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Duke wins lucky ACC title No. 13 By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
it was fear of losing at the ACC 5 Maybe Championships for the first time in 13 Wake Forest years. Maybe it was the pain of watching Wake Forest snap their ACC 116-match winning streak. Whatever it was, the ninth-ranked women’s tennis team (21-5) found the motivation to lift it to its 13th
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consecutive ACC championship yesterday at the Racquet Club ofthe South in Norcross, Ga. The ninth-ranked Blue Devils knocked off No. 3 Wake Forest (21-2) 5-3 in a dramatic final-round contest Sunday that was decided in doubles. “It was big,” coach Jamie Ashworth said. “The whole year we hadn’t beaten a team that was ranked ahead of us. The girls proved that if they put their minds to it and work for the three weeks that we [dedicated] to the ACC tournament, they’ll get the results that they want and that they deserve.” Going into doubles play with the match tied 3-3, Duke came out with a vengeance, as the No. 2 team of Megan Miller and Hillary Adams took an 8-4 decision and Katie Granson and Kathy Sell won their match 83 at No. 3, securing Duke’s win. “Doubles were unbelievable,” Ashworth said. “We came out and took any momentum that we had and got off to a good start in doubles. We got leads on every
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Theta Chi members participated in tug of war Friday afternoon as part of the annual Greek Olympics. After rounds of pie eating, keg hurling and wheelbarrow racing, Sigma Chi was declared this year’s winner. Although sororities traditionally participate in Greek Week, as did the National Panhellenic Council last year, both groups declined the offer this year because they were not involved in the planning.
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Duke hopes to save on office supplies By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
en the ds? Like most people, Brandon Cox knows that his parents love him. He knows they care about what happens in his life and that, in many ways, they support him as their son. But the Trinity senior also knows that, in one very key way, they decided not to help him. When Cox went home to South Carolina during spring
break of his junior year, he told his parents he was gay. Their reaction was anything but accepting, and the conse-
quences have been everything but easy. “They weren’t very supportive of my lifestyle choice, so they decided not to fund my college education as a result,” he said.
“It’s what I expected to happen,” Cox said. “It played a
role in the delay of my coming out to my parents.” Like a small handful of students every year, Cox headed back to Durham with the added burden of paying for the remainder of his Duke career. James Belvin, director of undergraduate financial aid, said that parents do occasionally decide to stop supporting children while in college, although such cases aren’t common. “It cerSee
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The University and the Health System sometimes make Duke seem more like hundreds of small businesses, not one behemoth. And when any of the countless professionals working on any individual project at the University group picks up a pack of pens or buys a couple oflegal pads on the department’s expense account instead of pooling their buying power, Duke ends up losing millions of dollars. After five months of work, a subcommittee of the University’s procurement initiative—designed to examine all the University’s expenditures on products—has recommended that the University standardize its office supplies, from desks to pens. Jane Pleasants, director of procurement services, said the University and the Health System spend $lO million on office supplies every year. Most office workers should feel little or no impact from the changes, but the University is projected to save 35 percent on these expenditures. “We didn’t spend any more than 20 percent of that with any one supplier,” she said. “We wanted to allow vendors to bid and see if the market would respond Starting June 1, all Duke departments See SUPPLIES on page 7 �
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