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A week after Gail Goestenkors left for Texas, Duke could be closing in on its next women’s basketball head coach.

Califomia-Berkeley head coach Joanne Boyle, widely thought of as the leading candidate in Duke’s search, visited the Durham campus Sunday and Monday to interview for the position, a source familiar with the coaching search confirmed.

Boyle met with President Richard Brodhead, Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva and members of Joanne Boyle the curren t team, the source said. Although there is no specific timetable, interviews with other potential candidates have not yet been scheduled.

The source, who asked to remain anonymous, could not confirm whether Boyle had received an offer, saying only the process could move “rapidly” from this point. Boyle was scheduled to fly back to

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Berkeley Tuesday.

Boyle, who graduated from Duke in 1985 and served as an assistant coach under Goestenkors from 1993-2002, could not be reached for comment. She released a statement Friday in which she did not deny her interest in the Duke job.

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The proposed Fall 2007 expansion of the faculty-in-residence program to West Campus has been pushed back one year, administrators confirmed late last week.

Under the newly proposed schedule, faculty apartments will be installed in Craven, Crowell, Keohane and Kilgo Quadrangles in the summer of 2008 and will result in a loss of approximately 30 to 36 student bed spaces. There is currently a faculty in residence in each of Edens and Few Quadrangles.

“We didn’t have enough time to develop the project this year,” said Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, said recruitment for the four new positions will begin in the fall and the new faculty in residence will be identified by Thanksgiving.

“By February, we felt that we had really missed the ideal window of recruiting people and decided that the task force would continue looking at the role of the faculty in residence,” Hull said.

A task force—consisting of students, faculty members, current program participants and Residence Life and Hous-

Members of the Class of 2007 look down at the medical center and Durham from atop Duke Chapel Monday afternoon.The chapel climb was open to seniors as a program of the Senior Class Gift Committee.

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there are still months to go before the Class of 2011 arad better watch out for “Cameron’s Newest Crazies.” incoming freshman class already has its own T-shirt, the Duke T1 Facebook group has proven to be an imirtant part of the class’ pre-college experience.

The University Store will donate $2.05 to the 2011 lass fund for every shirt sold, said Thomas Craig, general manager of the University’s retail stores.

“To my knowledge, this is the first time a class has deigned its own incoming shirt,” he wrote in an e-mail.

The front of the class shirt asks, “Can you say wski?’” and the back includes the phrases “Blue and “Cameron’s Newest Crazies.”

After a nationwide search for a new director, the Kenan Institute for Ethics will find a familiar face at the helm July 1 when current Associate Director Noah Pickus assumes the commanding role The search committee has selected Pickus as Nannerl O. Keohane director of the institute, Provost Peter Lange announced Monday.

Pickus has served as the interim director since the departure of founding director Elizabeth Kiss last summer.

Since its inception in 1995, the

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Shiites call for U.S.to leave Iraq

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Iran announced a NATANZ, Iran dramatic expansion of uranium enrichment Monday, saying it has begun operating 3,000 centrifuges—nearly 10 times the previously known number—in defiance of U.N. demands it halt its nuclear program or face increased sanctions.

U.S. experts say 3,000 centrifuges are in theory enough to produce a nuclear weapon, perhaps within a year. But they doubted Iran really had so many up and running, a difficult technical feat given the country’s spotty success with a much smaller number.

Instead, the announcement may aim to

increase support at home amid growing criticism of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and to boost Iran’s hand with the West by presenting its program as established, said Michael Levi, a nonproliferation expert at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations.

“From a political perspective, it’s more important to have [3,000 centrifuges] in place than to have them run properly,” Levi told The Associated Press. ‘We have an unfortunate habit to take Iran at its word when they make scary announcements. The White House and Europe criticized the latest announcement.

“Iran continues to defy the international community and further isolate itself by

expanding its nuclear program, rather than suspending uranium enrichment,” said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for

the National Security Council.

Iran is known to have had 328 centrifuges operating at its Natanz enrichment facility in central Iran. For months, it has been saying it plans to launch an expanded program of 3,000, likely to be set up in a large underground area at Natanz to protect them from air strikes. “I declare that as of today, our dear country has joined the nuclear club of nations and can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech during a ceremony at Natanz.

Bush calls for immigration reforms by

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President George W. Bush boasted of tougher enforcement along the Mexican border Monday as he tried to revive his stalled efforts to overhaul U.S. immigration laws. Many of his fellow Republicans in Congress are op-

posing him.

Frustrated by his failure to get a bill

approved last year when the GOP was in charge, Bush said prospects look brighter in the Democratic Congress. “I think the atmosphere up there is good right now,” he said.

His message—particularly to conservative critics from his own party —was that stepped-up border enforcement is working and it’s time to adopt a temporary worker program, hold U.S. employers accountable for the workers they hire and resolve the status of the millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States.

He saluted the opening of a new border patrol station in this southwest corner of Arizona and said, “This border is more secure and America is safer as a result.”

The president was joined by Sen. Jon Kyi, the Arizona Republican whose support is crucial to any deal in the Congress. An-

other lawmaker vital to Bush’s effort, Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ofMassachusetts, issued a statement that said; “President Bush did the right thing today by speaking out.”

“Only a bipartisan bill will become law,” Kennedy said. “There is a lot of common ground, especially in the need to strengthen our borders and enforce our laws, though important differences remain to be resolved.”

Administration officials led by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff SEE IMMIGRATION ON PAGE 8

Tens of thousands of Shiite—a sea of women in black abayas and men waving Iraqi flags—rallied Monday to demand that U.S. forces leave their country. In the capital, streets were silent and empty under a hastily imposed 24-hour driving ban.

Runoff possible in East Timor A Monday presidential election pitting a Nobel Peace laureate against seven challengers could ignite more instability because a second-round vote seems likely, analysts said. Prime Minister Jose RamosHorta initially had been considered a sure winner for the five-year post.

CBS, MSNBC suspend Imus CBS Radio and MSNBC both said Monday they were suspending Don Imus' morning talk show for two weeks as a protest grew about his reference last week to members of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos,"

China pushes for U.N. in Sudan China urged Sudan Monday to accept the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur, increasing the pressure on a key economic partner that Beijing has been criticized for protecting.

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Some students feeling down encountered a surprise pick-me-up on the West Campus Plaza yesterday.

A group of freshmen equipped with painted signs and open arms gave out hugs to passers-by as part of Duke’s first Free Hug Day. Freshman Tiffany Pan, who coordinated the event, said she got the idea from friends who organized a similar event at the University of California at Los Angeles.

“It was pretty random, but I thought it was a good idea,” Pan said. “They gave me the idea to do it on a Monday, which is the worst day of everyone’s week.”

Volunteer buggers—who were comprised of Pan’s friends and students who contacted her after viewing a Facebook event—said they were generally satisfied by studentreactions.

“I’ve been pleasandy surprised by the number of hugs we’re getting—people are pretty open to the idea,” freshman Sam Schlinkert said.

Schlinkert added that he has been interested in the idea of a Free Hug Day ever since seeing a video of a similar event on YouTube.

“These guys beat me to it, so I thought I’d join in,” he said.

Freshman Sarah Frush, who accepted a hug, said the event surprised her at first.

“But I really liked it,” she said. “I think everyone could always use a hug.”

Pan noted that some hug receivers had interesting stories to tell.

“One of the first guys we approached said he was a cancer survivor for five years and told me our hug made him really happy,” she said.

Some students, however, decided not to partake in the festivities.

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There’s nothing like a little sake bombing to raise money for a good cause and bring together the Class of 2007.

About 400 seniors are expected to gather tonight to listen to music and

buy discounted drinks at a number of bars on Main Street, including Devine’s Restaurant and Sports Bar, Satisfaction Restaurant and Bar, James Joyce Irish Pub, the Federal and Mt. Fuji.

“It’s almost sort of a rite of passage,” said senior Brittany Greenfield, co-president of the Senior Gift Committee, who helped organize tonight’s Senior Week pub crawl in collaboration with Drink for Durham, a branch of the Network for Future Executives.

This year, the annual event will raise money for the Boys and Girls Club in Durham, in addition to raising money for the participation-based senior gift, a part of the Duke Annual Fund.

“It’s very cool that we’re able to combine something that’s great for the Durham community with something that’s fun for the Duke community,” said NFE President Collin Walter, a senior.

The recently founded Drink for Durham group could raise $l,OOO for the Boys and Girls Club, Walter added.

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Seniors will hit Satisfaction Restaurantand otherMain Street venues during the Class0f 2007 charitypub crawl. senior Stephanie Vance said Senior Amanda Holt said she will take the opportunity to go “reveling” with old friends. 'Tm really going to miss parties like that,” Holt said. “It’s bittersweet.

[Duke’s] a tough place to leave.”

Rahul Kak—who graduated last year but is still taking classes at the University—attended the event last year and said students who don’t drink can come to pub crawls.

“It’s one of those events you could just probably go to alone withoutany friends,” he said. ‘You just run into people.”

Kak added that the pub crawl is one

of his favorite events of Senior Week, which he is enjoying for the second time in two years.

Though senior-only events—like clambering up the Chapel stairs for the last time and having lunch with President Richard Brodhead and his wife—are supposed to be off limits to underclassmen, it does not mean a few won’t show up.

“We’re not standing at the door carding,” Greenfield said, adding, however, that younger students probably wouldn’t want to come anyway. “Everybody waits for their turn.”

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U.S. asks N. Korea to shut down reactor Duke senior named Churchill Scholar Senior Brandon Levin has received one of 12 nationally awarded Winston Churchill Scholarships to pursue a year of graduate study at Cambridge University in England.

A mathematics major and philosophy minor, Levin will study number theory at the Center for Mathematical Sciences.

He is only the 11th Duke student to receive the Churchill award since 1990.

Levin has achieved several honors in mathematics throughout his time at Duke.

He was on one of 11 teams in the world to receive an “outstanding” designation in the 2006 Mathematical Contest in Modeling and has counseled high school students in mathematics.

After receiving the equivalent of a master’s degree at Cambridge, Levin hopes to return to the United States to receive a doctorate and join a university faculty.

Food provider to switch to cage-free eggs Chartwells announced Monday that it is implemendng a cage-free whole shell egg policy for the colleges and universities it serves in the Northeast region of the country. Chartwells is a subsidiary of Compass Groups that runs the Great Hall, Chick-filA and Subway at Duke.

“Chartwells is deeply committed to sustainability, and our students have made it clear that animal welfare is an important concern for them,” Holly Hart, director of Marketing and Communications for Chartwells Higher Education Division, said in a statement. “This cage-free egg policy is an important step toward demonstrating our commitment to opposing the inhumane treatment of hens confined in cages.”

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PYONGYANG, North Korea

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delegation pressed North Korea Monday

to shut down its main nuclear reactor and allow in U.N. inspectors even as the top American negotiator said it would be difficult for a weekend deadline on the closure to be met.

The American delegation said North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye Gwan, told them his government would allow U.N. nuclear inspectors into the country as soon as $25 million in disputed North Korean funds are released.

Kim, who is also vice foreign minister, met with New Mejdco Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate, and Anthony Principi, President Bush’s former veteran affairs secretary, who were visiting the North Korean capital.

But Principi said Kim told the Americans that it would be difficult to shut down the nuclear reactor by a Saturday deadline called for in a Feb. 13 nuclear disarmament accord. Under that agreement, the North must shut down and seal the Yongbyon nuclear reactor and a reprocessing facility in exchange for an initial shipment of aid.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is slated to monitor and verify the shutdown in what would be its first visit since late 2002, when North Korea expelled lAEA inspectors after U.S. officials accused the communist nation of running a secret uranium enrichment program in violation of a 1994 disarmament deal.

“They can make a beginning, but whether they can completely shut down

N.M. Gov. Bill Richardson arrives in Pyongyang, NorthKorea today to collectAmerican remains from theKoreanWar. a nuclear reactor in such a short time would be very difficult,” Principi said.

The North agreed to shut the reactor only after the U.S. promised to resolve the key financial issue within 30 days—which Washington failed to do because the fund transfer has been mired in technical com-

plications.

Kim “indicated that the North Korean government would invite the... inspectors back the moment the funds are released to the North Korean government,” Principi told reporters.

“They believe that it’s critical that the

$25 million be returned to their government,” he said In Tokyo, U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said the deadline was going to be difficult to meet because of the ongoing dispute over the frozen funds.

“Clearly, we’re aiming for the complete implementation of the February agreement by day 60... but that timeline is becoming difficult,” said Hill, who is in Japan to discuss the next stage of the nuclear talks.

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FACULTY from page 1 ing Services representatives—has been formed to make recommendations regarding future changes to the program “We will be looking at appropriate incentives, recognitions and rewards for faculty in residence for all schools,” Thompson said.

He added that Trinity faculty participants are granted a leave at the end of their three-year term, but ones from other schools are not.

“We want to expand it to more than just [Trinity], maybe [Pratt School of Engineering] faculty won’t get a leave but some other form of compensation or recognition,” Thompson said.

The task force will also look at how to apply the East Campus program on West.

“We want to find connections between faculty and students, bridging classroom interactions and outside interactions,” Thompson said. “We’re trying to build on what we’ve accomplished previously.”

All East faculty in residence are also pre-major advisors.

“It’s different and hard to figure out how best to make it work, but it won’t be the same,” Thompson said. “It’s probably more programmatic. Maybe we’ll have an academic program for sophomores where the faculty in residence will organize speakers around main topics.”

Administrators said they hope to improve faculty-student interaction by expanding the program.

“Duke is incredibly fortunate to have the kind of resources to support this kind of program,” Hull said. “We have some incredibly talented and compassionate faculty members who truly understand the student experience and seek to make it better.”

Thompson added that because the University does not have a college-residential model like many other universities, the faculty-in-residence program can help connect students’ academic and social lives.

“This is away we could acquire and achieve some of the activities those residential college models do so well,” he said. “We’re looking for natural ways to bridge academic and social residential life.”

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“I feel like they’re trying to reel me in for something else,” said sophomore David Asher, who deflected a hug.

“But it’s pretty cool what they’re doing, pretty outgoing.”

Sophomore Anna Beck—who was handing out free condoms and information on sexually transmitted dis-

eases at a Duke Student Health Center table on the Plaza—called the concept of free hugs “bizarre.”

“I would not like a hug from a stranger—that would not make me feel better,” she said.

Beck added that she recognized free condoms might also make students uncomfortable.

“But it’s not like we’re giving out free sex,” she said Freshman Angela Vo, a volunteer hugger, said she was disappointed that some students reacted negatively.

“It’s sad that people would mistrust someone just trying to give them a hug—it’s not like I’m sketchy looking,” Vo said. “I tried to hug one guy, and he said, ‘l’m diseased.

Don’t touch me.’”

Free Hug Day was interrupted by an extreme martial arts performance by the Sideswipe Performance Team. Although Free Hug Day ended earlier than planned, Pan said the event was a success.

“It was a lot of fun, and people were really receptive,” she said, adding that she would like to repeat the event

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that lead to freshman roommate horror stories,” incoming freshman Caitlin Cook wrote in an e-mail.

However, Daisy Jing, creator of the Duke Ladies 2011 Roommate Finder, wrote in an e-mail that the group is not

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Craig said the shirts are now available on the Duke University Stores website and will be in the University Store by Thursday.

The shirt was designed by a group ef“foolproof.” fort, said incoming freshman Sam Klein, “Neither is rooming with your best an administrator of the Duke T1 Facefriend of 13 years—and you cannot be sure book group. Students posted designs on a you know anyone through Facebook, MySpace or the Internet in general,” she said. message board and voted for the final deResidence Life and Housing Services sign from the best four.

Incoming freshman Madeline McCrary, does not necessarily discourage students creator of the group, said members did from choosing roommates in advance, said not originally plan to work with Duke Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and exStores. Instead, shirts were going to be disecutive director of housing services. tributed by regional contacts.

He added, however, that there were ad“That would cost so much money and vantages to random matches. so much time that we figured we might as “There are tremendous growth opporwell go to Duke and see what happens,” tunities for students if they are willing to be flexible on who their roommate might McCrary said.

Christoph Guttentag, dean of underbe,” Hull said. “Students tend to choose graduate admissions, said the group repeople who are just like them—it’s akin to flects the incoming class’ enthusiasm. looking in the mirror.”

“This group is a reflection of their natHull said it is too early to tell whether ural inclination to get to know each other an increased number of early roommate before arriving at campus,” he said. matches will affect the standard roommate Members of the incoming class have pairing process. also used the Duke T1 group’s message Several members of the incoming class board to find future roommates. said the Duke ’ll group was particularly useTwo separate roommate finder groups ful in learning about the school in general. have sprouted from the original board topic.

“We all knew that Duke has great aca“I’m sure that a lot of the roommates demics,” Esther Jeohn wrote in an e-mail.

Duke assigns work out well, but I know it “But we all wanted to know what life there can be hit-or-miss at times,” said incoming would be like... and through the group, we freshman Jeffrey Oh, creator of the Duke got those questions answered.”

Men’s 2011 Roommate Finder. “I thought Others, however, said the group did it was a good way to meet other future not reflect only positive qualities of the Dukies, even if I didn’tfind a roommate.”

University.

Other students said finding roommates “I’ve been disillusioned by the group at now would allow them to address importimes, because occasionally it seems to retant issues ahead of time that could lead to inforce the existing negative stereotypes of conflict, such as sleeping habits and politi- Duke students,” one student wrote in an cal or religious beliefs. online correspondence. “Some seem “The process rules out a lot of big issues naive, others seem too bent on partying.”

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A group of incoming freshmen has designed a shirt for their class that will go on sale at the BC store.

Guttentag said the Facebook group is a

good way to meet future students but not

always the best source for information.

“I wouldn’t discourage them,” he said.

“On the other hand, if they have questions about Duke, I would want them to contact us first.”

Although several members of the Duke ’ll group said they are excited about meeting their future classmates, freshman Jacqueline Puig said meeting her Facebook friends during orientation week was more awkward.

‘You see someone, and you know them—but you haven’t met them,” she said. “In the end, you don’t even approach them.”

The new pick-up line has become, “Excuse me but are we Facebook friends?” sophomore Stephanie Oh added.

McCrary, however, said the Duke ’ll group has only made her more excited for the upcoming academic year.

“We’re coming up with ideas, getting constructive criticism and positive feedback,” she said. “It’s something I’ve never seen at my high school.”

McCrary added that the Duke group has been particularly active.

“I’ve read on other groups, ‘Duke has already created T-shirts. Guys, we need to get on this,”’ McCrary said. “We’ve really taken things to the next level.”

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President George W. Bush speaks about his plan for immigration reform at a speech in Yuma, Arizona near the U.S. border with Mexico.

and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez have been meeting privately for weeks with Republican senators in search of compromise. That expanded to a meeting in late March with key senators from both parties.

The administration floated a proposal that would make it harder for millions of illegal immigrants to gain citizenship than under legislation passed by the Senate last year.

Bush stopped here on the way back to Washington from an Easter holiday at his Texas ranch. He climbed in the back of a pickup truck at a National Guard observation post to see how a portable scope tracks people charging across the border at night. Then, his motorcade barreled along a rocky, dusty road between two new walls of fencing protecting the U.S. border.

Bush watched a rig plow holes in the ground to prepare for more fencing, steel-winged at the bottom to make it harder for illegal immigrants to tunnel underneath it.

Contending that tougher enforcement is paying off,

Bush said: “The number of people apprehended for illegally crossing our southern border is down by nearly 30 percent this year. We’re making progress.”

Sharply at odds over the war in Iraq, Bush and the Democratic Congress are eager to show some accomplishment on a core issue like immigration: Less than two years from leaving office, Bush is losing clout as attention turns to the presidential election in 2008.

The compromise immigration plan that was floated last month was described as a draft White House proposal by officials in both parties and advocacy groups who got copies of the detailed blueprint.

The White House disputes that characterization.

Spokesman Scott Stanzel said it was only a starting point, an emerging consensus of Republican senators and the White House.

Regardless, the proposal has already met opposition.

Thousands of people marched through Los Angeles on Saturday, spurred in part by what they called a betrayal by Bush. The plan would grant work visas to undocumented immigrants but require them to return home and pay hefty fines to become legal U.S. residents.

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Kenan Institute has worked to make ethical inquiries and simultaneously convert these ideas into practice both at the University and in the community, Pickus said.

“I think the institute has achieved in its first 10 years a kind of entrepreneurial proof of concepts—that you can have an ethics institute that does both theory and practice,” he said.

In the coming years, however, the institute will take on a much larger role on campus in defining the experience of Duke students, he added.

He explained that the institute will focus on organizational ethics, moral development and civic and global ethics and their applications to the community.

“I think our overall goal is to ensure that people recognize that when a student graduates from Duke, he or she has had experience dealing with ethical issues—in the classroom and outside—so that it becomes kind of a signature of the Duke experience,” Pickus said.

He added that ethics should not become an academic major at Duke but rather remain a certificate program as a supplement to any course of study.

“We don’t have a plan for a major—we have the certificate program because the focus is that the Kenan Institute doesn’t own ethics at Duke,” he said. “Our job is to help infuse it across the University, because if we own it, nobody else has responsibility for it.”

Pickus said he also hopes to expand the research component of Kenan to further include students from all facets of the Duke community.

Students will be involved in research ranging from moral development at different stages of a student’s life to what works in ethical business practice, Pickus said.

“I think that this is a real opportunity for the institute and for Duke to take the next step of what we have been building and to really deepen our engagement with both the lives of students and the best research and practice we can build,” he said.

Lauren Hunt, assistant director of communications and advancement at Kenan, said members of the institute are very pleased with the selection of Pickus as the new director.

“This is the best possible outcome, so we are delighted with the news,” she said.

Hunt added that Pickus, who has worked to expand the institute’s programs and to develop a new strategic plan for the organization, has already proven himself to be an effective leader.

“There was no doubt in our minds, having been under his leadership for the past year, that he was the right person for the job,” she said.

The search for a new director, which was led by psychology professor Phil Gostanzo, was very competitive, and the committee considered many well qualified candidates for the position, Hunt said.

“The staff was able to meet with the finalists, and they were an impressive group of people,” she said. “It’s a testament to [Pickus] that he was chosen among such an im-

pressive group.”

Hunt said Pickus will continue to be a great leader at Kenan as the institution moves forward.

“He’s a wonderful combination of an academic who also understands how to run an organization and how to work with people,” she said. “He has a real vision for the future ofKenan and Duke.”

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DUKE 13TH IN DIRECTOR'S CUP After finishing a record-high third after the completion of fall sports, Duke now sits in 13th place in the updated Director's Cup standings, a measure of a school's success across all sports. In the winter, Duke picked up points for its finishes in men's and women's basketball, fencing and women's indoor track and field.

Loss of Coach G isn’t huge Sometimes, amid the moaning and the hand-wringing and the protesting and the rallying, someone has to be the voice of reason.

Today, that someone is going to be me You see, I don’t think it’s that big a deal that Coach G decided to leave Duke.

From Duke’s perspective, I think letting her go was the right choice.

Yes, you can make the argument that Coach G built Duke from the ground up.

I’ll buy that argument. (Though I’ll qualify it by saying that Duke was a sleeping giant in women’s basketball.

Come on—the tradition of Cameron In■B door Stadium and the men’s team, the allure of Duke’s academics to a | ex athl etes wh° never £ ££ idII3rOTT get rich playing basketball—Duke had it all.

It only needed someone to put the pieces together.) Before Goestenkors got to Duke, the Blue Devils didn’t exactly have a tradition of winning—they had been to just one NCAA Tournament.

So the fact that Duke has been to 13 straight Tournaments and has had seven straight 30-win seasons is definitely a huge mark in Coach G’s favor. As The Chronicle’s editorial said, “Coach G was a jewel in the athletic department.”

I don’t disagree with that statement Goestenkors is a seven-time ACC Coach of the Year (including this past year) and the reigning AP National Coach of theYear. It would have been fantastic if Coach G had been able to stay at Duke. It just did not make sense to match the price that Texas paid.

Reportedly, Goestenkors new contract at Texas will make her the second-highest paid women’s basketball coach in the SEE FANAROFF ON PAGE

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Gail Goestenkors served as Duke's head women's basketball coach for 15 years before leaving last week.

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Patrick Patterson, whose Huntington High School team played in Cameron indoor Stadium in February (above), is Duke's top remaining recruiting target for 2007.

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their next four years.

Star basketball players usually avoid that stress by signing letters of intent early in their senior year or even by giving verbal commitments during their junior season in high school.

For the second consecutive year, though, a Duke recruit has pushed his final college decision into the spring.

Last May, Lance Thomas picked the Blue Devils over hometown Rutgers. This year, Duke hopes for a similar decision from Patrick Patterson, scout.corn’s fourthbest power forward in the class of 2007.

Patterson, a chiseled 6-foot-8 big man from West Virginia, teamed with fellow star recruit O.J. Mayo to lead Huntington High School to the state championship. The forward averaged 18.8 points, 16 rebounds and six blocks during his senior year and impressed many at the McDonald’s AllAmerican Game in Louisville March 28.

“At the McDonald’s game, he looked like one of the best power forwards there, and there’s no doubt he’s the best unsigned big man in the nation right now,” said Dave Telep, scout.com’s National Recruiting Director.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski was on hand to watch Patterson, as well as

signees Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith, participate in the Nike Hoop Summit Saturday in Memphis.

“It meant a lot for me for him to come out and watch me play,” Patterson said afterward.

Duke could use Patterson’s presence in the paint. The Blue Devils were frequently forced to play four guards down the stretch of the season as Dave McClure and Lance Thomas struggled offensively. Patterson’s rebounding and finishing skills on the block are even more crucial with the departure of sophomore Josh Mcßoberts for the NBA. “Obviously from Duke’s perspective, it’s an opportunity to sell a guy on more playing time immediately,” Telep said.

“It’s a huge plus, and it’s a big chip for Duke to play in the recruiting pitch.”

The Blue Devils, however, are far from alone in their pursuit of Patterson. Florida, Kentucky, West Virginia, Wake Forest and Virginia all remain in the hunt for him. Patterson initially planned on cutting that list of six suitors in half by midMarch and making a final decision in early April. A whirlwind of coaching changes and departing underclassmen, however, has complicated that process.

Kentucky head coach Tubby Smith left the Bluegrass State to take the job at Minnesota, but that has not eliminated the Wildcats from the Patterson chase. New Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie is a talented recruiter who showed how quickly he can

around a program during his prior stops at Texas-El Paso and Texas A&M. “I would not say [Kentucky is out of the running],” Telep said. “I can assure you Kentucky will be taking a stab at him this week. Their whole plan at this point has to be trying to package him and Jai Lucas together.”

Lucas, an unsigned point guard from Bellaire, Texas, is a close friend of Patterson’s, and the two have said they would enjoy playing with one another.

Kentucky may have been the favorite to land Patterson had they lured Billy Donovan from Florida to replace Smith. Last week, Donovan’s Gators just became the first team to repeat as national champion since Duke in 1991-92. Although Florida loses all five of its starters from that team, the Gators have three key reserves returning as well as one of the nation’s top recruiting classes.

“I think Florida is a formidable force in the recruitment of Patrick Patterson,” Telep said. “And like Duke, they now have another nugget to offer.”

West Virginia also lost its coach when John Beilein filled the vacancy at Michigan. The Mountaineers quickly hired Bob Huggins, whose emphasis on defense and rebounding may suit Patterson’s game even more than Beilein’s perimeter-oriented system.

Patterson must announce his decision

by May 16, the final National Letter of Inturn

tent signing day.

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While head coach at Duke, Gail Goestenkors lost in both ofher trips to the National Championship game.

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nation, behind only Tennessee’s legendary Pat Summitt. That’s right Goestenkors will make more than National-Championship-winning coaches Brenda Frese of Maryland, Sylvia Hatchell of North Carolina and Tara VanDerveer of Stanford. She’ll even pull down more than Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma, a five-time National Champion.

Goestenkors? Well, she’s been to a bunch of Final Fours.

If you’re going to pay someone like they’re the second-best coach in the country, then they had better be the secondbest coach in the country. By virtue of her track record, there’s no way you can justify making Goestenkors the second-highest-paid coach in the country.

And you definitely can’t justify paying your coach that much when her team operates at a loss of more than $2 millionper year.

A lot of people have ripped Director of Athletics Joe Alieva for saying that Goestenkors doesn’t bring in money for the University, and for implying that the team’s lack of profit factors into the decision of whether or not to keep its coach.

But of course whether or not the team turns a profit figures into the decision.

If more people cared about the team, it would make money. Women’s basketball does at Tennessee and UConn, where the teams have rabid fan-bases. If people don’t care about the team, then why should Duke invest money in ensuring the team’s success.

Look at it this way: What does women’s basketball provide to the Duke Community that makes Goestenkors indispensable?

Judging from the number of tenters in Goestenkorsopolis this year, there are no more than three dozen hard-core women’s basketball fans on campus. So

munity of Durham residents and women’s basketball boosters that really care about the success of Blue Devil women’s basketball. And they’re probably upset, too.

But that’s about it. There are probably more students who care about the football team than the women’s basketball team.

The women’s basketball team doesn’t win National Championships. It doesn’t help connect that many Duke students with the larger Durham community. It doesn’t boost Duke’s national reputation much. It really doesn’t do anything but suck up $2 million per year in charter flights and marketing billboards (things that Goestenkors reportedly demanded more of as conditions for her staying.)

When the women’s basketball team is playing well, everyone gets just a little bit excited. When they lose, no one really cares. This isn’t like the men’s basketball team (which, by the way, makes money).

The men’s basketball team helps define Duke’s identity. The women’s basketball team is nice to have.

If the women’s basketball team is worse without Goestenkors, then it’s a small loss for the University. A very small loss. But who’s to say they would actually be worse off?

There’s a cult ofThe Coach in sports today. It’s the reason people say Phil Jackson is a genius, and the reason NFL coaches spend 100 hours a week watching film to prepare for Sunday. Coach G may have built Duke, but she’s not irreplaceable.

Recruits will still come to Duke for the name and the tradition. As long as top players keep coming, the team will keep winning. Coaching isn’t rocket science.

Duke Women’s Basketball will be fine without Coach G. It’s all going to be okay (And if it’s not, you probably won’t care that much anyway.)

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achieved great success in the past two years,” the statement said. “I am proud and appreciative of our studentathletes, administration and loyal fans; it is an honor to be Cal’s head women’s basketball coach. And, as a former Duke player and assistant coach, I appreciate the many people who have contributed to that program’s history of success. Thus, I am also honored by Duke’s interest in me as its next head women’s basketball coach.”

Boyle, who has led Cal to the NCAA Tournament in each ofher two seasons in Berkeley, interviewed for Florida’s opening two weeks ago before turning down the Gators’ offer. Cal’s athletic director released a statement last week saying that the school’s athletic department had been “taking steps to ensure that Joanne Boyle has a long-term future as Cal’s women’s basketball coach.

Boyle interacted with members of the Duke contingent to last week’s Final Four in Cleveland, even though Goestenkors had yet to announce she was leaving. And although her ties to Duke trace back to before the team’s

“I don’t believe I ever talked to her when she was [a coach] here, but one of my good friends played for her at Cal and only had good things to say about her,” Abby Waner said last week.

In replacing Goestenkors, Duke players and administrators have said they hope to uphold the level of success the program has seen in recent years—including four Final Four appearances in the past eight years.

“We want a coach with many of the characteristics [Goestenkors] had,” junior Wanisha Smith said last week.

“We want her to show a lot of passion for the game. We just want someone whose easy to talk to and just a great person.

Adding to her connection to the area, Boyle’s mother, Joan Boyle, lives in Raleigh. Reached at her home, daughter’s inJoan Boyle said she could not confirm her would know what happen. and said she did not terview “When she’s ready to tell us, we’ll know it,” Boyle said.

“She just doesn’t want to talk about it until everything is set in place.”

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Yale, it seems that, in this case, the president is on target.

In light of Duke’s recent efforts to polish its image in the transitionfrom the fallout of the lacrosse incident (it hired a PR agency last fall), the creation of this new, unifying position is also a great PR move for Duke.

Another major plus in the creation of the deanship will be to take a number of burdens off Provost Peter Lange.

Lange is currently in charge of both undergraduate and graduate academics, in addition to numerous other responsibilities. The position should alleviate some of the smaller tasks his current job entails and allow him to focus on broader, long-range goals.

In short, the position will

serve to better unify the work ofadministrators and provide a more cogent vision for the

undergraduate experience at the University.

Finally, the dean will be selected from the current Duke faculty. That means he or she will not be just another professional administrator but will have a strong academic background. Rather than a knack for fundraising for specific projects, the position will require the perspective that only comes from real academic experience.

Product of the CCI report or not, the dean of undergraduate education’s time has come. Taking a cue from our better integrated peers, the new office’s creation promises to be a the right move for Duke undergraduates.

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better and clearer focus on undergraduate academics and life, something that peer institutions like Yale and Princeton already have. It is no secret that in the world of undergraduate academics, Yale, in particular, leads the way.

Indeed, Duke’s newest top dean position is quite similar to the dean of Yale College—the position Brodhead himself filled before coming to the Allen Building. That office is in charge ofadministering the academic course of study and myriad educational programs at the university. He or she is, moreover, charged with determining policies about student life, discipline and extracurricular activities.

Although few students want Duke to become another

The

white tents are nearly pitched and the West Campus grass beneath them is already dead.

That can only mean one thing—Alumni Reunion Weekend 2007 is nigh!

What better opportunity to see what we students are working to someday achieve—successful lives, remarkable accomplishments, perhaps some financial success and (hopefully) loving families.

But have you ever wondered about the alums who never make it back to theirreunion weekends? What of the Dukies whose fates have borne them farthest “on life’s broad kristin butler sea?” Let’s turn for a with all deliberate speed moment to those “other” alums and recognize a few of the oddest, craziest and naughtiest students who have ever donned Duke blue.

Headlining our list is a name that Triangle natives may recognize—two-time “staircase murderer” Michael Peterson. Convicted in 2003 of beating his second wife to death at the bottom of a staircase, Peterson is now serving a life sentence at Nash Correctional Institute.

But 42 years ago, Peterson was still riding high as the 1965 editor ofThe Chronicle and president ofhis fraternity, Sigma Nu. After being inducted to Duke’s most prestigious “secret” society, the Red Friars, Peterson served in Vietnam, churned out of a couple of best-selling novels and ultimately ran for mayor of Durham.

Every bit the upstanding citizen, he even wrote columns for The Chronicle and the Herald-Sun. But it wasn’t until Peterson had committed his second murder that the public discovered how eccentric his lifestyle really was. For one thing, Peterson was “very bi, and that’sall thereis to it,” although he later claimed that his wife knowingly worked long hours at Nortel so that Peterson, who was a househusband at the time, could engage in nightly trysts at the YMCA. But the jig was finally up when police discovered that Peterson had beaten another woman to death in nearly the same way 16years earlier. Fool me once...

Peterson’s son, Clayton, also made this list. Though not as noteworthy as his father, the younger Peterson tried to firebomb theAllen Building back in 1994. Clayton, who had “declared war on the University” following a ban on kegs and bonfires, made his statement by depositing a gasoline-filled pipe bomb in an Allen Building closetand then lighting the fuse. Faulty wiring prevented the bomb from actually detonating, but Pe-

terson still pleaded guilty in exchange for a 49-month federal prison sentence. But this kid is no dummy; since his release, he graduated first in his class at North Carolina State University and even earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins.

Baron Maurice Jeffrey Locke de Rothschild never bombed the Allen Building, but he did manage to bamboozle administrators, many students and most especially the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon during his nearly two-year tenure at Duke in the late 1980s. You see the baron—who was known for “driving expensive cars, buying champagne for frat parties, befriending top University administrators, and boasting about his famed European banking relatives”—had a secret.

He wasn’t really a baron, nor was he a Rothschild.

His name was Mauro Cortez and he arrived here from El Paso, Texas intent on conning his way into Duke as a “continuing education” student. He did such a good job of fooling administrators, fellow students and most especially his fraternity brothers that they ignored the fact that Cortez spoke little French and drove a Honda CRX. It took two years for Cortez’s debts to catch up with him, time enough to steal more than $6,400 from Duke—and embarrass Duke’s status-obsessed culture before a national audience.

What Duke list could be complete >vithout a bona fide Duke descendent on it? Next in today’s assortment is Angier St. George Biddle Duke (college nickname: Pony), a 1959 graduate. Pony holds the dubious honor of creating an entirely “new field of litigation:” he is the first Washington, D.C. playboy to ever lose a lawsuit to his secretary for giving her gonorrhea. It is only thanks to Angier’s pony, Time Magazine reports, that “a VD victim of either sex [can] haul the responsible partner into court.”

Last but not least, we have Dr. Tony Mills—HIV-positive physician, leader to California’s extensive S&M community and gay pom star extraordinaire. Mills, who attended both undergraduate and medical school here at Duke, initially left the South for San Francisco to study developmental cardiac physiology. Those plans mu§t have been put on hold, since 13 years later Mills had already risen to prominence as the 20th annual International Mr. Leather. Photographs confirm that Mills’ chain does, indeed, hang low, even if he spends most of his time these days being an HIV-positive doctor who treats HIV-positive people.

If nothing else, these Dukies are proof positive that you can never tell where we will end up “on life’s broad sea.”

Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Tuesday.

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that fat envelope in the mail from Duke Admissions two years ago came as more of a surprise to me than I imagine it would for most students. First, the letter wasn’t addressed to me. It was addressed to someone named Julian Colbert. Knowing that this was probably just a clerical error, I thought nothing of it. What was much more confusing, however, is that I couldn’t remember ever applying to Duke, or anywhere else, for that matter. According to my guidance counselor, I wasn’t exacdy “college material.”

Nevertheless, I was flattered by Duke’s offer and wanted to at least give it my consideration. I decided to sign up for Blue Devil Days.

Arriving on campus for the first time, I was blown nick alexander away. Beautiful sunny weathstay hungry, stay foolish er, smiling faces everywhere, and indoor plumbing were all things that I had read about in the brochures but wasn’t used to seeing in Ohio.

That’s when things started getting strange.

When I went to the registration desk to pick up my itinerary and housing assignment, the name tag they handed me said Julian Colbert. Not wanting to be confrontational, I put the name tag on without questioning it. Next, the people at the housing table told me that someone had just signed in with the same name and taken my host They were forced to pair me up with someone from the alternate list.

My new host introduced himself to me as “Dirty Pete.” The first thing that caught my attention when I walked into his room was a queen-sized, heart-shaped bed in the middle of the room. Pete walked around all day in a long, satinrobe.

Maybe it was the strong aroma of incense, maybe it was the fact that it was hard to sleep over the constant sounds of Barry Manilow coming from the pianist in the corner, but something about Dirty Pete’s room just made me feel uncomfortable.

The next day I decided to sit in on a lecture. My first choice of classes was LIT 110—Introduction to Film. However, when I got to the class, I was promptly kicked out after the teacher said that I had been disrupting an earlier class ofhers. Trying once again just to go with the flow, I walked into another classroom and sat down.

After about half an hour of the teacher rambling on about nonsense, I realized that the class was being conducted in Hebrew. Suddenly, it struck me this wasn’t a class at all—it was a traditional Jewish Bris. Not wanting to be rude, I stayed for the remainder of the service and even helped out with the ceremony at the end.

Since I wasn’t eager to go back to Dirty Pete’s room that night, I decided to try my hand at an on-campus party.

Trying my best to blend in as a normal student, I started to make small chat with a few of the people standing around.

Suddenly, I heard a name that sounded familiar.

“What did you say your name was?” I asked immediately.

‘Why, I’m Julian Colbert. And you are?” I froze in shock.

Suddenly it all made sense. This was the person who had stolen my roommate and who had forced me to circumcise a newborn. Out of rage, I quickly delivered a swift roundhouse kick to his face and ran.

Unfortunately, Julian turned out to be a lot bigger and faster than he seemed under the black light, and he quickly caught up to me. No one at the party seemed to care enough to intervene. The DJ didn’t even bother stopping the music. I ended up getting my ass kicked to the beat of “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” After staying with a sexually predatory host, being kicked out of class, and getting beat up at a party all within my first 48 hours on campus, it seems like a logical question would be, “Why would I still come to Duke?” Well, part of the reason is that I didn’t get accepted anywhere else. Actually, that’s most of the reason.

But, looking back, I’m glad things worked out the way they did. Even though things didn’t come easy at first, had I not been persistent and given Duke another chance, I would’ve missed out on so much.

Not the least of which was another ass-kicking the day I arrived back on campus. It turns out that the kid from the bris actually was a relative ofJulian Colbert. Apparendy, the family blames me for botching the procedure.

Nick Alexander is a Pratt sophomore. His column runs every other

Tuesday.

was recently given a powerful reminder of the importance of honor in the form of a foam cow. Gazing upon its white body with black spots, on which the words “got honor?” had been branded, I was struck by what now seems an obvious truth. The foam cow showed me what a lifetime of my

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couldn’t: cheating is bad.

Of course, this didn’t

happen I don’t really think such a story is what the Honor •■*</ I Council expected when distributed the cows. they More likely, they were just trying to market themselves, to make students more aware of the fact that Duke has an Honor Council, and that from here on out, “honor, integrity, and ethical behavior in university life” will be promoted.

I suppose it’s a good thing that there are students on this campus who care deeply enough about cheating to give away foam cows and T-shirts to fight it. There is clearly some value to similar efforts, “gay? fine by me,” for example, gave students of all sexual orientations an opportunity to voice their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Students who oppose cheating, though, are not quite as marginalized as LGBT students.

As someone who opposes cheating, I personally don’t feel that we need a support group on campus (if we did, I would hope it wouldn’t require filling out a two-page application to join); and I doubt that those who have no problem with cheating will be changed by Honor Council goodies or panel presentations. This may be why I feel the HonorCouncil is yet another empty resume-building exercise supported by the University for public relations.

It’s almost as false as the Duke Community Standard, which the Office of Judicial Affairs describes as “a statement of principles,” from which flow the rules and regulations of the University—an analysis that is almost the exact opposite of the current way things work.

When I accepted my offer of a place at Duke, I was shocked to see that to do so I had to pledge to report any other student I saw cheating. It seemed a rather harsh

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Community Standard and one I had not quite reconciled with my moral code when I arrived at school. I have no qualms about reporting a cheating stranger; however, in my moral code, betraying a friend is a sin far greater than collaborating on a lab report.

I was relieved, then, to find upon arriving here that the words I had signed my name to were completely empty.

The community standards at this university are quite different from the Community Standard. I was soon informed (by the Honor Council, no less) of the real community standards enforced by the University; cheaters are punished, but witnesses are left alone.

This year, finally, the Honor Council moved to tweak the Community Standard to reflect actual community standards by removing the obligation to report. Note the order. First come the rules and regulations set by the Office of Judicial Affairs; then come the principles espoused by the alleged “community.” We were then urged to exercise our democratic right to choose between two nearly identical alternatives.

I’m not saying the Community Standard doesn’t reflect the standards of the Duke community. I’m saying whether it does is completely irrelevant. Duke doesn’t ask us to articulate the ethical principles of our community and then derive all its policies from these principles. While this would certainly be admirable, it’s not clear how the Office of Judicial Affairs would interpret the Community Standard with regard to its advertising policy, for example.

On the contrary, the Community Standard and Honor Council are tools of the administration to use ethical language to grant legitimacy, ex post facto, to its own policies.

For some reason, it’s not enough for the administration to say that cheating is wrong, and that, moreover, the University couldn’t function if everyone cheated, and that, consequently, cheats will be suspended.

Instead, they need to coopt students sympathetic to their policies in order to make the process seem like it arises from the standards of thestudent body. This, then, functions as a method of cutting off ethical inquiry. You have no right to question the Community Standard, or the desirability of Community Standards in general: you already signed up to it in order to come here.

David Rademeyer is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

letterstotheeditor FAC Board remembers Chris Sanders

Nobody could light up a room like Chris Sanders—he was pure energy. He was a rare kind of leader, one

whose infectious smile and contagious enthusiasm alone were enough to win him the affection and respect of his peers. In many ways, the First-Year Advisory Council Program runs on the mastery of group dynamics, attracting members who can function both as team players and team builders. Chris was the ideal head FAC, because he could literally—and effortlessly—get people excited about anything. He relished competition, but all in the spirit of having fun; he was an invigorating source of inspiration for everyone around him, and for the FAC Program as a whole. He was engaging, perpetually ready for action and insanely fun to be around. In a program full of such people, Chris stood out as a natural.

Most members of the FAC Board consider applying to be a head FAC as one of their best decisions at Duke—not only because we believe strongly in the mission ofour program, but also because it has brought us into contact with people who have since become our best friends, the closest thing many of us have to a family on campus.

When we’ve come together over the course of the past week to support and spend time with each other, we’ve spontaneously started sharing stories about Chris... and we always end up laughing. All of our memories of him are of times when he brought us the kind of giddy, lifeembracing, bubbling-over joy that so often makes being a part of the FAC Board such an incredible pleasure.

Our grief is immense, but Chris—just by virtue of

being who he was —gave us the gift of being able to laugh our way through our sadness. And while we may no longer have the pleasure of working alongside him and enjoying his friendship, he lives on in our shared experience of having known him... together.

GeoffBass and Bronwyn Lewis, Trinity ’OB, on behalf of the First-Year Advisory Council Board ATO responds to recent arrest of brother Last week, allegations were brought against a member of our fraternity, junior Ryan Packer, and he was subsequently suspended by the University. While these events have left his friends and family confused and upset, what has been even more disturbing is the number of students who have already handed down their own guilty verdicts. Those who loiow Ryan well know him as a dedicated athlete and respected member of the Duke community, and certainly not as someone that fits the profile of the accusations. As Ryan’s brothers, we would unequivocally vouch for his character and are confident that the ensuing legal proceedings will conclusively demonstrate his innocence, and we ask that his fellow students lend him support in these difficult times. With the Duke lacrosse incident still in recent memory, it would be a shame to see the Duke community cast yet another student into the shadow of infamy before he has appeared in court and the exonerating evidence has been presented.

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