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Vincent EVANSTON, 111. Key never saw Northwestern quarterback CJ. Bacher throw the last pass of the night, never saw the football fall harmlessly to the ground, never saw the clock tick down to 0:00. Lying in the grass of Ryan Field post-blitz on Saturday night, all Rey saw were his Duke teammates whooping in celebration, and he knew. For the first time in his college career, Duke had won a game. The Blue Devils, celebrating that same realization, piled onto the sophomore linebacker as the final

score—Duke 20, Northwestern 14—glowed unexpectedly in the crisp Midwest night. The wait to win was over, and so was that 22-game losing streak tops in the nation. The Blue Devil offense clicked for 20 first-half points, the defense withstood a furious Wildcats’ comeback in the second half, and the combination proved potent enough for the first time in nearly two years. Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, who completed 15 consecutive passes in the game, finished 19-23 —

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EMTs remove sophomore Priya Patel on a stretcher after she was struck by a goal post in front of the Chapel Saturday night.

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Head coachTed Roof celebrates following Duke's 20-14 victoryover NorthwesternSaturday.

A falling goal post injured a student outside the Duke Chapel just before midnight Saturday in the midst ofcelebration following Duke’s 20-14 victory over Northwestern in Evanston, 111. Duke University Police Department officials said the victim, sophomore Priya Patel, was responsive, stable and speaking as she was taken away on a stretcher. An ambulance took Patel to

Duke University Medical Center, where she received a CAT scan and was released approximately five hours after she arrived. “Though I am concerned about the injured student and the inevitable dangers of tumbling goal posts, I understand the enthusiasm of our students following the hard-fought victory at Northwestern,” Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, wrote in an email. “I don’t anticipate any policy changes as a result. I do trust that

this will be a rare occurrence, reserved for very special moments like when we win the game that will next secure our bowl bid.” Patel said the collapsing post temporarily knocked her unconscious and caused minor head trauma, but added that the pain had mostly subsided by the following day. “People were cheering, and they tried to prop up the post,” she said. “The next thing I remember is waking SEE INJURY ON PAGE 4

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His name may not be as recognizable as “DeMarcus Nelson” or “Abby Waner,” but sophomore Brian Duffy, a world-class triathlete, is among the most accomplished athletes at Duke. From Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, Duffy represented the United States in Hamburg, Germany at the Hamburg BG World Triathlon Championships. Last Sunday, he competed in the Sprint Distance International Triathlon Union Age Group World Championships—and won. Duffy finished first out of 635 racers, just 12 seconds ahead of Paul Schuster of Germany. The Sprint Distance triathlon consists of a 750-meter swim followed by a 20-kilometer bike and a five-kilometer run. Duffy completed the race in a total of one hour, four minutes, 28 seconds. “It was by far my best race of the season,” he said, adding that he “felt strong in every aspect of the race.” Nearly 8,000 athletes from more than 60 countries SEE TRIATHLON ON PAGE 4

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Sophomore Brian Duffy and freshman Suzanne Bay competed in a triathlon in Hamburg, Germany, Aug. 31 to Sept 2. Duffy won his event.

Selective living is no longer in jeopardy, according to the Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience, which recommended increasing the variety of housing opportunities and common spaces available on campus. The report, released Thursday, synthesized student responses to the proposals of last spring’s Report of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee, which suggested major changes to student life, Provost Peter Lange said. Administrators said the report was grounded in crucial student input to the ongoing discussions about what Peter Lange SEE CCI ON PAGE

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Greek PM wins re-election Greece's conservative prime minister won

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a person familiar with the president’s decision said Sunday evening. Mukasey, who has handled terrorist cases in the U.S. legal system for more than a decade, would become the nation’s top law enforcement officer if confirmed by the Senate. Mukasey has the support of some key Democrats, and it appeared Bush was trying to avoid a bruising confirmation battle.

The 66-year-old New York native, who is a judicial adviser to GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, would take charge of a Justice Department where morale is low following months of investigations into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys and Gonzales’ sworn testimony on the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillance program. Key lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans alike, had questioned Gonzales’ credibility and competency after he repeatedly testified that he could not recall key events. The White House refused to comment Sunday. The person familiar with Bush’s decision refused to be identified by name because the nomination had not been of-

ficially announced. Bush supporters say Mukasey, who was chief judge of the high-profile courthouse in Manhattan for six years, has impeccable credentials, is a strong, law-and-order jurist, especially on national security issues, and will restore confidence in the Justice Department. Bush critics see the Mukasey nomination as evidence of Bush’s weakened political clout as he heads into the final 15 months of his presidency. It’s unclear how Senate Democrats will view Mukasey’s credentials, but early indications are that he will face less opposition than a more hardline, partisan candidate like Ted Olson, who was believed to have been a finalist.

Plane crashes in Thailand; 88 dead by Audra Ang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHUKET, Thailand A plane carrying foreign tourists crashed Sunday as it tried to land in stormy weather on the resort island of Phuket, engulfing some passengers in flames while others kicked out windows to escape the smoke-filled cabin. At least 88 people were killed. The budget One-Two-Go Airlines flight was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew members from the capital Bangkok to Phuket when it skidded off the runway in driving wind and rain, officials said. It

then ran through a low retaining wall and split in two. Survivors described their escape amid chaos, smoke and fire. “As soon as we hit, everything went dark and everything fell,” said Mildred Furlong, 23, a waitress from British Columbia, Canada. The plane started filling with smoke and fires broke out, she said. A passenger in front of her caught fire, while one in the back kicked out a plane window. It was not clear how many of the 78 foreigners on board died, but they included tourists from France, Germany,

Israel, Australia and Britain, said the deputy governor of Phuket province, Worapot Ratthaseema. The government issued a list saying nearly 30 foreigners had survived. About 60 bodies were retrieved quickly, but it took hours to get the other bodies out. Parts of the twisted plane lay smoking at the side of the runway, while officials wearing masks carried bodies wrapped in white sheets to an airport storage building. Survivors said the plane landed hard and was out of control.

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OJ. faces criminal charges OJ. Simpson was arrested Sunday and faces multiple felony charges, including two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon, in an alleged armed robbery ofcollectors involving the former football great's sports memorabilia, authorities said.

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U.S.arrests sheik death suspect The U.5. military announced the arrest of a suspect in the killing of a sheik who spearheaded the U.S.-backed Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq Sunday, even as the terror network launched a campaign of violence during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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DUHS aims Nidi School eyes Gross as new home to raise S2M for research by

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The Nicholas School of the Environ-

ment and Earth Sciences may soon take a

large step toward embodying the sustainable lifestyle it teaches. Pending approval from the Board of

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Trustees at the end of the month, the Gross Chemistry Laboratory is slated for a greening renovation to become the new site for the Nicholas School, officials said. Design plans—which are expected to be drafted in the next year—will incorporate sustainable-living principles and result in a completely new look for the building, said Emily Klein, senior associate dean at the Nicholas School, who was involved in talks about the construction. “We certainly want to make the Nicholas School a showcase in some sense for sustainable design concepts and activities,” she said. “We want the building to have a certain what we call ‘didacticism’ to it.” The new building will house about 190,000 to 200,000 square feet, at a construction cost of approximately $9O to $lOO million, Klein said. She added that green-

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The Duke Developing Research Excellence in Anesthesia Management Campaign was officially launched at a kickoff gala Saturday night. The Dream Campaign plans to raise $2 million to support research by the Department ofAnesthesiology at Duke University Medical Center. Donations to the campaign will provide bridge funding during federal fundJoseph Mathew ing gaps, said Dr. Joseph Mathew, chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Anes-

thesiology. Five years ago, the success rate for federal funding was 20 to 25 percent, but currendy there is less than a 10 percent likelihood of getting funding from the government, Mathew said. “We want to preserve our infrastructure and not lose talent when government funding declines,” he added. Anthony & Co., a local real estate development company that built the Lofts at Lakeview and Pavilion East, is the founding sponsor of the Dream

Campaign.

“Our motto is transforming communities,” said Catherine Miller, president of Anthony & Co. “Being part of the Dream Campaign helps us be part of the community at Duke and contribute not only our financial ability but also our time and our

property.” The anesthesiology discipline touches SEE DREAM ON PAGE 6

Duke professors caught trespassing Two Duke professors were cited for trespassing in front of BODIES... The Exhibition at The Streets at Southpoint Sept. 1. Anne Allison, professor and chair of cultural anthropology, and Orin Starn, also a professor of cultural anthropology, were protesting outside the exhibit and asked to leave, but returned and planted signs in the landscaping outside the exhibition. They were cited and given a court date on the charge or misdemeanor. Robin Kirk, coordinator for the Duke Human Rights Initiative and Starn’s wife, had encouraged a total of four University professors to protest outside the exhibit that day. According to a Sept. 16 article in The (Raleigh) News & Observer, five security officers and a Durham sheriff s deputy ar-

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The GrossChemistry Laboratory located on Science Or. will likely become the new home ofthe Nicholas School.

ing plans include installing water- and energy-saving equipment, bringing sunlight into the building and constructing an addon that will support a green roof. “The concept is to have a significantly modified building so that it doesn’t look

anything like Gross,” Klein said. University Architect John Pearce said if the Board approves the project, architects will work with the Nicholas School in the

rived within four minutes of the initial appearance of the protesters. The professors were not asked to leave the premise but only to put away the signs and fliers they were handing out to those in line to see the exhibit. Kirk had protested at the traveling show once before this incident with Sarah Redpath, a supporter of the “No Bodies 4 Profit” campaign, and was banned from Southpoint for six months.

tinue,” Bell said. “At this point in time, I don’t have any particular idea when they’ll begin discussions again.” The city’s insurance company advised the suspension of the panel Aug. 27, three months after the council approved the formation of the panel. The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania was not willing

Lax-review committee suspended indefinitely The committee appointed to review possible mishandling of the Duke lacrosse case by the Durham Police Department has been suspended, Mayor Bill Bell confirmed Sunday night. “[The panel] is in holding until City Council has decided when it should con-

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players pursue lawsuits against DPD.

Former Durham interim district attorney that the State Bureau of Investigation continue the investigation Sept. 6. The SBI did not issue a response. “I wish we were able to complete this goal to do this investigation of the Durham Police Department, investigating the Duke lacrosse case,” he said. “That was why we established the committee. We want to finish the task.”

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INJURY from page 1 up on the ground.... When I woke up I remember my head was really hurting.” Dean ofStudents Sue Wasiolek wrote in an e-mail thatshe hopes students will find ways of avoiding injury when celebrating future wins. “I love the fact that Duke students wanted to share in the team’s victory last night—it was a great win,” she said. “Carrying a goal post from Wallace Wade to the main quad, however, seems to carry with it some clear potential for injury. I hope students will think about other, saferways to celebrate next week.” DUPD Major Michael Snellgrove said the officers present when the injury occurred tried to contain the studentreaction. “With the number of students who were here, it was bound to happen,” he said. “A few people were drunk, and that’s all you needed.” The sight of the fallen Patel hushed the rowdy crowd, prompting them to clear a circle around her and kneel in silence as she was approached within a minute by DUPD

officers and emergency medical technicians, said sophomore Abby Tinsley, a friend of Patel who witnessed the injury and stood by her before she was taken away. “A couple of people called out, ‘Take a knee, take a knee,’” she said. “I was very impressed with everyone. With the exception of a few people making rude comments, the crowd was very respectful.” Patel said she found nothing wrong with students marching the goal post to the Chapel—until the mob thrust the metal posts into the air, endangering the students below. “I don’t think it was out of control, but I don’t think they should have propped the goalpost up,” she said. “I remember thinking to myself when they tried to prop it up, ‘This is going to end badly.’” The rush to tear down the uprights followed the Blue Devils’ first victory in 23 games. Around 20 people stormed Wallace Wade Stadium immediately after the win, but a DUPD officer parked on the edge of the track asked students to stay off the field. Students then rallied on the top level of

the stadium, prompting hundreds of others who had assembled at the Wallace Wade parking lot to charge again at the goal post. “The security guards kicked us off [once], and then we counted to 10 and rushed,” said freshman Andrew Baroncelli. The students took just more than a minute to bring the goal post down and immediately hoisted it out of the stadium. Students carried the goal post between Cameron Indoor Stadium and Wilson Recreation Centerand then followed a path around the east side ofWest Campus to Chapel Drive. After pausing for a moment close to the West Campus bus stop, students tried to erect the goal post in front of the Chapel. Police tried to stop the attempt but could not before one of the posts fell on Patel, a student said. Patel said she doesn’t expect the injury to have long-term effects, and added that her head is already feeling significandy better than it did Saturday night. “I’m okay,” she said. “I’m doing normal things. The only thing is a little headache, but that’s easily taken care of by a little Advil.”

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Students pray outside theChapel following theaccident have on the social scene is not due to the social space they control,” Todd said, noting that independents often have difficulty organizing and have limited access to funding. Sophomore Sudha Patel, an independent student involved in last year’s discussions following the initial report’s release, said increasing the amount of selective living options may contradict the CCI report’s ideas about inclusivity within the student body. “If that really was Duke’s goal, why would we create more cliques like that?,” she asked. Many students, however, said offering more residentialand social options would add to the undergraduate experience and make it easier for independent students to get involved. “As long as there’s a manageable system in place, the community can only be helped by adding more selective

defines “campus culture” and how problematic issues can be addressed. “Duke is a community, and that community is made up of students, faculty, staff and administrators,” Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki said. “If we’re going to make things better, we can’t just have the administration make up ideas.” Students said the most central component of the interim report was the recognition that eliminating selective living groups would not be in the students’ best interests. “The initial CCI report could not have been any more wrong about trying to eradicate selective living groups,” Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior, said. “This new living groups,” [The report] seems to be aninterim Interfraternity report other look at a series of queshas hit the nail on Council President the head,” Todd David Melton, a tions that have been salient added, citing the senior, said. on campus for decades.” But the interim report’s suggestion that selective value lies report’s Paul Slattery, DSG President in its ability and elective housto generate campus-wide ing options be exresponse to an arpanded instead. The idea of increasing theme-housing ray of policy options, said senior PaulSlattery, opportunities and neutral common spaces Duke Student Government president. stemmed from dissatisfaction independent “It doesn’t have a lot of concrete constudents expressed about their ability to tent, but I don’t think it was supposed to,” plan social events on campus, Nowicki said. he said. “It seems to be another look at a “Because space is limited, and because series of questions that have been salient the rules for using space are too complicaton campus for decades.” Administrators said they look forward to ed, it’s really hard for the average, ordinary student to have an idea,” he said. engaging students in this week’s discussions. But students said other factors also pre“We want to ask students not just why vent independents from gaining a social they don’t like things but how they think foothold on campus. ideas for making it better will work or won’t “The monopoly that selective living groups work,” Nowicki said. “

TRIATHLON from page 1 participated in the event. Each of them had to place well in certain qualifying races in order to earn the right to race at the Hamburg event. Duffy said he began competing in tri-

athlons in 2003. He grew up competing as a swimmer, later became a runner and eventually added the biking component for triathlons. “I knew with my diverse background that I would make a formidable triathlete,” he said. Last year, Duffy was a walk-on for Duke’s cross country and track teams. He trains for triathlons full-time during the summer. He said he runs each day of the week, bikes five or six times a week and swims four or five times a week. In all, he spends four to

six hours every day training. Duffy was ranked fourth in the country by USA Triathlon for the 19-and-under age group leading up to last weekend’s race, and said his success there may cause his ranking to improve. He said his future plans include focusing more on Olympic Distance triathlons, seeking out more elite competition and hopefully going to the world championships again next year. Duffy isn’t the only Duke student competing in international triathlons. Freshman Suzanne Bay also competed in the ITU Age Group World Championships with Duffy, finishing 86th out 197 women and 17th out of 19 in the 16-19 age group. Duffy added that it was an honor to represent the United States in competition. “It was an unbelievable feeling to have a ‘USA’ logo on your jersey and to know that you’re representing the entire nation,” he said.

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Football snaps streak, students snap goal post With 17 seconds left in the game and Northwestern on the Duke 7 Saturday night, the Blue Devils blitzed on four consecutive downs to stop the Wildcats and hold on for their first win in 23 attempts. When the clock expired in Evanston, 111., Duke fans 800 miles away boisterously poured out of their dorms, raced to Wallace Wade Stadium, and—as an homage to their team—blitzed the goal posts. For students, it was instinctive, a visceral reaction to a moment of pure fanatic jubilation most of them had never experienced in their time in Durham. The 100 or so Blue Devil fans who were the first to congregate on the concourse of Wallace Wade began to clamor for the uprights to come down. Someone started a countdown from 10— but the real count had begun at 728, the number of days since Duke’s last win. Then the rush. The Blue Devil faithful burst through the concourse gates and ran down to the field, with the most enthusiastic of thelot hopping on the posts, rocking back-and-forth and bringing down the yellow spires. Carrying the goal through theWannamaker fire lane and nearly getting stuck in between Wanny and Craven—the fans fought their way to the Main West Quadrangle, with the mission of framing Duke’s most picturesque image, the Chapel, with the uprooted uprights. Blue Devil fans were soon brought back to reality from their state of euphoria when one of their own was hurt by a piece the overbearing metal posts, and all were relieved the next morning to learn that her injuries were only minor. But for a moment in the night, there was nothing more beautiful than that illuminated gothic structure edged by the yellow metal of victory. —Meredith Shiner —

Above: Upon learning of Duke's 20-14 win over Northwestern, students spontaneously gathered at Wallace Wade Stadium and tore down the goal post at the north end of the field. Revelers then wove through West Campus with the 40-foot post in a haphazard parade past Cameron Indoor Stadium and Wannamaker and Few quads.The goal post was then placed in front ofthe Chapel before midnight Saturday. (Photos by Pete Kiehart/The Chronicle) Below: Wallace Wade Stadium lies deserted and without one of its goal posts early Sunday morning. (Photo by Max Masnick/The Chronicle)

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design phase to set guidelines for the renovation. “We have been working with sustainable guidelines for quite a few years with our other buildings,” he said. “We’re going to be utilizing all of our experience plus the experience of our consultants to expand our work in this area.” Klein added that the move is expected to occur in approximately three and a half years, following one year of design and two years of construction. The Nicholas School is currently spread out in five locations. Klein said the goal of the renovation is to centralize the school on the Durham campus. Klein added that administrators will be soliciting student input during the design phase of the project. Eli Lazarus, a third-year graduate student in earth and ocean sciences at the Nicholas School, said the construction plans will be a large step toward unifying the school. “It’s a good move in that if we’re going to be a single school of the environment and earth sciences instead of these various divisions, it would help a lot to be under the same roof,” Lazarus said. “The most unified you ever see the Nicholas School is on the Web site.”

many departments and fields, said Elizabeth Perez, director of development of the Dream Campaign. “Someone driving past the [Dream Campaign] billboard on Erwin Road looked it up online and called to ask how they can help,” she said. “We are blessed to get that kind of response.” Money raised in the campaign will go toward funding various research projects at Duke’s Department of Anesthesiology, Perez said. The department aims to provide highquality care as well as help bring about the improvement of life after surgery, said Dr. Mark Newman, chair of the

department Most people come out of surgery with no problems while a few others have strokes or organ damage, he said. “Recendy, we have been trying to understand the genetic mechanism of why [complications] happen, so we can better develop personalized perioperative care for pa-

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GrossChemcould become a showcasefor sustainable design concepts.

tients,” Newman said. He added that researchers are also trying to investigate how perioperative care conditions relate to long term outcomes like Alzheimer’s. Another focus of anesthesiology research at Duke is on organ protection during cardiac surgery and trying to limit any potential damage to the brain, kidneys and heart, Mathew said. Newman said that through research, the department has been able to shape the understanding of complications during surgery.

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With nine seconds left in the gameand Duke trailing 1-0 to No. 13 Old Dominion, Blue Devil forward Amie DREXEL Survilla lunged DUKE for a pass near the goal for a poODU tential game-tyDUKE ing attempt. The ball was just out of Survilla’s reach, though, and trickled out-of-bounds. As the final seconds ticked off the clock, the Old Dominion fans at Williams Field began to rearrange their N-O-W signs to spell W-O-N in celebration of their team’s 1-0 victory over No. 10 Duke (4-4) Sunday. The loss to the Lady Monarchs (2-5) is the Blue Devils’ third straight against ranked opponents. After the game, head coach Beth Bozman did not mince words about her team’s

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CaptainLaura Suchoski says that theBlue Devils must come out and play the whole game to secure wins.

“Again, we dominated a game, and we lost,” Bozman said. By the end of the first half, Duke had outshot the Lady Monarchs 9-1 and outcomered them 5-1. Yet, as in their past contests, the Blue Devils were unable to convert those opportunities into goals. Old Dominion came out stronger in the second half and had five shots on goal in just over four minutes. The fifth shot, taken by Katie Überroth, found the back of the net, giving the Lady Monarchs a 1-0 lead. The Blue Devils had several scoring chances to tie the game, including multiple open looks from penalty comers but could not come away with any goals.

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“We really controlled the first half,” junior Laura Suchoski said. “In the second half, we didn’t come out as strong. Hard work has to flow through the team the whole game.” The frustration is mounting for a Duke squad that continues to win every single statistical category except the one that really counts—goals. And although the Blue Devils have harped on finishing for the past two weeks in practice, the results are not showing on the scoreboard. With nearly half the season already finished, Duke must find a remedy for its

scoring problem.

“It’s not anything I can do,” Bozman said. “Some people have to start taking care of their responsibilities.” The weekend wasn’t a total loss for Duke, however, as it defeated unranked Drexel (1-5) 3-1 Saturday at Williams Field. Junior Marian Dickinson, who led the Blue Devils in goals last year, netted her first score of the season in the victory. The loss Sunday, though, left Duke searching for answers again. The defeat is particularly problematic for a Blue Devil team that is unaccustomed to losing. “The team is not used to this situation,” Suchoski said. “As captains, it’s important for us to take responsibility. To win in the future, we all have to lead on the field.” The schedule does not get any easier for Duke, as it clashes with top-ranked North Carolina Saturday. While the Blue Devils will surely be motivated for that game, they know that desire has its limitations. ‘You can want it all you want,” Suchoski said. “But if you can’t put it on the scoreboard, you won’t be happy with the result.”

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Entering Saturday’s game, West Virginia had played every match this season to a final score of 1-0. And the Mountaineers’ contest in Koskinen Stadium against Duke was no different. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, they were on the wrong end of that 1-0 final score, allowing a goal in the 76th minute 1 that let No. 13 I 0 duke West Virginia (4H-0) walk away with its fourth consecutive victory. Fifth-ranked Duke (3-2-0) outshot the Mountaineers 15-9 but was unable to capitalize on numerous scoring opportunities. “That’s just the way our season’s going right now,” head coach John Rennie said. “We did what we wanted to do. We got really good chances, and right now the ball’s not going in. It’s really as simple as that.” Duke had several near-misses throughout the game. Paul Dudley popped a shot over an empty net in the 26th minute, and Pavelid Castaneda ripped one off the crossbar in the 44thminute. The Blue Devils had many more chances in thesecond half, from missedheaders to a Mike Grellafree kick that was right at Mountaineer goalie Zach Johnson. Duke also failed to cash in on any of its nine comer kicks. “It was one of those games that, yeah, you could say it’s just not going in, like the game against Villanova,” Grella said. “But it’s also a little bit we could be sharper in front of the goal, maybe—get the forwards in the box, be sharper with the finishing.” The Blue Devils’ inability to score against the Mountaineers eventually cost them.With less than 15 minutes left in the game, West Virginia’s Mike Anoia had his shotdeflected by Duke goalkeeper Justin Papadakis. The ball dribbled to the far right goalpost, where it was knocked in by Paul Paradise. “Itwasjustone ofthoseweirdballs thatgoes over everyone’s head and you kind of sneak in behind and get a toe to,” junior defender Graham Dugoni said. ‘You play all game and don’t give up a chance, and you give up a halfchance and it costs you the game.”

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Rennie said. “But I thought Spencer did quite well tonight, and Zach, in his limited time, added a spark.” Senior co-captain, though, Tim Jepson remained sidelined with a hamstring injury. Jepson has not played this year but is getting closer to returning. “We want to make sure that he’s here for the main part of the season,” Rennie said. “We get [him] back and it’ll be a help to our defense. Right now we don’t have a leader back there.” Jepson’s absence has been noticeable, but the immediate concern for the Blue Devils appears to be their offense. Despite these concerns, Duke is confident it will find the back of the net again, ‘We’re going to keep on doing what we’re doing and I think the results are go ing to take care of themselves,” Dugoni said. ‘We’ll justkeep working hard.”

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As the Mountaineers stalled in an attempt to slow down the match, the Blue Devils frantically tried to score a late goal. Zach Pope fired a long shot justright with a minute and a halfremaining, and a last-second header attempt landed on top of the net. With that, West Virginia celebrated its second road win over a ranked ACC team in eight days. The Mountaineers defeated then-No. 6 Maryland Sept. 7. Senior Spencer Wadsworth played his first significant time of the season, logging 50 minutes ofaction in his return from offseason ankle surgery. Pope played 21 minutes as he continues to recover from knee surgery. “They’re not really game-ready yet,”

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Freshman Katelyn Bastert won her first collegiate cross country race and led Duke to victory at the Catamount Classic in Cullowhee, N.C. Saturday. The 17th-ranked Blue Devils dominated the six-team field by scoring a total of 16 points, 57 points ahead of secondplace Furman University. “We were hopeful that we would have a strong start to the season and we definitely had that start,” head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “It was a much stronger start than we had last year and we still finished last year’s season well. We’re hoping that if we have a similar development curve to last year, this could be a special team come November.” Bastert led the race from wire to wire and completed the 4K course in 14:37.30. She was followed closely by a pack of four teammates who all finished within 30 seconds of her time. The pack included junior Patricia Loughlin who placed second, sophomore Emily Sherrard whofinished third, freshman Emily Schwitzer who was fourth, and sophomore Shelley Forbes who came in sixth. “[Bastert] set the pace and ran with a lot of confidence,” Jermyn said. “She showed great poise competing at such a high level in her first college race.” In addition to Bastert’s stellar performance, cocaptain Patricia Loughlin had her best cross country finish as a Blue Devil. The team showed solid depth this past weekend, despite losing four of their top seven runners from last year’s team to graduation and racing without their top two returning runners Maddie McKeever and Kate Van Buskirk. The team will spend the next two weeks training before returning to competition at the Mary Keatinge Invitational Sep. 29 in Orono, Maine.

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EVANSTON, 111.—It was a night that took Duke’s breath away. At the end of the game, defensive end Patrick Bailey struggled to find the air—let alone the Cjdlllc words—to put Duke s first analysis win against a Division I-A opponent in three seasons in the proper perspective. The senior’s euphoric laughter said more than any words. Bailey and the Blue Devils were forced to hold their collective breath throughout a heart-stopping fourth quarter in which Northwestern ran up 173 yards of offense. Duke redefined the bend-but-not-break defense, twice stopping the Wildcats inside the 10-yard line in the final 2:30. After Northwestern quarterback CJ. Bacher scrambled down to the Duke 7-yard line with under 25 seconds to go, the Blue Devils went all-in with four consecutive blitzes, forcing Bacher to misfire each time. “I wanted to make them earn it,” head coach Ted Roof said. “Match up man-toman, let’s bring one more than they can block and let’s see what happens.” Linebacker Vincent Rey didn’t get to see what happened on the final play, a fourthand-goal from the Duke 7. “The last play I blitzed and I fell, and I came and went to the quarterback and I got knocked to the ground as he threw,” Rey said. “I got up and looked, and I couldn’t see anything. All I did was see out of the corner of my eye—I saw all our guys jumping up and down. It didn’t hit me until they started running on the field.” Rey was a defensive star on a night when Duke spent much of its time in the nickel with a fifth defensive back to counter Northwestern’s spread offense. Bacher was in the shotgun for 70 of the Wildcats’ 85 plays, and Northwestern had three or more receivers on the field for all but six snaps. The spread offense isolated Duke’s defenders, but Rey, Bailey and the rest of the defense was more than up for the task. Northwestern running back Brandon Roberson—who gained 128 yards on just 13 carries a weekearlier—failed to break any long runs and ended up with 80 yards on 21 rushes. Bailey was especially active, recording 12 tackles, a sack and a forced fumble. “[Bailey] was all over the field,” Rey said. “He really showed some senior lead-

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receivers from gaining yards after the catch. Safety GlennWilliams and comerback Leon Wright combined for 17 tackles and accounted for several key deflections on passes. The Blue Devils did give up 506 yards of offense, but they stiffened in the game’s most critical moments, stopping the Wildcats on four separate fourth downs. In the second quarter with Duke leading 20-7, Northwestern elected to go for it on fourth-and-three on the Duke 11. Williams broke up Bacher’s pass for Omar Conteh, however, and the Wildcats sorely missed the three points of a potential field goal later in the game. With 2:20 to play in the fourth, the Blue Devils halted a 14-play, 79-yard Northwestern drive at the 11-yard line yet again. But even then, they knew their night was far from over. “I went right to our defense and said, ‘Hey look, you be prepared to go back on the field and win this one on defense,”’ Roof said. Bailey said he recalled scenes from the movie “300” for motivation during the frantic fourth quarter, when the Wildcats continuously invaded the Duke red zone. Rey, meanwhile, was inspired by the hunger he saw in his teammates’ eyes. ‘Your back is against the wall, but your confidence comes from other players,” Rey said. “When you look at someone in the eye, and they believe they can win, you say, ‘lf they believe, I’ve got to believe, too.’” That desire seemed to wane in the third quarter, after a controversial call by the replay official. Thaddeus Lewis’ fourthdown quarterback sneak appeared to net the Blue Devils a first down, but the spot was overturned and the ball awarded to Northwestern at the Wildcats’ 35-yard line. Bacher quickly moved his team down the field to cut the lead to 20-14. But the Blue Devils forced their first three-and-out on the next possession and seemed to build a wall on the Northwestern goal line in the game’s closing minutes. “There’s going to be ebbs and flows of ballgames where momentum is going to flip,” Roof said. “The wind’s not always going to be at your back. When it turns and you’re working into the headwind, you’ve got to fight it, and we did. We just made one more play than Northwestern did. But it sure feels better than making one less.” Duke had been in a position to win games at Wake Forest and against Miami and North Carolina last season, but each time fell one play short of a victory. Lewis was quick to point out the difference Saturday. “This time,” he said, “the defense was on the field.”

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with 246 yards and three touchdowns. But even though the sophomore enjoyed a career night, he was a glorified spectator in the game’s last 17 seconds, when Duke’s eventual triumph seemed tenuous. After forcing Duke (1-2) to go three-and-out with 1:17 remaining, the Wildcats (2-1) drove down the field again and added to their 506 yards of total offense. Bacher scrambled for 35 yards to earn a first-and-goal at Duke’s 7-yard line with less than 25 seconds on the clock. At that point, Lewis forced himself to watch his defense try to make yet another goal-line stand in the closing seconds, as it had just minutes before. On first down, the Duke defense blitzed and Bacher threw an incomplete pass. The Blue Devils brought the house again on second down, and, again, Bacher overthrew his intended receiver. On third down, Duke hurried Bacher and he threw the ball through the back of the end zone. And on fourth down, with six ticks left and seven yards separating Duke from two degrees of hysteria, head coach Ted Roof ordered yet another blitz. Bacher lined up in the shotgun

formation for the 70th time of the night under-threw his wideout, prompting the D players to storm the field. ‘You are sitting there like a little kid, you are watching the game out in the stan said Lewis, who played every snap for the time all season. “To see the defense swarmin the ball and to come through in the clutch that.... I watched that last play. I couldn’t c my eyes. Those guys came through for us.” The defense—led by Rey and senior de sive end Patrick Bailey, who amassed 12 tack one sack and one forced fumble—said the sa of their counterparts. Lewis and the offs were especially sharp in the first half, conv ing six of seven third- or fourth-down tries gaining 215 total yards. “They did a great job of coming out of gate and putting up points,” Bailey said, were feeding off them in the beginning, and ward the end, they just started feeding us.” After the two teams traded turnovers in opening minute, Duke punched into the zone first when Lewis connected with Joi Wright on a 4-yard, play-action pass that cap an 11-play, 86-yard drive. Northwestern bac running back Brandon Roberson —playing

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three and four wide receiver sets and quick passes to efficiendy move down the field. With the home team constantly employing the nickel defense, Blue Devil quarterback Thaddeus Lewis consistendy found mismatches in the slot for Jomar Wright and Ronnie Drummer. Drummer’s 56-yard catch-and-run touchdown came on a five-receiver set on third-and-11. Drummer exploited the Wildcats’ zone defense by going over the top of the linebackers in the middle of the field and scampering untouched for the score and a 20-7 lead. “It was an underneath route, and Drummer thought he could go over the top,” Lewis said. “Seeing Drummer, he’s a playmaker, and you’ve got to get the ball in the hands of the playmaker. That was a great play on Drummer’s part.” That pass was Lewis’ final of the first half—perhaps his finest 30 minutes at Duke. The sophomore finished the half 14of-15 for 186 yards and three touchdowns. During a stretch bridging the intermission, Lewis completed 15 consecutive passes just one shy of a school record. With Lewis in such a rhythm, backup quarterback Zack Asack did not see any action on the night “[Lewis] played excellent,” linebacker Vincent Rey said. “As he went, so did the offense. He’s getting better every week. I can’t wait to see what he’s going to do next week.” Duke moved the ball down the field almost at will before the intermission with short slants and swing passes —mainly to Wright. The senior wide receiver had six catches for 54 yards in the first half, including Duke’s first touchdown on a 4-yard play-action pass. “The game plan was to come out and get to the edge, to utilize our speed,” Lewis said. “Coach called the plays aggressively, and we came out and made plays.” The quick routes also eased the burden on the offensive line, which had its best performance of the season. Lewis was not sacked on the night and rarely seemed pressured, having time to go through his progressions when needed. The near-flawless offensive execution in

the first half was a far cry from the first two games and a welcome sight for the Duke defense. The Blue Devils scored on three of their five first-half possessions, failing to reach the end zone on only their first and last drives of the period—and those two sets were aberrations. On the offense’s first play from scrimmage, Lewis fumbled a reverse with Eron Riley and Northwestern recovered. On the final drive, the Blue Devils ran the clock out to end the half. “They did a great job of coming out of the gate and putting up points,” senior defensive end Patrick Bailey said, “That got us up—we’re a team, we’ve got to do something for these guys.” In the second half, however, Duke abandoned the wide-open approach that it used

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place of injured stud tailback Tyrell Sutton—struck back with a 6-yard run to even the score, but Duke quicklyrecaptured the lead. This time, Lewis took a 3-step drop and lobbed a floater over the defensive line that found sophomore tight end Brandon King for an easy score. The Blue Devils’ last passing strike was their most thrilling. Duke faced third-and-11 on its own 44 with more than six minutes left in the second quarter when Lewis lined up in shotgun formation flanked by five widereceivers. He stepped up in the pocket to escape a Northwestern defender and fired a dart to Ronnie Drummer, who had slipped behind the zone defense from the slot position. Drummer scooted 56 yards untouched for the six points and 20-7 lead before kicker Joe Surgan missed the extra-point attempt. The Wildcats scored on the first play of the fourth quarter to slice the deficit to six and seemed poised to put six more points up midWay through the final frame. Northwestern embarked on a 14-play drive down to Duke’s 6-yard line before the Blue Devils made their first goalline stand of the night, turning the Wildcats over °n downs with 2:20 left in the game. The Wildcats, though, still had two timeouts remaining and used them to stop the clock when Duke’s

to build a lead. After running only four plays from the I-form in the first half, Duke ran exactly half ofits 24 plays from the I after the break. Lewis, meanwhile, attempted only eight passes in the second half, completing five of them for 60 yards. And even those passes came in predictable passing situations, such as third-and-long. Lewis said the conservative play-calling was the result of a halftime adjustment by the Blue Devils’ coaching staff and not a reaction to the score. Duke struggled to run the ball on the Northwestern defense, averaging less than two yards a rush on 32 carries. But after scoring just 18 points on offense in their first two games, the Blue Devils did enough in the first half Saturday night to secure a landmark victory. “It was good instead of giving it away, our kids found away to win and found away to keep making plays,” head coach Ted Roof said. “I hope this will be a springboard for us and understand what it feels like and the reward that goes along with hard work.”

offense turned conservative, stagnating late in the game. Northwestern got the ball back, but still could not claw its way into the lead. “I believe in my kids, I have confidence in them,” said Roof, who won his first road game since 2003. “We try to put them in a position to make a play and it worked out I wasn’t thinking [here we go again] at all. I was thinking that this is a great opportunity for us to go close the deal.” Seconds after the defensive unit made its final stand, numerous Duke staff members in the booth squeezed into the eighth-floor elevator that took them down to the field. Two of them looked at each other as the elevator doors closed, high-fived and bellowed anxious laughs, releasing all the relief, glee and glory the cathartic win provided. Back on the grass, after conducting an onfield television interview and before walking into the bowels of the stadium, Lewis made his way past a throng of Duke faithful and local children. They high-fived him, asked for autographs and one kid even secured the quarterback’s

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status. ‘You know what? It worked out.”

The first player Duke head coach Ted Roof praised in his post-game press conference was not quarterback Thaddeus Lewis or defensive end Patrick Bailey, but punter Kevin Jones. The redshirt freshman, who averaged 29 yards per punt in Duke’s season opener, punted four times Saturday night and averaged 45.5 yards per punt. When field position became even more of a premium, Jones stepped up with his two best punts of the year. With the Blue Devils holding a 20-14 lead midway through the fourth quarter, Jones unleashed a 64-yard beauty that pinned Northwestern at its own 10-yard line. Jones ran back onto the field with less than two minutes remaining and hit a 45yard punt to Northwestern’s 35-yard line. Wide receiver Eron Riley decked punt returner Brendan Smith at the same spot. “It was critical,” Roof said of Jones’ last punt. “And then you throw on Riley’s hit that’s a guy that’s the starting widereceiver—that’s as big a factor as any in that last drive.” —

Surgan misses extra point Starting kicker Joe Surgan, who missed three field goals in Duke’s 24-13 loss to Virginia Sept. 8, did not have to attempt any field goals Saturday—but he did miss an extra-point attempt. Surgan nailed the first two extra points of the night but missed his first point-after of the year after Duke’s third touchdown. Although he has missed three field goals wide right, Surgan lost the extra point wide left, and the miss almost came back to haunt the Blue Devils late in the game. “I imagine [Surgan was sweating],” said Roof, who said last week that Surgan’s in-game performance would determine his starting

Reversed call The Blue Devils faced a fourth-and-one on the Northwestern 35-yard line midway through the third quarter, and Lewis opted for a quarterback keeper off-tackle left. He was originally credited for a 2-yard rush, but the replay official overturned the spot and declared Lewis down at the 35, negating the first down. A first down would have kept alive a 7play drive in Northwestern territory. Roof protested vehemendy, but to no avail. The Wildcats seized the momentum to embark on a 9-play, 65-yard drive over 3:54 to make the score 20-14.

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On Northwestern’s last drive, quarterback CJ. Bacher was flagged for intentional grounding with 52 seconds remaining. Wesley Oglesby pressured Bacher—who threw a pass out-of-bounds with no receivers in the vicinity despite being in the pocket. The ACC crew, though, may have erred. According to the 2006 NCAA Football Rules, the penalty for this sort of grounding is a loss of down and spot foul. The officials placed the bail at theDuke 42-yard line, instead ofsix yards behind the line of scrimmage at the 37yardline, where Bacher threw the errant pass. There is no five-yard penalty for intentional grounding, contrary to the crew’s ruling. Robinson likely out for season One stain on the win was senior fullback Tielor Robinson’s injury. Robinson hurt his lower leg in the second quarter on his third consecutive carry. He is expected to have surgery and is likely out for the year. —compiled by Ben Cohen

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midway through the second half to a welldeserved round of applause. After all, it’s rare that a player puts up three goals in DARTMOUTH DUKE

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And for a team that struggled offensively early in the season, Duke (2-1-2) needed Redmond’s production to spark scoring and wrap up a 3-1 win over Dartmouth (1-5) Sunday at Koskmen Stadium. Although Redmond scored Duke’s first goal within the game’s opening seven minutes, head coach Robbie Church said the sophomore’s premier play came as die clock wound down in the first period. With 2:53 left before halftime, Sheila Kramer passed die ball to the sophomore forward, who used her left foot to put it past Dartmoudi goalie Laurel Peak and give the Blue Devils a 2-0 lead. “That was a huge goal in the game, but it was also a big-dme goal,” Church said. “[Redmond] made a nice mn up top. She got a good delivery of the ball. She finished it.” Although that goal may have been the most important of the game, the Blue Devils’ most impressive score came with 27:40 left in the second half. JuniorKelly Hathorn passed the ball toward the Dartmouth cage from the outside, and sophomore Jane Alukonis headed the feed into the net to put the Blue Devils ahead 3-0. “I was getting yelled at the whole game for not staying wide, so finally I stayed wide,” said Hathorn, who had two assists to add to her team-leading tally. “For once, I actually saw someone who I wanted to kick it to. It was amazing—my eyes were huge like, ‘Did that seriouslyjust happen?’”

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Thursday against Elon and the three strikes Sunday over the Big Green, it’s clear that the once-struggling Blue Devil offense has improved in its last two performances. Although Redmond said the whole team has been more focused offensively, it also helped thatshe was able to post goals early,

giving the team an ease and a confidence that carried through the contest. After Redmond buried the first goal, Duke never looked back. “We had heard Dartmouth was a very hard-working team for 90 minutes, so it was really important for us to try and break [Dartmouth’s] spirits as early as possible,” Redmond said. Dartmouth was forced to play the majority of the game defending against the Blue Devil attack, but the Big Green did manage to score on a penalty kick with 7:52 remaining in the second half. By that point though, the Blue Devils had secured the game’s outcome. They outshot the visitors 17-6 and. also held the advantage in corner kicks 8-3. Overall, though, Church still thinks his team has even more room for improvement. “It was a spotty game, but we were a little bit stronger than they were,” he said. “It’s the sign of a good team that wins when they don’t play their top game.” The players, however, feel more confident after this weekend’s games, Hathom said. Church and the Blue Devils are hoping that swagger will translate into continued momentum on offense as the season rolls on. “We talked so much about scoring goals, but it’s more about playing hard,” Church said. “It’s more about doing the correct things then it is scoring goals. If we do the WILLIAM LIEW/THE CHRONICLE right things, we will score.” Sophomore Elisabeth Redmond has led Duke's recent resurgence on offense with three goals in two games.

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Duke kicked offits fall season this weekend with solid performances at the UVA Fall Invitational in Charlottesville, Va. “It was a really good experience,” freshman Christopher Price said. “Based on our performance, I think we have a really good chance on winning the national championships this year.” Price lost his college first match against George Washington’s Erik Hannah 6-1, 6-3, but won his first consolation match against Charlotte’sBrad Clinard 6-3, 7-6. Leading the Blue Devils in singles action, sophomore David Lue and freshman Reid Carleton both took first place in their consolation brackets. “Reid had an excellent tournament,” said assistant coach Ramsey Smith. “He seemed to get better each round in the back draw.” Carleton defeated Stetson’s Marcus Echder in Sunday’s finals 64,7-5,10-7, while Lue improved to 3-1 on the season with his 4-6, 60. 10-2 win over Virginia’s Andrew Downing. Junior Kiril Dimitrov and sophomore Aaron Carpenter set the pace in the singles brackets with two wins apiece Friday before falling in the semifinals Saturday. After winning his first match by default, Carpenter shut down Brown’s Nathaniel Gorham 6-3,61, but fell 6-3, 7-5, to Sebastien Dietz of Binghamton. No. 57 Dimitrov shook offElon’s Alberto Rojas 6-1,6-0, and defeated Maryland’s Andrew Orban 6-2,7-5 before losing to No. 1 Somdev Dewarman of Virginia, 6-3, 6-3. “Kiril looked sharp,” Smith said. “He didn’t play his best match [against Som-

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legiate match, Reka Zsilinszka did not let her inexperience faze her, winning the singles Flight B championship at the William & Mary Invitiational. The freshman defeated William & Mary’s Klaudyna Kasztelaniec Saturday with a dominating 6-1, 6-2 victory. “It was a great start to her college career,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “She show that she’s going to be tough to play anywhere in our line-up. People are going to be frustrated when they play her.” Zsilinszka commanded the field, giving up only eight games over the tournament In her first two matches, she only gave up one game. Also finding success on the tournament’s final day were sophomore Amanda Granson and junior Jessi Robinson, who won the doubles Flight A consolation finals. Sophomore Elizabeth Plotkin and senior Tory Zawacki finished third in the Doubles Flight B bracket. Despite their overall success, Ashworth said that the Blue Devils need to work on doubles play as they continue their season. “If we can get our doubles up to par, we’re going to be tough to beat,” Ashworth said. ‘With the amount of depth we have with our singles, we need to find the right combos and get the doubles where they need to be.” In singles play, junior Melissa Mang was defeated by Katarina Zoricic of William & Mary in the Flight A consolation finals in straight sets. Zawacki also lost to Virginia’s Lindsey Pereira in the fifth-place match of the singles Flight B.

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Junior Melissa Mang lost in theFlight A consolation bracket finals to William & Mary's Katarina Zoricic. Duke will compete next in the Riviera All-American Championships Sept. 29 in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After a strong first outing, the Blue Devils appear confident in the season that lay ahead of them. “We’re hard to play against as a team and individually,” Mang said. “Because everyone is so talented, we can definitely win the ACCs and NCAAs. It’s going to be hard but we can absolutely accomplish that. Based on our team, it’s not farfetched at all.”

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The Blue Devils found themselves in fifth

place after posting a team total of 16-overpar 880 at the Carpet Capital Collegiate tournament in Dalton, Ga. Alabama won the event, as the Crimson Tide knocked off

South Carolina in a playoff hole after the two SEC schools tied over 54 holes. Each team posted scores of 5-over 869. The top five was rounded out by Georgia Tech and Auburn with team scores of 870 and 875,

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JuniorClark Klaasen, whofinished the last round of the tournament with an even-par 72, led Duke throughout the tournament. “The course was a lot tougher than the one in Japan,” Klaasen said. “The greens were really fast and undulated, and Saturday was really windy.” Klaasen was able to overcome the difficult conditions, and his solid play throughout the tournament resulted in a share of individual 10th place at even-par 216. The Blue Devils were supported by strong performances by two freshman— Matt Pierce and Wes Roach, who each posted a final round score of 73. Pierce completed the 54 holes at 6-over 222 and finished in a tie for 35th place with sophomore Adam Long. Roach’s seven-over 223 left him with a share of40th place. “We had a chance to win, but a few mental mistakes cost us a lot of strokes,” Klaas-

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JuniorClarkKlaasen finished in a tie for 10th place after playing at even-par over 54 holes. en said. “We threw a lot of shots away—a lot of three-putts did not serve us well, and no one was able to stay under-par for the tournament.”

Twotime defending National Player of the Year Amanda Blumenherst captured her eighth career tournament with a 13under-par 203 at the Mason Rudolph Women’s Championship in Franklin, Tenn. The junior’s 544i01e total included 14 birdies and set a new school record. Blumenherst, who signed for rounds of 66-68-69, beat her nearest competitor by four strokes. She led after all three days of the tournament. "T couldn’t be more excited for Amanda,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “She was talking about the possibilities as she could have gone a whole lot lower than she did, the way shefell She is playing that good of golf.” In spite ofBlumenherst’s performance, the three-time defending national champion Blue Devils finished in third place, behind UCLA and Arizona State, at the 6,217jWfd Ironhorse Course. Duke finished at 2-Over-par 866, 15 shots behind the Bruins and one stroke behind the Sun Devils. Sophomore Rebecca Kim posted a 1under-par 71 Sunday, catapulting her into JAMES RAZICK/THE CHRONICLE a tie for 31st on the weekend. She put up JuniorAmanda Blumenherst set a new Duke record a three-day total of 222, third best on the after firing 14 birdiesand beat the field by four strokes. team. Kim followed senior Jennifer Pandolfi, who finished 28th with a 5-over-par travel to Albuquerque, N.M. for the NCAA 221, and narrowly edged freshman Kim Fall Preview. The tournament will be held Donovan, who concluded her first college at the University of New Mexico Champitournament in 36th place. onship Golf Course, the same site Duke’s next tournament starts a week year’s national championship in May. from Monday, when the Blue Devils will —from staffreports

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DETROIT Thousands of hourly workers at General Motors Corp. faced an uncertain Monday as contract talks continued into the early morning without an agreement. Bargaining started at 11 a.m. EDT Sunday with several local United Auto Workers leaders saying they had been told progress had been made over the weekend. But the leaders, some of whom requested anonymity because the talks are private, said they were told to prepare for a strike if the talks broke off. A UAW local in Arlington, Texas, told its members to report to work as scheduled Monday but said it was committed to a strike if necessary. In a joint statement sent to union members and the media, Local 276 leaders told members they expected

negotiators either to wrap up talks or declare an impasse at the end of Sunday’s ne-

gotiating session. “We understand the issues are complex and the effects far-reaching,” local president Enrique Flores Jr. and shop chair Dwayne Humphries said in the statement. “Solutions are certainly proving to be difficult.” A message on a hotline at UAW Local 22 in Flint also told workers to report to work as scheduled Monday. The message told workers to ignore sign-up sheets for strike duty, a sign that a walkout wasn’t imminent. But at a Sunday afternoon meeting, UAW Local 735 President Chuck Rogers told workers at a GM transmission complex near Ypsilanti that he was told by one of the negotiators that there would be a strike if no agreement was reached Sunday. Two other local leaders also said they

were told to expect a strike if no agreement was reached Sunday. Negotiations were continuing early Monday morning, said GM spokesperson Dan Flores. Rogers toldLocal 735 members that the UAW came within minutes of striking Friday night when President Ron Gettelfinger walked out of a bargaining room after getting into a dispute with GM negotiators. But GM Chief Financial Officer Fritz Henderson intervened and brought Gettelfinger back to the bargaining table, and progress has been made since then, Rogers said. GM’s contract with the UAW was to expire at midnight Friday, but the union extended it on an hour-by-hour basis. The strike threat loomed until early Saturday, when negotiators told local leaders to stand down. Strike talk often is heard when negotia-

lions get close to or pass the contract expiration deadline. “I heard things are moving kind of in the right direction,” Dave Green, president of one of two locals at the Lordstown, Ohio, plant that makes small cars for Chevrolet and Pontiac, said Sunday. “We let our folks know a strike is not out of the question,” he said, adding that he hoped for a resolution. Bargainers worked all day Saturday. GM spokesperson Katie Mcßride said progress was made but said several tough issues remained, declining comment on specifics. UAW spokesperson Roger Kerson did not return a call for comment late Sunday. Only two GM assembly plants—in Flint and Lansing—were scheduled to operate Sunday, and Mcßride said those plants ran as scheduled. GM has about 73,000 UAW-represented hourly workers at its U.S. factories.

“Sopranos,” “30 Rock” Gates attacks Senate tapped for Emmys troop rest proposal get up and go to work tomorrow,” Ferrera said. LOS ANGELES “The Sopranos” HBO won a leading 21 awards, edgturned its startling cut-to-black final seaing NBC’s 19 trophies. ABC and CBS son into Emmy gold Sunday, winning the tied with 10 each, followed by PBS with best drama series award, and newcomer nine and Fox with seven. The total reflect “30 Rock” was named best comedy series. awards given Sunday and at last week’s The mob saga’s victory was nearly uncreative arts ceremony. The biggest laugh of the night was precedented, with only one other drama series, 1977’s “Upstairs, Downstairs,” earned by presenters Jon Stewart and having claimed the top trophy after leavStephen Colbert, after they announced ing the air. that Ricky Gervais of “Extras” had won the award for best comedy series actor. “In essence, this is a story about a gangster,” said “The Sopranos” creator David “Ricky Gervais could not be here toChase. “And gangsters are out there taking night. Instead we’re going to give this to their kids to college, and taking their kids our friend, Steve Carell,” Stewart said. to school, and putting food on their table. Carell, a nominee for “The Office,” “And, hell, let’s face it, if the world bounded on stage, sharing a group hug and this nation was run by gangsters”— with Stewart and Colbert. Chase paused and shrugged, as everyone The Emmys spread the awards wealth. Supporting actor honors went to stars laughed—“maybe it is.” Freshman “30 Rock,” set in the world of “Grey’s Anatomy,” ‘’Lost,” “’Entouof a late-night show akin to “Saturday rage” and “My Name is Earl.” “My own mother told me I didn’t have Night Live” and created by “SNL” veteran Tina Fey, could be buoyed by its award. a shot in hell at winning tonight,” said The critically acclaimed comedy has Katherine Heigl of “Grey’s Anatomy.” ‘’This is my dream come true. I’ve been lagged in the ratings. Fey, who also stars in the series, jokingly doing this for 17 years.” thanked “dozens and dozens of viewers.” A mob family, a former vice president “Sopranos” stars James Gandolfmi and the cast of “Roots” brought the audiand Edie Falco didn’t fare as well their ence to its feet at the ceremony. show Sunday. A1 Gore received a standing ovation as James Spader was named best drama his Current TV channel, which features series actor for “Boston Legal,” and viewer-created videos, was honored for talked as if he had pilfered it from fellow achievement in interactive television. nominee Gandolfmi. “We are trying to open up the televi“Oh my goodness, I feel like I just sion medium so that viewers can help to stole a pile of money from the mob. And make television, andjoin the conversation they’re all sitting over there,” Spader said, of democracy, and reclaim American deacknowledging him and the rest of“The mocracy by talking about the choices we Sopranos” cast in the Shrine Auditorium have to make,” said Gore, whose globalaudience. warming documentary “An Inconvenient Sally Field was honored as best actress Truth” received an Oscar earlier this year. Another standing ovation greeted the in a drama for “Brothers & Sisters.” Falco was among her competitors. sprawling cast of “The Sopranos,” which “How can that be? These wonderful gathered on stage after the drama had actors,” Field said. Clearly flustered, she claimed honors for best writing and dilost her train of thought at one point, recting. Actor Joe Mantegna paid tribute shouting at the audience to stop applaudto the show as “having changed the face of television.” ing while she struggled to finish her acceptance speech. Queen Latifah helped salute the America Ferrera of the campy “Ugly groundbreaking miniseries “Roots” on its 30th anniversary. The saga about a black Betty” was named best actress in a comedy series. American family’s history “brought great “This is such an amazing, wonderful honor to the art form that we celebrate achievement. The award is to be able to tonight,” she said. by Lynn Elber THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday he would recommend a veto of a Senate proposal that would give troops more rest between deployments in Iraq, branding it a dangerous “backdoor way” to draw down forces. Democrats pledged to push ahead with the plan by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., and expressed confidence they could round up the votes to pass it, although perhaps not by the margin to override a veto. “The operational tempo that our forces are under is excruciatingly difficult for our soldiers, Marines, all of our personnel and their families,” said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. “They deserve the same amount of time back home as they stay in the field.” The comments represented the latest political clash over the future course of the war. Last week, President George W. Bush announced plans for a limited drawdown but indicated that combat forces would stay in Iraq well past 2008. With the Senate expected to resume debate this week on anti-war legislation, Gates sharpened his criticism ofWebb’s proposal. It would require troops get as much time at their home station as their deployments to the war front. Gates was asked in broadcast interviews about recommending a veto to Bush should the proposal pass. ‘Yes I would,” the Pentagon chief said. “If it were enacted, we would have force management problems that would be extremely difficult and, in fact, affect combat effectiveness and perhaps pose greater risk to our troops,” he said. Supporters ofWebb’s proposal sayit has at least 57 of the 60 votes neededfor passage. It would need 67 votes to override a veto. A separate proposal by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., seeks to restrict the mission of troops to fighting terrorist and training the Iraqi security force. “The president has dangled a carrot in front of the American people talking about troop reductions,” Levin said. “But, again, it is an illusion of a change of course and the American people are not buying it. My colleagues are not buying it.” “I think we have a good chance of getting to the 60 votes to call for a change in policy. I hope we get there in the next

couple of weeks,” he said. If Webb’s amendment were enacted, Gates said it would force him to consider again extending tours in Iraq. He explained that the military commanders would be constrained in the use of available forces, creating gaps and forcing greater use of an already strained National Guard and Reserve. “It would be extremely difficult for us to manage that. It really is a backdoor way to try and force the president to accelerate the drawdown,” Gates said. “Again, the drawdowns have to be based on the conditions on the ground.” “We would have to be looking at gapping units where there would —a unit pulling out would not be immediately replaced by another,” he added. “So you’d have an area of combat operations where no U.S. forces would be present for a period, and the troops coming in would then face a much more difficult situation.” Active-duty Army units today are on 15month deployments with a promise of no more than 12 months rest. Marines who spend seven or more months at war sometimes get six months or less at home. “We’re having difficulty trying to keep to my policy of 15 months deployed, 12 months at home, for the active force and a full-year mobilization limit on the Guard and Reserve. We’re having enough trouble trying to make that work, without the strictures of legislation,” Gates said. Bush said last week that he had approved a plan by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, to withdraw 5,700 troops from Iraq by the holidays and reduce the force from 20 combat brigades to 15 brigades by next July. The president has ordered Petraeus to make a further assessment and fresh recommendations in March. There are about 169,000U.S. troops in Iraq today. Friday, Gates raised the possibility of cutting troop levels to 100,000 or so by the end of next year, well beyond the cuts Bush announced, in what appeared to be a conciliatory gesture to anti-war Democrats and some wary Republicans who are pushing for troop reductions and an end to the war. But on Sunday, Gates said he could not say how large the force would be in the coming years, stressing that it would depend on conditions on the ground and whether the security situation in Iraq had improved dramatically.

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Here's to you, Duke football i lor the first time in since it defeated Clemson in |“4 three years, Duke foot- 2004—when the current seJL ball was the talk of the niors were freshmen. The victory also ended campus this weekend, With its 20-14 victory over Duke’s claim to the nation’s Northweslongest losing editorial em Saturstreak and day, the beputs Duke’s deviled Blue Devils snapped record at 1-2 on the season; their 22-game skid,releasing the same as perennial powerhouse Michigan and a game a wave of pent-up anticipation from students after the better than college football’s game. It may not have been gold standard, Notre Dame. And although talk about pretty, but this weekend a win, as they say, was a win. bowl bids and big victories As the game came to a down the road are still a bit close, many watched eagerly far off, the campus had reaas Duke allowed Northwest- son to celebrate. Indeed, on a night when em four chances to win the game from deep in their own Duke was able to secure a victerritory. In the end, the sustory on a pivotal final defenpense paid off, as the team sive stand, the football team found away to pull it togethenergized campus as stuer to record its first victory dents came together to show over a Division 1-A opponent that their enthusiasm and

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support for Duke football is not in fact entirely contingent on attending Tailgate. Chanting and cheering to the tune of drummers from the Duke band, students showed their school spirit while tearing down and hoisting a goal post from Wallace Wade Stadium up to the Chapel. And let’s face it: tearing down a goal post when your team wins a game against a middle-of-the-road team on the road is a rare occurrence in college football. That’s all the more reason why Saturday night’s celebration was so special. With one of the worst teams in college football, students showed how much pride they have in athletics and in their University. With this kind of

could be resolved if the football team continues to win and attract more students to actually watch its games. Unfortunately, the jubilation was cut short when one student was hit on the head by the falling goal post that students had paraded to the Chapel Quad. The student is OK, but the event was an unfortunate and unnecessary blemish on what should have been a night of responsible

revelry. Although we appreciate the fact that Duke police took appropriate action early on and, just as rightly, ultimately gave students the leeway to celebrate, it’s clear that students went too far in their post-game festivities.

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night last week, I found myselflooking curiously like a bag lady. I must have struck an interesting profile to anyone passing

me by on Main West, laden as I was with discarded plastic botdes of various shapes and sizes. Was lIS'

of rebellion against effortless perfection? Had I decided that my i-banking-free future was so bleak that I should start rachael massed collecting recyclables for their sidelong glance five-cent deposit? Not quite. I had simply been walking back to my dorm from Wilson Gym when I passed the set of trash bins in front of Crowell Quad on Towerview Road and did a double take. They were overflowing, in classic Duke after-hours style, which was nothing odd in itself. But they were filled beyond capacity almost exclusively with plastic bottles. For once, I decided to stop and dig through the dregs of our collective waste—except there were no dregs, only recyclable containers. Yes, I had gone a bit off the deep end, sustainability-style. And no, this single act, born of a decent amount of pent-up frustration and a dash of self-righteousness, does not make me act

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In the end, the event highlighted the need for a better policy for the celebration caused by the rare Duke football victory. Such a policy could be based on those

already in place for bonfires following basketball games and would help prevent similar situations from happening in the future. That aside, Saturday night highlighted the best of Duke school spirit. Kudos to the football team, and here’s hoping the Blue Devils can continue to be the topic of campus talk moving forward.

The third in the three-fart series responding to the Office of the Provost’s Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience at Duke University will appear Tuesday.

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enthusiasm, perhaps ongoing controversy over Tailgate

better/holier/fill-in-the-blank-with-a-positiveadjective than you. Nor am I advocating that you, the reader, should do the same. The admissions office, for one, certainly wouldn’t appreciate the damage to the Duke brand if we were all to become trash-pickers, no matter how good the intentions. But as in my last column, where I challenged you to consider the far-reaching implications of what you eat, I would like to get you thinking about what you drink —or rather, how you drink it. For today, I will only look at the impact of botded water, rather than all botded beverages, since there is a clear alternative to collectively buying the four billion gallons of bottled water consumed by Americans each year: You can get it for free (and we college students love free stuff) from one of thousands of water fountains and taps almost anywhere (water fountains, the water tab on soda fountains and your commons room

sink are all good places to start). Here are a few reasons to invest in your very own $l2 indestructible,reusable, dishwasher-safe Nalgene. Plastic bottles’ impact on the environment has been long lamented, and I won’t rehash the classic arguments against filling our landfills with waste that leaches harmful chemicals into watersheds and won’t break down for hundreds of years. Of course, these effects could be mitigated if more than 23 percent of bottles were recycled rather than simply thrown away. Though thereshould be a recycling bin next to every tra£h bin on campus to make the choice to recycle as opportunity costfree and brainless as possible, in the meantime, consider holding on to your bottle for a few extra minutes until you see one, that is, if you haven’t gotten that Nalgene yet or you forgpt it for the day (like I sometimes am wont to do). Maybe you’re particularly worried about global warming or the depletion of current petroleum reserves. You’d be better off drowning your sorrows in a fresh pint at the Joyce than in bottled water. It takes about 1.5 million barrels of oil to make the number of water bottles used annually by Americans, enough to fuel 100,000 cars per year, according to the Earth Policy Institute in Washington. And that figure doesn’t account for the fuel used to transport water, an extremely heavy item to haul around the world. Drinking local water, like eating local food, helps keep fuel consumption down. The bottle habit is also hard on your wallet. If you drank your recommended eight glasses ofwater a day from botdes, you would spend an average of $1,400 per year on simply staying hydrated. Even if food points still feel like Monopoly money to you, there’s no denying that spending half of the minimum food points allotment for the year on bottled water is probably not the best use of even “fake” money. In comparison, the same amount of tap water for the year would cost the average tax-payer only 49 cents, and most of us don’t even pay municipal taxes at all. If the long-term health of the planet and the expense of your bottled water habit aren’t enough to sway you, then maybe I can appeal to your benevolence: I don’t want to go trash-pick-

ing again. Rachael Massell is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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Zach Braff and Hasnain Zaidi

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commentaries

Facebook friends with Hasnain Zaidi. We’ve

met too.

This hardly makes me unique. That’s like saying I was the kid standing outside the Chapel Saturday night who knew that mixing booze with goalposts is never a good idea. Speaking of the football team, I owe them one big “Mazel Tov!” after poking fun at their losing streak two weeks ago. It’s the first Division I-A road win in almost four years, which got me to wondermon illOnday ing what else I haven’t done in four years... that’s HO SCHlbs depressing. Anyway, I’ve decided to honor their accomplishment the best way I know how: by continuously inserting metaphors to Duke football in this column. But let’s get back to what this column’s really about—t the inexplicable popularity of one Duke student. Hasnain Zaidi has more Facebook friends than that girl who got hit with the goalpost has sympathy wall posts. (It’s OK, Priya and I are friends on Facebook. She approves.) As of 6:03 p.m. Sunday, the tally stands at 1,399 friends. That’s literally more than eight times the number of friends I have, and I’m extremely popular. I know what you’re thinking. Who is this guy? How is this possible? Has it really been four years? But it’s all true. The man has more friends than Lee Melchionni, and Lee has his own chant, for God’s sake! So I approached the legend himself to uncover the truth. I contacted Zaidi by—how else?—sending him a Facebook message. First let me say that having a conversation with Hasnain in public in less than 30 minutes is impossible. We met Saturday afternoon in the Marketplace, where I figured we’d run into the fewest number of people possible that he knew. Because as fun as it is to cruise the Marketplace for freshman girls your senior year, most upperclassmen tend to stay away. But as soon as we sat down, Hasnain was greeted by friend after potential Facebook friend. Hasnain even exchanged digits with the first guy who came up to us, entering the name into his shiny new iPhone among around 545 other contacts. No joke. Hasnain has been using Facebook longer than it takes to get a pizza at The Loop (And that’s a long time). When he was born, Hasnain claims that his first breath came not from a doctor’s spanking, but from a poke. Hasnain acquired the majority of his friends through campaigning. As the sophomore-, junior- and now senior-class president, he has had to kiss (and

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poke) a lot of ass. Still, Hasnain insists that he knows the vast majority of people he’s friends with—close to 90 percent, he says. (Incidentally, the same percentage of Duke students who updated their status this weekend with something along the lines of “OMG! We just won! Boobs!”) But don’t think Hasnain is casual about his love of Facebook. He’s intensely aware of how many friends he has at any given moment. What site do you think was up on his iPhone when he showed it to me? It wasn’t Blackboard and it debatably wasn’t pom. It would be incorrect to say that Facebook is a part of Hasnain. At this point, Hasnain has accumulated so many friends that if the social networking site were a publicly traded company, Hasnain would be a majority shareholder. Hasnain is just as integral a part ofFacebook as drunkenly looking up a girl’s screenname, daring yourself to IM her and then flipping through her 488 pictures. So, what tips does Hasnain have for the amateur stalker out there? Most importantly, he insists that you must become a master of Facebook and not let Facebook become a master of you. It’s an exercise in subdety. If that girl you’re stalking is really into playing Uno and listening to the Format, don’t show up at her door (which you found on Facebook) with a deck of cards and a mix tape. Rather, find out when and where her classes meet, run into her “accidentally” when she’s leaving and then casually mention your love of card games with Spanish names while humming “The Compromise.” And what bothers Hasnain the most about Facebook? It’s not the new applications. Although he calls himself a Facebook purist, he’s quick to point out that like the Northwestern Wildcats on the last four downs of the game, you can’t stand still (told you I’d get one in). You have to move with the times. What irks him is inexplicably losing friends for no apparent reason. Who unfriends people? Honestly? So in the spirit of getting a life, I’ve decided to create a Zach Braff Facebook profile. If I can somehow get more Facebook friends than Hasnain Zaidi without actually friending a single person, my girlfriend will have a threesome with me —that is, once I get a girlfriend. Brandon Curl and ZACH BRAFF lost their cell phones so

they need your number. Go Duke!

lettertotheeditor S3OM lax settlement with Durham justified

Do the three formerly indicted men’s lacrosse players deserve $3O million? Of course not. Should Durham be held liable for $3O million? Absolutely. “Deserve” doesn’t have anything to do with it. $3O million is comprised mainly of punitive damages —a modest sum considering the blistering smack in the face so many elements of Durham need and deserve. $3O million is the least of Durham’s worries. Residents should be asking how a corrupt district attorney’s office could remain silent throughout this affair, how an entire police department could do the same, how a man like Sgt. Mark Gottlieb can still carry a badge, how consecutive judges could allow this charade to continue and actively enable it, how a population could nominate and elect an overwhelmingly corrupt prosecutor and how The Herald-Sun continues to sell papers after maneuvering the county into precisely this sort of legal quagmire. They shouldreconsider the dangerous biases along lines of race, class and gender with which as humans we often seem to comfort ourselves and instead reflect on how the people to whom they look for education, information and leadership have used those biases

and prejudices to manipulate them. Most importantly, we should all ask how city and University leaders, after everything that has been exposed, could have learned absolutely nothing. Not every citizen of Durham supported former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong and the symbolic prosecution of innocent men because of what they are and supposedly represent, yet every citizen will suffer for it. Very few Duke students and alumni participated in this affair, and yet our University will suffer for years as a result of the blubbering cowardice, deceit and shortsighted betrayal ofcertain administrators and many deplorable ideologues who forced the hands of weak men. I’m not sure which is worse—the widespread corruption, or the current, frantic attempts to cover up and justify such conduct that lead to further liability. Duke and Durham leaders are covering their own fannies at the expense of Duke and Durham. Kenneth Larrey Trinity ’OB Founder, Duke Studentfor an EthicalDuke

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Postville, hometown to the world Postvil e,

lowa, has the most rabbis per capita of any

city in the United States.

It’s hard to tell without sticking around for a few hours. Even at first glance, the town is like a thousand others in lowa. Nestled in the middle of sprawling com fields, it’s made up of a couple of dozen two-story buildings clustered on a seemingly random spot on a state highway. It seems a little empty and a bit dusty. But if you stand on Main Street, in front of the Postville Herald-Leader office, you’ll begin to notice things that look out of place. For frdllk hollGlTlcin one thing, every third or fourth man walking down out of thfi pan the street will be dressed entirely in black, topped with an expensive hat and sprouting a long beard. That’s because about 20 years ago, members of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect ofHasidic Judaism chose an empty processing plant outside Postville as the location for a new, entirely orthodox kosher slaughterhouse. Today, this means that this formerly Christian, mostly quiet and entirely unassuming piece of lowa is now full of out-of-towners. What’s more, the slaughterhouse’s preferred base of labor is immigrants from Eastern Europe and Latin America. If you walk up and down Main Street in Postville, as I did two weeks ago while looking for a place to eat lunch, you’ll probably hear more Spanish than English and see plenty ofads in Polish on the windows. The changes in Postville, however, aren’t as superficial as the clothes people wear or what accents people have. Probably half the storefronts downtown are adorned with signs written in Spanish or Hebrew. Agriprocessors—the kosher slaughterhouse—is the biggest business in town. Signs on the highway leading into the city read “Hometown to the World,” an obvious reference to the town’s recently cosmopolitan population. I’m not the only one who's noticed; Postville’s relationship with these new arrivals hasbeen the subject of a book by University of lowa Professor Stephen Bloom titled “Postville,” one of the first books I read after coming to lowa. Postville is interesting enough on its own merits, but even more so in light of the recent uproar over illegal immigration. It’s the apocalypse that illegal immigration alarmists are constantly warning us about. The city is awash with people who speak, look and pray differently than the people who have lived there for decades. A language other than English is spoken in the streets and the economy depends on recent transplants from abroad. And most insidiously, the alarmists would say, these newcomers have brought with them demands for political correctness. Some have said that situations just like this threaten the very survival of our country and culture. It would only be natural to assume that the town would be tom by disagreement and dissatisfaction over how to integrate or reject the new arrivals. Bloom’s book makes it clear that the nativesofPostville were not entirely comfortablewith the transplants when they first arrived, and there is stilluneasiness in town. But overall I think a general civility has taken hold in Postville. It has the same quiet atmosphere of almost every other American town I’ve been in. The storefrontswith their strange lettering are mixed in with the more familiar shops and are as well-used. Hasidim and farmers mingle around the truck selling sweet com in the grocery store parking lotKids pass each other in the halls of the high school without shooting each other furtive second glances. Country music and Israel National Radio unabashedly share the airwaves. There is normalcy here. That’s more than I can say for the national political scene. I’d like to see a little more of Postville in our national discourse, especially about illegal immigration. This goes beyond what side of the issue you fall down on. There is a ferocity leveled against illegal immigrants that, I think, severely threatens the future unity of our nation. So, every once in a while, when I hear someone get really worked up over illegal immigration, I want to remind them that there’s a place where they’re dealing with a much stranger situation with a whole lot more humanity. ...

Frank Holleman is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

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