third on a wild pitch but was stranded when Sheets finished his day by striking out Delgado.

With Bannister out of the game for a

pinch-hitter, Darren Oliver relieved for the

Mets in the sixth and was touched for a pinch single by Corey Hart. Oliver had Hart picked off first but Delgado threw the ball into left field for an error. Jenkins, who had three hits, followed with a two-run homer, cutting the Mets lead to 4-3.

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Title Sensorimotor Intelligence in Daubentonia madagascariensis Developing a New Paradigm for Evaluating the Health Risks of Mold Exposure How Visual and Olfactory Cues Affect Food Choice in Coquerel's Sifakas and Ruffed Lemurs History of Birth Control in North Carolina Western Media Portrayals of Orhan Pamuk and Turkish Politics The Influence of New Regulatory Challenges During the Transition to College on Weight Gain in First-Year Women

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As defense attorneys prepared for the possibility that Nifong might present the case to the Grand Jury as early as Monday

morning, some lawyers criticized aspects of When officers entered Edens Friday, the investigation and Nifong’s preparedDPD notified the Duke University Police ness to seek indictments. Ekstrand said the police gave him a list Department before visiting the residence hall, said John Burness, senior vice presiof the players they believe were not at the dent for public affairs and government party at 11 p.m. Saturday. relations. “The list... was woefully incomHe said a DUPD officer plete,” Ekstrand “One young man was interrogated dissaid. “They are was a serious running patched to acin his room with the door closed, risk right now if company the two DPD offiwith his roommate having been they put those cers and that names up and they excused by the police officers.” don’t know the anthe Duke officer let the two Attorney Robert Ekstrand swer to that quesuniformed oftion [of who was absent from the ficers into the dorm. party].” Ekstrand said the police officers gained The defense contends there are no access to the residence hall by catching the grounds for indictment. The lawyers cite photographs that dedoor after a female student swiped her DukeCard and entered the dorm. pict the alleged victim leaving the house He added that the police have been inapparently not in distress, a police disstructed that all of the players have reprepatch call in which a DPD officer said the sentation and that any communication woman was “passed-out drunk,” negative should go through those attorneys. DNA test results and the players' contin“We do not know who they interviewed ued denial as examples of the case’s during the hour and 15 minutes they were shortcomings. in the Edens Residence Hall,” Aaron Nifong could not be reached for comGraves, associate vice president for campus ment Sunday night. He has not made comments to the media for nearly two weeks. safety and security, said in a statement. comment Sunday.

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The exotic dancer who claims members of the men’s lacrosse team raped her at a March 13 team party will never again have to strip to pay for her tuition The Rev. JesseJackson said Saturday his Rainbow/Push Coalition will finandally support the alleged victim through college, even if her story is proven false in the courts. “I can’t wait... to talk with her and have prayer with her, because our organization is committed, when she’s physically and emotionally able... to provide for her the scholarship money to finish school so she will never... again have to stoop that low to survive,” Jacksop told the Associated Press. Jackson said he has not spoken with the woman but has heard from people who have that the alleged victim, a 27year-old North Carolina Central University mother of two, has plans to attend law school. “We want to help .

Defense lawyers were impressed by Jackson’s action. “That’s a very magnanimous gesture,” defense attorney Robert Ekstrand told The Chronicle Sunday. “I wish that higher education could be affordable to anyone who wants to pursue it.” Also last week, Duke President Richard Brodhead met Friday with more than two dozen black community leaders, including Mayor Bill Bell and NCCU Chancellor James Ammons, to discuss issues inflamed by the alleged actions by the lacrosse team, Bell said the group talked about community issues related to being a student athlete and to racism and sexism, among other things. “I want to make this clear that the issues are not unique to Durham,” Bell said. “Any city across this nation you will find the same types ofissues.” Ammons and Brodhead also said mmittees were formed to evaluate teir schools’ honor codes.

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stock of the statist!- majors on our campus, Yet this “stepping stone” cal science department and the study of arts mentality has rendered some marketing, respectively, went of the introductory-level statistics courses unmthis past up at best. In it’s spiring week—and Stc)ff6(lfton3i these classes, a about time. Undergraduates may now feeling of transiency weighs on many students and even choose to major or minor in the statistical sciences. They the professor. Without stumay also choose to become dents whose sole academic goal is to major in statistics, candidates for the Arts Manclasses often seem like these and Cultural Policy agement Certificate, in addition to stepping stones on the path to something greater. three other certificates. By drawing more interestFor the field of statistics, ed, stats-focused students into adding a major is both approthe classroom, the University priate and long overdue. Statistics courses are required in as a whole becomes a more several majors as prerequiappealing place for top-notch sites—among them public statisticians. By simply conferring greater status on statispolicy studies and economics, two of the most popular tics, the University is truly

I have talked to him about it, and he feels bad. Thefact is, though, he was being an idiot that night. —Freshman Alex Senior about a friend of his who vandalized the first floor of Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory late last week. See story page 1.

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The abolition of men’s lacrosse The vitriol bounced off the letters page of The Chronicle, directed toward an op-ed quoting C.S. Lewis’s famous line from The Abolition of Man: “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.” The furious reply assailed the (female) op-ed author’s intelligence, and questioned the relevance of Lewis’s archaic thoughts on current moral questions. His quote from a half century ago seems to be spot on, again, during the lacrosse debacle. Viewing this exchange from more than a decade’s distance (it was published in either ’93 or ’94), I can still remember the slight embarrassment of attending a highly regarded university that apparently could not produce a better response than an ad hominem attack on the two authors. This along with other factors at the time (notably among them, the “construction” of a deconstructionist English curriculum) led me to the cheerless conviction that unless there was a significant course change, my children would not attend Duke. The events of the past weeks have done nothing to change this view. At the risk of not crediting the academics who present the merits of objective morality and truth, Duke’s professorial media magnets still appear to be unwilling to promote anything but moral relativism and group rights at power-tipping moments. After all, who are we to judge another’s actions (unless, of course, we have the power to denounce a whole group of oppressors and effect “positive

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And as the Fitzpatrick Center did for engineering recruitment, we hope the Nasher and the increase in arts programming will help lure a more arts-focused crowd to the University. If more such students choose to make Duke their four-year home, we want them to leave with the same practical skill set most students do yet tailored to their interests. With this certificate, visual art and art history students can effectively gain the business policy and marketing background necessary to succeed in their fields. This field of study could also help generate the future artists, commissioners and curators necessary to help put Durham, —

North Carolina and the southeast on the map as an avant garde breeding ground. We have not always been advocates of increased departments, centers, majors, minors, certificates or concentrations. In some cases, adding more choice simply reduces the quality of the programs that are already available. These two examples, in particular, do not fit that mold. A statistical science major and minor and an arts management certificate are responding to student need, are boosting the academic reputation of the University and are helping to send more qualified Duke graduates out into the Real World.

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doing its best to lure desirable faculty members. science is Statistical known as a practical science, applicable to media studies, psychology and political science, among many other concentrations. We foresee statistics as a popular double major, fostering a greater sense of the interdisciplinarity the University loves to tout as one of its strengths. And in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, similar accolades are due the Arts an Sciences Council for approval the arts management certificate. Our new art museum and the efforts of our art history department have generated unprecedented enthusiasm for the fine arts on campus.

What about Mike Pressler? At the risk of arousing the wrath of the righteous, I would like to offer my impressions ofMike

Pressler, recent coach of the Duke men’s lacrosse team. I have known Coach Pressler and his family for at least ten years. Our children played togeth-

er when they were younger and our families have done things together socially. Coach Pressler is humble, reserved, thoughtful and honest to a fault. He has great integrity. On the occasions when Mike and I would discuss lacrosse and an upcoming recruiting class, his comments invariably focused on the personal qualities of the young men and how excited he was to have those families join the Duke family. He was always more interested in his team members as people than as lacrosse players. Like any coach whose value is measured by wins and losses, Mike wanted to win. But he wanted to win the right way, with players who were students first and athletes second—players who would be a credit to Duke University. There is no question that bad things happened at the lacrosse party the night of March 13. At the very least, there was underage drinking and insensitive verbal abuse. At the worst, acts were committed that were truly horrible and that would demand the severest consequences for those involved. Of course, four weeks after the fact, we still don’t know what did or did not happen that night, and whether or not the acts of which the lacrosse team members are accused actually occurred. I am troubled by the lack of support for Coach Pressler-from the athletic department. He was hung out to dry by an athletics administration that neither understood the issues nor appreciated Mike Pressler the man. Long before we learn the truth about what happened that night, and long before we learn the conclusions and recommendations of the several committees formed by President Brodhead to address the situation, the athletic department convulsed and threw the bab out with the bath water. For Mike Pressler to offer his resignation was

“appropriate.”

For Athletic Director Joe Alieva to accept the resignation was wrong. Mike Pressler deserves better; so does Duke. Steven Baldwin Professor, Dept, of Chemistry

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had to have heard it at some point this past week. It was everywhere, all at once—a huge, collective sigh of relief. Heck, you can still hear it now. I’ve decided that it is probably the worst sound I’ll ever hear at Duke. Don’t get me wrong—there is certainly reason for relief. As students, we should obviously rejoice when facts emerge that make it significandy less likely that our classmates are rapists. But that is not at all what’s hapdaniei bowes pening here. The sigh was not a rea simple observation sponse to the potential innocence of our classmates, but rather a response to the potential of our own exoneration. I am sincerely troubled by the number of students using the DNA evidence—the increased likelihood that a rape did not occur—to vindicate themselves, to vindicate Duke and to completely and tragically obscure the real issues here. The fact is that the student body hasn’t been absolved of anything. It wouldn’t matter if the mayor of Durham came out next week, apologized to the lacrosse team and gave the team a key to the city. The charges of racism, elitism and general detachment would be as valid as ever. Since the allegations were made public, too much campus dialogue has focused on the media’s immediate condemnation of the lacrosse team and the mischaracterization ofDuke and its relationship with Durham. Though these are valid topics of discussion, their dominance and tone are severely undermining any and all attempts to productively discuss privilege, race and responsible citizenship. Students are defensive in their responses to the larger Durham community. We have supplanted genuine engagement with an inexcusable dialogue that only reinforces Durham’s allegations. Residents are accusing Duke students of believing themselves superior to Durham and its people. Some students are defending their reclusive nature, brazenly pointing out that Durham isn’t exactly a cultural mecca. Community members are calling for Duke to implement policies that promote interaction and tolerance. Yet at a campus forum, a senior countered, “We need to remember how good Duke is. At the University of Alabama, the frats are completely

segregated.”

Durham and NCCU are asking the Duke student body to address its racial insensitivities. The Center for Race Relations responded with a forum to do just that. A whopping thirty students, or .5 percent of the student body, participated in the event. Is this madness, or is it just me? Because it seems to me that we’re countering charges of elitism, racism and apathy with blatant snobbery, racially insensitive excuses and wide-spread unresponsiveness. If anything valuable is going to come of this entire ordeal, then there must be an immediate and dramatic shift in dialogue. Individually, we must honestly reflect on our own perpetrations. We each have them. The distrust Durham harbors toward Duke is no illusion of the media, it is all too real and consequential. It is a product of experience and has led much of a town to readily and collectively condemn so many for the alleged crimes of so few. The absence of productive dialogue is in and of itself a statement—a statement that we consider crossing our own threshold too risky and largely unrewarding. If a relevant dialogue does eventually emerge and in it we decide to accept Durham’s residents as our peers, then we must begin making every effort to persuade residents to accept us as their own. Once we commit ourselves to Durham, at every opportunity community members must be made to feel comfortable within our walls, and not as if at the slightest perceived misstep their welcome will be rescinded. In turn, it is imperative that we cross that same threshold and go into Durham, not as students or consumers, but simply as citizens. Only when all of us believe ourselves to be members of the Durham community—no more, no less—and make individual commitments to act like it, will the faces and personalities of real Duke students replace the stereotypes. Until you make that commitment—until you’ve taken every opportunity to represent yourself to Durham—whether it be to your housekeeper, your fellow restaurant patrons or at neighborhood meetings—please spare me another impassioned diatribe on the injustice of “mischaracterization.” Daniel Bowes is a Trinity junior. This is his final column.

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Q: How do you tell the difference between one New England Establishment Pretty-Boy and another New England Establishment Pretty-Boy three weeks after you meet them? A: You can’t. The prosecution paints a picture of white privileged males so sex-starved they have to prey on local mothers just trying to get by. 2:1 The defense calls Pi Phi 9:1 Charges are dropped 8:1 Countersuit 3:1 Team meets at Chuck’s, pounds shots, exchanges high-fives, and goes home with hot chicks

9999:1 Line to apologize forms Tuesday at noon, on Chapel quad 350:1 Cosmic Justice is actually served in the form of an ignorant divinity student dying of diphtheria. 250:1

Oregon Trail Justice is served in the form of an ignorant divinity student’s tombstone being rendered in full 16-bit, 256-by-256-pixel glory. And you can’t carry all the meat. 1:5 Team meets at Chuck’s, pounds shots, exchanges high-fives, and goes home with hot chicks 9999:1 Level one, or “Code Green: Jesse Jackson” 10:1 Level two, or “Code Yellow: Crash 20:1 Level three, or “Code Orange: Barry Bonds” 30:1 Level four, or “Code Puce: Cynthia McKinney” 40:1 Level five, or “Code Magenta: David Duke” 50:1 Level six, or “Code Red: Stephen Miller” 100:1 Maximum bet: $69 JACK’S fairly pleased with the way this is turning out, if for no other reason than he’ll make a few bucks. But it looks like the powers that be have been using this particular feces-fan interaction to slip some other decisions under the radar. Specifically, Student Affairs looks to be leveraging new research, indicating that the number one cause of intoxication is not, in fact, alcohol. It’s grills. Yes, that’s right. Dr. Moneta finally found out our collective dirty secret. All that Bud Light, all those furtive East Campus Everclear binges, all those tailgates—’twas all for vanity. A sham. A cover-up for Duke’s real intoxicant: still-warm charcoal ash. Students can’t help but snort down line after line of grill ash on LDOC. Coal remains, known by their street name “Dixieland delight,” sell on the street this time ofyear for about $75 per pound—if uncut by diluting agents like burned sauce or disintegrated buns. In other words, us rich white privileged good-old-boys (read: all Duke students) shouldn’t have any problems getting our paws on some good old dinosaur dehydrant. Plus, nothing’s more unsafe than alcohol and ready access to bread, food and chips. Oh, wait. JACK’S heard some rumors about canceling tailgate, but no confirmation or denial. Things are looking good for the five fun weekends at Duke, however, with the LAX team being scattered to the winds. JACK expects some new regulations, of course, on grill use. But JACK sees where the A-team is coming from: if students are getting riled up from booze and the real silent killer, hamburgers, let’s keep them from doing it on campus! What harm could come from that? ”

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A Community of One For the past few weeks, Durham has been shaken by allegations arising from the incident of March 13. While feelings of pain, anger, and confusion are understandable in times like these, let us remember that justice is served in the courtroom, not in the media or at the hands of individuals. We are proud of the response of students at North Carolina Central University and Duke University who are organizing events to educate each other about sexual violence, racism, and why our system of law presumes innocence until guilt is established. We are grateful for the work of clergy and other leaders who are using this time to urge healing, peace, and truth.

The three of us are engaged in regular dialogue with people throughout Durham. We are providing updates on our progress and seeking counsel, with the goal of overcoming the tensions that have arisen. Durham has so much more to offer than what recent events or simplistic national media portrayals of our community have shown. Our universities and our city have worked together over the years to build a community that is known for tolerance, education, business opportunity, and medical and technological excellence. We pledge to all of our fellow citizens that we will continue to work together to strengthen the bonds that unite us. We all must work to be a community of one.