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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 126

DURHAM, N.C.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31,2004

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Majdi wins DSG DUKE FALLS TO MINNESOTA presidency by 2% MINNESOTA 82 I DUKE 75

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PaulaLehman

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Cindy Yee

NORFOLK, Va. A Minnesofan held a sign up that read: “The Mississippi starts in Minnesota and ends in New Orleans. Coincidence?” Apparently not. The Golden Gophers are on their way to Louisiana, becoming the first ever seventh seed and the lowest seed since 1998 to advance to the Final Four following a 8275 victory over No. 1 seed Duke Tuesday night. Coming into the tournament ranked first in the Associated Press poll, the Blue Devils were denied a trip to their third consecutive Final Four and a chance at their first national

Wisnewski needed to lead the pack by at least 6 percent of the vote to avoid a run-off; Mpasi fell behind Wisnewski by just under 7 percent. In the other races, junior Chase Johnson

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In one of the tightest races in Duke Student Government history, Pasha Majdi barely edged out Anthony Vitarelli for the organization’s presiwon vice presidency, claiming the post by just dent of academic 46 votes affairs by 13 perfreshman Majdi, a juncent, ior, won the twoKliksberg PRESIDENT Joel man race with won vice presiPasha Majdi 1,472 votes to dent of communiVitarelli’s 1,426. 51% ty interaction by Although close Anthony Vitarelli 25 percent and races like this 49% sophomore Branhave gone to don Goodwin won Exec. V.P. ’ A.WISNEWSKI run off elecvice president of Stud. Affairs B. GOODWIN tions in years student affairs by Acad. Affairs C. JOHNSON 18 percent. In the past, Tuesday’s Comm. Inter. J. KLIKSBERG results will stand Campus Serv.J. LONGORIA only uncontested because Majdi race, sophomore landed a majority- ■5l percent Jesse Longoria won vice presiof the vote. dent of athletics and campus In another close race, Anservices. drew Wisnewski secured the DSG Attorney General David post of executive vice president, Kahne said this year’s elections just beating Priscilla Mpasi by ran relatively smoothly, despite 167 votes. Because he did not secure a majority of the vote, SEE DSG ON PAGE 8

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championship. Realizing that she had played

her final minutes after four spectacular years at Duke, Alana Beard, the program’s most decorated player and first woman to have her number retired in Cameron Indoor Stadium, cried on head coach Gail Goestenkors’ shoulder upon exiting the game just seconds before its conclusion. “You guys don’t understand

Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors hugs senior Alana Beard during the final seconds oftheBlue Devils' loss to Minnesota; sophomore Dana Morgan laments behind them.

SEE LOSS ON PAGE 15

Admissions rate dips slightly A new curriculum and celebrity profs by

Andrew Collins THE CHRONICLE

At 7 o’clock tonight, nervous high school seniors from across the world will check online to see if they are among the 3,183 lucky students admitted regular-decision to Duke for Fall 2004. Chances are, they are going to be

disappointed. The University’s undergraduate admission rate dropped

again this year to just over 22 percent, as admissions officers chose a total of 3,679 regularand early-decision applicants from a pool of 16,702. Last year, slightly more students were admitted from an applicant pool almost exactly the same size as this year’s, for an admission rate of 22.5 percent. Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said this year’s group of admitted students is stronger than last year’s, but the difference is not as great as that between the Class of 2007 and the Class of 2006. Nevertheless, he said he was

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Total Applicants

16,702

Total Admits

3,679

Trinity

2,932

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Applicants with 1500+ on SAT 2003

2,926

2002 747 -22% Applicants with Class Rank -21% Percentage of those that are # I -25.5% Percentage that are #l-10

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quite pleased with the admissions process this year. ‘This leap between last year and the year before was dramatic. The difference between this applicant pool and last year’s applicant pool is not quite as dramatic, but it is still noticeable to us,” he said. “I think with the last two classes, we are a step closer to bringing to Duke the ideal class, which has academic strength, a real interest in learning, students from a variety of backgrounds and students with multiple talents. Many of the best students are both exceptionally bright and exceptionally well-rounded, and I think that Duke is a terrific place

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for students that manage both to have fun learning and have fun outside of the class as well.” The reduced number of admission offers this-year is a result of the Board of Trustees’ desire to have a smaller freshman class, Guttentag said. The target size for the Class of 2008, 1,602, is nearly 30 students smaller than last year’s incoming freshman class. The Trustees’ lower target means there is a higher-than-normal population of rising Duke sophomores, juniors and seniors. In advance of a 50-student planned increase in the class enSEE ADMISSIONS ON PAGE 8

there should be—but it isn’t to turn people out who have used their freedom There are celebrities on cam- simply to render themselves stupus and everyone knows about pid and incompetent in all dothem. At Yale, they are not sports mains of human experience,” Brodhead said. stars, but famous professors and they, like Yale’s top-notch their departments, departments are considered the which offer majors, best in the country. yet no minors— With this backcoupled with an of worlddrop emphasis on learning for the sake of renowned scholars , DISPATCHES FROM YALE and education deter programs, students strengthening under- The third in a series of articles many examining life atYale University, rom f graduate academics home Studying to Dean Richard Brodhead, i has been one ofr the abroad dunng the Duke -S fuWre presidenL hallmarks of presischool year. dent-elect Richard Brodhead’s ‘There’s so much to do here tenure as Dean of Yale College. that anyone who goes abroad Amidst innovative scholarly redoes it during the summer,” sensearch, he has fought to protect ior Kelly Heinz said. With the rigor and strength the centrality of undergraduate teaching and the breadth of the of Yale’s departments—top ranked in almost every field undergraduate curriculum. ‘There’s so much freedom in undergraduate education—and SEE ACADEMICS ON PAGE 10 by

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