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GREENSBORO, N.C. Lindsey Harding had carried the Blue Devils on her shoulders all season, but Saturday her teammates were left picking up their heartbroken point guard from the floor at the Greensboro Coliseum. Harding had the ball in her hands with her team facing a one-point deficit and 0.1 seconds left on the clock. A 75-percent free throw shooter on the year, Harding stepped to the line, only to clank both shots off the back of the rim. As Carrem Gay’s last-second attempt at a game-winning tip-in missed the hoop, the title hopes of the Blue Devils (32-2) vanished, and fourth-seeded Rutgers (258) escaped with a 53-52 victory over the NCAA Tournament’s overall No. 1 seed. “The first time I shot it I was so shocked,” Harding said. “It came off perfectly, but I guess some days you just can’t hit them.” After missing her final free throw, Harding fell to the court and covered her face as her teammates surrounded and consoled their senior leader, playing her final game in a Duke uniform. “My heart just breaks for her right now,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I just don’t want this to be her lasting memory because she has meant so much to our program.” The Scarlet Knights got their first and only lead of the second half on a layup by freshman guard Epiphanny Prince with 20

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Room Fix for single and double rooms will be restarted Tuesday night, after problems with the server precluded students from registering for housing this weekend for the next academic year, Residence Life and Housing Services officials announced Friday night. Out of approximately 300 rising sophomores and juniors whose single-room lottery windows opened Friday night, more than half were unable to log in to the online Room Fix system or were unable to select a room once logged in, said Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications. “We made the decision to stop the process and restart it on Tuesday with single rooms again,” Williams said, adding that triple-room selection, which occurred

Thursday night, proceeded successfully

and will not be restarting. This is the first year Room Fix has been conducted online. Students attempting to select a single room said only 30 to 40 rooms were taken by the end of the night. All students who completed room selection Friday night, however, must also restart the process. “We thought it was unfair that not WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE

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Lindsey Harding is consoled by teammates after missing two free throws at the end of Saturday's game.

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N.C. officials say lax case, charges still underreview by

Yousef AbuGharbieh THE CHRONICLE

Contrary to several reports, no decision has been made to drop the remaining charges against indicted former men’s lacrosse players David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, a spokesperson for the North Carolina Attorney General’s office said Thursday. “Our review of the case, including reviewing documents and conducting

N.C. Attorney Gen.

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3 senators take aim at Gonzales by

Lara Jakes

Iran departs from U.N.'s lAEA Iran announced Sunday that it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency,citing the"illegal and bullying" U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to stop enriching uranium.

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WASHINGTON Republican support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales eroded Sunday as three key senators sharply questioned his honesty over last fall’s firings of eight federal prosecutors. Additionally, two Democrats joined the list of lawmakers calling for Gonzales’ ouster. Several Republicans also urged President Bush to allow sworn testimony from his top aides about their role in dismissing the U.S. attorneys —a standoff threatening to result in Capitol Hill subpoenas of White House officials. The embattled attorney general was facing the toughest test of his two-year tenure at the Justice Department with the release of documents suggesting he was more involved with the firings than he indicated earlier. Democrats have accused the Justice Department and the White House of purging the prosecutors for political reasons. The George W. Bush administration maintains the firings were not improper because U.S. SEE ATTORNEYS ON PAGE 10

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Roadside bombs killed five U.S. soldiers in Iraq Sunday, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital. In Baghdad, gunmen on rooftops opened fire on Iraqi soldiers, prompting fierce fighting in the narrow streets and alleys of one of the capital's oldest neighborhoods.

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Former N.CSen. John Edwardsand his wife, Elizabeth, announce Thursday he will remain in the presidential race.

Edwards still in race despite wife's cancer by

Kathleen Hennessey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON John and Elizabeth Edwards stood side-by-side in the North Carolina sunshine to announce that her cancer was back and that his run for the presidency would go forward at full speed. It was a sympathetic tableau that drew an immediate outpouring of well wishes from people of all political persuasions.

Cruise couple falls overboard A man and woman fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday, but both were rescued after a fourhour search and appeared to be in good condition, a cruise line spokeswoman said.

‘You can cower in the corner and hide or you can be tough and go out there and stand up for what you believe in,” Edwards said. His wife said her illness was a hurdle they would surmount together. That sort of can-do optimism in a grim and unavoidable situation may well bring short-term benefits to a campaign trying to keep up with Democratic heavy-hitters

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Kirk Osborn, one of the lead defense attorneys in the Duke lacrosse case, died

early Sunday morning. Osborn, 64, represented indicted former men’s lacrosse player Reade Selig-

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What does Durham Academy senior John Pardon have in common with past winners of prestigious awards like the Nobel Prize, the National Medal of Science and the Fields Medal? All were finalists in Science Service’s national Science Talent Search contest. Pardon, who placed second out of more than 1,700 entrants, joins a class of Durham youth that has performed impressively in the STS in the past few years. The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, for one, has consistently produced contest semifinalists, including four seniors this year. By taking advantage of research opportunities at Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University as well as researchoriented high school curricula, these students are beneficiaries of a willingness by regional research universities to provide academic opportunities for advanced high school students. Myra Halpin, dean of science at NCSSM, said students at her school have benefited greatly from the “invaluable” support provided by local research universities. “We’ve had folks working in the labs at Duke and UNC, providing equipment and expertise that we don’t have,” Halpin said. The expertise provided by university faculty guest lecturers can engage high school students on a level they are not accustomed to and encourage their scientific study, said senior Steven Lin, an STS semifinalist from NCSSM. “Students really enjoy going to these talks and learning from these lecturers,” Lin said. Pardon said his father, William Pardon, a professor of mathematics at Duke, SEE SCIENCE COMP. ON PAGE 9

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Kirk Osborn, one of Reade Seligmann's defense lawyers, died of a heartattack early Sunday morning.

mann. Fellow defense attorney Joe Cheshire told TheAssociated Press that Osbom suffered a massive heart attack Friday and passed awayjust before 1 a.m. Sunday. “We are heartbroken over the death of Kirk Osborn,” the Seligmann family said in a statement. “Kirk’s fight for the truth and for justice in this case met the highest standards of ethics and professionalism and stand in stark contrast to those who condemned Reade. He is an example of what a lawyer should be.” Osborn filed two major motions in the case. In one, he used phone records and security camera footage to show that Seligmann was not at the house where the alleged rape occurred at the time when the alleged victim said she was assaulted. In a second, Osborn asked for Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong to be removed from the case, arguing Nifong had pursued the charges in order to win votes. “Kirk stood up for Reade at great personal cost,” the Seligmann family said. “He stood by Reade and together they faced the mob that was outside the Durham County Courthouse a year ago; Kirk never flinched and faced both that mob outside the courthouse and the bias within the courthouse with the courage that he showed throughout this case.” A Montana native and graduate of the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill law school, Osborn worked in Chapel Hill. Beyond the lacrosse case, Osborn represented Kathryn Dawn Wilson, a cook at the Little Rascals Day Care Center in Edenton, N.C., in a 1995appeal. After Wilson was sentenced to life in prison for child sexual abuse in a highly publicized case, Osborn won an appeal of her sentence —based on prosecutorial mistakes—and charges were later dropped. Osborn’s wife, Tania Osborn, told The Raleigh News and Observer her husband was proudest of never having lost any of the death penalty cases he defended.

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Avid student, faculty and staff cyclists now have a new place in Durham where members can obtain used bikes, attend repair clinics or get their vehicles

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The Durham Bike Co-op, where cyclists can have their bikes repaired, held its grand opening Sunday.

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“Chewning is a school that has a large number of ‘at-risk’ children,” Forbes said. The Department of Computer Science decided to pilot the service learning program with Chewning last year, and offers the volunteering-based course as a halfcredit every semester. Other area middle schoolers who attended the RoboCupJunior competition came as part of Students Making Another Science Success Story, a program run out ofNorth Carolina Central University. SMASSS educates students from Durham middle schools in different areas of math and science through a summer camp and Saturday “academies” during tfie school year. As spectators, the SMASSS students learned about basic robotics principles such as design specifications and programming light sensors. Ray Harrison, a summer instructor for the SMASSS summer camp, said the students were not familiar enough with robotics to enter a team this year. “They have expressed a lot ofinterest—next year they’ll have a little more experience,” Harrison said. The event held at Duke Saturday offered the middle school students a chance to compete in the dance and sensor rescue

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The chicken dance is not just for uniting humans of all ages in the spirit of synchronized hand-clamping: It’s for robots, too. Middle schoolers descended on the Levine Science Research Center Saturday for the RoboCupJunior regional

competition.

The contest is part of a larger initiative in the Durham area to engage college students with children in sixth to eighth grades through robotics projects. “Kids love robotics. It’s amazing how much they can do with them,” said Jeff Forbes, assistant professor of the practice of computer science. The RoboCupJunior competition involved teams from two area middle schools, Chewning and Apex, as well as more than 60 students from Durham middle schools who came as spectators. The International RoboCupJunior competition offers three challenges, explained Tom Setde, the robotics coach for Apex Middle School. Students can develop robots to dance to a chosen song, cooperate with other robots or perform a search and rescue by navigating a simulated disaster field. Throughout the day, Duke students, most of whom belong to the National Society of Black Engineers, helped run the event and assisted the students with the design and programming of the robots. Before the actual competition —held in the afternoon—Duke students offered robotics education for the participants. The morning consisted of demonstrations and breakfast as well as a workshop run by junior Chris Bryant.

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Sixth-to-eighth graders from two local schools took part in a robotics competition at the LSRC Saturday. “We actually have a program that we do every Thursday—we’ll go and have them do some sort of robot challenge in programming or something,” Bryant said. The program is a service learning

course taught by Forbes called Computer Science Education Research Seminar. The small group of students enrolled in the course visit Chewning Middle School in northeast Durham weekly.

challenges. Chewning Middle School won first place in both competitions, beating Apex’s chicken-dancing robot with a robot decorated as a cardinal which performed to “I Believe I Can Fly.” Forbes’ students will be taking a team of four from each school to the International RoboCupJunior competition held at the Georgia Institute of Technology in July.

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After dropWASHINGTON, D.C. ping its second game of the season to No. 1 Cornell Tuesday, No. 5 Duke (6-2) produced enough offense to erase a two-goal

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Zack Greer was one of two Blue Devils to score two goals in the team's 6-4 victory Saturday in Washington.

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halftime deficit for a 64 victory over No. 7 Georgetown (4-2) Saturday. The strong play of senior goalie Dan Loftus and the DUKE 6 rest of the Duke defense shut G-TOWN I 4 down the Hoyas and helped the Blue Devils avoid their first losing streak since the 2004 season. “We’re starting to play the type of team defense I thought we could play,” head coach John Danowski said. “I don’t think we helped Danny out too much in the first couple games, but we’re starting to get there.” Down 3-1 at the break, the Blue Devils’ defense, led by Loftus’ season-high 19 saves, suffocated the Georgetown attack in the second half. The tough Duke defense also led to better scoring opportunities by causing turnovers and sparldng the dangerous Blue Devil transition offense. “The defense was shutting them down,” attackman Zack Greer said. “When we would give the ball up, we knew the defense would get it back. They give us more confidence and freedom to do our thing.” Duke began its comeback just 28 seconds into the second half when Greer buried a shot from the top of the crease

off a Gibbs Fogarty assist. After forcing a Georgetown turnover, the Blue Devils tied the game 4-4 on Greer’s man-up goal with 3:09 left in the third quarter, pushing the momentum in the Blue Devils’ favor. After Georgetown goalkeeper Miles Kass had allowed just one Duke goal in the first half, the offense continued to execute in the second half, exploding for two more goals from Matt Danowski and Brad Ross to round out the scoring at 6-4. “It was close in the first half,” Greer .said. “We had a few chances but just didn’t bury them. In the second half, we worked it around, found guys in the back and shot smarter. The goalie had a great game, and we just had to find away past him.” Matt Danowski finished the day with a goal and an assist, extending his string of consecutive games with at least one point to 30 —the fifth-longest active streak in the nation. Greer and Ned Grotty, who both pitched in two goals each, teamed up with Danowski on offense to complete the late-game comeback in a contest composed of two completely different halves. “It was such a game of runs,” Loftus said. “We tried to limit their runs and continue our runs. That’s what we,wanted to do, and thank God we did.” Still acclimating to John Danowski’s unique philosophies, Duke’s defense functions as a unit instead ofrelying on individuals and matchups. Although the offense

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Midway through the first half Friday night, No. 5 Duke had nothing going on

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offense.

Virginia Tech struck quickly against the Blue Devils and dominated the possession game during that early stretch. The Hokies (4-6, 0-3 in the ACC) controlled their passing and secured most of the loose ground balls, keeping the game away from the usually explosive Duke offense. Even so, the Blue Devils (8-1, 1-1) rallied back with a strong offensive showing to beat the visiting Hokies, 16-7, at Koskinen Stadium. “We actually disrupted their offense at times and put the ball on the ground, but we didn’t come VA.TECH Z_ up with the ball,” DUKE 16 head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Getting loose balls, win the draw—that’s your momentum in this game. We didn’t do that as well in that opening stretch as I would have liked.” Virginia Tech’s patience with the ball paid off as junior Jenna Reich was able to expose the Blue Devils’ defense to find the back of the net three times on the night. She scored her first two goals, also the first goals of the game, in the opening 13 minutes. Down 2-0, however, Duke freshman Christie Barnes took a shot that dribbled between the legs ofHokie goalkeeper Kari Morrison that inspired the run-and-gun Duke offense to find the stride that would carry them to victory. Fourteen minutes in, Barnes niftily ducked under two defenders in front of the goal and took a shot. Virginia Tech’s keeper got a piece of the ball but, even with a desperate dive, she could not stop it from inching across the net’s threshold. Barnes’ goal provided the momentum the Blue Devils’ attack needed to begin the offensive onslaught that ensued. Duke scored six more goals to end the first half ahead 7-3. “Last year we prided ourselves really on coming out from the whisde and dominating

Searching for their first ACC win of the season, the Blue Devils continued their struggles at the plate against Georgia Tech. But thanks to the strong pitching of Tony Bajoczky, they managed to take one

of three from the Yellow Jackets. Duke (18-9,1-8 in the ACC) gave G A. TECH 5 up two runs in the DUKE top of the ninth on Friday, surrendering a 2-1 lead GA.TECH -0 and sending the DUKE 3 Blue Devils to their seventh G A. TECH straight conference loss, 3-2. On DUKE BaSaturday, joczky and Michael Seander combined on a six-hit shutout of Georgia Tech (14-11,54), giving Duke a 3-0 victory. “I was able to get ahead of hitters, which helped a lot,” Bajoczky said. “We’ve kind of been struggling at the plate, and we just had to do the best we could pitching to keep us in the game and give us a chance to win.” Bajoczky gave up five hits over seven innings, striking out five. “Tony gave us a great performance,” head coach Sean McNally said. “It’s a good feeling to get the first win under our belt. We felt like it was overdue—we’d been playing well in conference play, just not quite well enough.” Hitting has been a large reason for the Blue Devils’ conference struggles. Duke came into the series with a .218 batting average in conference play—last in the ACC. Their struggles continued this weekend, “

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Caroline Cryer scored four goals Friday night against the Hokies to give her a team-high 32 on theyear. teams,” senior attacker Leigh Jester said. “[This time] we came out flat, but fortunately we picked it up and made a good run.” The Blue Devils’ assault against Virginia Tech showed no signs of slowing down after halftime. The team that started the game completely flat was replaced by a team that was on fire offensively. Duke scored five goals within the first seven minutes of the period to open up an 11-goal lead. Two of those goals came from junior Caroline Cryer, who scored four on the night and leads the team with 32 this season. Overall, Duke looked like a unified and organized squad, capitalizing on its strong chemistry on offense. Virginia Tech, on the other hand, looked much less cohesive with six of its seven goals recorded as unassisted efforts. “We really know where to look for each

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other. We’re comfortable with each other,” Cryer said. For Kimel, Friday’s victory was bittersweet. She was happy about what she called her team’s “flashes of brilliance,” but she was not satisfied with the sloppy effort the team put forth to open up the contest. With a challenging three-game roadtrip coming up against No. 3 Virginia, No. 12 Notre Dame and No. 2 Northwestern, Kimel believes the team will need to find its groove early in each of those matches in order to win. “I’m happy that we were able to respond when we were down two, but I would have liked a more decisive, wellplayed game by us,” Kimel said. “I’m ready for us to come out and start a game hard and finish a game hard, playing at a really high level.”

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Wanisha Smith committed three of Duke's 16 turnovers Saturday against the Scarlet Knights. Rutgers was able to take advantage of the Blue Devils' give-aways to score 16points off turnovers as opposed to Duke's four.

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Lindsey Harding stood for Duke basketball. And as Harding stepped to the line

for her team with virtually no time left in the Sweet 16 matchup against Rutgers, she stood for Duke again. All hopes rode on the team captain’s shoulders QcimC as Harding took a pair of analysis free throws with the Blue Devils down 53-52. It was certainly fitting. “It would have been Lindsey,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said when asked who she would pick to take those free throws. “I love the ball in Lindsey’s hands, she’s done a great job all year.” But as the ACC Player of the Year fell to the floor in emotional agony after missing those two shots, Duke’s hopes for the program’s first national championship collapsed with her. However much it may seem that Harding’s final shots cost Duke its chance at advancing, the rest of the game better explained the Blue Devils loss and why

Rutgers —a team Duke had pummeled by 40 earlier this season—was in the game at all. Rutgers’ head coach C. Vivian Stringer attributed her team’s victory to fate and faith. “[This] team has believed all along that we are a team of destiny,” she said. “All of the signs were there for us, and we took that as all systems are go.” In a tight, back-and-forth game like Saturday’s, there may be some truth to Stringer’s statement. But Rutgers also outplayed the Blue Devils on the offensive boards and forced 16 Duke turnovers, allowing the Scarlet Knights to earn precious extra possessions and slow down the pace of the game. Rutgers out-rebounded the Blue Devils on the offensive glass 9-1 in the opening period and 11-7 on the day. Senior center Alison Bales, who averages 7.8 rebounds per game, totaled just one board in the first half. With less than five minutes to go in the first period, thanks to back-to-back offensive rebounds, Rutgers held the ball for 1:20 consecutively. Although they did not score, the series was emblematic of the Scarlet Knights’ ability to keep the game at

their preferred mild tempo and away from the Blue Devils’ attack. Duke averaged more than 37 points per half this season but put up just 21 in the first period Saturday. And although Rutgers shot just 24.1 percent from the floor in the first half, it only trailed the Blue Devils by five going into the locker room. In the second half, it was Rutgers’ ability to not only create turnovers but also to capitalize on them that allowed the Scarlet Knights to whittle away Duke’s lead—which was as large as 10 in the second half. The Scarlet Knights began to use the pressure defense they call “55” after halftime, and as defenders ganged up on the Blue Devils, Duke began to feel the heat and make poor decisions. “Rutgers is a very athletic team, and they are well known for their strong fullcourt pressure,” Bales said. “They did a great job tonight keeping tis from playing our game, so I think when they started the press that definitely was the turning point in the game for them.” Rutgers forced eight turnovers in the second half, including two steals in the final minute of play. The Scarlet Knights

converted Duke’s 16 turnovers into 16 points. The Blue Devils scored no points off turnovers in the second half and only four points off them in the entire game. When the teams last met Dec. 4 in Piscataway, N.J., the Blue Devils forced six more turnovers than the Scarlet Knights, out-rebounded them 43-34 and scored 26 points off turnovers. After the game, Goestenkors told Harding that she could not judge an entire career on one game or one shot. In that same vein, a game cannot be judged on one shot alone, or in this case, a pair of shots. The Blue Devils’ play throughout the entire contest put Harding in the situation she was in. Duke simply did not control the offensive glass, and its turnovers gave Rutgers too many chances to score and consequendy win the game. “I told them after the game, ‘After any of our wins, you’ve never taken responsibility for them. You never said I won this game for my team,”’ Goestenkors said. “And I will not allow you to say T lost this game for my team.’ It was truly a team effort the enure season, the wins and the losses.”

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The team’s press helped Rutgers tie the game with just more than eight minutes to go. Still, the steadying presence of Duke center Alison Bales, who scored her team’s next six points, allowed the Blue Devils to maintain their lead until Prince’s late layup. “We weren’t really prepared for it,” Harding said of the Rutgers pressure. “When you have a press offense, you need to set up. I would take the ball up, turn around and [see that] everyone is gone. I was like, ‘OK, this team is too fast, too quick, too upright for me to try to dribble through five people alone.’ The close result was a stark reversal from the teams’ first meeting this season, when the Blue Devils cruised to an 85-45 rout Dec. 4 in Piscataway, NJ. The Scarlet Knights used that loss to motivate them as they prepared for the rematch. “We were all embarrassed. But what was good about that was that our steps were ordered. This [game] became a retake,” Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer said. “We feel proud to say that we have defeated, what I consider, the best team that has been assembled in women’s basketball in a long time.” The defeat not only marked the end of Duke’s streak of five consecutive Elite Eight appearances, but also the stellar careers of senior starters Harding and Bales. Bales tied a season high with her teamleading 21 points, and her four blocks left her one short of tying the all-time NCAA single-season block record of 152. Although their tournament run may be over, Goestenkors said she hopes the disappointment of an early exit does not mar the highlights of the winningest season in school history. “We’ve had a tremendous season,” Goestenkors said. “I told my players that one game does not define this team or the type of season that they’ve had. I don’t think anybody in the country anticipated that we were going to have such a remarkable year, and I’m proud ofeach and every one of them.” NOTES: With Duke out of the NCAA Tournament, rumors regarding Goestenkors and other job opportunities are likely to heat up. After the game Saturday, Goestenkors was asked if the loss to Rutgers would change her oudook. “It doesn’t change anything,” she said. “Like I said, I’m just focused on my team right n0w.... Rutgers’ win was its second in a row over a team playing a game with home-field advantage. Last week, the Scarlet Knights topped fifth-seeded Michigan State in the second round in East Lansing, Mich, in a game played on the Spartans’ campus.... Duke finished the season starting the same lineup for every one ofits 34 games.,.. Rutgers faces second-seeded Arizona State tonight in Greensboro with a trip to the Final Four in Cleveland on the line.

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SeniorPeter Rodrigues won his doubles and singles matches in theBlue Devils' 6-1 victory over GeorgiaTech Sunday afternoon in Atlanta.

Men’s tennis splits pair ofACC matches Duke kicked off its first ACC matches of the season with mixed results this weekend, losing 5-2 to No. 30 Clemson and defeating No. 42 Georgia Tech 6-1. “We had tough luck [Saturday], and it was really good to come back from the loss,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “Our doubles are starting to look a lot better, and Fm happy about that. We’re a good team this year. I’m feeling comfortable, and I’m hopeful we keep this momentum going this next week.” Saturday’s match started on the right track, as No. 17 (8-6, 1-1 in the ACC) Duke took the doubles point. Senior Joey Atas and junior David Goulet combined for an 8-6 win over Clement Riex and Ryan Young, and senior Peter Rodrigues and sophomore Kiril Dimitrov pulled off another 8-6 win over Rok Bizjak and Carlos Alvarez. But Duke soon lost the 1-0 lead in singles play, losing five of the six matches to end the tally at 5-2.

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Dylan Amould defeated Alvarez 6-3, 6-4 to notch Duke’s only singles point. The Blue Devils recovered from the upset in Adanta Sunday, as Duke seized the doubles point and came away with five of six singles victories. “I played pretty well today —managed to beat him 6-1, 6-3,” Peter Rodrigues said. “That was pretty positive, and I managed to get off the court pretty quickly. I’m pretty confident going into my next matches.” Women’s tennis wins two matches The Blue Devils posted two doubles sweeps for twin 6-1 wins on the road this weekend against Boston College and Maryland. “This is the toughest part of our schedule, and to start with two road conference wins is really good for us,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “I’m really happy with our doubles—we played two matches of really solid doubles.” In Friday’s match, the No. 15 Blue Devils (9-3, 4-0 in the ACC) shut down the Eagles for the doubles point with 12th-ranked senior Daniela Bercek and sophomore Melissa Mang leading the charge with an 8-5 win. Plotkin, Granson, Robinson, junior Tory Zawacki and senior Clelia Deltour notched five singles wins to seal Duke’s 6-1 rout over BC. In College Park, Md. Sunday, the Blue Devils breezed past the Terrapins to improve to a perfect 4-0 in the ACC. For the second time of the weekend, the three Blue Devils duos swept their opponents to head 1-0 into singles play, where Duke took five wins. —Diana Ni

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as Duke hit .227 during the series. The Blue Devils squandered several scoring opportunities Sunday in their 5-1 loss. In the third, Ryan McCurdy did not make contact on a hit-and-run, and Kyle Butler was thrown out at second—squelching the Blue Devils’ building momentum. In the fifth, they failed to capitalize on a Georgia Tech error that put runners on the comers, as Jimmy Gallagher struck out looking to end the inning. “We need to situational hit a little bit better,” pitcher Andrew Wolcott said. “It’s just something we definitely need to work on —coming through in those situations.” Wolcott came into Sunday’s game in the second inning with the bases loaded and nobody out. He allowed just one of the mnners to score—on a sacrifice fly—and gave up two runs over five innings, keeping the Blue Devils in the game. But, as has been the case recently, Duke’s offense failed to support Wolcott. The Blue Devils scattered seven hits and scored only one mn in the loss. “When we score one mn, it’s going to be really tough to beat a team in the ACC—we can’t throw a shutout every game,” Nate Freiman said. “We’ve been leaving a lot of mnners on base, and those could be runs if we drive them in. We get basemnners—but if they stay out there, they don’t really help us that much.” With a series against No. 2 Florida State looming next weekend, Duke will need to turn it around at the plate—and continue its strong pitching —if it hopes to make up some ground in the ACC standings. “As an offensive group, we’ve got to perform better,” McNally said. “I tell our guys all the time—it comes and goes. Right now, we need to get the bats going a little bit, and I’m confident that we will.”

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Hoyas top Tar Heels to round out Final 4 Florida 85, Oregon 77 Inside, outside, early, ST. LOUIS late. It doesn’t matter how Florida does it. At tournament time, nobody’s better than the Gators. Joakim Noah and his buddies are heading back to the Final Four, looking for a second straight national championship that was worth more to em t*ian

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seven three-pointers, and Taurean Green added 21 points to lead the Gators to an 8577 victory over third-seeded Oregon in the Midwest Regional final Sunday. It was their 16th straight postseason victory, a stretch that includes one national championship and two Southeastern Conference titles. Next stop for the top-seeded Gators: Atlanta, where they’ll play UCLA in the national semifinals in a rematch oflast year’s championship game.

Georgetown 96, North Carolina 84 EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ. In an NCAA tournament full of tremendous rallies, it was the Hoyas’ turn—against North Carolina, of all teams. Georgetown overcame an 11-point deficit in the second half, then ripped off 14 straight points in overtime to stun the top-seeded Tar Heels Sunday for its first trip to the Final Four since 1985, when the

coach was John Thompson and the star player was Patrick Ewing. The Hoyas (30-6) did it this time with coach John Thompson 111 calling the backdoor plays he learned at Princeton and Patrick Ewing Jr. making key contributions. They were helped by an amazing collapse from Carolina (31-7), which made only one of 23 field goal attempts, including its first 12 in overtime, over a 15

minute-span. Ohio State 92, Memphis 76 SAN ANTONIO Greg Oden wasn’t going to let foul trouble stop him, not with a chance to take Ohio State to the Final Four. Frustrated by fouls for a third straight game, Oden made the most ofhis time on court during a key stretch of the second half, carrying the top-seeded Buckeyes past Memphis 92-76 Saturday in the South Regional finals. Oden’s numbers weren’t huge: 17 points, nine rebounds. The 7-footer’s impact was. The Buckeyes (34-3) went from up five points to down five deficit during the 4:42 the fabulous freshman was on the bench after getting his third foul early in the second half. The moment he returned, everything changed. His presence on offense and defense sparked a 20-8 run that ultimately sent Ohio State to Adanta for a showdown next weekend with Georgetown.

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big free throws in the final seconds. The Bruins (30-5) made their halftime lead stand up in an appropriately tense meeting between two schools with rich traditions and a combined 30 Final Four appearances including an NCAA-record 17th for UCLA next week in Adanta. Brandon Rush scored 18points for the Jayhawks (33-5), the first No. 1 seed to be eliminated from the tournament. (AP)

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The classes combined with a selective admissions process that forms a very math- and science-inclined student body, is the most influential figure in his scien- fosters a high-powered math and science tific career. program at NCSSM, she added. Pardon has been adWhen students approach her seeking taking John vanced courses in mathematics at the advice on how to pursue research interUniversity since his sophomore year, and ests, Halpin said she knows exactly how last fall, when the 17-year-old decided to to advise them because of a familiarity undertake a research project in math in with local research universities. “I know what kind of instrumentation his free time, he did so with the guidance of both is [at Duke, his father and UNC and NCCU], what Robert “The ideas involved were very kind of summer Bryant, J.M. clever.... I wasn’t expecting that Kreps profesprograms are sor of mathethere,” she said. for somebody who was in high matics at As a result, school.” Duke. she can place “Whenevin acaRobert Bryant students demic program er I would ask professor, Mathematics a that directly apquestion ieir inthat I thought he would terests. These have to think about, he never really had factors have contributed to NCSSM’s to think about it,” Bryant said. strong showing in the past three years. Bryant said his role was primarily to Ultimately, Halpin said, a strong scilisten to Pardon’s ideas and suggest ways ence curriculum should have students they might be pursued. But Pardon’s experiencing “what a scientist does,” be final projectiideaa —a problem in differenthat through classroom research or seektial geometry—was all his own. Pardon ing peer-review. found the problem on the Internet and Pardon said that universities ultithen decided to try and set out to solve it. mately create learning opportunities “The ideas involved were very clever,” for students that they cannot find at the Bryant said. “I wasn’t expecting that for high school level. somebody who was in high school.” “It makes it possible for people who Pardon attributes this proactive interest are advanced enough to keep going to not be kept back by what their school in math largely to his father’s influence. Students at NCSSM have also benefitcan do,” Pardon said. “In a small ed from exposure to research and acadeschool, there are not going to be mia in their school curricula.Almost all of enough people that are very advanced the past STS winners from NCSSM have to have a class for just them. To take taken the school’s research classes in biolhigher-level courses, you really have got to have college classes.” ogy, chemistry and physics, Halpin said. from page 3

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everyone had the same opportunity to log in at the same time,” Williams said. “The fairest and most consistent thing to do was to restart.” She added that students were able to log in sporadically throughout the night outside their own registration windows, and some students were unable to log in at all. RLHS will work Monday with the Office ofInformation Technology and Residential Management Systems —rthe company that developed the platform Room Fix ’O7 runs on—to figure out what is slowing the server down, Williams said. She noted that the server ran slowly during the tripleroom selection process, but RLHS asked OIT to restart the server, which seemed to have solved the problem. “We did extensive testing [before Thursday night] and we had other problems that we worked out, but nothing ever with the server,” Williams said, adding that approximately 10 to 12 accounts—as many as were assigned to each registration window—were logged in at a time dur-

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ing the testing stages. Depending on the feedback from OIT and RMS, RLHS will make a decision to run Room Fix online or revert to the old process, in which all rooms are assigned in person in Gilbert-AddomsResidence Hall, Williams said. RLHS officials will conduct “serious testing” before Tuesday night if they choose to continue with the online process, she added. Students will be assigned individual lottery numbers according to their lottery group if Room Fix is conducted face-to-face, Williams said, adding that these numbers are already generated and will be distributed to students when needed. Those who attempted to find a room Friday night said the process was frustrating but RLHS did the right thing in restarting it. “It was stressful, annoying and a waste of my night,” sophomore Jessica Davlin said. Davlin said she was at a computer cluster with approximately 10 other students Friday night trying to complete the process. “Everyone’s computer was frozen, no one’s was working,” Davlin said. “I was sitting there for a couple of hours—I think everyone in the room, at one point or another, called RLHS.” Others who were able to log in said the online process itself was hard to follow. “It was so slow that the timer ran out,” sophomore Sara Murray said. She added that the system would display rooms as available, but the rooms could not be selected. Some students said that although the face-to-face process takes much longer, they would prefer to go back to it. “The whole [online] process is really confusing because it’s new,” sophomore Lauren Tam said. “Even though last year the whole thing was really hectic, it was not as chaotic as this year.” Students who were not entered in the single-room lottery said they were not affected by the delay, but some were worried that their selection process would run into similar problems. “I was relieved when I got the e-mail,” junior Adam Finkelstein said. “There would be more students [in the double-room lottery], it would have been even slower.” Williams said RJLHS received very positive feedback, however, from the students who were able to complete the process. “This is new this year and has never been tried before, so it’s expected that there’s going to be a few glitches,” said juniorRyart Todd, incoming president ofCampus Council. “If the new software works out, it will make the process much easier.” ■

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EDWARDS from page 2 Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. But the longer-term political ramifications of his pursuing the presidency during her health crisis are unknown, and could well hinge on Mrs. Edwards’ health. If Mrs. Edwards is able to campaign at his side with energy and vigor, there could well be a positive reaction to the resolute candidate and his wife, who press forward despite adversity. Millions of Americans themselves have faced cancer or know someone who has, and can identify with their challenge. “It makes him real,” said Democratic strategist Dane Strother. “It makes her real.” Still, Mrs. Edwards’ illness injects a new element of uncertainty into the campaign, and political calculations could quickly change should her condition worsen

significantly. Already, there was a foreshadowing of that in critics’ blog postings Thursday that questioned whether a presidential campaign is the right place for a man with two

small children and a wife with cancer. Edwards stressed that doctors had assured them the campaign would not interfere with his wife’s treatment, and added: “Any time, any place I need to be with Elizabeth I will be there—period.” Democratic pollster Mark Mellman said that while the disclosure of Mrs. Edwards’ illness could generate shortterm interest in the Edwards campaign, it probably doesn’t change the long-term dynamic significandy. “A lot will depend on how people react, and anybody that tries to tell you how people are going to react is making it up,” Mellman added. “It is an unusual situation, and we’re out of the realm of clear historical precedent.” Edwards’ fundraiser Fred Baron speculated that financial support for the campaign could even increase “in the sense that more people will truly get to know John and Elizabeth Edwards.” He said the sponsor of a private fundraiser for Edwards on Thursday night in New York told Baron after the announcement that he was doubling his fundraising goal for the event. Neither the amount nor the identity of the fundraiser was released.

Flesh, Terror, and Emergence

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Colin Milburn Assistant Professor of English and Science & Technology Studies, University of California, Davis Digital Matters: Videogames and the Enfleshment of Nanoti

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Cameron Indoor Stadium for students during men’s basketball games. This year’s DSG also left its mark on campus by coordinating the C-4 and C-5 bus routes and changing the Young Trustee selection process. Wolf added that he hopes next year’s Executive Board —which will be elected April 3—will continue the work accomplished by the current group. “I would hope that next year DSG would continue along the same lines—articulate clearly its organizational mission, what goals or projects come along with that based on what’s happening on campus at the time and figure out systematically what it has to do to bring those things about,” Wolf said. “I don’t want to peg it to specific things or projects because a very large part of what we do is reactionary, in that the administration will come to us with a specific proposal or some policy change or something that we have to deal with.” This year’s DSG also drafted the organization’s first comprehensive strategic plan, which outlined a fourpronged approach to advocating on behalf of students and allowed DSG to become very goal-oriented, Wolf said. ‘We figured out exacdy what we wanted to do and what we needed to do in order to accomplish those things,” he added. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs and vice chair of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee, said he thought DSG has had a successfulyear and that Wolfs lack of personal involvement with DSG prior to his win did not have a negative effect on the organization’s work this year. “I think this is a group that accomplished quite a bit and has quite a bit to be proud of,” Moneta said. Wolfs win last year was a departure from previous years when presidents had been longtime members of DSG. Wolf said the combination of members with no prior involvement and those with an extensive DSG history was what made the group particularly accessible to students this year. “It was important that most of us came from outside of the organization in that we weren’t dedicated to upholding the old model,” Wolf said. “We’re not one nebulous organization —we are students. We fight on behalf of students, we do things that students d0.... We don’t walk around dressed up in our Sunday best every day and maintain some pretense about our status on campus.” He added that DSG has internalized its mission oflobbying on behalf of student interests and supporting student groups. “I think we were uniquely effective in being an advocacy organization for Duke students and not just a self-serving leadership academy,” said sophomore Kevin Troy, DSG public relations director. “There was always a sense of forward motion, and we were more inclined to ask what’s next instead of just patting ourselves on the back for what we’ve already done.” Wolf credited written, well crafted memoranda for accomplishing many of DSG’s goals this year. “This is a private university, the administration has all the power over everything, and given that it’s an academic setting, the only recourse that we have is to try and make better arguments,” Wolf said. “At least in an environment like Duke, if you make a good argument you do win for the most part.” Moneta said the CGI report has introduced a number of issues for DSG to address next year, including Duke-Durham relations and renovations on West and Central campuses. But like Wolfand othermembers of the Executive Board, Moneta said this year’s work will not fall by the wayside. “It’s not like all of the issues that have been addressed this year have been finished,” Moneta said. “So [l’d like to see] more of the same and taking the lead with the accomplishments of this year.”

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step shows and parties. Although the events are centered around the black community in general and black greek life in particular, the events were not racially homogenous. The participants in the annual fashion show represent every racial category at Duke and the step show attracts a campus-wide audience. These two events not only draw a large undergraduate audience, they also bring many alumni and graduate students to campus. They are designed to showcase the great resources the University has for minority students such as the Mary Lou Williams Center and the African American

dition ofblack greek life. Thoughts that such weekends mislead prospective students by presenting an atypical weekend have little merit. All recruitment weekends are designed to show the University in the best possible light and in this way minority recruitment events such as BSAI are no different than other recruitment events such as scholarship or athletic recruitment weekends. Minority recruitment weekends do have the potential to reinforce a segregated campus. However, recruitment and admissions are not the time to try to end self-segregation. Selfsegregation is a deep and complicated problem that must be addressed once students arrive on campus and not while prospective students are evaluating their college options.

Mentoring Program. They also distinguish Duke from other elite universities by highlighting its strong tra-

Instead, admissions officers must work hard to convince students to come to Blue Devil

Days and other campus-wide orientation events to ensure that they experience Duke as a whole. Minority recruitment weekends are a great way to ensure that Duke is attracting the most

qualified minority stu-

dents in the nation. It is this type of recruitment that lures students from higher ranked schools. Ending minority student weekends, then, would be disastrous for Duke’s minority student yield. And although Yale may not have seen negative repercussions when it changed its approach to minority recruitment, this board believes that Duke wouldn’t see the same results.

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when my mother was at Wellesley, in the mid-19605, there was a particularly outspoken, conservative Christian organization on campus dubbed “the Godsquad.” In the midst of a pretty progressive decade, the Godsquad was constantly concerned with the moral welfare of the student body. So much so that if you had a boy in your room outside of the time period from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays authorized by the administration, the Godsquad would stand outside your door. And sing. With candles. It sounds awkward for all parties involved and completely incomprehensible at Duke today. Whether these ■■ ■ lindsay white girls' thought their singing could pull a biweekly sass couple out of their hormonal stupor and into tearful repentance orwere simply being bitchy and sanctimonious, they were fighting a losing batde in a campus culture that was beginning to shed its rules and old-fashioned morality. Because by the time my mother left school, the rule about having boys in your room had disappeared along with the infamous “three feet on the floor” rule, which required that, when a boy was in your room, the door had to be open and three feet had to be on the floor at all times, hence preventing any romance from progressing irredeemably far. During the ’6os and ’7os, university culture was transformed by increasingly aggressive, outspoken student bodies. Through a series ofjudicial decisions and administrative concessions, universities began to give up the traditional role of in loco parentis, or “in the place of the parent.” For centuries, universities had taken an active role in guiding students in their choices, providing codes of behavior and morality just as parents might in their own homes. Now, with the exception of some very religious or conservative educational institutions, in loco parentis and, perhaps, any moral force on campus has gone out the window. And we’re living the results. Lest you roll your eyes in anticipation of an everything’s-gone-to-hell rant. I’ll say that I’m not really sure whether our sink-or-swim-while-your-parentshope-they-brought-you-up-right culture is good or bad. We have been given space to make choices and ...

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screw up, unlike generations before us. We are told to blatantly break the law, at least in front of campus security or the news crews, and then we’re pretty much left to our own devices. And on comes the alcohol, parties, drugs, hookups and fudging work while parents pay gigantic checks so that we can be here. It’s fun and it feels pretty safe in an environment in which the consequences ofpoor choices can be assuaged by Advil, a shower and a white lie to your professor. But when we have no one telling us to stop or steer us in one direction or the other, it’s a free-for-all. I don’t actively seek opinions on morality and behavior. I don’t want a herd of awkward religious zealots singing outside my door or a matronly dorm mother telling me I should consider what message I’m sending boys when I dress a certain way. But we all need to hear what we don’t really want to hear, however aggressive or extreme or un-sexy it may be. Every once in a while you want people to try to force their belief systems on you, because it compels you to examine and defend your own decisions and conduct. Right now we don’t even need to think about our behavior, or whether it lines up with whatever belief system we were raised with or have constructed now that we don’t come home to annoyed parents at the end of the night. Not taking the time to consider and weigh your decisions is a lifestyle adopted as easily as you can forget the rules with which you were raised. Our university is unwilling to take on the role of the guiding parent and, in the absence of an administration or student groups who aggressively push morality, some of us have gone adrift. I’m not saying that I want an administrative moral crackdown, but I am saying that without it, we need some other incentive to examine our moral behavior. We all make bad decisions here, but that’s not the real problem. The problem is that we don’t think about it a whole lot and sometimes don’t even realize we’ve made a choice at all. The other night, looking out my window in Edens, I saw some guy relieving himself in the middle of the quad. My roommate yelled at him and, unembarrassed and unfazed, he tried to engage her in conversation. There’s not a lot of high-stakes morality involved in public urination, but still, without his mother there to scream at him, or a Godsquad to shame him in his folly, why the hell wouldn’t he? not too

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The crawl of justice

are told that, very soon, the charges against the lacrosse players are likely to be dropped. This long overdue reversal is not surprising—it’s hard to conceive that any person with even a modicum of objectivity could fail to realize the charges are false. This year-long persecution has been a dark exhibition of some of the worst tendencies in humans and the end of the criminal case is a cause for rejoicing. But the end of the criminal case is only the beginning of the search for justice. Now is the time to go after the real culprits and to make them answer for their crimes. At the top of that list is ks>— Mike Nifong, Durham’s chief prosecutor. � Nifong disregarded, and even hid, exculpatory evidence, as he did everything in his power to pursue a case in the evidence exonspite Stephen crating the players. miller time Our justice system is predicated on the idea that we must protect the innocent—what then do you do with a prosecutor who does just the opposite? You put him in jail. Yes, Nifong should lose his job. Yes, he should be disbarred. Yes, the families should sue him for everything he’s worth. But, for justice to really be served, a man who seemingly acted with such malevolence and disregard for people’s rights, and who caused so much harm, must answer for these crimes in a court of law. The alleged victim, too, needs to answer for her crimes. With her changing stories, soundly contradicted by the evidence, and her eventual claim that she did not in fact know if she was raped, there is an open and shut case against her for perjury and obstruction. Duke University also needs a new president. When students needed him, President Brodhead was not there. When the lacrosse team needed him to correct damning public confusions and misperceptions, he didn’t step up. When Nifong’s conduct began drawing fierce criticism from all directions, our president’s head was still buried in the sand. When his own professors launched attacks in and out of the classroom against our peers, he neither made an effort to rein them in nor come to the students’ defense. At the very least, I don’t think any of us can reasonably deny that there are better university presidents to be found out there. So let’s find one. Lastly, our professors need to answer for their actions. It is unacceptable for faculty to publish an ad going after their own students during a heated criminal investigation, and fanning the flames of prejudice and mob mentality during the first weeks of this case would certainly qualify. At the very least, a general censure needs to be issued so the school can take an official stance against their behavior. Some professors went evenfurther, launching the attacks in their classrooms. These incidences need to be diligently investigated and pursued according to University guidelines ofprofessor conduct—they should not be ignored and swept aside. In particularly appalling cases, future employment must be examined. Chief among these is the case of non-tenured professor Kim Curtis, who, the available evidence seems to indicate, failed Kyle Dowd simply because he was a member of the lacrosse team. Duke’s goal must be to hire the best professors to be had. I certainly feel justified in saying that Curtis is clearly not one of them. It appears she violated the most basic ethical tenets of teaching and, if there is no other plausible explanation for her behavior (I certainly can’t imagine one) she should be terminated, and another, more ethical professor, should be given her slot and a shot at tenure at our esteemed school. How can we have an elite university if we don’t hold our professors to even a mainstream professional standard? The lacrosse case has from the beginning been a harrowing travesty of justice with anguishing consequences for our peers. With the players at last nearing release from criminal charges, we are reminded that justice is not always swift. Instead, it is often a crawl, gendy creeping forward, which, if enough momentum builds, can turn into an avalanche. Unified, we can marshal this momentum. As this first trickle of justice breaks though the damn of corruption, let us stand together as Duke students and see that just such an avalanche is unleashed. Let us see that justice is delivered

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letterstotheeditor Butler’s column correctly emphasizes CCTs failings As a Duke undergraduate student, Kristin Butler’s oped “Talking the talk” (March 20) perfectly illustrates the frustration I and many othersfeel about the Campus Culture Initiative’s decision to avoid input from the student body. What possible explanation is there for all the secrecy, the closed-door meetings, the appointment ofagenda-driven academics and the complete lack of student input other than their attempt to jam through their cultural agendas held well before the lacrosse case transpired? It was almost comical when at the CCI student forum Provost Peter Lange refused to answer any specific questions about the CGl’s recommendations or respond to our general complaints. The CCI debacle has proved just how far the administration has estranged itself from the student body. A student-administrationgap emerged last spring and only now are we as students beginning to see its ramifications.

Greg Brobinskoy

Trinity ’OB

Hookah article misleading about healthrisks I have the privilege of working with Duke students every day. I find them to be an intelligent and perceptive group ofyoung adults. That is why I was utterly amazed to read the article, “Hookah habit catches on as a social outlet” in the March 7 issue of The Chronicle. Using a hookhah involves smoking tobacco. Tobacco has been definitively shown to be highly addictive and to cause debilitating lung disease, heart disease, stroke and an assortment ofcancers. (I could provide you with a long list of the toxicides of tobacco, but I won’t belabor my point.) Millions of dollars have been spent to warn peo-

pie, especially our youth, about the dangers of tobacco use. So I’m sure you can understand my dismay and disbelief to find an article in The Chronicle that not only does

not

mention any of the known harms of tobacco

use, but portrays group smoking as, “...a cool, chill activity” that adds to social events. Using tobacco, whether by smoking a cigarette or using an apparatus that invites group involvement, is deadly. I know that Duke students are smart enough to understand that.

Lynn White Assistant Dean for Pre-Major Advising Young Trustee process greatly enhanced Having had the opportunity to sit in the past two Young Trustee selection processes, I can say that this year’s process was much more appropriate titan last year’s. Sophomore Jordan Giordano, vice president of community interaction, showed great integrity, and improvements were largely a result of his careful handling of die process. The process gave adequate voting power to student leaders depending on how much they were exposed to the candidates in the selection process. Most importandy, Giordano made sure diat diere was no commentary from student leaders about aspects of the candidates learned outside of the selection process. This was a big problem in the past, as student leaders would promote their friends. With a selection that has so much weight, itis difficult to find a perfect procedure devoid of criticism, but this year’s was close to it. Ivan Mothershead Trinity ’O7

All I got was th is lousy T-shirt On Tuesday, a decree was put forth: Richard Wagoner, CEO of GM, shall be thy Graduation Speaker. “Who?” we asked of the faceless “Uni-

versity

officials”

charge of the decision.

“He’s the CEO of a MAJOR company that makes gas-guzzling vehicles, you know, like the Hummer. Oh, and he’s also on our Board of Trustees,” the voices anand Joyce swered back monday, monday Thank you, voices, we know what GM is, but what we can’t figure out is why Duke can’t get someone famous/awesome. Really, it’s all about the bragging rights because it is highly doubtful that anything he says or does will change our lives. It might make us think for an extra 10 minutes about being good people, but we highly doubt it. So we came up with some alternate speakers, and then quickly realized that Mr. Wagoner might not be so bad after all.

James

Kofi Annan: [Silence...]

Dickie B: Mr. Annan is unable to speak at this time due to illness. He suggests that you talk among yourselves making sure to hit the following points: 1) Some people may say that you are insignificant, but you must believe in your own self-worth; 2) there is value in never raising your voice, even if you are never heard; and 3) who has the better name: Ban Ki Moon or Nane Annan? Yes, I think Nane does too. Rush Limbaugh: Greetings Fellow Patriots, I stand before you not as a man, but as a soldier of democracy. We are warriors of truth, morality, justice and freedom. My ideological brethren, it is our duty to uphold these principles that make America the greatest country in the world. (My apologies to the international students among us today, may democracy be with you —if it isn’t already, it will be soon.) Our time in Durham has been marked by terror; terror from the legal system, the liberal media, the professors... I could go on. We must fight this war to preserve truth, goodness, families, sunshine and puppies. We are not going to cut and run on morality like

some here would prefer. We stayed our course, we surged for justice, and for those of us who remained loyal to king... err... country, I must say: Mission Ac-

complished!

Dennis Kucinich: Students of Duke University, I urge you to rise against The Man and take a stand. Any stand! I have some suggestions for causes you can embrace; Fight to raise taxes for everybody. Support the movement to drink more fair-trade, organic lattes. Drive a Volvo. Read The New York Times. And for the love of Darwin, embrace Hollywood. These are the only ways, the only ways to spread your cultural message through all of America. In the meantime, think about staging a protest. And don’t worry if it never happens, it’s the thought that counts. Actions don’t always speak louder than words, because what really matters is that we raise our voices together. In perfect harmony. Mike Nifong [Silence]... Hehehe, tough crowd today. I don’t know if it was the lacrosse thing, but I really feel like I was the best candidate for graduation speaker.... I’m glad that the people of the Graduation Speaker Committee agree with me. I mean, the fact is, I didn’t pick this speaking gig. I didn’t pick the time. But I’m going to do it right. A lot has been said in the press, particularly by some of my opponents, that I should just go away. I’m here to tell you that my presence here means that I am not going away. There is a lesson in all of this; people will always try to deter you from your goals. They’ll tell you that you can’t do it, that it’s wrong, that there is no evidence whatsoever. They’ll say that if you continue then you will be subjected to review by an ethics committee. Ladies and gendemen, it’s not your job to listen to these naysayers. Remember, perseverance always pays off. No exceptions. It’s not about making people happy. It’s about doing the right thing and being true to yourself. Even if no one else is able to see this truth. Then, at the end, you can always say that you stuck to your guns. And guns are always right. Unlike DNA tests.

James and Joyce know where to find some primo grass French Science Center. Jessica Ballou and Supama Salil realized that as the temperature increases, their productivity decreases exponentially.

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