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Surrounded by an enorDENVER mous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the “broken politics

in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush” Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation’s first black president.

“America, now is not the time for small plans,” the 47-year-old Illinois senator told an estimated 84,000 people packed into Invesco Field, a huge football stadium at the base of the Rocky Mountains.

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Most major schools around the country can treat a week one matchup against a Division I-AA opponent like an NFL preseason game and still cover the spread.

For Duke, Saturday’s 7 p.m. contest in Wallace Wade Stadium against I-AA powerhouse James Madison is quite the opposite.

In fact, it’s virtually a must-win game.

Since his hiring last December, head coach David Cutcliffe has breathed life into a previously deflated football program, elevating Duke from its consistent laughingstock status to a level of expectations not seen since the early 19905. And they haven’t even played a game yet, making this weekend’s opener all the more crucial.

“Thank goodness there are expectations. I like that,” Cutcliffe said. “I’ve never been afraid of expectations. I’ve always believed that if you don’t go in expecting to do well, you generally will not. We welcome that challenge. All we can do is take that challenge on at full speed, but it’s a very appropriate challenge. People are

Simply put, a win, and the Blue Devils are off to the 1-0 start they’re supposed to attain. A loss, and like a punch to the gut, the air would all at once be sucked from the program and the lungs of its supporters.

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Duke Democrats hosted a red-, whiteand blue-themed party Thursday night—and unlike other events of the eveON THEWEB Check out a report and ning, it wasn’t in a fraternity section slideshow from the DNC or at Shooters 11. atdukechronicie.com About 100 student supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy filled the top tiers of the Richard White Lecture Hall on East Campus Thursday evening to watch the Democratic nominee deliver his candidacy acceptance >

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Dem. presidential candidate Barack Obama formally accepted his party's nomination Thursday in Denver.

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David Cutcliffe officially takesthereins Saturday at 7 p.m. when Duke takes on James Madison at home.

And James Madison is no pushover.

Cutcliffe referred to Rodney Landers, the Dukes’ quarterback, as the “Tim Tebow of Division I-AA” and credited their defense with having “extremely good tacklers.”

That could be bad news for a Duke team that lost its starting running back Re’quan

Boyette to a knee injury and has yet to settle on a firm replacement.

But despite the mounting pressure of Duke’s first should-win game since the last time it faced a Division I-AA opponent—a SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 10

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Three DukeEngage students working in northern Tanzania this summer had a striking reminder that they were no longer in the Gothic Wonderland—literally.

Toward the end of their stay, four assailants wielding machetes and sticks broke into the students’ guesthouse, assaulting one of the students in the back of the neck and behind the knees, DukeEngage’s Director of Communications Eric Van Danen announced in a July 18th posting on the program’s Web site. The thieves then stole three laptops, three cameras and two iPods from the house The students, who were in the Engineering World Health program, were immediately moved to other accommodations, and the assaulted student did not need any special medical attention.

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Students in Peru helped build water systems this summer. Upon arriving, program participants were taught how to address health and security issues.

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guide The Chronicle previews the upcoming season in a guide to ACC football

CORRECTION An Aug. 28 article, “OJA revises Community Standard,” should have noted that the new edition of the Duke Community Standard in Practice guide did not revise the Community Standard itself; only judicial policy has changed.

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Residents, tourists and KINGSTON, Jamaica oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake.Louisiana and Texas put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.

At least 51 people died in Haiti from floods, mudslides and falling trees, including 25 around the city of Jacmel, where Gustav first struck land Tuesday. Eight more people were buried when a cliff gave way in the Dominican Republic. Marcelina Feliz died clutching her 11 -month-old baby, and five more children were smothered in the wreckage beside her

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Afghan officials said KABUL, Afghanistan Thursday that a deadly U.S.-led special forces raid on a remote western village last week was based on misleading information provided by a rival clan.

It was the latest twist in a tangled debate over what happened. U.N. officials say theraid killed up to 90 civilians, most of them children. A NATO official said U.S.and Afghan troops were fired on first, touching off a battle of several hours that killed 25 militants and five civilians.

The U.S. government is pressing for a joint U.S.-Afghan probe in hopes of reaching a common conclusion.

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Crucified frog still in art display ROME An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.

The board of the foundation of the Museion in the city of Bolzano voted to keep the work by the late Germanartist Martin Kippenberger,the museum said in a statement.

Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to Franz Pahl, the president of the Trentino-Alto Adige region that includes Bolzano, denouncing the sculpture.

It "has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God's love and of our redemption," Pahl quoted the pope as writing in the letter.

Pahl himself has long opposed the display of "Zuerst die Fuesse" ("First the Feet" in German), even staging a hunger strike this summer and saying he would not seek re-election unless it was removed.

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A former Marine accused of detainees was acquitted of volkilling unarmed Iraqi untary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial.

The jurytook six hours to find Jose Luis Nazario Jr. not guilty of charges that he killed or caused others to kill four unarmed detainees Nov. 9,2004, in Fa 11uja h, I raq, d uring some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The verdict left the 28-year-old defendant in tears. He cried so loud that the judge smacked his gavel to call for order. Nazario's family and friends also sobbed in the courtroom.

Thursday's verdict marks the first time a civilian jury has determined whether the alleged actions of a former military service member in combat violated the law of war.

One of the jurors,Ingrid Wicken, hugged Nazario's sobbing mother, Sandra Montanez, without speaking after the verdict was read."l watched her all week. She was being tortured every day,"Wicken said later.

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But introducing the cars to the U.S. market isn't as simple as changing the speedometer from kilometers to miles. Ford has to reconcile American and European safety regulations—everything from the color of rear turn signals to the positioning of crash test dummies—that will keep the cars from hitting U.S. highways anytime soon.

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In one month’s time, a Duke scientist will receive the nation’s highest scientific honor directly from President Bush.

Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine and biochemistry and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will be presented the National Medal of Science at a Sept. 29 White House ceremony for his contributions to biological sciences, White House officials announced Monday. He is the first member of the Duke faculty to receive such an award.

Lefkowitz said he was “delighted” when he received a phone call from the White House Press Office informing him of the honor.

“After they called me, I went online and looked up people who had won this award,” he said. “The more I read about the people who had gotten this award, the better I felt about it. You can sort of say, ‘Wow, I’m in pretty good company.”’

Since the prize was established by Congress in 1959, 441 scientists have been awarded the National Medal of Science for significant contributions to their field of study. The recipient of the award is chosen by a 12-member committee of scientists and engineers selected by the president.

“Even for a highly decorated and often recognized scientist like Bob, this represents a remarkable and extraordinary achievement,” Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief exec-

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Students, staff and faculty living in the LaSalle Street area can hail a new method of transportation to and from campus.

Duke Transit launched a temporary LaSalle Loop at the start of the school year that could become permanent depending on ridership, which is monitored by Duke University Parking and Transportation Services. The route, which runs every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., runs along apartment complexes between Erwin and Hillsborough roads, ending at Towerview Road.

“It was started in response to a strong desire to see more transportation alternatives in that area by some collection of undergraduate and graduate students,” Vice President for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins said.

Student organizations like the Graduate and Professional Student Council worked with Duke officials to launch the new line. GPSC President Alethea Duncan, a fourth-year Ph. D. candidate in chemistry, said the route .was created to alleviate the transportation issues many undergraduate and graduate students faced after being displaced from West and Central campuses because of renovations

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Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicineand biochemistry, will be awarded the nation's top scientific honorfrom President Bush Sept. 29 for his contribution to the field of biological sciences. utive officer of the Duke University Health System, said in a statement. “I am particularly excited and pleased to see Dr. Lefkowitz’s work recognized in this way as his discoveries represent the very best in translational science and medicine—and have served to ultimately improve the health and lives of millions of people around the globe.”

Lefkowitz is no stranger to renown. In 2007, he was a cowinner of the Albany MedicalCenter Prize in Medicine andBiomedical Research, the nation’s largestprize in medicine.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29,2008

Q&Awith Michael Merson

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field of global health did not exist when current Duke students’ parents went to college. In fact, Duke’s Global Health Institute did not exist when the senior class first came to campus in 2005. As DGHI approaches its 20-month birthday in November, Director Dr. Michael Merson elucidates the emerging global health curriculum and distinguishes Duke from other universities.

—As told to The Chronicle’s Kristen Darns viae-mail

The Chronicle: More and more colleges are offering global health studies. Are they all the same?

Michael Merson: Global health has galvanized student and faculty interest in many universities over the past few years, but there is not yet agreement on what the field encompasses. In fact, next month I will attend the first meeting of the new University Consortium for Global Health. One of our tasks will likely be to develop a set of core competencies for undergraduate education in global health.

TC: What is different about Duke’s global health programs?

MM: We focus our global health efforts on reducing health disparities—addressing the diseases and challenges that prevent large portibns of the world’s population from achieving or maintaining good health. What makes global health unique at Duke is that it does not belong in just one school or one department. The glob-

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al health educational programs we have—from the undergraduate Focus Program and Global Health Certificate, to the Third-Year Global Health Study Program for medical students, to the proposed Master of Science in Global Health—all follow an interdisciplinary approach.... We also offer many opportunities for students to take part in global health experiences abroad and to bring these experiences back to the classroom.

TC: How does the Institute involve faculty from various schools?

MM: The most pressing global health challenges we face today, such as AIDS and other infectious diseases, obesity, tobacco control, climate change and strengthening of health systems, can be most effectively studied through the lens of multiple

disciplines....

We currently have six signature research initiatives that cut across the academic boundaries of schools... [including] Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease; Global Aging; Gender, Poverty and Health; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Global Environmental Health and Health Systems

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TC: Does the Duke Global Health Institute sponsor events?

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be an official candidate of a major party for the presidency.

“People are consumers ofinformation at Duke,” said Duke Democrats President Ben Bergmann, a sophomore. “I don’t know whether many other colleges are that active [in politics].”

Among a crowd comprised mainly of freshman, students donned pins, T-shirts and stickers with Obama’s photo and slogan, “Change we can believe in.” After grabbing slices of free pizza and soda-filled Solo cups during speeches of figures like Howard Dean and A1 Gore, attendees seemed to be engrossed in an introductory biography of the presidential hopeful.

The crowd was relatively small in number, many trickling in around 10 p.m. in time to see Obama’s oration, but they enthusiastically cheered along with the live audience when the convention’s star stepped on the stage.

Freshman Mikael Owunna said'heappreciated the event

From punches to pavement A student said an unidentified individual punched him in the back in the Blue Zone Monday, causing the student to fall to the pavement and scrape his hand and ankle. Duke University Police Department were not able locate the individual.

events reflects our broad interdisciplinary scope. We are co-sponsoring the Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics Sept.

18; hosting Stephen Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, Oct. 2; sponsoring a conference in November on Bioengineering Applications for Global Health with the Pratt School of Engineering; and organizing a symposium in November on Addressing Global Blindness with the Duke Eye Center.

Our University on Global Health Seminar series, co-sponsored with the Duke University Center for International Studies, will bring in 10 world-renowned leaders over the course of this year to present their work and facilitate multi-disciplinary dialogue.

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after a week of observing that students on Duke’s campus do not seem to be very engaged in the political process.

Duke Democrats hosted DNC watch parties Tuesday and Wednesday as well.

Junior Michael Bergen, a member of Duke Democrats, said the week’s watch parties drew in a substantial crowd offreshmen and upperclassmen. Anywhere from 40 to 60 people showed up on the first two nights of the series of watch parties, Bergmann added.

“I was in McClendon [Tower] last night and some people were clearly not there just for the pizza,” Bergen said. “I think we’re getting people very excited.”

Bergmann said involvement and interest in the organization as a result of the upcoming election was unprecedented—he said more interest in Duke Democrats was expressed to him this past July than in all oflast year.

“Duke has potential to be a very active campus,” he said. “We’re in a swing part of a swing state now, and the national interest in North Carolina will lead to that of ZACHARY TRACER/THE CHRONICLE Duke students.”

The speech ended to chants of both Denver and Approximately 100 students gatherin theRichard White Lecture Hall Thursday Duke audiences screaming, “Eight is enough!” to watch Sen. Barack Obama speak at the Democratic National Convention.

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Mehta does not benefits both the graduate and “This summer, plan to take the undergraduate community—I I’d drive to bus because she the Blue Zone, always see a bunch of people and my friend has a car, she said she would not would leave the getting on and off the bus.” feel safe walkapartment at Alethea Duncan, the same time. ing home after 9 p.m. if she had walk GPSC president He’d no other option and beat me The line is curto class every rently serviced by time. There’s one bus, stopping at Durham Area Tranjust no point.” sit Authority spots and apartment comNevertheless, Dawkins said he believes plexes along Morreene Road, Campus the new route will prove popular with the Walk Avenue and LaSalle Street. If there students living off campus. is growing demand, however, officials said “[The line] dovetails with our desire more buses may be added to the route. to provide more environmentally friendThe pilot route is operated by Carolina ly transportation alternatives to students and others,” he said. “We thought it Livery Service, a transportation and chauffeur agency, and owner Mike McMorrow would also provide a more convenient said the route could become permanent means of getting back and forth to camin the coming years if it is popular with pus from the nodes of students that live students. in those areas.”

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the receptors include studythem on and offand characterize them by observing their structure and function, Lefkowitz said.

“Recently, over the last five years, my work has been very much directed towards revealing a new way the receptors can work,” he said. “These discoveries will suggest away to perhaps make a whole new class of drugs which [can promote a] new form of receptor activity.”

Those new drugs, he added, could ultimately go toward targeting illnesses like heart failure and heart disease.

A native of New York City, Lefkowitz said he has always wanted to become a doctor and looked up to his family physician when he was young, but did not think he would ever go into research, and his entire career in research has been at Duke. Prior to joining Duke in 1973 as a physician and researcher, he worked for the National Institutes of Health.

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The victim declined to comment on the incident DukeEngage places students into all comers of the world, including several places where heightened preparations for cultural and safety differences were riecessary.

But the majority of those who participated in the program this summer did not face any extraordinary health or safety concerns beyond the occasional food poisoning, Van Danen said.

Robert Malkin, a professor of Biomedical Engineering who oversaw the program in Tanzania, said the crime the students experienced was petty, and that students working in developing countries are exposed to such crime every summer.

“The incident was very unfortunate, but we were much more interested that the students were fine,” he said.

To ensure the safety of all students traveling and working abroad, the University signed a contract with International SOS, a company that provides services ranging from telephone advice and referrals related to travel abroad to full-scale evacuation by private air ambulance, Van Danen said. Each Duke Engage participant was also given a walletsized emergency contact card that they could call 24 hours a day with any concerns.

“We had very few emergencies—primarily illness-related questions relating to seeking medical care in each respective location/* Van Danen said. “There were no situations I heard about [in which] students were unsafe. Students felt prepared, and across the board there was a feeling of

safety.”

Many participants said they felt very safe and that Duand their site sponsors prepared them well for Engage ke > adjusting to new living conditions.

“Health issues were just the normal things that going to another country involves,” said junior Brianne Connolly, who participated in the Peru program. “Once in Peru, we had a seminar to talk about situations that might arise and how to approach people.”

But several students in India worked particularly closely with locals, and some of the contact could have posed a safety risk if proper precautions were not observed, junior Margaret Murray said.

In the Sahara House Health Inequalities program in Delhi, students found work in a hospice dressing wounds after they were told that their nongovernmental organization did not have enough work for all 16 participants, Murray said.

“Myself and two other boys had the most intense interactions with wounds,” she said. “They were treating abscesses and dressing the wounds. I chose not to do it for my own safety concerns.”

She added that manyof the patients were injection-drug users whose HIV statuses were unknown. “If they got into contact with fluids, it could have been risky.” Murray said.

The two students wore protective medical gloves and had appropriate medical supervision, Van Danen wrote in an e-mail.

Political tensions in some areas also put occasional strain on program participants.

Junior Liza Doran said governmental reforms that put teachers out of jobs caused some uneasiness in Hyderabad, where her group was working as English teachers.

“I think we got there at a bad time in terms of what we were doing. The teachers appreciated [that they worked with.] us but there was tension while we were there,” she said. “There was a day when a teacher was brutally beaten and all schools shut down. We didn’t know and showed up... [and we were] told to immediately leave because they didn’tknow what would happen.”

Leela Prasad, who oversaw DukeEngage in Hyderabad, said program coordinators kept in mind the region’s potential vulnerability and took measures to provide participants with relevant security information.

“Our students were shocked and disturbed by the hard fact that it is children who suffer when so-called protests result in frequent—if temporary —school closures, but I think such situations ultimately motivated our students to strive to make a difference to the learning experiences of the children they worked with,” she wrote in an e-mail.

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Obama delivered his 44-minute nominating acceptance Rep. John Lewis of Georgia spoke first of the anniverspeech in an unrivaled convention setting, before a crowd sary of King’s memorable speech. ofunrivaled size—the filled stadium, the camera flashes in “Tonight we are gathered here in this magnificent stathe night, the made-for-television backdrop that suggested dium in Denver because we still have a dream,” said the the White House, and the thouGeorgia lawmaker, who marched sands of convention delegates with King, supported Obama’s priwe are “Tonight gathered seated around the podium in mary rival, Hillary Rodham Clinan enormous semicircle ton, then switched under pressure here in this magnificent stadiObama and his running from younger black leaders in his um in Denver because we still home state and elsewhere. mate, Sen. Joseph Biden. of Delaware, leave their convention In his speech, Obama pledged to have a dream.” city on Friday for Pennsylvania, jettison Bush’s economic policy—first stop on an eight-week sprint Lewis, and replace it with his own designed to Election Day. hard-pressed families.

Georgia congressman to help McCain countered with a “I will cut taxes for 95 percent bold move of his own, hoping ofall working families. Because in to steal some of the political an economy like this, the last thing spodight by spreading word that he had settled on a vice we should do is raise taxes on the middle class,” he said.

The speech didn’t mention it, but Obama has calledfor presidential running mate. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty canceled all scheduled appearances for the next two days, raising taxes on upper-income Americans to help pay for stoking speculation that he was the one. expanded health care and other domestic programs. _

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The Blue Devils kick off their season this weekend by diving straight into high-level competition, playing three of last season’s NCAA tournament teams.

Duke travels to West Lafayette, Ind. to participate in the Purdue Mortar Board Premier with No. 25 Purdue, No. 14Kansas State and Tennessee State. The Blue Devils will open the tournament against the host Boilermakers at 7 p.m. at Belin Court; Despite the chalMortar lenge the young Duke Board team faces this weekPremier end, the Blue Devils ho USe the imtial FRIDAY-SATURDAY, week °f competition to Purdue University see how well they cope West Lafayette, Ind. in real-time situations “It’s a chance for us to learn more about our team in the preseason and in a comhead coach Jolene Nagel petitive said. “I want to see our team play under pressure in a competitive setting. But I also want to see how we stack up against the tougher opponents.”

Duke will use the event to fine-tune its lineup, which has many holes from the departure of last year’s seniors. In particular, the libero position, once held by Jenny Shull, is up for grabs.

In the setting position, as many as three players may get playing time. Junior Christina Falcone, sophomore Alex Sail and freshman Kellie Catanach will have a chance to earn some time on the court.

The Blue Devils do, however, return starters Sue Carls and seniors Jourdan Norman at the blocking positions and Aana Wherry and junior Rachel Moss at the hitting positions.

Withall the competition on the Blue Devils’ roster for each position, other teams are going to have difficulties figuring out just which lineup Duke will send out on the court, Carls said.

“We have so many looks, which is just going to make us more versatile, and it’ll make us harder to scout and read for opponents,” Carls said.

On Saturday, the Blue Devils will have their hands full, facing the Wildcats at noon, followed by a quick turnaround at 5 p.m. when the team takes on the Tigers for its final game of the weekend.

Even though this weekend may be one of the biggest challenges Duke faces before ACC play, the players are excited to finally have a chance to compete against another team and not with each other.

And more importandy, they are ready to prove that regardless of key players lost from last season, the Blue Devils are not looking at the season as a down year.

“It’s a big advantage to us because people are going to underestimate our team,” Carls said. “Because we lost such a core group, people are going to think we aren’t going to be as competitive. And we just want to prove them wrong.”

After years of prolonged success under former head coach John Rennie, Duke’s new era under John Kerr finally kicks off this weekend—and the 1986 Hermann Trophy winner and Duke graduate could hardly ask for a more challenging start.

The Blue Devils unranked in the preDuke season after three straight years in the top 10, begin their No. 7 season tonightagainst Indiana No. 7 Indiana, and take on No. 3 Notre FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. c i Dan ; e Su da >' 35 Part Bloomington, Ind. of the TIU Classic in Bloomington, Ind. |K| Tve Been- waiting for this opportuvs ne ran ‘ nity for a very long No. 3 time, and it’s kind of N. Dame ironic that it’s coming full circle back SUNDAY, 11:30 a.m. to Indiana,” Kerr Bloomington, Ind. said. “My first collegiate soccer game for Duke was against Indiana, my first collegiate assistant coaching opportunity came at Indiana, and now my first opportunity to be head coach for Duke comes at Indiana, so it’s kind of an interesting prospect.”

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This weekend will give the Blue Devils plenty to chew on.

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Against the Fighting Camels, a team that notched only one win last year, the Blue Devils still have a lot on the line as Church continues to decide on his rotation until the start of conference play. After 22 players entered the game against the Chanticleers Sunday, Church figures to use his substitutes liberally in the next three to four weeks.

Duke also knows better than to underestimate any opponent, especially after its postseason run that was marked by upsets.

And the Spartans, who come to Koskinen less than 48 hours after the Campbell game, have given the Blue Devils some trouble in the past.

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FOOTBALL from page 1 13-0 shutout loss against Richmond in 2006—the Blue Devils are going in with the confidence that this Saturday should be the first of several wins this season. And like every other positive change this program has undergone over the last nine months, it all stems from Cutcliffe.

“He’ll let you know that if we’re not energetic and motivated, it’s his fault,” thirdyear starting quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “He’s going to tell you, ‘You’re either going to get on my level, and you can get motivated like how I’m motivated, or you can do your own thing.’

“He knows what he’s talking about; we don’t know what we’re talking about.

So .with his track record and everything that he’s accomplished, who are we to go against what he’s saying. Basically, what he says, we should do.”

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M. SOCCER from page 9 Durham Wednesday afternoon but had to spend the night in Detroit before arriving in Bloomington Thursday morning.

On the injury front, though, Duke is far less turbulent. The Blue Devils are fairly healthy, but a broken bone will sideline senior defender and co-captain Graham Dugoni for at least another week, if not longer.

Dugoni has already undergone surgery for his foot and is recovering well, but will not be available for the clashes with the Hoosiers and the Fighdng Irish.

Without their starting center back, the already inexperienced Duke will havfc to rely even more on its younger players, including freshman forward Kyle Bethel and defender lan Kalis, who will both start

Friday.

The most important player for Duke to keep a close eye on will be Hoosiers midfielder Brad Ring, a senior and 2007 Hermann Trophy semifinalist.

“Brad is our ‘hub,’” Indiana head coach Mike Freitag said. “He is one of the best ball winners in the college game and is also an outstanding attacking player. Brad is well-rounded and a player I think will be on many National Player of the Year lists.”

And prevendng Ring from directing the Indiana attack will essentially be

tack should give James Madison headaches.

Even without Boyette, Lewis has the weaponry to pick apart the Dukes’ secondary with the help of one of the ACC’s best receiving corps, led by senior wideout Eron Riley.

But it will be important for Duke to get off to a good start. The players’ confidence has been be building since Cutcliffe’s arrival, but it remains to be seen whether they possess the fortitude to overcome adversity. An early touchdown the other way off a punt return or a turnover could revert the Blue Devils back into their “Oh no, not again” mentality of the last three seasons.

It’s that beast of a thing called momentum. Duke fans saw what wonders it could do too many times in the Ted Roof Era when fourth-quarter chances turned into heartbreaking losses. Perhaps the most wrenching loss came two years ago when the Blue Devils squandered numerous opportunities to run away from Wake Forest in Winston Salem, yet still had a chance to win it at the end. Of course, they didn’t. The

Pavelid Castaneda’s top priority. The defensive midfielder’s usual responsibilities include maintaining possession of the ball and winning it back when the Blue Devils make mistakes, and those two skills will be crucial if Duke hopes to stay in the game against the highly regarded Hoosiers.

But for Duke, the best form of defense just might be offense.Kerr’s newly installed system relies on getting midfielders and defenders forward, setting up opportunities for goals on crosses and set pieces.

In addition, preseason All-American Mike Grella is back with something to prove after a relatively disappointing year.

Grella led the team in scoring for the second straight season in 2007, but he will have to be one of the nation’s very best for the Blue Devils to compete with the country’s top teams as they are accustomed.

Especially with Bethel partnering him up front, Grella’s importance to this team is unquestionable.

Taking on two top-10 teams in one weekend is never easy, and such a prospect could be particularly daunting for a young squad like Duke. And though Kerr preached patience and said that a bad weekend “would not be the end of the world,” Castaneda is hoping for a quicker start to the year.

“We know we are big underdogs,” he said. “But we are coming in here to get results, not just moral victories.”

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The Dukes' spread offense could pose problems for the Blue Devils. JMU QB Rodney Landers has been called the Tim Tebow of Division 1-AA, averaging over 100 ypg on the ground last season. The Duke defense must find a way to shut down Landers and the rest of the running

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Over the last several years, Duke has championed the art of the almost-win, but Cutcliffe believes his team is finally ready to get over the hump.

“We’re not the most talented team in the league by any stretch of the imagination,” Cut-

cliffe said. “But we have enough talent to be a good football team, and when you are a good football team you carry the game into the fourth quarter and find away to win games.”

If Duke has its way, the game will be safely in the win column before the fourth quarter even begins. But if not, everyone knows what the Blue Devils must do.

At this point, there’s really no other option.

The No. 16 Blue Devils take on Campbell and UNC-Greensboro this weekend in a Friday-Sunday doubleheader.

W. SOCCER from page 9 and finished last season with a higher RPI than Duke, bolstered by a schedule that featured ACC powerhouses North Carolina and Wake Forest—whom UNC Greensboro also played to a tie a year ago.

“UNC-Greensboro is a team that has given us a hard time for the last two or three years,” Church said. “They play great against ACC teams and really get up for those games, so that’s going to be a good match for us.”

Regardless of the opposing team, the Blue Devils are focused on improving themselves after every game as they iron out the kinks that appear at the beginning of each season.

While the offense looks to be in prime form after the 9-0 drubbing Duke gave Coastal Carolina, the team still seeks progress on both sides of the ball. Midfielders Lorraine Quinn and Elisabeth Redmond noted thatwhile the chemistry is there, the Blue Devils still need to work on keeping their shape and connecting with one another, especially in the attacking third so that the goals keep coming.

And with positive momentum from last weekend, the players are confident in their ability to maintain that high level of play.

“We’re just focusing on playing next weekend; we’re just going to build upon our game last weekend,” Redmond said.

“I’m not overlooking anything, obviously, but I’m not that nervous about it.”

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NEW ORLEANS Just three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans confronts a new threat from Gustav and a stark question: Will the partially rebuilt levees hold?

Despite |2 billion in improvements, including 220 miles of repaired, raised and replaced floodwalls, 17 new pump stations and more flood-resistant pump stations, nobody can say for sure the city won’t be swamped again. And if it is, could it ever recover?

“It’s scary, man,” said Robert Russell, a 63year-old plumber whose house in Gentilly Woods is close to floodwalls on the Industrial Canal that are so suspect the Army Corps of Engineers is buffering them with large baskets filled with sand.

“They say it’s not up to code,” he said. “We’ll have to wait and see.”

Levee experts and the Army Corps insist New Orleans is safer than before Katrina flooded more than 80 percent of the city Aug. 29, 2005.

Yet the system still has severe shortcomBILL HABER/THE ASSOCIATED ings; Flood barriers meant only to withstand medium-strength storms, hidden layers of Animal control officers load cats into a truck to evacuate from the city in New Orleans Thursday. Animals are being evacuated in preparation for the possible arrival of Hurricane Gustav. weak soil and navigation channels that inadvertently funnel storm surge into the city, to 396-year storm, a rare catastrophic hurricane. Canal meets the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. name a few.

“The positive thing about having any storm The agency has not classified Gustav, which The canals have been the cause of repeated was spinning Thurshit you, it will reveal flooding over the decades, and floodwalls along kind of near and it were breached during Katrina, flooding the in frailty day any Jamaica the system,” said J. “The positive thing about hav- already lashing the Lower 9th Ward, Gentilly, St. Bernard Parish island with tropical and eastern New Orleans.

David Rogers, an engiing any storm hit you, it will storm-force winds. neer at Missouri UniCorps officials have called it the system’s “WeTe not close to Achilles’ heel. To fix the problem, the agency versity of Science and reveal any kind of frailty in who’s 100-year-level protecplans to spend at least $695 million to construct Technology, the system.” tion yet,” said Robert a barrier across the shipping channel’s mouth. tracked the construction closely. “And we David Rogers, Turner, regional di- But that work won’t be done for at least another three years. shouldn’tbe surprised rector of the SouthScience east University Missouri Louisiana Flood There are other spots to watch, too. there is frailty.” if AuthorityProtection Experts estimate protecting eastern New Orleans and and Technology engineer East. “It’s not worth St. Levees the system is only a Bernard Parish are in many stretches 10 feet third of the way to putting your life at lower than what the corps would like them to be, Turner said. where the corps wants it by 2011 —strong risk if you have the means to get out.”

Each side of the river still has its own probAnother concern is a new system of pumps enough to protect against what scientists call a 100-year-storm. That type of hurri- lems. and floodgates on three drainage canals. Floodcane has a 1-percent chance of occurring On the east side, where the French Quarter walls on two of the canals collapsed during Kastands, the most serious concerns lie along a T- trina, causing widespread flooding in central each ear.

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In trators from the editorial the Departpast, adminment ofAthletics announced istrators have implemented, or last week that the University threatened to implement, regwill sponsor alternatives to ulations aiming to curtail the the traditional Tailgate fesBlue Zone events. This policy tivities prior to Saturday’s has proved to be ineffective.

And in addition to not ending football game. Although dethe Blue Zone Tailgate, this University stance bauchery in has alienated the studentbody will not be prohibited, administrators said they hope and made the administration to “transfer energy” from the look weak and unable to enfamous parking lot to Main force its own rules. Past expeWest by offering music, free rience has shown thatstudents food, an appearance by the who want to party on Saturday football team and inflatable morning will party on Saturgames on the Quad. day morning—no matter what policies stand in their way.

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Although no new official regulations have been implemented for Tailgate, the new arena for pre-game festivities is at least a productive move.

Offering multiple options for students is a smart idea because, first, it will give students who do not want to participate in the drinking atmosphere another location in which to gather. Offering food and moving to Main West will change the focus of the day to a more traditional tailgate that revolves around football instead ofalcohol.

That said, it is important to allow students to continue festivities in the Blue Zone if they choose to do so.

Another benefit of this alternative pre-game option is that students will be more likely to attend the game fol-

ontherecord Thank goodness there are expectations. I like that.... I’ve never been afraid ofexpectations. Fve always believed that if you don’t go in expecting to do well, you generally will not. We welcome that challenge. All we can do is take that challenge on atfull Speed, but it ’s a very appropriate challenge. |M ,

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tion. Their presence will provide support to an improving football team and will stand as a sign of respect to head football coach David Cutcliffe, Something he has stressed that he hopes to see from Tailgate. centered Tailgate is around football games, and because of this, more responsibility in planning it should rest in the hands of Cutcliffe. When responsibility for the event strays from the Department of Athletics, it seems as if Tailgate is more like any other social event instead of the pre-game ritual that it should be.

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with basketball, most students will stay sober enough to cheer on a team that puts points on the board and collects wins throughout the season. If the football team can muster a somewhat successful season, we will see even less of an emphasis on drinking during Tailgate and more of a focus on attending the game.

The University should be applauded for learning from its mistakes—if students give it a chance, the new option for Tailgate has the potential to create support for a football team that has seen almost none in the past. But if the football season begins as the last several have, the taste left in students’s mouths will be worse than warm Natty Lite on a Saturday morning.

raphy and conservation education, I’m janetwu still working out the of meaning T.I.A. counting sheep In its primitive form, TLA is used to excuse the practical limitations of the region water shortage, power shortage, Internet shortage, ATM cash shortage and body odor surplus.

Example 1: This column is being drafted on a handcrafted notepad from Hluhluwe, Zululand made from 100 percent post-consumer waste. No CTRL ALT F7. TLA. Example 2: Tonight I watch “Blood Diamond.”

Tomorrow night I watch “Blood Diamond.” T.I.A. Example 3: The response, “It’s not that disgusting,” from a Zulu guide (educated in seven languages and able to identify antelope species from dung composition) when asked about the lethality of a mysterious insect bite. TEA. On that note, TEA. can also be used for regionally specific animal-isms: Giganto moths in bathtubs, Vervet monkeys filching bananas from the kitchen, a formal induction with the advice: “Don’t walk through town at night. You could be attacked by hippos.”

And then there’s the emotive use—a reminder of good fortune before a panorama of unfamiliar constellations, round red coastal sunsets, a family of rhino snuffling long grass by your open safari truck.

But with the territory come the politics and the past. With the territory comes a glaring sense of division. As the last region to dismantle apartheid, St. Lucia is a microcosm of post-apartheid tensions where “This is Africa” becomes a dismal excuse in the face of enduring prejudice.

We volunteers struggle to digest the warning that years of discrimination can remain unchanged by our few insistent words. But the idealism you pack with you overseas molds to the reality of “This is Africa.” You discover quickly that nothing is simple in Africa—nothing is just black or just white.

Community project evolution in the local Zulu village of Khula is determined by a delicate relationship between volunteerand village leadership.

All changes go through the Induna or “Prince”

and/or through the community Pasteur. Plant a garden, fence a farm, build a daycare—but under-

stand that your role as a volunteer is to assist and advise without overtaking.

Such an ethos of measured steps may be foreign to many in the Western world, where Africa still exists as a feral landscape in dire need. “You come with your laptop computers, your malaria medicine and your little bottles of hand sanitizer and think you can change the outcome, huh?” says Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond.” What he forgot to add was “your Western standards ofprogress, your intense need to transform.”

And so the most difficult part of volunteering is the grim probability thatyou will never do enough over your brief stay. Your altruistic ambitions, your intense need to transform according to Western standards are complicated by the gray reality of T.I.A. But there is movement: a new crime prevention soccer club, a relationship with the local sustainable plant nursery and permission to clean-up an overgrown wetland.

In the meantime, you put away the khaki body armor and military-strength mosquito repellent and wonder to yourself what exactly “This” is.

Is “This” the tourist couple taking photos of themselves handing mush to orphans on plastic platters and recoiling from body contact? Is “This” the untarred roads and derelict townships, the pretentious glares and the abusive comments?

Is Africa the sentimental nonprofit commercial with the bloated orphans—the sweltering savannah with the malaria hot-spots, ramshackle huts and rampant HIV infection rates?

In fact, yes. Each of those preconceptions is a close reality.

But spend time in Africa and those “orphans” become Msizi, the ladies-man-wannabe-rapper, or Maleke, the sensible five-year-old with the high kick doing the American “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” dance. The savannah is your 5 a.m. game drive, a UNESCO World Heritage Site housing five ecosystems and astounding biodiversity seen nowhere else in the world.

“This” is a place where primary school students pass up break time for HIV education, where Zulu staff members are entering university and working the night shift with the local police circuit.

So rife with complexity, so fraught with sentiments, my home for eight extraordinary weeks: This is Africa.

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McCain will clean up Washington In the Aug. 22 series DukeVotes: p.m. to 7 p.m.

Starting at 3 p.m. Saturday, there On government reform, Trinity will be a large pre-game celebration sophomore Benjamin Bergmann’s on Main Quad, including free food column, “Changing the culture of and music. At 4:30 p.m., the football Washington,” defending Senator team will march from Duke Chapel Barack Obama ignored Obama’s to Wallace Wade Stadium. previous record of blatantly Although we hope that most stubreaking promises to increase his dentstake advantage of thefestivities chances of winning an election. on Main Quad, students may enter What guarantee do we have that the first lot of the Blue Zone beginan Obama administration won’t ning at 3:00 p.m. Anyone bringing be corrupted by leftist special inalcohol will be asked to present terests? If it is only his words and identification at the gate, and each brief political experience, then that is not saying much. If Obama’s person can bring only enough alcohol for himself or herself. No glass complete reversal on the federal bottles are allowed, and throwing election finance program is any cans is strictly prohibited. All stuindication, he will surely act with dents with cars parked in the Blue similar disregard for the interests Zone will be expected to move their of the American people regarding cars by 6 a.m. Saturday morning. government reform.

Food, grills for student use, restSenator John McCain is the rooms and water will be provided. only candidate running for presiActivities in the Blue Zone will end dent with a 25-year track record of promptly at 6:30 p.m., and Main fighting special interests. He is the Quad festivities will finish at 6 p.m. only candidate that kept his promCutcliffe would like us to show full ise to adhere to campaign finance reform. He has spoken out against support for Duke Football by packing the stands before the team encorruption in his own party, leadters the field. ing the investigation against forStudents may enter Wallace Wade mer lobbyist Jack Abram off. Mcthrough the North Entrance near Cain will clean up Washington by Cameron Indoor. The student secexposing pork barrel legislation, tion has been moved to the opposite eliminating earmarks, passing the side of the stadium behind Duke line-item veto and banning all gifts Football’s benches. Additionally, from lobbyists to lawmakers. We Duke Athletics will give away T-shirts need substance and experience to to the first 5,000 students. Prizes will reform government, not political be awarded to one East Campus dorverbosity. mitory, West Campus Quad and Selective Living Group with the highest JakeBullock attendance.

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But before I continue, I should probably make clear that while 99 percent of my Facebook friends (yes, tl\at is how I measure life) are returning to college—that magical land of booze and books that supposedly prepares us for but is distinctly separate from reality—my feet remain firmly planted at home... inside a metal basin... next to this morning’s dishes... and a questionable sponge.

I am spending my Fall semester on the other side of the pond, studying economics at the University College London, whose schedule allows me a few more weeks of summer. That’s a few more weeks of up-close-and-personal one-on-one time with reality; which has held a grudge against me ever since I offended it two decades ago by being born.

Goody.

Now, I have nothing against reality, per se. I just do not know how to function in it, and although my two years at Duke so far were supposed to help me with that, in reality (that bitch again?) I think they’ve only softened me.

Take, for instance, approximately two hours ago when, arriving home from work absolutely famished, I discovered a Post-it note on the back door informing me that my parental units had taken my 4-year-old sister and abandoned me for a summer romp at Sesame Place, a Sesame Street-themed water park.

Just because I’m “20 years old” and need to “grow up, get out of the house and stop mooching off die family,” I apparendy am not allowed to enjoy the company of Big Bird, Cookie Monster or Snufiuluffahoweveryouspellhisname.

The real world is cruel.

But cruder still, they would not be home for dinner. I had to fend for myself.

thinking

At school, with a wand-like wave of my Duke Card, I can convert little “points” hid-

den inside the plastic into mounds of food that in turn I can hide inside my stomach.

Standing in the middle of my dark, empty kitchen for an hour, with card in hand but nowhere to swipe (knife sharpener was a bad idea), the magic starts to fall apart.

In the end, I realized I would have to boil water, and that’s how everything went wrong.

The process started out well. Water in pot.

Pot on stove. Lid on top. Easy enough. I’m an adult. This is what adults do.

But then the water got hot, something that happens at least two-thirds of the time I boil water. I was taking a sip of juice as I reached with my bare hand for the lid’s metal handle, and I remember thinking, just before my fingerprints were seared off, “Oh. This might hurt.”

My yelps of pain were only upstaged by the juice spewing from my mouth, like some sort offire hose trying to extinguish the scorching lid I had dropped conveniently onto my foot.

It was a perfect spit-take moment., and also a perfect spit-take moment that landed on my cat, who had come to investigate the racket. Curiosity might not have killed the cat, but it left him sticky and smelling ofcitrus. He was in shock.

Then he got over it and decided to savage my leg, which really was unfair as my leg was only an innocent bystander. (Of all my parts, my legs do the most standing in general.)

Enter kitchen sink into column. And column writer into kitchen sink.

When you’re in a kitchen sink, as I am, there isn’t much else to do but self-reflect, which is particularly unfortunate as when you’re in a kitchen sink—because at 20 years old, you can’t boil water and your cat can beat you up—life isn’t exactly looking up.

I am halfway donewith my college experience, and I am in no way ready to face reality or people or simple tasks, despite pledges via column last Spring that I’d make efforts to change that But maybe this study-abroad experience—the sort of opportunity you just don’t get in the real world—is exactly what I need to prepare myself for life beyond the bubble.

So bring it on, London. ...Not you, kitty cat.

Lysa Chen is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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like to begin this semester by proposing a toast to beer before they go? Or what could be more idiotic than two reasons Richard Brodhead. And not only that, I’d like to invite keeping a law which is shown to be unenforceable every First, I doubt a faceless, unknown entity like Amethyst all students—that’s all of them now—to Join me, beSaturday, Friday and Thursday night? And what could be will be able to have any impact on national policy in the cause our University’s presmore condescendingly paternalistic than Congress, a body short term, especially if it becomes apparent that the signident has seemingly been noted for neither morality nor self-restraint, telling us how ers of their petition are unwilling to take any direct action. to live our lives?

It is possible that the Initiative will build connections, build caught in a flash flood of common sense name recognition and overcome those whose positions on So I am very glad to see Brodhead’s support of the AmBrodhead ethyst Initiative, weak and mealy-mouthed though it is. this issue are deeply entrenched. But that will take a great Recently, What I find disappointing, however, is that our good presisigned his name in support many years, and would be powerfully expedited with reof the Amethyst Initiative, a dent seems to have limited his support to his signature. spected institutions like Duke at the fore.

Second, it would be nice to see Brodhead come out It is, after all, not ah easy thing to get a law repealed, group of college chancellors and presidents, whose motto and especially not this particular law. In a debate some forcefully on the side of the students for once. Ever since Oliver sherouse is to “rethink the drinking months ago, more than halfof the Democratic candidates my freshmen year, Brodhead and the University’s adminfor age.” By “the drinking age,” president indicated their support of a federal smoking istration have been perceived as unwilling to go to bat for you tell me ban, and one could hardly expect those groping for control the student body. Some of this perception is deserved and they specifically mean the National Minimum Drinking of the trachea to loosen theirgrasp on the esophagus. And some is not. Either way, the administration and Brodhead Age Act of 1984, which set a federal funding penalty for states at the same time neo-prohibitionists like Mothers Against personally would make a powerful statement by coming out with a drinking age less than 21.

Drunk Driving continue to trumpet their sacred means, strongly for something his students desire and deserve.

Someone once said that we should make the world the It’s worth noting that they stick to “rethinking.” The Inidespite the total failure to achieve their stated ends. tiative’s statement painfully avoids strong statements, calling An active Duke University, or even an active Duke presi- -place we believe it should be. It was the same man who said that we should inspire a culture of initiative. It was, in fact, on Congress not to abandon or lower the drinking age, but dent, could go far in overcoming obstacles both on Capirather to “support an informed and dispassionate public detol Hill and in the public consciousness. But unfortunately Richard Brodhead. His words were wise when they were dibate over the effects of the 2Tyear-old drinking age.” But it’s that’s not going to happen. rected at us; they are equally wise when reflected to himself.

It is sad to see such a champion of personal action resign better than nothing, and I’ll take what I can get It’s not going to happen because Brodhead and AmThat the drinking age stays propped at 21 is, of course, ethyst have decided that the University is not going to take himself to passivity. I hope President Brodhead reconsidan outrage, an idiocy and a glaring example of the holdthe initiative in trying to undo the National Minimum ers his position, so that future students—all of them—can state we now tolerate. what could be my-hand-mommy Drinking Age Act, or even to inspire the discussion. The join me in raising a glass in his honor.

For more outrageous than the idea that so many Duke men name on the Web site will forever be Duke’s great contribetween the ages of 18 and 21 could be drafted, shipped bution to the cause.

Oliver Sherouse is a Trinity senior. His column runs every President Brodhead needs to reverse this decision, for otherFriday. off and killed, but not be judged competent to have a

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At least for the season’s first four games, the Blue Devils’ longest trip will be a short one —the new pregame “Devil Walk” from the Duke Chapel to Wallace Wade Stadium.

And they won’t trek much farther the rest of the season.

Duke will play seven of its 12 games at home this fall, including a crucial, opening four-game stretch that could very well influence the final record of new head coach David Cutcliffe’s first season in Durham.

The Blue Devils’ home matchups against James Madison, Northwestern, Navy and Virginia won’t mark the first time that Duke has played four home games in a row—that last occurred during 2006’s winless season—but it will be the first time in program history that the team has opened the season with four home games. But beyond historical significance, the opening stretch of home dates should provide a quartet of contests that will provide tough tests, yet could all be classified as eminently winnable games.

Duke will face a James Madison team in the opener that had its 8-4 season last year ended by Appalachian State in the Division I-AA playoffs, but the Dukes haven’t beaten a Division I-A team since downing Navy back in 1990.

Duke’s 20-14 win at Northwestern last season snapped a 22-game losing streak, but the Wildcats are an experienced team with 17 returning starters and shouldn’tbe expected to go down easily.

Up next is Navy, a team that gave Duke a heartbreaking 45-42 loss last season in Annapolis but which also lost head coach and triple option mastermind Paul Johnson to Georgia Tech in the winter.

An off week will give the Blue Devils a quick break before a Sept. 27 matchup with Virginia in Duke’s first ACC game of the year. Virginia was one of the conference’s surprise teams in 2007 with a 9-4 final mark,

naturally segmented.

They are divided into games, further into quarters, drives, first downs, even play clocks—which is to say that deeming one of 12 games more important than any other is, at best, not possible, and, at worst, absurd.

But the matchup with the Wildcats is still early enough for us to know, at least somewhat, the mental and physical status of the Blue Devils. Duke will enter the game either riding high having validated the hype that has built since David Cutcliffe’s introductory press conference in December, or it will trudge into Wallace Wade having lost, again, to a Division I-AA opponent and, worse, squandered a large chunk of its momentum. There are no in-betweens; Cutcliffe’s team will be 1-0, or it will be 0-1 Northwestern, a Big Ten foe Duke managed to beat in Evanston, 111., last year, offers the opportunity to further the energy around the football program to heights it hasn’t seen since 1994. What’s more, if the Blue Devils top James Madison and Northwestern, I firmly believe the snowball effect will boost them to a win over Navy the following week, pushing them into their ACC opener against Virginia after a bye week—a game that will generate the most football buzz since the days ofSteve Spurrier. That’s three wins, with the potential for more victories against Virginia, Georgia Tech, N.C. n

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Thirty-six days after opening the season in Durham, the Blue Devils will hit the road for the first time in October to face Georgia Tech in Atlanta Oct. 4. The team’s final bye of the season will provide a quick break before the season ends with seven consecutive games. Miami will visit Wallace Wade Oct. 18, returning for the first time since Oct. 21, 2005, when a late interception of a Thaddeus Lewis pass inside the red zone helped the suspension-plagued Hurricanes escape with a 20-15 win.

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road starts Oct. 25 with a trip to nonconference foe Vanderbilt and a Nov. 1 game at Wake Forest. The Commodores downed Duke 45-28 in their last meeting in 2005, but this year’s team is relatively inexperienced with only nine returning starters. Wake Forest, whose rapid ascent in the ACC standings in recent years is a model that Duke and Cutcliffe hope to emulate, is led by quarterback Riley Skinner and comerback Alphonso Smith.

Duke will return to Durham Nov. 8 to face Triangle rival N.C. State in the teams’ first showdown since 2003, then head out for a final two-game road trip against the two teams picked to finish first in each of SEE SCHEDULE ON PAGE 10

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When your special teams have been as bad as Duke’s have been for the past several years, you don’t look for immediate answers or a quick fix. Rather, you just want to do things right on a regular basis, even if it means sacrificing the occasional big play—which is exactly the mentality David Cutcliffe has adopted in choosing his special teams starters.

“If I got a guy that can punt it 58 yards in the air but he only does that twice and shanks it eight times, he is of no use to me,” Cutcliffe said. “What I’m looking for is consistency and looking like a major college

player.”

But at first glance, finding that might be difficult,

Kickoff returner Jabari Marshall is a home-run threat, as seen in last year’s opener with a 94-yard touchdown return.

But he strikes out just as much, such as when he fumbled two kickoffs in one half in last season’s 43-14 drubbing at the hands of Virginia Tech.

The kicking game has not only been woeful, but has also directly cost the Blue Devils at least two victories in the past two years. In 2006, Duke had a 26-yard chip shot to win the game against eventual ACC champion Wake Forest, but could not hold off the Demon Deacons’ rush and had the kick blocked. The Blue Devils’ troubles continued the last time they took the field at North Carolina, when Nick Maggie’s

potential game-winning 40-yard field goal went wide left. And there’s no telling how much the momentum could have swung in Duke’s favor in numerous games if its kickers had converted more than 3-of-ll field goals, which was more than 30 percent worse than the next-lowest team in the ACG. The Blue Devils’ punt return unit ranked 11th in the ACC with just 6.9 yards per return, and their net punting yardage was also last in the league.

In other words, Duke needed a lot of work on special teams.

And, Cutcliffe said, they still do.

“I’ve seen every special teams snap for two years here, and they don’t look like a major college unit out on the field,” Cutcliffe said. “It’s very obvious we’re better as a team.... Again, consider where we were.

So, much better is not good enough at this point.”

For right now, though, he will have to make due with what he’s got. And to do so, he’s putting his players in the best position possible for their respective talents.

Although he lost his starting kicker role, senior Joe Surgan will still handle kickoff duties because of his powerful leg. Despite his issues with handling the ball, Marshall remains the primary return man, as his explosive return ability is being counted on to set up field position.

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Returner Jabari Marshall can strike out, but isalso a home run threat, evidenced in his 96-yard return lastyear. season practices. Last year, he converted all 13 of his extra points and made 2-of-5 field goals, including a team-long kick of 40 yards.

“I think I know what I’m going to get from Nick Maggio,” Cutcliffe said, citing his consistent play as “absolutely” the reason for him getting the starting gig.

With those players in position to succeed, Cutcliffe envisions some strong possibilities for his team. He cites the kickoff

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But they’re still the same players that struggled most of the time last year. And that means that while it would be nice for a game-breaking play here and there, Cutcliffe would much rather have consistent performers than the outstanding but unpredictable player. team

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The David Cutcliffe era has generated excitement because of Cutcliffe’s offensive resume. Although Cutcliffe has garnered much of the attention, many forget that Duke’s new head man has brought with him a staff of almost entirely new coaches —and two defensive coordinators.

In 2007, the Blue Devils did not have a defensive coordinator on staff—former head coach Ted Roof put the heat on himself and doubled in that role. Shortly after arriving in Durham, however, Cutcliffe hired Mike Maclntyre and Marion Hobby to co-coordinate a defense that finished near the ACC cellar in almost every statistical category last season.

“We’re ready to go out and play,” Maclntyre said. “The guys have pushed themselves and they’re motivated. Now it’s time to get out there.”

Cutcliffe brought in his former Ole Miss staff member from the New York Jets, where Maclntyre spent the 2007 season coaching the defensive backs. Prior to his stint in New York, Maclntyre spent four seasons under Bill Parcells with the Dallas

Cowboys.

In their first season coordinating the defense, Maclntyre and Hobby will employ a 4-3 scheme that will rely heavily on Duke’s experienced front seven, anchored by fouryear starter Michael Tauiliili and NFL prospect Vince Oghobaase, a junior. Tauiliili is the team’s leading returning tackier, as his

9.8 tackles per game were good for third in the ACC in 2007.

The Blue Devils also lined up in a 4-3 defense a year ago, but this year, the scheme focuses more on the entire front seven swarming the ball and will consist offormations not seen a season ago.

“It’s not basic, but it’s not too advanced for us,” Tauiliili said of the scheme. “One thing they always tell us is knowledge equals confidence equals playing fast. As long as you know what’s going on and you can anticipate different plays based on formations and things like that, it really works out for us. We have a very strong base, so it’s not like we’re changing every week.”

Both Tauiliili and Oghobaase commented on the changes in the mentality of the coaching staff in regards to swarming the ball and stripping it away from the opponent. Hobby doubles as the team’s defensive line coach, and has stressed this fact since day one.

“Every person on the defensive staff has the mentality of swarming the football,” Tauiliili said. “Through practice and team drills, it’s showed positive signs. Vince [Oghobaase], he’ll come and knock the ball out of a receiver’s hands.... You have to get to the ball and work on your technique of stripping it, punching the ball out. That’s a major difference that I’ve seen since they’ve been here.”

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Duke tookits lone win lastyear at Northwestern, and a homegamewith the Wildcats could decide this season.

COHEN from page 2 State and North Carolina, three of which would result in a likely bowl berth. It’s also a monstrous jump—perhaps illogical—but it has made more sense to me every day, especially when I hear Cutcliffe talk about posting 30 points per game.

Then there’s the other, uglier scenario.

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possibility —it has the chance to salvage its season the next week against Northwestern and maybe even attain the previously mentioned, best-case scenario, But if the Wildcats avenge last season’s

outcome after the Blue Devils had surrendered a golden stab at revival the previous week? Then, Cutcliffe will have to make a journey to the Blue Zone to see

any students on Saturdays.

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In his 1Oth season at Clemson, it’s time for Bowden to finally escape from the shadow of his father, Florida State head coach and NCAA all-time wins leader Bobby Bowden.

It’s time for his team to come through down the stretch, unlike the last two seasons, when the Tigers faded in November. And it’s time for this proud program to win its first ACC championship since 1991.

National experts seem to agree with Bowden. No. 9 Clemson returns most of its dynamic offense and is the conference’s

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“We’re the team to beat [in the ACC],” senior safety Michael Hamlin said. “We’ve got nothing but weapons.”

The most important of those weapons is quarterback Cullen Harper, an Alpharetta,

Ga. native with 29 career passing touchdowns.

Harper struggled at times last season, but for the most part, he showed off his strong arm while completing long passes and took care of the ball—reflected in his 27 touchdowns versus just six interceptions in 2007.

The Tigers have some of the best skill players in the country besides Harper, including running backs CJ. Spiller and James Davis, which is why Harper has high expectations for himself and the squad.

“If we don’t make it to the ACC championship, we let some people down,” Harper said. “We let ourselves down. All the pieces of the puzzle are there. I think this is the first time since I’ve been here that we really have a legitimate shot of being in the ACC championship game.”

—by GateStarosta

Wake ignores top-25 status For the first time in school history, preseason polls have pegged Wake Forest as a top-25 team. Not that the No. 23 Demon Deacons are letting any of the talk get to their heads.

“You never know before the season starts,” senior comerback Alphonso Smith said. “That’s the thing about preseason predictions. You haven’t done anything yet. We haven’t even played one game. So it’s all based off your potential and what we did last year, so we have to understand that we haven’t done anything yet and that we can’t relax and be satisfied with the predictions.”

Thanks to nine returning starters on defense, Wake Forest may have the best unit in the conference. Their defensive pressure will be crucial to their success, especially without a high-octane offense to light

up the scoreboard.

On the other hand, junior quarterback Riley Skinner has been proficient in his past two years, including completing an NCAA-best 72 percent of his passes, and could make a leap to stardom this year.

Although all of the pieces seem to be in place for a finish at the top of the Adantic Division, the Demon Deacons are all too aware ofhow easy it is to get caught up in the hype. After winning the ACC Championship in 2006 with an 11-win season, Wake Forest took a bit of a slip, finishing 94 last year.

“With the expectations through the roof for this football team, I think there’s a little bit of pressure,” head coach Jim Grobe said. “I hope we handle it better than we did last year.”

—by Madeline Perez

Quarterback Riley Skinner and the Demon Deacons are ranked in the preseason poll for thefirst time ever.

Hokies favored despite losses

Virginia Tech lost a large portion ofits starting team, but is still favored to win the Coastal Division.

After losing 13 starters from last year’s ACC championship team, Virginia Tech could be expected to have a down year.

Throw in the fact that head coach Frank Beamer just selected a starting quarterback, last season’s leading rusher was booted off the team and the Hokies have just two receivers that have ever caught a collegiate pass, and “down year” might be generous.

And yet, No. 17 Virginia Tech is still the overwhelming favorite to return to the conference title game.

“That’s a compliment to our program that we can lose 13 guys to the NFL and still be picked to win,” Beamer said.

The Hokies’ strength has always been their defense, and they will have to play well for Virginia Tech to realize its tide hopes. Although the defensive unit lost the majority of its start-

ers, defensive coordinator Bud Foster has ah ways been able to put together a solid line.

“We have some guys that have plenty of tal-

ent,” defensive end Orion Martin said. “They’re ready to step in, they’re hungry and they’re ready to go. They’re young, but we have a good scheme. They know it, so we’ll be fine.”

The Hokies have far more question marks

on the offensive end. Fifth-year senior Sean Glennon got the nod behind center, but the seniorwill have few offensive options. Graduation has paved the way for an influx ofyounger players, even if they take a few weeks to develop.

“Those young guys are very talented guys,” Beamer said. “But we need to get us a starting point. Then hopefully, we can stay healthy and then improve as the season goes along, and I think we will,” —by Sabreena Merchant

tion that you did in the first year,” Davis said.

Davis will largely rely on Yates throwing to star-studded a cast of receivers that includes Hakeem Nicks and Brandon Tate. Nicks has already said he believes theTar Heels boast the best receiving corps in the country.

The team’s youth will be exposed quickly, too. After the opener against McNeese State, North Carolina travels to Rutgers for a Thursday night showdown on ESPN, then plays Virginia Tech, Miami, Connecticut and Notre Dame in succession.

“By the end of thefirst month of the season, we’ll have a pretty good idea of what kind of football team we’re going to have,” Davis said.

In other words, by October, UNC fans will know whether to start counting down to Late Night with Roy. —by Stephen Allan

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But for North Carolina, reversing last year’s 4-8 record would not necessarily be a major accomplishment; instead, it would be merely meeting lofty expectations.

Thanks in large part to the development of redshirt-sophomore quarterbackT. J. Yates and running back Greg Little, the Tar Heels are expecting a sudden jump—and it would be old hat for second-year head coach Butch Davis, who took a Miami team in disarray to the brink of the national tide game in just six seasons.

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Even the most ardent Duke supporter would have few positives to say about the Blue Devils’ run attack last year.

It doesn’t take a mathematician to realize that Duke’s average gain of 2.0 yards per attempt was not going to deliver the necessary 10 for a first down. And it does not take a Steve Spurrier-esque football expert to realize not many teams are fooled by a one-dimensional offense.

So head coach David Cutcliffe has made revamping the running game his top priority.

“Having a good running game is very important because last year our running game wasn’t very good,” wide receiver Eron Riley said. “Now, our throwing game was decent, but look at our record. It’s very important out here to be able to run and pass it in this league if you want to be successful.”

Cutcliffe, an offensive wizard in his own right, found a solution in senior running back Re’quan Boyette. Or so he thought, until Boyette suffered a knee injury in the first practice and is now sidelined indefinitely.

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Harris himself has had to quickly adjust to life as a featured back. Last season, he was used as the fullback to create running room for Boyette. Harris, originally recruited as a running back, said the time spent at fullback made him a more complete runner because it forced him to work on his blocking techniques and backfield catching abilities.

The other running back getting most of the remaining snaps with the first team is sophomore Tony Jackson. At first appearance, the 5-foot-10,185-pound Jackson might not look tough enough to handle 300-pound defensive linemen. His experience lastyear as a safety, however, ensures that he will not shy away from contact Additionally, Jackson like Harris—is a former high school running back, which has eased the transition.

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In order to discern what coverage the opponent is in, he said; “The safeties will tell you. If both of them go to the hash out wide, I know it’s cover two. If they sit on the hash, I know it can be cover four or cover eight. Or if they rotate (to the right)... I know it’s cover three.” In cover two, Lewis said he’d look for receiver Austin Kelly in the slot or Eron Riley at the X. Against cover eight, he said Raphael Chestnut has a chance running his post on the far right. When it comes to reading the defense, look to the safeties for the answer.

Typically, defenses will feature seven men in the box —three linebackers and four down linemen or vice-versa. In this play, Duke has the ability to use a five-, six- or seven-man protection depending on the defense’s blitzing choices. If the linebacker on the left blitzes, the tight end bails on his route and picks up the defender. If the linebacker on the right blitzes, the running back stays in the backfield to make the block. If the middle linebacker blocks, the offensive line shifts in order to compensate for the extra pass rusher. On paper, Lewis should never have to worry about a sack. Of course, protecting the quarterback is easier said than done.

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So he draws out one of his favorite passing plays like he’s done thousands of timesbefore.

“This is an option route, he can go either way,” he explains as he goes. “This is what we call a bend. This is a post-curl, and this is a checkout.... That’s spreading the field right there. That’s a bunch of [defenders] right there having to deploy.”

Like a chess grandmaster, he moves his pieces across the lined paper to their appropriate places, diagramming the same plays

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33 years, David Cutcliffe has that gave us the Mannings, produced a naworked as an offensive football tional championship at Tennessee and have coach, rising through the ranks “terrorized people for a long time,” as he says. because of his everlasting creativ- Now, he’s trying to add the remarkable rejuveity and thorough knowledge of the nation of one of the nation’s historically worst sport. He’s an all-business, all-theprograms to his list of accomplishments. time man, but just ask him to draw Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis is playing up some plays, and he’ll show you with his third offensive coordinator in as the little boy still inside that fell in many years, but has shown why Cutcliffe love with the game so long ago.“Oh calls him a “really bright guy” through Lord, [I knew I wanted to coach his solid understanding of the new playfootball] when I was about 14 years book—even though Lewis freely admits he old,” Cutcliffe says. “I love the X’s has more to master. Like his mentor, Lewis and O’s and love to talk offense.” loves the X’s and O’s, too.

HOT KPUTtS Lewis will make a protection call at the line before every snap to prepare for a possible blitz, but sometimes there are not enough blockers to go around. If this happens, one linebacker will be left unaccounted for, and, if he blitzes, will have a clear path to the quarterback. If Lewis sees this, he’ll point to the receiver closest to the unmarked defender, and they silently understand each other.

“If he comes, I’ve got to throw it to you,” Lewis said. The blitzing backer leaves a temporary void in the defense, and the receiver breaks off his route to go straight for it.

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Riley to go deep on a fly route from the X posidon. Last year, Duke’s leading wideoutamassed 830 yards on 40 receptions, good for an average of 20.8 yards per catch. He also scored nine touchowns, including four in a loss to Navy.

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And he’ll be working with a group of experienced skill players that should help Duke at least flirt with their coach’s prediction of scoring 30 points per game. With wideouts as varied as the big and strong Eron Riley, who can torch defenses for a long bomb, and the agile and explosive Johnny Williams, who could see more time than any otherfreshman on the team, Duke should have considerable success against opposing secondaries. After all, Cutcliffe is well known for utilizing and maximizing each individual’s skills.

“One of my favorite sayings is, ‘Think players, not plays,’” Cutcliffe says. “It’s just getting the ball in the right people’s hands. It’s kind of like when you’re in the backyard. You used to figure out who to get the ball to if you wanted to win the game. You hoped you were one of those guys, and then you had a lot offun.”

Now that the backyard is Wallace Wade Stadium,

though, Duke’s trouble lies in getting all it’s players on the same page.

“We are very much a rhythm throwing team, and they’ve struggled with that,” he says. “Our throwing and catching was really what I would call poor. It has now reached a point where it’s much better. Again, a little too inconsistent for what I like. But I’m pleased with the progress.”

Football fans are familiar with offensive strategies like the triple option, West Coast, pro-style and the spread.

Football coaches, however, know it’s much more complicated than that, as each team operates within its own shades of gray. When asked to categorize his own offense, Cutcliffe first answered pro-style, but it wasn’t long before he expanded on his definition.

“We use and have used principles of what people refer to as the spread,” Cutcliffe says. “Some kind of four wides or threewides and a tight end—shotgun. That’s been around for a long time. If people would really study the game and see... it’s not all that new. People have come up with wrinkles.

“I think what you see is you’re either a well-coached football team, or you’re not.”

Head coachDavid Cutciiffe is an offensive guru who loves X's and o's.

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Head coach David Cutcliffe has a dilemma on his hands when it comes to this year’s freshman class.

In terms of his team’s depth, some positions —like the offensive and defensive lines—are lean in numbers, which may require freshmen to be prepared to take the field this year. And for the newcomers, the chance probably couldn’t come soon enough.

“We do have some [freshmen] that are playing exceptional for us,” Cutcliffe said. “I can tell you that Johnny Williams is going to be in the mix and be in the game, [along with] Jay Hollingsworth and Matt Daniels... [and] Lee Butler.”

With senior running back Re’quan Boyette out indefinitely with knee surgery, the Blue Devils have injected some new life into the backfield mix. Hollingsworth, a North Carolina native, has shined thus far for Duke. He could get some playing dme at running back when the team takes on James Madison in its season opener.

With the experience and power brought by senior back Clifford Harris, the quickness of converted comerback Tony Jackson and the addition of a traditional runner in Hollingsworth, the Blue Devil backfield is certainly multifaceted. In fact, starting quarterback ThaddeusLewis has dubbed the combo a “three-headed monster.”

Perhaps Duke’s most prominent signing, four-star comerback Randez James has shown solid skill on the defensive side and is moving his way up the Blue Devil depth chart. James followed the path of junior defensive lineman Vince Oghobaase and enrolled at Duke last January to help ease the transition from high school to college and further prepare himself for this level.

Along with James, the secondary seems to have been fortified by this recruiting class asButler, a comerbackfrom Anderson, S.C. and Matt Daniels—a safety from Fayetteville, Ga.—were included in Cutdiffe’s list of the freshmen talent, which has been quick to develop. But if Cutcliffe had his way, his first-years would have even more time.

“Not to hurt our recruiting, but I would love to redshirt the bulk ofour class, particularly these first few years.

It’s the fastest way to building a program,” Cutcliffe said.

Freshmen are unavailable for comment to the media.

Allowing freshmen to take a year off to soak in the system and prepare physically for the college level may be a luxury thatDuke cannot afford to take. Former head coach Ted Roofwas also an advocate ofredshirting his players, to which he attributed Wake Forest’s rise up the rankings.

One highly-touted recruit who will most likely not see immediate action is four-star quarterback Sean Renfree. Renfree will sit behind Lewis, perhaps even for two years, before he gets his chance to play. And if Renfree ends up getting redshirted this season, it probably won’t be to Cutcliffe’s chagrin.

“I love fourth-year juniors,” he said. “When you get fourth-year juniors and fifth-year seniors together on a team, you’ve got a pretty good football team if you’ve recruited right.”

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on the passing situations and he was just in on the running situations,” Lewis said.

Duke’s top two quarterbacks won’t be “The defense wouldknow what’s coming at platooning this season. But they’ll both get them, so I don’t think [Cutcliffe] will do it a chance to pick apart opposing defenses—- like that. If I’m in, I think he’s just going to call the plays accordingly, as well as if Zack’s possibly at the same time.

Starting quarterback Thaddeus Lewis is in, he’ll just call the plays accordingly.” coming off a successful sophomore season Having two dual-threat quarterbacks in which he amassed 2,430 yards through should help Duke keep opposing defenses the air and connected for 21 touchdowns off-balance, Lewis said. against just 10 interceptions.

But that’s not the only card Cutcliffe is But fellow redshirt junior Zack Asack holding in his effort to throw off theBlue Devhas been pushing Lewis in practice, providils’ opponents. He’s considering playing both ing the Blue Devils with another potential Asack and Lewis at the same time, although the team hasn’t practiced any such plays yet weapon behind center.

“Thad’s our starting quarterback,” “You’ll see Zack Asack,” Cutcliffe told head coach David Cutcliffe said ThursThe Chronicle. “He’s earned the right to day. “We’ll just find the right situations play. We’ve got some things that we’re lookfor Zack to get out there and do his thing, ing at trying to get them both in the game and we’ll just see how that progresses as at the same time. But we’re just kind of the season goes.” keeping it a little bit under wraps.”

That includes keeping the details from his Previously, Asack’s presence on the field generally indicated that a running play players. Even Lewis and Asack don’tknow how was on the way. But Asack and Cutcliffe a two-quarterback situationwould play out believe that the quarterback’s passing has “I don’t know what Coach Cutcliffe has improved since last year, allowing Asack to up his sleeve with game strategy like that, be used in both throwing and running situbut he hasn’t gone in depth,” Asack said. ations this season.

“He briefly mentioned he could have me at Besides, using Asack solely for running running back or Thad at running back and plays and Lewis on throwing downs would the other would be at quarterback or rebe too simple for an offensively-minded ceiver, just to give them a different look.” coach like Cutcliffe.

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the ACC’s two divisions—Clemson and Virginia Tech.

A 2004 upset win over the Tigers gave Duke its last win over a conference opponent, but Clemson’s strong team and home-field advantage will pose a tough test for the Blue Devils when they travel down 1-85 Nov. 15. Virginia Tech’s recent history against Duke has been nothing short of dominant, with the Hokies winning by no fewer than 29 points in each of their four wins over Duke since joining the ACC. The regular season winds to a close for the Blue Devils with their Nov. 29 tilt against North Carolina for the Victor)' Bell trophy.

Duke has narrowly lost each of the past two meetings against the Tar Heels largely because of miscues in the kicking game, but a win in the final game of the season would give Duke control of the Victory Bell for the first time since 2003 and draw Cutcliffe’s first season to a solid close.

see some playing time.

“He is staying with the team and helping us out with his knowledge about the game,” Harris said. “He has played a lot in this league, so he kind of knows the ins and outs.”

Once game time comes, however, it takes more than a running back to make a successful ground attack. Harris and Jackson can only be as good as the offensive line allows them. Last season, the line was as porous as a sponge, letting the defense through to crush the ball carrier before he left the backfield. The linemen, who were undersized by ACC standards but still carrying too much body fat, were more to blame for the poor ground performance than the backs themselves.

Throughout this past offseason, the weight issue was addressed. Many of the linemen are now up to 20 pounds lighter than they were under former head coach Ted Roof. The rest of the offense has taken notice and is expecting a vast improvement in performance.

“Everyone is more aggressive,” Jackson said. “Since they lost a lot ofweight, they can move faster and have more agility, so it improved how athletic they play and how fast they play. They get off the ball quickly.”

There are additional benefits to the weight loss, as well.

“I think the biggest thing I have seen is the confidence they have, going up there and knowing what to do,” backup quarterback ZackAsack said. “They are lighter on their feet and look good in the jerseys and pads.”

Cutcliffe’s ground unit looks to have eliminated its major performance and style issues from the previous campaign.

The practice and preparation are in place, and the only thing left to do is wait for the opening whistle to officially usher in the Blue Devils’ new two-pronged offense.

QUARTERBACKS from page 9 And Cutcliffe likely won’trestrict his options to what an opposing defense might expect—a double pass or a run by one of the Duke quarterbacks. Lewis said he wouldn’t be surprised if Cutcliffe had one ofhis quarterbacks run a route.

The fact that Lewis and Asack can both run and throw further multiplies the number of directions the former Tennessee offensive coordinator can take in designing his dual-quarterback plays.

“I don’t know what a defensive coordinator would do if he saw two quarterbacks out there who both have the ability to run and throw,” Asack said. “It’ll be interesting once that time comes.”

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While he will focus on the line and Maclntyre on the defensive backs, the two will share duties as coordinators.

Maclntyre will call most of the plays in Duke’s first game Saturday, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be talking to his counterpart between series, he said.

“It’s a shared responsibility,” Maclntyre said. “So far it’s been like teaching a course—but Saturday is the first test.”

While the defense will aim to score high on its first exam, its final grade will depend heavily on Maclntyre and Hobby’s ability to co-teach the class.

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