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Liekweg Moneta initiates village planning resigns from DRH

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta may not be planning a monorail for his “student village,” but he hopes that by the end of the spring, he will have a plan for enhancing, renovating and expanding student space on West Campus with a price tag to take to architects.

He has hired a consulting firm, the Washington, D.C.-based Brailsford and Dunlavey, to come up with a plan for what he has called the student village—a series of buildings that provide

� Snyderman says hospital may break even this year after losing $4O million since the Health System gained control in 1998.

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

Richard Liekweg, chief executive officer of Durham Regional Hospital, announced last week that he is stepping down to become CEO of the University of California at San Diego Medical Center.

Liekweg, who has been CEO of Durham Regional since June Richard Liekweg

In related news The success of Larry Moneta’s student village may hinge upon the ability to raise tens of millions of dollars for the effort. See page 4

2000 and was chief operating officer before that since November 1999, presided over the hospital in the wake of its managerial takeover by the Duke University

Health System.

“His individual legacy will be improving the operations of Durham Re-

gional where it now is probably funcSee LIEKWEG on page 12

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THE BRYAN CENTER is currently dominated by retail stores and dining venues, but implementation of the student village plan could consolidate eateries and provide additional space for programming.

the bulk of West Campus student space, including the Bryan Center, the West Union Building, the Flowers Building and Page Auditorium.

By April, Moneta hopes to have a program statement with a tentative budget and space allocation for the student village to present to the Board of Trustees at its May meeting.

Last week, the consulting firm’s representatives met with students in focus groups to begin planning. Moneta said a school-wide survey will be distributed later this week for students to provide input on the future of campus student space.

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Space experts question future of NASA shuttle program

By CHARLES LIN The Chronicle

Two days after the Columbia disaster, experts from Duke and around the country are offering their opinions on what went wrong and, more importantly, discussing the future of human space exploration.

Experts say there is no question that the disaster has forced NASA to reevaluate its priorities as it faces scrutiny from all sides.

“The reduced shuttle fleet is going to be out of business,” said Robert Richardson, a member ofthe University Board of Trustees who has served on a NASA task force. “Fm quite confident they will have a very thorough review of what went wrong and try to repair it.”

Wayne Christiansen, professor of astrophysics at the University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill, added similar sentiments and expressed con-

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fidence that human exploration in space will continue. “The space program is going to go on. I think that what will almost certainly happen, as happened with the Challenger before, is that there will be a major study to look at what went wrong.”

Specifically, Christiansen raised safety concerns and speculated about contingencies. He elaborated on the block of foam that hit Columbia’s left wing during the launch and possibly

inflicted fatal damage.

“This is going to lead to some major self-study by NASA. [lf the Columbia had been damaged], there was no way from orbit that the astronauts could get outside to see any damage, and number two, there’s nothing they could do about it anyway,” Christiansen said.

Christiansen said that even if the as-

tronauts had concluded that the shuttle See COLUMBIA on page 6

Some women’s basketball fans say the disparity between K-ville grace periods for men’s and women’s games forces fans to choose between the teams. See page 9

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Powell to announce evidence against Iraq

Secretary of State Colin Powell declared Monday that he would provide a “compelling demonstration” Wednesday that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein “is concealing the evidence of his weapons of mass destruction.”

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2 Palestinians killed, 1 imprisoned

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip Monday, and an Israeli military court ordered a 27-year prison term for a Palestinian militant accused of using al Qaeda training to plan attacks against Israelis.

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American schools in Kuwait to close

Kuwait’s two main American schools said Monday they will suspend classes, and foreign companies considered evacuations—signs that threats of terrorism and a possible American-led attack on Iraq are unnerving Westerners living in this oil-rich emirate.

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N.J. doctors fight rising insurance premiums

More than 1,300 New Jersey doctors rallied Monday and others closed their offices early to protest rising medical malpractice insurance premiums and pressure state government for help.

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Phil Spector, the legendary record producer of pop music in the 19605, was arrested Monday for allegedly shooting a woman to death at his mansion.

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NASA investigates Columbia crash Damage prior to liftoff may have damaged heat tiles necessary for re-entry

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the heat tiles that keep the ship from burning up during re-entry into the atmosphere.

SPACE CENTER, Houston While Columbia was still in orbit, NASA said Monday that its “best and brightest” minds may have gotten it NASA engineers analyzed launch wrong when they concluded in a report footage frame-by-frame and were unfour days before Columbia disintegrat- able to determine for certain whether ed that a flying, 2 1/2-pound chunk of the shuttle was damaged, But they ran computer analyses insulation did no serious damage to the shuttle’s thermal tiles during liftoff. for different scenarios and different Shuttle Program Manager Ron assumptions about the weight of the Dittemore said the agency will redo foam, its speed, and where under the left wing it might have hit, even lookthe entire analysis from scratch.

Practically from the start, investi- ing at the possibility of tiles missing gators have focused on the possibility over an area of about 7 inches by 30 that a 20-inch piece offoam insulation inches, NASA said, that fell off the shuttle’s big external The half-page engineering refuel tank during liftoff Jan. 16 port—issued Day 12 of the 16-day doomed the spacecraft by damaging flight—indicated “the potential for a The Associated Press

large damage area to the tile.”

But the analyses showed “no burnthrough and no safety-of-flight issue,” the report concluded, according to a copy released by NASA Monday.

High-level officials at NASA said they agreed at the time with the engi-

neers’ assessment.

“We were in complete concurrence,” Michael Kostelnik, a NASA spaceflight office deputy, said at a news conference Monday with NASA’s top spaceflight official, William Readdy.

“The best and brightest engineers we have who helped design and build this system looked carefully at all the analysis and the information we had at this time, and made a determination this was not a safety-of-flight issue.”

U.N. proposes food funding for N. Korea

By EDITH LEDERER The Associated Press

Secretary General Kofi Annan UNITED NATIONS appealed for funds Monday to “avert a major humanitarian crisis” in North Korea and create better conditions to

peacefully resolve the nuclear standoff.

Annan’s urgent appeal followed talks with his personal

envoy, Maurice Strong, who visited North Korea last month and told the secretary-general that desperately needed food and medicine will soon be unavailable.

After his visit, Strong warned that the pipeline offood and medicine that six to eight million North Koreans depended on was drying up and there was “an urgent need to keep that pipeline flowing.”

North Korea has been relying on outside aid since the mid-1990s to help feed its 22 million people.

For the first quarter of the year, Strong said, the World Food Program urgently needs 97,000 tons of food aid. For the rest of the year, North Korea will need some $250 million in aid, but the world community has put forth just $lO million, he said.

U.N. spokesperson Fred Eckhard said Monday that a review by top U.N. experts confirmed Strong’s assessment that exceptional action is needed because of the humanitarian situation facing the country.

“To prevent an impending tragedy, the secretary-general has decided to seek additional donor support to ensure, at least for the next several months, that the humanitarian pipeline does not dry up,” Eckhard said.

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Tenants complain to council Landlords who received city funds to finance their shopping center are accused of unsatisfactory care of their property.

BY RYAN WILLIAMS The Chronicle

Yet another controversy over the use of Durham city funds by private firms came to a head at Monday night’s City Council meeting as the landlords of Phoenix Crossing Shopping Center denied mistreating their tenants.

Phoenix Crossing, owned by Larry and Denise Hester, drew attention from city officials when The Herald-Sun of Durham reported that three tenants Trin-B’ago Caribbean Restaurant, Back to Health Inc. and The Oil Well, Inc., a fragrant oil, incense and soap store—accused the Hesters of not ad—

vertising, maintaining or cleaning up around the 45,500-square-foot shopping center.

The tenants brought their complaints to the Jan. 9 council meeting, since the center was partially financed by a city loan requiring the Hesters to properly manage the facility.

The Hesters appeared at last night’s council meeting, attacking both The Herald-Sun and City Council for blowing the charges out of proportion.

Denise Hester said the complex was already being evaluated by city staff when the council ordered another round of inspections.

“The council’s request was actually a call for a second round of inspections,” Hester said. “I have to ask you, where does it end?”

Hester also said that the tenants See CITY COUNCIL on page 4

SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

GEORGE CLINTON and the Parliament/Funkadelic are slated to return to campus March 19 after a a five-year hiatus. Tickets for the concert, which is sponsored by the Major Attractions Committee of the Duke University Union, will be on sale for students Wednesday in the Bryan Center.

George Clinton set to appear in Page

By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Get ready for some serious P-Funk.

Last seen on campus in 1998, George Clinton and the Parliament/Funkadelic will play Page Auditorium at 8 p.m, March 19. The concert is sponsored by Major Attractions, a committee of the Duke University Union.

“Clinton’s going to be a great show,” said Union President Jesse Panuccio.

“Last time he was here, students loved him, and I think he will sell out Page very quickly.”

Student tickets priced at $lO go on sale Wednesday at the University Box Office in the Bryan Center, and $2O tickets for the general public will be sold starting Thursday. Students are limited to four tickets each.

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Last year, Major Attractions brought in John Mayer to the IM Building just before his Rooms for Squares album skyrocketed to the top of the charts.

Campus Council has yet to announce the act for its annual Last Day of Classes. The Roots rocked a packed Main West Quadrangle in late April 2002 for that show.

In the fall, a consortium of student groups—including the Union, Duke Student Government, Campus Council and

the Graduate and Professional Student Council—tried to bring in a major act to Cameron Indoor Stadium for this month.

The concert would have been the

first in the famed basketball venue since 1996, and was originally scheduled for this Friday night. The preset date and a lack of time and financial resources prohibited organizers from booking an artist in time. Student officials hope to try again in the fall.

The lack of an available major venue on campus has made it difficult for groups like the Union to bring in the same high-caliber acts as the University’s peers in large cities.

Page only holds about 1,200 concertgoers, making it difficult to land the types of names that an arena could bring in while still maintaining reasonable ticket prices. Cameron can host more than 4,000 fans, bringing acts like the Counting Crows and a Dave Matthews solo tour—both original prospects for the proposed concert this weekend—back into the picture.

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Fundraising crucial to student village proposal

By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

If it takes a village to raise a special undergraduate experience, it takes a lot ofmoney to raise a village.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, announced last fall that he would be adding a development officer to his Student Affairs division. Student Affairs has never had a unit specifically dedicated to fundraising, and the addition marked a growing importance for student life in University priorities.

In the first search for a development officer for Student Affairs, however, Moneta did not find anyone for the role.

He said hiring the right person was more important than maintaining any

timetable.

“We didn’t hire anybody the first round,” he said. “There were some good people, but no great people.”

Fundraising will be key to Moneta’s effort to renovate and revitalize student space on West Campus into a “student village.”

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City Manager Marcia Conner informed the Hesters that they will receive a letter notifying them of municipal regulations they have violated and specifying a time period in which they

Amid blue-sky dreams of sprouting fountains on campus, extending the Bryan Center walkway into a piazza, making the Bryan Center more accessible for students, consolidating food sendees into one plaza, renovating the Career Center, adding social space and perhaps creating a student bar, a bowling alley or even a better performing arts center, administrators know that the sky isn’t the limit—their check-

book is.

“It’s not unusual to see $5O million to $6O million spent [for projects like this].

But I’m hesitant to put down a number,” Moneta said.

Timing may be a complicating factor for raising such a large sum, as The Campaignfor Duke comes to an end this year. Two billion dollars later, top donors may have already been mined for other projects—from the West-Edens Link to several academic and sports facilities.

“Realistically, we’re probably not

going to raise large amounts of money for the new student village in the next

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If the problems are not fixed in the allotted time span, the city may de-

11 months...,” said President Nan Keohane, “especially since we’re just beginning to get started with the fundraising for that and it’s always easier to raise money when you’ve got plans you show people and spaces they can name.”

Furthermore, as the plan may not be approved until May’s Board ofTrustees meeting or later, heavy fundraising would begin even later.

“I have heard little yet that is specific enough and had fully gained approval from the Trustees that could go ahead front and center for this campaign,” said Robert Shepard, vice president for development.

Shepard added that raising around $5O million would not be impossible further down the road.

“Any project would require a lead gift,” he said. “Provided a lead gift could be found, I’d be more sanguine.”

Keohane added that the student village would be one of a number of priorities the development office highlights in

the period immediately following the capital campaign to ensure some postcampaign fundraising momentum.

Moneta said he thought much of the money could come in the form of many little gifts from alumni who remembered their undergraduate experience at Duke and wanted to improve future Duke experiences.

“A million one-dollar gifts is just as good as one million-dollar gift,” he said.

Of Arts and Sciences’ $4OO million campaign goal in the $2 billion effort, only $6 million was originally targeted for Student Affairs. But the division has garnered about $lO million, due to $5 million of a larger $35 million Gates Foundation gift last spring.

On the spectrum of projects, however, Shepard said raising money for student facilities should not prove too difficult.

“As opposed to an esoteric sciences program, which might not have a lot of resonance with alumni, attracting donors to a new student center could be fairly appealing,” he said.

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Many speakers desired the creation of a “Neighborhood College” that would educate citizens on how to utilize local government services more effectively.

Such programs have already been implemented in other North Carolina communities, including Raleigh.

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The council ultimately voted to reThe council also considered imposing quire anyone engaging in sales or solicia fee on anyone who wants to conduct tation on sidewalks to obtain a permit, business on sidewalks. Some Durham though no fee would be required.

In addition, the council took comresidents at the meeting complained of the disheveled appearance of people ments from the public concerning the selling newspapers on sidewalks and budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

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COLUMBIA from page 1 was too damaged for re-entry, there were almost no alternatives. He emphasized that there‘was no rescue possible for a stranded space shuttle. “The space station is up there as well, and they have three astro-

nauts there, but [Columbia] didn’t have enough fuel to reach that possible haven.”

Christiansen said that in order to confront these dangers, “There needs to be a significant redesign of the space shuttle.”

Christiansen’s voice is not alone in calling for a fundamental rethinking of space transportation, turning to a safer, redesigned space shuttle or an entirely new vehicle.

After the 1986 Challenger disaster, Professor of History Alex Roland, who worked as a NASA historian in the 19705, expressed serious doubts about the feasibility of the shuttle.

“I discovered that the shuttle program was func-

tioning under an unsustainable economic model,” he told The Herald-Sun of Durham Monday. Now, Roland’s criticism of the shuttle has not diminished.

“Sixteen years later we still rely on the shuttle, with no replacement in sight.”

Many agree, however, that development of more viable modes of transportation should be a top priority.

“If we’re going to stay in the business, the first thing to do is to look at more cost-effective forms of transportation,” said Richardson, who is also vice provost for research at Cornell University.

The lynch pin ofthe debate resides on the International Space Station, which is orbiting earth. NASA had scheduled the shuttle Endeavor to rendezvous with the station in March to bring home the crew of three, but now the mission seems unlikely.

With added supplies sent by Russia Sunday, the ISS crew could presumably remain in space until June. At any point, however, NASA could evacuate the station’s crew via the Soyuz lifeboat docked to the station. The ISS theoretically could remain moth-

balled as an unmanned observatory for a period of months to years. However, the future role for the station is uncertain.

Roland advocated redesigning the ISS as an unmanned platform, saying that we should just “visit it

periodically.”

But the idea that the space station should be converted raised concern for other experts who suggest that the station requires scientists aboard to be useful.

“It’s my strong opinion that the real purpose of the space station from the start is to promote the abilities of human beings to go into space and to promote the necessary science and technology to further it,” Richardson said.

Ultimately, experts maintain a general hope for the future of space travel and the prospects of human exploration.

“This will be a major quantitative change in terms of trying to make this a safer process,” Christiansen said. “Do I think that this is going to lead NASA to turn away from the space program? The answer is no.”

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should emphasize social space, as the scheduled Perkins Library renovations will provide enough

“We’re not going to design the space or lay it out, but merely suggest what could be appropriate and whether it would fit,” said Heidi Kaplan, a program coordinator for Brailsford and Dunlavey.

The consulting firm also helped plan both the new indoor practice field in the Yoh Football Center and

the Wilson Recreation Center.

“There have been a lot of people who have said, T don’t know why we can’t do it ourselves,”’ said Zoila Airall, assistant vice president for campus life. “There are a lot of views and so many stakeholders in the process, we need someone to help us come up with a broad plan.”

Moneta said that as the spring progresses, the steering committee and the planning firm will begin to make sense of the competing ideas and hopes for West Campus student space.

“Everyone’s coming out of the woodwork saying they need to be in the village,” Moneta said. “Part of the process is deciding who’s going to be there and who’s not going to be there.”

When Moneta arrived on campus in 2001, the Board of Trustees gave him control over all student space on West Campus.

Moneta said that among the most important aspects will be retail space, including food and stores.

Currently, many West Campus food vendors and several stores occupy space in the Bryan Center and West Union. Moneta has suggested the possibility of placing all the retail vendors in one location, or building a separate facility for stores on campus.

“Some of the meetings we’ve had with the University architect [John Pearce] have been very positive, very upbeat,” said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services. “[Moneta’s] challenged me to ask, What should be in the Bryan Center and what should be in West Union? Should we have fast food locations or a more conventional dining in one place?”’

Moneta has said the process is designed to consider as many options as possible from the outset and that no group’s space will go untouched. Kaplan said her firm will consider several factors in assigning space estimates for groups, although she noted Moneta

would-make-the final-call.

“It’s not the first time we’ve done this,” she said.

“We’ll look at how many students are active in the group on campus, how many meetings they have every week. We have some guidelines for how much space to assign.”

Moneta has suggested several possibilities for social space in the form of an expanded Bryan Center walkway as a piazza, a possible bowling alley or game room, and a student pub.

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study space. “[Moneta’s] notion of a piazza or a plaza would be really great,” said President Nan Keohane. “There are places like that at other universities I’m familiar with, preeminently Stanford, where people gather. I was back there over the holidays, and it reminded me of how much people just hang out there in ways that no one can just hang out on the Bryan Center walkway.”

The Bryan Center, in particular, may be set for the greatest renovations. Completed in 1982, the center was designed as a University union to foster social, cultural and recreational programming and emerged from a report issued under former president Terry Sanford in 1971.

The village will also provide expansion space for Student Affairs priorities like the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life, the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and the Career Center. With an increased interest in non-greek, nonalcoholic cultural programming, performance space

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will also likely be a key aspect of the renovated space.

Jesse Panuccio, president of the Duke University Union, who has argued for better spaces for arts at Duke, said the village should be highly functional in its layout and make sense in how it allocates space, but it should not deviate in style too much from the rest of campus. For example, he said he wanted to see The Great Hall remain as a place where staff, students and faculty interact on a daily basis.

“I feel very strongly that it should feel like Duke,” he said. “It should be welcoming and it should not feel like a Starbucks or a mall.”

The project, which could take five to 10 years, will be competing with several other changes that will transform student life at Duke, including a planned overhaul of Central Campus and even sooner additions to the McClendon Tower in the newly-built WestEdens Link. In addition, the impending American Tobacco project and continued growth in downtown Durham will likely bolster off-campus options for a student body that has increasingly moved off campus for aspects of its social life.

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The same rules will remain in effect this year and, with your cooperation, we will continue to celebrate our victories safely and enthusiastically. In keeping with this goal, we remind you of some key concerns: 1. The University will obtain City permits for four potential bonfires, on the days of men’s home games against North Carolina (February 5) and Maryland (February 19), and the Women’s and Men’s National Championship Games (April 7 and 8). The first permitted basketball bonfire is Wednesday, February 5.

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The City Fire Marshall has the right to revoke this and future bonfire permits if these rules are not followed or the crowd gets out of control. Let’s not abuse this privilege. Celebrating basketball victories with a bonfire is now a Duke tradition. Follow these basic safety rules so we can maintain this tradition for years to come.

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Dahntay Jones and the Blue Devils prepare for desperate UNC. We ife break down the key matchups.

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Wrestling preps for hated UNC

By MICHAEL JACOBSON The Chronicle

In what’s been the most talented and competitive weight class in the ACC the past two seasons, this year’s 125-pound class is even deeper and tighter.

With three returning NCAA qualifiers from last season, the weight class looked tough on paper, but when Virginia true freshman Brian Sticca used a four-point move at the end of the second period en route to a 9-4 upset

Long road trip yields positives for fencing From staff reports A 13-hour bus ride to the MIT Invitational in Cambridge, Mass, took some life out of the fencing teams this weekend, but not enough to keep the women’s squad from emerging from Sunday’s competition with a 4-2 mark.

Despite the long haul up north, an intensely political day with officials and having to combine the foil and saber groups onto one strip, the Blue Devil women topped Brandeis, Boston College, Brown and Tufts while only falling to MIT and Harvard.

“I think we don’t feel as good about this competition,” said junior Kimi Schafer, whose epee squad went 5-1 on

over North Carolina All-American Chris Rodrigues two weeks ago, the quest to become ACC Champion quickly became a four-man race.

Rodrigues, last year’s conference champion and currently ranked 11th in the country, subsequently lost to NC State’s George Cintron before picking up his first conference dual meet win of the season last week against Maryland.

When the Tar Heels (6-3, 2-1 in the ACC) enter Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight against Duke (6-6, 0-0), Rodrigues’ job does not get any easier.

The Blue Devils’ 125-pounder Tommy Hoang, while not completely conditioned due to injuries earlier this season, is wrestling better than he has all year. The two-time NCAA qualifier is coming off of a huge 8-1 victory this past weekend against the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga’s Mark Pitts,

the afternoon. “Not record-wise at all,

ranked 12th in the nation.

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but because all of the bad things on the weekend were kind of circumstantial.”

The men, who shared the travel woes of the women’s team, faltered a bit more, going 2-3 on the day. Wins over MIT and Brown stood out over close losses to Brandeis, BC and Harvard in which the Blue Devils wasted a strong effort by the epee squad.

“It went pretty well,” said senior Ben Cohen, who put together a 9-6 mark with the saber group. “We built on what we got going last weekend against Penn State.

We’ve been getting better every week.”

Players, fans give mixed reviews of tenting policy turnout that has become automatic when the men play. This would seem to support The complaints from Krzyzewskiville the current women’s games current grace began to fly almost as soon as Cameron’s period policy, which has come under attack craziest pitched their tents in early in recent weeks. Morgan defended his January. The tenters’ grievances have grace period policy in a statement that he issued via e-mail Sunday. ranged from too many tent checks to use“I started out by giving blanket grace less and vaguely defined grace periods.

The latest issue regarding tenting poli- for women’s home games, exactly in the cy has surfaced in the form of allowed same manner as for men’s home games,” absences for women’s basketball games. Morgan said. “Unfortunately, people were Currently, Head Line Monitor Jeremy using the grace to have time for themselves and not to actually attend the Morgan’s policy is that at least three people from a given tent have to attend the women’s basketball games.”

Morgan’s method has raised mixed women’s game in order for that tent to receive a grace period for the duration of reviews from both tenters and women’s the game. For both home and away men’s basketball players “It’s ridiculous that the tenters received games, however, there is a blanket grace period.'That is, every tent receives a grace a grace period for a Duke men’s game at Maryland when they don’t even get full period for the length of the game. grace period for most of our home games,” UConn-Duke Three days before the women’s game that took place in Cameron junior forward Iciss Tillis said. “There Indoor Stadium this past Saturday, shouldn’t be any minimum number ofpeoMorgan took the unusual step of granting ple coming to our game for there to be a grace period. I think that the grace period a full grace period for the contest.

Most women’s games traditionally draw See TENTING on page 10 NINA LEKSA studies in K-ville. Her fellow residents have questioned grace period policies, a few hundred students, well below the

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No dissent: UConn'No.l After taking out previously top-ranked Duke Saturday, the Connecticut women’s basketball team now sits atop the AP poll, receiving all 44 first-place votes. The Blue Devils are now No. 2.

VJfc Lions snare Mariucci ESPN.com reports that the Detroit Lions have reached a five-year agreement with former 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci to lead their squad.

The hapless Lions are 5-27 over the past two years.

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knotted up, the result comes down to a set list of criteria to determine a winner.

With both teams tying in five categories, the match came down to the Blue Devils having fewer forfeits, a new criteria instated for this season.

“That was the first time I’ve been in a tie-breaker that’s gone that deep,”

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al key matches for the Blue Devils tonight as they attempt to win their first conference dual meet in recent years. UNC, although dropping a close 20-17 match to Virginia earlier this year, is extremely solid throughout the Anderson said.

After losing the first match, the entire lineup and is the favorite for the conference title.

Blue Devils looked to Michael Mitchell “They’ve been doing very well and for points at 165-pounds, but instead they match up against our stronger saw Mitchell’s 10-match winning guys,” Duke coach Clar Anderson said of streak snapped against UTC’s Craig North Carolina. “There should be some Johnson, 8-5.

“Michael did not look himself,” good matches.”

The Tar Heels will send a nationally Anderson said. “He’s one of the best conranked wrestler to the mat at 133- ditioned athletes on the team, and in pounds when sophomore Evan Sola goes the third period—when he should have been dominating—he couldn’t finish his up against Duke senior Andy Soliman.

“Sola is very good, but Soliman’s takedowns. Any other day Michael doing well,” Anderson continued. “If we would have beaten him.”

Duke was down 13-0 early, but after can keep [Sola] on his feet, we can neuANTHONY CROSS/THE CHRONICLE tralize his strengths.” a major decision by Tom Cass at 184basketball for men’s and women’s games have raised KRZYZEWSKIVILLE’S grace period standards The Tar Heels counter Duke’s pounds, junior Andrew Herbert’s 58 secstudent attendance differs the teams. respective as for particularly eyebrows, strongest upperweights with solid ond pin at 197 and a forfeit at heavyattend the women’s games,” added wrestlers of their own. At 165-pounds, weight, the Blue Devils had their first page from 9 freshman Diana Tracy, echoing the sen16-13.

Michael Mitchell looks to rebound from lead of the night, timents of Matyasovsky.

“We weren’t expecting that from a loss this past weekend at Davidson, The issue at hand is an example of against UNC’s Jimmy O’Connor, who is Herbert, but we were definitely hoping for women’s games should be the same the attendance problem that the sport of Tar been as it is for the men’s games.” improvfor it,”Anderson said. “He’s currently 16-8. At 184-pounds the college basketball has faced as Senior women’s 19th one his best.” forward Michele Matyasovsky, in ing every really gives Heist, ranked week and Heels’ Dusty But the Moccasins looked to change expressed a more favorable opinion of a whole. The current policy for women’s poll, faces off against Duke’s Tom Cass, grace period has been seen as both helpwho was an NCAA qualifier in 2001 momentum quickly when they sent Morgan’s policy, however.

“I think it’s fair,” Matyasovsky said. ing and hindering scarce attendance at their best wrestler, Pitts, to face Hoang. before redshirting last season.

Duke women’s games.

“I think that it’s a good way to get peoThe Blue Devils (6-6) tuned up for Unfortunately for UTC, Hoang dominatRegardless of its overall place in the games.” to a sevento come to our ple conference action over the weekend in ed from the start and cruised Tenters did not seem to convey much scheme of women’s basketball attenDavidson and picked up two, albeit very point win.

Andy Soliman’s first period pin gave emotion either way when asked about dance woes, Morgan’s intentions of the different, wins in the process. \ policy are clear. sixth tiethe Blue Devils a 25-13 lead that Morgan’s policy.

Duke had to resort to the “The policy was made to encourage “It seems legitimate to me,” freshman breaking criteria to beat the University clinched at least a tie for the Blue Krzyzewskiville citizen Pat Cachio said. tenters to support the women’s team..,.,” of Tennessee-Chattanooga, with the Devils, who wound up exhausting nearscore tied at 25. In the second meet, the ly all of the NCAA’s criteria for the win. “I mean, the point of the grace period is Morgan said. “I simply wanted to ensure “Andy wrestled really well” Anderson so that people will go to the game, not to that if I was providing grace for tenters Blue Devils walked over host that they were in fact using it for its said. “He gave our team a big boost. We do other things.”

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Neither Liekweg nor Sowers were available for comment Monday.

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Submissions for the Duke Events Calendar are published on a space available basis for Duke events.

Submit notices at least 2 business days prior to the event to the attention of “Calendar Coordinator* at Box 90858 or calendar@chronicle.duke.edu

Academic TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Reading: spm. Durham writer Adam Braver reads

from his first novel, Mr. Lincoln’s Wars. Narrated from the multiple perspectives of Abraham Lincoln and those whose lives he touched, this collection of thirteen stories interweaves fact and fiction to probe the darker, more human side of the sixteenth president. Perkins Library Rare Book Room.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Ken Kemphues, Cornell University. “Establishing polarity in the C. elegans embryo.” 147 Nanaline Duke.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Search Faculty Biogeochemist/Ecosystem Seminar: 4pm. Emily Bernhardt, University of Maryland. “Can’t see the forest for the stream? The role of instream processing in modifying watershed nutrient exports.” Love Aud. (8101-LSRC).

Lecture: s:3opm. Introductory Lecture by Dr. David “Opus 133Levy of Wake Forest University.

Beethoven’s Sacred Journey?”: followed by performance of Beethoven’s Opus 133, Grosse Fuge.

Admission is $5 at the door. Free hors d'oeuvres are provided by the Museum of Art. Duke University Museum of Art, East Campus

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Duke Events Calendar Population Biology Seminar: 7pm. Renee Duckworth, Duke University. “Evolution of behavioral plasticity along an ecological gradient.”. 140 Biological Sciences.

Religious TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 TAIZE Prayer: s:lspm, Tuesdays. Memorial Chapel.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Wesley Fellowship Morning Prayers: 9am, Wednesdays. With JoAnna in the Bryan Center, Alpine.

Email(jm2l).

Wesley Fellowship Increase the Peace: 11:30am, Wednesdays. Meets on the Divinty School side of the chapel for short prayer. If you can’t make it, please take time wherever you are, and pray for God’s peace in our world.

Presbyterian/UCC Ministry Bible Study: 12:15-1 pm, Wednesdays. Bring your lunch and Bible. Chapel Basement, Room 036.

Weekly Choral Vespers Service: s:lspm, Thursdays.

Duke Chapel.

Wesley Fellowship Euchrist: s:3opm, Thursdays.

Wesley Office. This short communion service will be followed by an informal dinner somewhere around campus.

Intercultural Christian Fellowship Weekly Gathering: 7:3opm, Thursdays. Duke Chapel Basement. Study the Bible and enjoy fellowship with friends from cultures worldwide. More info: www.duke.edu/web/icf/, contact: dsw9@duke.edu.

Wesley Fellowship Freshmen Small Group: 9pm, Thursdays. Blackwell Commons with JoAnna (jm2l).

Social Programming and Meetings WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Cine-East: Bpm. “Unknown Screen/Society Pleasures” (dir. JiaZhangke) Griffith Film Theater.

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Catholic Mass: s:lspm, Wednesdays. Duke Chapel Crypt. Campus Ministry Service.

Wesley Fellowship Small Group: 9:45pm. Meets in the

Wesley office. Contact jay.regennitter with questions.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch: 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Duke School for Children Visitation Day; 9-11 ;30am and 1-2pm, Lower & Middle School; 9-11;30am, preschool. Come visit the campuses to see the project and inquiry-based program of Duke School in action.

Registration will be held on each campus. For additional information, visit www.dukeschool.org.

After Hours; 5:30-Bpm. “First Course Concert: The Ciompi Quartet,” reception and concert, co-sponsored by Institute of the Arts. $5 Public, $3 Friends and Students, Free to Duke students with I.D.

Reading: 7pm. “Picasso’s Closet,” a play by Ariel Dorfman. Directed by John Dillon (NC School of the Arts and Playmakers Repertory Theater), a featuring a cast of professional actors, this will be a reading of a new work by Durham-based Chilean playwright and writer Ariel Dorfman, which is set during World Warr II and Picasso’s creation of his famous Guernica painting. This reading is part of the series “The Arts in Times of War,” sponsored by the Duke Institute of the Arts and the Franklin Humanities Institute. Admission is free. Reynolds Theater.

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Upcoming Event: 2nd Annual Latino Issues Conference: Friday and Saturday, February 14 & 15.

“Seeds of Change: Latino/a Citizenship(s) in the Here and Now.” Free.

Register online at www.duke.edu/web/las. Four panels, screening of two short films. Keynote speaker, Alex Rivera.

Questions about conference, visit website and/or contact Jenny Williams, jennysw@duke.edu. Bryan Center, Duke University. Perkins Exhibit: Through February in the main Perkins Library gallery. That Half-Living Thing: a Book’: Extending the Half-Life of the Libraries’ Collections. An exhibit describing the Duke University Libraries’ strategies for preserving its collections; books, journals, CD-ROMs, DVDs, floppy disks, sound recordings, videotapes, and other materials, so that they will be available to scholars now and in the future.

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The Chronicle Improving monitoring Despite its flaws, the party monitoring system is better than the alternatives, and the University should work to improve it

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September 2001, administrators instituted a system of selfregulating party monitoring to improve security at on-campus parties.

Now, however, administrators admit that the system has many flaws and does not work as well as they intended. However, Student Affairs administrators do not seem to be doing anything to either check on the efficacy of the system or to improve it.

The central problem is that there is an insoluble dichotomy in the attitudes of college students: On one hand, students believe they should be treated as adults and should be responsible for their own behavior, but on the other hand, when student behavior becomes too rowdy and unacceptable, students argue that they are just college students having fun and therefore should not bear the responsibility.

Party monitors and the problems with them embody this difficulty. The monitors are supposed to be the manifestation of student responsibility, part of a system whereby students can regulate their own parties and ensure the safety ofthose parties. However, party monitors are also college students who often enjoy getting drunk and partying hard, meaning that they are not always going to be responsible.

Having party monitors is like having a fox watch the hen house.

By having selective living group members monitoring the parties of their own groups, the University runs the grave risk of having the party monitors engage in the very activities they should be supervising. Ideally, party monitors would be objective observers, able to monitor and regulate the party without becoming personally involved.

However, this may not be possible, and the party monitoring system—despite its flaws—is still preferable to having no system and preferable to alternative systems of administrative crackdown. At the very least, having party monitors present gives students at the party a person to whom to go when they have a problem, and even if party monitors cannot assist with the problem, they should be able to show the students in the correct direction.

Moreover, the fact that party monitors are familiar with the environment and people at the party might actually be an advantage.

People are more likely to listen to their friends’ advice, and party monitors are easily able to integrate into the party and be present where the action is, letting them more effectively do their jobs.

It is essential, though, that party monitors always wear their shirts and that they remain sober at parties. Additionally, the University should institute more stringent training for party monitors to ensure that they know the importance of their jobs and can perform their duties if called upon. Students should recognize that the party monitoring system is preferable to more invasive systems ofregulation. Therefore, everybody has a common interest in making sure that the party monitor system works, but ultimately it begins with personal responsibility on the part of the monitors.

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Letters to

the editor

Moneta’s comments about ‘next death’ inappropriate Try to imagine my dismay when I read the comment by Larry Moneta in the Jan. 17 edition of The Chronicle. To quote, “the only thing that will drastically change the debate on alcohol at the University will be ‘the next death’ he said.” Wasn’t my son’s death enough?

Raheem was a junior majoring in engineering and economics when he contracted aspiration pneumonia three days after a night of heavy drinking in November 1999.

As his bereaved mother I am one of the countless victims of an alcohol-caused tragedy. I am also the program director of a national nonprofit organi-

zation concerned with student

safety. There is so much more

a drug, abusive drinking will continue. This country’s premiere online alcohol education course AlcoholEdu.com was designed by your own Duke faculty and alumni! isn’t AlcoholEdu Why

that can, should and eventually will be done to combat the dangerous level of alcohol concurrently the sumption “norm” among the majority of students at Duke and on col- required ofall incoming freshlege campuses nationwide. men before they arrive on The latest Harvard campus? Why are Duke stuUniversity study of college dents being denied an education about the most deadly drinking has shown environment to be the strongest condrug in America, a drug that tributing factor for excessive kills six times more people drinking. Building a ‘Village” is good—but changing the culture of excessive drinking on campus is going to take more effort and innovation. As long as everyone thinks ofalcohol as a harmless beverage instead of

than all illegal drugs combined? May God help the parent of “the next death” who has to suffer as I have.

Catherine Bath*

King of Prussia, Pa. http://www.chronicle.duke.edU/vnews/display.v/ART/2003./01 /17/ 3e2Bl39d2s29d?in_archive=l

Line Monitor details walk-up rules for UNC game At the final check, three There are currently over registration, only one person 1,000 tenters lined up for from the group needs to be hours before tipoff, bracelets Wednesday’s UNG game, but present. Line monitors will will be distributed to all there is still room for a few return to the line at random, groups that have made their hundred people to be let in unannounced times to perchecks. A bracelet does not from the walk-up line after form checks of the line. Each guarantee admission.

Finally, coach Mike all of the tenting students group must have at least one have been let it. The line of its two members present Krzyzewski will make his should form with students at all times. At each check, annual speech in K-ville at 10 p.m. exiting the line only to new groups will be registered tonight attend class, get food and at the end of the list in the Afterward, old Duke-UNC attend to human needs. Soon order they are in the line. games will be shown on a after the line has formed, the Any group missing a check screen in front of the line monitors will arrive to will be moved to the end of Schwartz-Butters Building. register the people in the the line, behind the new Jeremy Morgan line. Each individual in the groups registering at that line may register along with check. There is no guaranTrinity ’O3 The writer is head line monitor one friend, forming a twoteed grace period following person group. At the time of checks of the walk-up line. for Duke Student Government

Washington Duke tipping unfair Have you eaten at the Washington Duke Inn lately?

We have, and it was an experience that made us wish we had gone to the Marketplace for dinner. Don’t get us wrong, the food was great, but the service was beyond horrendous. The whole meal, two

identical entrees and dessert, took over two hours with multiple empty tables in the rather small dining room. We figured that the tip we left would represent how we felt about the service, as is usually the case at most restaurants. Boy, were we wrong.

Apparently, because we are Duke students, we have to pay a 19 percent gratuity.

We were dismayed when they brought back the DukeCard without a receipt; however, after having to ask for it, we received it 15 minutes later, with a 19 percent added gratuity. Now we have eaten in many two- or three- star restaurants that gave us excellent service and we tipped accordingly—2o percent. We just don’t understand why a four-star restaurant won’t give us service like their lower counterparts and ,

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then have the nerve to charge us 19 percent.

a credit card. He says that we will still be charged the 19

So, being the democratic and assertive Duke students we are, we asked to speak to the manager. After being told that he would go see about taking it off, he comes back saying that it is in our dining plan contract that we pay 19 percent gratuity. Why didn’t he tell us this before making us wait (yet again)?! Sounds like a load of bull to us. We left the hotel in search of the truth. After going to the DukeCard office and getting a copy ofthe dining contract, we brought it back to the restaurant. At this point, the hotel manager arrives and tells us a complete opposite

percent just because, again, we go to Duke (and after paying $40,000 a year for education, we can obviously afford it). Then, after asking him to explain the policy in detail, we were threatened to be escorted out. We suppose he doesn’t like people asking

alibi: The restaurant is not

encouraging good service.

affiliated with Duke University and it is restau-

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rant policy to charge “Duke students” 19 percent gratuity.

We asked him to please show us where this was posted.

He continues to say it is policy, but fails to show us where it is posted, actually stating that it was not written anywhere. So, at this we ask him to please switch the charge from the DukeCard to

him questions.

So just because we go to Duke, we have to pay a 19 percent tip, no matter how bad the service is—at least they didn’t ask us to wash our own dishes. We are not stingy; we wouldn’t mind the 19 percent tip if the service justified it, but it certainly

did not. So much for tips the

Washington

Duke Inn will reconsider their policy, but until then, we would rather go to The Loop for dinner than put up with their unjustified discrimination.

Marisa Bossen Trinity ’O6

Dmitri Mirovitski Trinity ’O5

On the record It should be welcoming and it should not feel like a Starbuck's or a mall.

Senior and Duke University Union President Jesse Panuccio, on the village (see story, page one)

The Chronicle

Commentary

Blair’s moment of truth

Last August, well before military action against Iraq seemed inevitable, a poll showed that 54 percent ofthe British public viewed their prime minister as “Bush’s poodie.” Just think what that number must be today.

The portrayal of Tony Blair as a poodle, a lapdog or whichever canine currently epitomizes spine-

lessness and blind loyalty Molchanov is reaching its pinnacle Politics and right about now.

Other Means The fact of the matter is that Blair’s support has nothing to do with American pressure. The poodle argument is used by the European far left to explain away what is a much more complex phenomenon. The truth is that Blair, on the most personal level, ascribes to a profoundly pro-American worldview. He doesn’t need President George W. Bush to cajole him into serving as America’s junior partner from across the sea. By the time he came to Camp David this past weekend, he was already convinced.

A quote from one of Blair’s predecessors in 10 Downing Street sheds some light on the trans-Atlantic relationship. Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria’s first prime minister, was once assured of political support by a fellow statesman on the condition that his position on issues was the right one. To this, he famously replied: “What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.” Like Melbourne, America certainly likes its allies to be reliable, but even the U.K. has not always agreed to set aside its national interests for a common cause. Blair, however, is thoroughly confident that Bush and he are appropriately answering “this call of histo,

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ry,” as the president put it in the State of

the Union address. Their mutual dependence is a function of a common understanding of their alliance’s larger mission.

For his part, Bush undoubtedly realizes that he now needs Blair a lot more than

Blair needs him. The reason has very little to do with military preparations underway in the Gulf. While the contributions of HMS Ark Royal and the Ist Armoured Division will be appreciated by Pentagon planners, the United States clearly does not require anyone else’s firepower to defeat Saddam’s regime. With the exception of overflight and basing rights in the region, the US. military is totally capable of winning the looming war on its own.

Bush needs Blair purely as an astute communicator, an outsourced diplomat to provide political cover, twist arms and make deals in Europe’s capitals. To be sure, the United Kingdom is not the only European country to support Saddam’s removal, even without a second Security Council resolution. Spain and Italy are both on board, if only because their current cabinets share a thoroughly conservative orientation with the Bush administration. Among the smaller EU countries, Portugal and Denmark are in broad agreement with the US. position, while new NATO members from Eastern Europe are only too pleased to lend (and loudly proclaim) their support.

Of the ElTs big five, Bush already has three on his team. The problem is that the top two—Germany and France—carry vastly more clout in the union than any other members. Donald Rumsfeld’s “old Europe” comment notwithstanding, Paris and Berlin are still the driving force behind every substantive decision made by the EU. As the Franco-German lovefest for the 40th anniversary of their friendship treaty showed in January, they are united by their common desire to continue running the union for the foreseeable future. Their joint anti-war stance has at least as much to do with internal EU politics than com-

who is welcome in the Elysee Palace and possesses the influence, the “good offices,” capable of persuading President Jacques Chirac not to block a war resolution.

French abstention would be less than desirable from the standpoint of America, which remembers the 15-0 vote in November, but a veto would be disastrous.

Russia and China cannot afford to appear obstructionist—that is the price of claiming pretensions to great power status—but France has always a free agent in the Western alliance. If Chirac truly believes that the call to war represents an AngloAmerican conspiracy, this is his moment.

At this point in the game, with war all but certain, Blair is in a difficult position.

His country, his party and even some members of his own cabinet are counseling patience. Strictly speaking, Blair would carry any war vote in Parliament. A substantial minority of Labour Party MPs is against it, but the remainder and the Conservative opposition would unite to carry such a vote. Nonetheless, for a prime minister who has been accused of obsequiously adhering to the polls, he is staking the defining moment of his career on the steadfast belief that he is right and the

majority ofBritons are wrong.

The American public does, by and large, support their president on Iraq. They will continue to back him when bombs start flying. That is not the case in Britain. Blair spent the last three months making himself thoroughly unpopular among Labour’s base of supporters in the unions, the universities and the liberal press. He will not go to war to bolster his approval ratings, but rather in spite of them.

So then why? We have to go back to Brighton, the scene of the Labour conference, on Oct. 2, 2001. There, in a frighteningly grave speech three weeks after Sept.

11, Blair set out his grand vision of the global community, which he argued “must show as much its capacity for compassion as for force” when confronted with grievous threats to peace and justice. His moral certainty that Iraq represents such a threat, whether right or wrong, is the reason Blair so conscientiously supports the United States. If you think he succumbed to American pressure, then read the Brighton speech. You’ll reconsider.

Pavel Molchanov is a Trinity senior. His column appears every other Tuesday.

mercial interests in Iraq or intrinsic continental anti-Americanism.

Germany will likely preside over the Security Council when the decision on war is made, but it does not have the veto.

France does. And Blair is the only person

My own private Enron The offer was tantalizing—spend 10 to 20 hours a nent of my job—throwing parties with free beverages—l decided not to quit. month passing out an energy drink to my fellow students and get paid a whopping $250, plus a free digiThe second missed signal was the following tal camera and all the energy drink you can imbibe. January, when my fellow Burly Bear promotional repThe goal: to have all ofDuke University hooked on this resentatives were informed that we would have to do twice the number of promotional events the following neon green, caffeine-laden beverage.

Most of my employment with Burly spring in order to make the same wage we made last time. While we were led to believe—in e-mails and on Bear Network—a Lome Michaels dastardly worded contracts—that our work was to be that owned promotional company focused on marketing music, televibased on a certain number of events per semester, we found out once again that Burly Bear had used the sion and products to college-aged joßfe' k Like sailing. power of vague language to bind us contractually. No —was smooth audiences Martin accounting gimmicks, no insider trades, just sly lancollegiate Tupperware parties, we Bama guage intended to deceive, reinforced by unofficial held events to promote our product, communication from our direct supervisor.

“Amp,” Pepsi’s answer to Red Bull. We Offthe Record Fm not sure why, but I decided to stay with the were at football games, at raves and sometimes we were just standing on the walkways company for the spring semester as well—although and thoroughfares of Duke, passing out the product the creativity of our beverage events had gone down. and taking pictures to prove our hard work to the Instead of organizing parties, we would appear in the same three populated campus locations and pass company. bevout energy drinks to the masses. There may have bright by green been blinded the I must have erage, because I failed to see the light during my been less excitement with our new strategy, but we employment. Every so often, Burly Bear would contact were still doing our job. It was fair, my promotions team figured, to treat a hostile employer with halfits energy drink representatives and offer an additionassed work. al gig—mine was a concert promotion that was supI should not have been so surprised when my forposed to pay $lOO per person. When ifly friend bailed Bear Burly mer boss e-mailed in early July, informing campus the slack. picked up on the extra work, I knew I was stranded at the last minute, knew I had representatives across the country that Burly Bear put in double the labor and promptly sent me a check had folded and that the delay in receiving our final for $5O. When I inquired about the error, I was told paycheck was going to be indefinite. Our boss, too, had that it was a misprint in the original job offer and that been left high and dry, laid off with back-wages never since I didn’t have a contract for that particular job, it to be paid. The old phone contact numbers were disconnected, the website went offline. The old boss’s ewould not make much of a difference. I tried to complain further up the ladder, but was rebuffed, with a mail told us that while there were multi-million dollar contracts lined up for the fall, it was not going to subtle threat of termination be enough to sustain the company during the sumcompocentral the In good faith, and still enjoying •

mer. The only people left at the time she e-mailed us were a handful ofexecutives.

As a student of public policy and history—and now of law—l have been kicking myself for having been such a willing dupe, especially given the culture of corporate irresponsibility that has engulfed the United States over the last nine months. This was my own private Enron.

Burly Bear preyed on college students looking for a low-impact jobs and disposable income. As I should have expected, the dream job was a nightmare.

College students are prime targets for disreputable firms like Burly Bear. There are more of such firms crawling around campuses everyday, roping students into doing their dirty work for a nominal fee—and I don’t just mean student religious groups!

And as I have learned now, I could very well have had a chance to obtain restitution had I acted earlier.

The law of contracts offers more relief than one initially expects. Terms that I am studying now—reliance, consideration, promissory estoppel—made it quite clear that the specific details of our situation made my co-workers and I ideal candidates for a cause of action against Burly Bear. But, then came the bankruptcy. Later on, we were offered 20 percent of our outstanding credits as restitution. I sent in my request for my $5O settlement and never heard back from Burly Bear or the law firm that was handling the creditors. I debated writing a letter to Lome Michaels, but I figured that given the generally miserable quality of Saturday Night Live this season, he probably is too busy to respond.

Martin Barna, Trinity ’O2, is a former editorial page editor of The Chronicle. His column appears every third Tuesday.

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An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith One of today’s sharpest

cultural observers, ANNA DEAVERE SMITH presents a one-woman performance that channels a multitude of characters.

February 7, 8 pm, Page Auditorium, $2O General Seating; $l2 Students.

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February 6, 7 pm, Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, Free.

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of the Arts in cooperation with participating campus arts departments and programs. For more information about

Festival PAUL JEFFREY, director. With the DUKE JAZZ ENSEMBLE and Frank Lacy guests THE FRANK LACY-JOHN FARNSWORTH QUINTET Guest appearance by Clarence Allen, Jr., vocalist.

February 7, 8 pm, Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus, $l5 General Seating; $l2 Students/Sr. Citizens.

performing arts events, call the Duke University Box Office, 684-4444 or view online at tickets.duke.edu.

To inquire about this ad call 660-3356.

For additions or changes, visit Duke’s Online Calendar calendar.duke.edu Note: Students must show Duke I.D,

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by JOHN CLUM, ELLEN HEMPHILL, CHRISTINE MORRIS, JAY O'BERSKI, and JEFFERY WEST. Part of “The Arts in Times of War” series of events.

February 10, 7 pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, Free.

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Women’s golf shoots for 2nd straight NCAA title Despite losing Candy Hannemann, Blue Devils still sit atop collegiate women’s golf world

By PAUL CROWLEY The Chronicle

If the women’s golf team realizes its goals for the upcoming spring season, President George W. Bush might see a few familiar faces hanging around the White House in September.

The 2002 NCAA Champion Blue Dev-

ils met and were honored by Bush this fall in a ceremony at the White House dedicated to Duke and nine other NCAA champion teams. Of course the Blue Devils hope to repeat the supremacy they exhibited last year, but Duke has a long season before a second trip to the nation’s capital is possible.

Last season’s championship run was an example of constant superiority for the Blue Devils, as Duke’s squad won every tournament in which it competed. But the season was not without drama, as the NCAA Championship saw the Blue Devils behind Arizona for all but several holes in the tournament. Unfortunately for the Wildcats, these were the holes that mattered. Duke made up nine strokes on the faltering women of Arizona in the final round’s last four holes, and head coach Dan Brooks’ unit took its second national title since 1999 back to Durham.

The Blue Devil squad that hits the links this year will be similar, but not identical, to last year’s powerhouse. The team returns all but one of last year’s group: 2001 NCAA Individual Champion Candy Hannemann, who had acted as the catalyst for last year’s come-frombehind victory. Hannemann's spot will be filled by the Blue Devils’ newest

member, freshman Elizabeth Janangelo, a Connecticut native and 2001 Golfweek High School Player of the Year.

“I don’t think the dynamic has changed from last year,” senior Kristina Engstrom said. “Obviously Candy was great, but Liz is a strong player who brings a lot to the team.”

The team returns last year’s individual winner, Virada “Oui” Nirapathpongpom, a junior from Bangkok, Thailand.

Seniors Engstrom and Maria GarciaEstrada join juniors Nirapathpongpom and Leigh Anne Hardin along with sophomore Niloufar Aazam-Zanganeh to form the nucleus of the defending champs.

In its quest to repeat, the team is not letting the minor details slide as they prepare to start the season.

“Of course we’ll always want to achieve the goal of winning a national championship,” Engstrom said. “We are trying to achieve smaller, process-oriented goals in the service of that one, larger goal.”

The Blue Devils enter the spring season coming off of a fall schedule that saw them win the Tar Heel Invitational and take second and fourth respectively KRISTINA ENGSTROM and the women’s golf team in the ACC/SEC Challenge and the NCAA Fall Preview. Janangelo exhibitphysical fitness and improving our ed some freshman heroics in the fall, swings,” Janangelo said. taking the individual title at the Tar The Blue Devils will begin where they left off last season; Catching up to Heel Invitational and blazing a courserecord 67 at the ACC/SEC Challenge.

Arizona. The Wildcats are ranked first In the winter off-season, the Blue in the GolfWeek coaches’ poll; the Blue Devils were working on making themDevils are No. 2.

The Duke spring schedule begins at selves ready for the repeat effort.

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look to defend their national title ary 28th, then heads north for several matches in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The season will culminate at the NCAA Championships in West Lafayette, Ind., in early May. “The team is looking to repeat, and we’re certainly capable,” Janangelo said.

“We have the talent, and if we can all play strongly, we’ll do well.”

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By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle After an overachieving 2002 season that ended in a NCAA round of 16 run, the No. 10 men’s tennis team is back to old form for the 2003 year.

“I was talking to [head coach] Jay [Lapidus] about it [recently],” senior cocaptain Michael Yani said. “We’re going to be pretty good—about as good as we were two years ago.”

Two years ago the Blue Devils, led by one of the best senior classes in Duke men’s tennis history, made an NCAA quarterfinal run before losing to Georgia 4-3.

This season’s squad is ready to improve on that showing, and again Duke is doing it with one of its top classes.

However, unlike the senior-laden Elite 8 group, the 2003 Blue Devils have a base a freshmen who may, by the end of their tenure, be the best Lapidus has ever recruited.

Leading the way for the young crop

of Blue Devils is Ludovic Walter, who stormed onto the fall season reaching the round of 16 at the ITA Region II Championships. In the last month the Vannes, France, native has continued his winning ways, reaching the finals of the ACC Indoor Championships in Win-

ston-Salem.

Walter is joined by fellow freshmen Stephen Amritraj, Chris Brown, Stefan Rozycki and Jonathan Stokke.

Both Amritraj and Stokke participated, on separate teams, in the doubles draw of the 2002 U.S. Open, and both, along with Brown, had varying degrees of success in the fall.

Along with their freshmen the Blue Devils also return nearly all of the

Sweet 16 team from last season, giving Duke that rare combination of experience, young energy and depth.

Sitting atop the team ladder for the third straight season is junior Phillip King. Ranked No. 7 nationally in the preseason, he will try to defend his ACC player ofthe year title and shoot for national No. 1 honors.

Yani sits comfortably at No. 2 singles for the Blue Devils with Walter likely playing No. 3.

After that Duke’s ladder becomes hazier, as Lapidus has a number of options for the No. 4-6 spots. Senior cocaptain Yorke Allen, Stokke and sophomore Jason Zimmerman, a regular at the third slot last season, could all see plenty of action at the positions in question.

Zimmerman in particular has improved from last season, shedding a few pounds and adding time in the weight room—moves that should pay off when he returns from a late winter injury.

However, Amritraj, Brown, junior Ryan Heinberg and sophomore Peter Shults, who saw lots of time at No. 6 in

2002, could all challenge.

At doubles, King teams with Yani to lead Duke and form the No. 9 team in the country. Much like singles, the Blue Devils could play any number of teams at second and third doubles. The only other ranked pair Duke has is Amritraj and Stokke at No. 38.

With this type of depth, Lapidus has the luxury of not only playing matchups, but also giving his players rest during the season—especially since fatigue was an issue in the late stages of the season for last year’s squad.

“Last year I played every match, and at the end of the season I was dead,” Yani said. “The added depth this year is going to be awesome. I have a lot of confidence in our guys [further down the ladderl.”

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JONATHAN STOKKE is one of a handful of freshmen who hope to push Duke to victory. stage, this year’s Blue Devils will also along with an off-night for Duke. This aptry to keep their 48-match regular sea- pears unlikely, however, as the Blue Devson ACC winning streak alive. ils have returned to their old form with North Carolina nearly snapped the their new-found depth allowing them to streak last season, and again the Tar contend for another national title.

“There are some huge changes [from Heels, in addition to Wake Forest, could last season],” Yani said. “We have 12 compete with Duke for the ACC crown, Although both squads will challenge guys who can play almost any spot, so the Blue Devils, each will both need the we’re not worried about depth.... Things combination a great performance to go are going well.”

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pered by a fall body cramp as he served for a third round victory.

Making the jump across the Atlantic to play “I had to retire,” said Walter. “It was tough.” collegiate tennis is difficult for anyone. But Duke Since the disappointment, Walter has begun to tennis player and French native Ludovic Walter play, practice and work out for longer periods of needed only a few tournaments and one semester time. More recently, Walter played a trio of three as a Blue Devil to adapt to American differences. set matches in a day without cramping.

Now into his second semester, with the freComing from France, it is not surprising that quency of matches increasing, Walter is confiWalter called food the biggest adjustment; however, dent that he is ready to take the spring season the problem is the Same issue many would expect. by the horns.

“I started eating too much,” Walter said. “I Hailing from Brittany, Walter began playing gained a couple of pounds in bad weight so the tennis at age eight. Throughout his later years coach put me on a diet and I lost seven pounds the Frenchman played on a club squad where he and now I am just taking care of everything.” was exposed to the team style ofplay.

Walter’s adjustment to life at Duke is not much While the rackets, courts and balls remain different than any other international student’s. the same, practice in America differs quite sig“Here it’s different because it’s not my native lannificantly from the drills he was accustomed to guage so the first month was pretty tough,” he said. in France.

Academically, Walter has a lot of direction “In France, practice is based more on technique and was very pleased with his first semester. like hitting forehands and backhands,” Walter He plans to pursue a double major in German said. “Here it is more physical like running skills.” and economics and a certificate in markets and After a difficult transition, Walter embraces management. the changes and understands that the American Walter, playing primarily at the No. 3 singles training style has the ability to vastly improve position, has been victorious in his past three his game. team matches. His most impressive accomplish“I really need to improve my game at the net,” ment was his finals appearance in the January Walter said. “All my volleys and my running skills ACC Indoor Championships. have improved.”

“Ludo’s a good player,” men’s tennis co-captain Walter says the time between matches as one Michael Yani said. “After this season he should be ofthe biggest adjustments from France. In his naat least a top-50 player.” tive country three hours are allocated for recovery Producing great results during the fall and inbetween matches while in America players redoor seasons, Walter eagerly anticipates the start ceive a single hour. ofthe ACC season and the packed spring schedule.

After winning his first two matches in the All“I just keep going because it works well. I keep American Tournament this fall, Walter was ham- working hard and having fun.”

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Women’s tennis poised for title Led by sophomore Kelly McCain, the Blue Devils find themselves with arguably their most talented team ever. Can they finally turn it into a team or individual NCAA title?

By CATHERINE SULLIVAN The Chronicle For the past two seasons, the Duke women’s tennis team had a legitimate chance to capture both the team

and individual NCAA Championships for the first time in school history, but fell short on each occasion.

IRONIC! In 2001 and 2002, the Blue Devils were led by JULIA the this women’s tennis hits a a match only year’s volley during SMITH, team, freshman on recent stellar freshmen Ansley Cargill and Kelly McCain, who helped their teams to the quarterfinals and sweet 16, respectively.

Although Cargill left Duke after only one year to play on the professional tour, McCain chose to stay for her sophomore campaign and is once again poised to lead perhaps the most talented team in Blue Devil history.

“We have a lot of depth this year,” McCain said.

“Last year we had a few weak spots, but I think this year we’re solid at every position.”

Duke returns five of its six starters from its sixth-ranked 2002 squad, losing only senior loana Plesu to graduation.

McCain, ranked second nationally, is followed in the singles lineup by No. 15 Amanda Johnson, who has been Duke’s most successful player in dual match competition during her freshman and sophomore seasons.

In addition to her on-the-court attributes, Johnson has also become one of the team leaders off the court.

“Amanda and Katie [Granson] have kind of emerged as leaders early in the season,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “I’ve put a lot more on them in terms ofleadership off the court thananyone else, and they’ve responded well.”

The ability of Johnson and the seniors to hold the team together could prove to be a key to the Blue Devils’ success this season. With 10 players on the & squad and only six singles slots in each competition, some deserving players will undoubtedly be left sit95 ting on the sidelines.

“This is the deepest team we’ve had since I’ve been here as far as the quality of players at the bottom of our lineup who aren’t even playing,” Ashworth said.

“That’s good and bad. It’s good because .we can sit out players who might have nagging injuries without losing a lot of quality. It’s bad because there are going to be people who aren’t always going to play. If people become selfish and put themselves first and the team second, then we’re going to have problems down the road, but so far, things have been good.”

Duke’s singles lineup will be bolstered this year by the addition of sophomore transfer Katie Blaszack, who joins seniors Julie Deßoo and Hillary Adams as the third transfer on the current Blue Devil squad.

Blaszack, ranked No. 81 nationally, has already proven her worth, winning a three-set battle against Offer good while supplies last. her former teammates to help No. 4 Duke (4-0) defeat No. 8 Vanderbilt 4-3 in an early season showdown.

“Katie brings a lot of fight to the court,” Ashworth said. “She’s a hard worker, and I think the other girls feed off that. The biggest thing with her is letting her know that the coaches believe in her and the nine other girls on the team do, too.”

Another early sign of promise comes from Duke’s doubles play, which has been its Achilles Heel at times in the past.

The Blue Devils currently boast four teams ranked in the top 50 nationally, led by No. 11 Deßoo and Johnson and No. 13 Adams and McCain.

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Kimel and family look to lead Blue Devils to glory

By MIKE COREY The Chronicle When head women's lacrosse coach Kirsten Kimel had her second child Nov. 1, the demand for baby-sitters doubled. Her players, the preseason No. 1 Blue Devils, were more than happy to oblige.

“I’m really lucky. I have a great group of kids and they baby-sit for me all the time,” Kimel said. “I usually have two of them come over and take care of them for me.”

The members of the 2003 lacrosse

team relish the time with their coach’s children, particularly when they stop by the team’s notoriously rigorous practices.

“When the kids come, it’s not so

rigid,” redshirt junior Meghan Walters said. “There’s a relaxed atmosphere, but not so much that it’s an easy atmosphere. Relaxed as in you see Kirsten as a mother and as a wife and as coach and

as a friend.”

Kimel has been that and more to the Duke program over the years, building the lacrosse team from scratch in 1996 to one of the nation’s premier teams.

MEG BARNET and the women’s lacrosse team find themselves at the top of the rankings again

The Blue Devils have been the preseason No. 1 team for two consecutive years, have consistently landed many of the nation’s best recruits and are a staple in the NCAA tournament, advancing to the Elite Eight four times and the Final Four in 1999.

Last season, Duke was beleaguered by an injury-laden season, as seven contributing players, including All-Ameri-

cans Kate Kaiser and Walters, were

hampered by injuries.

“That’s where pretty much all of our injuries occurred last year were defensively, so we were forced to play younger kids,” Kimel said.

Those younger players have learned many lessons from the 2002 campaign, and coupled with the anticipation ofthe return oflast year’s injured players, the Blue Devils are healthy and brimming with eager talent.

“I think we’re really excited about this season. I think it’s going to be our best year ever,” senior Lauren Gal-

lagher said.

Gallagher, a second-team All-America selection, will lead the way for a Duke offense that relies on constant motion and quick reactions. Her numbers were impressive last season, particularly since she often played both offensive and defensive positions in the same game.

“At times last year, she put the team on her back and carried us,” Kimel said.

“Last year she proved she could be an effective player on both sides of the field,” Kimel said. “I do think that what’s exciting is that this year she’s going to be able to focus more on offense and being a leader on offense because we have the depth defensively.”

The return of Kaiser, last year’s preseason player of the year, provides a boost to the entire Blue Devil squad. So

plentiful are the abilities ofKaiser—she has already accumulated 113 goals in her Duke career—that she was named

to the 50th Anniversary ACC women’s lacrosse team. And though the return from several months of rehabilitation was difficult, Kaiser is quickly showing signs of her old form.

“I feel like she’s back to herself, back to where she’s moving better physically,” Kimel said. “She’s a lot more confident.

She’s not playing timidly at all.”

The Blue Devils are feeding off Kaiser’s return and are confident going into the season, despite the difficulty of their schedule and conference, as the ACC is generally considered the most competitive conference in the nation.

“Virginia is going to be one ofthe top teams in the conference along with us,” Kaiser said. “Carolina and Maryland will be just as good. All three of them

give us good games.”

The Blue Devils will also square off this season against both last season’s national runner-up and champion, Georgetown and Princeton, respectively.

The Tigers graduated a bevy of players, but were recently voted the preseason No. 1 pick in the lacrosse coaches poll.

Duke was rated at the top of a few of the many other polls the sport produces.

And though the Blue Devils’ schedule is hardly child’s play, the goal of the lacrosse team this year is simple.

“The national championship,” echoed Walters, Kaiser and Gallagher. Kimel hopes that when late May rolls around and the NCAA championship is being played, she will not be able to rely on her team for their baby-sitting services.

“We have the potential to do incredible things this year,” she said. “Our goal is to win the national championship, and we certainly have the talent to do it.”

After losing pair of All Americans last season, women’s lax embraces return of Kaiser, Walters

By MIKE COREY The Chronicle

It was hard to miss senior Kate Kaiser and junior Meghan Walters at Duke’s women’s lacrosse games last year. Each of the girls was forced to sit out 2002, as Kaiser tore her ACL and Walters had a nagging leg injury. The two were still a conspicuous presence, to say the least, as they roamed—and

often hobbled—along the sidelines, barking out orders and encouraging words to healthy teammates. But too often, Kaiser and Walters were forced to console their teammates after what be-

came a painful 2002 season.

“Last year we made it to the quarterfinals,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “And truthfully, last year’s group considering all the injuries we had—and it wasn’t just Kate and Meghan; it was Amanda Hughes; it was Kristy Dirks; it was Courtney Fisher; it was Cheryl Lynn Horton; it was so many

kids—we probably overachieved getting as far as we did.”

Walters and Kaiser, both All-Americans, watched their teammates fight their way to a respectable No. 9 national ranking with a 9-7 record. And though that may have been Duke’s hardest-earned mark, Walters and Kaiser promise to take the Blue Devils to very lofty heights.

“I’m looking [to be a] first-team AllAmerican,” Walters said. “But the accolades are not as big of a deal for me as team goals. I mean, obviously we want to win a national championship; 110 percent I believe in it. I believe in every-

body in the team and I believe we can

definitely do it.”

Walters, a member of the U.S. Developmental Squad, is the backbone of a stellar defensive unit. As a sophomore, Walters caused 24 turnovers and picked up 34 ground balls. Kimel acknowledges that Walters is still getting herself acclimated to playing again, and that her return is critical to the team’s success.

“She still has some adjusting to do in terms of getting back into the swing [of things],” Kimel said. “But she understands the game really well, and she understands defense and she’s a really good leader back there for us. Having her brings our defense to another level, which is exciting.”

And though defense wins championships, the all-around prowess of Kaiser is equally important to Duke’s success. Kaiser, who was sidelined after tearing her ACL in the first day of practice last spring, was so dominant in her first three seasons that she was named to the 50th Anniversary Women’s Lacrosse Team, joining coach Kimel,

who was also named to the list for her All-American days at Maryland.

Kaiser is the rare player who is both a prolific scorer and a terrific defender.

She is currently third all-time on Duke’s scoring list with 116 goals and fifth in points with 130. The Tewaaraton Trophy, which annually honors the nation’s top women’s lacrosse player, is still on Kaiser’s to-do list. She is one of the favorites in 2003.

“I just want her to have a great se-

KATE KAISER, who spent most of last season injured, should be a force for Duke this year. nior year, and if she has a great senior to continue improving to reach the final year I think our team will as well,” level—the one accomplishment that has Kimel said. evaded the program and it’s two onceWith Walters and Kaiser back in the fallen stars, Walters and Kaiser—a namix, along with a third All-American in tional championship.

Lauren Gallagher, the Blue Devils will “To look around and see those girls be a force this season. The rest of the naback on the field, they motivate so much tion is well aware ofDuke’s potential, as that everyone takes their game to the is Kimel’s team. But all Duke wants is next level,” Gallagher said.

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Men’s golf prepares to break onto national scene No. 9 Blue Devils churn out best fall season under Myers, ready for spring tournaments

By ROBERT SAMUEL The Chronicle

Coming off perhaps the best fall season under head coach Rod Myers, the No. 9 men’s golf team looks forward to playing an intense schedule in its quest for the national championship.

For the Blue Devils to match their

autumn exploits—where the team climbed to as high as No. 6 in Golfweek.com’s national rankings— Duke will rely on the skill of senior Leif Olson.

A senior, Olson finish first individually at the Nelson tournament in Palo Alto, Calif., which propelled the team to its only win of the fall.

Myers feels that Olson, who also claimed individual honors at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate golf tournament, is the glue that holds the team together.

“It first of all starts with [Olson],” Myers said. “He’s close to playing at the highest level. As an individual, he played strong all fall.”

Olson had been a stand-out on last year’s team, but it was freshman Ryan Blaum who surprised everyone last semester with his outstanding play, allowing the Blue Devils to enter the top-10 after disappointing results in the spring of 2002. Blaum finished in the top-20 in every event ofthe season.

Myers knew about Blaum’s exceptional talent, but marveled at his ability to adapt to the college game.

“You also have to realize that college is an adjustment,” Myers said. “Not many guys will come in as a freshman and not be out of the top-20 no matter what the caliber of the player is. I would have to have told you that it was unexpected. I certainly would have predicted some solid finishes, but not with that type of consistency.”

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In addition to the freshman’s injury, sophomore Tom Lefebvre, who is expected to compete at the four and five positions, suffered from an ailing back in the fall, but both of these injuries appear to

have healed.

“Everyone is going to be pretty much healthy,” Olson said. “I think we’re all just excited to get started.”

The Blue Devils will begin Feb. 17 in Jacksonville, Fla., at the Mercedes Benz Invitational. The tournament is a marquee event in college golf, playing host to some of the best teams in the country.

Myers predicts that the team’s play at Jacksonville will depend on how much practice the team can get in because of the climate in Durham.

“[Our success] depends on the weather here and how sharp we can be,” he said. “The field there is really strong.”

Things do not get easier for the Blue Devils as the season rolls along. Every tournament in which the team is involved features national competition.

“We just don’t have any easy events,” Myers said. “I think we’re going to have the chance during the spring to see how we measure [up]. We’re trying to be prepared for the conference championship as much as we can.”

If Duke is to use the momentum from the fall season, it must continue to have strong play in final rounds.

The disappointing 2002 spring season was filled with missed opportunities on tournaments’ final days, while last fall the Blue Devils proved to be much more clutch.

“I know last year everyone didn’t put up good numbers on the final day,” Olson said. “This year we played the final round a lot better. I think we just

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In addition to Olson and Blaum, expect big things from Mike Castleforte, Rob Beasley and Lefebvre this season, as all three had solid showings during the first semester. With every golfer

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“Our goal for every tournament is to win it,” Olson said. “We try to take it one step at a time. One goal is to get to NCAAs, and once we’re in it, to win it.”

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By NICK CHRISTIE The Chronicle

For every program, the proverbial step up from dark house candidate to expected national championship contender is difficult to make. Since reaching the Final Four in 1997, Duke men’s lacrosse has been so close to joining the NCAA elite.

Last season the Blue Devils fell 10-9 to eventual national champion Syracuse, one of many NCAA quarterfinal losses to leave the Blue Devils clawing at the door to championship glory.

“For me it’s always the body of your work—what did you accomplish in the end?” Pressler said. “We’ve been six

years in a row to the NCAA Tournament. We’ve been to two ACC finals the last two years, winning them both.

We’ve been right there. We’ve been so close to the ultimate goal, and that’s why these kids are here.”

The morale in Durham is high, to say the least. Coaches and players alike speak earnestly about a national title in the team’s realistic goals.

However, the Blue Devils have many focuses —particularly intermediate staving off temporary funks, like regular season defeats to inferior schools, that have held back previous Duke teams from truly dominant seasons.

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KEVIN CASSESE, arguably the nation’s top men’s lacrosse player, will lead the midfield this season

Another attention area has been the Blue Devils’ conditioning style. Once known throughout NCAA lacrosse for its hulking size, Duke has had to adjust its conditioning style to combat the speed and quickness of rival opponents. Speed coach Joe Hauser has aided that transition.

“We’re at the top of our sport when it comes to conditioning and lifting and all the aspects that you need,” Cassese said.

“But, granted, they’re only steps. The biggest thing you have to do is put them all together.”

A two-time team captain and 2002 NCAA midfielder of the year, Cassese will be a major factor in that process. The 2003 preseason first team All-America heads up what has the potential to be an extremely lethal offensive unit. He is joined by fellow preseason All-America attackman Kevin Brennan, midfielder Matt Rewkowski and others.

“On a whole I’d say we’re a smaller team,” Brennan said. “We’re placing more emphasis on stick work, but we’re not taking anything away from lifting because that’s always been our M.0.”

The attack quintet will also feature returnees Matt Monfett, Ben Fenton and Mack Hardaker, along with freshman Dan Flannery. Primary among the offensive unit’s tasks is to improve their scoring output against zone defenses.

At times unstoppable against teams willing to man up against them, the Blue Devils offense grinds to a halt sometimes against zone coverages.

“We have to improve our outside shot,” Brennan said. “Man-to-man, there are not too many teams that can match up with us—We have so many weapons on offense. But when a zone comes, it’s going to be executing our plays in the zone to get guys the right shots.”

If the offense shines as expected, Duke might be able to build tremendous leads as fifth-year senior A. J. Kincel returns for a final year in net. A second-team preseason All-America, Kincel is an anchor in

for the Blue Devil defense.

“On thing about A. J. that I love is he’s got a short memory,” Pressler said. “If one goes in, it don’t bother him any. If he makes a great save, he wants to make another one. So, he doesn’t get caught up in the moment.”

Pressler and company will need the reliable Kincel a great deal this season—particularly early on as the Blue Devils adjust to graduation losses along the defensive backfront. Gone are defensemen Dan Hauber and Michael Ferrari, as well as valued contributor Jon Enberg.

Replacing them will be Paul Jepsen, Bill Gerrish and converted midfielder Taylor Wray.

‘We always have a tenacious mentality, and we’re emphasizing that as usual,” Gerrish said. We have two sets of large shoes to fill in Ferrari and Hauber, and myself, Jepson and T-Wray—We’re up for the challenge.”

All in all, the attitude is extremely positive as the Blue Devils attack preseason drills out on the astroturf fields next to Koskinen Stadium. The expectations are once again high, as is Duke’s confidence that it can be among the last two teams standing in Baltimore this coming May, playing for the national title.

We were certainly disappointed in losing to Syracuse in the quarterfinals, but I knew the day we left that field that we had a hell of a team coming back,” Pressler said. “I waited eight months to coach this team knowing that the class of 2003, these 11 guys—we’re going to be something else.”

All-American netminder Kincel returns for sth season, anchors tough Blue Devil defense

By JESSE COLVIN The Chronicle

Self-admittedly, men’s lacrosse goalie A.J. Kincel is “boring,” an “old fogey,” a player “who isn’t that athletic” and a veteran “who ran out of things to teach the freshmen after the first day of practice.”

And although he paints a picture of an average old man between the pipes, don’t let him fool you—the guy can play.

A year after leading the Blue Devils to the brink of the Final Four in the NCAA tournament, Kincel is back, ready to take his less-than-thrilling style of play and his ability to keep his head under pressure as far as he and his team can go with them.

“I’m not the flashiest of goalies,” the Charlottesville, Va., native said. “In high school I was a little [flashy], and I tried it the first day of practice freshmen year, but afterwards Coach took me aside and suggested I stop that.

“I try to be consistent, I try to be even-keeled,” Kincel continued. “You’re going to let in a couple of goals and you’re going to make some good saves, but everyone looks to you to see how the team is doing, and you have to keep your cool because of that... I’m pretty boring to be honest. My main talent which makes me successful is that I try to bring it every day and be consistent.”

That every day consistency has brought Kincel and his teammates a lot of success. Among other preseason honors, he was named to the Inside Lacrosse/Faceoff Yearbook Preseason All America Team two weeks ago.

Kincel’s ride to the top, however, has been an unusual one.

After graduating from The Saint

Anne’s-Bellfield School, where he was a two-sport star in soccer and lacrosse, he broke his thumb midway through his freshman season and decided to take a medical redshirt year, retaining his year of eligibility. Once he regained his health, the psychology major and religion minor remained on the sidelines for the next two years as the backup for Matt Breslin, where he “tried to be a sponge and soak up all that he could” from the veteran netminder. Kincel finally got his opportunity to play his senior year and made the most of it, posting a 59 percent goals-against average and allowing 8.5 goals a game.

Kincel hadn’t originally planned on returning for a fifth year—a commonplace practice in football and basketball but a rarity in non-revenue sports—but

when head coach Mike Pressler made the offer to him midseason last spring, Kincel took it, adjusting his workload for a spring 2003 graduation. He also took the fall off, where he remained in Durham to work.

“Having A.J. back on this team, for all of us, is a blessing,” Pressler said. “As good as a player as he is, he’s a better man. And that’s the thing I love about him. He’s so humble. All he cares about is his teammates. All he cares about is winning. He’s got unfinished business. I don’t think we’ve had a senior here who had a better year in the goal than No. 31. A.J’s the best athlete we’ve ever had in the goal. We’ve had some great ones in the past, but athletically, he could play any position out there.”

Kincel’s return to the Blue Devils for a fifth year might prove to be a blessing, indeed. The last time it hap-

A.J. KINCEL falls to his knees while making a save during home match last season pened, in 1997 with two fifth-year players, Duke went to its last and only Final Four appearance.

Kincel’s fondest memory is the ACC tournament last spring, where Duke won its second consecutive conference championship. He refers fondly to Duke’s upset of top-ranked Virginia in

the tournament final after the Blue

Devils downed Maryland in an overtime game that ended at one in the morning after a Friday night start.

Meanwhile, as Kincel and his teammates prepare for the upcoming season, he unsurprisingly prefers to talk about his teammates and the team in-

stead of himself.

“We have a special group of guys who have great chemistry,” he said. “We are

just trying to uphold the tradition here.

We have some freshmen who are going to see some time, and some upperclassmen who are going to be the vocal leadership of the team.... I would love playing in [the site of this year’s Final Four] Ravens Stadium come Memorial Day. “I just want to be remembered as the kid who came from a small high school and who had to work his way up. I don’t have the most natural talent, but I’ve been fortunate to play with some amazing teams and great defenses. I hope that this year we will live up to goals we’ve set for ourselves.”

No matter what he or his teammates accomplish this year, one thing is for certain; Kincel will not be bragging any time soon.

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Baseball swinging for College World Series berth

Despite losing top 2 players from last season, Blue Devils have lofty ACC, NCAA goals

By TED MANN

Thompson and Alieva are joined on the staff by juniors Justin Dilucchio and Can a last place team lose its two Zach Schreiber, and sophomores Paul best players and get better? Duke’s DeMarco and Tim Layden, a secondbaseball team certainly thinks so. team freshman All-America last season.

Entering last season with high Together, they constitute one of the hopes and a preseason All-American in most talented and experienced pitchLarry Broadway, the Blue Devils ing staffs Duke has had in years. crashed and burned to a highly disapThe pitching will get even stronger pointing 24-34 finish, including a diswhen junior Greg Burke returns from mal 4-20 mark good for dead last in elbow surgery, as he is expected to by the cutthroat ACC. the time conference play begins in Two of the lone bright spots in late March.

Duke’s dreary season were Broadway “I hope by the end of the season I and shortstop Kevin Kelly, both of can say that it’s the best pitching whom have left the ACC for single-A staff I’ve ever had since I’ve been at after being selected in the first five Duke,” Hillier said. “It’s got the makrounds of last summer’s major league ings of that.” draft. Despite their departures, coachAlieva, who spent last summer postes and players alike have lofty goals ing a phenomenal 1.17 ERA in the for the upcoming season, which begins prestigious Cape Cod league, agrees this Friday when Duke hosts Cincinwith his coach’s assessment. nati for the first game of a three-game “It’s going to be like night and day series at historic Jack Coombs Field. with our staff this year,” he said. “We’ll “If we don’t go to regionals [of the be a lot better.”

College World Seriesl, and don’t get up The pitching must be better if Duke in the [middle of the standings] in the is to have any success in the highly conference, I’m going to be disappointcompetitive ACC. The nine-team coned,” head coach Bill Hillier said. “I think ference features three teams in the we’re good enough for that, I really do.” preseason top-10 and five in the topDuke plans to overcome the loss of -25, meaning that more often than not, its two best hitters with a deep, talentwhen the Blue Devils take on a confered and—most importantly—healthy ence foe, they will be facing one of the pitching staff. Hillier’s staff was ravnation’s elite. The ACC also placed aged by injuries last season, forcing nine players on Baseball America’s the fourth-year coach to throw freshpreseason All-America teams, most of men, and even walk-ons, into action. any conference.

This year, the Blue Devils get a big “I love [playing in the ACC],” senior boost with the return of right-hander rightfielder Brian Patrick said. “That’s Kevin Thompson, who was the team’s why I came to Duke. You get to play against the best. When you face an Allbest pitcher as a sophomore but redshirted last year while rehabbing from American on the mound, there’s nothing better than that.” off-season shoulder surgery.

“We had so many guys get hurt last With so many top-notch teams in the ACC, and coming off a last-place year, and everybody’s healthy now,” explained senior right-hander Jeff Aliefinish, Duke was picked by coaches to va. “Losing Broadway and Kelly finish eighth in the conference. The hurts... but having [Thompson] back prediction doesn’t bother Hillier, who makes us 10 times better, because he’s hopes his team earns the respect that he feels it deserves. so good.”

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“It’s where you are at the end that nine years, they will do so with contricounts,” Hillier said. “They can pick butions from up and down the roster.

“We’re going to have a much more us where they want right now, but at the end of the season, they don’t have balanced team,” Alieva said. “Last a choice.” year, we had a couple of really good Duke is hoping that the end comes players and then we had bunch of only after a trip to the postseason replayers trying to find their role. This gional, something that it was unable year, we don’t have a star... but everyto accomplish even with Broadway and body’s got the talent and experience to Kelly. If the Blue Devils are to reach contribute, so I think we have strength the postseason for the first time in in numbers.”

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