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Gail Goestenkors accepted the University of Texas’ offer to become its next women’s basketball head coach Tuesday, leaving behind the Duke program she built into a national powerhouse during her 15 years in Durham. After informing Duke administrators Tuesday morning of her decision, Goestenkors spoke with the current Blue Devils squad in a meeting in the afternoon. Texas will introduce Goestenkors, the reigning Associated Press Coach of the Year, at a news conference Thursday at noon EDT. “During the last week and throughout her entire time at Duke, we addressed everything that Gail requested in order to remain our coach for the duration of her career,” Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said in a statement. “In the end, it came down to her seeking a new challenge at this stage in her career and her life.” had offered Texas reportedly Goestenkors a contract that would pay her $BOO,OOO per year, which is significantly more than her salary was at Duke. After she returned from her interview in Austin last week, however, Duke matched the offer and addressed other concerns Goestenkors had about program support, a senior athletics official with knowledge of the negotiations said. A source familiar with Goestenkors’ thinking said the recently divorced coach heavily weighed her personal life in the decision. In the end, Goestenkors, 44, chose to chase her elusive first national championship in Austin, where there is an established fan base for women’s basketball, a strong recruiting pipeline and a women’s athletics director—Chris Plonsky —with whom Goestenkors has worked previously. “I talked with Gail repeatedly in the last few days and I know this was an extremely difficult decision for her, but ultimately the lure of a new challenge outweighed her
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Women's basketball head coach Gail Goestenkors haschosen to leave Duke after 15 years leading the team. many ties at Duke,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “She is a great coach and a fine person, and we are grateful fer everything she’s accomplished at Duke.” Although rumors had connected Goestenkors with the Texas job ever since long-time Longhorns coach Jody Conradt retired after her team’s season ended in
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A student was arrested Tuesday morning in Craven Quadrangle and another was detained in conjunction with an ongoing drug-traffickinginvestigation being conducted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Officials at the Durham County Jail confirmed that junior Ryan Packer was arrested and released on $5,000 bond Tuesday for possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver marijuana as well as forTrafficking marijuana. The second student involved in the drug investigaSEE SBI ON PAGE 7
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Junior Chris Sanders was found dead in his Kilgo Quadrangle dormitory room early Tuesday morning, University administrators said Tuesday afternoon. He was 20 years old. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, notified students in an e-mail Sanders had that passed away and that “initial indications” suggested that no foul play was involved. A medical examiner was called in to investigate the cause of death, which was unknown as of Tuesday afternoon, said Sara-Jane Raines, executive officer for Duke University Police Department. She added that DUPD is the primary investigator in the case. Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said Sanders’ room will be sealed off by police until the investigation has concluded. The New Haven, Conn., native was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, a diver on the men’s swimming team and a member of the First-Year Advisory Council Board. Wasiolek said staff from the Office of Student Affairs are in the process of meeting with the different organizations of which Sanders was a member. “Our focus has really been to notify the parents and now to work with all ofChris’ friends on campus,” she said. SEE SANDERS ON PAGE
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Britain called for direct LONDON talks with Iran to resolve a dispute over 15 captive Britons Tuesday after its first contact with the chief Iranian negotiator. The announcement followed the sudden release of an Iranian diplomat in Iraq that raised new hope for resolving the standoff. In a statement late Tuesday, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office said there had been “further contacts” between the two countries, including with chief international negotiator Ali Larijani. “The UK has proposed direct bilateral
discussions and awaits an Iranian response on when these can begin,” Blair’s office said. “Both sides share a desire for an early resolution to this issue through direct talks.” British officials say there has been intense diplomatic activity, including meetings in London with Iran’s ambassador. But reports of contacts with officials in Tehran have been sketchy. The Downing Street statement did not say whether the contact with Larijani came in person or by phone. Blair said earlier in the day that the next 48 hours would be “fairly critical” to resolving the standoff over the British personnel, who have been held by Iran since March 23.
The call for talks came hours after Iranian diplomat Jalal Sharafi was freed by his captors in Iraq. He had been seized Feb. 4 by uniformed gunmen in Karradah, a Shiite-controlled district of Baghdad. His release raised hope for an end to the standoff and suggested the possibility of a de facto prisoner swap—something both Tehran and London have publicly discounted. Iran alleged the diplomat had been abducted by an Iraqi military unit commanded by United States Jorces—a charge repeated by several Iraqi Shiite lawmakers. U.S. authorities denied any role in his dis-
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ATLANTA—As rescue workers wheeled wounded man and woman out on stretcha ers, the crowd that gathered stared at the big television screens overhead. It was CNN broadcasting reports of a shooting that took place inside the complex that houses the news channel’s headquarters. The woman, who worked at the Omni Hotel attached to CNN Center, later died. The man, wh6 was not identified, was critically wounded. The man was not carrying identification, police spokesman James Polite said. Police described Tuesday’s inci-
dent as a “domestic situation.” The pair had been arguing when the man allegedly pulled a gun and shot the woman near an entrance to the complex just before 1:30 p.m. Police said a security guard who intervened then shot the man. “We heard the shots, pop, pop, pop,” said Victoria Opalach, who was standing in line at a Starbucks inside the building’s main atrium when the shooting occurred down a nearby hallway. “Everybody stood up and started running. All I could think of was 9/11.” When the shooting occurred, hundreds of late-lunch diners and tourists in
the food court and atrium at the center of the CNN Center rushed in a human wave away from the sounds of gunfire coming from the hallway that led to the shooting scene. Sandwiches were dropped in midbite, and a few people ducked under tables on the floor. The lines of people waiting in the atrium for CNN studio tours quickly fell apart as guards and police officers rushed toward the scene. The man and the woman had a prior relationship, said Atlanta Police Maj. Lane Hagin. He declined to elaborate on Sfc£ CNN SHOOTING ON PAGE 6
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The North Carolina State Bar scheduled a hearing Tuesday to consider a motion to dismiss ethics charges filed against Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong. The hearing is slated to take place April 13. The bar charged Nifong in January with violations of professional conduct, including withholding evidence from defense attorneys during the investigation of the lacrosse case. He is also charged with lying to the court and making misleading and inflammatory comments about the three indicted members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team. The three still face charges of sexual offense and kidnapping after rape charges were dropped in December. If the charges against him are not dismissed next week, he will stand trialJune 12. Nifong recused himself from the lacrosse case after the bar’s charges were brought forth, and the case is currently being investigated by two state-appointed prosecutors.
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The founder of Black EntertainTelevision and owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats stated in a speech Tuesday that businesses must “level the playing field” to increase minority representation. Robert Johnson, one of a few black billionaires according to Forbes Magazine, spoke to about 150 people in Geneen Auditorium as part of die Fuqua School of Business’s Distinguished Speaker series. “The end result ofit is that we need to create more Magic Johnsons, Bob Johnsons, Oprah Winfreys,” Johnson said. “And that means that society as a whole has to recognize that we as a ment
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country can only be competitive, truly competitive in a global economy, if we put everybody on the economic field of play. Everybody has to have an opportunity to contribute.” Johnson said the disparity between black representation in the upper levels of NBA management and on the basketball court is indicative of the need to increase black entrepreneurship. Unless efforts are taken to increase minority opportunities in business, the potential for a stratified society will continue, he said. “We, unfortunately, as African Americans have not been a part of that big process —being in the deal world, SEE
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Smithfield, N.C., a small town with a population of 11,500 and home to the Ava Gardner Museum, is not the kind of place that is usually associated with the War on Terror or the covert workings of the CIA. But 75 human rights and faith-based organizations, 22 state legislators and a petition signed by approximately 2,500 individuals asked at a press conference March 21 for an investigation of Aero Contractors Ltd.—a Smithfield-based private charter company—for its connections to the ClA’s extraordinary rendition program. Several representatives of human rights organizations discussed Aero’s links to torture at a panel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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reach coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation. “The most important aspect of this is that... it is illegal to transfer someone to someplace where you know they are going to be tortured,” said Marty Rosenbluth, a third-year law student at UNC and Amnesty International USA’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority. “Torture is an absolute prohibition and SEE AERO CONTRACTORS ON PAGE 8
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liMOTil'l'JfJl Military robot will detect bombs DAYTON, Ohio As it increases its use of robots in war zones, the U.S. military will begin using a explosive-sniffing version that will allow soldiers to better detect roadside bombs, which account for more than 70 percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq. Fido is the first robot to use an integrated explosives sensor. There are nearly 5,000 military robots in Iraq and Afghanistan, up from about 150 in 2004. Soldiers use them to search caves and buildings for insurgents, detect mines and ferret out roadside and car bombs. N.C. ranks second in pollution North GREENSBORO, N.C. Carolina ranked second behind Ohio for the most pollutants released into the air by power plants and other heavy industries in 2004, according to a study released this week. The N.C. Public Interest Research Group analyzed what it said was the most recent data industries reported to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Its report showed the state's worst polluter was Dukp Energy's Belews Creek power plant, which released more than 13 million pounds of respiratory toxins into the air.
Experts question student exerd se habits tional College Health Assessment indicated a slight increase recendy Think running for hours on the in the amount of time Duke stutreadmill or benching hundreds of dents spent exercising and the frequency with which they did so. pounds is healthy? Think again. Many people said they exercise Although some students said so they can eat they go to more, said Lee the gym Tucker, adto get “They’re not taking days ministrative physically coordinator fit or to off and it’s no longer Wilson for maintain healthy.” Recreation their Center. Franca Alphin shape, “There are health adhealth promotions, Student Health those exercisministrators said suits—a lot of that in reit is social,” he said. “I’m sure cent years, they have noticed an increase in the number of students some people exercise to drink also. Everybody’s kind of funky who exercise excessively for reathese days. I don’t know about sons other than health. “Exercise is wonderful, but I’m drinking anymore.” Tucker added that he thinks concerned that people are taking it too far,” said Franca Alphin, di- Duke students do a really great job rector of health promotions for of exercising. Wilson averages the Duke Student Health Center. 2,500 to 3,000 students per day, “They’re exercising for hours, mul- and the Keith and Brenda Brodie tiple times a day, seven days a week. Recreation Center on East Campus They’re not taking days off and it’s averages 600 to 700 students per day, he said. no longer healthy.” “Every [piece of] equipment Alphin added that a survey conwe have, from lunchtime to eight ducted last year through the Naby
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on ellipticals may be off by as much as 40 percent Treadmills are more accurate, but all measurements are based on the body weight that students enter, she students from checking the calorie Junior Fiona O’Sullivan said she goes to the gym an said, discouraging counter at all. average of six days a week and does cardiovascular conMcNally, who is also a personal trainer and physical ditioning for 30 to 45 minutes each time. “I go to stay in shape, and I just like working out,” she education instructor at Duke, said she often noticed students using weight training equipment incorrectly. said. “It makes you feel good, and it gives you energy.” health, coordinator for “A lot of people swing when they’re lifting to generphysiKim McNally, program cal education and recreation, said exercise had many ate momentum so that they can lift heavier weights,” such benefits. She added, however, that students may she said. “Not only is that cheating, but it’s dangerous to your back.” not be exercising in productive and healthy ways. McNally also noted students’ poor posture and how “A lot of females will be on cardio machines for more they did not extend muscles through their whole range than an hour, and that’s just not necessary for health reaof motion during toning sets, such as bicep curls. She sons,” she said. “[Duke’s campus] culture really emphasizes low said men tend to try to lift more than they are capable of, weight, and I think there’s a good bit of over-exercising and women do not push themselves enough because and perhaps overly restrictive eating in order to manthey are too afraid to bulk up. “Duke is definitely a campus where there are expectaage or lose weight,” McNally added. McNally added that elliptical machines and treadmills tions for students to exercise excessively,” Alphin said. may not accurately measure how many calories people “They’re cushioned in this, ‘l’m doing it for health’ menburn. She said research indicates that calorie counters tality, but it’s not healthy if they are exercising too much.”
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The conductor of the special VISO French TGV high-speed train, poses after setting the world rail speed record at 357.2 MPH.
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The speedometer ABOARD TRAIN VISO, France climbed higher and higher—and so did my heart rate. Inside the last of three double-decker cars sandwiched between two engines, those of us aboard the French bullet train trying to set the speed record on conventional rails watched the digital numbers flash on a screen in kilometers per hour: 400, 450, 500, 550. Looking out the windows, the French countryside became a green blur. Then the magic number appeared: 574.8 kph, or 357.2 mph—faster than any humans had ever traveled in a train on rails. As fast as an airplane, but on the ground. The air pressure made my ears ache. Frankly, I was happy when it was over—and not because the journey quite literally ended in Champagne. The chrome and black VISO looked majestic as its engines hummed on the platform near the town of Preny, east ofParis, before Tuesday’s record run. For its mission to break the speed record, the train was modified with a 25,000-horsepower engine, and adjustments also were made to the track, notably the banking on turns. The rails were treated so the wheels could make perfect contact, and electrical power in the overhead cable was increased from 25,000 volts to 31,000 volts.
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SANDERS from page 1 Two administrators from StudentAffairs —Clay Adams, program coordinator for the Dean of Students Office, and Todd Adams, assistant dean of students for fraternity and sorority life—left a conference early to fly back to campus Tuesday evening in order to be with students. Sanders was an art history major and graduated from Notre Dame High School in West Haven, Conn., in 2004. Those who knew Sanders said he will be remembered for his kindness as a friend and enthusiasm as a teammate. “He made people laugh. He made people feel good,” said Dan Colella, head coach of the men’s swimming team. “He’s going to be sorely missed.” Sanders’ fraternity brothers in Sigma Nu said he will be remembered for his infectious laugh and his loyalty as a friend. “Chris’s death came as a shock to all of us. He touched everyone that knew him in ways impossible to express,” the fraternity wrote in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and all who loved him.” More than 100 people attended a memorial service for Sanders Tuesday night in the Old Chemistry Building. There will be a formal service in the Duke Chapel Wednesday night at 9 p.m.
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whose face was covered in blood when he was carried out of the building on a stretcher, was in critical condition. The woman who died was identified as Clara Riddles, 22, of College Park, according to Caryn Kboudi, a spokeswoman for the Irving, Texas-based Omni Hotel chain. Kboudi said Riddles worked at the Atlanta hotel checking and restocking honor bars in the rooms. She said the hotel was not aware ofany domestic problems the woman had. A portion of the CNN Center was evacuated during the immediate investigation, and people were not allowed in. Minutes after the shooting, an announcement over the building’s public-address system said there had been gunfire “with potential casualties.” Police cordoned off an area by the escalators near the main entrance of the building, facing Centennial Olympic Park. “I heard four or five shots. I really didn’t see it. I got out of there quick,” said Jas Stanford, 27, who had been helping take down a temporary stage in the park used for college basketball’s Final Four festivities. Besides CNN, the complex includes the Omni Hotel, various fast-food and sit-down restaurants, a book store and some souvenir shops. It’s connected to Philips Arena, home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers. Nearby is the Georgia Dome, the home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and where college basketball’s national championship game was played Monday night.
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tion was not arrested, but witnesses told The Chronicle she was detained after she was delivered a package. “I am aware of the fact that there were two students involved,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. Packer declined to comment when reached by The Chronicle. Sara-Jane Raines, Duke University Police Department executive officer, said DUPD as well as the Durham Police Department were contacted by SBI and were cooperating. SBI officials were not available for comment Tuesday. She said she lacked details regarding specifics of the case, however, because SBI has taken over the investigation. Duke University Postal Operations was also contacted by SBI several days ago because the agency expected delivery of a suspicious package, post office employees told The Chronicle. SBI officials asked employees of the Bryan Center Post Office if the branch would accept the package even though it would be delivered by an outside carrier. Employees said they would refuse to receive the package because delivery by a non-U.S. Postal Service carrier is a violation of their contract.
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A resident of Kilgo Quadrangle, however, said he saw a man wearing a DHL uniform shirt enter Kilgo at approximately 11 a.m. Tuesday. He was carrying a package approximately three feet long, the student said. The witness said he saw the deliveryman emerge approximately half an hour later holding the DHL shirt and package and accompanied by a girl in handcuffs. They drove away in an unmarked SUV that was parked behind Kilgo, the student said. A second-floor resident of Kilgo House I said she and several other Kilgo residents were questioned by SBI officers regarding the female detained in the case—another Kilgo resident. When reached by The Chronicle at her family’s home, the student who was allegedly detained declined to comment. As SBI officials continue the investigation, friends of Packer said they would not yet pass judgment. “Our fraternity supports him,” said junior Rob DeHaas, president ofPacker’s fraternity. “We’re going to wait until the situation is resolved.”
BET credibility and allowed the channel to get off the ground. Johnson emphasized that it wasn’t talent or intelligence that made him successful, but his success was due to an ingetting access to opportunities and accunovative business idea and networking. mulating capital,” Johnson said. “When I started BET, it wasn’t so much He added that becoming rich doesn’t require one to be exceptionally smart or that I had this drive to really be a major playtalented—it is often a matter of knowing er in the programming business.... It was bethe right people and making the most of cause I felt that someone ought to start a business opportunities. cable network that targets content and in“I think we have the notion that there’s formation to African Americans,” he said. some superior talent you must possess to Some audience members said they make money and I’m standing before you thought Johnson’s speech was insightful telling you, ‘you don’t,”’ he said. ‘You have and inspiring. “I think that he gave an exto be focused, you have to be driven, you cellent speech, and the fact that he’s been have to have integrity, but it’s not something able to develop and grow his own business that’s not available to a whole lot of people.” while maintaining a core belief in social reJohnson described the path that led sponsibility [shows] that he’s truly a leader him to create BET, especially issues he of the community and has a strong vision faced raising sufficient capital and creating for the society as a whole,” said Damian Kassack, a first-year student in Fuqua. a positive image. He credited John MalBut others said Johnson should have one, a media mogul, with supporting and financing BET. spent more time describing how to create “If you can create a relationship based wealth in a socially responsible way. “Most of what he was saying was that he on values, based on a belief that you share the same objectives, you can build business wanted to create wealth in black communirelationships across a wide spectrum of ties and low income communities, but I business opportunities,” Johnson said. just didn’t see him really explain how to do He added that Malone’s support gave that,” junior Yonas Tewodros said.
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“It appears that in flying individuals to overseas torsites, Aero Contractors and its employees have, in addition to having engaged in a conspiracy to violate Mr. El-Masri’s rights under the Constitution and international norms, also violated North Carolina laws,” stated a letter addressed to Governor Mike Easley, Attorney General Roy Cooper and the State Bureau of Investigation from the coalition of organizations advocating for Aero’s investigation. “The conduct of Aero and its employees may in fact amount to a criminal conspiracy within our state, placing a duty upon our state officials to investigate such acts,” the coalition wrote in the letter. Christina Cowger, coordinator of North Carolina Stop Torture Now, said she hopes the grassroots movement will eventually result in the removal of Aero from the state. “Our position is that both the local and the state government should investigate this because extraordinary rendition is a crime,” Cowger said. “Aero Contractors should be shut down completely while this matter is being investigated.” ture
there’s absolutely no exception,” he said. Aero currently operates from hangar space leased by the state-owned Global TransPark airstrip in Kinston, N.C. GTP is an economic development area in Eastern North Carolina designed to attract investment. “Our tax dollars are indirecdy sponsoring [extraordinary rendition],” Shahshahani said. “What’s going on [is] in our name and in our money.” One of the most well known instances of Aero’s involvement with extraordinary rendition involves Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen ofLebanese descent who was transported to a CIA facility in Afghanistan on an Aero flight and detained for five months in 2004. The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of El-Masri in November 2005 that was dismissed by a Virginia district judge. An appeal is currendy being considered by the United States Supreme Court.
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runoff is needed if no candidate receives a majority ofall in their race. “In the first round of calculating the vote, only the first-place votes are counted,” Fleming said. In the runoff, the lowest-finishing candidate in the race is dropped and the votes for that student are redistributed to the top two candidates. Like last year, voters were asked to rank their choices for each position. This allowed the software to conduct an instant runoff in order to prevent the problems that marred the 2005-2006 elections, when a runoff lasted six days. In the initial race, junior Gina Ireland received 43.03 percent of the votes and sophomore Natalie Barber received 31.31 percent. In the runoff, junior Joshua Kazdin was eliminatedand Ireland won with 59.61 percent of the votes to Barber’s 40.38 percent. Winners of the five other races received enough votes to render runoffs unnecessary. Slattery said he is satisfied overall with the students elected to work with him next year. Current President Elliott Wolf, a junior, noted that he believes the Executive Board will be veiy strong. Wolf said that the winners are a good mix of students who are currently active in DSG and newcomers to the organization. He added that he is pleased that three of the vice presidents are female. “I think [the new officers] are in a position to pave their own way and continue the success we had this year,” Wolf said. This year’s voting turnout marked a dramatic decrease from last year’s, when 3,479 students submitted their ballots for the presidential race. DSG Attorney General George Fleming, a senior, said this year’s turnout is not unprecedented. “Since 2000, the turnout for DSG Executive Elections has ranged from a low of 36 percent to a high of 57 percent, and today’s turnout of 40 percent lies in between those,” he said. Last year was the highest turnout in recent years, with 52.4 percent of the student body voting. Slattery said he thought turnout last year may have been higher because there were five candidates vying for the position of president. Fleming said women’s basketball coach Gail Goestenkors’ decision to leave Duke for the University of Texas and the death of junior Chris Sanders may have negatively affected this year’s voter turnout, as the events coincided with the elections.
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progress, I pored though the message boards. Amid all of the prayers and getwell wishes, one post in particular stood out to me. It was from a woman who had only met Myers once on a golf course, but who said that “in that short time, [she] saw all that [her husband] speaks of so often” and that her husband attributes their marriage to Myers. In the altogether-too-short time in which I knew Coach Myers, I learned that almost every person who met him has a “Rod Myers story.” His unmatched passion for the game of golf, his players and this University was infectious—and his slow yet enthusiastic drawl just added to his charm. The way he treated everyone as if they were each of the utmost importance to him made so many SEE SHINER ON PAGE 13
Legendary men's golf coachRod Myers passed away late last week after losing a battle with leukemia.
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Duke’s offense is back After riding a six-mn second inning to an 8-5 upset of No. 1 Florida State Saturday, the Blue Devils (21-11) continued to re-emerge from their offensive slumber, outslugging Davidson 17-12 on the road Tuesday. Duke took a 5-0 lead before the Wildcats (15-16) responded with a seven-run But the 17 Blue Devils tied it DUKE 12 with two runs in the fifth and tacked on nine more in the sixth to blow the game open. “That was a great statement by our offense to tie it at seven,” head coach Sean McNally said. “Then we put nine up in the sixth to stretch it out.” Seven of those runs were unearned, as Duke took advantage of a Davidson miscue to put the game out of reach. “That’s what good teams do,” McNally said. “When they give you an extra out, you have to take advantage.” Duke did just that, as a dropped fly ball by Davidson third baseman Chris Fitzpatrick on the opening at-bat paved the way for Duke’s explosion. Gabriel Saade singled to left to drive in Jeremy Gould and Nate Freiman to break the tie, and 12 Blue Devils came to bat in the inning. Duke capped off its response with backto-back home runs by Brett Bartles and Freiman, giving the Blue Devils a 16-7 lead
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they would never relinquish. With the win—highlighted by Duke’s 19 hits and .442 batting average—the Blue Devils improve to 19-1 in non-conference play. Jimmy Gallagher led the team with a 4-for-6 night at the plate, ripping a home run and three doubles while knocking in five runs. The game was especially important considering Duke’s difficult ACC schedule. The Blue Devils just finished a series with the Seminoles and take on No. 6 Virginia and second-ranked North Carolina the next two weekends. Duke knew it could not afford to look past the Wildcats. “We knew that Davidson is one of the top offensive teams in the country,” McNally said. “We were ready to play.” But not everything went right for the Blue Devils. Davidson scored seven runs in the fourth inning, and Duke’s three errors were a cause for concern. “We’ve shown throughout the season that we’re a very good defensive team,” McNally said. “Our defense over the weekend and [Tuesday] was not great, but we have very capable defenders.” Despite struggling on the mound and the field against the Wildcats, Duke will in focus on the offense’s breakthrough performance as it prepares for a difficult series against the Cavaliers. “We’re going to carry some momentum out of this game,” McNally said. ‘You have to keep trying to find ways to win, and we’re confident we can do that. It was a positive night for us.”
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Unable to overcome its stroke deficit from the first day of play, Duke finished in ninth place Tuesday at the National Invitational Tournament in Tucson, Ariz. Over their first nine holes, which were played on the back nine, the Blue Devils carded a collective 14 bogeys —leaving them at 9-over heading into the final stretch of play. Duke fired back on the front nine, however, posting 14 birdies and one eagle. Senior Jake Grodzinsky led the charge with four birdies and carded a 3-under 69—his best round of the tournament and the team’s best of the day. After his solid third-round performance, Grodzinsky moved up 23 spots on
SHINER from page 11 people feel so connected to him when he was alive and saddened when he passed.
I’d like to share a few of the hundreds of Coach Myers stories that have recendy surfaced, particularly a more light-hearted one. That would be a fitting tribute to a man who took his job and his success seriously but never hesitated to crack a joke along the way. Almost every person I have interviewed about Myers has said that he was like a second father, someone the players trusted and looked to for guidance. Mike Casdeforte —a Duke golfer from 2002 to 2004 and the author of the letter to Myers that ran in Golfweek in early March shared one of his favorite Myers stories and another way the coach was like a father to the team. The Blue Devils were in Evanston, 111. for a tournament at Northwestern. Like on most other road trips, the team rented —
the leaderboard and into 43rd place “I’m proud of how [the team] finished strong,” interim head coach Brad Sparling said. “They were all fighting and balding. It was a really hard week emotionally and physically. They were tired and didn’t have much left in the tank.” The Blue Devils shot a 6-over 870 for the tournament, with sophomore Clark Klaasen completing his round as Duke’s top finisher in a tie for 29th place. Freshmen Jeff Edelman and Adam Long finished in a tie for 34th after both carding 4-over 74s Tuesday and going 3over in their three rounds of play. Overall, Sparling was much more pleased with the Blue Devils’ performance in Round 3 than he was after the first day’s action, when he felt the team was making a van so the players could travel with their clubs. Casdeforte said that as Myers was driving, he and his teammates noticed a group of girls dressed to go out and said, “Look Coach, Northwestern girls!” Just like a father who wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity to give his sons a hard time, Myers pulled up to the curb, opened the automatic side door from his driver’s seat and let his players say hello to the lovely Wildcat ladies. “He just waved and got this big smile on his face and said, ‘Hi girls,’ and didn’t pull away until we were totally embarrassed,” Casdeforte said. Because the team travels so much and over such great distances, some of the best stories are also the simplest ones the ones about the players in vans or going to dinner or hitting the range with their coach. And they loved spending time with him, right up to the end. The current Duke players got the opportunity to visit Myers while he was re—
too many mental errors and course-man-
agement mistakes. “They did a much better job of making decisions—of what shots to hit and where—and that paid off in better scores,” Sparling said. Duke was able to play more consistently from hole to hole than it had in the first two rounds, and no Blue Devil recorded anything higher than a bogey
Tuesday.
“We just played better today,” junior Michael Schachner said. “There were only a couple holes that gave us trouble yesterday, and we played those better.” The team will take a few days off before returning to practice, when the players will focus in on their short games, Sparling said.
Senior Jake Grodzinsky shot Duke's best round of the tournament Tuesday, carding a 3-under-par 69.
covering from his treatments. At that point, he was not in the best physical condition, but how he was feeling was secondary to how he wanted his players to feel. “It was a really special thing for me,” senior Jake Grodzinsky said. “Even with him going through all this crazy stuff, he was still real present and doing everything he could...to make us feel better about it—just looking us in the eye, holding our hands.” Throughout his life, Myers’ players and his program came first. In August, I met with Myers at the Karcher-Ingram Center, and we talked for two hours—which shouldn’t have surprised me considering this was the same man who stepped away from the tee-box and into a hazard when All-American Ryan Blaum was finishing his practice round for the NCAAs to talk with some lowly freshman reporter on the phone. I didn’trealize until sitting with junior Michael Schachner two weeks ago why Myers spent so much time showing me
every room and luxury in the Center. Sitting on a cart facing the Center, Schachner said, “This is what he probably dreamt that Duke golf would turn into.” Myers was living his dream, which seemed so appropriate for a man who dedicated his life to cultivating the aspirations of young men. Blaum, who is now a professional on the Nationwide Tour, said it best. “Each player that came, each student that came, [Myers] had an unsurpassed knowledge of golf and improved their golf games, but he also improved their characters,” Blaum said. “Not only did he demonstrate that through his character, but he demands that from his players. The ages of 18 to 22 are such influential ages, and he was able to mold lives for years to come.” It’s clear that the man who players affectionately called “Coachie” was taken from us too soon. There are a lot of young men out there still needing to be molded.
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considering another job, I thought it was a 50-50 chance that she might leave,” junior guard Wanisha Smith said in a statement. under“With the decision made that she is leavearly March, the process did not get ing, I am happy for her. Of course we don’t Blue Devils were upset until the No. 1 way want her to go. If she feels like that is the in the Sweet 16 March 24. decision she needs to make and is best for Two days later, Alieva granted Texas permission to speak with Goestenkors, and the her, we need to respect that. We love former Duke coach spent parts of three Coach G and will keep in touch with her. “We have a great team returning next days in Austin that week. She returned to North Carolina last Thursday but did not year along with excellent recruits coming in, so we will still remain a very talented attend a rally held outside Cameron In200 Duke team for the years to come.” supdoor Stadium by more than her to remain at Duke. Program boosters had come together in porters imploring recent days in support of Goestenkors, inAfter meeting with Alieva Friday morning, Goestenkors spent the weekend in cluding placing ads in The Chronicle and Cleveland—the site of this year’s Final The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, but the final Four—where she accepted the AP and outcome was not one that could be swayed Women’s Basketball Coaches Association by financial incentives or ties to the area. “Duke stood up for Gail in both its reawards for coach of the year. Throughout sources and salary support,” said Dr. Henry her travels, Goestenkors remained noncommittal on her future, saying she needed Friedman, a supporter of the women’s program and the deputy director of The Pretime to ponder the life-changing choice. The decision did not come as a complete ston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center. “I am dissurprise to those close to the program. “Ever since she first told us that she was appointed for Duke, because she is clearly one of the most talented coaches in the business. I am disappointed personally, because she’s a very close friend ofmine.” Goestenkors arrived at Duke in 1992, taking over a program that had reached just one NCAA Tournament in its 17 previous years of existence. Since then, Duke has become one of the nation’s elite programs, making it to the Final Four in four out of the past eight seasons. She will likely be remembered for bringing the program to new heights, but also for her failure to win an NCAA tide in her two trips to the national championship game. “We respect her decision and wish her the best of luck in her new role,” Alieva ROB GOODLATTE/THE CHRONICLE said. “We thank her for all of her years of Gail Goestenkors served as Duke's head coach for 15 service and the job she did while building seasons before deciding to leave to take Texas'job. our program.”
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Chris Plonsky, a longtime acquaintance of Goestenkors’—and the women’s team practices in a 44,000-sq. ft. facility, which includes a court exclusively for its use. At Duke, the women’s team is forced to share court space in Cameron Indoor Stadium with the volleyball and men’s basketball teams. Brodhead and Alieva were correct to point out that nonfinancial considerations influenced Coach G’s decision to migrate to the Lone Star State. But that is precisely the problem. When her salary options were equal, Goestenkors chose to leave—what was once, at least —one of the most prestigious athletic departments in the country on the heels of the greatest regular season in the history of
ACC women’s basketball. This raises serious questions about the ability of administrators in the athletics department when it comes to retaining talent. Alieva and his staff have alienated influential boosters by blasely allowing a great coach to slip through their fingers. The loss of Coach G also exacerbates the impression that at Duke, all other sports take a distant backseat to men’s basketball. This makes it significantly harder to persuade prospective coaches and female athletes that they have equal standing with their male counterparts. The athletics department must learn from its mistakes in the Goestenkors bidding war if it hopes to stay competitive in the contest for great women athletes and coaches.
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one of the best coaches in the game. When Alieva was asked why Goestenkors’ compensation pales in comparison to Tennessee’s Pat Summitt and Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma, he said, “They’ve both won a lot of national championships and are part of programs that make money for their institutions;” adding, “I’m sure some of these other institutions will offer significantly large packages to encourage her to go.” Alieva later backtracked on his statements—and reportedly met Texas’ salary offer—but the damage was done. To be sure, the Longhorns have a stronger women’s basketball infrastructure than Duke does. Texas has its own women’s athletics director—
Let’s
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therapy for TB, streptomycin, was developed in 1944. Today, TB is a preventable and curable disease, and yet the World Health Organiza-
tion estimates that it kills up to 5000 people every day. In 2004, 80 percent of the 9 million new TB cases were concentrated in 22 countries, mostly in Africa and Asia. Or we can talk about HIV/AIDS. The first drug to treat AIDS, AZT (zidovudine), was approved by the FDA in 1987. Since then, a host of antiretroviral agents (ARVs) have significantly improved the survival rate and health outcomes for persons living with HIV in the United UAEM States. Yet, in 2006, out of the 39.5 mila wider perspective lion people living with HIV, 24.7 million of them lived in sub-Saharan Africa, and as of June 2006, a little more than 1.6 million people living with HIV were receiving ARV therapy in low and middle income countries. You get the point: At the end of a long list of infectious diseases that are preventable, treatable and in many cases curable, there remains a fundamental series of questions that demand intelligent answers. Why are people at this very moment dying of diseases that we are well prepared to treat? Why do global health disparities still exist and whose responsibility is it to eliminate them? In the age of neoliberalism and free market capitalism, a few answers come to mind. The modern pharmaceutical establishment in the developed world functions as a multi-billion dollar industry that produces many of the life-saving treatments we currently have. However, pharmaceutical research and development is fueled by the ability to generate profits from drugs developed for and sold to wealthy citizens of wealthy nations. Ironically, those who can not afford these medicines are often the ones who need them the most. This has led to devastating inequality in access to life. For those who believe that health care is a basic human right, restricting access to life-saving medication is unacceptable. Luckily, we as students and faculty at a major American research institution are in a unique position to reject and revolutionize these policies. American universities have long been important in the early stages of the development of life-saving medication. The active ingredients in the drugs that are marketed by pharmaceu-
tical companies are often developed by universityemployed scientists. These innovations are then patented and licensed out by the university to pharmaceutical companies who continue to develop the drugs. Unfortunately, the university is pressured to license these medicines on the financial terms of profit-driven companies that are not rewarded for providing for the poor. Take, for example, the case of Yale University and the HIV drug d4T or stavudine. D4T was invented by a Yale professor and was originally licensed exclusively to Bristol-Meyers Squibb. In February 2001, Doctors Without Borders requested Yale’s permission to use a generic version of d4T in South Africa. Yale initially refused to consider the proposal. However, this position quickly elicited protest from a group of outraged Yale Law School students, who believed that a university’s humanitarian goals should outweigh any immediate financial earnings. Under intense student pressure, Yale eventually conceded in negotiating with Bristol-Meyers for emergency patent relief and price cuts on the drug throughout Africa. More recent advances at universities throughout the country have resulted in the public release of a document entitled “In the Public Interest: Nine Points to Consider in Licensing University Technology.” Developed by eleven top U.S. research universities and the Association of American Medical Colleges, the document openly commits to policy changes’that would make university inventions more widely available in developing nations. Unfortunately, our own University is not among the signatories. As one of the top research institutions in the country, Duke has incredible potential to contribute to this ever-growing movement of increased access to essential medicines and health technology. As students and faculty, it is our responsibility to ensure that Duke achieves its humanitarian goals by ensuring global access to its innovations. To do this, we must raise our voice and encourage the University to document publicly its commitment to equitable access licensing around the world. Once we have openly rejected exploitative licensing policies we can begin to consider ourselves a global, humanitarian institution. This is the third in a series of columns this semester written and supported by members of several campus groups. The goal of the series is to raise awareness and to educate on a select group of issues related to sustainability, human rights and health care with a global perspective. This column’s primary author is Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. It is co-signed by the Global Health Working Group, the Human Rights Working Group and Duke Organizing.
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the Catholics of New York. Bandying about phrases like “morally bankrupt,” and “sickening display,” members of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights actually applied enough pressure that the hotel has cancelled the exhibition. This is utterly shocking in light of National Enquirer accounts of recent acts of God. A man in a Waffle House in East Bumble unearths the image of the Virgin Mary in his chocolate chip pancakes and it’s declared a miracle. A card-carrying artist painstakingly sculpts theLord’s son out ofchocolate and it’s an abomination. Has anyone involved in this controversy ever actually attempted to carve anything into chocolate? I can’t even make chocolate curls for cupcakes. In fact, one time I tried to make miniature letters out of gum for a friend’s work project and almost lost a finger. The last few controversies about Christianity-themed art focused on a fecal mother of God and a urinary Jesus, which is slightly more understandable, given the obviously negative connotation behind sculpting things out of excrement. These arguments also centered on the implications of the art itself, which I believe is the point. Like for instance, that using poo as a medium to display the good lord implies that you think said good lord is a piece of —. What then is the primary issue in the case of the tasty chocolate Jesus? Well, thus far no one’s mentioned idolatry, although in my particular case—notto mention the case of most PMSing women —it’s obviously a concern. The controversy also doesn’t appear to involve the material itself—that the statue may end up melted and reused in a batch of Chunky Chips Ahoy, that some hungry kid might take the “eat this and remember me” line a bit too seriously, or that the chocolate is not uniformly distributed and homeslice looks a tad splotchy. No, it appears the Catholic group has taken on as their cause celebre the fact that, *gasp* we can see the lord’s penis. It appears the artist, Cosimo Cavallaro of Canada, has omitted the obligatory loincloth from his non-traditional portrayal. Funny, I thought the big deal about Jesus was that he was made flesh like us other dirty humans. Are there actually people who thought that didn’t include the naughty bits? I feel that there is enough injustice in the world that the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights can find something more important to protest. Like, for instance, the unbridled hatred and genocide perpetrated daily in the name of God instead of a depiction of Jesus in a decidedly human, and therefore ostensibly naturally beautiful, form. The MSN article ended with a description of the artist’s other works, which include coating an entire house in cheese and plastering ham all over a four-poster bed. Can we really be this upset at a guy who is just having a good time with his lunch? I mean, who hasn’t plastered ham all over a fourposter bed? I think I did that to an ex-boyfriend one time. Not to give you any ideas or anything; I doubt chocolate Jesus would approve.
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But why is it important for a woman to be able to feel like a girl in the first place? Is it because femininity gets you further in the world than feminism? And if so, who creates that world? Men, or other women? With the power of patriarchal rhetoric on their side, many feminists have been known to play into the traditional demands of femininity in an attempt to somehow subvert it. To paraphrase feminist and political theorist Linda Zerilli, these women don’t need a cluded everything from man to tell them to be feminine. Instead, they socialpothead moms to braly construct their own femininity... and they become burning to the new complicit in their own subjection. Or worse, they subHPV vaccine and the loFor ject other women. gistics of a tampon. Feminists as far back as Mary Wollstonecraft have atthe first time since the of last tempted to justify themselves and their attention to controversy women’s freedom within the confines of a patriarchal spring, Duke women shadee malaklou system —by folding into stereotypes of women as comwere able to address va-va-voom feminism without one panions of men or virtuous, moral pillars of society. But Wollstonecraft lived in the 1700s, and three mention of the infacenturies later, at Duke, we’re still playing by her mous L word, or its men. The play was also successful in mapping out the rules. Whether or not we mean to, as Duke women, we also determine our personal worth in terms of our remany, varied and bumpy contours of feminism on camlationships with men. how Duke women maneuver and delineating in pus To return to All of the Above, and in the words of these contours. Nonetheless, despite including a monoDress”: “In psychology, a person exhibiting diverthe Above “The logue entided “Dearest Patriarchy,” All of failed to address patriarchy in all its forms. gent behaviors and beliefs suffers from cognitive dissoIn addressing feminism at Duke, it is important for us nance.... Psychology textbooks say that in cases of such dissonance, a person will either change her behavior to to ask, How are Duke feminists complicit in reproducing it in line with her beliefs or change her set of exwhat do Duke feminists bring on ways patriarchy campus? In recreate social inequalities (and dominance)? And how pectations to accommodate the behavior.” But Duke women do neither. do Duke women oppress themselves? After all, the big, Instead, like crazed schizophrenics with split personbad man in the ivory tower is only pardy to blame for the alities, we constantly fool ourselves into thinking we can daily grind of womanhood on campus. In the monologue “The Dress,” actress junior be raging feminists in the classroom by day and girly Nathalie Basile (a stand-in for the author) buys a dress femmes at the bar by night—that we can be both and inspired by 1950 fashion because it makes her feel that we can have it all. Many self-defined feminists turn off their intellect “girly.” Although this girliness incites guilt, she justifies the purchase because, at the end of the day, the dress and act in ways that are distinctly feminine if and when it suits them.But feminism, as an ideology and a lifestyle, “sure does make her look good.” of is not something that one can turn on and off—and defThe author of this monologue likens the duality her desires—the desire to be (and to dress like) both a initely not without consequences. Whether we define ourselves as feminists, femmes or feminist and a femme—to the hypocrisy of an and-drug “all of the above,” like Alice in Wonderland falling down activist who smokes marijuana. the rabbit hole—and despite our best efforts —with each And she’s not far off. stab at patriarchy, we seem to slip, fall and dig ourselves In the words of the popular feminist mantra, the perdeeper crevice. to be femme and a sonal is political. The desire “girly” in one setting distinctly contradicts a woman’s self-proShadee Malaklou is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every claimed (and often exclaimed) identity as a feminist in Wednesday. other another setting.
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Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and neuroscience. Her column runs every Wednesday.
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