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The second half wasn’t even a minute old, and the women’s soccer team was already tightening the lasso on the unsuspecting Texas Longhorns. The ball hovering in mid-air and lost somewhere between the mist and Koskinen Stadium’s buzzing Sunday night lights, the Longhorn defenders turned their heads as the ball bent towards the goal. Duke sophomore Carolyn Riggs was following her arcing shot, and her teammates were racing fast enough to make their sweating hair braids seem more like
11 swaying pendulums. Riggs’ ball came back down to earth just beyond the goalie’s reach and into the back of the net, tying No. 24 Duke’s matchup against No. 4 Texas at 2-2. Senior Gwendolyn Oxenham would send in the eventual game-winning goal 20 minutes later, as the Blue Devils finally toppled a top-ten team, hooking the Longhorns, 3-2. “Ifs amazing,” Oxenham said following a jumping, screeching team celebration at game’s end. “After having three years of coming so close and always losing at the end, not being able to hold out and finish the game off, to actually
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As the Black Faculty Strategic Initiative comes to a close, administrators are reorienting their conception of diversity to be more inclusive, more contextualized and less numbers-driven. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe said searches will now aim to increase hires of minority scholars whose ethnic groups are underrepresented in specific departments, rather than the across-theboard hiring of black faculty members that took place under the BFSI. Expectations for the next phase in the diversification of the University’s faculty are more modest than they were for the BFSI. ‘You will find some [continued] emphasis on diversity, but I don’t think you’re going to SEE DIVERSITY ON PAGE 8
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the ball, but a pass into the box found the foot ofLonghorn freshman Nikki Thaden, who scooted it past Helgadottir for the game’s first score at 7:13. But the Blue Devils responded with a swarming defense and several scrums in
President Nan Keohane announced Friday the members of the search committee that will select the successor for Chancellor of Health Affairs Dr. Ralph Snyderman, also president and -CEO of the Duke University Health System. Roy Bostock, a former Trustee and a founding member of the DUHS board of directors, will chair the 13-member committee. Dr. Charles Hammond, former chair of obstetrics and gynecology, will serve as vice-chair. The committee will also be composed of seven faculty members, one medical student, one representative from Durham, one administrator and one Trustee. Snyderman announced in March that he would step down in June 2004, in tandem with Keohane’s planned departure from the University in the same month. “This is a crucially important leadership position at Duke. I am confident we will attract a recognized leader to one of the most attractive and dynamic leader-
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Freshman Darby Krover celebratesDuke's first goal of the game in the 41 st minuteofaction by hugging Carolyn Riggs, who assisted on Krover's goal and scored the second goal of the game five minutes later. put it away this time was incredible. And we might be a very young team, but we definitely showed that we’re tough enough to close it out.” Texas took hold of the game early, when Duke keeper Thora Helgadottir had a goal kick returned to her zone almost instantaneously. She came out to snatch up
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The play might be the thing, but the Theater Studies Studio will be the place. The Theater Studies Department will soon unveil its new building—complete with rehearsal space, classrooms and a costume shop—adjacent to the Bryan Center. The completed building is expected to open Sept. 8. “It’s been a four or five-year process [preparing the Studio], between raising money and eventually getting set up,” said theater studies professor John Clum. “We’re looking to use it right away; a lot of classes that are currently in the Schaefer Theater or in other classrooms are scheduled to be meeting in there as soon as it opens.” The Studio is designed to move many technical aspects of campus theatrical productions into a more suitable space. The current setup features much of the production taking place in the warren of offices located between the black-box Schaefer Theater and the larger SEE THEATER STUDIES ON PAGE 7
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The newly-constructed TheaterStudies Studio, which will houserehearsal space and a costume shop for the theater studies department,will open Sept 8