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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Williams, Dunleavy go 2nd, 3rd in draft Boozer falls to 2nd round, heads to Cavs By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

NEW YORK The men’s basketball team wrote another page into the history book last night by becoming only the second school in history to have two of the first three picks in the NBA Draft. The Chicago Bulls took Jay Williams with the No. 2 choice and Golden State selected Mike Dunleavy in the third slot in the draft at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden. The other former Blue Devil in the draft, Carlos Boozer, was chosen in the second round by Cleveland, with the sixth pick in the round and 35th overall. “I just look forward to playing,” said Williams, who recently finished his classes and, assuming he passes, will graduate at the end of Summer Session I. “The whole draft thing has been crazy, finding out where you may go, where you may not go, who’s going to move up in the draft, who’s not. I’m just really happy right now to get to go to a great city like Chicago.” PHOTOS BY DREW KLEIN/THE CHRONICLE Earlier in the night, Yao Ming, a JAY WILLIAMS, MIKE DUNLEAVY AND CARLOS BOOZER (counterclockwise, from top) officially entered the 7-foot-5 center from the Shanghi world of professional basketball in Wednesday night’s NBA Draft. Sharks in the Chinese basketball

league, was the top pick by the Houston Rockets. Ming is the first foreign player selected No. 1. Since the NBA Lottery determined that the pick belonged to Houston, draft watchers have predicted that Ming would occupy the

premier slot. “This is a new start in my basketball life,” Ming said through a translator from China. “I know there will be a lot of difficulties in front of me, but I’m confident that I will learn from the NBA and improve myself and improve Chinese basketball in the future.” After Williams and Dunleavy were drafted, Memphis took Drew Gooden at No. 4, while Denver selected Italian Nikoloz Tskitishvili at No. 5. Cleveland drafted the rights to Dajuan Wagner, New York chose Nene Hilario—a pick that was booed by the hometown crowd—and the Clippers, picking at No. 8, went with Maryland’s Chris Wilcox. Amare Stoudemire going to Phoenix and Caron Bulter heading to Miami rounded out the top-10. See NBA DRAFT on page 9

New SAT could be blessing, curse Duke to cut ties Proposed SAT 1 Changes with Rice Diet By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Armed with number two pencils, College Board officials will vote today on proposed changes to the SAT I, a move meant in part to assuage threats by the University of California system to abandon the nationwide college entrance exam. The proposed changes include eliminating the analogy section in exchange for a critical reading component, adding a 20-minute writing portion and adjusting the math section to include material covered in second-year high school algebra. Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said he mostly welcomed the changes, but stopped short of supporting the elimination of the analogy section. Critics say that part of the examination does not test skills taught in high school, just those taught by SATpreparatory classes. “I Understand why analogies would be dropped, but I find that a little bit unfortunate, because simply dropping them won’t make the test a more valid predictor,” Guttentag said. Guttentag added that the possibility of reading students’ writing samples would be one of the new test’s highlights. College Board is considering sending the samples to universities along

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Breaking bonds with a world-renowned and sometimes infamous weightloss center, Medical Center officials confirmed this week that they intend to end their affiliation with the Rice Diet program as of July 31. The diet center has treated 18,000 patients, including many celebrities, since its inception in 1939, but officials said an increasingly distant relationship led to the move to eliminate funding and other connections. Dr. Francis Neelon, associate professor of endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition, who is associated with the program, said that both he and the center’s medical director Dr. Robert Rosati, hope to continue the program independently and make a smooth transition. “It was a bit of a surprise,” he said. “The biggest thing [is that] we want to make sure things keep going exactly as they were before.” The program, founded by the late Dr. Walter Kempner in 1939 and originally designed to treat high blood pressure and kidney disease, brought attention to Durham as a dieting Mecca. Today’s version of the program—located in northwestern Durham—is a strict diet that allows patients to consume between 800 and 1,000 calories per day with little or no sodium.

ALEX GARINGER/THE CHRONICLE

The Durham County Board of Commissioners approved a 3.3 percent property tax increase and a 5 percent raise for county employees Monday night. See page 5

See RICE DIET on page 6

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Negotiations between the University and Local 77 are continuing, and one Duke spokesperson said they may go down to the wire. See page 6


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