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Brodhead on the record

When

President Richard Brodhead came to Duke two and a half years ago from Yale University, he could never have predicted what awaited him. Coach K's possible departure. The Palestinian Solidarity Movement conference. A high-profile mixup at the Duke University Medical Center. And now, the

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lacrosse case.

Brodhead recently sat down for an exclusive interview with The Chronicle's Rob Copeland to discuss his handling of the lacrosse case, his opinion on Duke's increasingly vocal faculty and his treatment of the accused players. Assailed by critics of all persuasions for his actions in recent months, Brodhead is holding his ground even as calls for his resignation grow louder—although mostly from the blogosphere.

"I'm not surprised that people have criticized me," Brodhead said. "I think that all fair-minded people understand that the choices the University made had a logic to them."

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David Graham

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Other than Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and the three men he charged with rape, sexual offense and kidnapping, no one has come under more intense scrutiny in the lacrosse scandal than President Richard Brodhead. A series of public statements and the resignation of English Professor Karla Holloway this month from her post on the Campus Culture Initiative have once again brought Brodhead’s actions to the fore—actions he said have been guided from the start by one simple idea. “If you want to know what my strategy has been for dealing with this, it’s been to try to do what was right, try to

SNL skit propels lax case to world of satire by Lysa Chen THE CHRONICLE

Viewers tuning into NBC last month might have seen TV personality Nancy Grace delivering one ofher frequent tirades

against the Duke men’s lacrosse team. This one went even farther than most. Grace stared into camera tokperspectives >

ening to pluck out

and eat the living hearts from the chestal cavities of the lacrosse players. “It’ll be the last thing you ever see,” she said. “I’ve read up on how to do this.” Of course, it wasn’t the real CNN anchor on screen, but instead Amy Poehler

ofNBC’s Saturday Night Live, whose deadpan impersonation of Grace on the show’s Dec. 16 episode has sparked some controversy about what is considered appropriate material for comedy. “There will always be a certain percentage of the audience that believes that a topic is out-of-bounds,” said Lome Michaels, SNL’s founder, in a telephone interview with The Chronicle. “We weren’t discussing the actual case as much as the actual hysteria of the coverage in the media.” Seated in front of a Christmas tree and dressed in business suit, Poehler delivered a “holiday message” with an exaggerated SEE SNL ON PAGE 5

figure out what principles were involved—the principle of respect for evidence, the principle of taking seriously the community issues, the principle of presumption of innocence and due process—and fashion a response that tries to honor those principles,” Brodhead said in an interview Friday. That kind of quote—complicated and detailed—has been both Brodhead’s strength and his Achilles’ heel throughout the past 10 months. Supporters point to his philosophy on the scandal as that of a intellectual, deep thinker. But detractors seek a firmer stand. John Bumess, senior vice president SEE BRODHEAD ON PAGE 8

After more than a week of working their social skills for upperclassmen, 303 women received bids to join one of the 10 National Panhellenic Conference sororities on campus, Panhellenic Association officers confirmed Sunday night. “It was very successful,” said senior Bethany Schraml, Panhel vice president for recruitment and membership. “We’re very pleased with the numbers.” This year sorority rush began later than in previous years, but the total number of bids was roughly the same as the number in 2006, when Panhel sororities gave out 305 bids. Schraml said the final bid number was much smaller than the initial number of registrants, which was approximately 425, but added that the decline was “about the same, if not a little bit less, than previous years.” The maximum number of bids that a sorority is allowed to distribute—known as “quota”—was set at 31 this year, identical to last year’s quota, said Panhel President Chrissie Gorman, a senior. Several sororities exceeded quota. Gorman SEE PANHEL ON PAGE 9

The Chronicle breaks down the number of new members in each of the 10 Panheilenic Association sororities.

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Chavez insults U.S. officials President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell!" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday for what he called unacceptable meddling after Washington raised concerns about a measure to grant Venezuela's fiery leftist leader broad lawmaking powers.

Iran to test short-range missiles by

Inmates live longer, relatively State prison inmates, particularly blacks, are living longer on average than people on the outside, the government said. Inmates are dying at an average yearly rate of 250 per 100,000.The overall population between age 15 and 64 is dying at a rate of 308 a year.

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Determined not

budge under pressure, Iran announced new tests of short-range missiles Sunday, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed criticism that the country’s economy has been hurt by U.N. sanctions imposed for its suspect nuclear program. The missile tests come as the U.S. Navy is sending a second aircraft carrier to the volatile Persian Gulf. U.S. officials said the USS John C. Stennis, which arrives in Mideast waters in a matter of weeks, is meant as a warning to Iran. The deployment appeared to alarm some in Iran’s hardline leadership, including a member of a powerful cleric-run body who warned last week that Washington plans to attack, possibly by striking Iranian nuclear facilities. U.S. officials have long refused to rule out any options in the faceoff with Tehran, but say military action would be a last resort. Stressing Iran’s preparedness, state . television said the Revolutionary Guards planned to begin three days of testing the short-range Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles

Sunday.

LARD to target Hispanic gangs New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announcedSunday that he will seek the Democratic nomination in 2008.

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WASHINGTON Democrat Bill Richardson took the first step Sunday toward a bid to become the first Hispanic president, saying the country needs his extensive experience as a governor, cabinet secretary and ambassador. The 59-year-old New Mexico governor announced in a video posted on his website that he would set up an exploratory committee that will allow him to begin raising money and assembling his campaign organization. His candidacy would make history as

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the field of Democratic candidates would be the most diverse ever. On Saturday, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she wanted to be the first female president. Last week, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois jumped in, a formidable contender who would be the first black commander in chief. Richardson, whose father was an internationalbanker from Boston and whose mother was Mexican, said he believes the country “has changed enough” that voters are ready for a woman or minority president.

A girl,l4, was killed by Hispanic gang members who police say were targeting blacks. A cop was hurt in a gun battle with a suspected gangster. The violence is prompting officials to promise one of the toughest crackdowns against gangs in Los Angeles history.

Democrats resist Iraq strategy Two leading Senate Democrats sought to build support Sunday for a bipartisan resolution opposing President George W. Bush's war strategy in Iraq, cautioning that division over whether it goes far enough could spell defeat. News briefs complied from wire reports

"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."

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With the start of the spring semester, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has undergone several planned and unplanned changes. LGBT Center Director Janie Long, who took the job at the beginning of the fall semester, is launching several new initiatives this month—office hours for students held on East Campus and a group for gay faculty, staff and allies. In addition, a search for an assistant director will be completed this semester, and Long is currently establishing a mentoring program that pairs LGBT undergraduates and graduate students. The faculty and staff group debuted with a chocolate-and-champagne affair last Thursday night. About 40 people attended and another 35 have expressed interest, Long said. “I see it as a group for [members] to gather together, get to know one another, socialize together, to give each other support and to support our students,” she said. The office hours will commence this week, with Long available in the Crowell Building from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. every

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Juniors who missed President Richard Brodhead’s Homecoming Ball last semester because they were studying abroad will finally be able to party with Brodhead tonight. The Junior Class Council and the Alumni Association are hosting the second annual Weicome Back to Duke party in order to recognize juniors

Thursday. “I feel like first-year students are just so far away from [West] Campus, and I’d like to be more available to first-years,” she said. “I also think it’s important for the Center to be more than just this space here.” She added that some students may feel more comfortable approaching her outside the LGBT Center. Since she took on the role of director, Long has received high marks from many members of the LGBT community. Junior Ashley Walker, a Duke Allies member and Center employee, said Long has been extremely responsive to student concerns and has gone out of her way to attend student gatherings and events, even those held after hours. “I feel like Janie really cares about what we think,” said senior Joanna Noble, a former president of Duke Allies and current vice president of AQUADuke. “We’ve had younger people who are on their way to

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Janie Long, the new director of theLGBT Center, took over the post at the beginning of the school year.

bigger positions [working at the Center], but for her, this is what she wants to do.” Also in January, junior Katharine Eggleston took over the presidency of Duke Allies from Jeremy Marshall, also a junior, who announced his resignation in a Nov. 13 e-mail to the group. A second e-

mail indicated he would remain in his position until Allies elections, which were held during Winter Break. Members of the LGBT community said Marshall had made impressive SEE LGBT ON PAGE 8

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from abroad and give them an opportunity to mingle with those who stayed in Durham. The event will take place tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Although the party debuted last year, junior Hasnain Zaidi, president of the Junior Class Council, said he hopes the attendance will increase from the approximately 100 students in attendance last year. He said last year’s party was held in mid-February, which was too late in the semester to serve its purpose as a welcome-back event. Though Zaidi said he certainly wants the event to be well attended, he added that he wants the essence of it to stay the same as last year’s. “It’s the difference between a seminar and an Econ 55 class—we don’t want people to get lost in the masses,” he said. There will also be a slide show of pictures from Duke in Durham, and Duke in “you fill in the blank with the city, country or planet” that Zaidi said he hopes will have an impact on the Class of 2008. “A lot of times the challenge with Duke’s study abroad program is that it’s an isolated event in these students’ lives,” SEE

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Multicultural greek groups recruit to different tune by

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rely on their strong ties to other multicultural student organizations, such as Mi

Gente and the Asian Student Association, Every spring, Duke students are audience to the very public rush processes of orwhen seeking new members. “We meet a lot of our freshmen ganizations within the Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council and through ASA events,” said junior Katie Liu, Panhellenic Aspresident = and co-rush chair sociation. Less visible of Alpha Kappa “[Rush] is about a week to two Delta Phi Sororiis the recruitment of new ty, Inc. weeks long and runs concurmembers to Although rent to the IFC rush much of the inthe multicultural sororities terest for these schedule.” and fraterniorganizations is stirred by wordties of the Cristian Liu Inter-Greek of-mouth, IGC president, Lambda Phi Epsilon Council sororities and fra“It’s a lot of ternities also adword-of-mouth vertise rush and personal contact,” said senior Yiting events through flyering and Facebook announcements Yang, president of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc., of her organization’s Despite their commitment to multiculrush process. tural interests, many elements of the rush The three sororities and two fraternities and pledging processes of IGC organizathat make up IGC are geared specifically tions are similar to those of the IFC and Panhellenic Associations. toward students with cultural interests, in“[Rush] is about a week to two weeks cluding Asian-American and Latino issues. The rush processes of these organizalong and runs concurrent to the IFC rush tions vary, but many members said they are schedule,” junior Cristian Liu, president of all similarly affected by the small size of the Lambda Phi Epsilon International Fraterminority population at Duke. nity, Inc. wrote in an e-mail. “Events may “We’re much smaller chapters,” said include, but are not limited to philanthrojunior Nick Pardo, president of Lambda py/service events, dinners, mixers with Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. “It’s a other greek organizations and just hangrtmch smaller pool.” ing out and getting to know each other.” Multicultural greek organizations may Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity,

at 8 a.m. and left the window open. When she returned at 10 a.m., her Duke parking permit was gone.

iPod stolen from Edens dorm A student reported the theft of his iPod from his Edens 3B dormitory room Jan. 16. He said his room had been secured when he left for Winter Break Dec. 10. He added that his room had been open for renovations during this period.

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Despite their differences, all chapters of the IGC agree on one thing: they are not exclusive. Although there is a popular misconception that only minority students may become members of these organizations, group leaders said they are open to anyone interested in promoting cultural issues and education. “We are not limited to our own culture, but that’s typically who we end up with,” Pardo said.

Locks broken, tools stolen in Med Center An employee reported that a lock was sawed off a tool box and tools were stolen from inside in the North Pavilion in the Medical Center Jan. 17.

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Phone, ID pilfered from Perldns A student said Jan. 16 that she left her bookbag in an unsecured area near the reference desk in Perkins Library at about 3:16 p.m. The bag contained a cell phone, shoes, keys and ID. When she returned 15 minutes later, the bag was gone. She said she searched the area and found the bag in a restroom, but the cell phone and ID were missing.

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unsecured area in Bostock Library at about 1:10 p.m. When they returned around 2:50 p.m., their bookbags were gone. Witnesses describe a possible suspect in the area: male, 5’6”, brown hair, slighdy overweight, last seen wearing a black shirt, baggyjeans and a black poly jacket. Computer missing from Duke North An employee reported a theft of a Duke-owned laptop from his office at Duke Hospital North sometime between 4 and 6 p.m. Jan. 18. A possible suspect was described as: male, 5’10”, black hair, 185 lbs., medium build and wearing a FedEx uniform.

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“out of line and pathetic.” “I found this disgusting.... Even the audience sounded a bit unsure as to whether sneer and defended the alleged victim as a it was OK to laugh at the skit,” wrote one “heroic stripper.” poster with the username “reloxz.” Michaels said “In order to he was not surmake their stories seem credible to prised at the au“I wasn’t trivializing rape but dience reaction, investigators, trivializing people who would adding that he phony rape vicdid not expect tims are forced to use a pretty false accusation of invent hundreds the piece to be of false details, to advance their careers.” enormously rape popular. any one of which Downey can later be used He comto writer, SNL the skit pared to prove they are staff lying,” Poehler previous SNL said using Grace’s pieces that sussouthern drawl. “Real victims, on the other tained similar criticisms hand, just have to remember stuff.” “When we were doing the OJ trial, we SNL Staff Writer James Downey, who got the exact same reaction as this, ‘How wrote the skit, said he did not intend to could you be dealing with this when peocomment on the specifics of the case. ple died?”’ Michaels explained. “But what “I never have any intention other than we’re talking about is the trial and how it’s to write something funny,” Downey said. “I being approached.” wasn’t trivializing rape but trivializing peoDowney said he recognizes that other ple who would use a pretty false accusation comedy shows have not addressed the of rape to advance their careers.” lacrosse scandal. “I think especially [Jon] Stewart’s audiDowney added that he had followed the case from the beginning and wanted to ence has gotten self-selective,” Downey said. write a piece as early as March. “Sometimes his audience is like a NuremWhen news coverage of the case picked berg rally. They’re cheering for hatred of up again in early December, he knew the Dick Cheney rather than just laughing.” Politics may play a role, Downey said. timing was right. “I called up Lome and “The conventional liberal comedy audisaid, ‘I want to write something on the Duke thing,”’ Downey said. “I wrote it on ence is probably made uncomfortable politically by this story,” he said. “They don’t Friday, and we rehearsed it Saturday.” Downey said he anticipated a mixed rewant to say a poor black person can make action to the skit. a false accusation. They don’t want to de“I could easily see the dress rehearsal fend a rich, white kid.” audience sitting on their hands and refusStill, he said he does not regret pening to laugh, but instead it got big laughs ning the skit. and some gasps,” he said. “If [someone’s] position was ‘you don’t Some viewers did find the skit offensive. have the right to write about that,’ it’s a On the NBC online discussion dangerous, crazy position,” he said. ‘You boards, one thread described the skit as have a right to write about anything.”

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President Brodhead sounds The Chronicle's Rob Copeland: Are you surprised at all by the attention this case has received, and continues to receive nine months later? President Richard Brodhead: When I heard that 60 Minutes was going to do a show with two parts—one on the president’s new Iraq strategy, the other on the Duke lacrosse story—I thought to myself, “What a world, where this story is the equal of that.” If you look back nationally for the last nine or 10 months, very few stories have gotten the sustained, energized, emotional attention that this one has. C: Do you have any regrets about your handling of the scandal? B: My principal regret is that the situation ever arose. I wish the party hadn’t taken place. If the party had taken place, I wish the accusations had never arisen. I certainly wish that the district attorney had not made the statements that gave everyone such a degree of certainty about the matter. Once the situation existed, it had

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be dealt with. I’m really not immune to self-criticism in any way, I believe we’ve handled this as straightforwardly and honorably as we could have, given the extraordinary nature of the situation and the changing nature of the facts. to

G: Do you stand by all ofyour previous actions? Would you have done anything

differently? B: Let me take you back. You’re talking about a series of events that were announced on the fifth of April, when 46 players were said to be under investigation. Every member of the Duke, Durham and national community had heard repeated statements on the certainty that the rape had taken place.... Duke was not free to say, “give us another year until we know the facts for certain.” C: To be fair, you did fire the coach and cancel the season. B: The first thing we announced was the suspension of the season. Everytime I came near that subject, starting with the first day, I said this was not a presumption of the guilt of the players. It was not a disciplinary measure.... Many people have said to me in retrospect, “When you suspended the sport, that was your judgment of guilt.” I say to them, ‘You are misinformed.” It was an inevitability given the situation we were in. But I’ve tried then and in every other possible occasion to separate those acts from any question of judgment of the team. C: Then why fire men’s lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler? B: When the coach’s resignation was announced on April 5, I tried to take great care to indicate that I was not fingering him as responsible for this. What I said was that given the history that we were in the middle of living through, if and when we started the replaying of lacrosse, it couldn’t be on the same terms as in the past. We needed to close one chapter and start a new chapter. Changing the coach was just one of the necessities that came along with that. There was no pleasure to be taken in any of these decisions, but I think they were inevitable and it’s all very well 10 months later to look back and say, ‘You

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should have done things differendy.” G: Knowing whatyou do now, would you still ask for coach Pressler’s resignation? B: IfI were put in the same circumstances again, I would do exacdy the same thing. G: Why did you not hold Athletics Director Joe Alieva responsible for the team as well? Why not ask for the resignations of

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, or any of the other administrators who were previously aware of the lacrosse team’s issues. Why stop at coach Pressler? B: The party was a

team event.

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just a group of people, it was something convened by the captain of the team. The

Pressler resignation was not my attempt to say that he was responsible for the situation. It was simply a resignation of the inevitability that given where we were, we would need to make some differences to go forward with lacrosse. G: There are numerous documented in-

stances of fraternities, sororities and other

organizations holding parties with underage drinking and strippers. Why not go after them as well, orreplace their advisors? B: You said there are documented cases. I would say that to my knowledge, there are rumored cases. The difference between this and other cases is that this one came to our attention.... It’s not my idea of how to run ah undergraduate school to have dragnets and police officers to investigate people and trap them in bad behavior. C: Regarding Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, you’ve released several statements over the past month about his conduct Before then, especially before the election in November, why weren’t you more outspoken, even when his improprieties were becoming more obvious? B: I just can’t believe I would have done anybody any good ifI had made it my business to release a new statement everyday. All of us have spent far too much of our lives responding to yesterday’s newspaper. The whole nature of this case is that we’ve got to get through the reports —and misreports —back into the truth of it.

C: Why didn’t you call for Nifong to step down, or for a special prosecutor to

replace him? B: There is absolutely no provision in the state of North Carolina for a special prosecutor to be brought in, except at the request of the DA. Why didn’t I join with the defense team and file motions with them? Because it was essential that we not be seen as a partisan player in this, but that we uphold the process that looks out over all parties and renders justice at the last. C: On “60 Minutes” last week, the par-

ents of die accused students said they would not want to send their children back to Duke. In particular, they said, “Who would want to send their kids back to a University which did not support them?”

Do you understand that sentiment? B: I’m a parent, and if my child were ap object of such allegations, I can’t imagine how appalled I would be. One of the very difficult things this whole time has been people’s desire for Duke to stand up for its students. At the press conference on the 25th of March, I looked into 40 cameras and said, “These are my students too.” This whole situation is a human issue. C: If you were Reade Seligmann and Collin fmnerty, would you want to come back to a campus where professors have denounced them and where students have held protests against them personally? B: Everyone on this campus has lived through a great long complicated drama. I’m sure the drama has been far more intense and complicated for them than for any of the rest of us. I don’tknow what decisions they will ultimately make. And it isn’t over yet. There still are serious judgments against them that have not been resolved. At the same time, this is the only university where they’re known, this is the place they have friends and this is the place they chose in the first place. I hope they will come back. G: If they came to you and said they SEE

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out what is right to do. Last spring, when we set up a number of committees, many of them turned out to be quite helpful to

could not return to Duke and wanted to transfer, would you do everything in your power to help them find another school? B: Reputable universities don’tadmit students because one president called another.

us and to the whole community.

I don’t know what decisions these students will make.... I will say that I made clear to Coach Pressler that I would speak on his behalf as he looked for positions elsewhere and in fact I did. To the indicted students I say: this University welcomes you to return and respects whatever decision you make. G: Let’s talk about the attention Duke’s

faculty has received in this case, in particular the members of the so-called “Group of 88.” Do you hold the faculty to a higher standard? Should they understand the legal process, and recognize that it’s not appropriate to speak about their individual students to the national press? B: The president of a university has to exercise great care when commenting on

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G: Another committee, the Campus Culture Initiative, has been met by widespread antipathy by students as an effort by the administration to control student life. And when you appoint divisive individuals such as Vice President Moneta, it’s fair to say you invite such criticism. Why do you continue to pursue the Gd? B: The Campus Culture Initiative is an effort to visualize the best world for students here. I read in your paper this week a student expressing great indifference and hostility to the work of the Campus Culture Initiative, but I also know that at the committee’s public meetings, they have had hundreds of students participating. I’m not going to accept the notion that students are some unanimous group.

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the individual utterances of faculty members. Faculty members do not, and should not, speak for my pleasure or my approval. I was careful not to make statements that could make it seem like I was on one person’s side rather than another, or to say,“Watch out when you engage in free speech, because the president is watching.”... If faculty members talked about those underlying issues, that is their right. Quite a number of people have assured me that the ad said the students were guilty, but if you go back and look, that’s not what the ad says. I look forward to the day when we can all look back and draw a box around that whole situation and everything that arose from it, and let’s come together as a community, show respect for each other, find ways to engage and listen

C: Do you agree with the faculty members who, in letters to national publications and postings online, have asserted that this university has deep racial problems, and who have added that they are not unhappy that the lacrosse allegations came about? B: Do I agree with what they said? The side I take is in favor of thoughtful dialogue and inclusive debate about these subjects. G: But there were people calling Duke “the plantation” and comparing Duke students to slaveowners. You’ve got national media printing these words about the university of which you are president Why didn’tyou ever stand up and say, “Regardless of the allegations, it is completely of-

fensive to liken this University to slavery?” B: Those words go back a long way. I can’t tell you how many times I have spoken in defense of this University.... Last April, I spoke to all but one of the groups of visiting students'when there were press cameras on campus. The press doesn’t cover what I want it to cover. I read in a student newspaper recently something suggesting that I should have stopped the media coverage being so intense last spring. My reply to that is, “Dream on.” That’s not the way the media works. C: An advocacy group, Friends of Duke University, recently called for an independent committee to investigate your administration’s conduct of the past few months.

Will you call for such a committee? B: When the dust settles, we’ll figure

G: Does it bother you when Durham residents and city leaders criticize the University as insular in spite of its goodwill? B: People will say what they think. I am a believer in individual freedom, but that does not mean I agree with everything that is said. Duke doesn’t give money to city projects in order to buy people’s kind words. We make investments where we think we are the right partner and the appropriate benefit that can be delivered.... One of the things that has been quite depressing to me in recent months is that the further away you get from Durham, the more the story becomes about Duke vs. Durham, or white, privileged Duke vs. black, destitute Durham. These are extraordinary simplifications. The single thing I wish for the world after this episode is for people to take a little less pleasure in thinking in caricatures.

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for public affairs and media reladons, has praised Brodhead’s unflagging steadiness and moral fortitude in a no-win situation. Burness also noted, however, thatBrodhead’s style can sometimes appear glib and does not always resonate with large groups. Since a landmarkjune 5 press conference announcing the reinstatement of the men’s lacrosse program , Brodliead has stuck mostly with one-on-one interviews with members of the press, where his personable, affable manner seems to shine. His response appears to have won over many students, as several standing ovations at home basketball games attest. He also won wide acclaim from many for his decision to reinstate indicted players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann. For others it was too little, too late. A chorus of bloggers now leads the swarm ofcritics calling for solutions ranging from investigations of the administration’s conduct to Brodhead’s departure from Duke. Many of them wonder if legal proceedings may have gone differently had Brodhead taken a stronger stance early on. Others say he should have condemned harshly faculty attacks on students or use University funds to help pay legal fees for the indicted players. Several members of the group most affected by Brodhead’s actions —the lacrosse team itself—declined to comment for this story, saying that with the season opener Feb. 24 against Dartmouth in sight, it is time to look forward. “It’s going to be one of those things that I’m going to look back on, probably when I graduate, and think about it,” said lacrosse player Tony McDevitt, a senior. “I’m still a student here at Duke, so it’s tough for me to put myself in his shoes.” McDevitt stands with many other lacrosse players, blog-

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gers, professors and parents in commending the decision reinstate Finnerty and Seligmann, a move many saw as a long-awaited about-face. It was also the move that led Holloway to resign her committee seat in protest. “We were disappointed with how they handled Collin and the case up until now, but we’re pleased that they’ve to

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gotten to this point,” Finnerty’s father, Kevin Finnerty, told The Chronicle at the time. The family had to make the first move, Kevin Finnerty added, to open a conversadon with Brodhead after their son was indicted in April. A former lacrosse player who graduated last year, who would speak only on the condition of anonymity, said he has been unhappy in the aftermath of allegations with Brodhead’s behavior, which he said was not supportive of his students. “It was unfortunate that some of the subsequent actions that were taken by the University didn’t really imply a presumption of innocence,” the player said. “It’s a shame that President Brodhead took the word of a public figure over the word of students.” A quicker response, the alumnus said, might have

helped to prevent some of the trouble the indicted players have experienced. He also challenged Brodhead’s assertion that all decisions had been based on principle, using Seligmann and Finnerty’s re-admission as an example. “They were presumed innocent then and they’re presumed innocent now,” he said. “What’s changed? They are still charged. It appears that from die start diis has been a public reladons thing for [the administration].” The alumnus, who emphasized that his allegiance to the University has not waned throughout the ordeal, said the fact that faculty statements were used as evidence of a hostile environment in a defense motion to change the trial’s venue was very troubling to him. “It’s just my hope that Duke will admit some of the instances where they might have been wrong and work to make sure this doesn’t happen again, where Duke students are targeted by Durham authorities and Duke’s own faculty would be cited in a defense change-of-venue motion,” he said. “It’s in their best interest that it’s not a part of Duke’s reputation.” Brodhead’s refusal to publicly censure the signers of an April 6 ad in The Chronicle commenting on the campus’s social climate has been a central focus of criticism. The president said he believes the appropriate role for him is not to advocate one position or another but to remind the community of the values they need to observe. Steven Baldwin, professor of chemistry, argued in an Oct. 25 guest column in The Chronicle that the administration had erred in asking former men’s lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler to resign and in not taking a more vocal stand in support of students. “Cynically, you wonder how sincere [administrators’ recent actions] are,” he said Sunday. “I’ve heard people suggest that they’re positioning themselves for possible litigation. I don’t want to be viewed as an attack dog, but... I just wonder what Nifong would have done if he thought that the things he was doing were, in fact, not supported by the University.” Still, those working most closely with Brodhead throughout the case said they have been impressed by his strength, steadiness and strict refusal to take sides —even if those decisions haven’t been convenient. “He’s person ofremarkable resilience,” Burness said. “I don’tknow how he does it. I’m sure there are days when he wakes up and thinks, ‘How did I get myself into this?”’ And the president, while confident he has made the right decisions, is not unaware of his peccadillos. “Anyway I would have conducted myself would have been subject to criticism,” Brodhead said. “I’ve heard it said sometimes that I recognize subtleties and nuances and I’m sorry, I don’t regard that as a criticism. In truth, I think I’ve stood up for the values in a pretty clear and forceful manner.”

LGBT from page 3 strides in turning Allies into a larger, more effective group, but sometimes clashed with people —especially Long. In his resignation e-mail, Marshall said his failure to get a job at the Center was a major source of frustration. “I thought if I worked really hard and demonstrated a commitment to LGBT issues, I might get a job at the Center,” he wrote. “When I found out I would again not be considered for a job, I was really hurt.... That’s the truth, and the reason I tried to orient Allies against the Center.” In a Jan. 19 letter to The Chronicle laced with personal attacks on Long, he wrote that he was also upset about the departure of Kerry Poynter, a Center staff member who served as interim director from Fall 2005 until Long’s arrival. Marshall also formed a Facebook group calling for Poynter’s return. “The only reason Janie was selected over Kerry, I feel, was her more prestigious degree,” he wrote. “However, a person is worth more than a few scraps of paper.” Marshall added that Long had “left a dark stain on this entire community.” Long declined to comment on Marshall’s and Poynter’s departures. “There were quite a few people who found [Marshall] not easy to get along with, and one of them was Janie,” said Allies Treasurer Catrina Wang, a sophomore. She said a column Marshall wrote in The Chronicle in April 2006 advocating strict immigration laws also upset some people. “I think it will be good to see new faces and good for people who were formerly involved'in Duke Allies to take a step back,” Wang said. Walker said that although Marshall’s resignation is “unfortunate,” it will not be a serious blow to the LGBT community; “Even if there’s trouble in the community, I don’t feel like it’s a fragmented community,” she said. “When you have any community and it’s small, there’s some fighting and bickering. This is a family, and that’s how a family goes.”

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RICHARDSON In unusual move, Princeton to hold tuition steady For the first time in four decades, Princeton University has decided not to increase its tuition, university officials announced Sunday. Tuition for the 2007-2008 academic year will remain at $33,000 for both in-state and out-of-state students. Tuition has increased at the university every year since 1967. Last year it increased 4.9 percent. A Princeton spokesperson said trustees elected to use more funds from the university’s $ 13-billion endowment—one of the largest in the nation—instead of increasing fees for students. Colorado president resigns after fixing controversy Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado, announced last week that he will resign in one year, after restoring the three-campus CU system in the midst of controversy. Brown took the position following a sexual assault

scandal in the football program, controversy about a professor who compared September 11 victims to Nazis and criticism of the school’s fundraising endeavors. He said that by the end of his final year as president, he will have reorganized the campus and created a new culture for its students.

Four-year degrees granted to Fla. community colleges Community colleges in Florida will be allowed to issue four-year degrees, higher education officials announced last week. The degrees are restricted, however, to fields of nursing, teaching and applied sciences. The agreement helped resolve a 2004 lawsuit that challenged whether the State Board ofEducation had jurisdiction over community colleges. The agreement grants the Board of Education the jurisdiction, which will expand students’ access to education.

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“The country is looking for somebody who, one, brings the country together —a unifier, a healer,” Richardson told The Associated Press. “And two, sometwo quests by Americans override any other concerns.” A former U.N. ambassador, Energy Department secretary and congressman, Richardson stressed his experience. He said he wanted U.S. troops to return quickly from Iraq and urged a change of leadership in Washington that would work to bridge a wide partisan divide. “What this country needs is bipartisanship and to bring back civility” in government, he said. “I’ve actually done what a lot ofcandidates give speeches on.” Richardson polls far behind the Democratic front-runners: Clinton, Obama and 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards. Raising money for a presidential race will be challenging for Richardson. Still, his background makes him a potentially formidable candidate. “The national debate about the future of our country has begun and I believe I have a different perspective to offer. I know I’m not the favorite in this race,” the governor said in his video. “As an underdog and governor of a small, Western state, I will not have the money that other candidates will have. However, I believe these serious times demand serious people, who have real-world experience in solving the challenges we face. I humbly believe I’m the bestequipped candidate to meet these challenges.” In New Mexico, he has hosted talks on North Korea’s nuclear program. Most recently he traveled to Sudan to meet with the country’s president and to press him for an end to the bloodshed in Darfur. On Iraq, he advocates using diplomacy to broker an end to conflict by bringing together interested nations and convincing donor countries to help rebuild the country’s infrastructure. He said U.S. troops should be redeployed by the end of the year to Afghanistan and other regions in the Persian Gulf. Richardson setded in New Mexico after several years as a Washington staffer, pardy because of the state’s large Hispanic population. He served in the House from 1982 until 1996, when President Clinton named him U.N. ambassador. In 1998 he joined the Clinton Cabinet as energy secretary. Richardson ran into trouble as energy secretary for his handling of a scandal at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory over computer equipment with nuclear secrets that went missing. Some have said Richardson’s position in the race—running behind Clinton, Edwards and Obama—makes him an ideal vice presidential candidate. But Richardson said he is “not in this race to be vice president.” Other Democratic contenders include former lowa Gov. Tom Vilsack; Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd; and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

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ently. “I feel like a lot of things have changed and it’s hard to get back on track,” junior Tina Liang said. “It is good to be back on an actual campus and I can’t wait to see what other people did and their experiences abroad.” But Brandon Fuqua, a junior who recently returned from Madrid, said his life slipped back easily into his regular pattern. Fuqua said that if he chooses to attend, this party will be just another chance to eat free hors d’oeuvres and do a jig with Brodhead.

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chair of Major Attractions, has once again brought the Union under scrutiny, and the confusion generated by her deparUniversity Union, The preeminent program- ture highlights some of the ming body on many problems with so large and the campus, editorial insular an organiUnion oversees the likes of Broadway at Duke, zation. The Union is supposed Cable 13, Freewater Presentato plan and fund events that tions and Productions, Major benefit the student body as a Speakers and Attractions and whole, yet its actions this year WXDU. In short, it has a lot of have led many to question its power over student activities. ability to accomplish such And students pay a fee each goals. In lieu of serious transyear that lets the Union wield gression, which the Union’s exthat power. ecutive board has failed to Yet, there are few means of prove (its best arguments are public oversight, allowing the vaguely defined communicaUnion to make decisions altion problems), the firing of Mahuta is highly suspect. Her most exclusively on an internal committee members hold her basis; and this year, the organization has built a reputation in high regard, and her indusfor making errors and lacking try connections and previous experience are both valuable transparency. The recent firing of Hanna assets for any concert chair. The removal of a qualified Mahuta, a junior and now exan Octoberfest with no beer, something seems awry in the Duke

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students, whose money it handles, and even some members ofits committees has rendered the group’s failures, shortcomings and unpopular decisions all the more glaring. Ultimately, such a large programming body charged with both spending students’ money and organizing such huge events has an obligation to be more forthcoming and open in its everyday decisions and dealings. The lack of transparency should be cause for concern among all students. Beyond embracing a culture of openness with students, the Union should also begin taking steps to democratize its committee system. Every year, Union executive members are selected by the outgoing body and promoted' primarily from within the Union’s own rank and file membership. While this system is not uncommon

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lows executives to promote their friends and those who share their vision rather than those who might best represent student desires. Such a system ofpromotions only encourages the insular and secretive environment that leads many students to question where exactly their money is going. Ultimately, the Union is a programming body with a commendable mission and the funds and influence to improve campus life. In order to do so, however, the Union must be willing to listen to student voices and to grant students greater understanding and insight into day-to-day actions and decisions. The Union controls students’ money and the events students attend; thus students have a right to know what is happening and why.

The double major cult

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leader within months of the Cameron Rocks! show is likely to cause major setbacks for the concert. If Cameron Rocks!, and Major Attractions for that matter, are unable to run efficiently in Mahuta’s absence, the Union will have done serious damage to one of this year’s few large, on-campus concert opportunities. Regardless of the concert’s relative success, which has yet to be seen, this recent affair has again brought to light the Union’s organizational flaws. Indeed, this is not the first such suspect move the Union has made. Earlier in the year, for example, the executive board refused to join Campus Council and Duke Student Government in financially supporting Last Day of Classes—a highly unpopular move. The Union’s unwillingness to communicate openly with

the course of a few generations, four years at college have begun to morph from a luxury for the American elite to a rite of passage. According to U.S. Census data, 4.6 percent of Americans had completed at least four years of college in 1940; the number rose to 27.7 percent in 2005. This phenomenon— which has condemned more and more trophy-chasers to three years of law school—even has a name: degree creep. This same desire andrew gerst for differentiation courage has sent students scrambling for an even more preposterous pedigree: the double major. The well-rounded student needs, so the story goes, to concentrate in one “frivolous” subject and one “serious” one. As a result, we are plagued with a deluge of wistful second majors in English—and begrudged first majors in economics. Trinity students, here is a secret: it really, really doesn’t matter what you major in. No matter what your parents tell you—it’s a fact. Want to go to law school? Do well on the LSAT and in all of your courses. Med school? Just get orgo and the rest of the sciences out of the way. Investment banking? You’d probably do best to play a varsity sport. Beyond a certain threshold—which a Duke degree probably lifts you above—the business world cares much more about personality than anything else. The sole exception to this rule is if you want a Ph.D. right out of college, which is only for the most devoted of young scholars anyway. What does matter in college, and what it seems fewer students recognize, is taking intellectual risks. The double major—which Duke students use as a hedge against both unemployment (the econ degree) and crassness (the lit) —rules out this chance. Double majors believe they are expanding their horizons by pursuing more than one discipline. But in reality, these students simply pigeonhole themselves into two highly specified ones. One can crunch the numbers in a variety of ways, but the result is essentially the same: a double major foughly halves the number of classes a Duke student has to pursue an academic adventure. Ten courses—the bare minimum for second ,

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majors—may not sound like a great loss for an extra line on the resume next to “8.A.” But it is. It is hard, while in the Gothic Wonderland, to realize just how rare an opportunity it is to have world leaders in virtually every field willing to share their knowledge. Outside Duke, life can be monotonous; the only chance you’ll probably have to pursue anything intellectual outside of work comes from books. Ask yourself: do you really think an extra accounting class is going to impress anyone? Do you think you’ll even remember it in a year? . Duke’s other specialty—undergraduate research—exacts almost as great a toll. Some students, especially those in the sciences or set on pursuing a Ph.D., have a legitimate need to pursue independent studies. Competitive medical schools and graduate schools do expect undergrads to have a hand in some lab work. But an apparently growing number of students are doing extracurricular research for the sole purpose of being different. I ask you: why? It’s really the law of diminishing returns in action. The time spent studying esoteric minutiae in one subject could be far better spent startings at square one in a new field. (Or, better yet, it could be time spent pursuing the real joys of undergraduate life.) Some undergraduates seem to regard survey courses as unworthy of their time. But setting aside this arrogance, these students might find a perfect opportunity to gain a glimpse of a totally different world —perhaps one viewed through the eyes of a cultural anthropologist, an astronomer or an Eastern philosopher. Ultimately Duke students—and perhaps faculty and administrators—need to reevaluate their idea of the undergraduate academic experience. The notion of narrow and focused education, often research-oriented, is seductive. But 18-year-olds shouldn’t have to wed themselves to a single discipline, or positively chain themselves to two of them. It is the double major, more than anything else, which drives this overspecialization. A broader, truly liberal education—driven by stronger core curriculum requirements, but fewer major requirements —would be better for everyone. Forget “pre-professional” Just take a look around instead. Andrew Gerst,

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letterstotheed itor Faculty fails to acknowledge rush to judgment I am writing in response to the open letter to the Duke community posted by members of the Duke faculty at the web site www.concemeddukefaculty.org. In light of recent developments, I had been waiting with (in retrospect) naive anticipation for a statement from at least some members of the Group of 88 reversing their position with respect to the presumption of guilt made against the lacrosse players in their ad last spring. However, the latest statement from members of this faculty group makes clear that such a reversal of position is not forthcoming. I think the foundation of this group’s continuing state of denial over theirrush to judgment is fear: the fear that admitting error will somehow discredit their calls for social justice, and will call into question the legitimacy of their basic doctrines. Using the same process of self-delusion they accuse the “dominant” culture of exhibiting, members of this group have decided that it’s better to reject facts out of hand than subject their belief system to the potentially devastating insights of their critics. This group’s latest signed explanation of its conduct last spring—in common with the original edict of condemnation—makes clear that no injustice perpetrated in the name of a politically correct hegemony can be in good conscience redressed. To apologize for its rush to condemn students to vicious persecution for a crime they didn’t commit would, apparently, be tantamount to admitting that their political agendas are somehow not worth pursuing. Part of this group’s refusal to reconsider its ini-

tial verdict, I’m sure, is due to the perception that “privileged” kids should go through life so blind to the cultural struggles of others, and—more important in this case—so indifferent to the institutional struggles ofacademics whose careers are devoted to exposing and deconstructing cultural inequalities. But to build a platform for condemning three college students to criminal prosecution on such a perception in the clear and present light of their innocence is the kind of monstrous injustice that the civil rights movement has been seeking for decades to end. Brad Davis Trinity 'B3

Joyce was excluded from such fraternal activities, we decided to hijack this spot on the op-ed page. But only after the editors foiled our plan to be featured next to the Sudoku.

James and Joyce have been warned against relapse. Ballou and Supama Salil are still on Step I.

Allie Vergotz is a Trinity Monday.

Tutt’s column presents offensive implications Shame on Andrew Tutt forjudging me and the entire student body for sleeping in on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day(“And the winner is...”, Jan. 19). I did not sleep in on Martin Luther King Day. Granted, I did not attend any of the scheduled discussions; I find scheduled discussions about as celebratory as pulling teeth. Yet I did not attend any discussions on Christmas, either, and I still managed to celebrate it. I am not accountable to Tutt for how I chose to remember Dr. King, and I resent his implication that my failure to attend lectures all day Monday means that I consented to racism through apathy. Shame on You, Tutt. Ben Reed Trinity ’O7

Reality TV sans TV We,

James and Joyce, met in LIT 2995: Self-Absorbed European Authors of the 20th Century, where we bonded over our love of Ulysses and hatred for all things Marcel Valentin-Louis-EugeneGeorges Proust. Pretentious snob. We can’t imagine a sadder existence than being the pre-emininent Proust scholar in the world, except maybe being the second most pre-eminent Proust scholar. monday, monday After Winter Break, James and Joyce we found ourselves incapable of discussing anything remotely erudite. Our discussion ofPride and Prejudice degenerated from the Jane Austen novel to the BBC mini-series, before bottoming out with the Keira Knighdy ignominy. And with that, we present the following journey; James and Joyce’s 12 Steps to Beating Our TV Addiction *

Step 1: Admitting we have a problem Our con law professor asked us ‘Why would you want the Constitution to protect civil rights?” James panicked immediately—‘We can’t have civil rights. Then Jack Bauer won’t be able to torture the terrorists and stop them from releasing ‘The Virus,’ and people are dying and we won’t be able to stop it!” Joyce reminded him not to worry because in 24 hours it would all be okay. Our professor wasn’t thrilled. That’s why we enrolled in online rehab at Stop-Curling-IntoA,-

Fetal-Position-Every-Time-Someone-Takes-The-RemoteAway.com. Step 2: Believing in a power greater than ourselves. We had worshipped the twin gods of TiVo and Slate.com, but our sponsors made us apostatize. This was going to be harder than we thought.

Steps 3 and 4 went by in a haze of pain, as we were cut offfrom TV cold turkey. Step 5: Admitting our wrongs, We recognized it was wrong for James to try to perform an emergency tracheotomy in a restaurant with a straw. To be fair to him, he saw a butterfly land on the table, which reminded him of how plants suck water through capillary action. Then he noticed the man choking, looked at his straw, and the solution was

would venture to guess that there are few people who would not enjoy Disney World. Maybe Splash Mountain isn’t your thing, but hey, there’s always Space Mountain. Maybe you don’t like the rides so much, but those shows (oh, Indiana Jones!) catch your attention. Maybe you just like riding inside the Epcot ball. Whatever it is, there’s something for everyone. Why not envision your college experience in the same, idealized light? Why not design your university so that it’s “practically perfect in every way”—just like Mary Poppins —for everyone? The Campus Culture Initiative is hard at work re-examining the Duke experience in terms of race, verqotz allie gender, alcohol and athletdown and dirty wrth dsg cs among other things They hope to discover what’s right and wrong, to keep the good stuff, to fix the bad stuff. Supplementing these stated goals ofCCI is one ofDuke Student Government’s latest projects. Whereas CCI aims to address specific themes, this new DSC project strives to serve as a more general guide for what paths Duke should follow in the coming years. It will combine the ideas ofmany students into a few overarching themes. So what’s this new project I’ve come to explaining, via Disney World and the world’s greatest nanny? The project is no more than a story. Well, more like a series of stories. It’s the Duke Story Project. The Project asks students “to imagine the perfect day, weekend or night for an undergraduate at Duke University” and write about it. Tell your story as you see it, whether it involves hours in Bostock, lunch with friends or a massive dance party at Shooters. It’s yours to do with it what you will. Inspired in part by Disney World, DSC Executive Vice President Joe Fore, a senior, explains that the Project uses Disney’s concept of writing a story about a new ride before the ride is built. Scriptwriters for the mega company capture the entire hoped-for experience in words, thoughts and feelings; then the ride is constructed. “The point of writing the story is you know where you’re going,” Fore explains. With the help of students’ submitted stories, Fore and others in DSG will identify general themes to help the administration get an idea of what students really want to see at Duke. All of the stories will be included in a report handed over to the administration by the end of this year. Looking for comments beyond what students usually jot down in standard surveys, DSG hopes the Project will be more constructive than complaints. Meaning, DSG recognizes that, not surprisingly, cries of “Parking sucks!” won’t get us very far in improving campus. The Project does not pretend to offer solutions to any problems on campus; it just hopes to paint a picture in the back of administrators’ minds as to what students want. When the time comes to make decisions about major changes on campus, maybe President Richard Brodhead will remember that one line in the third story he read or that idea that kept coming up in story after story or that paragraph in the last story about.... You get the idea. ‘You’re putting people in a ride. You’re putting them in an experience,” Fore emphasizes. By reading student’s stories, DSG hopes administrators will make those fictitious narratives find harmony with fact. I find the Project’s goals admirably humble; no one expects it to propose grand solutions to everything we can’t quite figure out yet. DSG simply expects a sort of all-encompassing suggestion box, amplified in the narrative form. I only worry about the Project’s success in terms of participation: Will you write a story? In a semester occupied by basketball, rush, tenting, sundry applications (and did I mention basketball?) will you help make this Project a reality? I’m taking DSG’s side in this round. They’ve come forward with a unique plan to get your voice heard, and it’s something a little more fun than sitting in on some committee. They’re just waiting for you to say something more constructive than “parking sucks!” I know I’ll be writing my story. After all, story time is right up there with Disney World on the list of things I miss from my youth.

obvious: tracheotomy. Joyce’s crime was simple but egregious. She tried out for Canadian Idol—hosted by Ben Mulroney, Trinity ’93. She was quickly exposed as an infiltrator when she began to sing the national anthem as “Eh, Canada!” (Honest mis-

take, really). Steps 6 and 7: Dear God, it’s me, Please make this stop.

James and

Joyce

Steps 8 and 9: Make amends to the people we have

harmed.

Sorry Mom and Dad for telling you that our subscription to US Weekly was a C2K requirement. Sorry also for enrolling in the FVD certificate to satisfy my habit. Sorry to the GA freshmen for insisting that it’s not Gilbert-Addoms, but Gilberrrrrrrrrrrr-Addoms, and then laughing maniacally (our good friend Stephen Colberrrrrrrrrrrr thanked us for the extra

publicity).

Step 10: Continue to admit we’re wrong every time someone points it out So our sponsors pointed out that Stephen Colbemrrrr didn’t actually thank us. But we know he would have. We took the criticism well because like all Duke students we know our sponsors criticize us because they’re jealous. They probably went to UNC, or God forbid, N.C. State. (James and Joyce included that gratuitous quip to pander to the masses).

Step 11: Prayer and meditation This step involved spurning mass media and gorging on Ravi Shankar and Deepak Chopra. Ommmmmmmmmm.

Step 12: Share our journey. HeU(

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Duke has seen its fair share of quality poise in all those games. Tennessee, however, has something—or rather, someone —that Duke has not seen this year in Parker, a universally touted forward-guard hybrid. In a game against Army last March, she became the first player to dunk in a women’s college basketball game. She has repeated the feat five times since then. But it is Parker’s versatility, not just her ability to throw down, that wows coaches, dazzles fans and baffles opponents. “She can take post players outside and go by them,” Goestenkors said. “She has guard skills. And then she’s got so many moves inside, and she’s such a good passer, she’s hard to double team. You can’t go one-on-one against her because she’s got so many good moves, and she’s so skilled. “We’re not going to stop her, I have no illusions of trying to stop her. We just have to contain her—we don’t want her to go offfor 30 points against us.” Although the players on each team have changed, the magnitude has remained constant. In their Jan. 23 game last year at Duke, which the Blue Devils won 75-53, both teams were undefeated going in. In this year’s renewal of the emerging rivalry, Duke sports an unblemished record while the Lady Volunteers have lost just once, to the Tar Heels. Goestenkors, however, is the first to admit this year’s game will barely resemble last year’s. “They’re totally different,” she said. “And so are we. I think that it’s an opportunity for both of us to learn where we are and what we need to work on.” teams and has showed

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With her top-ranked Blue Devils traveling to No. 4 Tennessee tonight, head coach Gail Goestenkors has some concerns. She thinks Duke’s rebounding needs to improve, and she knows her squad has its hands full trying to contain Candace Parker. But one thing she is not overly worried about is the expected sellout crowd and the hostile atmosphere inside ThompsonBoling Arena tonight at 7 p.m. in Knoxville, Tenn. She has good reason not to fret—some of her players won at Tennessee two years ago, and most of her team played in the national championship game last year. “A lot of our players have played in that environment,” Goestenkors said. “And our seniors [Lindsey Harding and Alison Bales], they’ve been through everything now. We’ve played in Final Fours and sold out coliseums, and they set the tone for us. If they’re comfortable in that situation—and they were both starters the last time we played there, so they should be comfortable in that situation—then I think everyone else will be, as well.” Even so, facing off against a top-five opponent is never easy, even though Duke made it look simple in its methodic dismantling of then-No. 1 Maryland Jan. 13. Going to the home court of such a foe—as the Blue Devils will do twice more this year when they travel to No. 2 North Carolina Feb. 8 and the No. 3 Terrapins Feb. 18 makes the task even tougher. The Blue Devils have experience in big-game settings, but tonight’s tilt is this

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CandaceParker scored 17points in last year's game, but she was held in checkand turned the ball over seven times. Duke team’s first true road challenge. And there will certainly be a different atmosphere at Tennessee than the one inside the friendly confines of Cameron In-

door Stadium “We need to stand strong,” Goestenkors said. “We know they will make some runs we just have to play with a lot of poise.” —

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No. 1 Duke (19-0, 5-0 ACC)

Durham, N.C. Top-ranked Duke fell at home to No. 2 Tennessee, 72-69, justone year after falling to the same team in the Final Four. Monique Currie and Alana Beard each scored 18 points in the game, but the Lady Volunteers shot 58 percent from the field in the second half to edge past the Blue Devils and take over the No. 1 ranking for the first time in three years. Dec. 2, 2004

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Knoxville, Tenn. Monique Currie's 16 second-half points, including six in the final 1:41, helped No. 10 Duke to upset fourth-ranked Tennessee 59-57. The Blue Devils become only the seventh team in 17

years to beat the Lady Volunteers at home. "Every possession was a war/' head coach Goestenkors said of the defensive battle. Jan. 23. 2006

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No. 2 Duke 75, No. 1 Tennessee 53 Durham, N.C. No. 2 Duke's impressive defensive efforts—led by Lindsey Harding's career-high-tying eight steals—held the No. 1 Lady Volunteers to a season-low 53 points in Tennessee's worst loss in almost four years. The Blue Devils took over the No. 1 spot for one week, before losing to North Carolina.

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Duke entered Friday’s meet against Virginia looking to establish itself as a legitimate contender against one of the ACC’s

top teams —and after overcoming a sluggish start, it managed to do that. Despite coming up short against the nationally-ranked Cavaliers in Charlottesville, Va., the Blue Devils proved that they cannot be taken as lightly this year. The Duke men (3-4,1-3 in the ACC) fell to No. 17 Virginia (6-2, 5-0) 126-100, while the women (4-3, 1-3) lost to the No. 20 Cavaliers (4-3, 4-1) 126.5-110.5. Even though Virginia’s men’s team has won eight straight ACC titles and its women’s team was undefeated before losing to North Carolina Saturday, the Blue Devils were not intimidated. “It’s easy to fall apart against a team like Virginia, but we had a lot ofreally competitive swims,” freshman diver Julie Brummond said. “UVA has a huge tradition for swimming, and we’re just building our program. We just tried to swim the best races we could.” But Duke came out with little energy and struggled early in the meet. “The first half of the meet we were rather flat,” head coach Dan Colella said. “We got together and talked about it during one of the breaks. In the second half we had some really fine performances.” Brummond led the Duke women, posting victories in both the 1-meter dive and the 3-meter dive. Senior Jackie Rodriguez, sophomore Erin Frizzell and freshman Shannon Beall

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placed first in the 200 breaststroke, 200 backstroke and 200 butterfly, respectively, “Those wins were huge for us,” Brummond said. The Duke men were led by divers Nick Campisano and Eric Winnard. Campisano and Winnard finished first and second in the 3-meter dive with scores of

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