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University delves into campus culture Panel focuses on alcoholism9 intellectualism, possible “culture of crassness ”

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In the wake of two arrests of on the men’s lacrosse team, the case continues to develop as more evidence is brought to light. Some of the evidence seems to support defense lawyers’ claim that their clients are “absolutely innocent.” A taxi driver granted interviews to various media sources Thursday when he described driving suspect Reade Seligmann on the night of the party where the alleged rape took place. A search warrant was also released Thursday that revealed details ofColin Finnerty’s dormitory room search. Seligmann and Finnerty were charged Tuesday morning with first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual offense and

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President RichardBrodhead (right) led a discussion Thursday regarding theCampus Culture Initiative, one of the five committees he created in response to the lacrosse scandal.

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The events of the past few weeks have magnified controversial topics on Duke’s campus. To discuss issues of sexism, racism and student social life, approximately 400 members of the Duke community gathered in the Chapel for “A Conversation on Campus Culture” Thursday evening. The event was sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and 25 other campus organizations. “This has been a painful time for people with ties to the institution,” said Elizabeth Kiss, director of the Kenan Institute and moderator of the event. “We are here to discuss- the set of issues about Duke’s culture that have been brought to the surface by the events of the past few weeks.” The conversation was a part of the University’s response to recent rape allegations. President Richard Brodhead announced the formation of five committees, one of which tackles the issue of campus culture. Members of the committee were also named Thursday. The panel, which featured nine members, included Brodhead, Dean of Students and Vice

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President for Student Affairs Sue Wasiolek, Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells and Professor of African and African-American Studies Mark Anthony Neal. Wasiolek cited comments written by students on blogs, induding one student’s comment that Duke was leaning towards a “culture ofcrassness,” which adversely affected the intellectual atmosphere of the University. She also discussed popular student activities primarily based around alcohol consumption. “Students have talked about events such as Krzyzewskiville, tailgate, [the Last Day of Classes] do these events define who we wish to be?” she asked. “And what would happen if alcohol was eliminated from all these events?” Junior Andrew Nowobilski, a panel member and co-founder —

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The value of Duke’s economic influence in Durham is estimated at $3.2 billion, according to the results of a study released Thursday. In the past year, the University, its students and visitors spent a total of $1.6 billion in Durham. The report noted that the economic impact is at least twice that amount, as each dollar directly spent is usually recycled into the local economy. The study—the fourth administered since 1997—was created by Duke’s Office of Public Affairs in partnership with the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau. John Burness, senior vice president of public affairs and government relations, said the report was released in conjunction with the 100year anniversary of the Chamber ofCommerce. The report comes in thewake ofa scandalthat has put Duke-Durham relations under national scrutiny, and itsrelease was delayed as a result. “This was ready to go about a month ago, but SEE DUKE-DURHAM ON PAGE 8

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Bush, Hu meet at White House

Moussaoui claims 9/11 link to Reid by

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support —and acof Zacarias tually doubts—part Moussaoui’s dramatic courtroom confession that he was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks: His claim that shoe bomber Richard Reid was to be on his team. Thanks to legal maneuvering outside court, the potentially damaging concession reached the jury in a decidedly undramatic way. It was part of a stipulation agreed to by the government and read to the jury in the monotone voice of defense ment

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lawyer Alan Yamamoto. The disclosure came shortly before the defense rested its case for sparing the life of the 37-year-old Frenchman. Testimony in the trial concluded after prosecutors presented their only rebuttal witness, psychiatrist Raymond Patterson, who examined Moussaoui. Patterson disagreed with defense experts who testified the terrorist conspirator is a paranoid schizophrenic. Jurors who must choose execution or life in prison for Moussaoui will hear closing arguments and begin deliberations Monday. The concession about Reid went directly to the argument between prosecutors and defense lawyers over Moussaoui’s

credibility since he testified March 27. He stunned the courtroom that day by recanting his four-year-old claim of having nothing to do with Sept. 11. Instead he said he was to have hijacked a fifth jetliner, with Reid, that day. Previously, Moussaoui claimed his planned attack on the White House was part of a later plot. Since Moussaoui testified, the courtappointed defense team —with whom he does not cooperate —has portrayed him as a delusional schizophrenic who lied either to achieve martyrdom through execution or to enhance his role in history. Prosecutors have tried to shore up Moussaoui’s reputation.

Iraqi PM steps aside under pressure by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Bowing to intense pressure, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari agreed Thursday to allow Shiite lawmakers to find someone else to head the new government, abandoning his claim on another term in the face of Sunni and Kurdish

opposition.

Al-Jaafari’s abrupt reversal was an apparent breakthrough in the months-long struggle to form a national unity government. President George W. Bush’s administration hopes such a government will curb Iraq’s slide toward anarchy and en-

able the United States to start bringing home its 133,000 troops. Leaders in the seven-party Shiite alliance, the largest bloc in the 275-member parliament, were to meet Friday to begin choosing a replacement. But their field of candidates lacks stature and power, raising questions whether the new prime minister will be any more successful than al-Jaafari in confronting sectarian violence and the brutal insurgency. It was unclear why al-Jaafari suddenly decided to relinquish the nomination that he won by a single vote during a ballot among Shiite lawmakers two months ago.

AJ-Jaafari had insisted Wednesday

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ping aside was “out of the question.” But in a letter Thursday to the executive committee of the United Iraqi Alliance, the Shiite coalition, al-Jaafari wrote that he was prepared to “make any sacrifice to achieve” the organization’s goals. “I tell you, you chose me, and I return this choice to you to do as you see fit.” However, Kurdish politician Mahmoud Othman said al-Jaafari’s change of heart followed meetings Wednesday in the Shiite holy, city of Najaf between a U.N. envoy, alSadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the nation’s most prestigious Shiite cleric.

President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged cooperation in reining in the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea and resolving their own troubling trade disputes, but they made little measurable headway in a pomp-filled summit Thursday.

Legendary test pilot dies at 84 Scott Crossfield, the hotshot test pilot and aircraft designer who in 1953 became the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, was killed in the crash of his small plane, authorities said Thursday. He was 84. Crossfield's body was found in the wreckage Thursday in the mountains about 50 miles northwest of Atlanta.

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Baw-stock. Bose-tock. Boh-stock. For

months, students have been warbling the name of the University’s newest and most luxurious library branch. A new contest aims to help people remember the correct pronunciation for Bo-

stock—the answer, by the way, is not any of the preceding choices. The name is pronounced “Boss-stock” said freshman Julia Foran, social chair of Duke Student Government’s student services committee and coordinator for the competidon. Foran credited the idea to Roy Bostock himself, the former Duke trustee who donated |2 million for naming rights to the library in 2003. “He thought it would be a fun idea,” Foran said. The Bostock family has donated more than $8 million in total to the University

for various projects. Bostock is providing a $5OO prize to whoever wins the contest, which will be judged by President Richard Brodhead, Provost Peter Lange and John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. The winner will be announced at a tent party Saturday as part of Alumni Weekend. The approximately 70 entries, which were due Wednesday, have been an eclectic bunch, Foran said. The most repeated entry was the suggestion to put a petting zoo on Main West Quadrangle, which theoretically will compel students to “bah like sheep,” she said. Some of the more mundane proposals included posters to put up on campus or items to give out for free. “It was kind of anything goes,” Foran said.

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ful deliberation.” Bruce Kuniholm, director of the Sanford Institute, said he estimated the fundraising would take about two and a half years. He said he was 80 percent sure that the institute could raise the funds necessary in that amount of time. “It’s a stretch. But things aren’t worth doing unless they force you to stretch a little bit,” he said. Sanford currently has an endowment of $BO million. “We aren’t starting at zero,” he said. The money is primarily earmarked to create about 17 new tenure-track faculty positions over the next 10 years, Kuniholm said, bringing the total number for the proposed school to 42. He added that all the professors will be able to fit in both the Sanford Building and Rubenstien Hall. “What we are seeking this spring, both with the Academic Council and with the Board, is a clear endorsement for this strategy, subject to achieving specific financial fundraising benchmarks which are necessary for the Sanford Institute to achieve its aspirations as a school,” Lange wrote in a memo to the Academic Council, adding that administrators would not seek formal authorization of the school undl the 2008 to 2009 Fiscal Year. In terms of University financial support, Lange said the school would receive SEE AC ON PAGE 5

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Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, presented the latest plans for Phase I of the renovation of Central Campus —part of which will be 30 feet below Anderson Street—to Campus Council members at the Council’s general body meeting Thursday. New rules for the Last Day of Classes were also presented. Moneta said because of the topography 0I of the land involved in Phase 1—90 ,—900,000 square feet between Anderson and Erwin Streets—there is a consensus that the land space will be optimal at the lower level. “This will align the area, taking into account the peaks and valleys of the land,” Moneta said, adding it will not be perfectly level. Once Phase I is complete, a new bus route will be in place between East Campus and West Campus, significantly shortening the distance between the two campuses, to about half, Moneta said. The new bus will run from Bell Tower Dormitory on East, through the new Duke Way—approximately where Yearby Road now sits—and end at the back of the Allen Building on West. The changes will help lower traffic in the Duke Chapel circle. SEE CC ON PAGE 8

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Robert F.Kennedy, Jr., discusses environmental policy in Page Auditorium Thursday night.

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As a harbinger ofEarth Day this Sunday, prominent environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chastised the George W. Bush administration, the American press and big corporations in his “Our Environmental Destiny” speech

Thursday night. “Tonight, I’m going to talk less about the environment than about the broader issues happening in our country, including the corrosive impact of excessive corporate control on our democracy,” Kennedy said.

Duke’s campus often serves as a popular venue for various cultural events and performances, but next week the University will begin a new chapter in its history of events by hosting the 2006 North Carolina Festival of the Book for the first time. The week-long festival —which begins Monday, April 24—will bring together more than 80 participants, including nationally acclaimed writers such as Ann Patchett, Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Pearl Cleage and Barbara Kingsolver, who will give the keynote address in the Duke

Chapel Thursday evening.

A mixed audience of around 150 students and members of the general public attended the event, which was hosted by the Duke University Union’s Major Speakers Committee, in Page Auditorium. “It’s a criticism of President Bush’s administration,” Kennedy said. “But I’m not criticizing the President because he’s Republican, and I’m a Democrat.” The son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, former attorney general and brother of President John F. Kennedy, blamed the “negligent and indolent”

The festival will also highlight many local writers from the Triangle area, including novelist and short story writer Allan Gurganus, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Doug Marlette and Dasan Ahanu, a poet frequently featured on National Public Radio’s “News and Notes.” “This is the area of the arts in which this part of the world is strongest,” said festival director Aaron Greenwald, assistant manager of special events for Perkins Library. “There’s a local community of writers here—that’s where you start any festival.” The festival began in 1998 and has become a biannual event—a .collaborative

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But students may not be entirely at fault for the mispronunciation. There is no “right or wrong way” to pronounce someone’s name, said Ron Butters, professor of English and former chair of the linguistics department. “Bostock could probably be pronounced three ways,” he noted. “I don’t think it’s clear from the spelling.” In English, usage determines pronunciation because many words —such as those with a silent “k” or those with the letter “o”—are counter-intuitive, he explained. With proper nouns, it is customary to go with “the prevailing pronunciation,” he said.

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effort among Duke, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It has been held twice at UNC and once at N.C. State. Greenwald said the festival this year has been approached very differendy than in previous years at the other schools. Differences lie in the quality of writers targeted, the programming model for the festival and the amount of publicity. He added that he hopes the combination of factors will draw a large audience comprised of Duke students and residents of North Carolina and neighboring states. Participants were selectively invited to the festival and chosen not only because they are good writers, but also because of their potential to collaborate with each other and promote interesting discussion, Greenwald said. “What we decided to do is to pair writers who know one another or whose work is connected in conversation,” he said. Marietta and Conroy, for instance, will give a presentation together discussing their friendship in the context of their

writing.

“I was intrigued by the fact that they asked us to talk about [our friendship],” Marietta said. “No one’s ever asked us that it could be surprising and interesting.” Will Blythe, author of To HateLike This Is to Be Happy Forever, the bestselling book about the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry, will be speaking together with Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish. Blythe said he is looking forward to coming to the festival, but might do more than just read from his books “We’re going to talk about basketball, no question,” Blythe said. “You know what? We’ll play basketball in the Rare Book Room.” In addition to pairing writers who are friends, festival organizers invited former —

“Some people won’t be able to be educated because they don’t even hear a difference,” Butters explained. “If you want people to pronounce it a certain way, you need to be famous enough.” As an example, he cited Boston, noting “No one says Boh-ston.” Duke has a rich tradition of mispronunciation, he added—one that includes the University’s name. The traditional southern pronunciation for the university would be “Dy-uke,” but recent generations have cut out the ‘Y’ Foran, however, is optimistic about the competition’s outcome. The winning promotion will be in place either for the upcoming exam period—when library use is at its peak—or at the beginning of the fall semester after move-in, she said. students ofPresidentRichard Brodhead Writer Tom Perotta and poet Elizabeth Alexander, who will participate in the festival together, were students of Brodhead’s when he taught at Yale University. “Here we are at a university, and we thought, ‘wouldn’t it be great to have a series ofconversations with teachers and students or mentors and mentees?’” Greenwald said. Several current Duke professors and writers will also participate in the festival. Professor of Chemistry Alvin Crumbliss, Professor of Theater Studies John Glum and Reynolds Price, James B. Duke professor of English, will be among the faculty members presenting their work and participating in discussions. Because the festival will be held in Durham, Greenwald emphasized the fact that a conscious effort was made to invite a significant number of prominent AfricanAmerican writers and artists. He also acknowledged that because the festival is being held on campus in the midst of the ongoing investigation into the alleged rape case surrounding the men’s lacrosse team, many writers will likely mention the incident and its implications, though that will not be the focus of the festival. “We’re trying to make this really clear that this is not a symposium about the rape trial, but a lot of people will have interesting things to say,” Greenwald said. “People who think about ideas and words think about these things.” Events will be held at venues in Durham and at North Carolina Central University at the beginning of the week and at Duke for the last few days of the festival. Marlette said he is excited to participate in the festival and expects it will be “lively.” “My problem is I want to go to all the other sessions, but I’m sure there will be other things going on at the same time as mine,” he said. All events are free and open to the public

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have to be made by the students.” When audience members were invited to make comments or ask questions, one student asked what Duke could do to address the issue of“hetero-sexism.” Senior Dinushika Mohottige, a panel member, said Duke should do more to encourage the acceptance of alternative lifestyles. She described a hypothetical situation about an incoming freshman finds out his or her future roommate is homosexual and thus requests to be paired with a differentperson. “Instead of simply letting people avoid these uncomfortable situations, we should make these students sit down and talk to each other, and to make progress in accepting one another,” she said. Neal said issues of discrimination and intolerance could be alleviated by changes in academics. “We need an innovated and brave curriculum that will allow our students to engage one another in a progressive manner,” he said.

increasing mercury levels in fish and increasing air and water pollution. “One out of every six American women now has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a great number of diseases,” Kennedy said. He attributed the failures of the Clean Air Act on the Bush administration, which dismissed pollution lawsuits against 75 plants after accepting their contributions to its campaign.

of the Duke Political Union, said he felt the atmosphere on campus is not as intellectual as he had hoped before coming. “I was disappointed, to be honest, that I haven’t seen the spontaneity to engage in discussion here,” he said. Nowobilski also added that Duke must “radically change the way we live together” in residence halls in order to prevent segregation between different living groups. He suggested having more living groups based around intellectual interests. Brodhead said the controversy surrounding the lacrosse investigation galvanized the campus. “This is a moment to look at things and ask if those things are what we want for ourselves,” he said. “We have to get everyone into this discussion to get anywhere.” Brodhead also commented on the lack of undergraduate presence at the forum. “The median age is much higher than I had hoped,” he said. “Changes are going

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He said he understands why the media wouldfocus on this contrast, however. It’s complicated to say [this is a] diverse community and a diverse school,” he said. John Schelp, neighborhood activist and Durham resident, said the study was “self-serving” in that it only discusses the positive ways in which Duke affects the community. “Every couple ofyears we get this selfabsorbed report from Duke,” he said. “[The administration] is more worried about protecting the image of the University than the good of the neighborhood.” Although Schelp applauded the University’s financial support of Durham, he said it did not translate to a healthy relationship with the community. He pointed to a Princeton Review survey that ranked Duke’s town-gown relationship among the five worst in the nation. “Duke dismissed the report as not accurate,” he said. “If you just put a smiley face on that, we have a problem because they’re not acknowledging the issues.” Schelp said Durham has not always been a financial beneficiary of Duke’s, however. “Hopefully, the University will recognize the generous contributions of the Durham community when Trinity College was struggling to stay afloat in 1892,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Had it not been for the generous donations of money andfree land... therewould be no Duke University today,” he said. Romand Coles, associate professor of political science, praised the University’s economic contributions to Durham, but said there are “blind spots” that must not be overlooked. “What the report illustrates is that there are many good things about Duke-Durham relations,” he said. “What is missing is discussion about those leastpaid workers at Duke.”

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Nasher Museum of Art and the Freeman Center for Jewish Life. Moneta said he hopes to decrease students’ bus use by creating new walkways. One will go from Central to Ninth Street and another will connect to West Campus by a bridge built over the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. “[The bridge] is more feasible than you think,” Moneta said, adding that the walk each way will be approximately five minutes. New buildings on Central will be mixed-use spaces, with academic and retail space on the ground floor and residential areas above. Although Central Campus will have about 1,100 beds, Moneta noted that this will not guarantee every student on-campus housing. Moneta stressed the environmental sustainability of the new Central Campus. “This is a major green project,” he said. The plans need to be approved by the Board of Trustees, whose next meeting is on May 13, before further details can be worked out, Moneta said. “I love the ideas that have been put out for Central,” said junior Jay Ganatra, president of Campus Council. “I think it’s going to be amazing, completely revolutionizing Duke.” Christine Pesetski, program coordinator for the Office of Mediation Services, presented members with new LDOC celebration rules and regulations. Similar to past years, LDOC will be a “Bring Your Own Beverage” event. This year, however, students must have their beverages with them at all times, cannot share alcohol with others and will not be

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Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, presents plans for new CentralCampus at a CampusCouncil meetingThursday evening. allowed to bring labeled hard beverages. If students violate these regulations, their drinks will be poured out. Members voiced many concerns regarding the changes. “If you put restrictions on us, it’s not going to stop us, it’s going to move us,” said junior Brittany Greenfield, outgoing Facilities and Services Committee chair. “[Students will drink] behind closed doors and that’s the most dangerous situation.” Ganatra noted no changes can be made this year but hopes the Council’s concerns will be taken into consideration next year. The Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting the University’s handling of the current lacrosse allegations.

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be pleading guilty. “I don’t think there is any chance in hell that there will be a guilty plea,” he said. “I can’t tell you about [everybody], but my client’s case is either going to be dismissed by the DA or go to trial.” Moez Mostafa, a cab driver, told various members of the press Thursday that he drove Seligmann home from the party just after midnight March 14. Mostafa’s cell phone records, which were reviewed by ABC News, show an incoming call from Seligmann’s phone at 12:14 a.m. The driver said he picked up Seligmann and another student from N. Buchanan

Boulevard five minutes after the call came in and drove them to a Wachovia ATM and then to a drive-through restaurant on Hillsborough Road. DukeCard records show that Seligmann’s card swiped in to Edens dormitory at 12:46 a.m., ABC News reported, and Mostafa said he watched the two students enter the building. “They were just joking and laughing inside my car, and everything [was] fine,” Mostafa told ABC. According to The Durham HeraldSun, Mostafa was reluctant to get involved in the case but was convinced to recount his involvement by Philip Seligmann, Reade’s father. District Attorney Mike Nifong has re-

fused to comment on what evidence the prosecution presented to the grand jury Monday. He has declined interview requests for the past few weeks. The warrant from Tuesday evening’s search of Finnerty’s Edens 2C dorm room was also released Thursday. The only items seized were an April 5 New York Times article detailing Finnerty’s involvement in a simple battery case last fall and an envelope postmarked Sept. 14, 2005. The warrant gave police permission to take “any clothing related to the suspect and the victim from the night of the attack,” and property belonging to the alleged victim included a white, 6-inch shoe. The warrant also stated that investigators were looking for any computers, cam-

eras or other data storage devices that may have contained e-mails or photographs relating to the night of the party and the crimes with which Finnerty is charged. Seligmann’s room was also searched Tuesday night, resident advisor Taggert White said. But police have not released the search warrant for that room. Results from a second round of DNA tests, which are being conducted at a private lab, are due back imminently. Defense lawyers have said they do not expect these tests to differ from previous results, which did not show any matches between DNA collected from 46 players and samples taken from the victim’s body and clothing. The AssociatedPress contributed to this article.

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Sometimes bunkers, water hazards and narrow fairways aren’t the only obstacles a golfer must overcome to find success—defending ACC Champion Ryan Blaum can attest to that. The senior from Coral Gables, Fla. began racking up awards as early as his freshman year, from Team MVP to the program’s secondever ACC Rookie of the Year. acc championships Despite all of the Baden Lake. N.C. accolades Blaum received on the course, however, he was struggling off it. Setbacks in the classroom prevented him from participating in the ACC Championships that season. Now, Blaum has the opportunity to enter the record books as the first Blue Devil men’s golfer to win back-to-back ACC individual tides. “He’s just developed as a young man as much as anything,” head coach Rod Myers said. “He was a good player as a freshman, but I think he appreciates this opportunity even more now.” Blaum comes into ACC Championship play this weekend not only as the defending individual medalist, but also at what Myers called “the top of his game.” Myers’ assessment speaks volumes about the level of his star’s

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This week the Blue Devils have enjoyed something they haven’t had in their competitive dual-match schedule for the past two months—rest. In the final week of their regular season, the No. 3 Blue Devils (17-6, 9-2 in the ACC) faced two teams ranked in the top 15. Duke played No. 12 North Carolina and No. 11 Virginia, in addition to Virginia Tech to comvs. plete an exhausting three-game stretch. After losing, 5-2, to Virginia Sunday, the top-seeded Blue Devils needed a break before beginning the ACC ChamTODAY, 9 a.m, Cary, N.C. pionships today at 9 a.m. against the ninth-seeded Hokies in Cary. Virginia Tech (12-4, 3-8) defeated Georgia Tech, 4-3, Thursday. “We took a couple of days off after the weekend to get our legs back,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “I feel like we’re healthy and pretty fresh, as fresh as you can be at this time of the year.” For the past two years, Duke has suffered from injuries SEE M. TENNIS ON PAGE 12

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Junior Peter Rodrigues has amassed a 20-2 record in dual matches this season, which is the best mark on the Blue Devils.

From the conversations taking place on the courts of Ambler Tennis Stadium Wednesday afternoon, it was hard to imagine that the ACC Championships were only two days away. “How do you go from AC/DC to Madonna? AC/DC, ugh.” “Wait, what do you mean? You don’t like AC/DC?” VS. Although the No. 12 Blue Devils were preparing intensely in anticipation of this weekend’s tournament, the mood at this week remained relaxed. practice TODAY, 12 p.m “We’re ready,” senior Jackie CarCary, N.C. leton said. The Blue Devils (16-6, 9-2 in the ACC) wrapped up their season by winning five of their last six matches, topping higher-ranked opponents such as No. 5 North SEE W. TENNIS ON PAGE

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Duke’s men’s and women’s track and field teams are unexpectedly high on the leaderboard after the first day of the ACC Championships in Winston-Salem, head coach Norm Ogilvie said. Sophomore Lara Jones vaulted an alltime personal best to score eight points for the women, while the men’s javelin squad scored the most points it ever has at the ACC Championships. “Overall we’re pretty pleased with our results,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

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“The men are in sixth place, which is high and not expected.” The women’s squad is currendy tied for third with North Carolina at 16 points. The Blue Devils are a point away from the leaders, Florida State and Virginia Tech. The men scored nine points Thursday and trail the leaders by 19. Jones’ vault of 12-09.50 was a personal best and ties the second highest height in Duke history —a mark set by Laura Chen in 2003. She came in second to Lacy Janson of Florida State, who set the all-time NCAA mark with a vault of 15-00.25. Senior Laura Stanley, scored the other eight points for the women with her second place finish in the 10,000-meter run. Both teammates qualified for all-ACC honors in their respective events. The women’s team missed a chance to take a lead into the second day when junior Kelly Reynolds finished just out of the points in the hammer throw. Reynolds, who entered the meet with a mark that matched the third best throw in the ACC this season, fouled on her last five attempts. “She’s trying to learn how to throw after four turns,” Ogilvie said. “It’s something you leant after time and she has to leant now. She went back to three turns for the last throw, but the pressure was on.” Sophomore Mark Dellavolpe came in fourth in the javelin, and his score of 20207 garnered five points for Duke. Freshman Robert Weinstein finished in sixth to score three more points for the men.

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Last year, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils lost the No. 45 Tar Heels in the first round despite sweeping them one week earlier in the regular season. Duke played without current senior Stephen Amritraj, who suffered from a tom ACL, and graduated senior Peter Schultz, who was out with pneumonia. In the 2004 season, senior Jonathan Stokke —who currendy plays the second singles position and in the first doubles pairing—could not play the ACC Championships with a wrist injury. Now, the story is different. The Blue Devils are healthier and more energized to

than before “This year, we really, really, really made it a priority to win the conference first,” Amritraj said. “To win it would be a great stepping stone for the NCAAs.” His teammate, senior Ludovic Walter, has been more focused since his loss against Virginia’s No. 1 singles player. ”We worked on his forehand for 45 minutes,” assistant coach Ramsey Smith said. “I only think he’s had a few bad matches. It really motivated him to work harder for the next couple of days and I think he’s really ready to go.” The top-seeded Blue Devils received a bye into the quarterfinals of the tournament by earning one of the top four seeds. Duke pummeled Virginia Tech, 7-0, in the regular season.

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W. TENNIS from page 11 Carolina and No. 12 Georgia Tech. A final 9-2 conference record put the Blue Devils in a three-way tie for first place in the league standings with Georgia Tech and Miami. The top tournament seeds were determined by a blind draw, with Georgia Tech getting the top seed, Duke the second and Miami the third. The No. 2 seed gave the Blue Devils a first round bye and they will begin play today in the quarterfinals against seventh-seeded Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons (13-8, 5-6) defeated lOth-seeded N.C. State, 4-1, in the first round

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ous in their last match with Wake Forest March 1, 5-2. “Our program has been built on the tradition that we’ve established in the ACC,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We’ve taken a lot of pride in the ACC tournament, and we’ve gone into the tournament having as much confidence as anybody in the conference. This group has that same confidence, but at the same time they have healthy respect for everybody. They know that if they don’t play well they can be beaten.” Ashworth’s words harkened back to when Duke finished off its regular season with a 5-2 loss to the Hurricanes, whom

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ment’s semifinals. “The team challenge might be playing Miami since we lost to them last week,” Carleton said. “But I think that will be even more motivation to be fired up and get revenge against them when it really counts.” And when it counts, the Blue Devils have dominated the competition. From 1988 to 2001, Duke won 14 straight tournament championships. After finishing second in 2002, the Blue Devils claimed the tide once again a year later. Last year, however, Duke failed to make the championship match for the first time in 17 seasons, falling in the quarterfinals to Miami. “We may not have had the best results

last year or the year before but people still know the history and tradition of our program,” Ashworth said. This year’s Blue Devils enter the tournament with three all-conference team selections—Carleton, junior Daniela Bercek and freshman Melissa Mang. The only other school to place three players on the team was Miami. Mang was also named ACC Freshman of the Year, giving her a confidence boost heading into her first conference tournament “I’m a little nervous, but our team is doing well and we’re all very excited and ready to play,” Mang said. “It’s been a good year for everyone, for our team, so I think we’re ready.”

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gistics, fun, and yes, even safely. The urge to prevent hospiof several houses in the talizations and dangerous Trinity Park area and the binge drinking is, of course, ever-present rumors of loss or understandable. But the policies implemented curtailment of to reach this goal the tailgate tradi- staffeditoriai are only dubioustensions tion, ly connected to safety conover opportunities for students to party are inevitably cerns. LDOC, among other high. It is amidst this atmosthings, is about celebration. Students, despite whatever phere that officials have announced that a strict BYOB regulation the University sees fit to implement, will find a policy will be enforced durthe Last of Classes ing Day way to drink. And, in many celebration April 26, and that cases, they will drink to excess. The prohibition of beer only RLHS grills will be allowed—and these, only on distribution ensures not that revelers will avoid alcohol, Clocktower Quadrangle. Rather than serving to but rather that they’ll find make the event safer, however, other ways and places to conthese policies threaten a numsume it. Rather than being ber of students’ priorities: lo- able to enjoy a beer and a the Univer-

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and transportable) to the event. And Jim Beam is more likely to hospitalize than Busch Light. Meanwhile, the administration’s decision to confine the use of grills to a single, relatively small quad is similarly ill-advised. Making it harder to find food is never advisable on a day when students will be drinking en masse and in excess. For the sake of safety, food should be available throughout campus, not restrictively doled out in one quad. It is unclear how many

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ard than even the rogue grilling devices the University has oudawed. Ironically, Clocktower quad is adjacent to the clean-living section of dorm rooms. Residents of that area are likely in for a shock when they realize that the festivities, once spread out in a chill fashion over the whole of West campus, are taking place entirely outside their windows. And won’t somebody please think of the grass? The new restrictions on LDOC are so counterintuitive that no legitimate rationale is

combination of ess an apai about my current life at Duke that is in no way related to my impending exams. From exploding buses, disappointing basketLaura zwiener ball losses, sudthe z-spot den tragedies off of East Campus and within the Medical School, and the intense media attention over the alleged lacrosse incident, Duke has been a very surreal place to live recendy. In being bombarded by all of these serious events, it has been hard for Dukies to recognize only one common enemy to fight against as we have been given so many choices. In investigating the gloomy cloud known as the second semester 2K6 at Duke, I made some discoveries about life here that had otherwise gone unnoticed. Sure, this year has been undeniably and freakishly bad and shocking in an insane number of instances, but just because the bad karma train has slammed right into our campus and city doesn’t mean that positive events and unifying actions haven’t been taking place simultaneously within our “divided” campus. If we can manage to avoid brain damage from the copious amount of potentially cancerous waves emanating from the cable equipment parked on every green spot on campus, then we can definitely tackle our final papers and tests this year with a new perspective and possibly a new ease. (Oh, the days when exams and final papers seemed to be the most important and stressful event of our spring lives.) If we can collectively face one of the toughest semesters that Duke has ever seen, and still find ways to support our peers who are struggling, then what can faze us in our collegiate future? The proportion of real-world harshness that our campus faced over the past months has forced us all to put our values and the values of this University under a microscope. Though at first our campus seemed to be stunned into a state of confusion and disbelief, the actions and discussions I have witnessed over the past few weeks have been encouraging and earnest. Students of all beliefs and opinions are reaching out and connecting with others that they would never have supported before. Perhaps these are hard times and dark days for Duke University that much of the world is seeing, ■■

event, to at least think them through deliberately and rationally. It is not apparent

that this has been done. The picture of LDOC painted by the administration is a far cry from what it has been in years past. Ideally, it would be a day on which students could hang out, have a few beers, eat a burger with their friends on their quad, and celebrate the end of a long semester. Now, it promises to be an event requiring strategic drink-planning and aggressive elbowing to get food. All up in our grill, indeed.

Duke student

I the only one who has had trouble sleeping recently? I have to believe that I’m not the only one who has been feeling a strange

immediately obvious. The University has an obligation, when making these types of sweeping changes to a beloved

but I have never felt more connected to the student population than before this semester, and I am still amazingly proud to call myself a Duke student. The tough and trying times in any life are simply periods of growth for exposing a strength otherwise unknown. This is a period of immense pain for our campus but also an opportunity to mature. You don’t know what you have until you have to defend it to somebody else—much less an entire country and the media, and at the very least these last few months have taught me that Duke University is worth protecting and defending, and most importantly the students of Duke University are worth protecting and defending. Situations can always go wrong, and things can almost always get worse. But, the strength of an individual—and a community—can be measured in how each individual reacts to the unthinkable. Bad things will always happen; we can’t let this one semester paralyze our few final days, or let it leave us in a “gloomy cloud” haze or with a constant feeling of helplessness and despair. Nothing unites a community more than an unfortunate event, and it is important to recognize the benefits of our community going through this time of struggle—unity, respect and admiration for one another. There is much to be proud of on our campus right now, and much more action to take in the name of our community during our last days of this school year. We have been privy to a growth experience that public policy professors worldwide would die to be at the center of—for better and for all of the worse we’ve seen—and any preconceptions we had about the world or the media or Duke and even ourselves have been forever changed. Take this experience and be aware of the many sources of pride that you can find in being a Duke student just by looking around at the thoughts, words and actions ofyour peers everyday here. The values of this institution and the values of its students remain intact in the face of overwhelming adversity, and for this we should all be very proud of ourselves, and should continue to defend and uphold these morals and values no matter what the world brings or thinks. lam a proud Duke student and always will be. I am going to finish this year confidently with my head held high, proud of the many accomplishments of this University and the grace under which it has handled this year. I hope our community can continue to learn from and appreciate each other despite the challenges we will undoubtedly face in the future. Laura Zwiener is a Trinity sophomore. This is her

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love America. Unfortunately, Ameriists are quite happy to air as truth and fact. cans are stupid as hell. Remember just Frankly, I am tormented by the notion that last month when hundreds of people Americans really do believe damn near swore they all spotted a leprechaun hiding everything they hear on TV. in a tree in Mobile, AlabaArguably, a lot of the fire in the Duke-Durham ma, on St. Patrick’s Day? “community crisis” is being Precisely. I rest my case. fueled by external sources That alone goes to show of conflict that have little that the general American regard or concern for what public will believe nearly kind of violent reactions anything—especially when their prejudicial opinions an entire group of people might unleash. gets together and attests to boston cote Wednesday night, for the farfetched veracity of, the naked truth example, junior Stephen oh, say, the existence of lepMiller, another Chronicle rechauns. columnist, appeared on CNN with Nancy But Americans, a mighty group-thinkprone bunch as it is, are even more Grace, idiot extraordinaire. What ensued gullible when it comes to unquestioningly was the most maddening hour of television accepting the “news” communicated to I have ever had to suffer through. After half an hour of slanted “reportthem via the mass media. For whatever reason, a person sitting in front of a camera in ing,” Grace finally introduced Miller and asked for his response to the indictments an ugly, stuffy suit lends the mindless drivand arrests of sophomore Duke lacrosse el that spews from her mouth an air of unplayers Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligquestionable legitimacy. After about a month of following the mann. Miller responded, “Well, I think I national media coverage of the Duke speak for many students when I say that lacrosse scandal, I must admit that I am we’re very, very concerned that two innocent people may have possibly...” [Grace wholly disgusted by the unfair and appallingly uninformed “news reports” that interjects with: “Oh, good Lord!”] “...just anchors, talking heads and legal journal- had their lives ruined.” Grace didn’t even

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decency.

But encompassing all of the above, a single somewhat less abstract, less inspiring, largely unsung lesson has arguably hammered home hardest as Duke continues to be pummeled in the national spotlight. A lesson in responsible consumption. On the surface, the theme rings simply; the press has soundly reeducatedDuke students on the merits of absorbing supposedly credible reporting with a critical eye and ear. Because perhaps like me, you realized somewhere within the first few weeks of the scandal that the Duke described over the internet, in the papers and on the radio in the months to come would remain unrecognizable to the standard “plantation” dweller. And so, critical and cynical defenses on standby, we’ve skimmed opinions and ostensible facts pouring in from across the country —from The Boston Globe to The Chicago Tribune to The Los Angeles Times about our University, the second home we sought out one, two, or three years ago, presumably for compelling reasons beyond perky pink tulips and tan-conducive climate. We’ve read columns that posit questions, problems and analyses from our coevals at The Daily Pennsylvanian and The Harvard Crimson and The Yale Daily News. We’ve imbibed news briefs on the latest developments before tuning in to the numerous outlets readily commentating on their implications. As some ponder the effect the nationally syndicated “Duke Lacrosse Scandal” may have on the fall matriculation rate, I can’t help but wonder, just for a second, whether I would have hesitated 365 days ago to accept Duke’s offer of admission had media mayhem redefined then what the University seemed to represent. —

balanced opinion be presented to the public as concrete fact. It’s quite possible to be provocative without being inflammatory. So when did it become professionally acceptable to be intolerant, unfair and cruel? Why is it so hard to be reasonable, courteous and kind? Truly there is nothing more important on this campus and in this country than wellinformed and well-thought-out debate. And if I learned nothing else during my brief tenure at Duke, I certainly learned that. As for my final acknowledgements, many thanks to my patient editors; my professors whose classes I frequently skipped so that I could write my column; my teammates, my friends and Andrew Shadoff in particular, for kindly humoring me all year long by editing dozens and dozens of my rough drafts. To everyone else, thank you for reading my thoughts—l had a lot of fun. I sincerely hope that in the amount of time I spent at Duke, I somehow managed to give at least a little something back to the people and to the place from which I gained so much. Well, okay then. Good talk. I’ll see you out there. Go Sox. Boston Cote is a Trinity senior. This is her

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are lessons to be learned in the midst of this crisis, they say. Never in so short a span of time was a truer phrase more oft-repeated. Lessons in tolerance, lessons in compassion, lessons in respect, patience and fairness. Depending on who you ask and where their sympathies lie, you’ll get a decent dose of lessons—from innocent until proven guilty, to sexual assault awareness—and of r course the actidal companying wave of outrage stemming from alleged or corroborated violajane chong tions of various the short shot codes of human

let Miller finish his very first sentence. Honestly, why Grace even bothers inviting guests on her show is beyond me. The only thing she does is lambaste all views other than her own and tactlessly interrupt her guests with bouts of offensive name-calling. Grace is an embarrassment to the field of legal journalism and has single-handedly sullied the good name of lawyers everywhere. Hard to do, I know. But done it, she has. After Grace’s interruption, Miller did, much to my enjoyment, fire right back at her with things like “the truth” and “the facts.” (Because everybody knows that “truth” and “facts” are Nancy Grace’s worst enemies). Good for you, Stephen. Given all the mounting evidence against the alleged victim’s claims of sexual assault, is it so radical that the innocence of the accused be presumed until proven otherwise? Excellent witnesses, verifiable alibis, no DNA connection between the accuser and the accused—Nancy Grace, like it or not, must at least entertain the notion of the players’ innocence and not silence guests who don’t share her own unfounded opinions. While I understand talking heads like Grace are journalists who are paid to broadcast their own opinions, I also understand the implicit dangers of letting an im-

Hailing from just outside Chicago, having had little to no contact with actual students, I would have certainly been less able and perhaps less willing to navigate through the press circus to find the kernels of truth pertaining to Duke’s core. I like to think that I would have been able to hold fast to my reasons for coming. But in retrospect, I realize that whatever my expectations upon arrival, as a tiny freshman with too-big canyon in tow, Duke is in actuality something entirely removed from my preconceptions, misjudgments and even hopes. I picked up my free copy of The New York Times today in ritualistic fashion with my lunch-to-go. I thumbed through USA Today and of course, perused The Chronicle one-handed on the bus, simultaneously clinging to steel pole for dear life. What I didn’t see in print was anything resembling my day today, as a freshman going about her business on a day like any other day at Duke. Today was about walking past a group outside Edens passionately debating the merits of universal healthcare. Today was about jumping in on a brainstorm on eliminating socioeconomic barriers to a college education. Today was about meeting up with old classmates and preeminent professors for a slice of pizza byway of an off-the-cuff FOCUS reunion. Today was about strolling into my dorm after dinner and being completely caught off guard by the ridiculously talented members of Running Lights, rocking out Wilson without warning. By all means, read the news. Keep up with current events, shine light into the dark crevices ofyour mind; allow yourself curiosity, doubt, anguish, vindication, hope and enlightenment as you take in international reports and world events, community briefs and Duke developments. Read it on the bus, in the Gardens, before class and on the quad. And then do the truly responsible thing: respond. Take in everything around you as, contemplating what can be improved, what you can do, on this campus and on whatever road you choose to take during your time here. Take in the wealth of opportunities and information to create what you want to experience. Take it in; take it all in. Take in the good and bad of the here and now, the university you chose to help define your future and the campus you chose to help define. Take it in; the time is now; the gates are open, screaming “Please consume!”

Responsively.

Jane Chong is a Trinity freshman.

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