November 8, 2000

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At too close to call daybreak, 2000 Bush, Gore

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N.Y. Times News Service and The Chronicle

“I don’t think there’s never been a night like this one.”

No one put it better than Vice President A1 Gore’s campaign chair, William Daley, when he announced at 4:10 a.m. today that the 2000 presidential election is far from over.

The outcome of the race between Gov. George W. Bush and Gore balanced early Wednesday morning on no more than a few thousand votes in the closely contested state ofFlorida.

As of 7 a.m., the Florida presidential race was down to about 2,000 votes and the

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WELL INTO THE NIGHT, supporters of both candidates stayed to discover if their candidate had won or lost the election race in Oregon was also too close to call.

By Florida law, if the margin between the candidates is less than one half of 1 percent of the total votes cast, the votes must be re-counted by Gov. Jeb Bush and two other election officials.

The margin in Florida was about 2/100ths of 1 percent.

Shortly after 2 a.m., Bush

appeared to have won Florida, and most newspapers and television stations declared that he had captured the White House.

Gore called Bush to concede his defeat as Bush was preparing his victory speech.

But later in the morning, as the count in Florida neared an end, the margin that Bush had achieved, which rose to about

50,000 votes around 2 a.m., unexpectedly evaporated to just above 400. State officials said they might have to count the close to 30,000 expected overseas absentee ballots before they could be certain of the result.

Gore quickly called Bush to retract his concession.

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North Carolinians may have voted solidly in favor of Republican presidential candidate George Bush, but Democrats swept North Carolina state and local elections yesterday, taking both the governor’s mansion and key races in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the presidential election, North Carolina gave its 14 electoral votes to Republican George W. Bush with 53 percent of the state’s vote over Democrat A1 Gore’s 46 percent.

State attorney general Mike Easley triumphed over Republican Richard Vinroot, former mayor of Charlotte, winning 52 percent of the vote to Vinroot’s 46 percent. Libertarian candidate Barbara Howe collected 1 percent. Easley had an especially strong showing in the east and in urban Piedmont areas and also fared well among female voters.

“We started this race together so working families would have a voice in the governor’s office,” a smiling Easley told a cheering Raleigh crowd. “Well, tonight we were their voice, and we must continually be their voice for the next four years.”

North Carolina elected its first female lieutenant governor in history, as Democrat Beverly Perdue beat Republican Betsy Cochrane 52 to 46 percent, according to preliminary returns.

“History isn’t something you read in a book,” Perdue said.

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Israeli leader talks tough, calls for peace

As new clashes broke out in Israel, Prime Minis-

ter Ehud Barak stated clearly that a peace treaty could produce a “viable Palestinian state” but that he would not negotiate under threats of violence.

Authorities detail Taiwan plane crash Investigators confirmed that a crane ripped open the belly of the Singapre Airlines jumbo jet that took off on the wrong runway last week, killing 82 people.

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ingredient warning Several major drug store chains are pulling dozens of cold remedies and diet pills from their shelves after the Food and Drug Administration warned that a certain ingredient could cause strokes.

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President WASHINGTON Clinton named former U.S. Bill Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to lead an inquiry into the cause of the violence that wracked the West Bank and Gaza for five weeks and imperiled the alreadyshaken peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians.

White House press secretary Jake Siewert said Tuesday that the committee would work with the two sides to “provide an independent and objective review of the current crisis with the goal of preventing its recurrence.”

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They are former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel, Foreign Minister Thorbjom Jagland of Norway and Javier Solana, a Spanish diplomat who is the senior security official ofthe European Union.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had demanded the inquiry be conducted through the United Nations, which condemned Israel’s forceful response to Palestinian rioters. But at the emergency summit meeting three weeks ago at

By WARREN HOGE

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LONDON British doctors separated three-monthold twin girls Tuesday in a court-approved operation that knowingly sacrificed the life of one to save the other.

Surgeons at St. Mary’s Hospital in Manchester worked for 20 hours in what a statement called a “complex procedure” to separate the girls, known by the false names ofJodie and Mary to protect their privacy.

“Jodie is currently in a critical but stable condition,” the brief statement said. “Unfortunately, despite all the efforts of the medical team, Mary sadly died.”

The parents, an unidentified couple from the Maltese island of Gozo, had opposed the operation in an unsuccessful legal action that cited religious objections.

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who was Clinton’s mediator for Northern Ireland peace talks, will be joined by another former senator, Warren Rudman, a New Hampshire Republican, and three

Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, the United States was given the primary role in assembling the commission.

In a gesture to Arafat, it was agreed that UN. Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be consulted.

Tuesday’s White House statement said Clinton devised the committee in consultation with Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Annan.

Annan welcomed Clinton’s announcement and said he is convinced the committee members will be impartial and thorough, and that they will “make an important contribution towards the search for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.”

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Mary, who had primitive brain functions, was said to have been “draining the life” out of Jodie, who is thought to have normal mental abilities. Since Jodie’s heart and lungs were keeping both girls alive, it was known that removing Mary would cause her death.

Were they left joined, doctors said, there was an 80 percent expectation that both girls would die within six months.

The legal battle to save Mary began shortly after the twins were bom on Aug. 8 at St. Mary’s with fused spines, joined at the abdomen and with arms and legs at right angles to their upper bodies. The mother had been brought to the Manchester hospital because it has a medical unit that specializes in operating on joined twins.

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Area voters watch, react to closest election in years Students tune in to root for their candidates, while Sanford director Bruce Jentleson does the same thing from Gore headquarters

By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle Duke- community members impatiently gathered around their television sets and computers to watch the results of the last election in the 20th century—and one professor was right by Vice President A1 Gore’s side in Nashville.

Many stayed up late into the night to watch the electoral college tally, but the tight race between Gore and Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush was too close to call as of 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

“It’s was the tightest race in a very long time,” said law student Gideon Moore, president of the Duke Republicans. “I’m extremely excited. We’re going to hold on to the House. We’re going to hold on to the Senate.

It’s a good time to be a Republican in America.”

Sanford Institute of Public Policy Director Bruce Jentleson flew to Gore headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee Tuesday afternoon.

“There’s a tremendous sense of disappointment here,” he said at around 2:45 a.m. from Nashville. “It’s been a night of ups and downs, and this is the closest election in my lifetime.”

Throughout the night, the networks announced

one or the other candidate had won Florida, which

turned out to be the election’s key state.

In Nashville, after the networks retracted their 7:30 p.m. announcement that Gore took the state hit his campaign exceptionally hard.

“Early in the evening, there was a great sense of excitement. Then, not only to lose, but to be pulled off the road to winning is exceptionally upsetting,” Jentleson said. “People are feeling a great sense of loss.”

At the Sanford Institute, dozens of students and faculty members gathered to watch the election results early in the evening. Assistant Professor of Political Science Paul Gronke and his class watched the results in one ofthe institute’s computer clusters.

“I’m a political science major. We’re all psyched,” said senior Alexandrea Haskell. T think a lot of people, for the first time in a long time, think that their vote

Correction The page three byline in the Nov. 6 issue ofThe Chronicle incorrectly identified the writer of the gubernatorial candidates profiles. James Herriott wrote the stories.

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AN EXTREMELY CLOSE ELECTION stimulated discussion and analysis among students watching the returns at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy last night.

counts. It’s a great time to be a political science major.”

Each vote played a crucial role in determining the outcome of the election. Some pundits had feared that early predictions of a rainy Tuesday would deter some from the ballot box, but in the end, such concerns were proven unfounded.

“I think the most important thing across the country has been turnout. It’s been amazing in a lot of places,” said senior Liz Oakes. “Students are very energetic.

There seems to be a lot of interest in the election.”

Although many undergraduates seemed to watch

the election results with a fierce sense of partisanship, some political science graduate students attending a crowded viewing at the International House and said they were indifferent about the outcome.

“Both the candidates were pretty unappealing.

Nether one seemed to be the best that their party had

to offer,” said political science graduate student Matt Diamond. “Certainly the fact that North Carolina was called early for Bush... didn’t help.”

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While most students remained glued to their sets

awaiting word on who would be the next occupant of the White House, others were equally interested in results of state-wide elections.

Many Duke students went to the voting booth specifically to vote in favor of the $3.1 billion bond issue to renovate and expand North Carolina’s colleges and universities.

“I came to vote for the bond issue cause it affects people our age,” said junior C.J. Walsh. ‘We’re pretty privileged to go to Duke, but if you look at other schools in the area, they need help. North Carolina is a state that could use some social improvement, and college is a pretty good way to bring people up to a better plane.”

About half of America woke up disappointed this morning, but Gronke said these citizens should not get

discouraged with America’s democracy.

“I tell my students don’t be disappointed, ifyour side doesn’t win,” he said. “The fight is not over yet.”

Sarah McGill contributed to this story.

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Scientists develop microchip that could stop seizures Throughout the trials, the scientists worked with a facial nerve called the trigeminal, which has not been Medical Center researchers found that implanting a used for seizure reduction in the past. This innovation microchip that acts as a “brain pacemaker” into rats helps avoid cardiac arrhythmias and other potential can read the animal’s brain waves, automatically detect side effects involved in working with the traditionally the onset of an epileptic seizure and stop it in its tracks used vagus nerve.

In addition to being more innocuous than the vagus, by triggering a facial nerve. of cratrigeminal facial nerve can be stimulated on both that stimulation the Scientists have long known nial nerves by electric current helps ease the symptoms the left and right sides. Such bilateral stimulation increases its effectiveness in halting seizure activity. of epileptic seizures. But this method remains problemAshlan Reid, co-author and graduate student in bioatic because the patient must sense that they are going medical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, to have a seizure and then manually trigger stimulation—this requires a judgment call, which can never be wrote in an e-mail that these two findings may help the 10 to 50 percent of epilepsy patients who do not respond completely accurate. to current pharmaceutical and surgical treatments.

“This is important because, in most seizures, pa“The technique we described in our study could have tients lose consciousness and can’t stimulate the application for these patients,” he wrote.

Nicolelis, an associate a professor significant nerve,” said Dr. Miguel “Exploring the mechanism of nerve stimulation theraof neurobiology and a co-author of the study.

In an effort to increase the rate of detection, py in more detail could have implications for improving Nicolelis and two of his colleagues investigated the the treatment of many otherwise untreatable patients.”

Now that scientists have accumulated data for trials development of interfaces between the brain and an electric current that could trigger therapeutic action with rats, the next step is to move to a primate model with human treatment as the final goal. automatically.

“We may actually have a better ability to eliminate “We developed a little device that could [trigger stimulation] automatically,” Nicolelis said. ‘We are showing the seizure; it remains to be seen whether it applies to humans,” said Craig Henriquez, an associate professor for the first time that this can be implemented.”

Devices such as these were inserted into the brain of of biomedical engineering.

In addition to beginning trials in other animals, rats to detect electroencephalogram readings, or “brain waves,” and respond when a pattern of seizures was more seizure models must be used before the therapy can be considered to treat the disparate forms of discerned. With this information, a nerve can be autohuman epilepsy. matically stimulated to halt the seizure.

Nicolelis and his colleagues report that automatic “Different seizure models are typically a precursor nerve stimulation is almost 40 times more effective in to human trials,” said Erika Fanselow, a graduate stuseizure reduction per second of stimulation than predent in the Department of Neurobiology and co-author ofthe study. “I think it is quite applicable to humans.” ventative periodic stimulation.

This increased effectiveness also lies in the fact that Fanselow added that it is important for other labs automatic stimulation results in less overall triggering around the nation to consider the clinical implications ofthis research and begin adapting it for human use. of the nerve —making overstimulation and nerve damAlthough reluctant to put a precise timeframe on unwanted side effects. age less likely and decreasing

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HOWARD STRINGER, CEO of Sony’s American division,talked about the changes in the electronics industry.

Right now, somewhere on campus, a student is in the middle of day 14 of a Play Station 2 marathon that began Oct. 26 and may never end. Homework hasn’t been done, midterms haven’t been studied for and classes are, well, a distant memory.

The person to blame for all this Play Station 2 hoopla spoke yesterday as part of the Fuqua School of Business’ Distinguished Lecture Series.

Sir Howard Stringer, CEO and chair of Sony Corporation of America, gave an animated speech that was part lecture, part infomercial to over 200 Fuqua students.

Stringer’s talk focused on trends in the electronic and entertainment industries and how the Sony empire plans to tackle consumer demands in the 21st century.

“We are the number one brand in the world,” Stringer said, “but we are also at a pivotal point of convergence.”

The CEO noted that essential to the future of Sony is the integration of technology and entertainment, in such devices as the Play Station series, Vaio laptop computers, high definition televisions and the Clie, a palm-type unit that provides moving video and memory cards.

Stringer also discussed the impact of the Internet on today’s business world, noting that although the dot-com craze seems to have passed, the web is still a vital part of Sony’s business plan.

“We are working in the next several years on providing broadband entertainment and video on demand,” he said.

Because a major part ofthe company lies in music and motion pictures, Stringer tackled the issue of such Internet sites as Napster and indirectly, Scour. Both sites are currently being sued by the music and film industries, re-

spectively, over copyright infringement, and both have recently formed alliances with major players in the entertainment industry. Stringer jokingly called last week’s Bertelsmann-Napster partnership a “reverse corruption.”

The Sony chief held his audience’s attention throughout, providing some entertainmentby screening three previews for upcoming films from Sony and subsidiary Columbia Pictures. He also shared anecdotes with the group about his experiences with the British royal family, including an occasion during which Queen Elizabeth II told him that she had “awful trouble with [Sony’s] remotes all those arrows. Prince William has to come in and turn the television on for me.”

Stringer was bom in Wales and educated at Oxford University. Before becoming CEO of Sony’s American division in 1997, he worked in broadcasting for over 30 years, beginning with coverage of the 1968 presidential —

election as a researcher. ‘ln those days you had to wait for someone to die to get promoted,” he said. Nevertheless, Stringer climbed the CBS ladder rapidly, becoming executive producer of CBS Reports in the late 1970s and running the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1981 to 1985. He went on to serve as president of the CBS Broadcast Group from 1988 to 1995, bringing the network from last place in ratings to first place in one year.

Ultimately, Stringer told the Fuqua students that though technology and electronics is a lucrative and exciting industry—as Sony has certainly shown—it is also a perilous one.

“Technology is a dangerous monster. It can turn on you like a shark. We have to be very daring,” Stringer said, “but at some point we’ll go bankrupt.”

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Republicans barely retain Senate majority remains command of U.S. House questionable at daybreak

By DAVID ESPO Associated Press

WASHINGTON Republicans likely retained control of the House early Wednesday by a slim margin, barely turning back a ferocious, well-financed Democratic bid to gain a majority.

According to CNN at 6 a.m., 11 seats remained in doubt, some of them agonizingly close.

Republicans picked up or were near securing six Democratic seats, enough to renew their hold for two more years. But their majority shrank when they gave back eight other seats elsewhere, including four in California.

On a night extremely kind to incumbents, only three lawmakers lost their seats, although a handful of others remained in races too close to call.

The victims included Republican Rep. James Rogan in California, who had a high-profile role in President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial; fellow GOP Californian Brian Bilbray; and Democratic Sam Gejdenson in Connecticut.

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Besides their Connecticut victory, Republicans won Democratic open seats in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and Missouri.

Shortly before 4 a.m. EST, the national trend showed Republicans had won 215 seats with 218'required to seal control.

Democrats had won 207 at around 5 a.m.

In addition, each party could count the support of one independent.

Republicans had won six seats formerly held by Democrats, and were leading for two more.

Democrats had won eight seats formerly in GOP hands, and were leading for one more.

The Republican victory means a new term as speaker for Hastert of Illinois, re-elected easily to an eighth term in the House. The Democratic leader, Dick Gephardt of Missouri, won his 13th term, but fell agonizingly close to his goal of regaining the majority his party lost in 1994.

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WASHINGTON The contest for in the remained control of the Senate balance at 5:45 a.m. when Republicans had secured 50 seats, and the Democrats won 48; outstanding seats remained in Michigan and Washington.

Democrats got their biggest boosts with history-making triumphs by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York and a dead governor in Missouri.

Remarkably, joining Clinton in the Senate winners’ circle was Jean Carnahan, widow ofMissouri Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, killed three weeks ago in a plane crash. In perhaps Election Day’s most poignant drama, he outpolled GOP Sen. John Ashcroft anyway, and she has said she will accept the new governor’s appointment to the job.

No one had ever posthumously, won election to the Senate, though voters on at least three occasions sent deceased candidates to the House. Some Republicans have said they might challenge the Carnahan victory, asserting that the late governor was no longer a state resident.

But for now, the Carnahan win—and a Democratic win in Nebraska—assured Democrats at least 48 seats. That was more than enough to use the minority’s power to wreak havoc with the OOP’s legislative agenda by forcing procedural delays. With Republicans retaining narrow control ofthe House, Senate Democrats —with their constitutional ability to

best roadblock to GOP initiatives.

This year’s 54-46 Republican majority will be 52-48 in the next Congress at best.

In a cliffhanger night in which the presidential race was also unresolved because of returns from Florida, Republicans faced the possibility of controlling the Senate with only a 50-50 tie.

The victory by two-term incumbent GOP Conrad Bums in Montana ensured that Republicans would have at least 50 of the Senate’s 100 seats.

That is enough for them to control the chamber, no matter if Republican George W Bush or Democratic Vice President A1 Gore was elected president.

A Gore victory would elevate his running mate, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, to the vice presidency, opening the door for GOP Connecticut Gov. John Rowland to name a Republican to replace him in the Senate. A victory by Bush would make Dick Cheney vice president, in line to break any tie votes.

Holding the majority gives Republicans their first eight-year stretch of Senate supremacy since the 1932 elections ended 14 years ofunbroken GOP control.

Of the 29 incumbents seeking reelection, three others besides Ashcroft were toppled from office by early Wednesday: veteran Democratic Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia and GOP Sens. Rod Grams of Minnesota and William Roth of Delaware.

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Durham voters re-elect Democrat incumbents to local offices N.C. ROUNDUP from page 1

“Tonight history is alive. It’s alive with your energy and achievement.”

Incumbent Democrat David Price retained his seat the 4th Congressional District seat with 62 percent in of the vote, prevailing over Republican challenger Jess Ward, who picked up 37 percent, and Libertarian candidate Brian Towey, who garnered 1 percent.

And in a referendum closely watched by educators across North Carolina, voters said “yes” to issuing $3.1 billion worth in bonds for renovations to the University of North Carolina system.

The Governor’s Race The key to the governor’s mansion may be changing hands, but it is not changing parties.

Although polls since this summer had shown Easley with a large projected margin of victory, he was only one or two points up in the days just before the election.

Easley’s acceptance speech focused on the economy and education. “One point three million North Carolinians couldn’t vote today. They’re our school children,” he said. “We were their voice today and we must continually be their voice for the next four years.”

Easley also touched on the need to defend the working class, protect the environment and minimize the gaps between the poor and wealthy.

“We cannot have two North Carolinas,” Easley said. “Our economy is on a roll in this state but it must roll over to every citizen in every city and every

I. BEVERLY LAKE addressed his supporters last night, though did not declare outright victory, after the tally showed that he narrowly won the race for chief justice of the State Supreme Court, with 51 percent of the vote to incumbent Henry Frye’s 49 percent.

often meeting with voters door-to-door. In addition, Price’s financial backing far outdistanced Ward’s.

Price said that the Duke community played a large part in his victory.

small town.”

The mood at the Vinroot camp was much less festive.

Though the Vinroot campaign had hoped that Gov. George Bush’s popularity in the state would lift the former Charlotte mayor to victory, Vinroot was not able ride the Texan’s tide.

The Local Elections There were few surprises locally last night, as Durham voters maintained the county’s strong Democratic representation by re-electing a host of incumbents.

The county Board of Commissioners maintained its all-Democrat status. The four incumbent candidates Chair MaryAnn Black, Vice-Chair Ellen Reckhow, Joe Bowser and Becky Heron—kept their seats while school board member Philip Cousin captured the seat left vacant by retiring commissioner Bill Bell. The Democrats faced little opposition from challenging Libertarian Pam Adams and Republicans Robert Appleby, Ricky Hart and Tom Stark.

Area voters supported Democrats seeking seats in both houses of the N.C. General Assembly. In the State Senate District 13,Democratic incumbents Wib Gulley and Jeanne Lucas garnered 38 percent and 35 percent ofthe vote, respectively, keeping the two seats contested by Republican challenger Wallace Bradsher and

The House: Price vs. Ward Voters of North Carolina’s 4th district chose once again to send Duke professor Price to Washington.

‘Thanks from the bottom of my heart,” Price told the cheering crowd of Democrats in Raleigh. “We’ve gotten out a positive message this year— strengthening education, cleaning air and water, protecting Social Security and Medicare, getting prescription medicine to those who need it.... It’s an agenda we’re going to push just as hard as we can when we go back to Washington.”

Price also promised he would work to improve teacher recruitment and housing affordability.

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In the State House District 23 race, longtime Democratic incumbents Mickey Michaux and Paul Luebke, along with Democrat Paul Miller, handily won over Libertarian challengers Robert Dorsey and Ray Übinger.

No Republicans ran for any ofthe district’s three seats.

Despite Democrats gaining control of the state’s executive branch, Republican judges found more favor with voters.

In the race for chief justice of the State Supreme Court, Republican I. Beverly Lake unseated the incumbent Henry Frye. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Lake was leading Frye 51 to 49 percent.

Though Lake did not declare victory last night, he said a win would be encouraging for state Republicans.

The associate justice position up for grabs was also taken by a Republican. Bob Edmunds beat his Democratic opponent Franklin Freeman 52 to 48 percent with 95 percent of precincts reporting. in related news, in the key U.S. House of Representatives race of District 2, Democrat Bob Etheridge beat out Republican opponent Doug Haynes.

Matt Atwood, Elizabeth Canter, Marko Djuranovic and Christine Parkins contributed to this story.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2000

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Uncertainty characterizes topsy-turvy election night

PRESIDENT from page I By 5 a.m. Wednesday morning, Gore had turned the tables entirely, taking his first lead in the popular vote by a relatively whopping 250,000 votes.

Bush was able to claim much of the South, while Gore captured the largest states on both coasts. But the two divided a patchwork of Midwestern states that are crucial for victory.

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since 1916, when Woodrow Wilson drew 277 votes from the Electoral College and Charles Hughes won 254.

When the final tally is in, it may even turn out to be the closest race since 1876, when Rutherford Hayes beat Samuel Tilden by a single electoral vote.

The closest margin in more recent times was in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won the presidency with 297 electoral votes, and Gerald Ford captured 240.

All night long, there were signs of hope—and despair—for each candidate.

At one point, surveys of voters leaving their polling places projected that Bush was 1 percentage point ahead in the popular vote; at another point, they had him 1 point behind.

At 7:52 p.m. all the major networks called Florida, a critical battleground, for Gore.

But in a rare reversal, they declared two hours later that the state was too close to call.

The electoral map seemed to have been turned on its head, as were many of the assumptions about which states were safely in one camp or another.

Gore was defeated in Tennessee, for example, becoming the first presidential contender to lose in his home state since George McGovern lost in South Dakota in 1972. The results in many states were so close that it was possible that Gore would contest the outcome in some of them.

Even hours after polls closed in most states, officials in both camps seemed neither confident nor pessimistic—just downright jittery. Gore was so unsure that he made calls throughout the early evening to radio stations in critical states, moving through Arkansas and then westward as polls closed in the East. The campaign also enlisted President Bill Clinton to make last-minute telephone calls to radio stations in battleground states.

“Our focus is on the fact that this is one of the closest elections in a generation,” said Douglas Hattaway, a Gore campaign spokesman. “For the first time in three decades, people who live on the West Coast will decide who will be the next president ofthe United States.”

Around 7 p.m. in Texas, less than an hour after Bush and his family, including his parents, arrived at an Austin restaurant for dinner, they aborted their plan to watch the returns from a suite in the adjacent Four Seasons hotel and retreated to the governor’s mansion. The decision came about the time that the networks were declaring Gore the winner in Michigan and Florida.

Soon after, Bush told reporters that he questioned early projections that he had lost Florida, where his brother Jeb is governor, and Pennsylvania, where one ofhis staunchest backers, Tom Ridge, is governor.

“The networks are calling this thing awfully early,” Bush said. “The people counting the votes are coming in with a different perspective.”

In an interview on-CNN, Karl Rove, Bush’s chief strategist, chastised the network for its initial call of Florida, telling the anchor, Bernard Shaw, “I do think that is one criteria you might want to think about changing because you called the state before the polls have closed in a considerable part of the state.”

The voter surveys found that Ralph Nader, the Green Party nominee, had won roughly 3 percent of the popular vote. In some states, like Minnesota, Nader did not seem to have done the damage to Gore’s candidacy that many Democrats feared; but in Florida, Wisconsin, lowa and Oregon, the margins between Gore and Bush were less than Nader’s projected vote.

The only state where Nader appeared to pose an outright threat to the prospects of Gore was Wisconsin.

He needs more than 5 percent of the popular vote to qualify his party for millions of dollars in federal campaign matching money in the next presidential race.

“Today is the takeoff day for this new era,” Nader said at a rally Tuesday night in Washington. ‘The end of the beginning of an honorable, exemplary eightmonth campaign and the beginning of a political movement to establish clean money, clean elections, towarcka responsive* cleanfgovemmesit.’i

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Pat Buchanan, the Reform Party candidate, was drawing less than 1 percent.

It is possible that one candidate could win the Electoral College vote, and therefore the White House, but place second in the popular vote. The last time that happened was 1888, when Benjamin Harrison was elected over Grover Cleveland, who won the popular vote.

The surveys of voters leaving their polling places found no significant shifts in the bases of support for the two candidates. Men were largely backing Bush; women were siding more with Gore. Independents were breaking evenly.

Voters who once considered themselves supporters of Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who drew powerful support from independents in the Republican primaries, gave about a third of their votes to Gore and about two-thirds to Bush.

And Bush drew the votes of more than halfthe peo-

pie who say they voted for Ross Perot in 1996, while

Gore drew about a quarter.

Gore won in the battle over the vaunted undecided voters, an estimated 10 percent of the electorate who seemed to waver between the major-party contenders.

Bush enjoyed the wide support of people who identify themselves as religious conservatives. But perhaps because Bush presented himself as a “compassionate conservative” who would reach out to Democrats, his conservative views on abortion did not stop substantial numbers of people who disagreed with him on that issue selecting him anyway.

Bush had no trouble winning the most partisan core of his party, and neither did Gore; his support among union households was overwhelming.

This presidential race caps an extraordinary campaign in which both candidates frequently traded the front-runner position.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2000

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Dewey defeats Truman In an election that has become too close to call, we are reminded not only of the importance of voting, but of the interaction between journalism and democracy.

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the electoral count has seesawed throughout the night, with the lead changing hands by the minute, hour and second, ales son in American democracy has emerged.

Half ofthe electorate did not vote in this election. While most Americans had opinions, many of them didn’t go to the polls because they thought their opinions didn’t matter.

Yet as the dawn breaks in America today, we are reminded that every vote counts. At this moment, Bush leads the election’s most critical state by a number that is roughly the size ofthe student section in Cameron Indoor Stadium. At this moment, no vote represents merely a statistical error or castoff. Eveiy absentee ballot, every lastminute flip-flop, every individual decision matters. A handful of percentage points that went to Ralph Nader could have changed the results in at least two states. This election will be decided by the voices ofthe many, but it will hinge on the decisions ofthe few.

As the numbers have wavered, as we have watched Florida turn from white to blue to red and back to white on our televisions, we have witnessed the ascendance of the 24-hour news cycle. We live today in an age of hypercompetitive, multiformat media whose disparate decisions are made on the backs of common information.

Election results have but one valid source —the Secretary of State’s office in each state—yet we have witnessed wildly varying interpretations of their data today.

In the last 24 hours, our reliance on snap-judgment journalism hit more than a few snags. We saw television networks vying for a scoop that, once disproven, they were reluctant to relinquish. When it became clear that Florida was once again too close to call, the four major news networks took over 40 minutes to recant their initial conclusions. The failure to remove their errors sooner was irresponsible.

As today’s newspapers hit the stands, many proclaiming “Bush wins” based upon incomplete reporting, we are reminded of the challenges faced every day by journalists pushed to ever-tighter deadlines.

Today’s warp-speed media competition comes not only from professional pride, but also from the demands of the bottom line.

This election seems likely, at this hour, to result in a popular vote win for one candidate and an electoral college win for another. As Gore’s popular vote total surges past that of Governor Bush, America must not leave the validity ofthe electoral college system unexamined.

But as the sun rises on the second day of the 2000 presidential election, one decision should seem much easier for most people to make. Every American should make the decision to vote. For as this election has demonstrated, we can never know ahead of time just how much one vote can matter.

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Letters to the Editor

Students, Duke authorities ignore alcohol laws Some Duke students might be shocked at the revelation that, in the state of North Carolina, alcohol consumption or possession by persons under age 21 is illegal. Visibly underage freshman widely report being served alcohol at studentled parties and at campus businesses like The Hideaway.

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too visible promotion of “responsible safe drinking as opposed to strict enforcement of state law.”

The drinking age in America should be lowered to 18 to be consistent with legal adulthood and the it many responsibilities brings—most significantly compulsory draft registration for males. However, the double standard pursued by Duke is a flagrant hypocrisy and devalues the importance of the law for thou-

sands of students. While the need for “responsible safe drinking” is blatantly obvious, we cannot advocate legal irresponsibility.

Underage students should know unambiguously the legality or illegality of the decisions they make. Only under that civic awareness will society ever reconsider the unfair restrictions it places on 18- to 20-year-olds.

Chronicle article indicates that the campus Alcohol Task Force is considering continuing the already all for referenced article, see http: www.chronicle.duke.edu!chronicle !2000 / /

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DCU unfairly pigeonholes moderate conservatives I came to a horrible realization today. According to an advertisement by the Duke Conservative Union, I am part of a radical national

movement to discard the family. As you can imagine, this was quite a shock. Aside from some liberal social and economic leanings, I generally consider myself to be conservative on issues such as abortion and local control of government, yet I’m subversive. I do have a few questions for the DCU before I turn myself into the authorities, though.

First, why is this majority that the DCU bases its authority on silent? This belief usually just comes from hanging around people who think the same way you do, but it was so crucial to their argument that I gave it

second look. Majorities aren’t known for their silence, usually just the opposite, Perhaps it is silent because it doesn’t exist.

Silent majority arguments seem indicative ofthe critical thinking skills displayed by Peter Pan: If you just believe hard enough, then it will really exist! Probably, the DCU just needs some other viewpoints at its meetings.

Second, why is the DCU so up in arms about this anyway? Just what are they defending Chapel the against? Are they afraid

other making a lifelong commitment before God and the community. It’s a dangerous concept, but we radicals are all for that sort of thing.

how become polluted? Will heterosexual marriages performed there be tainted? Are they afraid that homosexuality is contagious? Maybe they are against the notion of two people who love each

been better off being raised by a same-sex couple.

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Finally, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness come in a three-pack in America. Why is a group that is for the right to life against people whose idea of liberty and happiness is being married to their same-sex partner?

If the DCU executive board’s members are an example of humane citizens from traditional families, then maybe they would’ve

Mark Mitchell Graduate Student, Master of Arts in Teaching Program

ACES enhancements should eventually fix problems This letter is in response to add several enhancements formance has been far betto a Nov. 2 letter in The to the SISS technical architer overall than in the iniChronicle from Luis Villa, tecture. These enhancetial stages of the web “rollconcerning the ACES Web ments included upgrading out.” When problems did registration process. We are several key systems and occur last Friday, OIT rapidsorry to hear that Villa adding three additional ly responded and was able experienced difficulties in servers at various points in to quickly stabilize the sysregistering for his courses the technical infrastructure, tems. The senior window, last Friday. We wish to redesign of the ACES Web with almost 1,600 students assure him and all students application for improved eligible to register concurthat we continue to improve response times, assembling a rently, continues to be our and optimize the registra“SWAT” team to respond greatest challenge. tion process. The implemenConstructive student rapidly to performance probtation of the new student lems and increasing OIT input has been valuable information system has Help Desk support hours throughout this implementabeen a complex, massive during all registration wintion, and we look forward to undertaking. The issues we dows. We have several furthis continuing in the future. have seen are not unusual ther performance enhancewith projects of similar ments that will be put in Bruce Cunningham magnitude. In comparison place in the next two University Registrar and to many of our fellow instimonths. The time conExecutive Director of Student tutions, the difficulties we straints between the last two Information Services and Systems have experienced remain registration periods did not allow us to safely put all relatively small.

Kathy Pfeiffer The Fall 2000 preregistraenhancements in place in Director of Student tion period, as well as the time for Spring registration. Information Services and Systems Fall 2000 semester opening, Despite a larger userallowed us the opportunity base over last spring, perAnd three others 10Employaces.html see letter, http:! /www.chronicle.duke.edu/chroniclel2ooo/11/02/ for referenced

On the record Technology is a dangerous monster. It can turn on you like a shark. We have to be very daring, hut at some point we’ll go bankrupt.

Sir Howard Stringer, CEO and chair of Sony Corporation of America, commenting on advancements in the electronics industry (see story, page five)

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Same-sex debate stinks of hatred The student

body’s reaction to and the administration’s handling of the issue lack open-mindedness hatred, only serves to perpetuate that discrimination against homosexuals in Chapel) and its belief structures (for fear and hatred.

Letters from the pages of the school newspaper, example, the value placed on sex for I plan the left

Ben Weller Bigotry is alive and well at Duke University. It is voiced in letters and columns in The Chronicle’s editorial pages, and it finds sanction in such

revered institutions as the Duke Chapel. Duke Student Government’s principled stand against the Chapel’s can a policy of not allowing samesex

unions

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do not to argue here what the Chapel’s policy should be. There is clearly dissent among religious people over the “morality” of same-sex unions, as the Freeman Center for Jewish Life’s decision to allow gay marriages shows. I am more concerned with what this debate represents: the failure to recognize certain individual rights essential to all people’s freedom.

This is not an issue concerning only religious people, nor does it concern only those people who identify themas selves homosexual, bisexual or non-heterosexual. The hatred on one

How free person be when she can’t hold the hand of the

person she loves because social acceptance depends condition: heterosexuality or the appearance of heterosexuality?

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should be. The outpouring of opposition to DSG’s actions, including the reactionary statements by Dean of the Chapel William Willimon and some other members of Duke’s “religious community,” represent where the University community is—in a closet.

Silence has been the most striking feature of the entire debate. Few expressions of opposition to DSG’s statement against the Chapel’s policy have expressed outright hatred against homosexuals. Rather, most have argued

expressed

towards nonheterosexual orientations, whether in its more blatant form like many letters to the editor or in the more disguised form of arguments supporting delegation of the issue to “religious authorities,” implicates the entire University. As long as there is debate over whether all members ofthe University should enjoy the same rights, securing those rights remains impossible.

The few groups and individuals who have stood up in support of these against DSG’s involvement in the rights, which include the right to issue. The issue of same-sex unions in define and practice one’s own sexualithe Chapel, according to this argument, ty, have been subject to ridicule and is not the business of politicians but of criticism. If this is the experience of “religious” people who would prefer we allies of the gay-rights movement, then all just remain silent on this issue. what is the experience of a gay or lesSilence, however, when combined with bian Duke student or faculty member? well-entrenched sentiments of fear and If it is acceptable to voice support for

than how secure can a non-heterosexual feel in his dorm, in his classes, in his fraternity or in his church group? How free can a person be when she can’t hold the hand of the person she loves because social acceptance depends on one pre-condition: heterosexuality or the appearance of heterosexuality?

Some have argued, in an attempt to defend homosexuality, that sexuality itself is not a large part of a person’s identity. I would argue the opposite: Sexuality is a defining part of a person’s identity. In this society, however, all identities are forced into the same sexual mold—heterosexuality—while in reality a multitude of sexualities, and therefore identities, exist. The fact is that this campus, and our society at large, remains hugely oppressive, because it enforces a norm of heterosexuality through its institutions (the

reproduction over sex for pleasure).

So far, the majority of arguments against DSG’s statement have hinged

on the single argument that the student government has no place telling a religious institution like the Chapel what it can and cannot do. The real question, however, is whether society at large has any right to control the identity and sexuality of the individual.

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I applaud the work of DSG, the FCJL, Gothic Queers and all the groups and individuals who struggle for the human rights ofnon-heterosexuals. Working to create an atmosphere that allows all individuals to define themselves without fear of ostracism, condemnation or violence is working for human liberation from social oppression.

Ben Weller is a Trinity junior.

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When examining the status of civil liberties throughout the world, one rarely pictures the United States as a place where such issues pose a major concern. For it is in the United States that we enjoy freedom that people in other parts of the world can only dream of. And it is in this country of ours that a constitution exists to guarantee such rights and freedoms. So why is it then, that more than two centuries after this sacred document came to be, some in this nation are still denied its most fundamental promises? In particular, the right of due process has been completely abandoned in certain instances, all in the name of national security.

Most Americans would generally not cherish the thought of terrorists operating within their country, and it is this well-pronounced public fear that the U.S. government exploited when it passed anti-terrorism legislation in 1996. Under the recent law, the government can arrest individuals and place them in jail where they would remain indefinitely, without ever charging them with a single crime. They are held based on evidence that neither the “accused” (who is never actually accused of anything) nor his attorneys can see. Instead, the government takes the judge behind closed doors to present secret evidence, on which the judge must rule, without giving the defendant a chance to present a proper defense.

Nevertheless, some people may not have a problem with this practice if the government was indeed using such insidious tactics to catch real-life terrorists. Let’s look at some examples, though, in order to discern the actual effects of secret evidence.

In April 1996, Nasser Ahmed, an Egyptian living in New York, was arrested and subsequently placed in solitary confinement where he spent the next four years away from his wife and four children. The government unofficially alleged terrorist ties, but the

...the right of due process has been completely abandoned in certain instances, all in the name of national security. evidence was not presented in public. After a protracted struggle through the legal system, an immigration judge ultimately freed Ahmed, saying the evidence against him was unreliable, and could never survive in open court.

In May 1997, Mazen Al-Najjar, a professor at the University of South Florida and a well-respected academic, was also arrested and detained based on secret evidence. The government has never purported that Al-Najjar or Ahmed were involved with terrorism. Nevertheless, more than three and a half years later, Al-Najjar, a father of three, remains in jail, not knowing when this grim episode will end.

Recently though, a glimpse of hope has emerged. On

Oct. 28, a judge in Tampa ruled, after having already seen the secret in 1997, that the government had no proof whatsoever that Al-Najjar was associated with terrorists or posed a threat to

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national security.

Since the government has tacitly admitted to making a mistake in its detention of these individuals, how can it be trusted to dispense justice behind closed doors? Furthermore, the fact that the 30 or so victims of secret evidence (none of whom have ever been convicted of a crime) over the past few years have been of Arab origin is all the more distressing.

This is clearly institutionalized racism at its worst. A current bill in Congress has been set to undo all the damage of what one Congressman has called “perhaps the worst legislation ever passed by Congress,” referring to the 1996 law. Unfortunately though, as this session comes to an end, the Secret Evidence Repeal Act must wait until next year before it reaches the House floor.

The fact that secret evidence is inimical to every American notion of due process goes without saying.

The fact that it exploits popular sentiments and targets one particular group in society is also clearly visible. Over the past four years, however, its justification has not been able manifest itself as has now become apparent. In other words, what could have been seen as an acceptable transgression on the civil liberties of some people in the hopes of achieving security, has become a miserable failure. In the

words of Edmund Burke, which ring loud and clear here, whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Abdullah Al-Arian is a Trinity junior.

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Correction In yesterday’s edition of The Chronicle, the men’s soccer game time was incorrectly reported. Third-seeded Duke’s first-round ACC tournament game against six-seed Maryland will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Winston-Salem.

� Sweet named to lacrosse staff Stephanie Sweet, formerly of Loyola College in Loyola, Md., has been named to the Duke women’s lacrosse staff. Sweet, who will serve as an assistant coach, will be primarily in charge of the offense. A 2000 graduate of Loyola, Sweet was a two-year starter on the lacrosse team —including the 2000 Final Four squad. She also has experience with the U.S. Olympic Developmental program.

� Dantzler will have ankle surgery Clemson quarterback Woody Dantzler will have surgery on his left ankle during the off-season to fix an injury that has nagged him for several weeks. Tigers coach Tommy Bowden said Dantzler, who underwent an MRI exam Tuesday, has tendinitis. Bowden says the condition should not keep the quarterback from playing against South Carolina on Nov. 18 and in a bowl game.

Dantzler has been able to play about a half of each of the past three games since bruising his lower left leg against North Carolina on Oct. 21. Dantzler will not practice this week, as Clemson has a bye Saturday. ire

� Furcal voted NL rookie of the year Atlanta Braves rookie Rafael Furcal, a surprise draft pick last April, won the National League rookie of the year award with a landslide victory yesterday.

Furcal hit .295 for the Braves with 40 steals. The shortstop was the only player listed on all 32 ballots cast by members of the Baseball Writer's Association ot America.

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Arizona star Loren Woods, who was named a preseason All-American yesterday

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Battier leads preseason All-Americans

By JIM O’CONNELL Associated Press

Shane Battier, a defensive star with an impressive allaround game, and Troy Murphy, the first player to lead the Big East in scoring and rebounding, were the leading vote-getters yesterday for The Associated Press’ preseason All-America team.

Duke senior Battier was one vote short of being a unanimous selection by the 72-member national media panel, while Murphy, a junior at Notre Dame, was on 62 ballots.

Joining the forwards on the preseason team were Arizona senior center Loren Woods, who got 46 votes, and senior guard Jamaal Tinsley of lowa State and sophomore guard Joseph Forte of North Carolina, who both had 39 votes.

Maryland senior forward Terence Morris was sixth with 19 votes.

The 6-foot-8 Battier is known for shutting down the opposition’s top scorer regardless of size, as well as for the lost art of taking charges, but his offensive game has been impressive throughout his career.

He averaged 17.4 points and 5.6 rebounds last season and was among the top five in the Atlantic Coast Conference in three-pointers per game, scoring, free throw

percentage, field goal percentage, blocked shots and steals.

Then there is the matter of Battier, a second-team AllAmerica last season after being an honorable mention pick in the preseason, being one of the best leaders Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has ever had in his program.

“Shane can score in every way,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s our best 3-point shooter, he’s an outstanding foul shooter, he can post, he can fill a lane, he has really improved on driving the basketball. His position defensively is magnificent, almost on every play.”

Murphy averaged 22.7 points and 10.3 rebounds last season to lead the Big East in both categories, but even more surprising was that he returned to Notre Dame for his junior season.

Matt Doherty left after one season to become coach at North Carolina, but Murphy is ready to play for new coach and former Duke assistant Mike Brey.

The 6-10 Murphy is the only returning All-America from last season but it’s not individual accomplishments he’s looking for.

“Until I accomplish all of the goals I have, I’ll be around here,” Murphy said. “The thing that’s missing from my college experience is playing in that NCAA tournament. I don’t care if I average 12 points a game or

four points a game. I want to get into the NCAA tournament.”

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SHANE BATTIER, shown shooting over Maryland's Terence Morris last season, was one vote shy of being a unanimous preseason All-America selection.

Swimming sinks versus UNC � Although both swimming teams lost last night at North Carolina, several freshmen had impressive races, breaking personal and school records.

By CLINTON McHUGH The Chronicle

The men’s and women’s swimming teams fell to perennial conference power-

house North Carolina last night in Chapel Hill’s Koury Natatorium.

The women were defeated 157-85, while the men were beaten by a score of 184-58. The losses drop both Blue Devil teams to records of 1-1 overall and 0-1 in the ACC, while Carolina's men's and women's teams improve to 2-1 and 3-1 overall, respectively. Both Tar Heel squads are also 1-0 in the conference.

“Carolina is undeniably a much stronger team,” assistant coach Whitney Greene said. “So we decided before the meet to use an alternate lineup to see how our athletes could perform in events they don't usually swim. We hoped that we might leam about some flexibility that will allow us to compete better against other teams in the future.”

Although both teams lost, the unorthodox lineup really paid off for the Blue Devils, allowing swimmers to set a new school record and several personal best times.

On the women’s side it was once again freshman Lauren Comet’s time to shine, shocking her coaches and teammates by winning both the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard breaststroke.

Her finish in the breaststroke with a time of 2:19.25 gives Comet her second school record at Duke within a month of beginning her competitive college swimming career.

More amazingly, the Virginia native finished within one-second of Nancy Hogshead’s record in the freestyle, making it the second event in which she has

nearly erased the former Olympian from the books.

Freshman Kate Lambertson clocked a personal best in the 200-yard butterfly on her way to winning the event for Duke, as well.

On the men’s side, freshman Conor O’Brien blazed through the water in the 50-yard freestyle to an amazing 21.17, putting him about a half second away from a decade-old record while smashing last year’s Duke season best by more than two tenths.

Sophomore Ryan Spoon bettered his amazing seven-second victory in the against 200-breaststroke UNCWilmington to 2:05.01, clocking a personal best and putting him on target for contention in the event at the ACC championship in February.

The swimmers return home to face off against Old Dominion on Saturday at 1 p.m.

between Duke and Furman—is sck auled for 7 p.m., and the winner will play at third-seeded Clemson Saturday.

The Blue Devils remain the only team to have beaten Clemson this season, having defeated the Tigers twice.

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McSorley handed tough punishment � NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced yesterday that free agent Marty McSorley will remain suspended through Feb. 20. McSorley’s punishment stems from his onice assault of Donald Brashear last February.

By BARRY WILNER Associated Press

NEW YORK Marty McSorley was suspended through Feb. 20 for hitting Donald Brashear across the

head with his stick, the toughest punishment for on-ice violence in NHL history.

McSorley was convicted ofassault with a weapon on Oct. 6 in a Canadian court, but received a suspended sentence. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman originally suspended McSorley indefinitely following the slashing attack Feb. 21 in Vancouver.

Yesterday, Bettman announced the overall suspension would be for one year.

“It is difficult to imagine a more irresponsible and dangerous act on the ice than the one that was involved in this case,” Bettman said yesterday.

“Mr. McSorley approached his intended victim from behind, with virtually no time left in an already decided hockey game, and delivered a two-handed slash which struck the head of an unsuspecting, non-puck carrying, and therefore, vulnerable opponent causing that opponent serious injury.”

McSorley, a free agent, can negotiate and sign with any NHL club, and he can begin practicing on Jan. 1.

But he can’t play until Feb. 21.

“I believe I owe it both to this player and to all other present and future NHL players to impose a suspension of a definite and ascertainable length,” Bettman said. “I have also considered Mr. McSorley’s desire to have an opportunity to play in the NHL again in conjunction with his expressed remorse for his actions.

“I simply cannot in good conscience justify impos-

ing a suspension of less than one calendar year given the nature of the incident in question, regardless of the effect that suspension may have on Mr. McSorley’s career. At the same time, however, by imposing a suspension of one year (as opposed to a set number of games), and with the suspension scheduled to end nearly one full month before this season’s trade deadline, I believe it is quite possible that Mr. McSorley might, in fact, be able to sign another NHL contract and therefore continue his NHL career during the 2000-01 season.”

Phone calls to McSorley and his agent were not immediately returned. The Bruins said they would have no comment.

McSorley originally was suspended for the remainder of the 1999-00 season and playoffs by Bettman, who noted that the player skipped a court hearing held two days after the game.

He then was convicted in the British Columbia court, with Judge William Kitchen giving McSorley a conditional discharge, meaning McSorley will not have a criminal record.

The conviction, which McSorley said he will not appeal, was the first of an NHL player for an on-ice hit since 1988.

McSorley, a 17-year NHL veteran, met with Bettman a week ago, seeking approval to resume his career.

Bettman looked at enhanced videotapes ofthe slash before rendering his decision. McSorley claimed he was trying to goad Brashear into a fight late in a 5-2 loss and was not attempting to injure him.

Brashear missed 20 games with a concussion, but rejoined the Canucks last season.

Before making his decision, Bettman met with McSorley, his agents Mike Barnett and J.P. Barry, and his attorney Paul Kelly.

Lan Pulver and lan Penny of the NHL Players Association participated in the meeting by telephone, while Bettman was joined by Colin Campbell, the league’s executive vice president and director of hockey operations, who handles most disciplinary cases.

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Students don’t owe support to football Generally I come out here and do my little schtick. I make with the ha-ha because this is sports and because it doesn’t make one difference in the world.

But recent backlash around what exactly we owe our football team has gotten me angrier than Bob Knight in a sensitivity training course.

So let’s drop the gloves and talk seriously about what we owe the football team.

This isn’t anti-football. This is anti-elitism.

Real quick, real brief and just one time—the world doesn’t owe you a thing, and anything you’re lucky enough to get in this lifetime is what you make yourself.

And the football team, despite making a whole lotta nothing, still wants to complain about what the student body owes them. (Incidentally, Duke football games aren’t like away games. Away games have the other team’s fans at them. Wally Wade has nobody’s fans at them.)

Maybe it’s just me, but nowhere do I remember signing anything on my acceptance letter that said I must support the football team. And I can’t recall ever meeting anybody who came to Duke for the great football atmosphere—you can’t even say they’ve given our campus a better profile. In the past five seasons Duke football has made national headlines exactly three times: when the team went 0-11, thereby becoming the only winless team in the history of the ACC, when the women’s lib advocate of women’s lib advocates advised Ms. Mercer to give cheerleading a try, and when one of our players robbed a man in a wheelchair.

But it amazes me that after all this University gives the football team, they still want to talk about what we owe.

Now that’s owe, as in to pay, as in what we non-football players do to come here and what the football team doesn’t because they’re all receiving $35,000 scholarships. The NCAA allows 83 scholarships. Mutliply that by 35K and that’s roughly $3 million a year spent on scholarships alone for the worst football team money can buy, and we still owe you? That $3 million could be better invested in academics —those being what the

Upon further review Ray Holloman school is actually here for, you might recall—or you could blow the wad on Ho-Ho’s and plastic hula girls and it’d probably be money better spent.

So please forgive those of us who will be spending the next five years of our lives paying off student loans if the tears ain’t exactly welling up.

Speaking of welling up, some people want to complain about the sink dripping in their apartment. One wonders, would that be the Central Campus apartment you got as a sophomore courtesy of the preferential housing that football and basketball players get?

Again, there’s a tear duct, there’s a lack of production, there are those of us who had to suck it up and live in Trent and Edens sophomore year and closets on West junior year. And ya know what? I’m not complaining about that. Believe it or not, some of us realize that we’re lucky to be here.

And ifit’s “Back Duke or Back Off,” like the ever-witty sign says, what is it about the football team that makes it so special? Why is it we owe the football team something that we don’t owe, say, the women’s tennis team?

They won 116 straight ACC matches and ifyou looked at the stands you’d think somebody were screening a Dennis Rodman movie marathon.

Gene Ready’s comb-over does a better job covering his bald head than the Back Duke or Back Off argument does of explaining why we should go out in droves for Duke football.

It’s elitism. The reason is just because and you sure better have a better reason than that.

The football team loves to whine about how nobody supports them even though they’re, ahem, “representing” our school. Wanna tell me where our chuckleberries in pads are during tennis matches or lacrosse

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games or other sports we actually win at?

Just don’t try and pretend it’s about something it isn’t. If it’s really about supporting Duke and supporting your fellow students then where is the football team at every other Duke event?

Welcome to Duke. We’re all busy all the time. Deal with it.

If somebody wanted to complain about attendance, it should be the women’s basketball team.

They’ve got the best coach in all of college basketball and a top-3 team this year and they’re still more than likely not going to get as many people as a single football game.

But you don’t hear them complaining, because

Coach Gail Goestenkors knows, Coach Jamie Ashworth knows, everybody but the football team knows that respect is something you earn, and at the end ofthe day all you can do is your job and let the rest

take care of itself.

And it’s not that I’m against the football team getting all the special treatment that they do—they do, even at 0-8, deserve it. And I’m not against athletes in general getting special treatment with scholarships and housing. In fact, I’d prefer to see all our athletes get the same treatment the football team does because they sure deserve it.

But I can’t sit here and listen to the football team whine when they’ve been given the whole world on a platter. They’re going to walk out of here with a Duke degree after four or five years of being treated better than any of us probably ever will and yet they’ve got the nerve to complain that students don’t come out to watch a miserable football season get more miserable.

Yeah, it’s a showcase sport in other parts of the world. But 2,000 people showed up for our first game, one-third of our whole student body. You just can’t ask for more than that.

You want respect? You don’t get it on the edit pages of the Chronicle. There’s only one place to earn it. It’s called the field. Now shut up and win a game.

UPON FURTHER REVIEW is a weekly column written by a sports columnist. It appears every Wednesday.

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NBA Roundup: Bulls lose Ist non-sellout since 1987 wire reports Wizards 88, Bulls 83 Good thing Michael Jordan didn’t see this.

His old team’s sellout streak ended after 13 years, and his new team shot a measly 31 percent Tuesday night as the Washington Wizards beat the Chicago Bulls 88-83. The Bulls are now 0-4.

Although he attended a Wizards-Bulls exhibition

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game at the United Center last month, Jordan wasn’t around to watch this one as the Wizards missed their first 15 attempts and shot a dismal 13 percent in the first quarter. Things didn’t get much better, either, as they finished 26-of-83.

The only thing that saved them was Rod Strickland and the Bulls’ propensity to foul. Strickland scored six of his 21 points in the last two minutes, and the Wizards scored 35 points (35-of-52) at the line. Jahidi White hit a career-high eight free throws on his way to 12 points.

Rookie Khalid El-Amin led the Bulls with 21 points off the bench, scoring 13 in the fourth quarter. Elton Brand added 15 points and 14 rebounds.

The Bulls had an announced crowd of 21,312 people, 311 short of a sellout. That ended the NBA’s longest active sellout streak at 610 games, dating back to Nov. 20,1987.

Washington—then called the Bullets—was the vis-

iting team for the last non-sellout, too. That was on

Nov. 17,1987.

Cherokee Parks’ 18-foot jumper gave Washington a 60-54 lead with 2:30 left in the third, but the Wizards went the next five minutes without a field goal.

The Bulls took a 79-75 lead on Marcus Fizer’s dunk with 2:14 left, but Strickland hit a layup and then made an amazing, over-the-shoulder spin layup.

Fouled on the basket, he missed the free throw, but the Wizards got the rebound, Gerard King made the layup and Washington never trailed again.

LINDSEY HUNTER’S career high-tying seven three-pointers last night were not enough to propel his Bucks past the Knicks.

Knicks 103, Bucks 89 Allan Houston scored a season-high 24 points and teamed with Latrell Sprewell to spark a first-quarter surge that led the New York Knicks to a 103-89 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks last night.

Sprewell had nine of his 16 points during the Knicks’ 21-8 run in the first quarter. Houston added four as the New York built a 27-13 lead with 3:35 left.

Glen Rice had 18 points off the bench as the Knicks beat the Bucks for the sixth straight time. The

Bucks pulled to 89-79 on Sam Cassell’s free throw after a technical on Marcus Camby with 7:14 to go, but Larry Johnson hit a three-pointer and New York regained control.

Houston and Ray Allen matched up for the first time since being members of the gold-medal winning men’s basketball team at the Summer Olympics, and Houston won the matchup.

Houston had 19 points in the first half as the Knicks led 56-43, while Allen had just six for Milwaukee.

Lindsey Hunter had 23 for Milwaukee, including seven three-pointers to tie a career-high set twice before.

Rockets 84, Lakers 74 Steve Francis scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half and Cuttino Mobley led a fourth-quarter surge as the Houston Rockets beat the Los Angeles Lakers 84-74 last night.

With the Rockets leading 58-52 to start the fourth quarter, Mobley scored seven points as the Rockets built a 72-62 lead with 6:20 left.

Mobley added 18 points for the Rockets.

Shaquille O’Neal led the Lakers with 24 points and seven rebounds.

Hakeem Olajuwon gave the Rockets an early scoring boost and the Lakers led only briefly in a first half that ended with Houston leading 43-37. Olajuwon had 12 points, all in the first half.

Olajuwon, showing no ill effects of the asthma-like breathing condition that hampered his 1999-2000 season, had 10 of his 12 points in the first quarter.

The Lakers had six turnovers in the first quarter and 10 at the half.

Suns 100, Spurs 81 Shawn Marion scored 23 points to lead five players in double figures as the Phoenix Suns knocked the San Antonio Spurs from the ranks of the unbeaten with a 100-81 victory last night.

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Spurs’ unbeaten streak ended by Phoenix, Marion >■ NBA from page 18

added 15 for the Suns, who led by as many as 20 in the fourth quarter en

route to their fourth straight win.

Jason Kidd fell one rebound shy of his second double-double, finishing with 10 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds.

Rodney Rogers added 12 points.

Tim Duncan finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Spurs, who had their season-opening three-game winning streak snapped. David Robinson added 11 points.

Marion scored 15 first-half points on 7-of-8 shooting and Robinson added 13 as the Suns shot 56 percent from the floor and took a 53-38 halftime lead.

Raptors 105, Celtics 75

The Toronto Raptors didn’t have to rely solely on Vince Carter to avenge an embarrassing loss to the Boston Celtics.

Antonio Davis had 24 points, Corliss Williamson scored 21 and Mark Jackson had 15 assists as the Raptors beat Boston 105-75 on Tuesday night.

“It was a team effort, and that’s what we needed,” said Carter, who had 23 points.

The Raptors, who lost to the Celtics last Friday after blowing a 21-point lead, scored a franchise-record 41 points in the third quarter.

Antoine Walker led Boston with 12 points. Paul Pierce was limited to 10 points for the second straight game.

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Preseason honors include Forte, Woods &

BATTIER from page 15

Notre Dame hasn’t been in the NCAA tournament since 1990.

Woods missed the final month of the regular season and the NCAA tournament last season because of a back injury that required two operations. That forced him back for a fifth year ofcollege and he said he’s stronger than ever.

The 7-1 Woods, who set the NCAA record for blocked shots in a game last season with 14 against Oregon, averaged 15.6 points and 7.5 rebounds. The other four starters for the top-ranked Wildcats all received votes in the preseason All-America balloting, “If we win the national championship and we play to the level we’re capable of playing, then we will be the greatest team ever,” Woods said.

Tinsley ran the offense last season for the Cyclones while Marcus Fizer received all the individual attention.

The 6-3 New York native averaged 11.0 points, 5.1 rebounds and 6.6 assists last season but impressed even more people over the summer when he played for the Select Team of college players that worked out with and played against the U.S. Olympic team.

Forte was the ACC’s rookie of the year last season as he became the first North Carolina freshman to lead the team in scoring. His 16.7 scoring average might be affected this season as he will help with the ballhandling chores following the graduation of point guard Ed Cota. Still, the 6-4 Forte was more than a shooter last season when he averaged 5.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists.

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NORTH CAROLINA’S JOSEPH FORTE, shown in a loss to Duke last season, represents the ACC on the preseason All-America team along with Shane Battier.

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