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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 124

DURHAM, N.C.

MONDAY, MARCH 29,2004

WWW. CHRONICLE. DUKE. EDU

ACES breakdown

OTT TO THE ALAMO delays registration by

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Robert Samuel

THE CHRONICLE

THE CHRONICLE

The improbaATLANTA ble, the unexpected and the unfathomable all became almost improbable, almost unexpected and almost unfathomable Sunday in Atlanta—all thanks to an 18-year-old from Sudan. The men’s basketball team (31-5) reached its 10th Final Four under head coach Mike Krzyzewski, defeating No. 7 seed Xavier (26-11) while led by Atlanta Regional Most Outstanding Player Luol Deng. The 6foot-8 freshman finished with 19 points and seven rebounds while evading his fifth foul for the last 4:07 of the game, but his most important contributions came between the 5:11 and 1:52 marks of the second half. After a 30 second Duke timeout with the Musketeers leading 56-53, the Blue Devils set up for an out-of-bounds play with 5:13 remaining in the ball game. Confused as to whether the team was playing in zone defense or manto-man, Xavier allowed Deng to get himself wide open. Deng then nailed a three from the corner to tie the game at 56. “We were supposed to be man-to-man and a couple of guys SEE XAVIER ON SPORTS PAGE 9

Andrew Collins

As the rooster crowed Friday morning, juniors across campus awoke to register online for their senior fall courses. While the 7 a.m. wake-up call was accepted as a necessary evil for those seeking to get a headstart on their peers, these brave souls soon realized that their efforts were, in fact, for naught. Registration hub ACES was down, juniors became annoyed and course registration would have to wait at least another day. The ACES debacle capped off a hellish week for the Office of Information Technology, as unrelated system problems caused major e-mail outages across the University, on and off, from Tuesday to Friday. Both issues have

apparently been resolved, but

before causing their share of headaches for students, other email users and OIT personnel. OIT Director of Customer Support and spokesperson Ginny Cake said the ACES problem came about because the amount of memory used by “pooled database connections” exceeded the total amount of available system memory, causing a server overload. Although Cake did not say whether the problem was avoidable, she said the issue will be rectified for future registration sessions after OIT takes steps to reduce the amount of memory taken up by the pooled database connections. About 90 minutes after it was not

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A dozen colleges for Yalies to call home ANTHONY CROSS/THE CHRONICLE

Luol Deng came up with a number ofcrucial plays down the stretch to help propel the Blue Devils into theFinal Four.

Women advance to Elite 8 by

Jesse Shuger-Colvin THE CHRONICLE

Duke and Louisiana Tech NORFOLK, Va. took their place alongside World War One and the 2000 presidential election yesterday—in the annals of powerful conflicts that were supposed to be speedy and efficient but instead became sloppy wars of attrition. The Blue Devils’ and the Lady Techsters’ Mideast regional semifinal, which Duke won 63-49 before 7,703 fans in the Ted Constant Convocation Center in was a contest between two teams ranked in the top 10 nationally and which averaged more than 165 points per game combined. But the game turned into a sloppy, low-scoring affair marked more by frustration than the skill that got each squad to this point. An ugly victory or not, it’s all academic at this point for the Blue Devils because they advance to Tuesday’s regional final and are now one victory away from the Final Four and one step closer to the school’s first national championship. “I’m sure it wasn’t pretty to watch,” Duke head Threetime All American Alana Beard celebrates her team's advancement into theElite Eight.

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Emily

Almas

and Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE

NEW HAVEN, Conn. II that Richard Brodhead, the soon-to-be president of Duke, is not just a Yalie or a son of Eli. He’s a Branfordian. Even though “Branfordian” sounds like a foreign nationality, calling Brodhead a “Brandfordian” is merely a means of identifying him with the residential college at Yale he has been affiliated with since his undergraduate days. The newly-developed quadrangle system at Duke bears a faint resemblance to the college system at Yale University, and as administrators nurture residential life at Duke over the next few years, Brodhead’s long experience with Yale’s colleges will undoubtedly influence his contributions to Duke’s quads. Ask any Yalie the first question any fellow Eli asks when they initially meet and the answer is the same: What college are you in? The identity is so turns out

President-elect Richard Brodhead has spent the last 40years at Yale University—first as an undergraduate and graduate student, then as a professor and now as dean. As he prepares to lead Duke into its next era. The Chronicle takes a look at what life is like at the university that shaped our incoming president. Today, in the first article in a series exploring life at Yale, we examine its storied residential college system.

strong that at football games, students spend more time cheering for their college than for the Bulldogs. “At the Yale-Harvard game, someone will yell out, ‘Shoes!’” said freshman Zoe Durner-Feiler about the traditional cheer in her college, * Saybrook. At the call, the Saybrookians slowly strip, one article of clothing at a time. “Eventually people will go down to whatever you want to go to—including their birthday suits.” They then run around mosdy nude until someone decides to get dressed again. Bizarre cheers like the SaySEE COLLEGES ON PAGE 9


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