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With the book now closed on the Duke lacrosse case, attention has returned to the details of the year-long saga and the respective roles of the parties involved. In an April 14 panel discussion at the School of Law, Law Professor James Coleman analyzed the University’s position in the case, praising administration’s deci- n sion to remain relatively uninvolved in the investigation. Over the past year, the administration has fielded criticism for its response to the case, as critics alleged that the University failed to act immediately and support former players as they faced charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual assault. “I’m not sure what more the University could have said that would have been supportive of the students and would not have appeared to be Duke trying to interfere in the judicial process,” Coleman told The Chronicle. The University’s position was a difficult one, added Coleman, who has been a vocal critic of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong throughout the case. On one hand, Coleman said administrators had to consider the gravity of the SEE COLEMAN ON PAGE 11

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Jason Mraz, Wednesday's headliner at LDOC, gave an impromptu performance at the Coffeehouse Tuesday night on East Campus.

After nearly a decade of partnership with the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Academic Integrity has decided to move to Clemson University, officials confirmed Tuesday. The mutual agreement between KIE and CAI—the center that helped to develop the University’s Community Standard—was the result of conflicting longterm goals, officials said. The partnership will conclude July 1, 2007. “As the Center for Academic Integrity is seeking to expand its national membership, it is not as good a fit with Kenan’s need to deepen its own work,” said Noah Pickus, associate director of KIE. “One spreads you thin, one goes deep.” Tim Dodd, executive director of CAI, said the Center wants to work more with research institutions and schools of education—both of which aTe resources available at Clemson. “We want to diffuse the movement out there,” Dodd said. “We want to train the trainers, work with students who are going to become high school teachers, who are going to be student affairs and academic affairs professionals.” The Center may also be more useful to Clemson, Dodd said, adding that the university was the “most synergistic” partnership out of a list of 24 considered schools. “Clemson is making a strong effort to SEE CAI ON PAGE 6

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t the April 11 press conference held after all charges against the indicted Duke lacrosse players were dropped, defense attorney JL JLjim Cooney didn’t mince words aboutThe Durham Herald-Sun. “People were afraid to speak truth to power,” he told a live national audience, hours after the players were fully exonerated. “If The Durham Herald-Sun had bothered to stand up and demand proper processes, the presumption of innocence and doing things the way our (f hi* \t constitution provides, do you think [Durham District Attorney] Mike Ni- /Ju C v fong would have rolled forward?” lo In an interview with The Ch, cle Monday, Cooney said he sin; out The Herald-Sun because of unique power as the local paper. “I don’t think Mr. Nifong paid much attention to The New York Times and Newsweek,” he said.

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Tim Dodd, executive directorof the CAI, has decided to move his center to Clemson in South Carolina.

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Vice President Dick accused Democratic leader Harry Cheney Reid Tuesday of personally pursuing a defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes at home a charge Reid dismissed as President George W. Bush’s “attack dog” lashing out. The particularly harsh exchange came just hours after Bush said he would veto the latest war spending bill taking shape in Congress, which includes a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq. “Some Democratic leaders seem to believe that blind opposition to the new strategy in Iraq is good politics,” Cheney told reporters at the

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Capitol after attending the weekly Republican policy lunch. “Senator Reid himself has said that the war in Iraq will bring his party more seats in the next election.” “It is cynical to declare that the war is lost because you believe it gives you political advantage,” Cheney said. Cheney said he felt compelled to make a statement in front of cameras to express his frustration with Reid, D-Nev., after the Senate majority leader told reporters last week the war was lost. Cheney’s remarks also showed the high stakes involved for the White House in trying to stave off Democratic efforts to end the war. While Bush has enough Republican

votes to sustain his veto, Democrats say

they have public opinion on their side and that will eventually force Bush to change. “This isn’t a political issue,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “I respect where the president is coming from on this. I wish he would respect where we are coming from, which is a reflection of where the American people are coming from.” Reid shrugged off Cheney’s remarks but with his own dig at the vice president. “I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with fhe administration’s chief attack dog,” he said. —

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Mexico City law legalizes abortion by

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MEXICO CITY Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion Tuesday, a decision likely to influence policies and health practices across Mexico and other parts of heavily Roman Catholic Latin America. The proposal, approved 46-19, with one abstention, will take effect with the expected signing by the city’s leftist mayor. Abortion opponents have already vowed to appeal the law to the Supreme Court, a move likely to extend the bitter and emotional debate in this predominandy Catholic nation.

“Decriminalizing abortion is a historic

triumph, a triumph of the left,” said city legislator Jorge Diaz Cuervo, a leftist social

democrat who voted for the bill. “Today, there is a new atmosphere in this city. It is the atmosphere of freedom.” Nationally, Mexico allows abortion only in cases of rape, severe birth defects or if the woman’s life is at risk. Doctors sometimes refuse to perform the even under those circumstances. The new law will require city hospitals to provide the procedure in the first trimester and opens the way for private abortion clinics. Girls under 18 would have

to get their parents’ consent.

The procedure will be almost free for poor or insured city residents, but is unlikely to attract patients from the United States, where later-term abortion is legal in many states. Under the Mexico City law, women having an abortion after 12 weeks face punishment of three to six months in jail. Those performing abortions after that period would face one to three years in jail. Mexico City is dominated by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, at odds with President Felipe Calderon’s conservative National Action Party, which opposed the abortion measure.

An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when the former football star was cut down by friendly fire in Afghanistan said Tuesday a commanding officer had ordered him to keep quiet about what

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Riot breaks out in IN prison Inmates staged a two-hour riot at a medium-security men's prison Tuesday, injuring two staff members and setting fires in a courtyard. Indiana Department of Correction spokesperson Java Ahmed said more than one cell house was involved in

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Iran may keep nuclear project

The United States and other world powers may be ready to allow Iran to keep some of its uranium enrichment program intact instead of demanding its complete dismantling, foreign government officials said Tuesday.

Gov. to close gun loophole Virginia's governor said Tuesday he may be able to single-handedly close the loophole that allowed a mentally ill Seung-Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people at Virginia Tech.

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New facility N.C. bill aims to change rules for DAs looks to up Pratt space by

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The University plans to build a 120,000 sq.-ft. facility called the Experiential and Collaborative Environment for Learning, officials confirmed Tuesday. EXCEL, which is slated for completion by 2010, will be located between Hudson Hall Engineering Building and the Levine Science Research Center. Officials said they hope the building will encourage a new approach to research and education for Pratt School of Engineering

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Peter Lange said. Architectural firms will be interviewed in the upcoming weeks, officials said, adding that the University has concrete plans in mind, including unique spaces to facilitate improved independent and group interactions. Kristina Johnson, dean of Pratt, said the facility will play a major role in realizing Pratt’s strategic plan. “Over the next five years, we hope to further shift the focus of education to hands-on experience,” Johnson said. “[EXCEL] will expose our undergraduates to integrated lecture, laboratory and de-

sign experiences.” The multimillion dollar center will feature approximately 20 “collabatories” combined lecture and laboratory spaces, she added. A quarter of the facility will be used for Pratt’s computer engineering and computer —

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Months after Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong asked to be dismissed from the Duke lacrosse case, legislators in the North Carolina Senate have proposed a bill to modify the way in which district attorneys can be removed from cases. North Carolina Senate Bill 1363, short-titled “Governor May Suspend DA for Misconduct” and proposed March 26, 2007, would allow the governor to dismiss the district attorney from a case under particular circumstances.

After dismissing all charges in the Duke lacrosse case, Attorney General Roy Cooper told WRAL-TV that North Carolina needed such a law that would allow prosecutors to be removed from cases where they have overstepped their authority. Under North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 7A-66, the district attorney can only be dismissed if a sworn affidavit is filed with the clerk of superior court charging the attorney with committing one or more of seven conditions for removal. The clerk must then bring the charges to the senior regular resident superior court judge, who must review and act on the charges. The bill establishes three conditions that would permit the governor to dismiss a district attorney from a case: a complaint must be filed with the North Carolina State Bar, the council of the Bar must determine that disciplinary action is necessary and the governor must determine that suspension of the district attorney is “required for the protection of public interest.” The new bill would also require that the governor ask the attorney general to assign a special prosecutor to assume the responsibilities of the district attorney and states that the district attorney may “resume office if no disciplinary action is taken.” State Sen. Charles Albertson, who is listed as a co-sponsor on Senate Bill 1363, said he supports the effort to

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give the governor the power to dismiss a district attorney. Albertson added that the lacrosse case “brought [the bill] to the forefront.” Sen. Tony Rand, also a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 1363, said the bill is “designed to be used at any time when it is felt that the justice process is being abused.” Duke law professor Robinson Everett said he has concerns about the proposed bill.

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I'.WiMl.ljWl 911 cellular tracking falls short A new report WASHINGTON by a public safety group throws into question the ability of police and firefighters to locate people through their cell phones when they dial 911 in an emergency. The FCC requires companies that use "network" technology-triangulating among cell towers to determine the caller's location —to come within 300 meters of the caller 95 percent of the time.The company identified as "carrier No. 001" in the testing was unable to come within 300 meters of the 911 caller 73 percent of the time in Onondaga County. Scientists study lethal injection The drugs used to execute prisoners in the United States sometimes fail to work as planned, causing slow and painful deaths that probably violate constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment, a new medical review of dozens of executions concludes. The three-drug lethal injection method appears, to have caused some inmates to suffocate while they were conscious and unable to move, instead of having their hearts stopped while they were sedated. The study concluded that the typical"one-size-fits-aH" doses of anesthetic do not take into account an inmate's weight and other factors. N.C investigates billing scams RALEIGH, N.C Some companies should be investigated over allegations that they abused a state mental health service to increase their billings, Gov. Mike Easley said. A state audit of 167 companies found that some businesses working under a 13-month-old community support program abused the system by charging the government to take children swimming and to the movies and to do homework.

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that are most often reported by overweight employees are injuries of the lower extremities the ankles, knees, hip and lower back, he said. In addition, the study found that employees with the highest

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Scientists have long known that companies spend more money on health care for smokers than non-smokers, but new research at Duke suggests that obese r ke rs may cost “We found that obese more money for take more than

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sampled approximately 12,000 Duke employees, concluded that overweight individuals

cost their emseven times as much for health insurance, medical-related costs and workers’ compensation benefits. “Not only were overweight and obese workers submitting more claims of being hurt, but the claims dial were submitted resulted in longer time off and higher expenses,” said Truls Ostbye, professor of community and family medicine and lead researcher in the study. “We found that obese people take more than 10 times as many sick days as their counterparts.” An overweight individual is defined as having a body mass index between 25 and 30, and an obese individual is classified as having a body mass index of more than 30. The specific types of ailments to

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ing facts about different types of promising, and I encourage fats, healthy recipes and menu Duke and other employers to implement more of them,” he planning. Even though these programs said. “Until now, obesity has only are a step in the right direction, been a personal problem.... But it employers will likely begin to tar- may now become a bigger socieget overweight and obese workers tal problem and a problem that even more, Ostbye said. employers should begin taking a “These programs are very

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DA LAW from page 3 “The legislature is trying to look at ways to avoid recurrence of situations such as the lacrosse case, but I’d be pretty cautious,” he said. “I don’t want us to rebound from this lacrosse case in ways that will create more problems than we

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The North Carolina State Legislature is attempting to pass a law that will allow the governor to replace district attorneys.

Everett said North Carolina laws have traditionally given prosecutors more leeway than laws in other states and added that hearings on the issue may be useful. “Maybe we should reevaluate the whole system,” he said. Jim Woodall, district attorney for Orange and Chatham coun-

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ties, said an existing statute already makes it possible to remove a district attorney in cases of misconduct, but that it was not taken advantage of in the lacrosse case. Peter Gilchrist, district attorney for Mecklenburg County, said there were already “adequate procedural and ethical prescriptions for district attorneys at the present time.” Woodall said that if the new bill is passed, it could give lawyers an unfair advantage in the courtroom. “The biggest concern is that lawyers and other people in a case could use this to their advantage to threaten a DA with an ethics violation or to gain a tactical advantage,” he said.

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Pickus stressed that the revised Community Standard is one step in the right direction, imbue its campus with ideals and “It puts an emphasis on stuvalues of integrity and dents engaging each other ethics,” he said. “Where when they see things, whether 1 Duke has matured in that it’s a: racial slur or someone “This isn’t just about cheatrealm, Clemson is sort of drinking too much,” he said. ing or stealing someone’s “It calls for them to take recoming forward and seeing the value of partnering with sponsibility and, at times, bike, it’s about how we the Center.” challenge each other.” Pickus said Duke has treat each other.” Some students, however, said the modifications to the grown as an institution Lauren Hunt University’s honor code were through its partnership asst. dir. ofcmmunimtions, Kenan Institute with CAI. ineffectual. “It’s a gentle reminder, “The work that they did 1 with us is complete,” Pickus but it doesn’t necessarily ture of integrity. said. “I don’t mean academic inmean students are going to “This isn’t just about cheattegrity issues are done here, but change their behavior,” junior they helped strengthen the acaing or stealing someone’s bike, Vidur Gangwal said, adding that demic integrity capacity at the it’s about how we treat ‘each he had heard of the Center but other, how we engage with one did not know what it was. University.” KIE now plans to address in- another as part of a communiAlthough Pickus said that students are right on some level, he tegrity beyond a purely academic ty,” Hunt said. She added that KIE is still added that it is their responsibility scope, which is the focus of CAI, Pickus added. thinking about how to tackle to bring these words to life. “We have a broader mission these issues in “tangible terms.” “Kenan is a midwife to this, than the Center has,” he said. “A The Campus Culture Initiative help to facilitate the process. year and a half ago, we began discussed some of these issues, These are words that set us tothinking about aspects of stu- Pickus said, adding that KIE also ward a question,” Pickus said. dents’ lives outside the classplans to develop partnerships “Do we want to continue to look room —in their dorms, on the with the Office of Student Affairs away from behavior that troubles basketball floor.” and the new dean of undergraduus? Or do we want to engage each Lauren Hunt, assistant direc- ate education. other about that behavior?”

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HERALD-SUN from page 1 stood up for due process and justice, he would’ve been forced to pay attention.” The incident, however, was only the most visible in an ongoing litany of criticisms against the paper. Accusations from defense attorneys, bloggers and other media have slammed The Herald-Sun for what they have called sensational editorials, news coverage slanted toward Nifong and questionable editorial decisions on behalf of Editorin-Chief Bob Ashley, Trinity ’7O and former managing editor of The Chronicle. “The Herald-Sun was by far the worst [in the country]—it’s worse than The New York Times,” said KC Johnson, author of the Durham-in-Wonderland blog that attracted national attention for its coverage of the case. “If journalism schools in the future want to look how a paper got a major

local story entirely wrong, they can look at The Herald-Sun.” Ashley, however, said his newspaper has acted correctly in making editorial decisions and approaching its news coverage throughout the past year. “Am I glad that innocent people have been exonerated by the process? Yes,” Ashley said. “But I do think we did as even-handed a job as the circumstances argued at the time.”

Early editorial portrayal As the local paper, The Herald-Sun has written a staggering number of pieces on the case—more than 400 articles and editorials since the story first broke in March 2006. But from the very beginning, critics said the paper’s coverage came down strongly against the lacrosse players, particularly on the editorial pages. “The Herald-Sun has consistently failed to presume the innocence of these three

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that was capable of getting into big trouble, you might pick lacrosse,” the board said. “For years, the team has had a reputation for loud, obnoxious partying and belligerent behavior.” In the same editorial, the board stopped just short of presuming the players’ guilt: “In many ways, they have themselves to blame for the current trouble. We shouldn’t pronounce anyone guilty, but sympathy is hard to muster.” Despite the strong sentiments in the editorials, Ashley maintained that the editorial board acted correctly considering the information known at that time. “Our editorial criticism "of the team and of the party in the early days pointed out that there was a presumption of innocence,” Ashley said. “We were reflecting the circumstances and situation as it was known at the team

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situation as it was known at the time, and I don’t have any regret in doing that. I don’t think we need to apologize for that conclusion.” National shift in news coverage In the early months of the case, The Herald-Sun, like many news organizations, was critical of the players and failed to cast doubt on the information that Nifong released in his plethora of early interviews. But unlike other media organizations, after the negative DNA results were released and the media tide began to shift against Nifong, The Herald-Sun was hesitant to change its coverage, Cooney and Green said. “It’s conspicuous that they have not attempted to correct their early coverage of this case,” Green said. Most notably, there are a number of glaring omissions and factual inaccuracies that generally went in favor of Nifong’s case, Johnson said. One early example, he said, was The Herald-Sun’s failure to address General Order 4077, which impli-

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charge from an incident in Washington, D.C. In another article Aug. 1, Herald-Sun reporter John Stevenson wrote that “previously undisclosed matches” of DNA evidence were found connecting defendant David Evans, Trinity ’O6, to the scene. The same evidence, however, had been revealed in an April 11 Raleigh News and Observer story, and other news outlets reported similar information the week of April 10. Ashley said any instances of inaccurate information or omitted coverage were only a few exceptions in a year of otherwise balanced and strong reporting. “We’ve approached it conscientiously, professionally and with an eye toward the fact that it has been a case that has brought out very, very strong emotions along the way,” he said. “We’ve tried to do our best to cover it in a levelheaded and even-handed way.” Cooney said Ashley’s inability to admit flaws was questionable, noting that other journalists—like columnist Ruth Sheehan and Public Editor Ted Vaden at The Raleigh News and Observer and Byron Calame, public editor for The New York Times—have acknowledged some mistakes in their coverage. Cooney added that he thought one of The HeraldSun’s most egregious moves was to downplay the revelation in December that Nifong had withheld exculpatory DNA evidence from the defense. In a Dec. 19 editorial, The Herald-Sun editorial board wrote, “Those alleging prosecutorial misconduct have to deal with a simple fact—Nifong did turn over the data. Defense lawyers’ only real complaint is that they had to fight to get it.” This response was inconsistent with a broader portrayal in the media that Nifong had committed an obvious wrong, Cooney said. “They were the only newspaper in the country who wasn’t critical ofit at that point,” he said. Ashley’s editorial columns and recent criticisms The Herald-Sun’s editor-in-chief has also been criticized by bloggers for his decision to publish columns in the editorial pages with his byline that commented on continuing aspects of the lacrosse case and the players. In an April 23 column tided “Duke seeks to define line between rules and freedom,” Ashley wrote that there was a need to alter off-campus student behavior. “Many are frustrated with the off-campus reputation of some students, including without dispute many members of the lacrosse team, for whom loud, late parties and disdain bordering on contempt for their neighbors are common,” he wrote. “I confess to being conflicted on this.” In a July 23 column tided “Has the lacrosse case induced insanity?” Ashley noted that a shift had occurred in the media’s portrayal of the lacrosse case and that new pressure had been placed on Nifong. Instead of agreeing with this shift, Ashley cautioned readers about jumping to conclusions in the case—this time, warning against condemnation of the prosecution. Lois Boynton, assistant professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said it is not unusual for an editor-in-chief to write an opinion-based column, but noted that Ashley’s decision to comment on issues thatwould inevitably arise in future coverage was, in fact, problematic. “If the stories start to reflect too much the leaning of the individual, the readers will begin to question the validity of the stories,” said Boynton, who specializes in ethics. “[Ashley] is pushing his luck a little bit here.” Although he wouldn’t comment on The Herald-Sun’s coverage, Vaden said Ashley’s decision to comment on the issues of ongoing coverage was not clear-cut. “It would be unusual to take a position, say in the Duke lacrosse case, about the issues of the case. I suppose that’s unusual,” he said. “[But] the smaller the paper, the less unusual that would be.” Since all charges were dropped against the three players, The Herald-Sun has continued to receive criticism. The paper published a story April 17 with the headline, “‘lnnocent’ declaration angers local activists,” about negative responses to the attorney general’s ruling. The article, however, foiled to provide more than half a sentence of background information on Cooper’s decision on the case—leaving the opinions of the protesters unbalanced, some critics have said. A few days earlier, The Herald-Sun published an evaluation of Cooper’s statements on “60 Minutes.” In the opening paragraphs, The Herald-Sun reported that Cooper said “the strains the Duke lacrosse case inflicted on Durham’s racial climate played a role in his decision last week to declare the three defendants innocent of sexually assaulting an exotic dancer.” Cooper had never, in fact, made such a statement, and a correction had to be run. “We were probably stretched a bit thin—the writer who was doing it was hurried, and probably, being Sunday night, backed up by other editing,”Ashley said. “We made a mistake. Human beings in this business make mistakes all the time.”

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students as being wealthy, white, privileged students whose fathers could go out and buy them the best lawyers,” Coleman said. “I don’t think the University could have asserted that the students were innocent under those circumstances.” The players, in addition to the University, had something to lose in that situation, Coleman added. “It would have been difficult for the [North Carolina State] Bar to intervene in the middle of the case because of the appearance that the Bar was acting under the influence of the University—and the same is true for [Attorney General Roy] Cooper,” he said. “If it looked like Duke was pressing for exoneration, it would be difficult for [Cooper] to say they are innocent.” President Richard Brodhead said the position maintained by the University was important in allowing the case to unfold the way it did. “The University urged everyone to defer to the legal process for two reasons,” he wrote in an e-mail. “First, that’s the way our society has agreed to resolve disputes of fact and judgment, and we undermine that system only at great public risk.” Brodhead added that a different response from the University may have affected the outcome of the case for the students facing charges. “If Duke had used its institutional power to attack the case, the [District Attorney] might well have said, ‘how am I to stand up to pressure like this?’ and folded

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Duke Law professor James Coleman said the University had to walk a fine line toprotect its rights in the lax case. his hand—leaving an ambiguous, unsatisfactory result,” he said. John Burness, senior vice president for government affairs and public relations, said Brodhead’s comments throughout the case asserted the need for a presumption of innocence but continued to support the need for trust in the legal system. In a statement released March 25, 2006, for example, Brodhead maintained the importance of cooperation with the police investigation and encouraged the

Duke and Durham communities to reserve judgment until more information emerged. “The facts are not yet established, however, and there are very different versions of the central events,” Brodhead said in the statement. “No charges have been filed, and in our system of law, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty.” In the long run, this approach proved itself to be appropriate under the circumstances, Burness said, emphasizing that the University recognized the com-

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plexities of the case. “From the beginning, we were very much aware of the perception that Duke would use its influence in inappropriate ways,” he said. “The position we were taking was that ultimately the legal system would be the basis from which the truth would emerge, and that turned out to be the case.” With Nifong appearing on national television broadcasts to proclaim the former players’ alleged guilt, however, the University could have done more to correct the factual errors being made by Nifong and members of the media in their representations of the case, Coleman said. Still, Brodhead’s statements transmitted a firm and clear message, Law Professor Tom Metzloff said. “The University’s responsibility at that level is to make it clear that the investigation needs to be completed and due process needs to run its course,” he said, adding that silence at a time when the facts are still unknown is a fundamental principle any lawyer would support. “[But] when there’s a lot of noise, people aren’t easily heard. In the lacrosse situation, if you read statements from administrators, that point is repeatedly made and made well.” Several experts also emphasized the need to examine the University’s response within the context of the case. The University did not have the resources to conduct its own investigation, Bumess said “They had to act on the basis of the information provided,” said Sara Beale, L.B. Lowndes professor of law. “The prosecutor was providing biased, incorrect statements about evidence... the University was in no position to know that what we were dealing with was an extraordinary case ofprosecutorial misconduct.”

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What would you wear if JJ. Redick invited you to the pool with him? For two days last June, I wrestled with this question. As part of a pre-draft series Redick was gracious enough to do with The Chronicle, the future NBA Lottery pick had suggested that we meet by the pool of his off-campus apartment rather than just conduct the usual phone call. But what do you wear to a poolside interview? Was I expected to wear a bathing suit? Should I bring sunscreen? What if I showed up ready for a swim and got laughed at? After consulting my friends about my outfit crisis—nearly everyone agreed that board shorts and a polo shirt H would be a safe compromise—it turned out not to matter when the QO3 H sun stayed behind the clouds that day. Instead, Redick called and asked me to meet him in a ballroom at a local hotel, where I watched him complete a two-hour memorobilia signing for which he was paid more money than any undergraduate can make in an entire summer. When he finished up, I asked if we were just going to do the interview in the lobby. He turned to me and asked awkwardly, “Could you actually give me a ride home?” As Redick rode shotgun in the cramped front seat of my 1992 Toyota Camry, I thought to myself that serving as sports editor ofThe Chronicle was pretty much the coolest job any college journalist could ask for. How many other people in my position were getting that type of access, shooting the breeze about everything from campus life to the NBA Draft with one of the best jump shooters on the planet? Less than a week later, I was reminded just how difficult being a college journalist can be. The night after I had seen

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After just half an inning, it appeared that Duke had a dangerous threat on its hands with Campbell, who put men on third and second base before flying out to end their turn at the plate. With a powerful swing and the loud . smack of bat on CAMPBELL | 0 ball. however, DUKE 12 sophomore Nate Freiman emphatically sounded the onset of the Blue Devils' offensive attack with a towering home run. And as seniorJonathan Anderson continued to puzzle Campbell batters, the Fighting Camels faced the grim reality that Duke had quickly defused any hope of an upset. Duke (26-17) blasted three home runs and gave up just eight hits as the Blue Devils dominated the Fighting Camels (9-34) 12-0 Tuesday night at Jack Coombs Field. The margin of victory ties the highest of the year, and for the first time all season, Duke not only put together a complete game, but also was dominant in doing so, juniorJimmy Gallagher said. “I would say it was our most complete game,” head coach Sean McNally said. “Our guys pretty much across the board played well.” Every Duke hitter except Jonathan Foreman reached base safely, and five batters finished with multiple hits. Freiman and Gallagher, however, stood out the most. Freiman added a home run seventh inning that just barely cleared the fence to finish with four RBIs off three hits. Gallagher came up a triple short of hit-

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the Cavaliers. No. 2 Duke (11-2, 3-0 in the ACC), the conference’s top seed, will take on No. 9 North Carolina (9-4, 0-3) Friday at 8:30 p.m. Koskinen will also host a matchup between Virginia and No. 8 Maryland immediately preceding the Blue Devils’

game, and the two games’ winners play Sunday at 3:30. Duke and UNC met once before this season, in Chapel Hill on March 17. The Blue Devils came out 9-7 winners despite falling behind by five goals early in the game. Trailing 6-1, Duke closed the score to 6-5 after goals by Matt Danowski, Max Quinzani, Zack Greer, and Brad Ross. Later in the second half, with UNC leading 7-6, Danowski scored two more goals to give the Blue Devils a lead they would not relinquish.

“I remember [UNC] was kicking our butts and it was 6-1,” John Danowski said. “If we made a mistake, they took advantage, and in the second half we did a nice job, but they really worked at it early, and we have to be prepared for that.” Since that victory, Duke has gone 5-1 while facing five opponents ranked in the top 15 nationally. The team’s lone loss in SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE

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In a changing sports world dominated by young stars like Lebron James and Dwayne Wade, Caroline Cryer likes to stay old-school. “I’ve always loved Michael Jordan,” Cryer said. “I loved how clutch*he was. I thought it was great that he could perform under pressure.” Although the 5-foot-9 junior with bright red hair does not particularly look like Jordan, Cryer’s play this season has been remarkably Jordanesque. No. 4 Duke (13-2, 4-1 in the ACC) hopes that the junior can continue her strong play FRIDAY, 3 p.m. when it opens action in Chapel Hill the ACC tournament Friday at 3 p.m. in Chapel Hill against the winner of Thursday’s matchup between Virginia Tech (5-11, 05) or North Carolina (13-3, 3-2). If the regular season was any indication, however, the Blue Devils do not have much to worry about. In Duke’s most recent win—an 11-10 nailbiter against the then-No. 4 Tar Heels—Cryer scored the game-winning goal with 5:59 left in regulation. She finished with three goals in the contest. Earlier in the season, when the Blue Devils outlatsted then-No. 4 Virginia 19-18 in double overtime, Cryer chipped in with four goals and seven draw controls. At then-No. 10 Notre Dame—a Final Four team last year—Cryer paced Duke with five goals in a 20-10 win.

Throughout the season, the junior attack has provided the consistency Duke has needed to be successful. “It’s simple,” sophomore midfielder Jessica Adam said. “She’s just really competitive. She always puts the team before herself.” Through 15 games, Cryer has tallied 53 goals, which is the most in the ACC and third-most in the NCAA. She even could break Katie Chrest’s all-time Duke record of 70 goals in 21 games. These statistics are a major reason why Cryer has been recognized as a semifinalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy—given to the top women’s lacrosse player in the country. Statistics and accolades, however, are not what matter most to the junior. “I just go out there and have fun,” Cryer said. “I come to every game with the same mentality to beat every team that we play.” For Cryer, going from a sophomore that was not even first on the team in goalscoring to one of the best lacrosse players in the country was not an overnight transformation. In the fall, the junior spent extra time on agility drills and conditioning while working with Duke’s training specialist, Jeff Howser. By constantly putting in extra time before and after practice, Cryer has seen a huge rise in offensive productivity. “This year, becoming an upperclassman, she’s really embraced her role,” sophomore midfielder Carolyn Davis said. “Especially on attack, she’s really stepped up with Leigh [Jester] and [Kristen] Waagbo.” Unlike other stars of her caliber, Cryer is not particularly demonstrative on the

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Junior Caroline Cryer leads the Blue Devils in scoring with 53 goals netted through just 15 games. field after scoring—she merely clicks sticks with a few ofher teammates and gets ready to play again. Cryer’s stoicism has become a unique part of her role on the team. “My actual initials are CCC, but some of my teammates say that stands for cool, calm and collected,” Cryer said. “It’s just how I am.”

Now, as postseason play begins, Duke will count on Cryer to lead the way like she has all season. For her part, Cryer is looking forward to the ACC tournament—especially the possibility of a rematch with North Carolina. “I’m ready to step in,” Cryer said. “I hate to lose.”

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Hanging from two nails on the wall of my room are nearly 30 press passes. Each is unique in its own way. Some are big and laminated, while others are small and flimsy. Some have elaborate designs that include action photos, while others are simply monotone yellow. And although they might appear like a bunch of random pieces of paper to most people, they are the most prized possessions I’ve acquired

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Each of them repa different from memory my time M Vein as a member of the sports staff of The Chronicle. And I’ve gotten more out of the countless hours I’ve spent working for this paper than I have in any ofmy classes. In this, the last column or story I’ll ever write for this publication, I’d like to share a few of the most memorable stories behind those press passes. I obtained the largest one and the only one that includes photo ID the summer after my freshman year. I was sent to the NBA Draft in NewYork to cover Luol Deng and Duke recruit-turn-pro Shaun Livingston. Two things stick out in my mind about that night. As centerpieces on each of the players’ tables, the NBA places a basketball that has the players’ name engraved on the side. Wisconsin’s Devin Harris couldn’t resist mlke

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tile temptation to play with it. In the middle of a crowd of family members, guests and media members, Harris took his ball and began throwing no-look passes around the room, paying little attention to the people he might hit or the things he might knock over. Don’t worry, all of his passes found their targets. Later that night, the Phoenix Suns drafted Deng with the seventh pick. He came to the media room wearing a Suns hat when media members began asking him if he was excited that he’d be suiting up for the Bulls. He didn’t even know he had been traded. Even amid the excitement and confusion, he made sure to walk over to shake my hand on the way out of the room. I was just a college reporter who had hardly covered the men’s basketball at the time, but that he sought me out anyhow showed a lot of class. The Cameron season pass I earned my junior year carries with it the most memories. Covering a game in Cameron is unlike any experience in any other venue I’ve been to. The sensation of walking out onto Coach K floor on the way to the Chronicle’s seats just off center court is something I’ll always cherish. The game that sticks out the most was against Virginia Tech last season—the one when Sean Dockery hit his amazing buzzerbeater. Dockery shot the ball from just in front of where I was sitting, and so I had the perfect angle as it soared toward the hoop. For everyone that was at the game, what ensued can be described only as ab-

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Sean Dockery hits the winning shot over Virginia Tech in the most memorable moment ofDuke's 2005-06 season. solute pandemonium. Amazingly, I didn’t react. I sat there as reporters are supposed to do, scribbled a few thoughts in my notepad, and quickly walked off the court to avoid the Crazies rushing it. The mood in the locker room after the game that night was as jubilant as I’ve ever seen it. And I’ll never forget the smile on Dockery’s face as I asked him questions. As much as those two nights provided personal thrills for me as a student reporter, they only scratch the surface of the memories and relationships I’ve formed from covering sporting events for The Chronicle. My collection of credentials represents

the relationships I’ve formed with players and coaches from the several teams I’ve covered as beat writer. They remind me of funny stories from Chronicle trips to every school in the ACC school. And they signify the friendships I’ve forged with other Chronicle sports staffers. I joined the sports staff because I loved sports and thought it would be an incredible opportunity to write about them. It became a passion. I used to think my press pass collection wasn’t complete because I never got one from the Final Four. But looking back, I can’t complain. I couldn’t ask for more.

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ting for the cycle and nailed a home run into right field so deep that the outfielder did not even move once he saw the ball hit. “I’ve had a few five-hit games in my career and this one ranks right up there as one of the best,” Gallagher said. “Offensively it was one of our better performances.” In that decisive first inning, all nine hitters went to the plate. Gallagher started by lacing a single into right field on just the second pitch. Anderson followed with a popup to left field, and sophomore Matt Williams hit a line drive straight up the middle to advance Gallagher to third. The Freiman stepped up to the plate, and his home run began the onslaught. “It’s nice to be able to score in the first inning because that gives our pitcher confidence,” Freiman said. “One thing Coach [McNally] talks about is scoring first, and whenever we can score first that really gives us momentum going into the rest of the game.” The barrage would not let up for several innings, as Duke added three runs in the second inning and two in the fifth. Equally impressive as the hitting was the Blue Devils’ pitching. Anderson went five innings and allowed just five hits while walking none. Will Currier came in middle relief to give up just one hit over two innings, and Ron Causey and Ryan Perry came in to close the game out for an inning each. LAUREN PRATS/THE CHRONICLE “We had a nice night, and it’s real fun to see everyone swinging the bats,” Freiman said. “It’s good to be Jimmy Gallagher was a triple short of hitting for the cycle and led the able to enjoy a night like this.” Blue Devil offense in a 12-hiteffort Tuesday night at Jack Coombs Field.

that stretch came against No. 1 Cornell, the nation’s only undefeated team. Recently, the Blue Devils have been winning thanks in large part to their defense. Led by Casey Carroll and others, Duke’s long-stickmen have been able to limit turnovers in the middle of the field, scoop up ground balls, and keep the number of shots allowed to a minimum. “Our defense has been playing fundamentally well,” senior defenseman Tony McDevitt said. “We are finally buying into a system and playing as a unit, seven against six all the time including the goalie, so we pride ourselves on that.” Nonetheless, the Blue Devils have struggled getting goals, especially during six-on-six play. Many of the goals the team has scored, including two against Army, have come in transition resulting from a turnover by an opposing player. An indicator of Duke’s scoring troubles is the team’s failure to score more than 12 goals in eight of its last nine contests, with the only exception an 18-goal explosion against unranked Bellarmine March 31. If the Blue Devils advance to Sunday’s championship game, they would face a rematch with either the Cavaliers or Terrapins, whom Duke defeated comfortably very early in the season. This team, though, is not looking past archrival UNC. “[North Carolina is] a tough team, they pressure the ball defensively, and they are a strong offensive group as well, so we have to bring our ‘A game’ if we want to play Sunday,” McDevitt said.

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manner he did to (Muse possi- han, for instance, penned a ble tension at his performance, column Monday entided “To But we can only speculate Duke accused: I’m sorry.” In about his motives, and really, the column, Sheehan apolowhat they were is not the point, gized for a March 26, 2007, The point is that he apologized; piece in which she accused the lacrosse team of hiding the in the eye of the public. Moreover, the apology truth, writing, “Members of bodes well for LDOC. In a pre- the men’s Duke lacrosse team: vious editorial, we had noted You know. We know you our disappointment and frus- know.” Sheehan said she was tration that Common’s state- sorry, described calls for an ments would render the tradi- apology she recently received tionally unifying LDOC event and further noted, “rest asdivisive. His apology undoubt- sured, I know my errors. And edly will serve to quell some now you know I know.” students’ anger and, hopefully, Moreover, Jemele Hill, a columnist for bring them to the quad. For Page 2 that, we are thankful. ESPN.com, wrote a column It is important to note, howApril 12 in which she notes ever, that Common is not alone. that even though she personalIn the past several days, other ly never wrote that she believed public figures have come for- the players were guilty, she “felt ward and admitted that they it—which is just as bad.” Hill wrongly proclaimed the lacrosse writes, “I said it in private discussions with friends, some of players guilty last spring. N&O columnist Ruth Shee- whom tried to get me to see

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University could have said that would have been supportive of the students and would not have appeared to be Duke trying to interfere in the judicial process.

James Coleman on the Duke administration’s handling of the lacrosse case. See story page 1. —Law professor

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thing is, editors rarely get the chance to what has come to be termed the “Lacrosse Scandal” in write. Over the course of the past 12 months, I the attempt to fit square pegs into round holes. While think I scraped together a grand total ofabout 5 waiting outside the Durham County Court House last bylines and perhaps a couple of columns and editor’s May, the words of a burly cameraman from a national notes to boot. news network stuck with me. “What keeps me going is the adrenaline rush you get,” he told me between For a majority ofthe past year, I had the luxury of sitting on the opposite side of the desk, talking to re- bites of his Subway sandwich. I have seen first-hand that when the modem media porters, writing e-mails, running budget and attempting to set deadlines are pressured to turn around stories in a matter of that would get this hours and high ratings go to those who get the almighty ry3ll ITICCSTtIIGy campus rag of ours to scoop, regardless of factual grounding and ethical rebed sometime before porting, something important is lost. editor's column 5 a.m. every morning. I have become disenamored with the world of One-hundred modem American media this past year, but I have and forty-nine issues later, the clock is ticking down on also gained a renewed view of whatjoumalism can be. this volume and I’m struggling to chalk up one final The vision of the hard-living reporters with their vibyline that can somehow capture the major lessons sors and press passes who chain smoke behind their learned during what has been a wonderful, stressful typewriters as they dig tirelessly to get to the bottom and unforgettable experience at the editor’s desk. of things comes to mind. I’m speaking here of the This is the time of year when you’re supposed to take brusque-toned Ben Bradlees of the world, who speak a step back from the daily grind, look out fondly at the about a different kind of adrenaline rush than that Duke Chapel through the windows of The Chronicle cameraman outside the court house. office and bang out a column to say something about “I miss the excitement of the stories that quickhow it was a hell of a ride and how you wish you could en your pulse,” Bradlee—former executive editor do it all again, but now you’re ready to move on. of the Washington Post—wrote in the conclusion Easy, right? Well, not quite. It’s a lot easier to set to his memoir. “That’s when a newspaperman can deadlines than to write on them. get on with the job he was born to do. Not many of What I have learned this year, though, is that in the us were lucky enough to get that exhilarating opwonderful world of newspapers, it’s all about times and portunity. Again and again and again.” numbers. When we skeleton The Chronicle’s pages at When “Scotty” Reston, one of the great New York 5:30 p.m. every night, we talk about page lengths, word Times reporters of our age, titled his memories “Deadcounts and column widths. During the past year, I calline,” lie noted that although the word has a negative culated that I have walked up the two flights of stairs to connotation, he views the term in a positive and opti301 Flowers more than 900 times. I have had the opmistic light. For Reston, deadlines and numbers were portunity to copyedit close to a thousand articles, read the impetus that pushed him to work a little bit hard12,461 e-mails (the inbox hasn’t been cleaned yet), imer and live what Bradlee would call “a good life.” bibed about 2,200 caffeinated beverages, eaten around It’s hard to let this editor experience go and to leave 370 meals in the office and missed about 9 classes (a the world of deadlines and numbers .for the world of gross underestimate, but spring semester grades are books and homework once more. Quite frankly, I still pending). The latest we finished a paper this year don’t think there’s anything that can replicate the exwas 6:15 a.m.; the earliest, 11:58 p.m. perience and excitement ofliving in the day-to-day as a OK, so I’ve come to accept the fact that I can’t decore team ofeditors works together countless hours to scribe the past 12 months in 600-750 words. These “final” produce our “Daily Miracle” each night. columns are always underwhelming, and midnight trips This year certainly has been a hell of a ride, and as I to Wilmington, servers crashing at 4 a.m., less-than-temlook out on the Duke Chapel through my office window pered critics, Chronicle semiformals, speeding tickets right now, I would say that I woulddo it all again in a secand late-night romps through the Duke Gardens simply ond if I could. But now deadline’s approaching, and don’t fit neatly into newsprint. But the experience has Volume 102’s 149th issue needs to go to bed sometime before 5 a.m. opened my eyes to this thing called journalism. At this surreal moment, I have to say that I will During the past year, the world of times and numbers was magnified tenfold by the lacrosse case. As stumiss it all dearly, but I have enjoyed a good life for dent journalists covering the story on the ground, we a year. And I’m thankful for that. struggled to find the blurry balance between “student” and “journalist,” while taking a crash course in JourRyan McCartney is a Trinity junior and editor of nalism Ethics 101. We watched as once-revered major The Chronicle. Like his predecessors, he aches with the media outlets swooped down and fumbled coverage of knowledge that he’ll never be either again. .

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condemnations. Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong could take cues from the likes of Common, Sheehan and Hill. Unlike Nifong’s weak excuse for an “I’m sorry” statement to atone for the pivotal role he played in prejudging the players and causing vast portions of the national public to do the same, a rapper and two columnists have shown the public what real, gutsy apologies look like. At a time when many are skulking in their corners, aware that they erred in asserting guilt but too scared to admit it, these three individuals have stepped forward and proved themselves self-reflective, self-critical and decent. We laud them, and we thank them.

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love Last Day of Classes. I realize that this is neither a But I can’t ever deny that the enchantment of thrilling opening line nor a particularly unique per- LDOC sealed my Duke deal, and for that reason, I respective. I mean, let’s be honest: Who at Duke does- ally do love this day. So I sit, writing this column, realizing with mixed emon’t love a day devoted to pretending like classes actually ended the day prior and indulging in an hours-long, tions of awe, sadness and excitement that Wednesday is 6,000-person party, complete with drinks, live music and the day on which I will both remember the moment I welcomed Duke into my life and now bid it farewell. (fingers crossed) perfeet spring weather? Funny how things come full circle, how life can tie seyward darby Each of my four years and experiences into uncannily neat packages. Here’s another example; The day before my first class at LDOCs has been fun in senior column this classic LDOC way. I Duke, I sawjason Mraz perform in Raleigh, and now, on the day of my final class, I get to see him perform again. met a boyfriend at one—the same one at which I rediscovered a liking for Life really does follow or fall into splendid patterns. Collective Soul previously unfelt since age 13—finished In this case, the patterns are the bookends of my Duke and turned over a few huge research papers on others, experience: LDOC and Mraz. Here I could smoothly segue into a list all of the other and made plenty of friends, photographs and memories, both raucous and otherwise, at all of the celebrations. landmarks in myDuke career, the memories and individBut it’s a less than typical LDOC that I cherish the uals who have somehow powerfully shaped the last four years into a coherent life chapter. I am pretty sure, howmost—my fifth. Well, technically the first offive. See, I decided to come to Duke on LDOC. I was a senever, that these columns automatically fall into the cliche ior in high school in Greenville, N.C., and I made the and unread category as soon as those lists start. So I’ll leave it at LDOC, Mraz and my undying, pershort drive to West Campus April 23, 2003—unaware of what an LDOC was at the time-—to determine once and haps crazy belief in cosmic forces and life patterns. I think (hope?) these things reveal a little of who I am and for all if Duke was for me. of the way, looking back, I view my Duke career as a puzIt was a stunning day, hot and humid with celebratory, zle, the pieces of which time, fate and luck, along with my slighdy inebriated energy in the air. I attended a class, Professor Gerald Wilson’s “American Dreams, American Reown gumption and effort, all played roles in assembling. Today the last puzzle piece takes its place. Sure, there alities,” which I later took as a freshman. I hung out in Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory with several freshmen who is an exam to be taken, one more paper to be written were plotting their night while engaging in some serious and a graduation to endure. But today to me is a concluFIFA-playing and early-aftemoon drinking. I watched sion—it’s LDOC, the Last Day of College. workmen set up the stage for the evening’s Wilco and BetI’ll miss this home, this experience, this day. I’ll never hear Jason Mraz songs without thinking “Duke!” or pass ter than Ezra concert. I watched hundreds of Dukies milling outside, barbecuing, lounging on benches and through this last week in April without thinking, “I wonder who’s playing at LDOC, and I sure wish I was there.” screaming with laughter. To me, from classroom to dorm room to grassy quad, I know there will be other affection and memory (both it was college heaven. positive and negative) triggers that I’ll feel from a disSo I made my decision. I marched to the Duke tance—The Chronicle online, alumni magazines in the mail and March Madness, to name a few. Store, bought my first piece of Blue Devil apparel But it will always be the annual arrival of this day in (now-way-too-snug shorts that say DUKE across the bottom), got in my car, called my mom as I pulled onto April that will bring me back to this place and my time 1-40 East and told her, “I am going to Duke. Just here, to classes completed, lessons learned and people met. Like a personal letter, in this case perhaps a love thought you should know.” In short, I fell for Duke on LDOC. I know I would letter, LDOC will always be my Duke salutation and have fallen for it anyway; had I come on another day to farewell, as well as a constant, tangible recollection I make my decision, even if the weather had been rainy, can unfold in my brain to remind me of all that these four years were. the campus void ofoutdoor partiers or the class I attended less than intriguing, I would have ended up here. I assert this based on deeply held beliefs in fate and in endSeyward Darby is a Trinity senior. She is theformer editor and ing up at the “place that’s right for you”—beliefs at current editorial page editor of The Chronicle. She would like to which my friends who have long thought I’m nuts are note that there will be a kamikaze meeting on thefloor tonight and that Steve is definitely fired. probably rolling their eyes.

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don’t know how to write. I’m an engineer and a photographer, so if that isn’t enough to make you stop reading right now then I admire and appreciate your pity. You will be myfriend for the next 500 words. So why am I writing this if I actually don’t know to

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peter gebnard ,

as you can clearly see, senior column but I just don’t write well. My schooling has not focused so much on my mastery of the English language but rather on brilliant concepts like KirchhofFs Voltage Law and object-oriented programming. You may wonder then why I ended up working at The Chronicle for my entire Duke career. Honestly, I can’t really answer that question well. It has something to do with photography, I suppose. At this point, it’s unclear how I would have ever decided to spend countless hours sitting in front of a computer and dragging Photoshop sliders or running across campus for an assignment all because I wanted to take a few photos every now and then. It just happened. It’s what I like to call an “unexpectation,” a term I just coined while writing this. An “unexpectation” is simply a moment that you had neither planned for nor considered would be worth planning for as there was no chance of it ever happening to you. Before joining The Chronicle, I had never worked for a newspaper (or yearbook) nor had I ever taken many photos, yet somehow The Chronicle felt right. Now, my last Chronicle semiformal has passed and it’s al-

most my last

night of working up at the office. Looking back, it has been the best part ofmy time at Duke. What an unexpectation. So let me just say it: Stop trying to plan things out so much. You’ll end up with a lot of expectations that never transpire, and you’ll just sit there thinking to yourself, “Wow... I just wasted precious hours of my life preparing for something that never happened, and I didn’t prepare for all of the things that did happen. I suck.” It’s like when you study so long for a test and are finally taking it that you realize you totally focused on the wrong material. You might as well not have studied at all. That reminds me... I have a test tomorrow for which I haven’t yet studied. So much for planning. As I look ahead to my future, I actually have been making a few plans. These include things like getting an apartment, finding a roommate, getting a paycheck and immediately squandering it, and getting a Costco membership because, you know what, I am fascinated by the idea that in one stop I can buy enough hot sauce to last me the rest of my life. I’ll never have to worry about buying hot sauce again which means one less tiling on my mind... for my entire life. Unfortunately, what I really should be doing is making plans for when those original plans fall apart before ever having the chance to live a little. Or maybe I should just hope my next ‘unexpectation’ will be that I learn how to write good [sic]. Peter Gebhard is a Pratt senior. He is the former photography editor of The Chronicle. His column once.

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being the last day of classes and all, I doubt there is a better time to admitit: I think sex and alcohol are two ofthe very best things in life. Seriously. I would guess thatwell over half of my favorite memories with friends involved some amount of drinking, and I know for a fact my most treasured romantic moments were those of physical intimacy. I remember one night over Winter Break during my sophomore year. My girlfriend had come to Minnesota to celebrate New Year’s at my friend’s cabin up north. Upon mark stoltenberg arrival, those present includbeyond the bubble ed eight of my best friends from high school, my girlfriend who had only met everyone else just a few hours earlier, and a big box full of alcohol. The night resulted in one of my most beloved memories of college. My Minnesota friends immediately embraced my girlfriend, I reconnected with one of my best friends from high school and outrageous laughter filled the room through out the entire night. As for sex (or simply being physical), I had an equally positive experience during my freshman year. I had flown into Boston to visit my girlfriend,and we had arranged to spend the weekend exploring Cape Cod. And though we did make it to our hotel (which was actually on the cape), for the three days we were there we probably spent less than two hours outside of our room. We normally enjoyed getting out and being active, but being at the peak ofour relationship, there were simply too many things that needed to be said—most of which could not be expressed in words. The memory of falling in and out of sleep next to her for hours on end remains as one of the most peaceful of my life. But it’s the damnedest thing: Alcohol and physicality have also been present in nearly all of my life’s most regrettable moments too. And not surprisingly, the worst of the worst usually included both. I am sure we have all had those moments. Those feelings of sickness and regret that cause us to utter the most overused phrase in college. “I am never drinking again.” And though we may sometimes say this in response to actual physical discomfort, I think in the times when we really mean it, it is spoken not out of pain but guilt This is not to say that one should necessarily feel guilty about drinking—that’s for you to decide. Rather, I think it is simply important to note that many of us (including myself) oftentimes do. And, if we can accept that many of us sometimes regret our drunken actions, our central question then becomes, “How is one to approach sex and alcohol given the fact that they can cause so much harm yet be the source of so much good?” I respond as one ofmy favorite professors often does. ‘You do it just like porcupines screw... very carefully.” Just like all the best things in life, what makes sex and alcohol so potent and powerful can dlso make them dangerous. And I believe the difference between when they lead to regret as opposed to joy is dependent on one thing: the extent to which they become selfish. Sometimes we drink because we want to enjoy a night conversing and laughing with friends. Other times, we drink to escape the ways we normally act, to be more outrageous than usual and do things we would not usually be OK with. At times we may feel compelled to kiss someone out of a desire to show them how much we appreciate and care for them. Other times,we do it simply because we like the way it physically feels for ourselves. The difference in these scenarios is the direction of our focus internal or external. Hence, sex and alcohol provide two of the most profound (and enjoyable) ways to engage and interact with the external world around us. However, they cart also serve as two of the most objectifying and perverse ways to retreat into the internal world of selfish desires. It’s LDOC. Sex and alcohol will be in their highest concentrations of the year. It has been a long semester, and we all deserve to kick back and have some fun. So let us drink and be merry and all that I guess I just ask that if we choose to drink or hook up with the people around us, we do so not because of what we want, but because of who they are. Mark Stoltenberg is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday. This is his final column.

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