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It may not look like something from “The Jetsons,” but it does have air-conditioning, which is already more than what some Duke students have. JVC of America and Popular Science Magazine teamed up to bring the “Dorm Room of the Future” to campus Thursday and Friday. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the display is set up in the visitor’s parking lot behind the Bryan Center. Duke University Union decided to bring the tour, which aims to increase brand name recognition among college students, to campus earlier this summer. “This is the first year that Popular Science Magazine is presenting a college tour, and I thought that it might be fun to be one of the first schools included in the tour,” senior Rachel Saperstein, director of external liaisons for DUU, wrote in an e-mail. “I also thought that students might enjoy taking a break to check out some of the fun items that the tour is bringing to Duke.” The dormitory room is housed within see-through windows in the back of a truck and features a flat-screen television, a microwave, a laptop and other electronic appliances. “It’s not quite realistic. No dorm room would be this neat,” JVC representative Jim Carroll said. “We need some clothes thrown in the comers.” Next to the dorm-display truck are several tents housing other electronic gizmos and gadgets. Students can play a game of “Quake 4” at a station of laptop computers as well as try their hand at flying a remote-

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If David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann’s proposed civil suit goes to trial, the three former Duke lacrosse players may be sitting in an unfamiliar spot in the courtroom —at the plaintiff s table. Last week, the players’ lawyers presented Durham city officials with a proposed out-of-court settlement requesting $lO million over five years for each of the players and requiring changes to

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A truck carrying a futuristic, air-conditioned dorm on wheels parks behind the Bryan Center Thursday. controlled Fly Tech dragonfly. There are also several contests and raffles students can enter, such as a 30second video competition called “Pimp My Dorm.” The grand prize is a $5,000 voucher that can be spent on electronics at Circuit City. Staff members have been filming students explaining why they need

their room pimped out in order to select a winner for the competition. Carroll said they already had about 25 videos Thursday afternoon, adding that he was pleased with the level of participation. The best video Carroll said he saw featured two members of Duke University SEE DORM ON PAGE 6

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in Durham. The Durham City Council has a month to accept the offer. The council has yet to issue a response Durham’s liability insurance policy only covers claims of up to $5 million. The deal presented last week would require Durham to pay the other $25 million from the city’s coffers—a fact that makes the council unlikely to accept the proposed deal, Duke law professor Thomas Metzloff said. That does not mean that the two parties will not settle out of court, Metzloff said. “I have no doubt that [Evans, Trinity ’O6, Finnerty and Seligmann] would accept less,” he said. “It’s an opening offer the game of negotiation starts high.” If the suit goes to trial, the players have no guarantee that they will win, he added. Though there is probably enough evidence to prove wrongdoing on the part of former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong, the city of Durham is not necessarily legally responsible, Metzloff said. Municipal governments, unlike businesses, cannot be held responsible for the —

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Senior Matthew Campbell never expected that three minof tardiness would be the difference between being a rescuer and a victim. On the evening ofAug. 1,had Campbell not been running late, he too may have been hurt during the Minneapolis bridge collapse. A Minneapolis native and a Chronicle photographer, Campbell and 10 ofhis friends were piled in a van headed to a Minnesota Twins baseball game that evening. About a third of a mile away from the Interstate 35-West bridge, however, they pulled their car off the road because of the collapsing bridge. “For me the most shocking thing is that if our car had not been late, we would have been on the bridge,” Campbell said. “I would have taken some car’s spot on the bridge and our van would have gone down instead of somebody else in front of us.” Campbell said at the time of his arrival, only about 15 to 20 civilians and several firefighters and police officers were on hand to help victims of the collapse. utes

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President George W. Bush, defending an unpopular war, ordered gradual reductions in U.S. forces in Iraq Thursday night and said, “The more successful we are, the more American troops can return home.” Yet, Bush firmly rejected calls to end the war, insisting that Iraq will still need military, economic and political support from Washington, D.C., after his presidency ends. Bush said 5,700 U.S. forces would be home by Christmas and thatfour brigades—for a total of at least 21,500 troops —would return byjuly, along with an undetermined WASHINGTON

number of support forces. Now at its highest level of the war, the U.S. troop strength stands at 168,000. “The principle guiding my decisions on troop levels in Iraq is: return on success,” Bush said, trying to summon the nation’s resolve once again to help Iraq “defeat those who threaten its future and also threaten ours.” With no dramatic change in course, Bush’s decision sets the stage for a fiery political debate in Congress and on the 2008 presidential campaign trail. Democrats said Bush’s modest approach was unacceptable. “An endless and unlimited military presence in Iraq is not an option,” said Sen. Jack Reed ofRhode Island, a former Army Rang-

er, who delivered the Democratic response.

“Democrats and Republicans in Congress—and throughout the nation—cannot and must not stand idly by while our interests throughout the world are undermined and our armed forces are stretched toward the breaking point,” Reed said. “We intend to exercise our constitutional duty and profoundly change our military’s involvement in Iraq.” The reductions announced by Bush represented only a slight hastening of the originally scheduled end of the troop increase that Bush announced in January. When the cutbacks are complete, about 132,000 U.S. forces will be in Iraq.

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BEAUMONT, Texas Humberto, the first hurricane to hit the United States in two years, sneaked up on south Texas and Louisiana overnight and crashed ashore Thursday with heavy rains and 85-mph winds, killing at least one person. The system rapidly became a Category 1 hurricane, then weakened to a tropical storm by midmorning and bore into central Louisiana. Roads were flooded and power was knocked out, but the greatest concern was heavy rain falling in areas al-

ready inundated by a wet summer. Humberto was not evena tropical storm until Wednesday afternoon, strengthening from a tropical depression with 35-mph winds to a hurricane with 85-mph winds in just 18 hours, seniorhurricane specialist JamesFranklin said at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “To put this development in perspective no tropical cyclone in the historical record has ever reached this intensity at a fester rate near landfall. It wouldbe nice to know, someday, why this happened,” Franklin said. Edward Petty, 50, was clearing debris in front of his Beaumont home and said he —

was surprised by the quick turn. “Itwas amazing to go to sleep to a tropical storm and wake up to a hurricane,” he said. “What are you going to do? You couldn’t get up and drive away. You couldn’t run for it. You just have to hunker down.” Humberto made landfall less than 50 miles from where Hurricane Rita did in 2005, and areas of southwest Louisiana not fully recovered from Rita were bracing for more misery. “I’m in a FEMA trailer [because of Rita] and I’m on oxygen,” said Albertha Garrett, 70, who spent the night at a shelter in the Lake Charles Civic Center.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's choice for prime minister, Viktor Zubkov, said Thursday that he would not rule out a run for the presidency, adding to the intrigue following his surprise nomination just months before elections.

Bomb kills key U.S.ally in Iraq Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar province, 10 days after he met with President George W. Bush, police and tribal leaders said.

Google sponsors lunar'X Prize' Google Inc. is bankrolling a $3O-million spaceflight contest for private companies to safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.

Earthquakespummel Indonesia A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck late Thursday off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the same area shaken by a major 8.4-magnitude trembler that killed nine people Wednesday. News briefs compiled

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Tutors instill'HOPE'in DPS kids Pratt to ‘Xcite’ future engineers by

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What does it take to make children hopeful? If you ask Barbara Jentleson, it takes many Duke students and a program called Project HOPE. Project HOPE is an afterschool program for Durham Public School students that works closely with Duke’s Office of Community Affairs and the Duke-Durham

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“The best example I can give is Patrick Messac,” Jentleson said. Messac, a sophomore, started participating in Project HOPE as a freshman in order to fulfill a service-learning component in one of his courses. After his course ended, however, he could not walk away from the students he helped for a semester, he said. “Project HOPE has been one of the most rewarding experiences here at Duke because it has given me a whole new perspective on education,” Messac said. For the student he tutors, Messac added that he has not only become a tutor who provides academic help but also a friend and a positive role model. Messac is one of many Duke students who assist DPS stu-

dents under Project HOPE. Approximately 70 Duke students interact with 120 public school students for about two hours a week to be a tutor, a mentor and just a friend. There are Duke tutors who give academic help and Duke athletes who run outdoor activities such as tennis and skating. In addition to providing activities for children, they, too, bond with the public school students. “The students get attached to Duke students in a productive manner that builds respect in each other,” said Gail Taylor, the principal of Carter Community School. The school is one of the partners that actively works with Project HOPE. “I see a brotherly, sisterly relationship forming,” Taylor said. “The children really look up to Duke students as brothers and sisters.” She added that Project HOPE provides enrichment not only in academics, but also in social and physical aspects. It is an experience outside of school that helps the development of children as people and students, Taylor said. Project HOPE has been a success so far for establishing itself as a program for helping at-risk Durham students at six locations, Jendeson said, adding that the goal for the project now is to expand its operations and give assistance to the students that need help. Messac said the major need for the program at this point is more tutors. “That is what we have accomplished, that is what we are

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About 70 Duke students tutor 120public school students once a week as part ofProject HOPE

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Let’s discover engineering! Starting next spring, middle school students across the state will be able to design a solar car, assemble a solar oven, or even create an infrared wireless circuit in an after-school program de-

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Duke engineers in collaboration with several federal agencies. The proGary Ybarra gram, TechXcite, includes the curriculum Discover Engineering!, which provides material spanseven ning main themes of technology and science, including digital imaging, biotechnology and wireless communication. TechXcite is based off an earlier program that co-creator Gary Ybarra, director of undergraduate studies and professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, developed in Rogers-Herr Middle School in 2000. Ybarra and co-creator Paul

Klenk, a research associate in electrical and computer engineering, have been developing the current program since 2001. It will allow 300 students to get hands-on training in several fields of engineering and science within the first year. “This program is addressing a national shortage of engineers and students who are choosing to pursue careers in engineering and technology,” Ybarra said. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, degrees awarded in engineering and computer sciences have declined significandy over the last 16years, he added. The PrattSchool ofEngineering has teamed up with both the North Carolina 4-H Youth Development Program and the National Science and Technology Education Partnership to launch TechXcite. Klenk said he predicts within a year it will expand to 14 sites across the state, implemented by 4-H after-school programs and reaching approximately 300 middle school students. Long-term plans for TechXcite include national expansion to all 50 states through the National 4-H Technology Program after five years, Ybarra said. Klenk said one major challenge is going to be having nonengineering instructors teaching SEE PRATT ON PAGE 8

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Campus Council discussed a proposed bundle of cable television and telephone services and an increase in the number of signs on West Campus in its first general body meeting Thursday night. President Ryan Todd, a senior, said the council has been in discussion with the Office of Information Technology about introducing the cable-and-services bundle into the student housing fees. At present, students who choose to have cable in their rooms must pay $32 per month for the standard 70-channel service. By spreading the cost of cable over a greater number of people, the bundle would make cable less expensive for each individual student, Todd said. The proposed package would provide for cable television and local and longdistance landline phone services in all studentresidential rooms. Todd said the new bundle would cost

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students between $lOO and $l2O per semesprevious fees. He added thatlandline phone fees might be removed from the package to reduce its cost The mandatory fee for the bundle would also cover the cost of wire and wireless internet access, which students already pay approximately $lO a semester. Quadrangle representatives said 70 percent of students currently choose not to pay for the service. “We are going to have to make sure that this is something people actually want,” Communications Coordinator Hope Lu, a junior, said. Representatives also voiced their concern that having cable in every room would detract from the community building that occurs as students come together in common rooms to watch basketball games and popular shows. Introducing the mandatory cable fee could allow OIT, which is currently losing money, to make a revenue and explore future developments including wireless internet access for all residential rooms, Todd said. OIT could also use the extra money to improve cell phone service on campus, Treasurer Molly Bierman, a junior, said. Campus-wide cable service would provide another way for the University to contact the student body in the event of a crisis like the Virginia Tech massacre, Todd said. At the meeting, members also debated installing more signs on campus, particularly in residential areas where names of buildings are often simply scrawled on doorways. “We’re all in agreement that anything is better than the status quo—Sharpie,” Bierman said. Quad representatives suggested adding additional antique-looking plaques or blue-and-white signs, similar to those marking buildings on Science Drive. The difficult part of the project will be finding a medium between signs that blend in with the architecture and signs that are visible enough to serve its purpose, Todd said. ter in addition to

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Although undergraduates have 222 days of longing, for juniors Chamindra Goonewardene and Vincent Ling the approach of the end of classes is more immediate. The Duke University Union and Campus Council appointed the duo Thursday to cochair the April 23 Last Day of Classes event, a post traditionally held by one person. “We always thought that... it would be beneficial for two to chair, but the concern was that two people wouldn’t have complementary enough personalities and (hey would have conflicts in the final decisions,” Union President Katelyn Donnelly said. “But Cha and Vince applied together and worked with each other previously.” They have experience in coordinating Major Attractions events, including theCameron Rocks! concert, Donnelly, a senior, said. DUU and Campus Council—which cosponsor the event—and former LDOC committee members were invited to participate in the selection process. Donnelly added that the appointment came earlier in the year than usual to ensure that planning begins sooner, which will help avoid scheduling conflicts with artists. “Vincent and Cha are really great leaders,” Donnelly said. “[We] have the utmost enthusiasm in working with them.”

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What does Barack Obama have in common with zombies, Dwight Schrute of NBC’s “The Office,” Scrabble and your favorite soccer team? All can be found in unlikely juxtaposition on Facebook Web pages everywhere. When it debuted in 2004 from nowCEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard University dormitory room, Facebook was simply a tool for online social networking. Three years later, it has become a bustling forum for opinions, barters and the simply strange. Today, Facebook has over 35 million active users and 2,000 applications with more than 100 users for each application, Malorie Lucich, a representative of the Web site, wrote in an e-mail. Unlike many students, senior Rob Goodlatte—a Chronicle photographer—views Facebook’s new applications function with the eyes of a businessman. Goodlatte created a Facebook application for a company named Newsline during an internship this summer. “In late May or early June, Facebook opened up their entire network for businesses to come in,” he said. “It started to take off exponentially.” Goodlatte explained that businesses profit by running ads alongside their applications on the site. The Election ’OB application that Goodlatte created—which lets Facebook users endorse presidential candidates—contains a link to relevant news stories on Newsline, thus increasing Newsline’s site traffic. Goodlatte added

that the mini-feed feature—which allows users to see their Facebook friends’ recent activity—causes “a huge snowball effect” when a user adds a new application, bringing the application to the attention ofhundreds of potential users. Students like freshman Grant Meeker, however, registered with Facebook for social reasons, not for the applications tools. “I applied to Duke early decision and started using Facebook to meet classmates,” Meeker said. “It’s a good tool. It allowed me to find a roommate instead of going to random, and that worked out really well.”

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kind of took on that role until more officials came on,” he said. Prying off doors from trapped cars and handing out candy and water, Campbell said he knew how to act in an emergency because he had seen his parents —who are both physicians—help victims of traffic accidents. He also attended to those who appeared mentally distraught, Campbell added. “Part of what I did was basically telling [the victims], ‘Hey, you are going to be OK,’” he said. Once more authorities arrived, Campbell said he was very impressed by the level of organization and lack of chaos at the scene. He was told that the police had recendy been trained in how to act in a similar emergency. “It’s such a cool thing that people were able to come together and make the rescue effort happen so quickly,” he said. “I’m amazed that, you know, so few people were hurt or that the death toll was so low given the circumstances.”

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Improv, who came dressed as nerds arguing that they needed a high-tech dorm to conduct research and, more importandy, impress girls. Staying in character as socially-maladjusted nerds the whole time, senior Matt Manocherian and junior Andrew Tutt had the tour staff cracking up. “I need the room to conduct my photosynthesis project,” Tutt said. “We’re a part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency. That’s ARPA.” The staff is having fun and the kids are entertaining as well, Carroll said. “I feel like a bit of a fossil here, but that’s OK,” he added. All videos recorded on the tour will be posted on the Popular Science Magazine Web site, where the public can vote for the best video. The votes will be taken into consideration during the judging process in addition to the video’s creativity and originality, Carroll added.

misdeeds of individual employees unless a municipal policy condoned or promoted the destructive behavior, he added. “If the driver of a Coca-Cola truck runs a red light, the company is responsible [for the resulting accident],” he said. ‘You can, however, have a police officer do something bad, but that doesn’t make the city responsible. You need a policy or a practice that relates to a systemic failure.” Under civil law, there are only four ways a municipality can be held legally responsible for the actions ofindividuals acting on their behalf, said Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. Three of the four categories, which deal with poor policies or deliberate indifference at the municipal level, are unlikely to apply to the case, he said. Evans and Finnerty’s and Seligmann’s lawyers will likely focus on the fourth category, which states that a municipality can be held responsible if an individual with final decision-making authority acts illegally, Chemerinsky said. “I think their argument is going to be that the city delegated the case’s prosecution to Mike Nifong and that he was the final decision maker, and as such the city is responsible,” he added. The city’s defense will likely revolve around proving Nifong was not the final decision maker and the fact that he was not a city employee, Chemerinsky said. Both Metzloff and Chemerinsky said there was not enough publicly available evidence to evaluate the city’s culpability for Nifong’s actions. Metzloffadded thatitis also difficult to evaluate the strength of the players’ claim because many aspects of the case—particularly the national media coverage—are without precedent The $3O million claimed by the players is more than others have received in North Carolina for wrongful convictions. Darryl Hunt, who was wrongfully convictedof a murder in Winston-Salem and served 19 years in prison, only received approximately $2 million from city and state governments. Though the lacrosse players were not wrongfully convicted, they may be able to claim that they were the victims of an intentional effort to bring charges without evidence, Duke law professor Jim Coleman told The (Raleigh) News & Observer Wednesday. Whether or not the city’s investigation was only negligent of or deliberately indifferent to evidence will likely determine if the suit goes to trial, Coleman added. Even if Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann won a civil suit against the city and were awarded damages, they might not receive the full amount because the players have already settled with Duke for an undisclosed sum ofmoney, Metzloff said. Joint conspirators sometimes get credit for setdements they’ve received from other parties, he said. In this case, the players’ setdement with Duke may offset any money a civil jury would award them in damages, Metzloff added. “It’s not likely to be a slam-dunk case,” he said. City and county officials and the players’ lawyers either declined or did not respond to interview requests.

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MEN'S SOCCER

CZYZ VISITS BLUE DEVILS Six-foot-seven power forward Olek Czyz—a native of Poland and current star in Nevada—will make his official visit to Durham this weekend.

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Joe Drews

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The Blue Devils do not know very much about West Virginia—but they do know that the Mountaineers will come to

play.

Fifth-ranked Duke (3-1-0) squares off against No. 13 West Virginia (3-1-0) 7 p.m. Saturday in Koskinen Stadium. It will be the first meeting between the two teams in over two decades. “We don’t know anything about them,” coach John Rennie said. “We’ve not played them, so we don’t really have a feel SATURDAY, 7 p.m. r how the Y PlaY for Koskinen Stadium But they don’t really know what we’re like either, so it’s kind of an even thing there in that first half.” The Blue Devils do know that West Virginia is a very talented team. The Mountaineers beat then-No. 6 Maryland on the road Sept. 7. They are also aware that West Virginia’s games tend to be low-scoring—all four of its contests this season have had a final score of 1-0. “They’re obviously very capable of shutting out their opponents,” goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said. “So we’re going to have to bring a strong offensive _

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Duke’s defense—potentially bolstered by the return of senior co-captain Tim Jepson—may be even more critical than the offense against the Mountaineers. The Blue Devils know it will be difficult to score many goals, so they will need to keep West

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JoeSurgan has not been able totransfer his practice-field success to gamedays, in which he's l-for-4 thisyear.

Senior defensemanTim Jepson may return to the field when Duke battles West Virginia Saturday.

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WOMEN'S SOCCER

Blue Devils extinguish the Phoenix by

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Practice might be a head coach’s best measuring stick for identifying game starters because, after all, practice makes perfect. But in the unique case of Duke placekicker Joe Surgan, practice has become a tormenting, alternate universe. “He made every kick last week in practice,” Duke head coach Ted Roof said. “I use practice as an indicator, and I didn’t see that coming.” For those who do not attend the Blue Devils’ practices, however, Sury£ l-for-4field goal performance in Duke’s 24-13 loss to Virginia last weekend seemed fairly1 typical. . SATURDAY, 8 p.m. c . Smce ±e beginning ofc Ryan Field last season, the junior has converted only four ofhis 14field goals and nine ofhis 12 extra-point attempts. To put things in perspective, the 11 other ACC teams have combined to convert 25-of-29 field goals this season—just one more miss despite seven times as many attempts. But while Duke fans may have grown accustomed to the current version of Surgan, the coaching staff hopes to discover the old Joe when the Blue Devils (0-2) travel to Ryan Field to take on Northwestern (2-0) at 8 p.m. Saturday night in Evanston, 111. In high school, Surgan took Florida 5A football by storm. While receiving all-state selections in his final two seasons, Surgan

Kelly Hathom jogged off the field late in the first half, gave Duke head coach Robbie Church a high-five, looked at her teammates on the bench and let out a hearty chuckle. For the Blue Devils, it was one of those nights where everything went right, andall they could do was laugh 0 at their success. ELON Duke (2-1-2) DUKE scored five goals in the first half, including three in an eight-minute span, en route to a 6-0 win over Elon (2-2-1) Thursday night at Koskinen Stadium. And while the team’s six goals were its most since 2004, the Blue Devils could have posted even more, given their 20 shots on goal. For the night, Duke outshot the Phoenix 35-2. The offensive outburst was most surprising considering the team’s scoring troubles. The Blue Devils had scored just one goal this season and finished last year with four straight scoreless contests. On Thursday evening, however, Duke lifted the lid off the net.

“It’s a huge relief,” Hathom said. “It’s the biggest relief in the world, actually.” The scores came early and often for the Blue Devils against the Phoenix. Sophomore Elisabeth Redmond scored in the 11th minute, junior Lorraine Quinn made it 2-0 in the 17th and Hathom provided the dagger two minutes later. That trio of goals buried Elon in an insurmountable hole—which was exacdy Duke’s plan against an inferior team. “What we wanted to do was set the bar high,” Church said. “If Elon could keep up with it, then they could keep up with it. They couldn’t, and we buried them.” “Once we got one or maybe two, the confidence level went way up,” Hathom said. “Everybody was on the same page, and we all thought that we could do it.... [After the first three goals], they just roll over and you can keep firing them in. That’s when it was even more fun, when we were just running circles around them.” Redmond’s first goal came when Hathom deflected a header her way. Redmond handled it with her chest, dribbledaround a SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 10

Junior Kelly Hathorn scored a goal and had two assists in theBlue Devils' 6-0 romp over Elon.

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Champs set to tee off season The three-time defending champion women’s golf team opens its 2007-08 season in the Mason Rudolph Women’s Championship at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn. The top-ranked Blue Devils are also defending their tide in the three-day event, which they won last year by three shots. Overall, the top nine teams in the nation and 15 of the top 27 are slated to compete this weekend.

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Two words echoed throughout Williams Field when the Blue Devils broke their huddle after practice Wednesday. “Leave nothing.” Inspired by the Nike advertisement, No. 10 Duke (3-3) has incorporated the simple phrase in its approach to games, transforming the words into a team-wide philosophy. “It means that we’re working so hard all the time after practice or a after a game that there’s nothing left to give,” freshman Susan Ferger said. yj The Blue Devils will have to play with that kind of intensity to come this weekend with catiidixav 4 SATURDAY, 1 p.m. out of

Bulls take 2-1 lead Durham defeated the Richmond Braves, 3-2, in Game 3 of its five-game series behind a strong pitching performance by Jae Seo and a game-winning 2run single by Michel Hernandez. Game 4 is Friday night in Richmond.

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two victories. Duke hosts

Drexel (3-3) 1 p.m. Saturday before clashing with JjHBSy No. 13 Old Dominion (14) 1 p.m. Sunday. Despite the slow starts of their opponents, the Blue Devils know that they are in for a pair of stiff challenges. SUNDAY, Ip.m. “Drexel is going to be Williams Field a pretty tough game for us. They’re pretty solid defensively,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “ODU is a great barometer for every team. They don’t look as good in the winning column as they have in the past, but make no mistake—we know they’re a very talented team.” For Duke to win this weekend, it must do something that it has not been able to the past two weekends—finish. In its losses to No. 4 lowa and No. 5 Wake Forest, the Blue Devils out-shot and out-cornered their respective opponents. The loss last weekend to the Demon Deacons was particularly galling, as Duke dominated possession in the second half and had numerous opportunities to trim Wake Forest’s lead. To remedy this problem, the Blue Dev-

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Freshman Susan Ferger and the Blue Devils will need to finish theiroffensive chances to win this weekend. archs in double overtime at home. The Blue Devils are looking at this season’s matchup with Old Dominion as, away to demonstrate how much they have learned from their previous losses. “This weekend is our chance to show how much we have improved,” freshman forward Camille Dagorn said. “We have a good chance to see where we are and how much we’ve improved.” With a new, inspired mentality, Duke hopes that its strides in practice can translate into wins. One thing is for certain—when the Blue Devils take the field, they will not hold anything back.

ils have honed in on offensive execution this week in practice. Duke spent the end of Wednesday’s practice working continuously on its penalty corners. “We’ve been focusing on the same things, trying to execute the skills and goals of our game plan,” Ferger said. “A lot of times, we just talk about what we’re going to do, but this week we’re going to run our attack.” The Blue Devils’ offensive production will need to be higher if they want to break a two-game losing streak against Old Dominion. Last year’s contest came down to the wire with Duke falling 4-3 to the Mon-

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defender and fired a shot from the 18-yard box off the goalkeeper’s fingertips into the upper-right comer of the net. It was Duke’s second goal of the year, and the third came just minutes later when Quinn ran onto a Hathom pass and sent a shot into the right side of the net with her left foot. Hathom, who had two assists to complement her first goal of the year, put home a rebound off the crossbar after Redmond had re-directed a pass with the outside of her foot. The first three goals belonged to the veterans, but the last three came at the feet of the rookies. Three members of Duke’s heralded freshman class—Rebecca Allen, Carey Goodman and Gretchen Miller—scored their first collegiate goals in the game, making the night even more memorable for the Blue Devils. Most importantly for Duke, the players seemed to be having more fun on the field than they have had in a long time. After all, even Church—who predicted his team’s scoring outbreak last week—admitted that the 6-0 thrashing was as well as his team has played in the last three years.

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Virginia off the scoreboard as well. “It’s absolutely huge,” Jepson said of having a strong defensive effort. “Every game, we’ve got to prepare for playing

successfully converted 23-of-28 field goals and 64-of-65 extra points. Ranked the fourth-best kicker in the nation by scout, com, he was offered scholarships to several major programs, including the defending national champion Florida Gators. Instead, Surgan chose Duke. Ever since then, despite converting 6of-8 field goals in his freshman season, it seems he has lost something. “I don’t know what it is,” Roof said. “I don’t know what it is. We’ve gone around and around—investigating things, talking to people. He’s gone to [kicking camps]. But the bottom line is when you have an opportunity, you’ve got to make good. That’s his job. That’s his responsibility.” It must be difficult for the Blue Devils to watch the fluctuating performance of their talented teammate, who is clearly caught in a rut of some kind. Sunday through Friday, Surgan executes and produces like any blue chip recruit should. But on Saturdays, Roof said his kicker fails to square his hips and consistendy pushes his attempts wide right, and the Blue Devils are forced to watch their teammate

perform anomalously.

“In practice, Joe is clearly the best kicker,” Roof said. “As a coach, the practice field is an indicator. But when you step on the field, you’ve got to perform. Nothing is set in stone, I’ll put it that way.” In response to Surgan’s in-game issues, Roof gave backup place-kicker Greg Meyers more reps in practice this week in preparation for Northwestern. Surgan was not available for comment. As Duke heads to Evanston, 111. this weekend to take on the Wildcats, the kicking game will be as crucial as ever. Although special teams are sometimes overlooked, several

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Ted RoofandDuke have missed out on multiple opportunities to win games in part because offield-goal woes. of Duke’s 22-straight losses may have gone the other way if only for some more success converting field goals. Perhaps the most glaring example was last year’s one-point loss at eventual ACC champion Wake Forest, when Surgan had a 28-yard field goal blocked in the final seconds. More recendy, Duke’s close loss to Virginia last week showcased again the importance of a dependable placekicker. If Surgan had converted all four of his field

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goals, which averaged 33 yards, the Blue Devils would have trailed byjust two points in the game’s final seven minutes. Instead, Duke was forced to score at least two touchdowns in the face of an 11-point deficit, ultimately ending its chance for victory. “If we just kick a couple field goals, then all of a sudden it’s a different deal,” Roof said. “That’s very disappointing.... He’s accountable to his team for that, so he’s got to do it.”

the best team.... You’ve got to have your back four on the same page every game. You’ve got to be tight, you’ve got to be solid.” Although Duke has not yet seen the Mountaineers’ style of play other than on film, it knows that West Virginia will come out attacking and ready to play. The less talented teams that the Blue Devils played earlier in the season, Valparaiso and Villanova, both employed a defensive strategy. “When you play teams that are a litdebit weaker than us, they tend to sit in and play defense and hope to steal a goal from you,” Jepson said. “When you play teams, pretty much anybody in the ACC or the top 10, 15 teams in the country, they actually want to play and so the flow of the game is a lot better, and it’s just a much better game of soccer.” And if Dukeknows one thing, itis that the Mountaineers will not be like Valparaiso or Villanova—they are coming to Durham to play with the Blue Devils, not to steal a game from them. That will be the case for much of the rest of the season as Duke gets into the heart of its schedule, playing more ranked teams and getting into its conference slate. The game continues a stretch of four consecutive games in which the Blue Devils will play threeranked teams—including the ACC opener against Maryland Sept 22. “It’s more valuable to play teams that are going to come in and play,” Rennie said. “We’d really rather play those kind of teams—and usually those kind of teams are ranked, so that’s fine. That’s good.”

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on my side of the house (and, OK, some food, but nothing individually packaged). I also finally get a Duke Bike! Score! Day 6: Thicker tires in hand, I ride to school on a Duke loaner, which is substantially bigger than Jen’s bike and makes my crotch feel like it’s going to fall off. I have been to hell, and it involves TAing in spandex after lugging an archaic computer six miles on your back. I’m beginning to wonder what I did to deserve this. Day 7: Finally free of my burdensome computer, I bounce out of my house with more energy than I’ve had in weeks. With the wind count whistling through my cheesy superhero helmet and my feet actually touching solid ground, I Day 2: Feeling almost don’t notice the bruises on my thighs. detwiler environmentally jacqui at with open winI find I magnanimous, hire, desperate dows atmyself smiling people join my roommates please stoplights; being nice to the environon their trip to the ment makes me feel all warm and squishy inside. Durham Farmers Market and learn how to cook spaghetti squash I begin to suspect the solution to my everfrom a local farmer, only to come home and present stream of anxieties about papers and realize all I have to eat in the house is my new work could be solved if only I put myself in spaghetti squash, a tomato and mustard, and constant danger of being hit by a car. Throughout the day, I only print papers if absolutely Target is on the other side of a freeway. Crap. Day 3:1 hitch a ride to Duke and find out no necessary and notice when other people don’t bikes have been returned all day. After hissing recycle. I’m eating more vegetables, and I have in frustration/hunger, I call my friend Jen and more time since I don’t have to schedule trips her two cyclist roommates and borrow arsick tento the gym. In my (almost) week of carelessness, I disspeed Trek. when to stare into as I might have expected, that forgoI’m covered, starting dejectedly Just my cupboard again, another friend calls and says ing driving entirely is not a reasonable option he’s on his way to The Cheesecake Factory, if I’d for most suburban Americans, who would have like to come. I dance a jig for my good fortune as to expend an enormous effort to switch to huI run out the door, then proceed to get absolutely man-powered transportation simply because of toasted on two martinis because I haven’t eaten fast-paced lifestyles and the distance between all day. After lunch I ask for another basket of work and home. As difficult as it was for me to bread and steal it. keep my work life together on a bike, it would Day 4: It’s only after I hop on Jen’s $3,000 be insurmountable for a parent with kids that bike to ride the six miles from my house to needed to get to soccer practice. school that I realize I haven’t actually ridden That said, making a short intense commita bike since I was about 12. I decide I need ment, even if you fail (as I did), makes the litto give mad props to real cyclists as I almost tle stuff, like recycling and eating foods from fall into a bread truck while fiddling with the local farms, seem even easier. Furthermore, eighteen different gear shifts. getting out of my little air-conditioned bubble touch real earth and see the sky without the TA, 5: have to so an entire to I I spend Day hour trying to contrive away to schlep a ten film of windows made the environment seem -pound computer and eight-pound power strip like a much more real thing to save. I can ride to school on a bike with tires the width of slicon that. es of bread and become flummoxed. I finally Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psygive up and drive but stop at Target on the way home ’cause I feel guilty and buy five-year fluochology and neuroscience. Her column runs every rescent bulbs to replace all the incandescents Friday.

response to the government’s depressing non-answer to global warming (and because I fear a world without fish and polar bears), I decided to try not driving for an entire week. A few highlights... Day 1: Excited, I head up to the Duke Bikes Outpost after work, but all 130 bikes are out on loan. Good for the program, bad for me. I decide carpooling is going to have to

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letterstotheeditor Desecration of 9/11 memorial abuses free speech On the night of Monday, Sept. 10, the Duke Conservative Union in conjunction with members of the Duke College Republicans placed 2,974 flags in front of the Duke Chapel. As heads of the two organizations, we were proud to see everyone come out and help set up our non-political memorial to those who were murdered on 9/11. Unfortunately, our pride turned to disgust to find behind the memorial a picture in chalk: the twin towers, and scrawled in giant letters “inside job.” At first, we merely shook our heads and continued on our ways. However, later in the day, we were approached by an individual who had lost a member of his family in the attacks and who was very upset over this desecration of these memorial grounds. This atrocity abuses the right offree speech. On a day ofreflection and mourning, it engaged in the base conjecture of political theories that debase us all. No one would dare make a political statement by desecrating grounds near the Korea or Vietnam memorials, and rightfully so. One should make a political statement by engaging facts and debating members of the opposing side, not by sullying grounds designated for a memorial. The true greats of9/11/07 were the many who spent their school night setting up this memorial, not those who ignobly attempted to disgrace these grounds. We wish to thank them for their hard work and are proud their good labors have not been undone by this terrible action. David Bitner President, Duke Conservative Union Trinity ’lO Samuel Tosher

Chair, Duke College Republicans Trinity ’O9 In Jena, La., let the justice system be just I believe Aria Branch’s Sept. 11 column, “Jena, La.—another cross to bear,” raised some very important issues that affect almost all of us whether we’d like to realize it or not.

What’s happening in Jena, La., is downright terrible; it is as if we’re looking back on a scene from 1954. There is no way a high school fist fight should get someone a second-degree attempted murder charge while assaulting someone with a beer bottle and jumping him should get another person a simple battery charge (although there are no records of any charges being filed). The motivating factor behind both situations seems to be the race of the accused and the race of the victim. Now I hate to be the one to examine old wounds, but it was a mere year and a half ago when some ofour fellow Dukies were being put in a similar and equally terrible situation. That story received national attention, and the whole world was quick to rush to one side or another on the lacrosse situation. In the end it turned out that the Durham district attorney, Mike Nifong, had acted improperly and unethically while pursuing charges against the former Duke players. Now Mike Nifong is public enemyNo. 1 while another district attorney is about to make the same reprehensible actions by pursuing false charges. While from my understanding of the Jena 6 situation the individuals involved in the assault were more culpable than the lacrosse players were in their alleged rape case, both groups of individuals were/are being wrongly prosecuted. It was an outrage when upper middle class white Americans were being railroaded by the legal system, so there should be an equal if not greater outcry of foul play for the young black students accused of attempted murder, especially considering the fact that the justice system has proven to be unfair to minorities time and time again. The justice system should be just. The race of the defendants and the victim should not matter. There is no way that a tennis shoe can be a deadly weapon against anybody or anything except an insect or something of that size. And while the lacrosse guys were acquitted ofall charges due to lack ofevidence and inconsistent testimonies, I believe the same thing should happen in Jena, La., because we’re all in America and fair is fair, right?

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try my hand at entering the real world, Despite what the lady at the Career Center had advised me, it didn’tbother me that I had no actual “scheduled interviews” lined up, per se. If there is CIICk dIGXcHICICr one thing that Psych 92 has taught me this semester, it s stay hungry, stay foolish that showing up is 95 percent of the grade anyway. When I arrived on the streets of the Big Apple, I was ready for opportunity to jump out and slap me in the face. Lo and behold, after only a couple hours of browsing for the right fit, I found myself sitting in the lobby of Rich and Barb’s Podiatric Clinic (the only place where “Our Biggest Feats Are Your Happy Feet”). As I continued to wait patiently for ray name to be called, I began to notice a bizarre breeze whenever someone walked past. Curious, I posed the question to the other seven or eight people in the waiting room, “Does anyone else feel a draft in here?” But no one answered. Everyone’s attention was vigilandy set on a fixed object in the r00m... an object that seemed to be located somewhere between my legs. I looked down and gasped. Looking back at me was none other than my lucky Superman underpants. Somehow the fine polyester stitching ofmy newly purchased suit had given out in the lower pelvic area, leaving a wide-open window to the world for Superman. Knowing that my name could be called for the next interview at any moment, I had to act fast. I got out of my seat and

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I didn’t have time to question where the sandwich had come from. After a brief pause to consider all my options, I broke the sandwich in half and ate one part ofit (I don’t think well on an empty stomach). By the time I was finished, I knew exactly what to do. As I walked out of the rest room, I instantly felt the eyes of those in the waiting room reattach themselves to me. But this time they weren’t staring at my underwear. Instead, everyone seemed perplexed by the combination of balsamic mustard, mayonnaise, red onions and, yes, even a kosher dill pickle that was smeared all the way down myface and the front of my shirt. At that precise moment, the receptionist called my name, and I headed to the back room to meet my interviewers. Though it was never brought up, I don’t think any of them ever noticed the hole in my pants. They say a classroom education can hardly compare to the education you’ll get the second you step foot on the streets. I now know this to be true. Did I get the job at the podiatric clinic? Irrelevant. Did I ever get those stains out ofmy new suit? Irrelevant. Did I learn how to stay optimistic in the face of an apparent crisis? Absolutely. So the next time you find yourself feeling down and fresh out of places to turn, never overlook the healing power of a simple pastrami sandwich.

My name is Jordan. And I have a problem. I am a music snob. Yes, I’m the guy who looks through your iPod and instantlyjudges you. I constandy badger my friendsabout what they should listen to. If I hear an artist that I like in an Outback Steakhouse commercial or—even worse—Grey’s Anatomy, I immediately disown them forever. Every month, I spend $8 on a music magazine called Under the Radar. I am an indie mess. I’ve always known that I listen to some obscure music, but it is only recently that I re3Xt alized I might have gone too Last year, I hit what all palindromes junkies call rock bottom the moment you know that your addiction has completely taken over your life I was in the middle of a concert at the Duke Coffeehouse when I overheard two men debating the origins of the group Menomena, an experimental rock band from Portland, Ore. One man believed the band’s name came from the infectious Piero Umiliani song “Mah Na Mah Na,” made famous by The Muppet Show. The other thought that the name was derived from the dramatic French phrase “mais no! mais no!” which translates to “but no! but no!” I suddenly saw myself standing before two grown men rather adamantly arguing about the name of some obscure band whose show they weren’t even attending. The worst part, however, wasn’t that I found this conversation to be endlessly fascinating but rather thatI already knew all this! In feet, sinceI had heard this topic debateda few weeks earlier, I went online to discover that the band chose the name—rather iply because they liked the way it sounds. I had never felt less cool and more pathetic, I knew that I had to quit I needed to be like everyone else; staying fly, meetingpromiscuous girls,riding dirty, making it rain and just doing whateverelse is necessary to bring sexy back. Yet, every time I attempt to renounce my musical tastes, I can’t seem to do it No matter how hard I try, I still hate Avril Lavigne. So now I am stuck simply wondering why I cannot get rid of my music preferences. A little research has revealed that there are two potential explanations for my obsession (and no, neither one of them is because I like the way the music sounds). First, I constandy need to prove I am better than you. French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu wrote that taste “functions as a sort of social orientation, a ‘sense of one’s place.’” Harvard Psychologist Steven Pinker notes that one function of “owning art is to impress other people with one’s social status.” In other words, sophisticated taste suggests social superiority. It’s no coincidence that few “high class” people enjoy Larry the Cable Guy. It may also be why I listen to The Wood Brothers while scoffing at your latest purchase of a Pussycat Dolls album. Second—and perhaps tire more plausible explanation for this obsession ofmine—l desperately need to pick up women. In his book The Mating Mind, Geoffrey Miller argues that art is basically a tool of reproduction. It’s not only a chance to impress others with the quality of your genes, but also suggests fitness and intelligence. In this sense, my vast iTunes collection is a lot like a peacock’s tail. For mating purposes, a peacock’s tail is not simply a sign of beauty; it also indicates good health and expendable resources. A particularly extravagant tail signifies that a peacock is so healthy and cunning that he can waste his spare energy building something solely used to impress peacock chicks. Perhaps for the same reason successful peacocks build elaborate tails, I download Icelandic pop music. You should notice that neitherof these explanations makes me look like a great person. I’m not going to try and deny this. It’s only the confident people who proudly listen to the pop charts, while the self-conscious nerds scour the Internetfor the next big thing. Apparently, I don’tlisten to music for the sound or the wayitmakes me feel Instead, I listen to prove something. I can only hope that one day—after becoming more confident, more attractive, or both—I can joinyou all in actually enjoying Gwen Stefani.

Nick Alexander is a Pratt junior. His column runs every other Friday.

Jordan Axt is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Friday.

Jeremy Fuller Trinity 'O7

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OVER $25,000 in groceries will be given away to YOU while supplies last.

TODAY: 11am 2pm -

Outside the Lobby Shop, Bryan Center Free pizza and fountain drinks will be served. Fill out a survey card and you will be entered in a drawing for 4 great prizes which will include 2 Microsoft速 Xbox 36CL video game systems and 2 Magnavox Portable DVD Players. Please Note: This event is for Duke students ONLY You must present your Duke Card student ID.