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Run, Forrest! The men’s cross country team finished 14th in the national championships at Furman Monday. See page 9
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Williams opts against taking genomics job � Billed as Duke’s top choice to lead the genomics initiative, Dr. Lewis “Rusty” Williams will stay in California for family reasons. By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
The genomics initiative has encountered another setback, despite administrative steps to increase its pace. Dr. Lewis “Rusty” Williams, Medicine ’7B, Ph.D. ’77, has declined the position of director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy,
and a search committee hopes to fill the position by next fall Williams, a pU sty Williams member of the University’s Board ofTrustees and the chief scientific officer for Chiron, Corp., in Emeryville, Calif., emerged over the fall as the top choice for the position. See DIRECTOR on page 8 P-
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
THE UNIVERSITY INTENDS TO INSTALL a 24-hour diner, as sketched above, and a coffee shop in the West-Edens Link Tower.
Duke plans coffee shop in WEL tower By VICTORIA KAPLAN The Chronicle
Next year, students will be able to satiate their 3 a.m. hunger pangs without having to go off campus or wait for a delivery person. When the West-Edens Link opens in August, it will feature a 24-hour diner and a late-night coffee bar in its seven-story tower. Judith White, assistant vice presi-
dent and director ofthe Residential Program Review, said the two eateries, and the three levels of open lounge space between them, will provide much-needed social space on campus. “[The WEL towerj has the list of things that people asked for. We certainly also hope that the reservable party spaces will add to the mix of events on campus, and students will see it as a
space for everyone to use,” White said, adding that WEL architects once referred to the tower as a “vertical student activity center” This center will combine the eating facilities with study spaces and game areas over the five middle floors—each about 2,000 square feet —and will'overlook Edens Quadrangle and the WEL See WEL on page 8 !�
Victory no walk on beach in Hawaii for Blue Devils Duke overcomes early foul trouble to beat Seton Hall By CRAIG SAPERSTEIN The Chronicle
A trade80 LAHAINA, Hawaii mark of Duke’s championship Seton Hall 79 teams over the years has been their ability to make free throws in the clutch to carry themselves to victory. Monday evening in Duke
SETON HALL FORWARD JOHN ALLEN cuts between juniorJason Williams and freshman Daniel Ewing in the first half of Monday night’s game.
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Some students who stick around campus have the unique o pp ortunity to eat Thanksgiving dinner at their professors’ houses See page 3
the Lahaina Civic Center, the Blue Devils’ freethrow shooting was a mere 55.6 percent, but AllAmerican guard Jason Williams hit the big one when it counted most. Faced with two shots with 7.1 seconds remaining, Williams came up short on his first free throw, but sank the second, his game-high 27th point of the night, to give Duke (1-0) its final advantage of 80-79. A last-second heave by Seton Hall (1-1) was stolen by the Blue Devil junior as time ticked off, giving Duke its first victory of the season. “After the first free throw, I just wanted the second one to go in,” Williams said ofhis tenuous last-second situation. “We always practice those game type of situations in practice, but being in the game itself... I was happy it went in. And I’m happy we made a great defensive play at the end to just to make sure we won the game.” Up until the final seconds, the defending champs’ victory seemed very much in doubt. No. 1 Duke took a 76-72 lead on a free throw by Mike Dunleavy with 3:51 remaining, but the Pirates, as they had done all night, responded with a flurry of buckets to retake the lead a minuteThe Duke University Police Department arrested a man accused of making charges on a student’s DukeCard without authorization. See page 4
and-a-half later when John Allen made a layup to take a 78-76 lead. Thirty seconds later, with Seton Hall up by one at 79-78, Dunleavy again stepped to the line and sank l-of-2 free throws to knot the game with just 1:05 remaining. Allen missed two shots in the next 50 seconds, allowing Williams to take the ball and draw the all-important foul on Greg Morton, which Seton Hall coach Louis Orr believed was an offensive charge, not a defensive blocking foul as the referees called. “The last play was basically our last gasp on the charge—well what I thought was a charge,” Orr said. “It’s a judgment call and the referee called the block, but that was game. We get the charge, we get the ball.” Luckily for Orr, throughout the first half, the Pirates were getting many calls. Two Duke big men—Carlos Boozer and Nick Horvath—were saddled with three fouls and the team as a whole committed 10 fouls less than 13 minutes into the game. Obviously disrupted by the frequent whistles of the officials and the attempts by the Pirates to slow the game down, the Blue Devils shot an atrocious l-of-13 from three-point range and a well-below-average 31.4 percent overall. Meanwhile, the Pirates were clicking on all cylinders, executing their slowdown game plan to perfection and opening a nine-point lead at 2718 with 6:49 left in the first half. After a Duke See SETON HALL on page 11 � The Durham City Council heard citizen concerns about the demolition of the Few Gardens affordable housing cornplex at a meeting Monday night. See page 4