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Day one of hearings commenced Thursday morning in Durham County’s District

14 Court to determine whether disbarred former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong should be held in contempt of court. If convicted, Nifong could serve up to 30 days in jail and could be forced to pay fines up to $5OO. In June, Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith found probable cause to believe that Nifong made intentional false stateMike Nifong ments during the Sept. 22 hearing against the three former men’s lacrosse players accused of sexual assault by dancer Crystal Mangum in March 2006. At Thursday’s hearing, Nifong pleaded not guilty to contempt charges. Jim Glover, Nifong’s attorney, said his client did not intentionally lie to the court last fall, adding that Nifong believed he had turned over all results of DNA testing in the case. Nifong did not realize until months later that additional DNA data was missing from the report, Glover said. “The question is not whether those statements Mr. Nifong made are literally true or literally false,” Glover said during his opening statement. “The question is, were they willfully and intentionally false and were SEE NIFONG ON PAGE 5

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died Aug. 23 aca University statement released Thursday. His death was the result of a prolonged batde with cancer. He was 68. Richards joined Duke’s ranks in 1977 and August would have marked the end ofhis 30-year career at the University. The longtime scholar specialized in topics relating to the history of South Asia. Known for his eclectic interests, Richards also studied environmental history. His colleagues in the history department noted Richards’ singular contributions to the University and scholarship. Associate Professor Thomas Robisheaux wrote in an

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Although President Richard Brodhead was not one of the 286 university presidents who signed on to a petition opposing the Britain’s University and College Union’s academic boycott ofIsraeli universities and professors, he did issue an independent statement opposing the boycott July 27. The boycott was proposed earlier this year by Brighton University lecturerTom Hickey at UCU’s annual conference, aiming to condemn Israel’s “denial of educational rights” to Palestinians. The American Jewish Committee organized the petition which appeared as an advertisement headed “Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours, Too!” in

The New York Times Aug. 8. It featured a statement by Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, condemning the UCU’s position regarding Israeli universities and academics. The AJC began enlisting universities’ support as early as July 11. Although universities that were not listed drew some criticism, Brodhead said his decision not to sign did not represent disagreement with the petition’s general message. John Bumess, seniorvice president for public affairs and government relations, added that this followed Brodhead’s tendency to speak for Duke independendy. SEE BOYCOTT ON PAGE

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Panel: Va.Tech could have saved lives .

had done things differently April 16. To calls from several parents of shooting victims for his resignation and that of campus Police Chief Wendell Flinchum, Steger was unshaken as he said simply, “No.” “I believe that based on what we knew at the time we did the right things, quite honestly,” he said. He said the blame lies squarely with student gunman Seung-Hui Cho, who killed two people in a dormitory, then 30 people as well as himself more than two hours later at a classroom building. Was there nothing he would have done differently? Steger was asked. He said

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BLACKSBURG, Va. As a maelstrom of criticism swirled around him, Virginia Tech’s president was as firm Thursday as he had ever been that the university did everything it could in response to the nation’s deadliest school shooting. A state panel said lives could have been saved if alerts had been sent out earlier and classes canceled after two people were killed, but Charles Steger rejected that. He even turned that theory on its head, suggesting that the death toll might have risen above 33 if police and school officials

nothing ofe-mail warnings or lockdowns. Without emotion, he replied that having the university’s recendy proposed “threat assessment team” in place to work

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er allies in Afghanistan, because we found this way to be successful,” he told the Associated Press via cell phone from an undisclosed location. The seven hostages were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross in two separate exchanges close to the central Afghan city of Ghazni, Red Cross officials and an AP reporter said. The freed hostages did not speak to reporters. The final three released —two women and a man—were handed over by armed men on a main road in Janda district after apparently walking through the desert for

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Taliban miliJANDA, Afghanistan tants released the last seven South Korean hostages on Thursday under a deal with the government in Seoul, ending a sixweek drama that the insurgents claimed as a “great victory for our holy warriors.” Taliban spokesperson Qari Yousef Ahmadi vowed to abduct more foreigners, reinforcing fears that South Korea’s decision to negotiate directly with the militants would embolden them. “We will do the same thing with the oth-

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with troubled students “could have been very beneficial in helping us understand the problems with Cho.” It took administrators more than two hours to send students and staff an e-mail warning after Cho’s first shootings. He had time to leave the dormitory, mail a videotaped confession and manifesto to NBC News, then return to campus and make his way to Norris Hall.

some distance. Covered in dust, they were, quickly bundled into a Red Cross vehicle and driven away. The seven were part of a group of 23 church volunteers who were abducted on July 19 as they traveled by bus along a dangerous road in southern Afghanistan. The militants killed two men soon after taking them, and released two women earlier this month in what they termed a “goodwill” gesture. On Wednesday, the Taliban released the 12 other hostages.

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Nine of 11 Fuqua School ofBusiness executive education staff members’ positions have been eliminated, effective immediately, Dean Blair Sheppard announced in an e-mail to the Fuqua community Wednesday. The change is due to the transfer of Fuqua’s open-enrollment executive education programs to Duke Corporate Education—a global provider of custom corporate education that helps clients address real-world, real-time business challenges. Sheppard, who founded Duke CE and was its CEO until his appointment at Fuqua, remains chair of the organization’s board of directors. He wrote that the change will allow Fuqua to focus more on facets such as its research centers and degree programs. The Duke Human Resources office will be giving “special assistance” to all nine ex-Fuqua employees, and they will be invited to interview for positions within Duke CE, Sheppard added. “While I am optimistic about these efforts, I know this will be a time of anxiety for our colleagues,” Sheppard wrote. “I want to thank all of them for their many contributions to Fuqua.”

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Students at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this summer founded their own kind of university—Student U. The program, launched in June, brings students from local universities to serve as teachers and mentors to middle-school students from Durham Public Schools. “Our first summer was a great success,” said Student U. Executive Director Daniel Kimberg, Trinity ’O7. This summer, college students instructed rising sixth graders in core academic subjects and a variety of electives at the program’s Durham Academy summer-program site. “The theme for our summer was the [Mahatma] Gandhi quote, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world,’” Kimberg said. “By the end of the summer, I believe each student and teacher left with the belief that all people can make a difference SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE in the world and left with some of the skills Duke studentsvolunteered in the city this summer byteaching classes to middleschoolers at Durham Academy. necessary to do so.” Kimberg added that he believes the evaluations of Student U.—which are still dents will take part in the program through home. Kimberg noted that tutors and students have already planned social being processed—will indicate that the their eighth-grade year, Kimberg said. sixth graders returned to school with new outings for the fall. Terry Hsieh, a freshman at Oberlin Colattitudes about education and improved lege and a DA graduate, said his involveUlku-Steiner said that he thought academic skills. ment in the program this summer as an the program will continue to have a DPS students are not the only beneficiaEnglish teacher and mentor made him positive effect on the Durham commuries of the program, Michael Ulku-Steiner, think about himself differendy. nity in the future. director of DA Upper School and a mem‘You discover that in having to give your“We have unprecedented excitement ber of the StudentU. Advisory Board, wrote self to your students, you discover who you about a program envisioned and run by are a little,” he said. “To give of yourself, twenty-somethings, staffed by college stuin an e-mail. “Thanks to Student U., we have dozens you have to know yourself.... I learned that dents and teenagers and full of hungry midof upper-schoolers headed into year-round I’m a much more compassionate person dle schoolers,” he said. “It’s hard to comtutor roles,” he said. “Again, this is openthan I had made myself out to be.” municate the magic of that excitement.,.. ing up doors of relationships for our [DA] He added that although he attends It’s truly electric, and has the potential to students and offering them real-world opcollege out of state, unlike most of the keep changing [Durham Academy] and student teachers in the program, he [Durham Public Schools] and—more poiportunities to teach and learn.” Tutors and teachers commit to a yearintends to continue his involvement by gnantly—the lives of those teachers and long involvement with Student U., and stu- attending Student U. events when he is students for the better.”

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The changes came after outTHE CHRONICLE side reformers—concerned by Three government ethics rethe passage oflaws last year that form bills are paving the way for closed hearings to the public more openness in state governlobbied for them to be open ment in the wake of several poonce again, Luebke added. litical scandals this past year. The disbarment of former The new laws, passed in early Durham District Attorney Mike August, open nearly all hearings Nifong also helped representaof the State Ethics Commission tives see the value in opening to the public, regulate contribulegislative ethics hearings to tions to legal defense funds and the public, said Bob Phillips, clarify ethics regulations made executive director of Common in previous years. The changes Cause—a nonprofit organization that lobbies for more open came after lobbyists pushed for greater transparency in the and accountable government. Commission’s investigations. Opening ethics hearings to the “What we were hearing at public also spurred a philosophithe general assembly is that the cal debate among state officials press wants legislative hearings and lobbyists about whether public accountability or the individual to be public record,” said Representative Paul Luebke, a North privacy of legislators should take Carolina House Democrat. precedence in ethics investigations, Luebke said. The hearings, Public disapproval over rehowever, are still not completely cent political controversies—like former House Speaker Jim transparent They are only open to Black’s acceptance of illegal the public after probable cause has contributions from chiropracbeen demonstrated. tors—motivated state legislators “This does protect someone to open legislative ethics hearwho has been accused falsely,” ings to the public, Luebke said. Phillips said. BY

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The Sophomore Class Council recently expanded its membership to help enhance the second-

year experience at Duke, Last Spring, one representative from each of the 14 East Campus dormitories was elected by respective residents to serve on the council. “Our hope is that with [these representatives], the Sophomore Class Council will be better prepared to address the concerns and needs of true

importance to second-year students,” junior Kendall Dabaghi, last year’s Sophomore Class Council president, wrote in an e-mail.

Sophomore Render Braswell, current Sophomore Class Council president, said one of the representatives’ primary responsibilities is to organize reunions for their respective freshman dorms. Braswell added that he is unsure how often these events will be held. “It creates a broader representation of the student body,” Braswell said of the council’s expansion. “When you’re truly trying to represent what the class wants, the more students you have making these decisions, the better the outcome will be.” are Sophomores probably the “least targeted” class in terms of programming, Dabaghi said. The council is currently organizing meetings with Duke Student Government representatives to explore future programming ideas and develop ways to help sophomore students in making both academic and professional decisions, such as picking a major, Braswell said. He added that the move from East to West was “a big step” as well. “On East, you could go to

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New class council programs may ease the transition ofthe Class of 2010 toWest Campus. your neighbor and ask for a cup of sugar, but on West, everyone is just dispersed,” Braswell said. Randolph Dormitory representative Bruce Reaves, a sophomore, said he plans to host barbecues and other events that “create community” since it is his classmates’ first year on West. Some sophomores, however, said they doubt the need for a cushioned move. “I don’t think the transition from East to West was that difficult,” sophomore Michael Kramarz said. “I see a lot of my dorm

anyway.” Sophomore Nimit Lad said that because of the ability to block—a system in which students can pick rooms consecutively with friends—he is able to stay in touch with students he lived with from freshman year. “I don’t think that reunions are necessary,” he said. Lad, however, said that Sophomore Class Council events could improve his relationships with “people you know in passing” from East, especially, he said, since there was a limited effort on West to socialize in residential halls.

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NIFONG from page 1 they also part of an effort... to hide potentially exculpatory evidence, and that’s the issue before the court.” Last summer, Smith’s report cited at least 12 violations against Nifong, including withholding potentially exculpatory evidence that would clear the three players, David Evans, Trinity ’O6, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann. The report stated that Nifong learned April 10, 2006 that a private laboratory found DNA from multiple males at the scene of the party near or around Mangum, none of it belonging to the indicted Duke players. Nifong alledgedly withheld this information from the court until October. During a preliminary hearing last month, Nifong publicly stated for the first time that nothing criminal happened at the lacrosse party held March 13, 2006. “I have admitted on more than one occasion that I have made mistakes in the prosecution of these cases,” Nifong said. “For that, I sincerely apologize to Mr. Seligmann, Mr. Finnerty, Mr. Evans and to their families.” Nifong dropped the rape charges in December of last year and later recused himself from the case after being charged with ethics violations by the North Carolina State Bar. State prosecutors appointed by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper took over the case and dropped all remaining charges against the players. During cross-examination Thursday, Glover tried to portray the DNA report released by Nifong on May 12 as adequate and argued that no additional information would have exonerated the players. Glover told defense attorney Brad Bannon that other than the report, he has nothing “significantly exculpatory.” “That’s absolutely false,” Bannon said. “And you know it” Defense attorneys for the lacrosse players contend that Nifong worked in collaboration with Dr. Brian Meehan, laboratory director of DNA Security, Inc., to release the DNA report without the exonerating information. But the lead investigator in the case, Benjamin Himan, testified that he was with Nifong and Meehan for several visits to DNA Security and he never heard talk about leaving information out of the report. “Mr. Nifong asked for the report,” Himan said. “He was sittingright there with me. I felt if he thought something should have been in that report he should have said something.”

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Senior running back Ronnie Drummer and the Blue Devils hope to break a 20-game losing streak when they play against the UConn Huskies Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium, the first game of the season for the team.

ginia, the burden ofreplacing him on Saturday will fall on sophomore linebacker Vincent Rey. The Far Rockaway, N.Y. native saw only minimal playing time in his freshman season, but Bailey has already noticed growth in Rey during his short stint as a starter. “Vinnie Rey has been doing a great job,” Bailey said. “He’s really impressed me with his leadership abilities. Its pretty incredible to see how he’s matured in just the past three weeks.” Duke’s opponent will also be hampered by suspensions. UConn announced Aug. 16 that running back Andre Dixon and linebacker Corey Stringer would be suspended indefinitely for violating team policy. Although neither was a starter or ofTauiliili’s caliber, the loss of the pair may sap at the Huskies’ depth. Of the players on the field Saturday, Duke’s offensive line may be the most critical. Seen as a strength with five returning starters, the group will open the season without senior offensive tackle Fred Roland. The 6-foot-8, 310lb. Roland is still recovering from back surgery, so true freshman Bryan Morgan will get the nod at right tackle. Morgan, a 6-foot-3, 255-lb. tackle out of Hoover, Ala., has impressed coaches and his fellow lineman during practice and should shine on Saturday, according to senior center Matt Rumsey. “I’ll speak for Brian—he’s a fantastic player,” Rumsey said. “He’s probably one of the most gifted players as a freshman that I’ve seen since I’ve been here. I’m real excited for him. I think he’s going to do great things here and he’s going to have a great career, and I think he’ll have a great day come Saturday.” With a bitter taste still in his mouth after last year’s 13-0 season-opening loss to Richmond, Bailey is determined to make sure that Saturday is not just a great day for Morgan, but for Duke. “Last year, the Richmond game, in away, set the tone for us,” Bailey said. “We came out kind of thinking that we were going to win, and I don’t think we learned how to pay the price. But this year, we have to pay the price, be disciplined and be able to go out and play.”

TALIBAN from page 2 The men accompanying the last hostages freed gave an unsigned note to journalists accusing the South Koreans of coming to Afghanistan on a mission to convert the staunchly Islamic country to Christianity. “They came to our nation to change our faith,” the handwritten note read. “The Afghan people have given their lives for their faith. This is the reason we arrested them.” The South Korean government and relatives of the hostages—all ofwhom belonged to a Presbyterian church near the capital, Seoul—have insisted they were not engaged in missionary activities, but were doing aid work such as help-

ing in hospitals. The identity of the armed men was not clear. The Taliban said earlier they had handed the three hostages to tribal elders who would transfer them to the Red Cross. In Afghanistan, many villagers carry weapons. The crisis ended under a deal struck Tuesday between Taliban commanders and representatives of the South Korean government, which has been under intense domestic pressure to bring the hostages home safely. Under the terms of the agreement, Seoul repeated a pledge it had made long before the kidnappings to withdraw its 200 troops in Afghanistan before year’s end and vowed to prevent missionaries from traveling to the country. The Taliban apparently backed down from an earlier demandfor a prisoner exchange. In Washington, D.C., the State Department welcomed the hostages’ release. When asked if South Korea’s negotiations with the Taliban set a dangerous precedent, spokesperson Tom Casey refrained from directly criticizing the Seoul government. “I’d simply reiterate that the long-standing U.S. policy is... not to make concessions to terrorists,” he said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also expressed joy at the hostages’ release, but condemned the continued abduction and killings ofinnocent civilians in Afghanistan. While there was no sign they extracted any other concessions, analysts say the Taliban emerged from the crisis with renewed political legitimacy because for the first time since their 2001 ouster, they negotiated with a foreign government “Taliban now have diplomacy, they have got spokesmen, they value cameras, they have a political dimension for their movement, and their aim is to be recognized as legitimate,” said Mustafa Alani, director of security and terrorism studies at the Dubai-based GulfResearch Center. South Korea has denied doing anything wrong, saying it was normal practice to negotiate with hostage-takers.

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RICHARDS from page 1 e-mail that Richards was a pioneer in Duke’s department, pointing to his encouragement of interdisciplinarity and cross-department collaboration. Associate Professor Susan Thorne said Richards’ influence expanded outside die realm of isolated academia as well, reaching far into the classrooms where he taught. “John’s contribution to the department was not limited to his numerous and highly respected publications nor to his vision for the department’s future development nor to the wide range of global and comparative as well as regional courses he taught for us,” she said. Thorne added that Richards’ effect on his friends and colleagues was undeniable. “He was also enormously encouraging to jimior colleagues,” she said. “I will be forever grateftil for his support and guidance over the years. I will miss him. I already miss him, very much.”

BOYCOTT from page 1 “My statement drew on language I’ve used in support of free expression and the engagement of difference on other occasions at Duke,” Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. “It’s an issue I care about very deeply, and I’m happier being represented by my own words than by someone else’s.” Rabbi Michael Goldman of the Freeman Center for Jewish life said the publicity of the advertisement was not necessary to convey solidarity. ( “The president’s statement was unambiguously in favor of academic expression, and that was sufficient,” Goldman said. The statement, though it did not explicidy say a boycott of Israeli institutions meant a boycott of Duke, used language arguing that the boycott opposed education itself. “Duke University has a proud tradition of upholding the free exchange of ideas, including discussions that involve the bitter, unresolved conflicts in the Middle East,” the statement read. “The idea of forbidding partnerships and exchanges with Israeli universities and scholars contradicts the high value we place in the pursuit of knowledge on our own campus and in the importance ofrobust intellectual integrity more broadly.” Burness said Brodhead’s separate statement also represented a desire to separate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itselffrom the UCU’s action. “Another factor was that the issue the president is speaking to is academic freedom and free speech, and the [AJC], which sponsored the ad, is partisan,” Burness said. “Without wishing to speak on either side, I suspect he had a concern that the issue could be muddled.” The UCU—comprised of some 120,000 British scholars—plans to continue the debate and vote on the formal boycott next year. Although some interpreted the boycott as isolating Israeli universities and preventing Israeli professors from visiting and lecturing in British universities, UCU delegates said this was not correct. If passed, the boycott would urge UCU delegates to not participate in conferences at Israeli universities or collaborate with theirjournals. It would not, however, bar Israeli scholars from visiting British universities. UCU delegates favored the motion to consider the intellectual embargo, with 158 votes to 99 and 17 abstentions. Goldman said, however, that the UCU’s effort would cause setbacks to the freedoms they had hoped to support. “The idea of a boycott on academics against any one country is absolutely infantile—it quashes any kind of dissent against the people arranging the boycott,” Goldman said. “Why should anyone who cares about Israel want to do something that would end the dialogue?”

President Richard Brodhead chose not to sign a petition against British scholars who may boycott Israeli academic institutions.

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New offensive coordinator chimes in on Duke gig Entering his first year as Duke’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Peter Vaas is hoping to bring his valuable experience to a young Blue Devils team. Vaas has been a veritable coaching nomad, with stints in the Canadian Football League and NFL Europe. After spending six years as the headcoach of theBerlin Thunder, Vaas was hired as Notre Dame’s quarterbacks coach. As the Blue Devils head into the season returning all 11 offensive starters from last year, football beat writer Matthew lies spoke with Vaas about using his expertise to lead Duke to a successful 2007 campaign. Matthew lies: South Bend or Durham? Peter Vaas: Durham. The weather. Golf. MI: Strictly as a mascot, Fighting Irish or Blue Devils? PV: I’m biased. I’ve got to say the Blue Devils right now. MI: How has your experience been so far at Duke? PV: Absolutely fabulous. When you’re involved with an institution as prestigious as Duke, you get involved with a great quality of people as far as character is concerned. When you’re around those kinds of people, you always feel good. MI: What was it like to coach in NFL Former Notre Dame quarterbacks coach PeterVaas Europe? PV: The experience was very unique. You’re dealing with a brand new team Dame’s stadium and environment? PV: In 1969, I played a game on Westevery year. So you’ve got 50 players that you’re just meeting. You’re dealing with a ford High School’s football field. When different culture as far as your fans are conthat game started, I had a knot in my cerned. But at the same time, the game is stomach. When we go into Wallace Wade the game. It was a tremendous enjoyment Stadium on September 1, I’ll have a knot to compete at a high level with very talentin my stomach. The names have changed, ed players. the stadiums have changed, but that knot Ml: What was it like coaching in Notre has stayed the same. So it’s the same as

looks to invigorate theBlue Devil offense in 2007. any other place, and that’s an honest-togoodness answer. There were just more people there. MI: What were some of the draws about this job that took you away from Notre Dame? PV: It’s a tremendous opportunity to be involved with a great institution. Duke is a great school. Coach Roofs reputation

is that he is a great person and that he is doing everything in the right way to make Duke football successful. MI: Describe Ted Roof. PV: He has a great balance of being able to be an extremely demanding individual, yet at the same time he is compassionate and he cares about the people around him. MI; Is he the right man for the job? PV: Without a doubt. He wouldn’t be here if he wasn’t. MI: Have you changed the offense in any way since your arrival? PV: It’s basically the same offense in the sense that it’s ice cream. If you say, ‘ls it ice cream?’ Yeah, it’s ice cream. One day it might be strawberry flavor, the next day it might be chocolate flavor, the next day it might be vanilla. So, yes, there are some changes and some variety, but an awful lot ofit is still the same terminology. It’s still an offense. It’s not, ‘Do you run the ball?’ It’s, ‘When do you run the ball?’ It’s not that you don’t throw it, it’s when do you throw it? That changes with the individual playcaller, and a lot of that will depend on my mood on Saturday afternoon. MI: What’s the buzz among the players going into this season? PV; There’s an optimism and there’s an excitement to play. Since the time I’ve been here, we’ve been through spring practice, we’ve been through the summer workouts, we’ve been through fall camp, and it’s time to play already. How many more times can you yell at a kid during practice? How many more times can you say, ‘Nice catch?’ Let’s just play a game.

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How many games must Roof win to keep his job? Columnnists Andrew Yaffe and Michael Moore debate whether Duke has to win over or under two games for its head coach to retain his position

Roof needs to win more than two Ted Roof seems like a great guy. For three years, I’ve watched the man pour his heart into this football program. At a press conference after a 44-6 loss to Wake Forest in 2005, I witnessed Roof fighting back tears, embarrassed by yet another thrashing. It was impossible not to feel for the guy. But Duke deserves better than just a good m running its football program. If Roof can’t produce three wins this season, the Blue Devils should consider finding someone new. Roof certainly has the potential to be a good coach. When he took the reins from Carl Franks after seven games in 2003, Roof went 2-3 to close the season, rallying his troops to end Duke’s 30game ACC losing streak with a 41-17 upset of Georgia Tech. But three years and one Division I-A win later, potential is no longer enough. Roof simply has to put a winning product on the field. A coach is judged on wins and losses. Losing “better” isn’t acceptable in the fourth season of a coach’s tenure. He’s had his opportunity to implement his theory and his program, but if it doesn’t work now, why would it in the future? A head coach must get his team over the hump. It’s on him to figure out away to sneak out victories like Jim Grobe did time and time again forWake Forest last season. A good motivator doesn’t let his team come out of the locker room in first and third quarters and get beat 12019 and 82-31, respectively, as the Blue

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Devils did last year. We’ve heard the excuse that Roof was coaching Carl I lamentable recruiting cllasses, and that was fair. We’ve h(card that this team has been p(laying lots of freshmen beflore

they’re ready—also true And we’ve been told, righdy so, that

Roof is a decent recruiter. But none of these excuses is valid any longer. What comes with good recruiting? Good talent. And this team certainly has enough to compete. The Blue Devils should have beaten ACC champ Wake Forest and archrival North Carolina last season, and they had a chance to take down perennial juggernaut Miami. The Roof-led squad didn’t get the job done. This season, maybe Duke will find ways to win tight games. I’m rooting for Ted Roof, and I’m rooting for this football team. I hope he can pull out three wins and return Duke Football to respectability. But, it should take at least that many, four years into the job, to prove he’s the man to lead this program.

Who here wouldn’t benefit from a fifth year at Duke? had a redshirt it allowed you to year ck around Duke for a couple extra semesters. You’d be older, maybe a little wiser. You’d fi-

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that club or write that thesis you’d been talking about since you were a freshman. Heck, maybe you could help your team win a football game or six. Ted Roof is all about the fifth year. He has been preaching the gospel of redshirting since he stepped onto the Duke Football pulpit. And all indications are that the higher-ups in the athletics department are believers. The thought behind widespread redshirting is pretty simple. Roof has brought in solid recruiting classes, but it doesn’t matter what the recruiting class is like if you’re playing 18-year olds against 23-year olds. Wake Forest AD Ron

Wellman and head coach Jim Grobe are both vocal proponents of the necessity of redshirting. Last year—Grobe’s sixth at the school—their determined adherence to that policy paid off in an ACC

championship.

Roof has had mixed success sticking to the redshirting model because of injuries and a number of former michael coach Carl Franks' recruits transfer- HlwwlC ring. But last season the team had enough depth that Roof was able to follow his plan, and this year’s team has 16 redshirt freshmen on its roster. Associate Athletic Director Chris Kennedy said last year the department knows the difference redshirting can make and is all on board. So, here’s the basic question. If your philosophy is centered around a five-year cycle of players, how can you justify canning a coach after only four seasons? The answer: you can’t. Roof should get a shot at one more year as long as his team does not have a repeat of last season. And the Blue Devils should snare a couple wins this year. They were three plays away from three wins last year, even with a freshman quarterback and a dismal kicking game. If Roof does go 0-for again, he’ll likely have lost the confidence of his players, and the University will have to fire him simply to say it’s doing something. But if the Blue Devils crank out a win or two, Roof should have a crack at breaking through in his own fifth year.

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timore, Md. product finished the 2006 season seventh on the team with 54 tackles, despite starting only the season opener. Aiding in the transition from the Talley era is Duke’s experience at safety. The Blue Devils return both starting free safety Chris Davis and strong safety Adrian Aye-Darko, providing Roof with veteran leadership in the backbone ofhis team’s pass defense. “There’s no substitute for experience,” Roof said. “Those guys have been through it before, and I think [they] could be a steadying influence for some of the guys who are going to be running out with our defense for the first time. We certainly value that.” Davis, who will enter his third season as a starter for the Blue Devils, has been one of the team’s most consistent performers on defense. The 6-foot safety had 64 tackles last fall. Aye-Darko, a 6-foot-2 hard-hitter from California has a reputation for making impact plays. Aye-Darko tied for the team lead with two forced fumbles last season and also picked up his first career interception against Georgia Tech. Other players that could see time in the secondary are comerbacks Jabari Marshall and Rodney Ezzard and safeties Marvin Marcelin and Catron Gainey. One critical addition to the team’s secondary that fans will not see on the field is Duke’s new secondary coach, John Gutenkunst. Gutenkust, who the players call “Coach Gutie.” He has deep ties to the Duke, as he played for the Blue Devils from 1962-1965 before launching an impressive coaching career that included stops at North Carolina, Minnesota, South Carolina and Virginia Tech. “He brings a tremendous love and passion for Duke University,” Roof said. “[He has] a lot of experience at a lot of different levels. He’s been a head coach in the Big 10 [at Minnesota], and he’s been around some awfully successful programs. He’s a great teacher that has done a great job.”

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ils will be filling a significant void at cornerback left by the departure of two-time team MVP John Talley. “He’s a guy we felt really good about and had tremendous confidence in, and he kept proving himself,” head coach Ted Roof said. Playing on a team that has received few national or league accolades over the past few years, Talley’s high level of play was often recognized outside of Durham. He was a first-team All-ACC selection twice and spent much ofhis senior season as the NCAA active leader in interceptions. Within the Duke program, Talley made an even larger impact. He set school records for interceptions with 18 and interceptions returned for touchdowns with three. “He left here as the second leading interceptor in the history of the league and first in the history of the league in career interception return yardage,” Roof said. “That’s how you measure greatness—not what happens in a game,but what happens over the course of time.” Without Talley—or last year’s other starter at cornerback, Deonto McCormick—the Blue Devils entered the offseason needing to find two viable replacements. After a full spring practice and preseason workouts, Roof has found a pair of quality replacements in sophomore Leon Wright and junior Glenn Williams. “Leon Wright and Glenn Williams have really stepped up,” Roof said. Tve been real pleased with their camp, and they’ve both become reliable football players.” Wright, on the small side at 5-foot-9, brings speed to the Duke secondary, which will be crucial when covering some of the conference’s top wide receivers like Florida State’s Greg Carr and Miami’s Lance Leggett. Wright recorded 17tackles and one interception in a reserve role last season. Williams is a converted safety and a sound tackier with significant experience

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L Florida State: Strength on D In the past few years, Florida State has fallen farther away from its status as an ACC powerhouse, and has lost some of the intimidation factor that once gave the team its edge. ‘You never see anybody reach the top and stay there forever,” head coach Bobby Bowden said. “We stayed 14 years. Has anybody else lasted that long?” This season, however, as Bowden begins his 42nd year at the helm and seeks to add to his 366 wins, he is likely to field a squad that will look more like the dominant teams of old than last year’s underachieving 7-6 squad. Led by nose tackle Andre Fluellen, a candidate for the Outland Trophy for

top lineman, the defense should remain It returns eight starters from a solid core from a group which ranked 18th nationally last season. The No. 19 Seminoles have reason to be confident about their offense, as well. Starting quarterback Drew Weatherford returns along with touchdown target, widereceiver Greg Carr, whose 12 receiving touchdowns led the team last year. “I think that once Florida State was perceived as it was going to win the ACC every year,” Fluellen said. “Now, Florida State is in the hunt, but you never know. We are trying to get back to the point where we will be in the ACC championship every year.” —David Unguary stout.

2. Boston College: New look, new results Ten years ago, Jeff Jagodzinski was Boston College’s offensive coordinator. Now, after stints with both the Green Bay Packers and the Atlanta Falcons, Jagonzinski returns to the Eagles in an even more vital role: head coach. After a successful season capped off by a victory over Navy in the Meineke Car Care Bowl, the Eagles, rejuvenated by new leadership, hope to break through in the ACC. “I told [the players] at our first meeting that it’s our turn,” Jagonzinski said. “It’s their turn, because we

have so many seniors, to go ahead and get that extra win so that we can get into the BCS Bowl.” Leading Boston College is ACC Preseason Player of the Year Matt Ryan, who returns as the starting quarterback after being sidelined with a broken foot last year. The Eagles kick off their season Sept. 1, hosting Wake Forest, but the most anticipated game of the year will be the following week against former head coach Tom O’Brien at North Carolina State. —MadelinePerez Boston College hopes a new head coach can inspire wins.

3. Clemson: Looking to run back to top ofACC standings

Clemson will utilize its running attack to beat conference opponents.

Storm clouds are building over Death Valley in Clemson, S.C., this fall—and it’s not due to severe weather. The Tigers’ twopronged rushing attack of junior running back James Davis and sopho more sensation CJ. Spiller has been nicknamed “Thunder and Lightning” by the Clemson faithful, and for good reason. The pair combined for 2,125 yards and 27 touchdowns last season, making them easily the top returning running back tandem in the ACC. Given Clemson’s inexperience at quarterback, where junior Cullen Harper will take on the starting role with only five games of limited experience, Clemson’s ground game will be a central part of the Tiger offense, even with an offensive line that returns only one starter. On the other side of the ball, Clemson’s linebacking corps looks stout with the return of outside linebacker Tramaine Billie, who missed all of 2006 with a broken ankle. —WtU Flaherty

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After a disappointing 0-12 finish last season, Duke’s offense cited its extreme inexperience as the root ofits struggles. Now, with a year of play under their belts, the Blue Devils return their entire line-up and are hoping their improved chemistry will translate into more wins. From the all-important offensive line to the four key running backs to the most prolific returning receiving corps in the ACC (1,579 combined receiving yards between the three starting wideouts), Duke believes this could be its breakout season. “Experience is the greatest teacher,” head coach Ted Roof said. “Having 11 starters back on the offensive side of the ball, the experience should make you better.” Duke will take to the field with six seniors and four juniors, with quarterback Thaddeus Lewis as the lone starting underclassman. Fifth in the ACC among active quarterbacks with 2,134 career passing yards after only one year under center, Lewis has worked hard to improve upon an already impressive tenure, with an eye on increasing his 106.93 efficiency rating and reducing his 16 interceptions from a year ago. “It’s a good feeling to come back with a confidence in yourself that you didn’t have last year,” Lewis said. “When you practice, you go out there and you put forth maximum effort and you try to get better.... Now you’re just ready to go out there

and put everything that you learned in the field.” Lewis will have plenty of help from; rushing attack that returns its four mail tors. The thunder-and-lightning comb running backs Justin Boyle and Re’qu bring a combined 68.1 rushing yards per a year ago while Devilback Ronnie Drum

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One of Duke’s biggest question marks in 2006—the offensive line—may become its biggest strength in 2007. Duke returns every member ofits 2006 line along with four red-shirt freshmen who may get opportunities for playing time. This added depth and experience will bolster the unit’s performance, center Matt Rumsey said. “It helps for a few reasons,” the senior said. “First is just the comfort of playing with each other and having to go all season and offseason with each other, and then the way we communicate and the way we operate up front. It’s a lot of things that just kind of come to us naturally without thinking about it.” The current situation for the Blue Devils is a welcome contrast to last year’s struggles. Going into the first game against Richmond, Rumsey was the lone returning starter, as two starters from the year before chose not to return to the team. Duke’s inexperience showed early on: through the first four games, the team averaged a mere 37.5 rushing yards per game and allowed 24 sacks. Over that stretch, the Blue Devils scored just 13 points—all in one game against Wake Forest. Eventually, the line developed better chemistry and capped the season with a 44-point outburst against UNC, racking up almost 400 yards of offense. “Obviously you’re going to improve as the season goes along,” Rumsey said. “A lot of that was just learning."

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face difficulties again. Fifth-year senior Zach Maurides, a guard, missed much of preseason practice while recovering from back surgery. Junior tackle Fred Roland also missed much of the offseason because of injury. “It makes guys step up and it creates depth,” Rumsey said of the summer shakeups. “It’s caused guys to dance around and play positions they haven’t played before. You’d like to have those guys in the preseason, but when you don’t, you have to make positives out of it—and we did. I think we’ve gotten a lot better because of it.” Perhaps the biggest surprise for the Blue Devils was the emergence of Bryan Morgan, a true freshman, in Roland’s place at right tackle. Morgan, who stands at just 6’3 and 255 pounds, shocked everyone with his rough play in practice and was named as the starter. “We had a couple injuries there—actually a couple surgeries—and Fred Roland hadn’t quite made it back and Bryan Morgan came out and won the job,” head coach Ted Roof said. “You don’t want to play true freshmen on the offensive line, but that’s where we are.” Morgan’s lack of size underscores- a concern for Duke. The projected starting lineup averages at just 279 pounds, well on the light side for a BCS program. Nevertheless, Rumsey believes that the lack of size can be made up for with the continuity and chemistry developed over the past year.

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>erience and fensive effort on the starting receivers, Nevertheless, Lewis is thankful to have his starting wideouts back and thinks their :tive ibu- shared experience will lead to a cohesive ofof fensive unit. “We grew as a group together,” Lewis said. rette rom “To go out on the field knowing that you’ve Ids a been working hard in the offseason and getting that chemistry and getting to know each individual. I’ve got guys that can make plays when I throw the ball to them.” After catching some flak for dropping too many passes last season, the receivers are looking to redeem themselves with a breakout year. Meanwhile, Lewis hopes to continue to showcase his ability to share the ball as starters Eron Riley, Raphael Chestnut and Jomar Wright hauled in 32, 39, and 40 passes, respectively, last year. In the offseason, the wideouts worked on reading coverages better and perfecting their timing with Lewis, Riley said. But with so many weapons, the players realize quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator Peter Vaas will have plenty of play-calling -pur- strategies to choose from. The Blue Devils are just concerned about the victory. full“Whatever helps us to win games,” Riley said. sop- “Whether it’s to throw 50 times a game or run He 50 times a game, I’m for it. I don’t really mind. :but Don’t get me wrong, though, I want the ball. iv of But I want to win more.”

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During head coach Ted Roofs 5-34 career at Duke, his offense has suffered from a lack of consistency and leadership primarily because he has played six different quarterbacks.

With last year’s starter ThaddeusLewis coming back and 2005 starter Zack Asack returning from his year-long suspension, Roof and his staff had yet another vital quarterback decision to make in the offseason. But Lewis’ hard work and steady improvement have solidified his place at the top of the depth chart, and the Blue Devils hope to keep the revolving door at quarterback shut. “Coaches don’t make the decision,” quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator Peter Vaas said. “Players make the decision for you. Thaddeus has an air of confidence about him, and he’s executed extremely well throughout the spring and throughout the fall. It was just a natural thing that it ended up this way.” Voted the team’s Most Improved Offensive Player last year, Lewis has continued to show off his strong arm and unique ability to throw on the run. He is an accurate passer, completing almost 53 percent of his attempts last year, but Roof has stressed that he must take better care of the ball. He threw 16 interceptions versus just 11 touchdowns in 2006. Asack, in his six starts during the 2005 campaign, threwfor nearly 1,000yards and ran for another 95 yards and two scores.

Also a winner of the Most Improved Offensive Player award, Asack hopes his scrambling capabilities will mesh well with Lewis’ in-the-pocket style of play. “We learn a lot of different stuff from each other,” Asack said. “Everyday in practice, we push each other. He’s definitely making me a better quarterback, and I feel I’m doing the same for him.” Since Asack’s return this summer, the two quarterbacks have been contending for the starting spot. Instead of shying away from it, Lewis has embraced the competition because ofits positive effects on the whole squad. “When Zack came back, it was just a momentum booster for the team,” Lewis said. “For him and I to go out there and compete against each other, we’re making each other better, as well as the team. When they see that competition level, then everybody else is competing like that at every other position, too.” Lewis played himself into the starting position over the course of the offseason with his commitment to improving and his leadership qualities, Vaas said. But above all, he added, a successful quarterback needs to execute and exude confidence. “Any quarterback is going to set himself apart from the others through those [qualities],” Vaas said. “He needs confidence in himself and that breeds confidence in those around him. And if you don’t execute at that position, you don’t have a very good chance of being a good quarterback. Thaddeus has shown a pro-

pensity to execute pretty well.” As far as any controversy is concerned, the two quarterbacks simply deny there is one. And why should there be? Looking to snap a 22-game losing streak against Division I-A opponents, Roof says the most important thing is the team and that both players are willing to do whatever it takes to win. “They’re teammates,” Roof said. “They both want the same thing. They waat our team to win. They don’t care how. That’s why they make each other better and they make our football team better. That’s what being a team is all about.”

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4. Wake Forest Between 2003 and 2005, Wake Forest went a whopping 13-21, failed to appear in any bowls and never won more than three conference games. In 2006, though, the Demon Deacons were the nation’s fairy tale story. Jim Grobe’s team outclassed the rest of the ACC on its way to an 11-3 record and an appearance in the Orange Bowl, usually the territory ofACC favorites Florida State and Miami. Now the question is, can Wake repeat? In return for an excellent season, the Demon Deacons have been rewarded with a much tougher schedule. Instead of playing Liberty as in 2006, Nebraska will now be visiting Winston-Salem early in the season. Wake Forest, though, returns 15 starters, most notably redshirt sophomore quarterback Riley Skinner, Skinner and the offense led the ACC in pass efficiency last season. —Gate Starosta

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capped by its third consecutive bowl win, and returns 37 letterwinners, including 12 starters. Last season, the Terrapins found themselves unexpectedly within one win of the ACC championship. This season, head coach Ralph Friedgen’s team will not take any opponent by surprise. “Last spring we talked about winning theACC title, and I don’t think our players really believed it,” said Friedgen, who has taken Maryland to four bowl games in his six years at the helm. “But we ended up having an opportunity to do that That’s where we need to look to keep setting our goals high.” JuniorJordan Steffy is at the top of the quarterback depth chart, looking to replace former standout Sam Hollenbach. He will be complemented in the backfield by running back Lance Ball, and wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey will provide Steffy with a reliable passing target. —Ben Cohen

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After firing former head coach Chuck Amato at the end oflast year’s season—which was capped by seven consecutive losses—N.C. State was rumored to be interested in several coaches, including Navy’s Paul Johnson and Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow. In the end, though, the Wolfpack stayed within the ACC, hiring Tom O’Brien away from conference foe Boston College. O’Brien was unhappy with his salary and the fan support at BC, and N.C. State offered improvements in both areas. Amato went 49-37 in seven years

with the Wolfpack, leading them to five bowl games. Amato, though, struggled in conference play, going just 25-31 and never finishing higher than fourth. O’Brien, who went 10-6 in die ACC with the Eagles, will rely on junior quarterback Daniel Evans to lead N.C. State. In his first game as a starter last year, Evans beat O’Brien’s Eagles with a last-minute touchdown pass, but struggled the rest of the season, completing just over 53 percent of his passes and tossing 11

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to turn the program around, look for O’Brien to try to establish more consistency in his team’s play this year. —foe Drews

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L Virginia Tech: The Comeback Virginia Tech cannot wait to get on the field. Off the field, this year has been more trying than anyone in the Hokie nation could have imagined. In April, the school’s campus was the site of the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history as 32 people were killed by senior Seung-Hui Cho, who committed suicide during the attack. This month, the program’s most famous alumnus, Michael Vick, pleaded guilty to involvement in a highly-publicized dogfighting case. On the field, things are much brighter. The Hokies return 16 starters from a team that went 10-3 last season. Tailback Brandon Ore is a likely candidate forACC Player of the Year, coming off a sophomore campaign in which he ran for more than 1,100 yards. Virginia Tech has been the class of the ACC since it entered three years ago, managing double-digit wins in each of those three seasons. No other team has had 10 wins more than once during that stretch. And as the clear favorite in the ACC, it seems likely CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO that will continue. Virginia Tech has a solid chance at capturing the ACC title. —Michael Moore

2. Georgia Tech: Must fill spots left behind by seniors The Yellow Jackets come off their best season underChan Gailey but face major questions following the departure of star receiver Calvin Johnson and four-year starting quarterback Reggie Ball. The combination of Ball and Johnson landed Georgia Tech in the ACC championship and Ga-

tor Bowl last season—games the Yel-

low Jackets lost by three points each. “Unless you have a totally new head coach, this is about as much guesswork as you can have going into a season,” Gailey said. Georgia Tech, however, may have found Ball’s successor in junior Taylor Bennett, who threw for 326 yards and three TDs while subbing for the ineligible Ball in the Gator Bowl loss to West Virginia. Johnson—the no. 2 pick in last March’s NFL Draft—will be harder to replace.

In his absence, the Yellow Jackwill rely more on senior running back Tashard Choice and junior wideout James Johnson. “Any team that was to lose a Calvin Johnson would worry about replacing that type of player,” Gailey said. But if you don’t have confidence in your own players and what they bring to the table, then you are wrong as well.” —Tim Britton ets

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3. Miami: Road to return From 2001 to 2004, Miami went to four consecutive BCS bowl games—including two national championship games. The Hurricane’s steady decline since then left them with a 7-6 record in 2006 and a tight 21-20 win over Nevada in the MFC Computers Bowl. But Miami has taken drastic steps to fix last year’s problems, mainly the team’s lack of discipline and anemic offense, by hiring two bright young coaches. Former Hurricanes linebacker and defensive coordinator Randy Shannon replaces the aging Larry Coker as head coach, and former Georgia Tech offensive coordinator Patrick Nix hopes

to turn around one of the most disappointing offenses in the country. He will be aided by talented sophomore running back Javarris James, but the newlynamed starting quarterback, Kirby Freeman, is still enduring growing pains. On the other side of the ball, defensive end Calais Campbell and safety Kenny Phillips anchor a unit that finished second in the ACC in total defense, despite a 3-5 conference mark. And although the defense will keep the Hurricanes in games, it will be up to Freeman and the offense to take Miami back to the top of college football. —Gate Starosa

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With outside expectations high for his defense, Virginia head coach A1 Groh has set his own lofty goals. Groh has established a “36 and 36” goal—36 sacks and 36 forced turnovers for the season—or an average of three tallies a game in each category. No Division I-A team reached both marks last season, though a handful of squads achieved one of the milestones. Still, after a rough season last year, the Cavaliers like their chances of reaching that mark with their exceptional experience and talent, especially on the defensive line and at linebacker. “I can clearly see that there are a lot more players that are much more familiar and comfortable,” Groh said. —Stephen Allan

Butch Davis’ arrival in Chapel Hill was the worst kept seTriangle last fall, but nonetheless, his introduction as head coach of the Tar Heels last November signaled a new era for North Carolina football. Davis, the former coach of the University ofMiami and the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, replaces John Bunting, who continued to serve as UNO’s coach for a month after his firing was announced and two weeks after his replacement had been named. Davis is charged with reviving a football program that has had losing seasons in four of the past five years. Davis delivered on the momentum of his hiring by inking a consensus top-20 recruiting class, which included Greg Paulus’ younger brother, quarterback Mike Paulus. Although TJ. Yates beat out Paulusfor the startingjob in the season opener, the freshman is indicative of an influx of talent at UNC that is sure to have Davis and the Tar Heels leaving the ACC’s cellar in the near future. —Greg Beaton cret in the

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then-No. 13 Purdue on Aug. 25, the Blue Devils will have to put their celebration on hold this weekend as they head out to California. No. 14 Duke will face its toughest competition of the season in the USC Classic fourth-ranked against Southern California.The Blue Devils will also go up against Mercer and vs. California State Northridge in the event. jßjfr Although Duke (3-0) <-"9 will face die host Trojans FRIDAY-SATURDAY on (Jie night of the Gaen Center tournament, head coach Jolene Nagel was quick to stress the importance of the team maintaining itsfocus on today’s earlier match against Mercer at 3 p.m. “We have to take it one step at a time, so we don’t want to look ahead,” Nagel said. “Our main concern is focusing on becoming a better team by constantly working on our blocking and serving. We’re trying to become more consistent and eventually become the best offensive team we can.” Duke will have its hands full trying to contain the powerhouse Trojans, who feature the third-best freshman class in die country, including U.S. Junior National Team members Zoe Garrett and Kimmee Roleder. The Blue Devils will also need to contain senior Asia Kaczor, who earned All-America second-team honors last season.

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The Blue Devils are banged up and facing two new opponents this weekend—but they are still ready to start the season. No. 4 Duke will begin its regular season against Delaware 7 p.m. tonight in Koskinen Stadium and face Valparaiso at the same time Sunday. The Blue Devils have never played either team, but they will have llfek

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a chance to scout the Crusaders against N.C. State this afternoon. ''■sgm “It’s a little more difficult because you just FRIDAY, 7 p.m. can’t prepare exactly Koskinen Stadium for it,” senior midfielder Michael Videira said. 51? TP “But then again, we’re VALPO the type of team that has other people play vs. to our style, rather than try to change to theirs.... We just have to make sure that we’re ready for SUNDAY, 7 p.m. Koskinen Stadium whatever they have.” Both theBlue Hens and Crusaders finished under .500 last year, which was still a yast improvement on their 2005 campaigns. And by coming to North Carolina to play N.C Stateand Duke aspart of the Wolfpack Classic, Delaware and Valparaiso have shown that they believe they have improved further. These games are scheduled a year in advance and are traditionally difficult, so opposing coaches must believe that they have some of their better teams in recent

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heads into the contest battle-tested. The Hawkeyes blanked No. 2 Wake Forest 3With a demanding conference sched0 before falling to No. 3 North Carolina ule that features clashes with six top-10 5-2 this past weekend. The defending Big teams, it might seem wise for Duke to 10 Champions return two regional Allschedule non-conference opponents that Americans to a roster featuring eight judo not present major challenges. niors. lowa is led by last season’s Big 10 Nothing could be freshman of the year, Caitlin McCurdy. •HUM further from the truth, Last year, Duke trailed the Hawkeyes 2-0 however, when the before coming from behind to win 3-2 in fourth-ranked Blue overtime. y Devils (1-1) square off For the Blue Devils to fend off the against William and Hawkeyes this dme around, they must Mary (2-0) Saturday at continue to show the signs of improve1 pm. and No - 10 lowa ment evident in last Sunday’s 2-0 win over r. T n v SATURDAY, 1 p.m. (1-1) Sunday at Ipm. in No. 14 Louisville. Williams Field the first contests played “We always emphasize the idea oflearnat the newly-renovated ing,” junior midfielder and co-captain Williams Field. Laura Suchoski said. “We try to take away “These games are a lot of important lessons.” VS. In particular, the Blue Devils aim to incredibly important for us,” head coach improve their offensive production. Duke Beth Bozman said. “We was outshot 14-9 in its loss to the Bobcats, have a huge game with and only mustered six shots in their win SUNDAY, 1 p.m. William and Mary, who against the Cardinals. Bozman was particWilliams Field j s j n our re gi on l owa ularly displeased with her team’s passing, is another huge game with important especially in the loss to Ohio. considerations.” The future could be bright for Duke, The contest against the Hawkeyes could be particularly challenging, as lowa SEE F. HOCKEY ON PAGE 10 by

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Laura Suchoski and theBlue Devils scored just three goals in theirfirst two games of the season.

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VOLLEYBALL from page 9 After handily defeating their first three opponents in the Duke Invitational last

weekend, the Blue Devils want to ride their wave of momentum into the unfriendly confines of the Galen Center. All-tournament Carrie teammates DeMange, Ali Hausfeld and Jenny Shull will be responsible for leading Duke during the strenuous tournament. In each of the first three games the seniors have taken hold of the reins, leading the team in almost every category. In addition to DeMange, Hausfeld and Shull, 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year Rachel Moss and juniors Sue Carls and Jourdan Norman will appear in the starting lineup for the Blue Devils. As Duke prepares for another tourna-

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gers of overworking itself at the beginning of the season. “It’s been a crazy week with classes just starting,” Nagel said. “But once we get through these first three weeks, the team will have a bit of a breather. We just don’t want the team to overdo it and overextend themselves physically.” Despite its difficult schedule, Duke is happy to have the opportunity to compete against the strongest programs in the country. With the impressive nonconference foes, Nagel hopes the team can use the experience to fuel the rest of the season. “I think the schedule is going to give our team confidence,” Nagel said. “It’s going to be very challenging, but we have to continue to get better and improve with each game.”

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The Blue Devils look to build on the momentum from their 2-0 shutoutofLouisville last weekend.

though, if its freshmen continue to play at a high level—the rookies scored two of the three goals this past weekend. Susan Ferger and Camille Dagorn both scored their first collegiate goals, making persuasive pitches for permanent spots in the starting lineup, and Casey Beyel made her first collegiate assist. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s really fun,” Ferger said. “The girls are very supportive. We have our eye on a successful season, but we’re trying to focus on the games at hand.” The Blue Devils could take a major step towards a successful season with two wins this weekend. And although the team showed signs of immaturity last weekend, their growing chemistry could propel the squad to its first win against a top-10 team.

Michael Videira is one of 13 seniors on the Blue Devils' roster hoping to end their careers with a title.

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years, Duke head coach John Rennie said. “These games are difficult,” senior goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said. “Coming down to Duke, it’s one of the biggest games on their schedule. So we’re targets this year, even more so than in the past three years.” Duke will be challenged further because it will be shorthanded this weekend. Senior defenseman Timjepson is out with a pulled thigh muscle and will likely be replaced by freshman Christian Ibeagha in the starting lineup. Meanwhile, Spencer Wadsworth, Zach Pope and Paul Dudley are all returning from offseason surgeries, so they are not yet in top form. The Blue Devils’ depth—

an ar a the tean l is confident in-will be tested against Delaware and Valparaiso. “We’re a little banged up,” Rennie said. “We need the season to start to get rejuvenated. Those aches and pains tend to go away when the real game comes.” The team also has plenty of other motivation as the season kicks off. As if the heartbreaking finish last year—the Blue Devils lost 3-2 in overtime to UCLA in the national quarterfinals—was not enough, this is the last season for Rennie and the team’s 13 seniors. “It’s all more motivation,” Videira said. “[We’re going to take it] one game at a time, but at the same time there are a lot of other factors that are related to more people wanting it maybe more this year than in the past.”

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VATECH from page 2 “Warning the students, faculty and staff might have made a difference,” the governor-appointed panel said in the report released Wednesday night. “The earlier and clearer the warning, the more chance an individual had of surviving.” At a news conference Thursday, Steger initially seemed to accept the criticism. “We asked for this review. We asked that it be direct and objective,” he said. “It is painful to hear the blunt, and in some cases, critical findings.” But moments later, he said there was no guarantee that different decisions would have changed the outcome.

“The crime was unprecedented in its cunning and murderous results. And yet it happened here,” he said. “To say that something could have been prevented is certainly not to say that it would have been. Moreover, it’s entirely possible that this tragedy, horrific as it is, could

have been worse.” Steger said officials couldn’t have known that student gunman would attack twice, and has said that it would have been impossible to lock down the sprawling campus just as its nearly 26,000 students were headed to morning classes. Noting that the panel report itself called the idea of a two-hour gap “a misconception,” Steger said, “There was continuous action and deliberations from the first event until the second.” Police surrounded the dormitory and warned residents, he said. Steger said that during those two hours, administrators carefully considered how to deal with the first burst of gunfire, including a warning or a complete campus lockdown. In the end, according to the report, administrators concluded that the shooting was a boyfriend-girlfriend dispute and that the gunman had probably left the campus. Also, the report noted, they were afraid of causing panic, as happened at the start of the school year, when the first day of classes was called off because an escaped murder suspect was on the loose near campus. “I am not aware of anything the police learned that would have indicated that a mass murder was imminent,” Steger said. “Based on the crime scene evidence, they did just what they should have done.” Gov. Timothy Kaine agreed with the panel that warnings should have come sooner, but said he was standing by Steger and other top administrators and not pressing for their firing because they have suffered enough. “This is not something where the university officials, faculty, administrators have just been very blithe,” Kaine said. “There has been deep grieving about this, and it’s torn the campus up.” Instead, he said he would focus on preventive measures, such as better communication between the parents of troubled children and the colleges they are planning to attend. The governor’s panel, which spent four months investigating the massacre, said the two hours between shootings could have been used to craft potentially lifesaving text or phone messages warning students of the gunman. “Nearly everyone at Virginia Tech is an adult and capable of making decisions about potentially dangerous situations to safeguard themselves,” the report said. “So the earlier and clearer the warning, the more chance an individual had of surviving.” “The alert should have been issued and classes should have been closed,” panel Chair Gerald Massengill said Thursday. He said it is up to others to determine who should be held accountable and how. But Steger and at least nine other officials were wresding with questions that had no easy answers; What’s the best way to relay a message? What information would create mass panic? Which buildings should be notified? Was the gunman still on campus? In retrospect, most of their decisions proved wrong, and the e-mail alert they finally sent arrived too late to do any good—about 15 minutes before Cho started killing students and faculty locked inside Norris Hall. At the time, however, only two administrators had the ability to send campus-wide e-mail, and the message first had to be formulated by the Policy Group, a body that includes nine vice presidents and several vice provosts and is chaired by Steger. It took a half-hour just to assemble the group. The delays in assembling that group and reaching consensus, combined with repeated missed opportunities to share information about Cho’s mental health problems, suggest “a failure of leadership at the very top levels of the university,” said Cathy Read, stepmother of slain freshman Mary Karen Read. “It’s hard to believe that this happened and the university made all these mistakes, and the university missed all these opportunities, and that nobody will be held accountable,” she said. Celeste Peterson, whose freshman daughter Erin was killed, said the governor and the Tech Board ofVisitors should “show some leadership” and oust Steger and the police chief. In Virginia, university presidents serve at the pleasure of the Board of Visitors, which is appointed by the governor. Campus police chiefs are accountable to the

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But Andrew Goddard, whose son Colin survived four gunshot wounds, is “adamantly opposed” to pinning blame on individuals. “I think everybody who didn’t do enough knows who they are,” Goddard said. “And they’re going to have to live with that.”

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one of the best things about Duke. The ability to print from your dorm room and then pick up the printout virtually anywhere on campus is a marvelous example of technology enhancing education. With such a convenient service, it’s really no wonder that Duke students and faculty printed nearly 30 million pages last year alone. Recently, the Office of Information Technology implemented a new soft quota for ePrint. Students are allocated |36 of free prindng and anyone who needs to print more than that can do

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think it was Sigmund Freud who observed that there have been three separate discoveries that have rattled man’s beliefs about nature. For Freud, these shocking breakthroughs were Galileo’s discovery that Earth is not the center of the universe, evolution which submitted that mankind was not divinely inspired and Freud’s own findings that our conscious minds do not control much jorddfl dXt of what we do. palindromes This summer, the British newspaper The Daily Mail informed us of a fourth devastating, life-changing revelation: Bear Grylls is a fraud. For those of you who don’t know Bear Grylls, he is a British adventurer and current host of the Discovery Channel’s widely popular program, Man vs. Wild. In the show, Grylls is dropped into a wide range of perilous environments and must survive on his own—building his own shelter, finding his own food and protecting himself from any dangerous animals. Episodes have featured Grylls cutting off the fur of a dead deer for warmth during the night, drinking water squeezed from elephant dung and eating a living frog —all in an effort to simply stay alive. Grylls does seem like quite the impressive man. He served for three years in the U.K. Special Forces. At 23, he was the youngest British man to ever scale (and then de-scale) Mount Everest. What’s more, despite the fact thathe’s British, there are currently more than 1,000 people on Facebook who believe that Bear Grylls should be the next president of the United States. I guess this kind of stuff just naturally happens when you name your kid “Bear.” However, the grand illusion that is Bear Grylls came crashing down over this past summer. In ajuly 23 article titled “How Bear Grylls the Bom Survivor roughed it—in hotels,” The Daily Mail revealed that not only did Grylls occasionally sleep in hotels while filming, but he even “choreographed parts of ■

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would have littered every available space for posting. Realistically, the change to a soft quota of 1,800 leaves is fairly innocuous. This change will only affect the heaviest of ePrint users (or more apdy, abusers). Unfortunately, since it’s a soft quota, though, the new policy will not limit the more determined. Those wanting to print more pages face no additional cost. Despite these benefits, there a number of problems that stem from the new change, with the idea of imaginary money being the top issue. To make things less confusing, rather than show an imaginary balance of money, ePrint stations should display the number of printed

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pages. This more tangible figure will allow users to easily monitor their printing usage and know when they are approaching their limit. Additionally, should OFT decide to move to a hard cap in the future, the ability for campus leaders to apply for greater printing capacity (like they already can for increased e-mail inbox storage) would be another welcome feature. This board eagerly awaits the release of OlT’s study and encourages them to make that data available after the completion of the current semester.

Changing things that aren’t broke can be risky and could even lead to some less-than-desirableresults. Time will tell, but in the case of ePrint, however, a correctly implemented new policy couldbe a good thing.

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[his show], with many of his spectacular stunts carefully set up by the production crew.” Apparently in one episode, Grylls said he used the raw materials around him to construct a raft when in fact his production crew had actually dismantled a raft for him to rebuild in front of the cameras. One week later, in perhaps the show’s most egregious violation of viewer trust, The Daily Mail published photos of a man in a bear suit that had been used to simulate an attack from a real grizzly. What does this all mean? Why, you might ask, am I so distraught by such news? True, celebrities get exposed all the time. But, you see, Bear was different. Bear was proof that, even without all of our modern technology and air conditioning, if we absolutely had to make it in the wild, we could. In Bear, we could still be tough, strong and resourceful—not afraid to eat a live snake for breakfast if necessary. Unfortunately, Bear turned out to be a bit of a wuss. Although he has done some incredibly inspiring and courageous deeds, even Bear could not survive by himself in the wild. Just as Darwin’s work doubted whether man was divinely created, Bear’s failure questioned whether we can even survive in nature anymore. Now I know that if Bear can’t make it alone in the wilderness, there is absolutely no way I can. Even worse, Bear’s outing only reaffirms the undeniable truth that not only could I never make it by myself in nature, I still cannot do a lot of things that are needed to survive in our own modem world. I cannot use a power saw. I have never built my own furniture. And while I can write a passable essay on gender inversion in Victorian literature, I cannot even change a tire. None of this seemed to matter when I could watch Bear Grylls dastardly weather the unforgiving elements. In Bear, I had reassurance that I hadn’t been completely neutered by my comfortable, first-world lifestyle. But now, I’m not so sure. Bear didn’t just lie to his viewers, he traumatized them. And the world will never be the same.

Jordan Axt is a Trinity junior. His column runs every otherFriday.

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I walked into 323 Alspaugh on the first day of move-in freshman year to admire my new home, I was greeted by a fat kid sitting Indian-style on what would later be considered my bed, with a bucket of fried chicken resting in between his legs. He wasn’t wearing a shirt. In fact, he wasn’t wearing anything. They say not to judge a book by its cover. But in the case of Eddie, I’d say that the double chin and stretch marks did him adequate justice AWithin the first few weeks of living in that small sweatbox that overlooked the East nick alexander Campus dumpsters, I began hungry, Stay foolish to not only hate my roommate, but my life as well. Not only were things not going my way at the beginning of that semester, but Eddie seemed to be having the time of his life. I was waking up at 7:30 a.m. every morning to go to class; he was sleeping in until three (and even then only waking up in order to prepare for four o’clock quesos). I was working hard to make new friends; Eddie seemed to already know everyone on campus. I would strike out every weekend; Eddie would always bring back tons of girls (just not many of them). Yes, it was certain —college would be a miserable four years. In fact, one late September afternoon I actually packed up my room and called my parents to take me home. I had had enough. Turns out that on their way to pick me up, however, the horse’s leg gave out (the Ohio equivalent of a flat tire). Looking back, it may have been the best thing that could’ve happened. I still remember the day that followed as if it were yesterday. Despite having already decided to drop out of college and return home to take over the family farm, I showed up for classes that day and went through the motions until I could find another way to get home. During my last class of the day, Econ 51,1 found myself sitting near the back of the room, quietly taking what I thought would be my last quiz ever. Out of the clear blue, three naked male bodies came bursting through the back doors of the auditorium and sprinting to the front of the class in an attempt to steal the quiz’s answer key. Although the professor had a rattail, she was no match for the three of them. No one else in the class of 300 seemed to be stepping up, and so I had to act fast. But what could I do? All three of the men were wearing superhero masks to hide their identities. Two of the criminals I had never seen before. But there was one set of ass cheeks flopping across the front of the lecture hall that I’d recognize anywhere... Acting purely out of instinct, I reached into my pocket and pulled out a hard, spherical object. A baseball? No. It was a condensed ball of cheddar that had been left over from four o’clock quesos earlier that week. Somehow, it must have slipped into the pocket of my jeans and been allowed to harden. .1 stood up in the middle of the lecture hall with the cheese ball clenched in my fist. Eddie paused for a moment and looked at me, as if it were almost a dare. Although my target was small, with all the adrenaline rushing through my blood I wound up and delivered a fastball that would’ve probably impressed a few minor league scouts. It was a strike. Eddie went down, and went down hard. Although what happened from there is all a blur to me, some say that the cheese ball got lodged with such force that the medics had to bring in the Jaws ofLife. It was a turning point in not only that semester, but in my whole college experience. In addition to Eddie’s suspension leaving me with a single to myself, word of the incident spread like wildfire around campus. Before too long, “Cheese Ball Boy” had achieved minor celebrity status on campus. I think back to that first semester as proof that even in the bleakest and most obscure times can lie opportunity. ———

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expect her great grandchildren to 101 l around in summer temperatures regularly in excess of 103 degrees. Doesn’t sound like much? Remember how much worse it felt last week when it was 100 than it does now that it’s 97? Besides—as we’re unlikely to cease driving, flying and generally screwing up the environment tomorrow —the rate of temperature increase may continue to escalate as well, leading to temperature increases closer to the five-degree range by 2117. Given that there are at least a couple thousand righteous a-holes who intend to drive their SUVs right into the rapture, let’s add another degree for good measure. warming spearheaded by In conditions similar to those of the last few weeks, that groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, means temperatures right here in Durham, North Carofunded by ExxonMobil. lina could get up in the 111-degree range. That’s the jaC q U j detwllcf / Groups like. CEI have melting point of iodine, people. And there are counused multiple tactics to please hire, desperate tries that are hotter than that already! induce public doubt in It would only take a few more centuries to hit the research demonstratingr melting point of, you know, people—let alone the attenthat human-caused warming is occurring, from pubdant plagues of hurricanes, forest fires and freak waves. With such major players on the denial side, like lishing warped critiques to pushing spurious research of their own. Exxon Mobile, major evangelist Christian churches, What’s worse than a legion of financially-motivated and, um, the leader of the free world, what can a lowly planet haters with control over government restrictions? believer like a Duke student do to reduce her impact Why, a cadre of religiously-motivated planet haters (a la on global warming? the early 2007 shockumentary “Jesus Camp”) who are Thankfully, Duke is following the lead of cities convinced thatjesus will come save them before the heat like Paris, which just instituted a supplementary becomes intolerable—and who are, horrifyingly, teachpublic transit program through which locals and ing their children the same. (Because Jesus intends to tourists can rent bikes as an ecofriendly alternative come back during their lifetimes, natch). to taxis and short drives. Granted, Duke’s system is a tad different. The bikes in Paris can be dropped Even if Newsweek has never graced your coffee table (and you missed Live Earth and “An Inconvenient off anywhere, while Duke’s are free and only for •students. Truth”), you must The good thing is that stunoticed the river of sweat dents who live off campus, like between sluicing your With such on me, can grab them and reduce shoulder blades as you what can a their planetary bastardness with moved into dorms or little more than sweat and some the past like a Duke student do to reduce her apartments in few weeks. Granted, Durthigh power. on warming? I personally intend to rent ham’s summer heat wave isn’t entirely due to globone and eschew my car for ■an entire week. Hell, while al warming. I’m at it, I think I’ll spend a According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the world temperature has whole week trying out for Captain Planet and indionly risen by one degree Fahrenheit since 1970. But if the rectly helping cute polar bears. I’ll let you know how current swelter makes it easier to imagine the blistering it goes in Part 11. Until next time, planeteers. future, then the next few weeks may be the best time to initiate a change to prevent it. At the current expected warming rate of 3.2 degrees Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and per century, a person conceiving a child in 2017 could neuroscience. Her column runs every Friday.

you’ve been living under a (pleasantly cool) rock with a bunch of soon-to-be-extinct, damp-loving insects, you’ve undoubtedly heard the hype —and the anti-hype —about global warming. In a recent issue entitled “Global Warming is a Hoax*”, Newsweek featured the revolting farce of a government investigation into the phenomenon. The article covered the smear campaign against empirical findings of

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