The Chronicle TUESDAY. MARCH 7,2000
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VOL. 95. NO. 110
Duke nets Ist ACC crown
University drops 28 licensees
Five players score in double digits to lead the Blue Devils over the Tar Heels By RAY HOLLOMAN The Chronicle
Tear79 GREENSBORO choked and game-weary, UNC 76 Missy West sat staring out at the assembled media with a spent stare that said everything that didn’t need to be, her left hand cupping her right, as if she were holding her own hand, trying to convince even herself that she had done what she had done. In a game where emotions had poured out like sweat and where a rivalry flared like no other can, she had been the hero of heroes. It had taken Duke 25 years to be this
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After a year ofnegotiations with corporations and anti-sweatshop activists, the University severed ties Monday with 28 companies that had not disclosed complete information about their factories. Only three days after the most recent deadline, the Collegiate Licensing Company—Duke’s licensing agency—issued letters on behalf of the University, voiding the corporations’ rights to manufacture and market products bearing the Duke name. “You’re either in compliance or you’re n0t...,” said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. “I hope this sends a message that we’re serious about this.” Duke will continue to contract with more than 380 companies producing items that sport the school’s logos. Trask said the 28 terminated companies produced about $30,000—or 8 percent —of Duke’s annual royalty revenue. “We knew all along that we were going to lose some income,” Trask said. “We’re fine with that.”
close to an ACC championship and
Missy West made sure that another 51 seconds wasn’t going to stop the Blue Devils from claiming their first. The senior, who has seen about as many knee surgeries as double-digit games, scored 11 second-half points and hit three key free throws in the final minute of the game as the second-seeded Blue Devils (26-5) defeated the No. 5 seeded Tar Heels (18-12) 7976 in Greensboro Coliseum last night to win the program’s first-ever ACC
championship. “It was a great game; we just came out determined to play at the end,” said West. “It was a sweet victory, a great way to go out.” But the Tar Heels nearly chimed midnight early on the Tobacco Road Cinderella story of the blue collar Blue Devil. After trailing by four to seven points
See SWEATSHOPS on page 4
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COACH GAIL GOESTENKORS celebrates with a pull-up on the rim at the Greensboro Coliseum after Duke captured its first-ever ACC tournament, title. *
most of the second halfand not seriously threatening the Duke advantage, the Tar Heels began a rally with 5:53 left to play that turned a tight ACC championship game into one of the tournament’s classics. North Carolina star point guard
Nikki Teasley, whose 31 points kept the Tar Heels close on the Blue Devils’ heels the whole game, connected with a slashing LaQuanda Barksdale for a lay up to trim the lead from a game-high nine points back to seven. See CHAMPIONS on page 15 �
Fire damages nearby apartments Basketball players The blaze displaced about 24 students living in the Campus Oaks complex
� Several members of the men’s basketball
By MARY CARMICHAEL and GREG PESSIN
team say that they were misled into signing
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a tetter supporting presidential candidate Jordan Bazinsky.
Twenty-foot-tall flames projected from the top of the Campus
Oaks apartment complex at 311 Swift Ave. late last night. Although the fire consumed five apartments and affectedl2 doubles believed to be inhabited by students, no injuries were reported. At about 9:20 p.m., complex residents reported, they heard car horns honking and two men banging on their doors warning them of the serious blaze and telling them to get out. The blaze started in apartments 301 and 302 and spread downward through the building. By about 10 p.m., six fire units had more or less contained the blaze in front of crowds ofresidents and onlookers. “Right now we feel like we’ve got it under control,” said Durham Sec FIRE on page 5 �
Packer
deny endorsement By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle
In a letter to the editor last week, the men’s basketball team declared its strident support for Duke
FIRE TRUCKS responded en masse to the flames that consumed the Campus Oaks apartment complex Monday night.
apologizes
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Student Government presidential candidate Jordan Bazinsky, but a series of denials and denunciations has cast doubt on the endorsement. Trinity junior Jill Alexy, a team manager who is also organizing Bazinsky’s campaign, put the letter on the table during one of the team’s marathon autographing sessions. Several players said that in the rush to get as many items signed as quickly as possible, they did not read the letter before signing it, and others claim that they never signed the March 1 letter at all. “On a day where I signed over 300 items, I do not take the time to read every single thing I sign. I assume since it is on the table, I am to sign it. But it wasn’t until I read my name next to the letter in The Chronicle [that I sawl what had happened...,” Shane Battier wrote in an e-mail. “I did not intend to endorse See LETTER on page 6
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Track teams compete in ECAC, IC4A, page 13