February 6, 2001

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Duke Health System makes first cut City Council Northgate Mall’s Senior tries to cope Health Center scheduled to close by end of month with deficit ByAMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

Months after Duke University Health System officials warned they might cut unprofitable programs of Durham Regional Hospital, they have taken action. Effective March 1, the Senior Health Center located in

By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

Northgate Mall will be closed.

Durham Regional officials said the shutdown results primarily from a change in the way Medicare reimburses hospitals for this type of care.

Prior to last August, Medicare would cover any losses at the facility, but this is no longer true. As a result, Durham Regional lost $164,000 on the clinic between July and November 2000.

“We have kept the center open while we transitioned the patients that were being seen to community physicians,” said Don Brady, Durham Regional’s administrative director of

marketing.

He added that it would be impossible to guess what would have hap-

pened had Durham Regional been in better financial condition.

Michael Israel, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and CEO of DUHS, said that both the reimbursement

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THE SENIOR HEALTH CENTER in Durham’s Northgate Mall is slated to close March It may be just the first in a series of cutbacks of some of Durham Regional Hospital’s unprofitable programs.

changes and Durham Regional’s fi- offers the services of a full-time social nancial status contributed to the deci- worker and information about medsion to close the center. ical conditions that are more likely to “Durham Regional, over a period of affect seniors. The clinic does not offer time, is going to have to make opera- x-rays, lab work or any particular tional changes which allow it to gen- medical procedures. Still, officials erate the capital necessary to sustain said the closing of the clinic will be a itself,” Israel said. “However, what re- loss to the 600 patients it does serve, ally pushed [usj in this direction was the major change in reimbursement.”

The clinic, set up in 1996, serves an average of eight patients per day. It

“It’s a disappointment,” said Lynne

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While reviewing the city’s financial situation in a recent meeting, the Durham City Council discovered that this year’s Durham budget projects a $lO million deficit. According to council members, the group’s first priority now is finding the reasons for the deficit and then correcting them.

Although a $lO million deficit seems large, council members stress that the situation is not as extreme as it seems, given the city’s $237 million budget.

“It’s not a trouble; it’s a projection—the same kind we deal with every year,” Mayor Nick Tennyson said. “It’s a problem, but it’s not an unpredicted problem or one out of our ability to deal with.”

No one yet knows exactly why the city is suffering from such a large deficit, but council members suggest that the water and sewer operations, employee salaries and low taxation rates are at the root of the problem.

“We have to have answers,” City Council member Brenda Burnette said.

“We cannot make any long-term plans to fix the situation until we know why it happened.”

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Duke buys tobacco warehouse, plans for new arts space

By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle

Years of discussions culminated late last week in the University’s purchase of a tobacco warehouse from Liggett Group Inc., Executive Vice President Tallman Trask announced Monday. The building, currently used by Liggett to print cigarette cartons, will likely be used by Duke for an arts complex and for office space.

Duke and Liggett closed the deal late Thursday, making the warehouse at 114 S. Buchanan Blvd. the latest addition to Duke’s campus. The $2 million property includes about 200,000 square feet of building space and about eight acres of the surrounding land.

“This really completes the campus,” Trask said. “It’s the only piece of land we have not owned that’s really in the campus’ boundary.”

The terms of the purchase allow Liggett to lease the center section of the warehouse for up to 15 years, but Trask said there would still be plenty of room for renovation at each end of the two-story building. The west end—about 50,000 square feet—should become available for renovations within the next six to 12 months.

Liggett Group Inc. President and CEO Ronald Bernstein said the option to remain in the building made the difference in negotiations. “[We were willing to make the deal because] they were willing to let us keep the printing operation,” Bernstein said. “It’s a cumbersome type of move. This allows us to continue to do the printing we need to do.”

Members of Duke’s arts community—who have long been asking administrators for more space—are particularly pleased with the acquisition, which they say could help push their programs forward.

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Administration officials said they were considering a variety of ways to enact the tax cut on an accelerated basis to put additional money into taxpayers’ pockets as quickly as possible. Among the ideas is to send taxpayers a onetime payment that would reflect their expected tax savings for a part

of this year, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said in an interview.

At the beginning of a week in which Bush scheduled a series of events to help him build support for his plan to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next decade, administration officials said the president intends as a matter of principle to submit to Congress Thursday the exact proposal that he advocated during the presidential campaign.

But they made clear that the president will support efforts in Congress to speed up the schedule under which the tax cut would be phased in and its benefits passed along , to individuals —despite doubts among economists, including

Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chair, that such a move would help the economy in time to make a difference in this downturn.

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“A lot of members of Congress have talked to me about that, and I do,” he said, flanked by families he said would benefit from his plan. “And we look forward to working with Congress to expedite money into the pockets of the American people, I strongly believe that a tax relief plan is an important part of helping our country’s economy recover.”

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By PERI EDELSTEIN The Chronicle This morning while thousands of Duke students trudge across campus to their morning classes, juniors Aaron Jones and Sandra Mullins will roll out of bed and into their seminar seats without allowing their feet to touch the ground.

They are not flying through

Durham—they are sailing across the Atlantic Ocean with 600 students from around the country on board Semester at Sea’s floating campus, the S.S. Universe Explorer. The ship’s facilities include classrooms with closed circuit television, a library, a computer lab, a theater, a student union, two dining rooms, a swimming pool, a volleyball court and a fitness center.

‘The concept dates back to 1927 when a group of 500 students affiliated with New York University traveled to 35 countries on a passenger ship for six months,” said Paul Watson, director of enrollment management for the Institute for Shipboard Education, which has operated the program for the last 25 years.

Along with academic sponsor University of Pittsburgh, the non-profit organization has allowed over 35,000 students to spend a semester oftheir undergraduate education traveling the high seas.

“Instead of becoming familiar with one place, your broaden your global awareness,” said Trinity junior Regan Lyons, who passed on a traditional studyabroad experience to visit ten ports in countries including Vietnam, Malaysia, India and Kenya while on Semester at Sea last fall.

Students attend classes every day the ship is at sea. On each voyage, faculty from a variety of schools teach more than 70 classes from an international perspective with a comparative format.

“Students are able to interact with faculty outside of the classroom; they live together on the boat,” said Watson. ‘They develop relationships that transcend what is possible on campus.”

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When the ship completes its currentten day journey from Salvador, Brazil to Cape Town, South Africa, some students will spend time traveling with their professors to fulfill each course’s field requirement. Others will take optional excursions to nature reserves to interact with Bushmen, meet South African writers and politicians, or travel independently.

“You truly get a taste and great feel for ten completely different cultures, particularly if you take advantage of the ‘home-stays’ facilitated by Semester at Sea or spend time with university students,” Mullins wrote in an e-mail.

‘Through interaction with the local people, you gain a different perspective from that you would get of any given city by merely taking a guided tour.”

After spending a semester on a studyabroad immersion program in Spain,

Mullins choose Semester at Sea for the wider range of enriching experiences it would provide. T’m all about diversity: was bom in Spain, grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, have an American father, Spanish mother, go to Duke, studied abroad in Madrid and now I’m participating in the Semester at Sea program, so it’s something I tend to seek out.”

The focus of the program is non-Westem, Watson said. “Our goal is to prepare students for the global environment that we live in by allowing them to gain perspective on their own culture,” he said.

“It definitely challenged a lot of my views about the world and my place in the world as an American,” said Lyons. T realized the planet we are living on is very small and limiting. I witnessed pollution I never imagined was possible, and I visited rain forests that were hardly in existence. I was hit over the head with the fast pace at which we are destroying the one planet we have.”

Despite the global nature of Semester at Sea, the University considers it a domestic, and not a study-abroad, program.

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REGAN LYONS, a Trinity junior, meets a friendly elephant in Erode, a town in southern India. Erode was only one of Lyons’ many stops as part of the Semester at Sea program.

Lyons said her sister went on the program eight years ago and had raved about it ever since, so she knew she had to go as well. “The exposure that Semester at Sea offers far surpasses anything you can leam here, and for that reason its hard to understand why they don’t recognize the educational value of the program,” she said.

Lyons did acknowledge that the program has a reputation as a “booze cruise” and a “floating mattress” from the exposure it received on MTV’s Road Rules series, but said the series did not capture that provides an in-depth awareness of a the essence of Semester at Sea. “If you culture that helps in the development of want your experience to be getting drunk in eveiy port, you can do that, but very global citizens.”

However, Watson said that the claim few did that,” Lyons said. that an immersion experience is the only Semester at Sea teaches the joys of valid study-abroad experience defies venturing out into new cultures, Mullins what 35,000 participants know. said: “It creates an awareness that there “Its goals and objectives are different, is a world outside of the United States but it is still a rich academic experience,” that is just as precious and important as he said. that that we’re accustomed to.”

must go on leave for the semester, and can only transfer two credits—just as they can from other U.S. universities.

“I understand the rationale behind that decision is the fact that it is a program that goes from port to port, and therefore is not a full immersion into any particular culture through the studyabroad experience,” said assistant dean of Trinity College Margaret Riley. “Semester at Sea is more of a superficial experience. A superficial exposure to a country or a city doesn’t provide in-depth awareness. It’s the immersion experience

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Developers protest impact fees at City Council meeting

By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

The Durham'City Council discussed how to revamp its street impact fees and decided on the structure of a citizens’ committee to help redraw the city’s ward lines at a meeting last night. During the nearly four-hour meeting, the council heard comments from about 20 citizens on the city’s proposal to raise street impact fees, which are designed to charge new developments for the wear and tear that their tenants create on Durham roads.

Durham’s administrative staff had designed the basics of a plan that would increase the impact fees to 30 percent of the maximum allowable level by July 1 of this year. But many of the citizens who spoke, mostly business representatives, said the plan would cause too steep an increase, driving away potential developers to neighboring counties and hurting Durham’s property tax base.

‘Tf one building goes to another county because of these increased fees, that’s a tenfold difference,” said

Anne Stoddard, legislative affairs chair for the Triangle chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. Stoddard, supported by about two dozen other NAIOP members, proposed an alternative plan to triple the current impact fees over five years while providing more reimbursements for developers.

Affordable-housing activists cautioned that charging developers higher fees would raise rent for their eventual tenants. “As we consider the various impacts of development fees that are already on the books or are being proposed, we need to consider their impact on affordablehousing development,” Rich Lee, director of the Durham Affordable Housing Coalition, said.

But one citizen spoke in favor of the plan. “I know that the taxpayers have to pick up the bill for these roads ifit’s not done at development,” Durham resident Steve Bocckino said.

The council referred the plain back for further work and discussion. Most members agreed that money would

need to come from somewhere, but said the question was where. “Everybody wants good, fair impact fees,” said council member Lewis Cheek. “The question is, what does that mean?”

IN OTHER BUSINESS: The council, by a 10-2 vote, approved a plan to appoint two co-chairs to a citizens’ committee charged with advising the council on how to redraw the boundaries to consolidate Durham’s six wards into three. Mayor Nick Tennyson’s original plan called for Lavonia Allison, chair of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, and Patrick Byker, chair of the conservative Friends of Durham, to chair the committee jointly. At the meeting, Byker accepted the position, but Allison declined the request due to lack of time. The motion was amended to authorize the mayor, with Allison’s advice, to appoint a different co-chair.

The council also passed a resolution honoring the late Richard Watson, a professor emeritus ofhistory at Duke and the founder of St. Philip’s Community Kitchen.

Fuqua, School of Law hope to ‘connect’ with alumni

By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

As administrators continue to plan how to better incorporate technology in the classroom, they also are trying to use technology to teach those who have not stepped in a classroom for many years.

Officials from the schools of law and business plan to use more technology—webcasts, e-mail and online forums—to keep alumni informed about the changing nature ofthe law and business fields. For example, the School of Law already has offered a number of online conferences.

Last year, the school broadcast online two conferences on environmental and constitutional law. Additionally, during the final days of the 2000 presidential elec-

tion, law school professors Jefferson Powell, Thomas Rowe, Christopher Schroeder and William Van Alstyne engaged in an online panel discussion for alumni about the legal aspects of the election and the ramifications of Supreme Court decisions.

Fuqua has been moving towards more online resources for alumni for about two years. In 1998, the school began to allow alumni access to online library information and career help. Dean Rex Adams hopes to continue providing more opportunities for support, such as the school’s global assets allocation course, which began in January and cost alumni $5OO. If the course is successful, administrators plan to package the course with three others for a certificate.

Administrators at the law school will likely not pursue an individual certificate, not even for continued learning requirements for attorneys. Instead, law school officials said they will keep focusing efforts on expanding the topics and opportunities available to the school’s alumni.

Officials from the Office ofAlumni Affairs will be looking very closely at the success of these online forums. Currently, the University sells tapes of special lectures by distinguished professors.

“Our goal has always been to make these [events! as easy, cheap and accessible for alumni,” said Laney Funderburk, associate vice president for alumni affairs and development. “We’ve gone aggressively into life-long learning recently. We

think it’s a very important thing universities can do for their alumni.”

Online seminars and discussions have many obvious advantages. Officials from Fuqua and the law school all said that these initiatives are convenient for alumni because they can view panels and discussions anytime, anywhere.

In addition, webcasts do not require faculty to travel to meet with alumni.

This feature has become more important as the number of international alumni continues to grow “Distance learning makes it possible to have intellectual exchange, collaboration and engagement without moving people,” said Katharine Bartlett, dean of the School ofLaw.

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DUHS to take on Director dies after 27 years at Duke displaced seniors Bill Dennis, director of the sterile processing department at Duke University Hospital, died Jan. 27 at the age of 51. His cause of death was not available.

During his 27 years at Duke, Bill Dennis received multiple awards and recognition for his national, regional and local leadership, and his dedication and loyal service to the American Society of Health Care Central Services Personnel.

A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Feb. 7 in the Chapel. The family asks that in lieu offlowers donations be sent to the North Carolina State University School of Veterinary Medicine, or to the North Carolina Humane Society. Dennis is survived by his wife, a son and a granddaughter.

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izens, an information center for local senior citizens, “Many seniors, once they’re established with physicians, won’t want to be switching around. Most of our seniors were getting good service from the Northgate health center.” Still, Chamblee said the center had done a good job of finding other forms of care for its patients.

Israel said various primary care practices throughout the health system were willing to take on all of the patients served by the center.

The center’s closing follows last December’s announcement that the hospital had lost $2.9 million in the period between July and December, despite the prediction of a $450,000 operating margin. Durham Regional had suffered a $l7 million loss for the fiscal year ending last July.

Duke officials have said in the past that they are paying too much for Durham Regional. They believe the estimates Durham officials used to calculate negotiation prices were inaccurate.

Durham County denied Duke’s request to re-negotiate the lease last summer.

Officials have also said the health system might be forced to cut programs, including the Oakleigh Substance Abuse Treatment Center.

However, Israel said no decision has been made about that facility.

“We, on a routine basis, look at all programs within the health system, not just Durham Regional, to see how programs could be modified to be more efficient and more effective,” Israel said.

“There’s a limited amount of resources available.

We’ve got a responsibility to make sure those resources are being spent the best possible way they can be to provide service to the most.”

Trauma center probation lifted: The Medical Center’s trauma center has been removed from the state’s list of probationary medical facilities. The North Carolina Division ofFacility Services lifted the probation Wednesday after a follow-up visit found that the Medical Center had made improvements to its trauma center.

Trauma center officials invested over $700,000 to meet the demands of the Division of Facilities Services.

The center was placed on probationary status in March after a site visit found the center was deficient in five significant areas.

Interdisciplinary celebration begins: Festivities

celebrating the opening of the John Hope Franklin

Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies will begin this week.

Friday, Feb. 9, at 9:30 a.m., there will be a ribbon-cutting and open house at the Franklin Center, which began operations this fall. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be followed by a panel of black journalists addressing the topic “African-Americans and the Media.” The panel is to be moderated by Knight Professor of Communications and Journalism William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post. Panelists will also discuss the recent presidential contest.

The week-long festivities wall include a special invita-

tional dinner on Thursday, Feb. 8, featuring tributes to Franklin—a noted historian and scholar—by comedian Bill Cosby and jazz performer Nnenna Freelon,

Speaker to discuss anesthesia: The head of the Johns Hopkins Health System, Dr. Edward Miller, will speak about the future of anesthesia departments at 7:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7, in room 2002 of Duke Hospital North. Miller, who also heads JHLPs medical school, is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has also authored more than 150 scientific ■p JDKlr S papers, abstracts and book chapters.

The lecture, entitled, “Can Academic Anesthesia Departments Survive?” is the 14th annual Merel H. Harmel Lectureship at Duke University Medical Center, a series of speeches begun in 1987 to honor Harmel, a noted scholar and Department ofAnesthesiology professor emeritus. The series is sponsored by the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesiology.

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Duke renames journalism award: The University has renamed its coveted Duke University Award for Coverage of Higher Education in honor of former University Vice President William Green and outgoing Duke News Service Director A1 Rossiter Jr., who will retire in September.

A panel of journalists from outside the state acted as judges for the Green-Rossiter Award, given Friday night at a North Carolina Press Association dinner. The winner ofthis year’s award was Anna Griffin of The Charlotte Observer, for her series on Duke divinity students.

Ruderman receives award: Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services, will receive the Sara and E.J. “Mutt” Evans

Award from the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation. The award, the local Jewish community’s highest recognition, will be presented to Ruderman at a brunch Feb. 18.

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Even without this information, some council members are still predicting what can and will be done to eliminate the shortfall before they create a final balanced budget in May. Ideas include increased taxation,

privatization, payroll reductions and budget cutbacks.

Because property taxes account for over half of the city’s revenues, the reevaluation of property values this year would bring some budgetary relief.

Council members predict property values will be up about 30 percent from the last time they were evaluated eight years ago; this automatically will increase revenues for the fiscal year 2001-2002, even without raising taxes.

However, to appease taxpayers, the city will likely lower the tax rate, which will cancel out the tax gains from higher property values, said Tennyson.

‘That leaves us in this same box a couple of years down the road,” he said.

The City Council is looking for other ways to reduce the deficit. Privatization has won the most attention.

Specifically, Durham is considering “managed competition,” which forces city employees and departments to bid against private firms for contracts with the city. If the private firms deliver the lowest bids, city employees could lose jobs—something that worries many

council members.

“We discussed managed competition, which sounds good, but I don’t think we have the expertise to administer it,” Burnette said. “For us, it would probably just turn into privatization, which would riot be good for our employees. Raising taxes is a better idea, and I

think the public will understand that.”

Like Burnette, many council members attribute much of the city’s financial troubles to insufficient taxing. In 1996, tax payers approved an $B6 million bond package for quality-of-life issues. The package included a provision allowing the city to raise the property

tax rate by one cent a year, which the city never did.

“We haven’t gone back to taxpayers to pay for [the bond package],” City Council member Dan Hill said.

“Politically, politicians—myself included—hate to raise taxes, and now we have to pay for that decision.”

The City Council is now focusing on an additional revenue source: Duke. Because the University is a nonprofit organization, it is exempt from taxes. However, the school drains the city of thousands of dollars in services each year, which the city hopes Duke will reimburse, said council member Thomas Stith.

“We are setting up a dialogue with Duke, hoping it will acknowledge some of the budgetary burdens it places on the city,” Stith said. “For example, fire services for Duke cost the city between $300,000 and $400,000 a year. We’re hoping Duke will appreciate our situation and pay for that.”

Rather than placing blame on Duke for the city’s problems, Burnette said much of the city government’s recent difficulties are due to its own lack of expertise.

“We’ve experienced growth pains. We were so excited about the infrastructure boom, that we were not managing [our finances] well during it,” she said.

“We’re an inexperienced administration, and as a council, we did not handle it appropriately.”

The council is now assessing the individual departments, looking for places to cut back and increase efficiency. Included in this audit is payroll expenses. According to Hill, the city spends excessive funds on workers’ compensation, fringe benefits and merit pay raises.

Hill noted that 98 percent of employees receive merit-based pay raises, although many departments are quite inefficient. “We have to look at some of the jobs and departments that haven’t been delivering for a long time. It’s not our money to spend; it’s the taxpayers’,” Hill said. “If we can’t do a good job with it, we should be voted out.”

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“In the absence of a [plan to build a] performing arts center from the ground up, I think it’s a wonderful possibility for adding to the arts spaces at Duke,” said Kathy Silbiger, program director of the Institute for the Arts.

“Duke arts programs have long been limited, not so much by ideas or imagination, but by no space to do things.”

Silbiger said the warehouse would both improve the arts programs’ rehearsal facilities and foster connections between the .disciplines; currently, the different academic programs are spread throughout campus.

“I think proximity always helps collaboration,” she said. “You can informally influence one another when you’re in closer proximity.”

The warehouse’s structure is similar to that of Brightleaf Square, the shopping plaza located at the intersection of Main Street and Gregson Street. Currently, the building is divided into 12 8,400-square-feet sections, but the University will conduct major renovations before turning the facility into an arts center.

“I think it’s a tremendously exciting development for the city of Durham and Duke,” said religion professor Eric Meyers, chair of the task force on the programs in dance, drama and film and video, which in its Jan. 6 report strongly advocated creating a campus arts center. “I think it’s a glorious space that the University has. It’s going to be very charming.”

Trask said that in addition to the tobacco warehouse, the arts programs would likely receive even more space in the steam plant off of East Campus.

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Alcohol task failure The Alcohol Task Force’s lack of success signals the need for a new plan

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say you get what you pay for, and the University certainly has received its due more than a year after alcohol became a lethal issue.

Now, the Alcohol Task Force, designed to be the Grand Collaborator, the High Innovator and the Alcohol Do-all, is left with a silly mission statement and little to show for it. But everyone should have known this is how it would end up back in March 2000 when it started.

The alcohol scene demanded then, as it does now, quick, decisive action to help protect students from the multitude of dangers of unsafe alcohol consumption. A committee of 35, to start, was grossly oversized for this role. It did not even have an executive committee to take quick action. This is the equivalent of asking an elephant to run as fast as a horse. And the lumbering girth ofthis body showed when it spent its first few meetings crafting a mission statement. What in the world was its leadership thinking? All the while, no one was talking to students about which direction the University would take with alcohol, no one was making real cultural or programmatic change, and there were a handful of committees trampling on the little work that the task force was doing.

By mid-spring, an ignorant group ofUniversity Life deans had released their Event Advising Review, which demanded a radical removal of all alcohol from nearly all campus events. The Alcohol Policy Review Committee was only starting to swing into action, which will culminate with this month’s policy revision.

Since August, 47 students have ended up in the Emergency Department—if nothing else, this should prove the embarrassing failure of the University in these alcohol discussions. The real problem here was that no one really seemed to want to make change from the beginning. One of President Nan Keohane’s strengths has been matching the right people with the right project leadership roles. In this instance, she failed.

The project needed an Alcohol Czar—someone who could take control of all things alcohol at Duke, organize productive committees and come down with decisive conclusions that would have the unquestioned backing of the administration. Residential life, longrange planning and Curriculum 2000 have worked this way quite successfully.

But this effort was different. In charge was a collaborator, not a “doer” or a strategic planner.

The only way to diminish the embarrassment that this promiseand rhetoric-filled debacle has turned into is to take a reasonable approach to change the culture of alcohol during the rest of the year.

Set deadlines. Appoint a strong planner. Empower the experts—we are, after all, at a fine medical institution—not the lay deans.

The alcohol problem may not be one that can be completely solved, but this University should be ashamed that it sits idly by while close to 100 students each year are forced to seek emergency medical help for overdrinking.

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Cameron Crazies remain proud despite team’s defeat For at least 10 days, with the cold, the rain, the sickness and the misery, we all held on.

We all believed, and felt like a part of something unreal.

We were crazy. We were

misunderstood. Yet we were admired. For our spirit and our love.

And through it all we kept it. Despite the disappointment, despite the loss, we hold our love and belief in our team.

I’m not happy we lost.

But I am not completely miserable. As I left the sta-

dium, with the air of dejection looming over Our House, I left with a sense of awe. For despite everything, the 1,200 people who would have gone through hell and back for their team still kept their spirit. Long after the buzzer sounded we stood in the stands cheering our beloved team on.

Win or lose, we stand behind them, faithfully, to the bitter end. This is the truest form of spirit there is.

We love our team. I have never been so proud to be a

part of something before—to be a part of such greatness and honor. This has truly been one of the most unique and rewarding experiences ever. Nowhere else would you find such unity, such hope and such support. This is what being a part of something great was meant to be.

Cameron Crazies are the biggest fans with the biggest hearts. Let’s stay proud!

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Zimmerman’s column provides a one-sided argument In his Feb. 1 column, John Zimmerman’s self-categorization as part of the conglomeration of “most peopie” may be an overstatement. However, I understand how Hillary Clinton’s ability to secure such a lucrative book deal could offend a group of people whose choice for president could no more write (read?) a whole book than he could legitimately win an election, Or maybe it’s the fact that President George “Dubya” doesn’t have a story worth the time or paper it might someday be written on.

Although, there’s not a lot to say when you didn’t have your first job until you were

pages it would take to record

the conviction and have Bush’s highly estimable (not these people executed. Bush esteemable) life. There’s truly has a profound revernothing like a hearty laugh ence for life; I heard they to get you through the day. I were constructing a gallows expect laughter to carry me in the White House gardens. through the iiber-conservaFinally, I don’t think that it tive, soulless and moronic can safely be said that Clinton often had to hide behind an four years ahead, As for former President “army of advisors.” Bush, on the other hand, will need to Bill Clinton’s mass pardoning, I don’t know all the make a trip to Oz and ask the details, but I can understand Wiz for a brain before he will the logic behind his actions. be able to understand half of Recall the movie E.T. the what his mass of advisors say.

Extra Terrestrial when Elliot, Unlike Zimmerman’s proposal, the most salient contrast in in a fit of compassion, releases all of the soon-to-be disthis change of power will be sected frogs. Similarly, that Bush II is the most Clinton must have feared incompetent human being to that Georgie would extend ever have the presidency his reign of death to, oh, anyhanded to him. one incarcerated anywhere middle-aged.

I might sacrifice the time for any reason without Erin Allingham it would take to read the 20 regard to uncertainty behind Trinity ’O3 for referenced column, see http: llwww.chronicle.duke.edu /chronicle /2001 02/01 09Lastminute.html /

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On the record I’m all about diversity: was born in Spain, grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, have an American father, Spanish mother, go to Duke, studied abroad in Madrid and now I’m participating in the Semester at Sea program, so it’s something I tend to seek out.

Sandra Mullins, junior, on her international experience (see story, page three)

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2001

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Blaming the Fire God

We can finally find an explanation for the loss to Carolina: Duke’s refusal to pay for fire services “Exactly—the Chapel Hill Fire what happens when everybody gets “Their students are stupid.”

Beyond the wall Department. And you know who paid merit pay?”

“Mike, you’re just bitter.”

Michael Peterson I was a wreck after Duke got beat last week. I have too many Carolina friends who wanted to rub it in. Before I faced them, I called Bubba Buttkiss, a loyal Duke fan. “How am I going to deal with this?” I asked.

“The game was doomed from the beginning,” he said. “There was no way Duke could win once they offended the Fire God.” “What are you talking about, Bubba?”

“What were Duke students going to do after Duke beat Carolina?”

“The usual—set fire to benches and have a huge bonfire.”

“Exactly. And who had to come to put it out?”

“The fire department! Where is this going? I need help dealing with a crisis, not nonsense.”

“This isn’t nonsense; it’s metaphysics. You see, Duke students set lots of fires but Duke doesn’t pay for fire protection. They stiff the city.

Durham citizens foot the bill every time there’s a fire at Duke. Trucks and firemen come out on the city’s nickel because Duke won’t pay. It costs a lot to send trucks and men to risk their lives. That’s nof right and the Fire God got fed up so he made Duke lose so students couldn’t set fires.”

“That’s insane.”

“Think so? What did UNC students do after Carolina won?”

“They set fire to Franklin Street Unfortunately, someone put it out.”

for that? Carolina. UNC pays Chapel Hill half a million a year for fire protection. It’s justice: Until Duke starts paying its bills, don’t count on beating

“Everybody’s happy.”

So I called Mary Doodle Duke, the “Wrong! Only bad workers are mayonnaise heiress. “I’m having trouhappy. The good workers, the ones who ble dealing with the Duke-Carolina deserve the merit pay, are furious. game. I need advice.”

Carolina.”

“It’s like I’ve always said—live by They worked their butts off but got “You are not making me feel better, exactly what everybody else did. the jump shot, die by the jump shot. No Bubba.”

What’s the message? You’re a fool to inside game, no score on the board.

“It’s worse than you think,” he said. work your butt off when you could get Miss the free throws, catch the bus.”

“Not only does Duke stiff Durham, it the same pay for doing nothing. You “Forget strategy, Mary Doodle. I’m sets a bad example in another regard. see, if you know you’re going to get an sure Coach K has that figured out. I They’ve undermined the entire city’s A whether or not you turn in a term need help facing those Carolina people work ethic.” paper, you won’t turn in a paper. The who want to rub it in.”

“Now what?” same principle applies to the work “Get used to it,” she snapped. “Or “Everyone knows all Duke students place—if you’ll get merit pay whether tell Duke to pay for fire protection. No get A’s because of grade inflation.” or not you deserve it, you won’t do anyjust god is going to allow Duke to cele“I doubt that, Bubba.” thing to deserve it.” brate by setting fires without paying “Ok, maybe not everybody, but the “What am I supposed to be getting out for fire protection.” overall GPA is about 3.5, right?” of this—that Duke should pay for fire pro“Perhaps, but that’s because most tection and give their students D’s?”

Michael Peterson, Trinity ’65, is a students do good work. If they all do A Durham resident.

“Carolina does.” work, they should get A’s. What’s wrong with t}jat?”

“Nothing, if they all do good work.

The problem is that Durham doesn’t understand that. You see, Durham looks to Duke as a model for behavior.

Duke is rich and smart, the city is poor and stupid; the_ city wants Yabe4ike Duke so they emulate the University.

In this case, Durham took the principle that everybody should be rewarded without understanding that people have to deserve the reward.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Ninety-eight percent of all city employees just got a 5 percent merit pay raise. This cost the city millions—millions it doesn’t have. What are the chances that 98 percent of city workers deserve a merit raise?”

“Zero.”

“Less; I deal with these people. Now

The war Saddam Hussein Foreign affairs Thomas Friedman The Bush team has a fullDOHA, Qatar fledged public relations disaster on its hands in the Arab world.

From the smallest pistachio seller here on the shores ofthe Persian Gulf to the highest Arab ministers, there is not only total opposition to any Bush

plans to tighten sanctions on Saddam Hussein until he is squeezed out of power, but in fact virtually unanimous support for lifting sanctions immediately.

America has lost the propaganda war with Saddam.

Period. And before the sanctions regime collapses entirely, the United States needs to find away to at least salvage an international ban on all weapons sales to Iraq, with border inspections, so that Saddam’s military power is contained—and forget about using endless economic sanctions to get rid of him. They are not sustainable.

Especially after Ariel Sharon wins the Israeli election Tuesday. Judging from many conversations here, the Arab street is poised to say to the Bush team: “Let me get this straight. You want us to join America in imposing sanctions on the Iraqi leader who smashed Kuwait, while America accepts the Israeli leader who smashed Lebanon? Not a chance.”

The U.S. effort to isolate Saddam has died of many causes. For one, Saddam totally outfoxed Washington in the propaganda war. All you hear and read in the media here is that the sanctions are starving the Iraqi people—which is true. But the U.S. counter-arguments that by complying with U.N. resolutions Saddam could

get those sanctions lifted at any time are never heard.

Preoccupied with the peace process, no senior US. officials have made their case in any sustained way here, and it shows.

You would never know from talking to people in the Gulf that just a few weeks ago Saddam Hussein’s son Uday put forward a “working paper” to the Iraqi National Assembly calling for a new emblem that showed Kuwait “as an integral part of greater Iraq.”

You would never know that Iraq’s deputy prime minis-

The U.S. effort to isolate Saddam has died of many causes.

For one, Saddam totally outfoxed Washington in the propaganda war. ter, Tariq Aziz, recently declared that “Kuwait got what it deserved.” You would never know that during the period from June to December 2000, despite all the hunger among the Iraqi people, the UN. reported that Saddam bought only $4.2 billion worth of food and medicine for his people—even though under the U.N. oil-for-food program he had $7.8 billion to spend.

No, all you hear now are the softs of arguments that Egypt’s foreign minister, Amr Moussa, made at the Davos Forum last week: “We can’t expect that the people of Iraq live under sanctions forever.... Since the war, public opinion in the Arab world has moved 180 degrees.” Many here would agree.

Even if Colin Powell came to the Gulf to make the right arguments, he would have an uphill battle. For

won one thing, Washington has forgotten how different Iraq looks from the Arab world. The leaders of the small Persian Gulf sheikdoms are very good at calculating the balance of power. They know the difference between the mirage and the oasis, and they know that as long as Saddam is posing no immediate military threat to them, his army is still a useful counterweight to their more dangerous historic enemy—lran.

At the same time, on the Arab street the notion that at least one Arab country, Iraq, has weapons of mass destruction that can balance Israel’s is very popular.

Moreover, the daily Arab TV diet of pictures of the Palestinian uprising and the Israeli retaliations has produced a gut desire on the Arab street to poke a finger in America’s eye.

Finally, the Arab street no longer accepts the logic of sanctions—that if you squeeze Iraq long enough the Iraqi people will oust Saddam. It is widely felt that Arab leaders can never be ousted by the “people.” It never happens in this neighborhood. As one Qatari intellectual said to me: “If your sanctions on Castro have not worked for 40 years to get rid ofhim, and he is right next to you, why do you believe that they will work to get rid of Saddam?” For the most part, the Iraqi opposition groups (funded by the U.S.) are viewed as corrupt outsiders who would be rejected by the Iraqi body politic in the unlikely event they ever did oust Saddam.

Bottom line: If Powell tries really hard, launches a real PR campaign against Saddam, he might be able to hold together the sanctions long enough to get them lifted in an orderly way and replaced by a U.N. ban on all military sales to Iraq.

If you think otherwise, well, I have some lakefront property on the Saudi-Qatari border I’d like to sell you.

Thomas Friedmans column is syndicated by The New York Times News Service.

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Alieva will recover from shot to temple Curtis, Russell MLS

By KEVIN LLOYD

get to him as quick as possible, and you pray to God he’s alright.”

The Duke baseball team and the athAlieva’s initial appearance did not do letic department breathed a collective much to assuage the Blue Devils’ fears.

“You hoped it wasn’t as bad as it sigh of relief today.

All available information indicates looked,” Hillier said. “It looked pretty that sophomore pitcher Jeff Alieva bad. He was semi-conscious. It looked should make a full recovery after being like he had been hit by Mike Tyson, he struck in the eye with a linedrive on definitely had a concussion.

“There were a lot of people standing Sunday at Elon.

“I just got back from the eye center around and you could have heard a pin with him,” said Joe Alieva, Jeff’s father drop. There wasn’t anyone talking, and and Duke’s athletic director. “His vision he was probably down for 15 or 20 minhas drastically improved today. utes on the mound. You knew when he Yesterday his vision was none. It was a got hit that it was a serious injury.”

Alieva regained his senses on the huge improvement from last night. The prognosis was good, the doctors expect field and was lucid while being taken to his vision to fully recover.” the hospital. This helped to calm both Alieva was able to see the top “E” on the coaching staff and his teammates, the eye chart. Test results indicate that as they then felt confident Alieva would his retina was not detached, and that be alright.

Hillier has kept in constant contact although he suffered a concussion, there He with Alieva since the accident and no brain from the damage impact. is took ten stitches to his eye and has a said that the player is dealing with slight fracture of the lower orbital. He the situation well.

“I’m not sure if he realizes how fortuwill rest in bed for two to four days.

The injury occurred in the third nate he is,” Hillier said. “He was within inning of an 11-10 loss to the Elon an inch or so of losing his eye. But he Phoenix at Burlington. Leftfielder Jim saw his older brother [thirdbaseman Swenson hit a linedrive that smashed J.D. Alieva] go down in three games into the 1999 season [and be forced to redinto Alieva’s face.

“The first thing you felt was fear,” shirt]. So he is probably wondering when he can get back and if he is going head coach Bill Hillier said. ‘Your natural instincts take over, you just want to to be 100 percent.”

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bound From staff reports

Seniors Ali Curtis and Robert Russell were both taken in the first two rounds of the Major League Soccer draft yesterday.

Curtis, Duke’s all-time leading goal scorer with 53 goals and 1999 Hermann Trophy Player of the Year was taken with the second overall pick in the draft by the Tampa Bay Munity.

Russell was the 10th pick of the second round and 22nd overall pick of the draft by the Los Angeles Galaxy. He was twice a captain while at Duke and was a secondteam All-America selection his senior season.

North Carolina’s Chris Carrieri,

a suprise choice by the San Jose Earthquakes, went with the first

pick of the draft.

All of the top three picks hailed from ACC schools with Clemson’s Mark Lisi taken by D.C. United with the draft’s third pick.

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MIKE BREY is now the head basketball coach at Notre Dame

In his first season as an assistant coach, Mike Brey went straight to the top. Less than a year into his college career, he found himself at theFinal Four.

Brey remembers that first season well. After the Blue Devils beat Temple in the 1989 NCAA regional finals to face Kansas in the Final Four, he leaned over to his wife on the bus and noted that maybe they should be writing down their experiences in the coming week. After all, the Final Four was something special.

Little did Brey know that in the next eight years at Duke, he would visit the Final Four five more times and come back with two national championships.

“It was Disney World. It was Fantasy Land,” said Brey, who is now the head coach at Notre Dame. “It wasn’t reality... My wife actually was so spoiled she thought we were supposed to go to that thing every year and play in it. We were spoiled, all of us.”

Brey says that although he was at Duke for the greater part of a decade, the whirlwind experience felt like only three years Now in his first year as head coach of No. 20 Notre Dame, he is six years and two jobs removed from his days in Durham.

But for the 41-year old Brey, coaching has never been anything new. Brey’s father and mother were coaches as well. At age 23 he began his coaching career alongside high school coaching legend Morgan See BREY on page 15 P:

Sell wins award

Fencing competes at MIT

Women’s tennis team members Kathy Sell was one of the winners of the James O’Hara Sargent Sportsmanship Award yesterday at the Rolex National Intercollegiate Indoor.

fencing teams competed at MIT this weekend. The women’s team improved to 5-6 on the year with the men’s team notching a

The men’s and women’s

5-7 record.

Mould’s gets raise Buffalo Bills receiver Eric Moulds is close to working a deal with the team that would make him one of the highest paid players in the NFL. He was a ProBowler this season.

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Sun’s Robinson arrested Forward Cliff Robinson of the Phoenix Suns was arrested for driving under the influence yesterday.

When searching his car, police also found a marijuana pipe on him.

Men’s Basketball

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Women’s Basketball No. 24 Virginia 69, Maryland 56 Fla. St. 89,6a. Tech 69

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Spring provides hope for Blue Devil sports fans

Seventeen-and-a-half to two-and-a-

half.

That’s the margin right now for this year’s inaugural Carlyle Cup competition. The Carlyle Cup is the award that will be given each year to either Duke or North Carolina based on their performance in all collegiate sports.

For those who believe that all is lost, take heart: the spring season has arrived.

Statistically, Duke needs 15 points to tie North Carolina. Considering that means five teams will have to beat the Tar Heels this spring, the fact that six of Duke’s spring teams are nationally ranked in their respective sports takes on even greater significance.

Consider the following: Last fall’s sports combined for only a 0.528 season (57-50-1) overall, while last spring’s sports went 0.58 (87-63). If you take out the two most unsuccessful programs from each season, football and baseball, the result is even more staggering: spring sports (70-22) becomes even more dominant over fall sports (57-39).

Indeed, there’s only one sports figure at Duke who left school early to go pro last year: her name is Beth Bauer and she’s a golfer. From Bauer to athletes like her former teammate Jenny Chausiripom and tennis player Vanessa Webb, Duke has launched a number of non-revenue collegiate athletes into stardom.

There’s a new crowd of athletes coming in this season that promise to be just as talented as ever before: Virada

Men’s tennis coach Jay Lapidus, credits the strength of the women’s program back to the early 1990s as one of the things that has pulled up the men’s tennis team.

“If the women’s team does well, it Kevin Lees puts Duke tennis in the spotlight and helps us,” he said last year. “If we do on well, it helps them. I think there’s a litNirapathpongpom, from Thailand, the women’s golf team, along with Leigh tle bit to be said for that. When the Anne Hardin, Ansley Cargill and Phillip women do well, we don’t want to be King, who will take over the No. 1 seeds shown up by them. There’s a little bit of on their respective teams. And then healthy competition between them, which is good.” there’s track & field’s Sheela Agrawal.

While lacrosse polls have not come While Duke has only won four national championships in any sport, out yet, both teams finished in the Top the most recent one has come not from 10 nationally last season. Mike Pressler, that more prominent winter sport, but who has spent a decade in Durham, was in a spring sport. Dan Brooks led his recently named a Team USA assistant coach and has taken his team to two women’s golf team to the NCAA championship two seasons ago in 1999. (The Final Fours. Kerstin Kimel, after only others are Duke’s 1991-92 back-to-back six years to build a program, has already men’s basketball championships and a taken women’s lacrosse to a Final Four.

1986 men’s soccer championship).

Men’s golf sits right below the Top 10 a for great accomplishment in the polls—at No. 11, it is wedged in “This is our program and Duke University,” between Nos. 2 and 3 Clemson and Brooks said at the time. “It’s a great Georgia Tech and Nos. 12 and 13 North feeling for me to see this team handle Carolina State and Wake Forest. Only the pressure of being No. 1 most of the baseball, which finished 5-19 in the conyear and see the season through to a ference, and rowing, which enters only its third season of existence, are not national championship.” nationally ranked. never get a most coaches quote It is “I hope and I think our tennis teams to use. But this spring, Duke has a very are in good shape for years to come,” athlegitimate chance at doubling its NCAA championships. Starting with women’s letic director Joe Alieva said. “I think they golf, which sits atop the national polls, have legitimate chances to win a national Duke also has two tennis teams in the championship. Our women’s golf team is top five nationally (men’s is No. 5, ranked first in the country and our men’s golf team should be much better.” women are No. 4).

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Alieva complimented the Duke golf

course as an attraction for talent to play.

But his efforts to improve non-revenue sports at Duke, from improving

Koskinen Stadium to building the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center for the tennis program, have also increased Duke’s attractiveness. Yet Alieva could not explain the dominance of Duke’s spring sports over fall sports. The department is in the process of adding 34 scholarships for women’s teams because ofTitle IX, while men’s lacrosse, baseball and other fall sports were short ofthe NCAA allotment of scholarships.

Resources are also the reason he gave for not adding a varsity softball team, a sport which has varsity level at five ACC schools (N.C. State, Clemson and Wake Forest join Duke without a team).

“I really think that sometimes it goes in cycles,” he said. “We’ve been very good in the spring. It’s hard for me to put my finger on it.”

As for the Carlyle Cup, had it existed the past three years, the result would have gone to Duke one year, North Carolina another, and tied another year.

So there’s hope yet for a comeback. Even more hopeful is that a look at last spring’s direct Duke-North Carolina matchups would have given Duke a 6-1 edge, including the golf teams.

“We have an excellent chance,” said Alieva of the competition. “We have a tremendous chance to leapfrog.”

Kevin Lees is a Trinity sophomore celebrating his 100th Chronicle article.

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6. 2001

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Brey gets first big coaching test with Irish BREY from page 13 Wooten at DeMatha High School in Maryland. It was there that Brey first met a kid named Danny Ferry.

Brey got to know the Duke staff while they were recruiting Ferry, and in effect, when an opening on his available, staff became Krzyzewski recruited Brey as well.

The rest is history. After his time at Duke, Brey left in 1995 to coach at Delaware, after turning down a annual quarter-million dollar deal with Auburn. He found the right fit in Wilmington and led the Blue

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Hens to a 99-52 record, transforming the program into a perennial contender for the America East Conference title, twice taking

Delaware to the NCAA tournament’s first round. Last summer, Brey got an even bigger break when Matt Doherty left Notre Dame for North Carolina. As the North Carolina coaching tree took the spotlight, one of Krzyzewski’s branches became much more prominent, as Brey got the nod for the high-profile position. The position is one Brey feels he was more than ready for. “[Coaching with Wooten] was like getting my master’s degree,” Brey said. “Going down with Mike was like getting my Ph. D.... One of the things I appreciate with Mike is that he said, T don’t want anybody coming down here who doesn’t want to be a head coach.’”

Krzyzewski felt Brey was ready as well.

“What a perfect fit,” the Duke coach said in July. “Mike has the background which is totally suited for the level of success that Notre Dame wants and deserves. He and his family will be absolutely terrific in representing Notre Dame. I’m so happy for all of them.”

Brey has already fulfilled that ambition, and is now embarking on another Duke tradition: winning.

Although it is only February, Bre/s Fighting Irish have posted a 15-5 season, losing only two Big East games so far, a nine-point loss at Syracuse and another two-point loss

against Seton Hall, which is coached by his former colleague Tommy Amaker. Notre Dame sits atop the

conference’s western division standings, not an easy feat in a conference with as much talent as any other elite conference in the nation.

But Drey’s had his share of adversity. One of the first things he had to deal with was Troy Murphy, the Irish star who has played under three coaches in his career at Notre Dame.

“The first time we met him, he came into the locker room and sat down and talked to us,” said Murphy of their first encounter. “He didn’t stand over us. He felt like one of the guys and we trust him.”

Murphy, a national player of the year candidate, made headlines at the beginning season for having an illegal I.D. at a bar. Brey penalized the junior by benching him for the first four minutes of the Irish’s game against Miami of Ohio. No more incidents have occurred and Murphy is playing as well as ever. Only two weeks ago, after taking revenge on No. 9 Syracuse and before defeating the eastern division’s leading Hoyas at No. 15 Georgetown, Brey was recruiting in D.C. and received a call from his one-time mentor, congratulating him on his success and also some encouragement over a bugaboo that both coaches have dealt with this season.

“I’ve gotten a little heat about not using depth,” Brey said. “Nobody gives Mike heat about that because

they win all the time.”

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“A QUARTET OF QUARTETS” Saturday, February 10 at 8:00 p.m.

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ON TAP! is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of the Arts. Other participating campus arts presenters include: Art Museum, Dance Program, Drama Program, Film & Video Program, Hoof n’ Horn, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Music Department, University Union, University Life, and Documentary Studies.

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This musical, featuring Kerry O’Malley (Trinity ‘9l) as Jo March, is based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.

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No. 1 women’s golf eyes 2nd crown in 3 years After a stellar fall season, Duke has only a couple months to wait before a return to the NCAAs

By WILYORK The Chronicle The Duke women’s golf team’s goals for this spring are clear.

“We want to win the NCAAs,” said

sophomore Kristina Engstrom.

Judging by the resounding success of the team’s fall season, in which the Blue Devils won four of five tournaments and finished second in the other, as well as ending up atop the Sagarin and MasterCard rankings, this goal is certainly feasible.

However, a closer look at the team and its ambitions for this spring re-

forts, as well, each turning in a firstplace individual performance this fall.

“We support each other, but we also push each other to have better scores,” Engstrom said. “All of our players are good; everyone has played

really well at some time.”

One might be wary that the team would become complacent due to its successes on the course this fall, but the golfers say this will not happen.

Although the team members know that they have the personnel to reach their goal of a national championship, they also know that they can veals that they do not simply wish to take nothing for granted, as evidenced by last year’s disappointing capture the program’s second national championship in three years. 14th-place finish at the NCAAs. Rather, each golfer wishes to main“The experience of winning is just tain a certain level of excellence that more motivation to work even harder,” Anderson said. “We know we she feels is in keeping with the tradition of the program. have to push ourselves to play the “We’re glad to have had success, way we’re capable of playing; we but we’re approaching this as a new can’t be complacent.” season,” senior Kalen Anderson said.

The immediate success of the first“We want to approach and play in year golfers is nothing new to them, each tournament with the same level either; Hardin is a former USGA juof intensity.” nior national champion, and NirapCoach Dan Brooks adds that the athpongporn is a six-time winner of junior golf events. team must be self-motivating.

“We have to maintain our own “They both had great junior castandard at tournaments and in prac- reers; they’ve played in high-pressure tice,” he said. “And that standard is situations,” Anderson said. “That exprobably going to be higher than anyperience is really important.” one else’s, so we have to motivate Brooks said the team’s main challenge is to maintain intensity for the each other.”

This year’s team boasts a good next four months. mixture of youth and experience. An“We have to make the commitment derson and junior Candy Hannemann to make sure that we’re staying enerplayed on the 1999 team that brought getic and excited all year long,” home the NCAA Championship, the Duke’s coach said. “It’s a process. We program’s first. Sophomores Kristina have to be able to maintain the excelEngstrom and Maria Garcia-Estrada lence and then put it on right when joined the two in winning the ACC we need it most.”

The team returns to action Feb. 19 championship and the NCAA East Regional to advance to another in Tucson, Ariz., at the Arizona InviNCAA tournament last year. tational. The spring schedule of eight Freshmen Virada Nirapathpongtournaments culminates with the pom and Leigh Anne Hardin have NCAA Championship tournament, stepped in and contributed solid ef- May 23-26, in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.

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Oui. Or more precisely, Virada “Oui” (pronounced Ou-WE) Nirapathpongpom and Leigh Anne Hardin. The talented freshmen had the second and third lowest averages on the team in fall play, and ended the season ranked eighth and 11th, respectively, in the nation in the MasterCard Collegiate Golf Rankings.

“I’ve been very happy with them,” he said. “They tend to put the team first. They’re both appreciative of all the good

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“I always wanted to play basketball [at Duke], because I used to play in high school,” she said. “After my sophomore year, I decided to stop playing basketball and focus on golf.”

Before she quit, Hardin played in two Indiana state championships and was named an AAU All-American. After focusing on golf, however, she soon found herself being recruited by Duke. Along with the academics and the high caliber of the program, the other players for Duke were a major attraction for Hardin when she was making her decision.

“With Oui coming here too, that worked out really well,” she said.

Even though the two players were familiar with each other from the junior golf circuit, they did not really know each other well. That changed when they arrived at Duke.

“I almost think ofher as my sister now, because we’re very close,” Hardin said. “I’m really happy that she’s a part of the team, and that I am too, and we’re together and we have a lot of fun.”

Nirapathpongpom, who is originally from Bangkok, Thailand, won the Mercedes-Benz Intercollegiate back in October. She also finished even or under-par in four rounds, Nirapathpongpom echoes her friend’s comments. . which was the most of any player on the team.

“We get along veiy well. I’m glad I have her as my team“Oui has a model long game,” said coach Dan Brooks, a remate,” she said. “I couldn’t have a better teammate.” cent inductee to the NGCA Hall of Fame. “She has very Oui set the record straight on the subject of the origins of straight [drives]. When it’s on, she knocks a lot of pins down. her nickname.

She’s very accurate.”

“Every Thai person has a nickname, because we have If Nirapathpongpom’s strength is the long game, Hardin’s such long names,” she explained. “My mom asked my brothis all-around solid play. er, who was only a year old, What do you want to name your “Leigh Anne’s strength is that she really doesn’t have a little sister?’ He just made a sound. He probably didn’t even weakness,” Brooks said. “She plays with a lot of heart and know what my mom was asking.” with a lot of confidence.”

In the spring, Nirapathpongpom and Hardin hope to help Despite her coach’s praise, Hardin was still able to find the Blue Devils defend their No. 1 ranking. fault with her play during the fall.

We’re ranked No. 1 right now,” Hardin said. “I like that, “I didn’t hit the ball as well as I wanted, but I did manage because everybody knows were capable of doing well. We just to get the ball in the hole,” Hardin said. “I didn’thave as good have to go prove it now.” a fall as I would have liked.”

Despite the great performances of the fall, both players Hardin still finished third on the team with a stroke avhope to improve their play in the spring. erage of 74.55, giving her a national ranking as high as 11th.

“I want to get more solid, more consistent, [have a] better She shared the individual title at the Tar Heel Invitational short game,” Hardin said. “Every little part of my game I with junior teammate Candy Hannemann. want to get better and better, fine-tuning it, Surprisingly, if Hardin had been asked during her sophoNirapathpongpom has similar goals. more year of high school, she would have predicted that she “I want to get better at everything,” she said. “Be a little would be suiting up for a different Blue Devil team. more specific, a little more meticulous with everything.”

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Women’s lax turns to team chemistry for NCAA glory

By ANDREA BOOKMAN The Chronicle

At the end of September with women’s lacrosse

recruits in town for the weekend, coach Kerstin Kimel’s water broke. First-time mom-to-be Kimel, who according to her players looked slim and fit throughout her pregnancy, was not due to deliver her daughter for another several weeks.

But the precocious baby was ready to arrive, recruits or not, and Kimel delivered a healthy baby that weekend. “The kids,” her players, were supportive, visiting Kimel, her husband and baby during her week-long hospital stay.

And the coach’s foray into motherhood, Kimel says, may be one of the key ingredients to Duke’s success this year.

“It’s definitely a challenge,” Kimel said. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you being a working mom is easy. But I used to stay in the office until eight or nine at night; I can’t do that anymore. It’s made me more efficient in the office and makes my time with the team better spent. I enjoy the kids so much more now. I can enjoy them and then go home and enjoy my little girl. Fm not thinking about lacrosse at home.”

So while Kimel has found a healthy balance in her life, she also feels confident that lessons learned last season will truly benefit this sea-

son’s team.

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CO-CAPTAIN KATE KAISER advances the ball for Duke’s attack.

For the first time last season, the Blue Devils were a seriously regarded national title contender. Finishing the season ranked seventh in the nation, Duke lost in the semifinals of the ACC tournament and in the round of eight in the NCAA championship. It was a disappointing ending, to be sure.

“In retrospect, I’m glad we did not win,” Kimel admitted. “The team last year did not play well enough or do the little things well enough to win. We had a false sense of what it took to get to a Final Four. We were grossly disappointed. But I think we are more motivated this year because of that.”

Junior Kate Kaiser, an All-American last sea-

son, said what was harder than losing was losing a heartbreaker. Duke fell to then-No. 2 Princeton, 9-8, in the NCAA quarterfinal—with a Tiger

sophomore scoring the game-winning goal with only four seconds remaining in the first sudden victory period.

“It was a tough pill to swallow,” Kaiser said of the loss, in which she scored two of her 41 goals last season. “I think losing the way we did makes us want to go back into this year’s tournament and not feel that way again.”

Prior to last season, Duke had been on the rise to national prominence. In fact, the Blue Devils made the Final Four in 1999 and extremely high expectations for the 2000 squad followed.

“We moved to a different level last year,” Kimel said. “Everyone, up to and including our coaching staff, thought, ‘We’re so talented, why can’t we make this happen?’ It takes more than talent. It takes little things, commitment to execution and team chemistry.”

That chemistry is one thing Kimel says this year’s team does not lack. In fact, she could not single out any one player for particular notice; she is proud to say she is getting leadership and hard work from representatives of every class, from seniors to freshmen.

Both Kaiser and sophomore Meghan Walters were recently named to CLUSA.com’s preseason All-America first team, while sophomore Lauren Gallagher received honorable mention. Kimel praised the leadership of senior co-captains Kate Soulier and Barbara Preston, and called her sixmember freshman class as talented as any rookie group before them.

Expectations are high, but that is the way Kimel likes it. The difference this time around is that everyone—coaches and players alike—know what it takes to be a champion.

“Our goal is to win the national championship this year, and the way we have been working, no one is going to stop short ofreaching that goal,” Kaiser said. “That is what we want this season.”

Track & field plans on claiming few ACC titles this season Each team returns a strong contingent of conference contenders While Norm Ogilvie looks for his pole vaulter to capture his first ACC title, his wife and women’s coach For pole vaulter Seth Benson, it is now or never.

Jan Ogilvie will hope to see her senior pole vaulting For three years, the senior from Vasailia, Calif, has phenom Jillian Schwartz cap an amazing career with competed in the ACC championships, and during each an NCAA championship. of those years, he has walked away as the conference’s Schwartz had an outstanding 2000 season, winning her third ECAC title and finishing third in the NCAA runner-up.

Now, in his final year, Benson will look to leave championship meet with a personal-best and Duke Duke with an ACC title on his resume. record 13-feet, 5.25 inch vault. Schwartz’s impressive “He’s somebody we’re really looking to break season led to her being named Duke’s first women’s track and field All-American since 1986. through,” men’s coach Norm Ogilvie said. “He’s a seAlso contending for conference and NCAA awards nior, and it’s time for him to win.”

Regardless of his performance at the conference will be sophomore Sheela Agrawal. Agrawal was an championships, Benson has left his mark on Duke’s All-America selection for cross country following her record books. His indoor best of 16 feet, 9.5 inches freshman year, and became the first Blue Devil woman to ever compete in the NCAA indoor championships. shattered the previous mark by over four inches.

Ogilvie, however, would like to see even more out of The Massachusetts native will look to improve upon his top vaulter. her 13th-place finish in the mile run this year.

“Seth’s pole vault coach Scott Still is very confident Also looking strong in the mile is Katie Atlas. that Seth is going to break 17 feet indoors and go into Running the event for the first time, the junior’s the high 17s outdoors, which would make him a factor time of 4:43.34 in the mile at last week’s Terrier nationally,” he said.

Classic was fast enough to be considered an auto“Seth has been very good—one ofthe best vaulters matic NCAA qualifier, the first such time ever poston the east coast and one of the top vaulters in the ed by a Blue Devil. “[The automatic qualifying time] is the first one ACC. We’re hoping he steps up—raises the bar, so to we’ve had in our program’s history, which means she speak—to become a national factor.”

While Benson will try to capture his first ACC title, will definitely be in Fayetteville, Ark. in March,” the women’s track coach said. fellow senior and California native Brendan Fitzgibbon will look to defend his. Fitzgibbon won last year’s Atlas’ time also set a new Duke indoor record, 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:45.44. Ogilvie also breaking the mark that Agrawal set last year.

Also setting a new Duke record was senior Megan counts senior Terry Brennan and junior Sean Kelly as contenders for a conference championship in the Sullivan, whose 3,000-meter time of 9:35.28 last week 5,000-meter run. Brennan finished fifth in last year’s made her a provisional national qualifier. She broke ACC outdoor championship with a time of 14:26.48. the Duke record held by former All-American Ellen Also contending for conference titles will be Bill Reynolds by over two seconds.

Junior Kim Hanauer and sophomore Jodi Spierdowis in either the 800-meter run or the 1,500meter run, as well as freshman pentathlete and de- Schlesinger should also figure prominently in the cathlete Calen Powell, who doubles as a tight end on ACC title picture. Already this season, Hanauer has the Duke football team. Ogilvie refers to Powell as a twice broken her personal record and the Duke in“Blue Devil to watch.” door record in the shotput, most recently by throw-

By EVAN DAVIS The Chronicle

BRENDAN FITZGIBBON raises his arms after crossing the finish line, ing 41 feet, 7.75 inches. Schlesinger’s mark of 38 feet, 5 inches in the triple jump also broke the school record.

With the return of Benson, Fitzgibbon, Schwartz, and others, the Ogilvies are confident that success awaits many oftheir athletes at this season’s end.

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In any three-year-old program, there are still many firsts to be experienced and conquered.

Duke women’s rowing, though, in the March 3 season-opener against North Carolina at the Tar Heels’ University Lake, will look to do more than just “experience” the competition.

“Our goal as a team is to try and dominate [Carolina],” head coach Robyn Homer said. “Last year we had mostly freshman and they were uptight during the race. This year we feel strong and have a good freshman class as well as [the veterans]. Obviously our goal is to try and sweep, but any ACC race is intense and we just try to do our best.”

Last season, the Blue Devils split the fall and spring races with the Tar Heels, the varsity 8+ besting the Tar Heels by one second at the Lake Michie Invitational on Oct. 9, 1999 and then narrowly falling five months later by the same margin.

This season, Duke improved to sweep North Carolina at Lake Michie, with the varsity 4+ boats coming

away with the early win and a nearly 30-second cushion between the first-place and second-place boats.

Blue Devils rowers went on to win five out the six remaining events, including the regatta-indicative varsity 8+ race by 31 seconds. “[The early racing date against Carolina] gives us a chance to get out there and get going early,” Horner said. ‘That gives us a couple extra weeks to get ready for other competition.”

The Blue Devils’ only concern for the spring matchup is that North Carolina’s home lake only has a 1,000-meter course instead ofthe standard 2,000 meters. This means the competition will focus on shorter sprints rather than the longer endurance test.

“Our team is better suited to full [2,000-meter] distances since we’re a very aerobic team,” Horner said. “[But] we’ve been doing strength tests and we’re stronger than we’ve ever been.”

This spring, the Blue Devils look forward to facing Clemson at the Tigers’ Lake Hartwell on March 24 and returning to the Head of the Charles regatta a week later. Duke will travel next to Mission Bay, San Diego,

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Duke had a strong showing in the fall, downing Carolina in the Blue Devils’ first regatta of the season and then quickly moving on to the Head of the Hartwell regatta Oct. 14 in Clemson, S.C. against rivals Clemson and Tennessee.

Duke’s varsity eight led the way in South Carolina, besting Clemson by nine seconds and Tennessee by over 30. It was the novice race that indicated how far the Blue Devils’ had come, finishing first and second in a seven-team lineup.

In the previous two years of the program, Duke has had weaker novice results because the recruits that would have filled those boats were moved up to varsity in order to be more competitive there. Now that the Blue Devils have two scholarship recruiting classes behind them, they will be able to compete against larger programs not just in one race, but in all of them.

“Our focus in spring training is to get more depth,” Homer said. “Usually our varsity-eight boat does very well, but we want to look at results across the board because we want a fast first, second and third boat. We are going to try to build from the bottom up.”

Duke followed up its victories at Clemson with a trip to the heart of United States rowing, Boston, Mass., for the famous Head of the Charles regatta.-The Blue Devils experienced another first in the history of the program, debuting in the Champ 8+ heat, the premiere race of the event. “[At the Head of the Charles], we entered the Champ 8+ event, which we haven’t done in the past in the program,” Homer said.

“The Dutch and the US. national teams were there, which gave our rowers good experience. We plan to stay entered in that event and try to up our standing at every opportunity.”

As a team, Duke is now a force to be reckoned with, and individually, Blue Devil rowers are receiving national attention. Two of Duke’s varsity-eight rowers, Katie Lakin and Joanna Hingle, were invited to a national team camp in San Diego, Calif. Junior Maren Betts-Sonstegard and sophomore Amelia Booth were also invited to attend the national team identification camp in Princeton, N.J., after competing in a rowing contest that placed them among some of the nation’s top rowers.

“The trip down to Cocoa Beach, Fla., [for winter training] in January was very beneficial to the team, not so much in the quality of work we did but the coming together as a group,” Homer said. “We spent a lot of time talking about our goals for the spring.”

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Screech, screech, screech—the sounds of Phillip King’s adidas sneakers moving back and forth along the asphalt tennis courts of his Long

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Unlike man> of bis peers, Phillip makes no protenses about what his priorities were back in high school; he does not feign the four-year-student look and he will break no hearts if he leaves Duke early.

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Phillip likens It to trying to match up against Superman or Batman, but in his brief straight-set loss to the world’s No. I player, the high school junior flashed moments of three brilliance before the 7,000 people in attendance. Losing 6-1,6-2, Phillip times and even got a few break points off Sampras* 135-mile-per-hour rocket serve.

“I was doing all right, I was just too scared,” Phillip says, referring both to the man standing on the opposite side of the net and the crowd that was roughly 140 times bigger than any he had ever previously played for.

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Rarely does a freshman add experience to a team, particularly to one as accomplished as Duke’s fourth-ranked omen’s tennis squad. But when the championship-seeking lue Devils need a big match this season, first-year phenom sley Cargill may be their top choice, i: ask senior captain Kathy Sell about her 18-year-old teamarrival last August. noticed with her the day she was leaving for the D-S Open,” "So she came in with an experience that the team ready ding to coach Jamie Ashworth, Cargill, who also played in r’s French Open, is Duke’s best recruit ever—©yen better time All-American and 1998 NCAA champion Vanessa Webb, i not imposing at 5-foot-7, Cargill has a power game that has tinating so far this year. She is currently ranked second % ry with a 13-1 record and dropped only one set last October ig the ITA All-American Championships, the biggest tourna-

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3 playing in a Grand Slam is one of the most competitive ents you can play, it goes back to playing on a team atm osid playing for a school,” she said. “[The grand slams] gaveme osure to pressure situations.” \cing schoolwork with tennis presents a particular chab Cargill, as she has a reputation for being a tremendo orker at her game. She impressed Sell last semester by somending time to practice most of the days during finals week,

think in some ways, 1 am inexperienced,” Cargill I have been able to travel a lot and be independent, V hick is kind of like the college atmosphere.”

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“I’ve always wanted to do both,” she said, “I figure that I should start with my education and go on from there.”

Whether she stays four years may depend on how quickly her game improves. If her ranking, as high as 253 last summer, rises enough to qualify her for the grand slams, leaving early is a possibility. [.

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By NICK CHRISTIE The Chronicle During its nine years under the guidance of head coach Mike Pressler, the Duke men’s lacrosse team emerged as one ofthe nation’s premier squads. In both establishing and subsequently maintaining

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CHRIS HARTOFILIS roams the midfield last season. Hartofilis could be one of the most dominant midfielders in the nation this season.

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his team’s reputation for excellence, Pressler emphasized the physicality of lacrosse. In accordance with that initial mindset that has led Duke to national prominence, this year’s team has one motto: Bring it everyday.

“That’s been our philosophy from day one,” Pressler said. “We accentuate the physical part of the game. Our opponents hopefully will say that, win or lose, they know we’re going to bring it, we’re going to bring our bodies, we’re going to bring it defensively.”

In order to establish the physical dominance that has become such an expected characteristic of Duke teams, as well as to perform at the overall level of excellence necessary to beat the nation’s elite teams, the Blue Devils must overcome the loss of several key players from last year’s squad.

Gone is two-time first-team AllAmerican Steve Card, a dominant defenseman who perfectly embodied Pressler’s commitment to physical superiority. Gone, too, is the high-scoring tandem of T.J. Durnan and Jared Frood, as well as Nick Hartofilis, a second-team All-American at midfield. Together, the three combined to score 92 goals and assist 52 others last season.

Replacing that kind of talent won’t be easy, but both Pressler and associate head coach Joe Alberici are confident that their squad has the ability to do it.

With such huge losses from both the offensive and defensive units, only one part of last year’s team remains untouched—goaltending. In net for the Blue Devils will be a preseason third-team All-American, a player Pressler calls “the best ofthe best,” senior co-captain Matt Breslin.

“We’re proud to have him,” Pressler added. “A lot of [the team’s success] will be dependent on how he plays.”

Leading Duke’s goal-scoring attack will be two ofthe best returning offensive play-

ers in the country—preseason All-Americans Greg Patchak and Chris Hartofilis.

Last season, Patchak scored 29 goals and helped on 16 others. This year, Alberici will again call on the senior attackman “to be a creative force offensively” and combine with juniorAlex Lieske “to control the

offense and the tempo of the game.”

Hartofilis, according to Alberici “could be the most dominant midfielder in the NCAA,” having scored 15 goals last season for the Blue Devils. This year, Hartofilis will replace his brother Nick as the offensive leader of Duke’s midfield. Armed with an explosively heavy shot that can overwhelm a goaltender, Hartofilis will head Duke’s top midfield line. Joining him will be sophomores Kevin Cassese and Kevin Brennan, two very athletic complements.

On defense, Pressler will look to co-captains Scott Schwartz and Michael Keating to maintain the level of physical superiority he expects. Indeed, in no area of the team is Pressler’s emphasis on toughness more apparent than on defense, a commitment affirmed by Keating.

“Coming in as a freshman you have no idea the level of [change] from high school to college,” Keating says. “To play as a freshman on defense for Coach Pressler doesn’t really happen.”

Such physicality is necessary to take on Duke’s brutal schedule. Ranked seventh in the preseason, Duke will take on six of the other top-10 teams, including three ACC foes Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

“We’ve got our hands full,” Pressler said. “We do everything we can [to schedule top-10 opponents].”

But playing such a schedule does have a high physical cost. “The body gets so worn down, especially from the ACC schedule,” Keating said.

Despite the apparent challenges, however, expect Duke to be fully prepared for the rigors of the upcoming season. Watch any Duke practice, and the extreme physicality of the intrasquad drills and scrimmages is immediately apparent.

If nothing else this season, spectators can be assured of one thing: Duke lacrosse will bring it.

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Uncased: Breslin first goalie to serve as Duke captain

By HAROLD GUTMANN The Chronicle Congratulations, you’re the new starting quarterback. Now go beat the Ravens in the playoffs.

Or how about you’re the new starting point guard. Now go beat the Blue Devils in Cameron.

Now you know what goalkeeper Matt Breslin must have been thinking when he received his first starting assign-

ment as a freshman—two-time defending national champion Princeton in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.

The Tigers’ attacking line was the best in the country with Jesse Hubbard, Chris Massey and John Hess. To top it off, Breslin was playing on a neutral field where he had never before played. But while Duke predictably lost the game, it gained a goalkeeper for the next three years.

“It was the hardest possible game I could play,” Breslin said. “But that experience really helped me sophomore and junior year. Being in such a big game, on TV, my first game as a freshman, it made me grow a lot and learn what I had to for next year to get myself prepared for such a game.”

However, Breslin learned in his sophomore year that his learning process was not yet complete. Duke’s regular-season success earned it a first-round bye in the postseason, and the role of heavy favorite in its quarterfinal match against Georgetown.

But the team suffered from overconfidence and was again beaten in the round of eight by the upstart Hoyas.

“We had already beaten them that year,” Breslin said of Georgetown. “We just went in too confident, and they ended up really killing us; I didn’t have a very good game.”

It would be surprising if Breslin ever took any days off again.

“You can always find [Matt] doing extra conditioning on the weekends, getting guys on the team to run with him,” senior attackman Greg Patchak said.

During one practice, Patchak’s shot hit Breslin in the ribs. The shot made Breslin cough up blood, but he continued in net until the practice was over.

The coaching staff thought so highly of this work ethic—he often shows up 20 minutes before practice, only to stay 20 minutes afterward as well—that it nominated him to be a captain of the team. The players elected Breslin and three others, with the goalkeeper getting the honor unanimously.

This created a first-time situation for coach Mike Pressler.

“In my 18 years [as head coachl, I’ve never allowed a goalkeeper to be a captain,” Pressler said. “He should concentrate on himself; it would be too big a burden. But this year, I felt Matt could handle it, and that’s a great tribute to him. It says a lot about the amount of confidence I have in him between the pipes.”

The tournament quarterfinals have not been kind to Breslin, who lost his third consecutive game in the round of eight last year on a last-minute goal

by Virginia. But the postseason was also the stage where the goalie gave his most commanding performance.

Before the Virginia loss, Duke held Hobart to just one score in a 13-1 blowout, and Breslin was named College Lacrosse player of the week for his effort.

“I’ve never seen a goalie play like he did in the Hobart game,” senior de-

fender and quad-captain Michael Keating said.

Patchak agreed: “It was one of the most amazing games I’ve ever seen someone play. Guys seemed to have a wide-open goal to shoot at, but Bres would jump across the goal and make the save.”

Sadly, even that postseason performance was bittersweet for Breslin, since Duke’s best game happened to knock Matt’s brother Jamie out of the tournament along with the rest of the Hobart team.

“It was very difficult on Jamie and myself,” Breslin said. “The game was fun, and I enjoyed playing against him, but given the way we won, it should have been more fun. It was the best performance I’ve had here, but it’s a shame it came against my twin brother.”

Ironically, Breslin took up goalkeeping to avoid competing with his twin brother, who played in the midfield, only to have to face him in the most important game of the season.

While the goalkeeper is still waiting for postseason glory, Breslin won’t have to wait long to make his final run. Only one defender from last year graduated (granted it was first-team All-America Stephen Card). The remaining talent has inspired so much confidence that Duke’s goal is to allow only six goals a game throughout the

season. By comparison, last year’s team ranked fourth in the country in goals allowed per game by giving up just over eight a game.

“We want to be regarded as the best defense in the country,” Breslin said.

“With our experience, we should be excellent at that end of the field.” But what excites Breslin most is not just stopping the opposing offense, but helping his own offense as well.

“My favorite part of the game is making a save and throwing an outlet pass to a breaking middy,” the senior said. “It’s such a backbreaker for the other team, and it’s also a lot of fun to play and to watch. That fast, hightempo style of lacrosse, it makes the team fun to play on. We have the athletes and the depth to play up-tempo all game long.”

Breslin will help the team off the field as well as on it. Since coach Joe Alberici is responsible for both the

goalies and the attackmen, Breslin often acts as a surrogate coach to the five other goaltenders on the team.

And in case the others need a lesson in dedication and hard work, they just need to follow the senior’s lead.

“Fm not the most athletic person ever, so I have to make up for that with my work ethic,” the goalie said. “In college lacrosse, they shoot the ball so hard—over 90 mph—if I don’t do the really little things correct, the ball will go by me.”

If you listen to Breslin talk about his natural ability, you would wonder how he was ever named New Jersey Player of the Year in high school or a third-team preseason All-America by Face-off Yearbook two years running.

This is because if there is something more impressive than Breslin’s work ethic, it’s his modesty.

“I thought Matt was the very best goalie coming out of high school when we recruited him,” Alberici said.

Although most Americans will be setting up the grill and putting on their bathing suits on Memorial Day, Breslin hopes to be hard at work. The last Monday ofthe month is the date of the championship game.

lATT BRESLIN awaits a shot on goal. Breslin is coach Mike Pressler’s first goalie to serve as captain

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Baseball hopes for better results in Hillier’s 2nd year

By CRAIG SAPERSTEIN The Chronicle

Blue Devils all they can handle early in the season.

Despite its difficult opponents, though, Duke remains quite optimistic about its prospects for the season. In particular, the players feel like an offseason of summer baseball and intensive weight-training will allow them to find the consistency that they’ve lacked in the past.

“I think this is much better than last year’s team,” third baseman J.D. Alieva said. “I think everyone worked really hard over the summer and I feel liked we improved at every position.”

Among the position players expected to make an impact are Alieva and 6foot-4 first baseman Larry Broadway, who are both expected to carry big bats as the team’s top two returning hitters.

In addition, junior Kevin Kelly and sophomore Doug Bechtold have displayed some flashes of brilliance throughout their careers that could propel the Blue Devils. In fact, last weekend, Bechtold crushed his first career home run, a 415-foot shot to center field, which demonstrated the usefulness of Duke’s off-season weight training and summer ball program.

“One of our main focal points during the offseason was trying to cut down on mental errors,” Bechtold said. “I think we’ve really improved as a group on doing that and we also worked hard on weight

New hats, a new frame of mind and a new season.

That’s the best way to describe the Duke baseball team as it embarks upon what it hopes will be a turnaround from last year’s 17-41 disappointment.

And because he returned most of his starters and brought in a talented recruiting class, coach Bill Hillier believes that a significant improvement could be in the works.

“I expect us to be much more consistent,” Hillier said. “Last year, we kind of played on a rollercoaster—we’d play well for a few games and then not look very good. So playing consistently is one of the most important things we have to do, especially with the schedule we play.”

Playing in one of the top conferences in the country, the ACC, will certainly test this Blue Devil team as it enters the heart of its season. The Blue Devils will have to contend with national powers like Georgia Tech, Clemson and Florida State on a regular basis and will even face talented clubs like North Carolina and N.C. State that would contend for a title in nearly any other conference in the country.

And that’s only the makeup of Duke’s conference schedule. Next weekend, Duke will travel to Arizona State for a contest with defending Pac-10 champion Arizona training and on our body strength. It’s State, a team that massacred the Blue just now a matter of coming out on the Devils in a three-game series last year, field and proving ourselves.”

In particular, Duke’s large freshman scoring 29 runs to only two runs by Duke.

After that, matchups against an expericlass of nine will be looking to enter colenced Cincinnati team, an accomplished lege baseball with something to prove.

East Carolina team that made it to the Most of the strength in this class is in the pitching staff, as 6-4 righthanders Greg NCAA Regionals last season, and an improving Davidson squad will give the Burke and Justin Dilucchio have already

BATTER UP! Duke baseball began its second year under coach Bill Hillier last weekend seen action as relievers for the Blue Devils in this young season. Hillier hopes that he is able to continue to insert first-year players into his rotation, though he acknowledges that freshman often go through growing pains before they’re able

to really produce.

“There’s a huge adjustment from high school baseball coming into this level,” he said. “The greatest part of the adjustment is handling the adversity. These guys were great high school players and they haven’t seen adversity like they’ve seen

already. Thankfully, we have a 56-game season, so by the time we’re 25 to 30

games into the season, the freshman have it all figured out.”

And if the freshman do figure things out, this deeper, harder-working Blue Devil team could raise some eyebrows.

The main challenges, Hillier says, will be avoiding mental errors that can change the whole outlook of a game and remaining positive no matter how the season starts.

“Winning is contagious,” Hillier said, “but losing can be like a cancer. Attitude can also be like a cancer. You can either have a good attitude which spreads or bad attitude, which also spreads.”

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By KEVIN LLOYD The Chronicle

Lately, the grass has been greener on the other side of historic Jack Coombs Stadium.

The Blue Devils’ 2000 campaign was anything but a success. Duke struggled to a 17-41 record, winning only five of its 19 ACC games.

Among the few bright spots last season was the play of second baseman J.D. Alieva. This season, Alieva, a redshirt junior, will have to provide more than just talent.

“Playing since my freshman year, I never really felt like I had to be a leader,” he said. “This year, it’s my turn to step in. We have so many young guys and we

only have three seniors.”

Alieva certainly has the talent to do the job. After missing the entire 1999 season with an elbow injury, Alieva returned to the Blue Devils and posted a .297 average, a team-high eight home runs and 31 RBI. “He’s a tremendous offensive punch for us,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “He is one of the better hitters in our conference and probably the country. He is one of the best hitters I have been around in my 21 years of coaching.”

Alieva’s numbers may not appear gaudy, but they have to be taken in context. After returning from injury, Alieva had anything but a productive start to

last season.

“I hit probably .180 through the first 25 games of the year,” he said. “After a year and a half off [because ofthe injury] it took me 25 games just to get going.”

This season, Alieva does not have the burden of coming off an injury; however, the Blue Devils lost perhaps the strongest bat in their lineup with the gradu-

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ation of third baseman Jeff Becker.

Becker hit .368 last season, tied Alieva for the lead in dingers, and lead the team in RBI and slugging percentage.

“Basically, me and Larry Broadway are going to have to be the two home-run guys,” Alieva said. “Beckerwas so great for so long that I think this year Broadway and I are really going to have to step up.”

His past performance in high-pressure conference games indicates that Alieva should have no trouble dealing with the added burden.

Last season, Alieva hit .340 against ACC pitching that was significant stronger than what he faced in the non-conference schedule. This continued a treiid in his career. During the 1998 season he led the conference with a .383 average.

“Maybe I just get more hyped up for the big games,” he said. “It’s not good to be that way, but I’m more pumped up when we play in the ACC. The competition

is much better. I have always enjoyed playing in the ACC. It’s the best conference in the country.”

Alieva must also adjust to a change in position this season. With Becker’s graduation, Hillier moved Alieva from second to third. Scott Grossi will start at second base.

“I’m still having to adjust after playing second and catching my whole career,” Alieva said. “But I feel that after fall practice it won’t be that big a deal.”

If the opening weekend of the season is any indication, Alieva’s prediction should prove accurate.

“J.D. made four major-league defensive plays on Friday [against Elon],” Hillier said. “Not to take anything away from Jeff Becker, he was a very good defensive player, but I didn’t see Jeff Becker make four plays like that all last year.”

Alieva’s main concern is that the Blue Devils avoid a repeat of last season’s poor showing. Having missed the 1999 season, Alieva’s prior collegiate experience came on the 1998 team that finished 38-10. That made returning to a younger less-competitive team difficult.

“My freshman year we started off 18-1,”Alieva said.

“The next year I wasn’t playing [when Duke finished 2431], so it didn’t bother me as much. Last year was the most miserable thing that I have ever been a part of.”

He, like the rest of the Blue Devils, is confident that this year will prove more successful.

“I feel like we have really turned things around,” he said. “We have a much better attitude. Player for player, even with the best teams in the conference, we have the ability. We just need to execute.”

But Alieva has more than just the Duke team to think about.

This summer he posted the second-highest batting average on his team in the Cape Cod League. Such a performance using wooden bats in what is regarded as best summer league has Alieva thinking about the future.

“After having a good summer I try not to put too much pressure on myself with all the major league scouts around” Alieva said. “But I’m a senior in school, so ideally I’d like to have a good year and then move on. I feel like I’m going to get a chance.”

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Duke has extra incentive to reach Championships

The Blue Devils will host the prestigious NCAA golf tournament for the first time in 39 years

By ANDREW GREENFIELD

win at The Nelson was a complete team effort and showed- what could The spring season hasn’t even happen if everyone contributed. started yet and the NCAA ChampiStreelman and Tucker shot great firstonships are already on the minds of round scores of 69 and 72 that permitthe 13th-ranked men’s golf team. ted the Blue Devils to get off to a good Why? start. Then it was junior Brandon Simple—it’s being played in Duke’s LaCroix’s final round 72 that sealed backyard, an opportunity the Blue Devthe victory. ils have not been afforded since 1962.

The win at Stanford not only gave “It is a huge advantage for us to Duke confidence, it also helped put the play the NCAAs on our home course Blue Devils in fifth place in their disbecause we have local knowledge and trict and in great position to make the we play there every day,” junior Matt NCAA Regionals.

Krauss said. “Right now, however, we “Confidence-wise, the win at Stanare trying not to think about it. We ford was big not only for our position have to concentrate and try to put it in our district but for our mental state out of our minds so we can focus on the as well,” Krauss said. “The win helped task at hand, and that is our first toursupport our belief that we can play nament in Jacksonville.” with the best. Now, we just want to The Blue Devils are coming off a take it one tournament at a time.” very good fall season where they finThe Blue Devils know that last fall ished in the top six in four out of the was a great season, but they realize five tournaments they competed in, inthat improvement is necessary in order cluding a win in their last tournament. to take their play to the next level.

“We’re coming into [this season] with “Our main goal going into the a lot of confidence,” coach Rod Myers spring season is to improve at each said. “The win at Stanford last fall has tournajnent collectively and as indius thinking of winning instead of just viduals,” Tucker said. “It is always finishing in the top five. We have a posgood to end a season with a win, mainitive outlook and know that we have a ly because it keeps the team extremehuge opportunity in front of us with the ly enthused in the off season. The win NCAA Championships at Duke.” at Stanford gave us three months to In order for Duke to continue its realize how good we can be. Although strong play and seize the golden opwe played well enough to win that portunity to play in the biggest event week, our team knows that we could of the year, Myers knows that the have played better.” whole team must perform, not just one The Blue Devils start their quest to, or two guys. the NCAA Championships Feb. 19-20 at “The key to our success this season the Mercedes-Benz Invitational in Jackwill be the play of seniors Kevin Streelsonville, Fla., where they hope to get off man and Paul Tucker,” Myers said. to a good start and build some momen‘They only scratched the surface in the tum for Puerto Rico, which will be the fall and now must see the opportunity toughest tournament of the spring. they have in front of them. We need “Starting our season in Jacksonville them to break through and give solid will get us ready for Puerto Rico, the performances this spring because following week, where we will compete Krauss and [Leif] Olson can’t do it all.” against the strongest field of the seaAlthough Krauss and Olson are son,” Myers said. “This should be a Duke’s most consistent scorers, the very exciting season.”

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Program boasts best Duke lineup ever King still hopes to MEN’S TENNIS from page 8 now and the rest of the guys on the team are really good as well. I don’t see how we could not be the No. 1

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view of where we stand.”

The other important match is of course the one in May, when the Blue Devils play in the NCAA regional and championship series.

“We’re looking to peak in May. Our main goal is to peak in May because that will give us the best chance to win it. Usually we play well in May, but I don’t think we’ve peaked in May. And the last couple years when we’ve played teams that peaked in May, while we were playing well, we weren’t really at our best.”

In addition to the four seniors, the rest of the team is strong throughout, including the addition offreshman Phillip King. King, in his first collegiate tournament earlier in January, defeated team-

mate Ramsey Smith and captured the Flight A singles championship at the adidas College Invitational.

At the same tournament he also captured the Flight A doubles championship when paired up with teammate Cerenko.

“Phillip is a really good player and I think he’s going to help us a lot. He’s won a ton of matches and he really knows how to win,” said Smith. “He’s just a really solid player and that’s going to help. I think we have the most talented team we’ve had ever since I got here.”

SENIOR ANDRES PEDROSO strikes a one-handed backhand for Duke last season With the strength of the team and the determination of the four seniors, Lapidus echoed his players statements about the team goals this season.

“With this group there is just no

getting around the fact that we’re going to be very strong,” Lapidus said. “I don’t want to put pressure on the guys and say This is what we need to do to be successful’ I just want to see how good we can be.”

KING from page 8

top players in college tennis this year and for years to come.”

At the late-August U.S. Open, when Duke was still courting Phillip, he displayed his maturity by testing the No. 20 player in the world, Romania’s Andrei Pavel. With everyone—the television cameras, the newspapers and, most importantly, potential sponsors—zeroed in on him, Phillip had his chance to prove he was worthy of a seven-digit sponsorship.

Underdog he may have been, but Phillip knew the pressure was squarely on his shoulders.

“You wouldn’t think I would have pressure, but there is because I realized that there are not that many opportunities,” says Phillip, who lost 6-4,6-4,64. “People think I can just go for broke, but you can’t really. You can’t mess up. I had to wait a whole year just to get this one chance. He’s got four of those a year and I have to play to win my one a year. I had one match to show the world.”

In losing in straight sets, Phillip showed everyone he still has a few things he can work on—Lapidus hopes to bulk up the 140-pound freshman closer to 155 or 160—but he also proved he is about as good as the world’s best.

His coach calls his star surprisingly coachable, and Phillip points to Lapidus as a major reason for coming to Duke in the first place. Twenty-two years young is still not that old in the men’s professional ranks, and if everything Mis into place, Lapidus will have Phillip ready to face the likes ofPavel and even Sampras by the time he graduates.

At least that is what Phillip is planning.

“Every single kid that came to Duke, I saw in four years they were four times better than when they started,” Phillip says. “I want to go in and I want to be four times better than when I started also.”

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Freshman duo gives Duke dangerous top 2 Cargill sets � WOMEN’S TENNIS from page 9 “Depth keeps everyone competitive in practice,” Ashworth said. “It also gives us a lot of options with our lineup.”

While some of the lineup is in flux, there is little doubt that freshman star Ansley Cargill will play No, 1 singles for the Blue Devils this spring. Cargill, who has already won three individual tournaments in her young collegiate career, has a No. 2 ITA ranking and a No. 253 professional ranking.

Cargill’s personal goal is to win the NCAA individual

top 10 in world as goal CARGILL frompage 9 “I don’t know,” the coach said re-

championship this season, but her dedication to the team

takes priority.

“Sure, I want to win an individual title,” Cargill said. “But I would prefer to win the team championship.”

According to her teammates, Cargill has the potential to win as a freshman and become the first Blue Devil to capture the individual crown since Vanessa Webb won in 1998.

“Ansley is similar to Vanessa in many ways,” Sell said.

‘They both have a strong work ethic and an incredible drive to get better.”

Playing one spot behind Cargill is fellow freshman Amanda Johnson. After a successful fall season in which she went 13-3, Johnson has earned a No. 16 ITA ranking. Like Cargill, Johnson’s individual goals are second to her team goals.

“I’d like to crack the top 10,” she said. “But most importantly our team is capable of winning the NCAA’s if we continue to support each other.”

This support is strongest from the next two players in the lineup, Miller and Sell. After compiling a 17-9 record at No. 1 singles for Duke last year and earning All-American status with her No. 12 national ranking, Miller has had to take a new role with the addition of Cargill and Johnson.

Similarly, Sell played the No. 2 position for the Blue Devils much of her junior year, but she has been pushed to No. 4 to start this season.

“Our two freshmen are stronger than any freshman duo anywhere in the country,” Sell said. “I understand that it doesn’t matter where I’m playing—every point for our team counts the same.”

Playing No. 5 for Duke will likely be sophomore Katie Granson. A shoulder injury limited her play much of last season, but she proved very versatile in compiling a 13-7 record at the No. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 slots.

garding when his freshman star will turn professional. “It’s not something we discuss. I don’t think she’s ready right now, but I’m sure she will be. It’s something we’ll have to sit down and talk about [in the future].”

Sell believes playing on the highly-driven Duke team will be invaluable in a sport that is usually so individual, and hopes the Blue Devils’ veteran leadership will help the freshman.

“For Ansley, her lack of experience comes from flack of] losing” Sell said. “She’s had a very strong junior career. [Senior] Megan [Miller] and I can help her get through difficulties. There’s nothing to prepare you for duel matches, so Ansley can benefit from a team situation Having lost just five sets in 14 matches this year, hardship has not exactly been an issue for Cargill yet. Although she may be an early favorite to contend for the NCAA championship, it is obvious Cargill has even higher goals ahead.

“My ultimate goal would be top 10 in the world.”

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KATHY SELL returns a feed from coach Jamie Ashworth at practice last week.

The rest of Duke’s lineup is rounded out by the trio of sophomores Hillary Adams and Prim Siripipat and junior loana Plesu.

Although Duke has historically boasted strong singles players, what makes this team different is their overall strength in doubles.

Ashworth experimented with various pairings in the fall and has settled on Miller and Johnson at No. 1, Sell and Cargill and No. 2, and Granson and Adams at No. 3.

“This year, we have better chemistry and communication, which are both keys to success in doubles,” Ashworth said. “I believe that these can be the best doubles teams that we’ve had since I’ve been here.”

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