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Claudia Steer, Trinity ’O4, and sophomore Anteneh Addisu were detained at Cafe Parizade Thursday night after allegedly assaulting Durham Police Department officers. The incidents come a week after a group of Duke students reported excessive and discriminatory treatment by DPD officers at another Parizade party.

Off-duty, uniformed DPD officers had been privately contracted by the club for security purposes Thursday night. At least 500 people observed the event and at least 10 DPD and Duke University Police Department officers were involved in the arrests, police on the scene said. Witnesses suggested that Thursday’s events were racially motivated, noting that both detainees are black.

Steer was arrested and taken to Durham County Jail and later released. Addisu was questioned by officers and detained in a police vehicle, and he was also later released. Steer was charged with assaulting an officer. No formal charges were filed against Addisu.

Senior Matthew Schemmel, a Duke student hired by Parizade as the main entrance bouncer, said Steer tried to enter the club at approximately 12:30 a.m. but was unable to provide a valid form of identification with both a picture and date of birth. “She wanted to drink,” he said.

Seniors Charelle Sanford and Kandi Chitman, two of Steer’s friends at the club, said Steer is 21 years old, but she only had a temporary New York driver’s license that did not include picture identification.

The interim license was issued while Steer’s permanent license was being processed.

Sanford and Chitman said the group appealed to the club’s manager, who told them to enter Parizade through its back entrance, where another bouncer was manning the door, in order to “de-escalate the situation.”

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For the first time in at least seven years, Duke men’s basketball’s home matchup against Maryland might not be a tenting game. Instead, students will likely camp out to see Duke square off against Wake Forest and, as always, longtime nemesis North Carolina.

Shifting the tenting games is one piece of a larger effort to generate greater energy among Cameron Crazies, whom head coach Mike Krzyzewski and others said have not lived up their reputation during recent seasons. Head line monitor Steve Rawson announced the likely changes at a town hall meeting Thursday night about adjustments to the laws of Krzyzewskiville.

Duke will face Maryland Jan. 26 and UNC Feb. 9, which would have limited the tenting period compared to previous years. The Wake Forest matchup is not until Feb. 20, and students have suggested that extending tenting will generate more enthusiasm for the season. K-ville enthusiasts hope elevating the game with the Demon Deacons to tenting status will also help infuse energy into Cameron Indoor Stadium throughout the season.

After a town hall discussion Thursday night the tenting games for men's basketball may change.

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Bush accepts GOP nomination in NYC President says “Nothing will hold us back ”

by David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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George W. Bush picked apart

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record on the Iraq war and tax cuts Thursday night and summoned the nation toward victory over terrorism and economic security at home.

“Nothing will hold us back,” he said in a Republican National Convention acceptance speech that launched his fall reelection campaign.

“We are staying on the offensive-striking terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them here at home,” Bush said in a prime-time address not far from Ground Zero of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“And we will prevail.”

“Four more years, four more years,” the delegates chanted as Bush strode—alone—onto a podium in the middle of a heavily fortified convention hall. His introduction was a video that stirred memories of Sept. 11— and credited him with “the heart of a president.”

“I believe this nation wants steady, consistent, principled leadership, and that is why, with your help, we will win this election,” he said.

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First Lady Laura Bush joined her husband on stage as he finished his speech, followed by Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife and extended families.

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Bush’s speech marked the beginning of a two-month campaign sprint to Election Day, and Kerry clearly could not wait, In a ferocious counterattack after a week of GOP conventionweek criticism, he called the

wartime commander-in-chief and Vice President Dick Cheney unfit to lead the nation.

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A judge ordered the immediate release of nearly 500 protesters just hours before President Bush's speech at the Republican convention, then fined the city for refusing to comply with his order. City officials later said they would release all of the protesters by late Thursday.

Russian captors release several hostages authorities to deliver water, food and medicine for the captives.

BESLAN, Russia Tensions had risen earlier when the milCamouflage-clad commandos carried crying babies away itants fired grenades at two cars near the from a school where gunmen holding huncompound ringed by security forces, and dreds of hostages freed at least 26 women hours later two blasts interrupted a nervand children Thursday during a second ous calm during the night. A policeman day of high drama that kept crowds of diswas reported injured by one of the explotraught relatives on edge. sions after midnight.

Men and women wept with disappointPresident Vladimir Putin said everyment or hugged each other with relief as thing possible would be done to end the a man read the names of the freed “horrible” crisis and save the lives of the hostages over a loudspeaker. Some of the children and adults being held at School toddlers released were naked, apparently No. One in Beslan, a town in the southern because of the stifling heat in the school, region ofNorth Ossetia. where the hostage-takers refused to allow But it was uncertain how much either by

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side was willing to give to avoid further bloodshed in the siege—the latest incident in a series of violent attacks believed linked to Russia’s war in Chechnya. A dozen people were reported killed by the attackers when the school was captured Wednesday, but one official said Thursday that 16 died.

Reports after the standoff began Wednesday said the attackers demanded the release of people jailed after attacks on police posts in June that killed more than 90 people in Ingushetia, a region between North Ossetia and Chechnya. But officials said Thursday that the hostage-takers had not clearly formulated their demands.

Jury convicts U.S. informant Spc. Ryan Anderson, a National Guardsman accused of trying to give al Qaeda information about U.S. troops, including methods for killing soldiers, was found guilty Thursday on all five counts of trying to help the terrorist network.

U.N. to pressure Lebanese The U.N. Security Council narrowly approved a resolution late Thursday aimed at pressuring Lebanon to reject a second term for its pro-Syrian president and calling for an immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces—an indirect reference to Syrian troops.

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JERUSALEM This week’s suicide attack in Israel has sparked a war of words between Israel and Syria and increased pressure on the Israeli government to finish the West Bank barrier that many Israelis believe saves lives.

In Gaza, meanwhile, four Palestinians were killed in clashes Thursday after Israeli troops found a tunnel leading to a Jewish settlement. As Israel mourned its 16 dead from Tuesday’s twin bus bombings in the southern desert city of Beersheba, officials ratcheted up their rhetoric against Syria, hinting at possible military action. The militant group Hamas, whose leaders are based in Syria, claimed responsibility for the attacks. Syria and Hamas, apparently fearful of an Israeli strike, accused Israel of trying to aggravate tensions.

Although no Israeli strike appeared imminent—security officials said they had not begun discussing the possibility—the heated rhetoric underscored Israel’s growing impatience with Syrian support for Palestinian militants. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Israel’s president that the bus bombings, the deadliestattack in Israel in nearly a year, were carried out on direct orders from Hamas leaders in Damascus, the Syrian capital.

A senior adviser to Sharon, Raanan Gissin, warned earlier that neither Hamas nor Syria was “immune” to an Israeli strike. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Syria’s support for terrorists “will have very clear consequences.” However, the chief ofIsraeli military intelligence refused to draw a straight line from Beersheba to Syria.

“We did not directly connect the terror attack that was carried out in Beersheba to the [Hamas] headquarters in Damascus,” Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash said.

Bombing suspects acquitted A federal court in Argentina acquitted five men Thursday of being accessories to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people, the deadliest terrorist attack on Argentine soil.

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With an eye to decreasing the size of the Arts and Sciences faculty, the University has authorized 24 faculty searches in a roughly even distribution across the three divisions of Trinity College. If the searches progress at their current success rate, Arts and Sciences will see a faculty reduction of two or three members as professors’ attrition—the rate at which they leave the University—takes its toll.

The number of faculty sought is up four from last year’s total, and more of the searches will be open to both senior and junior professors in the hopes of attracting young and talented scholars to Duke.

The decrease in the size of the faculty is a “conscious” move by administrators who want to avoid deficits for Arts and Sciences like the $1.4 million shortfall during the 2003-04 academic year, said George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences. He noted that paying fewer faculty would allow the University to devote more resources to its capital development and maintenance.

“We’re a doing a relatively constrained number of searches this year for two reasons,” McLendon said.

“One, to make sure that we don’t end up with a structural budget deficit; the second is to make sure we have the resources to support not only the new faculty that we’re bringing in but the faculty who are already here.”

McLendon acknowledged that Arts and Sciences’ limited resources necessitate choices between physical and human resources. He said Provost Peter Lange’s reduction of the searches from the low 30s in 2002-03 to the low 20s in each of the past two years will result in more funding for other Arts and Sciences expenditures.

“Because of the bottom-line budget, you can spend relatively more money on new faculty positions, or you can spend that same money to make sure that the classrooms are ideal and that the information technology is up to date,” McLendon said. “So the provost has pretty much clarified what he believes the optimal faculty size is.”

Several department chairs said more searches in their disciplines would be preferable, but many departments

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Critics of President George W. Bush's foreign and domestic policy gathered at a protest in the state capital Thursday night.

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They couldn’t make it to Republican National Convention in New York City, so they did the next best thing.

Nearly 200 demonstrators, ranging from toddlers to senior citizens, flashed signs to traffic and chanted a wide repertoire of standard anti-Bush slogans in downtown Raleigh Thursday night, speaking out against President George W. Bush’s administration.

The event was organized a little over a week ago by a group calling themselves the “Ad Hoc Committee Against Bush.” They received a permit from the city Aug. 23 and were licensed to demonstrate from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Thursday night.

The zealous protesters listened to a series of speeches at the North Carolina State University Bell Tower just as the pre-prime time lineup of the final night of the convention hit the airwaves. The protesters then marched down Hillsborough Street, passing drivers either beeping in support or yelling “Bush ‘O4” in defiance, before fmal-

ly ending up at the North Carolina Republican Party Headquarters.

A panel of speakers, mosdy representatives from local unions or advocacy groups, addressed topics ranging from civil liberties, reproductive rights and environmental protection to the war in Iraq, veterans’ affairs and labor unions. All were united, however, by one sentiment; an intense hatred of Bush.

The speakers delivered their rhetoric via megaphone, often eliciting cheers and chants from the crowd.

“I have a son on active duty, and my dad was in Vietnam twice,” Lou Plummer, from the group Military Families Speak Out, told a rapt audience. “While ‘Dubya’ was AWOL, my dad was in a rice paddy somewhere bleeding.... We’re getting close to the point where the thousandth American soldier will die in Iraq, and they’ll die for a lie.”

The event organizers were quick to explain that the

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. Residents and tourists in cars, trucks and campers clogged highways Thursday in the biggest evacuation ever ordered in Florida, fleeing inland as mighty Hurricane Frances threatened the state with its second battering in three weeks.

About 2.5 million residents were told to clear out ahead of what could be the most powerful storm to hit Florida in a decade.

Other people in the 300-mile stretch covered by the hurricane warning rushed to fortify their homes with plywood and storm shutters, and buy water, gas and canned food.

Already a category four storm with 140 mph winds and the potential to push ashore waves up to 15 feet high, Frances could make itself felt in the state by midmorning Friday.

At 5 p.m. EDT, the hurricane was centered 375 miles southeast of West Palm Beach and was moving northwest at a speed close to 10 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 80 miles from the storm’s center.

This could be the first time since 1950 that two major storms have hit Florida so close together.

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Hurricane Frances looms off Florida's coast. The storm is currently equivalent in size to the state ofTexas.

On Aug. 13, Hurricane Charley splintered billions of dollars worth of homes, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and killed 27 people when it tore across the state.

Charley’s example —and Frances’ tremendous size, at 1,000 miles across, or about as big as the state of Texas—prodded people like Linda Silvestri, 58, to get out of the way. Silvestri, who lives in Palm Bay on the central Florida coast, headed inland to Gainesville to be near a hospital because she just received a kidney transplant. “I hope I have a house when I get back,” she said.

The hurricane warning covered most of the state’s eastern coast, from Florida

City, near the state’s southern tip, to Flagler Beach, north of Daytona Beach.

Forecasters could not say with certainty where Frances would come ashore, just that it would strike late Friday or early

Saturday.

About 14.6 million of Florida’s 17 million people live in the areas under hurricane watches and warnings.

Residents and tourists streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Traffic backed up for miles on sections of Interstate 95, the main north-south highway along the state’s east coast, and was also heavy on parts of 1-4, which crosses the peninsula to connect Daytona Beach, Orlando and Tampa.

While unaware freshmen waited in eager anticipation for their iPod delivery this summer, Blackboard Learning System, the class management program familiar to so many upperclassmen and faculty, was receiving a not-so-extreme makeover.

With most of the collegiate clientele of Blackboard, Inc., having already upgraded from version 5.5 to 6.1, Duke had to give its communication and information interface a facelift in order to maintain tech support. The new version is expected to bring flexibility and new options to students and faculty.

But many students returning to Duke, like junior Jennifer Gurevich, did not find the changes extremely noticeable.

She said there were “minor changes, like how it looks, how it’s structured, but not necessarily whether it’s easier or harder or better.”

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could have and by those who have misled the nation into Iraq,” he said in remarks prepared for a midnight campaign appearance in Ohio.

Kerry won five military medals in the Vietnam War; Bush was stateside in the National Guard and Cheney’s five draft-era deferments kept him out of the service.

The Bush-Cheney campaign readied a new general election advertising campaign to build on elements in his convention speech.

In the commercials, Bush vows to “spread ownership and opportunity,” “make our economy more job friendly” and help lower health care costs.

Locked in a tight race, the president underscored his differences with Kerry on issues of war, tax cuts, values and more.

At the same time, he used terms less incendiary than those wielded by Cheney or Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., from the convention podium Wednesday night.

Bush said Kerry and Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards had both voted against $B7 billion in aid for “troops doing battle in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

“When asked to explain his vote, the senator [Kerry] said, ‘I actually did vote for the $B7 billion before I voted against it.’ Then he said he was “proud of that vote.”

The president said Kerry has proposed “more than $2 trillion in new federal spending so far, and that’s a lot, even for a senator from Massachusetts.”

Bush added: “To pay for that spending, he is running on a platform of increasing taxes—and that’s the kind of a promise a politician usually keeps.”

Contrary to Bush’s characterization, Kerry’s economic plan calls for rolling back the Bush-era tax cuts only on the top 2 percent of wage-earners, while leaving the rest in effect.

The public opinion polls made the race a toss-up as Bush stepped to a custom-made, theater-in-the-round style podium at Madison Square Garden, the country divided along political lines that shaped the Electoral College strategy for him and Kerry alike. By all accounts, Bush is safely ahead in customary GOP strongholds across the South and Great Plains states, with Kerry similarly situated in Democratic base states from New York to Illinois to California.

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priority for him and the departments he supervises, just as attracting top basketball talent is crucial to men’s head coach Mike Krzyzewski. “I really believe a lot in recruiting, sort of the same on the faculty hiring level as Coach K does on the recruit level—for not completely different reasons, because how well you can do depends on the players you have,” he said.

Toward that end, McLendon said many of the searches have been open-ranked in an effort to recruit young, “high-impact” scholars from other institutions with the lure of tenured positions. “We’re looking at more opportunities where we might find the best young person at Stanford [University],” he said.

McLendon expects that the University’s ability to attract faculty will remain strong in quality, if not in quantity. “We assume that we’ll have a three-quarters success rate [in faculty searches],” he said. “We’ve done pretty well. Duke is a very attractive place to teach and work and live.” main a

find themselves with faculty sizes well within the range prescribed by their memoranda of understanding—planning tools created by the provost’s office and each department.

“We’ve shrunk over the last 10 years, but now we’re trying to build back up,” said Ingeborg Walther, chair of the Germanic languages and literature department.

Although no official numbers are available that break down the searches by department, the art and art history, economics, English, Germanic languages and literature, history and philosophy departments each have one search currently in the works. “I don’t think anyone has a large number of searches this year because Arts and Sciences is being fiscally conservative,” said Thomas Nechyba, chair of the Department of Economics.

McLendon said there are “very few” departments with multiple searches, but faculty recruitment will re-

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fairs, challenged tenters and line monitors to shorten the tenting period, and administrators debated the consequences of the Rawson said opening tenting for all month-long campout on intellectual life. three games was still a possibility. Prior to As a result of the discussion, students 1997, Crazies regularly tented for more' could not officially register for tenting than four games each year. Rawson plans until about one month prior to the first to gauge support of the extra tenting game. Tenters, however, gathered in Kgame at several community forums during ville as early as Dec. 26. the next few weeks.

Despite the continued enthusiasm of Since Maryland won the National die-hard residents, the Cameron Crazies Championship in 2002, the team has were criticized for a lack of creativity and slipped, and in the past few years Duke fans attendance as onlookers said the cheers have chanted “not our rivals” at the Terrapsounded stilted and seats in the student ins. The team’s lackluster performance last section remained empty.

Attendance continued to lag throughyear prompted the change, Rawson said.

Last year many students regarded the out last year, and line monitors increased Maryland game as a footnote along the efforts to make students aware of open way to UNC. Students’ lack of enthusiasm seats in Cameron.

A slight resurgence of enthusiasm surwas vindicated when Duke trounced the Terps 86-63 Feb. 22. After the game, the faced at the end of the season with “cheer sheets” being reinstituted after a year-long Crazies filed out of Cameron in virtual silence, bored by the blowout. No one even absence and several large parties in K-ville before the UNC game. attempted to light a bonfire.

More ways to generate support for the Maryland edged out Duke in an overtime game to win the ACC championship team were discussed at Thursday’s meetlater that season, but students are ing. Rawson said he wanted to fill the stadium by making basketball games more dwelling on the Blue Devils’ victory.

Avid tenters at the forum hailed the appealing to students who may be intimichange as a welcome move, noting that dated or discouraged by the current line Wake Forest will likely be one of the best policies. Attendees also discussed whether teams in the nation next season. “As soon to deter students from setting up tents as the schedule came out, everyone had well before the official opening of tenting. that game circled,” said sophomore Jeff “We’ll continue to be creative in trying to fairly implement the system,” Rawson said, Harris, who lived in Tent No. 3 last year.

Even though the ACC expansion has adding that he wanted to be mindful not to forced the league to abandon its double “disenfranchise the hard-core students.” round robin schedule, for the foreseeable Jake Gillen, a senior who has been in one of the first five tents for three years, future Duke will continue to play Maryland and UNC twice each season. Duke said that “some people are just committed and Wake Forest will play twice in 2004- to other things” and do not deserve the 2005 but are not guaranteed to have a best seats in Cameron. Others at the meethome-and-home series in future years. ing reiterated thatK-ville spots should reK-ville came under scrutiny in Spring main “first-come, first-serve.”

The next forum will take place Sept. 9 2003 after students suffered through a season of unusually harsh weather conditions. at 8 p.m. on the fifth floor of McClendon Larry Moneta, vice president for student af- Tower in Keohane Quadrangle.

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and handcuffedher hands behind her back, “He pushed her down and her top fell off and left her breast exposed to everybody,” Sanford said. “We were all screaming at him to get a female officer. There were so many males outside who were screaming, ‘Let her go.’”

Among the men outside the club was Addisu, who was recording the event on his digital camera. Officers told him to turn the camera off. “Because I held on to my own camera, they proceeded to throw me against a police car and handcuff me,” Addisu said.

Sanford said the way Parizade officials and DPD officers reacted to Steer was inappropriate. “My dad was a cop and, at least before tonight, I didn’t believe in police brutality,” she said.

A man identified by DPD officers and other witnesses as the club’s manager said he was not involved with Thursday night’s party and only happened to be on the premises because of unrelated business.

He declined further comment.

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later. Schemmel said he spotted Steer inside the club and told her to leave the premises. A police officer on the scene, who declined to give his name, said Steer refused to leave the club and Schemmel subsequently requested police assistance.

“She became very belligerent and verbally abusive,” the officer said. “As officers guided her through the crowd, she turned around and pushed the officer, thereby assaulting two police officers as they were trying to restrain her.”

Steer’s friends said the officers who were escorting her out of the club were pushing and grabbing Steer from behind.

“She turned to the cop and said, ‘Please, do not push me,’ and then he pushed her up against a chair and said to her, ‘Do you want to go to jail?”’ Chitman said.

In the commotion, Chitman said, the officer pinned Steer to the floor face-down

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graduation, cannot be removed from the website unless professors do it themselves something many professors lose track of at the end of the year.

Amy Campbell, project manager of Duke’s Blackboard system at the Center for Instructional Technology, said there have been other major benefits, at least from the faculty’s perspective. ‘The teachers have flexibility in the way the menu is organized,” she said. “Now a faculty member could label the course menu all in French if he wanted to. So they can customize the organization of the course. Whether they are doing that yet is another question.”

The ability to use some of the minor advances in class postings, such as italics, spell check editor and text formatting has not been enough to elicit great excitement from several instructors. “Mosdy what I noticed are pretty superficial changes. It has a different look to it,” said Amy Sayle, a lecturing fellow in the First Year Writing Program.

Campbell believes that the new features of the upgrade will be seen more and more as teachers decide to use and explore the new depths of Blackboard.

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Several Duke students, who said they check Blackboard anywhere from two to 35 times a week, seemed to have complaints about the upgrades. Critiques ranged from the minimal, such as sophomore Pulsar Li’s observation that “it was fine then and it is fine now,” to immense frustration due to a lack of unification among science labs, lectures and recitations.

The most noticeable problems with the new system have been several recent Blackboard crashes and failures, which Campbell said “have overshadowed some of the new features.” She added, however, that the technical problems were not uncommon to any system upgrade and that CIT has the situation “mostly figured out now.”

Technology personnel hope that Blackboard 6.1, which was developed by the same company that provides the DukeCard system, will help connect the 60 percent of courses that currendy do not utilize Blackboard’s course communication—or at least coax professors into considering the idea.

“We in the CIT want to make it clear that Blackboard is a tool for faculty to use, and not a requirement,” Campbell said.

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“No one is endorsing a candidate here,” said Bryan Proffitt, who emceed the first part of the event. “This isn’t a proKerry rally, but we do oppose the murderous Bush agenda.”

When Yolanda Carrington from the Hip Hop Against Racist War group said, “I’m at the point now where this is the first presidential election where I don’t support a Democrat,” members of the audience shouted, “That’s not relevant,” and “This is an anti-Bush rally!”

The protesters, whose ranks swelled during the speeches but thinned out during the march down the street, were generally orderly and well-behaved, said Dean Baldwin, a Wake County Sheriff s deputy who monitored the crowd in front of the state GOP headquarters.

“I’ve been around a while and have seen a lot of protests,” Baldwin said. “I was around for the ‘6os, and this is kind of mellow compared with those days. But people here are involving their whole family, and that’s good to see.”

Bridgette Burge, who works with a local education advocacy group, brought her three-year-old son Jake to the rally. Jake, wearing a pin that

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read “Money for school, not for war,” ambled up the grassy hill to the NCSU Bell Tower chanting, “Hey, hey, hey, ho, ho, ho, George W. Bush has got to go.”

There were also several Duke students and at least one Duke professor in the crowd.

Seniors Adam Gorod, Chris Paul and Anna Bauer, along with Diane Nelson, an associate professor of cultural anthropology, said they believed in the importance of protests in a democracy.

“People are so caught up in their little lives, sometimes they forget what’s really going on in the world,” Paul said.

‘This protest may seem silly, but the point is, it works as a stimulus for thought, and it encourages people to go out and vote.”

The event attracted all sorts of protesters. One woman dressed as the Grim Reaper, who said she was from Hell and insisted on being identified only as “Death,” claimed she was a Bush supporter. “It’s good for my business,” she said. “With all the Iraqis and soldiers dying, why shouldn’t I be pro-Bush?”

Jack Holtzman, who helped organize the event, called it a success.

“We put this together in a week and a half and... we’ve got a good turnout here,” Holtzman said. “We hate Bush and his polices, and we didn’t want to sit at home screaming at our televisions.”

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With expectations abounding, the field hockey team admits it is feeling the pressure.

After scoring only three goals in two games during its opening weekend, the team returns home and hopes to regain its Final Four form of a year ago. The Blue Devils (1-1) take on New Hampshire at 1 p.m. Saturday and Towson at 1 p.m. Sunday.

“Everyone knows we have a lot of pressure on us this season, so when we’re on the field we think about it too much,” junior Katie Grant said. “Everything’s there, it’s just a matter of relaxing and doing what we need to do.”

Head coach Beth Bozman said the players’ psychological state has shown itself in their overzealous offensive play, and their eagerness to make things happen has led to poor spacing.

Seeing similar mistakes at Wednesday’s practice, Bozman blew her whisde and stopped the intrasquad scrimmage. She walked toward the center of the field and said, “Okay guys, here’s what the problem with our attack is.”

“I think we were overloading where the ball was instead of spreading out and stretching their defense,” Bozman said, summarizing her explanation during practice. ‘We were just kind of motionless in the circle, and we’ve really been working on our circle movement.”

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Johanna Bischof and the Blue Devils look to get on track against weaker competition.

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The wait is over.

After countless weeks of offseason training programs and preseason practices, the Blue Devils finally take the field against Navy for the first game of the season Saturday at 6 p.m.

The game could not come any sooner for the Blue Devils, who are eager to show new head coach Ted Roof what they can do following a long, turbulent offseason.

“We’re excited that it’s finally game week,” Roof said. “All the conversation, all the preparation, all the other stuff, we finally get ready to play a football game against an opponent.”

Last season, the Midshipmen orchestrated an impressive turnaround the Blue Devils would love to emulate. After going 0-10 CHRIS BORGES/THE CHRONICLE in 2001 and 2-10 in 2002, Navy (bottom) Cedric and Senterrio Landrum will step into primary offensive Dargan (top) went 8-5 last season, including an appearance in the EVl.net roles for the first timewhen Duke opens its season Saturday at Navy.

Houston Bowl.

Additionally, the Midshipmen said. “They’re committed to what running attack, spearheaded by have 15 returning starters and 18 they do and they have answers. preseason All-American fullback senior starters, giving the team a The ‘almosts’ won’t get it done Kyle Eckel, slot back Frank Divis and quarterback Aaron Polanco, tremendous edge over the Blue against a team like this.”

Devils in terms of experience.

The Blue Devils’ defensive all seniors.

“They don’t beat themselves. front will be tested early against “They were first in the nation They make you beat them,” Roof Navy’s complicated triple option as far as yards per game rushing,

so that says enough right there,” said Brian Greene, one of the Blue Devils’ starting safeties.

“They make you play assignment football. If you don’t play your assignment on every play, they’ll find away to pop one on you.

You must be precise.”

Additionally, the complicated Navy rushing attack is time-consuming, making clock management important if the Blue Devils hope to walk out of Annapolis with a victory.

“In a normal game, you get about 12 possessions. When you play the Naval Academy, you get seven, maybe eight, because of the time of possession,” Roof said, noting that the Blue Devils will need to stall the Midshipmen early in the down sequence. “It can be a very short game and that’s what frustrates you when you play against teams that play this style: They get it and they don’t give it back.”

If there is any consolation for the Blue Devils, however, it is that they are more athletically gifted than the Midshipmen. Navy’s biggest offensive starter, left guard Dennis Ray Phillips, weighs 285 pounds. In comparison, Blue SEE NAVY ON PAGE 12

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Fresh off a 10-0 rout of Emory & Henry Wednesday night, the men’s soccer team knows they can score. And although the competition will stiffen slightly, the Blue Devils (1-0) expect to cruise over a pair of opponents in the adidas Wolfpack Classic.

“After [Wednesday’s game] and the two preseason games, we’re definitely confident,” sophomore Chris Loftus said. “We feel we’re playing well. Practices are good and everybody’s in high spirits. So, we’re going in to win both games and we don’t want settle for anything less.”

Saturday and Sunday, the Blue Devils will take on Temple University and St. Francis College, respectively, at 7 p.m. both days in Koskinen Stadium.

The stronger of the two teams, Temple opens its regular season Saturday, after a pair of preseason wins. The Owls return many key players this season. Tony Donnatelli, Joe Brocker and goalie Patrick Hannigan were named to the preseason Atlantic-10 All-Conference team.

Hannigan enters his senior season as the reigning Atlantic-10 Defensive Player of the Year. Tying a school record, he posted nine shut-outs last season and led the Atlantic-10 with a .86 goals against average.

Also returning for the Owls are Matt Maher and Nate Webb, who led the team in scoring last season. In the first exhibition match of the preseason, Maher and Webb netted two goals each for Temple in the 6-0 victory.

A handful of talented freshmen have added skill to the squad. Matt McClain was the only scorer in the Owls’ preseason win over Villanova.

‘Temple has one of its best teams in years,” Duke’s head coach John Rennie

Some of the best women’s soccer programs in the country will showcase their skills on Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill this weekend, and Duke (1-1) considers itself one of them.

Friday night the No. 18 Blue Devils will square off against Kennesaw State (2-0), last year’s Division II champions, at 5 p.m.

Since winning their national title, the Owls have made the transition to Division I. Then Duke will challenge lOth-ranked Florida (2-0) Sunday afternoon, hoping for their first upset win of the season after the stunning collapse last weekend against Tennessee.

Because both of these teams are in the Blue Devils’ geographic region, the games in this year’s Nike Carolina Classic could have an impact on Duke’s postseason prospects.

“It’s really important to win these games for the postseason play,” sophomore Sarah McCabe said. “Last year we had the record to stay home [in the playoffs] but we ended up getting sent away and I think it was a big factor. Texas A & M had an unbelievable crowd.”

After a quick start to her season, McCabe, who scored twice last weekend, will be an important part of the Duke attack this weekend. Tied with McCabe for second in the ACC in scoring, sophomore midfielder Darby Kroyer has added a goal in each of Duke’s first two games.

Third team All-American Kate Seibert leads the ACC with three assists; but with a pulled quad, she will be out of action Friday night. Her status for Sunday’s game is questionable.

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Fiesty freshman Spencer Wadsworth looks to be aggressive this weekend at theWolfpack Classic. said of his alma mater. ‘They’re a legitimate, good team picked second in their conference. But we’re ready for that.

We’ve had a good preseason and [Wednesday night] was as good as you could hope for.”

Sunday night, the Blue Devils will take on St. Francis College of New York, the small college of big dreams. The Division I Terriers shut out Fordham University 2-0 and tied New Jersey’s Mercer County Community College 2-2 in its preseason

exhibition matches. However, St. Francis has yet to prove much on a larger arena.

Although Temple and St. Francis will be relatively strong opponents, they will not compare to the competition Duke faced in the preseason against high-ranked opponents Virginia Commonwealth and Connecticut. Led by the experience of veterans like Blake Camp, Nigi Adogwa and Loftus, the Blue Devils hope to carry the positive momentum they have gathered into the games this weekend.

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SOCCER from page 10

Freshman Lorraine Quinn isoff to a strong start, scoring her first collegiate goal against Elon last week.

F. HOCKEY from page 9 Last weekend in the Champions’ Challenge, Duke narrowly held off Louisville 2-1 and then lost to Michigan State 4-1. This weekend the competition will not be as tough, giving the Blue Devils a chance to regain confidence and mend their offensive woes.

Of the two games this weekend, New Hampshire (0-1) figures to be the more formidable opponent. The Wildcats, picked by the America East Coaches’ Poll to finish second in their conference, opened their season yesterday with a loss to Michigan. They are led by forward Katie White, whose averaged a goal per game last season, good for eighth-best in the nation, and goalkeeper Christine Buckley, a four-year starter. Duke beat New Hampshire 4-2 in 2003.

“They were a challenge for us last year,” Bozman said. “If you watch the game you’d have thought it would have been closer than it was by the score, so I expect a lot out of them.... Their coaches are good, they’re going to be pretty fundamentally sound, just a solid team that you need to

take care ofyour game with.”

Towson (0-2), picked to finish seventh of eight teams in the Colonial Athletic Association, has lost 10 of its last 11 games dating back to last season.

Still, after playing lisdessly at times during its first two games, Duke has vowed to compete with renewed intensity for the rest of the season.

“We learned that we have to work hard and take care of the details in the field,” senior defender Gracie Sorbello said.

The Blue Devils hope that by controlling the details they might also be able to get some of the bounces to go their way.

“It was not going in for us, and everything our opponents hit did go in; it was just one of those games for us,” Bozman said. “[But] obviously when you take 17 shots and you’re not getting the balls in the cage you’ve got to fix something.

We’re not going to wait for it to fix itself.”

Already it appears that one thing has gone Duke’s way for the weekend.

Goalkeeper Christy Morgan, who missed the Michigan State game with a concussion suffered during the game against Louisville, practiced this week and will play this weekend.

Freshman Allison Lipsher and senior Katie Straka continue to battle for the starting spot in goal, and both will likely see considerable action in the two games in Chapel Hill.

Although the team is aware of the imminent challenge that Florida will pose Sunday, Thursday’s practice was spent preparing for the Owls, who have posted a 43-1-1 record in Division II the last two years.

“We’re putting most of our focus on Kennesaw State because they’re a very dangerous team,” head coach Robbie Church said. ‘They’re Division II national champions.... They know how to win.”

Despite the Owls’ recent success, Church believes the Blue Devils’ superior talent should be able to carry them to victory as long as they focus on attacking the goal and being aggressive getting to loose balls on defense. Kennesaw State plays a patient defense and looks to score quickly off the counter-attack.

“We have to get through Kennesaw State before we start making preparations

for Florida,” McCabe said. “But it’s in the back of everyone’s head. It’s definitely a big game.”

The Gators play a very aggressive and fast-paced style, which Duke will get a good look at Friday night when it scouts Florida as the Gators take on the nation’s best team, North Carolina.

“They’re a typical Florida team they’re a great team,” Church said.

‘They’re very athletic, they’re very physical, they like to go forward, and they’re very fast. They propose a great challenge to anybody.”

The last time that Duke and Florida met was two years ago when senior Casey McCluskey scored the Blue Devils’ only two goals, one of which came just a few minutes into the overtime period, to upset a heavily favored Gator squad.

After Duke’s heartbreak at Tennessee week ago, this weekend provides yet another opportunity for Duke to prove that this team should be considered among the nation’s elite.

“We have to go in with the mindset to take it at them, rather than that they are so much better than us,” Kroyer said. “We can be just as good as them if we play our game.”

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Chrissie Murphy hopes to help the Blue Devils regain their momentum against New Hampshire andTowson.

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heavier,

“I doubt that we have anybody on our team that Duke recruited,” said Navy head coach Paul Johnson Thursday.

Johnson did not express confidence in his team’s preseason performance.

“I’ve watched us practice for 25 days,” Johnson said, explaining his displeasure. “I don’t know what’s going to happen. We’ll see.”

On the offensive side of the ball, the Blue Devils will feature seven new starters, including a new backfield, a revamped offensive line and a depleted receiving corps. In order to run the efficient offense that Roof covets, the Blue Devils will need solid games from quarterback Mike Schneider and sophomore co-captain Ben Patrick, a third-team freshman All-American last season. Patrick, who had 218 receiving yards last season, assumed a starting role when previous starter Andy Roland moved to fullback to replace Alex Wade.

“We expect him to have a good season,” Roof said. “He was elected captain as a redshirt sophomore. I haven’t been around that too much. He comes to work every day, he pushes himself and he pushes his teammates.”

If Patrick and his teammates can deliver a win Saturday, however, it will go a long way to restoring respectability to a program plagued by futility, “I think it would certainly give us some confidence and confidence is such a powerful thing,” Roof said. “Maybe it will generate some enthusiasm outside the program, maybe dump some fuel on that fire.”

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plaining for years that the University is addressing them, and second,

sity turns a deaf ear to their de- the way in which the University choosmands for increased security on es to represent itself, Ultimately, DukeCards should recampus. Multiple high-profile incidents ranging from place traditional keys StaffedltOrial on all bathroom assaults to alleged doors, and the adminrape have most recently raised concerns that the campus istration has expressed a desire to do is unsafe. This fear—that occasionally this. Unlike keys, DukeCards can be borders on hysteria—is particularly deactivated if lost; card access also alacute among the students, who both lows the University to maintain a record of who swipes a card for enlive and work within Duke’s borders.

As one solution to their fears, stutrance. This is an additional level of sedents have consistently advocated putcurity that the University sorely needs.

The lack of appropriate technology ting DukeCard readers on the bathrooms. Just more than a year ago, it is a legitimate problem, but Duke’s acseemed the University had listened. tions were not justifiable.

Duke announced plans to run a pilot It was irresponsible of the Universiprogram to test whether locking resity to install the hardware for the- card dence hall bathrooms with DuKeCards readers—leading students to believe instead of old-fashioned keys would be safety improvements were immian effective safety improvement. nent—when it had no ability to actualCard readers were installed in ly implement them. It seems as though the University installed the card readKilgo Quadrangle and Southgate Dormitory. The University planned to use ers without considering the future in a new, wireless technology to hook up order to quell fears. the card readers to the central DukeThe problem, administrators have Card network. said, is that the $1.2 million cost of But the problem was, the technolohard-wiring all dorm bathrooms to the gy did not exist yet—at least not at the central DukeCard network is prohibilevel of service and reliability the Unitive. Finding such a sum to install all versity demanded. So for more than a the wiring at once might be difficult. year, the readers remained inoperable There are, however, alternate ways of as students continued to use keys to implementing DukeCard access that would not require a one-time payout. gain access to their bathrooms.

The fact that Duke spent money The University is currently renovatpurchasing and installing equipment ing all the dorms on West Campus, at for a technology dial did not exist is substantial cost. Why not install wiring absurd in itself, but the University has and DukeCard readers during the rengone even further. This past summer, ovations of the quadrangles as the Duke staff went through the residence bathrooms themselves get facelifts? halls and dedicated still more reSuch a move would demonstrate a sources to removing the readers. commitment to safety as well as logicalThe fiasco raises two issues—first, ly spread out the costs of the safety imthe on-going safety concerns on camprovement over several years. «

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not an academic pursuit

In the Aug. 23 staff editorial supporting the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, The Chronicle wrote that “the University has a commitment to academic and intellectual freedom.

PSM is a group that advocates a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East.”

You are incorrect in stating that PSM advocates a peaceful solution to the Middle Eastern conflict. If you research their Guiding Principles (available on the PSM website), there is no mention of peaceful resolution. In fact, the site states that “[a]s a solidarity movement, it is not our place to dictate the strategies or tactics adopted by the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation.” This statement, along with others on the website, implies that the ends justify the means for this group, which also di-

rectly calls for “civil disobedience.”

PSM is not an academic pursuit. By limiting itself to “solidarity,” it can only question the actions of one side of this debate; the other side is impeccable in their view. Academic study requires an open mind and a search for truth, not a rationalization for violence. The University’s support of the PSM conference does not protect academic freedom, it protects closed-minded rationalization and criminal incitement.

I support discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but only as a search for truth and justice, not as a deadly sporting event where one picks a side and sticks by it.

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Dolgert’s notion of “antisocial eating disorder,” as presented in his Sept. 2 column, but, for the sake of brevity, I shall limit myself to voicing three.

First of all, I wish to point out that if we extend such consideration to our barnyard friends as Dolgert wishes, then we would be greatly inconsistent not to extend equal consideration to all living beings. One must refrain from driving automobiles, lest a bug should meet an untimely death on his windshield. And who’s to say that plants, or even bacteria or fungi, all living beings, should escape our observance?

Secondly, I’d like to examine the eating habits of other animals, say a hyena, a boa constrictor and perhaps someone’s beloved housecat. I choose these three because in

procuring their meals, they often disregard the feelings of other animals, subjecting

them to much pain and discomfort while in the process of killing them, or even eating their prey alive. Are these monsters to be excused? What do we make of their heinous actions? Incidentally, does not death in a slaughterhouse seem preferable to such a gruesome end?

And lasdy, I decry dolgert’s “deep down” feeling, nay, his certitude, that these animals “deserve” the respect that we give to people.

In reality, many people’s pets live much more comfortably than a large portion of this planet’s human population, and something, deep down, tells me that that’s just wrong.

Stephen Paul Trinity ’O6

Wales’s America a beautiful myth While reading Anne Katharine Wales’s Sept. 1 column, “America the beautiful... really,” I kept hoping she wasn’t serious, only to discover her column to be horribly genuine.

I must say her heartfelt sincerity was rather touching, yet frighteningly naive.

According to Wales, one of America’s great qualities we need to appreciate is that “If you get in a car accident, you can go to the hospital and receive medical attention immediately.” What about the 45 million Americans without healthcare? Just a thought. Also, Wales reminds us not to take for granted that when we “walk into a supermarket and are able to choose from countless types of perfectly ripe fruit, you don’t have to spend hours planting and harvesting the fruit, rather you can eat it at your convenience.” We all deserve the human right of convenient and frequent eating, and should rejoice that we don’t have to worry about food production because in “America the beautiful” we have poor Mexican and Guatemalan (and yes even some Honduran) immigrants to do that for us.

Unlike the relatives of her Honduran host father Wales so nostalgically speaks of, most Central American immigrants do not risk their lives solely to experience our great

“freedoms.” Let’s be honest, it’s about the money. In this era of NAFTA, corporate agrobusiness and U.S. farm subsidies, farmers in rural Central America simply cannot compete, so many leave their family and risk their lives to illegally cross the border because they are left with no other option.

I am a Duke student who has had amazing and much-appreciated opportunities throughout my life, yet Wales doesn’t have to worry about her column making me “feel guilty” about what we enjoy as Americans. On the contrary, I was shocked that someone so intelligent could be so oblivious. Wales writes as though there is no poverty or hardship in America, but last time I checked 32 million of Americans live below the poverty line. After her short yet romanticized stint with third world poverty, Wales may spend her nights sleeping snugly, “dreaming big dreams,” and spends her days “getting high on life,” but in many areas of the U.S., people recline only to find nightmares, and spend their days getting high on crack-cocaine. But I will not digress further because Wales’s America is a beautiful myth... really.

Margaux Joffe Trinity ’O6

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you’re heading to Madrid for the semester and are Red Sox choke. I don’t want to pick up a paper and find an about to have the best time ofyour life. We’re going to American student was arrested for rioting. miss you and all the juniors who are leaving for the seThis is a time when being an American abroad won’t win mester. It’s going to be rough with about a third of the class you a popularity contest. Take the case of the problems with gone, off prancing about in faraway lands, no doubt having the statue of Harry Truman in Athens. You see, Truman adventures of foreign intrigue as you whisk away to mystical helped give aid to Greece in the late ’4os to help defend the places like the Riviera and Prague —all the while taking class- nation .against Soviet aggression, yet Truman’s statue has es that everyone knows aren’t that challenging. Not that it been ripped down repeatedly over the past few years as a matters because what you’re taking won’t count towards your sign of discontent with America. It’s gotten so bad that a GPA. So really you’ll just be spending a semester doing nothguard has had to stand watch by Truman’s statue. Further ing but rumbling around Spain making a fool out of yourself. measures have been taken to protect the monument during Trust me, I know you. the Olympics. Rob, if Harry Truman can’t Meanwhile, I’ll be here in Durham, travelbe treated well overseas, just think of how ing about in faraway places like Raleigh and foreigners will react when they meet you.

Cary and having adventures in the Bryan There’s a common stereotype abroad of iisLJ&kl Center and the Blue Zone. When you’ll be the “ugly American.” The stereotype of the 2* loud, rude, overbearing, messy, unsophistieating in fine European restaurants, I will be at the delicious eateries eating cated, smelly, hairy, brutish human being on campus.

So it is with great envy and regret I write this who doesn’t care what others think or how he treats his fellow good-bye letter in a strictly advisory and hetThis description pattillo pretty much sums youman. ero sense. I’m here to impart upon you my up, so you’re gonna wisdom—the little wisdom I have accumulatfrom inside the bubble have to go to extra lengths to behave yourself Ed over 20 short years. in Spain. Don’t make Duke have to reel you You are going into a foreign country. Rein like a bad kid who’s expelled from summember, you’re not just representing yourself, you’re repremer camp. Besides, you’ll ruin the chance for the other kids. senting Duke and America. You’re going to need to be a genNow seriously, I hope you and all juniors have fun repredeman and a scholar of impeccable character—l know this is senting America. I’ll be holding down the fort here in going to be a challenge. Look at what Eckerd College in Flori- Durham. So, when I have 200 pages of reading to do and a da, just did. Their administrators are cracking down on wild term paper due in the morning, and you’re off backpacking behavior, and now they’re looking to crack down on their stuthrough Europe visiting France, Germany and Austria, I dents who aren’t even on the same continent. They have to hope you remember all of those you left behind to go gallisign a good-behavior pledge. If their students get in trouble vanting about with no care in the world. We’ll be here when for antics abroad, they might even rescind the right of their you get back and I expect to receive many postcards. You’ll students to return to campus the next semester. probably not miss much, especially when the Red Sox lose Now, Duke hasn’t taken these measures. (Thank God.) But in the playoffs again. you really should take the idea to heart. I know good behavior Sincerely, was never your strong suit. Thinking back to last year’s AmeriJonathan Pattillo can Leauge Championship Series, I figure the only good thing about you being gone in the fall is you can’t flip out when the Jonathan Pattillo is a Trinity junior.

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the most popular game to play is obviously the “penis” game, or any other game where we scream obscenities, preferably sexual ones, across the quad. The hormones continue to rage on. Welcome to Duke High. socialize and worst of all, pretend to care. Orientation was an And the crushing ofbeer cans and screams of “I booze!” awkward time, to say the least. And if I had to do it again, I are still the most desirable of mating calls. By the way, how wouldn’t. Alas, I was ready to leave high school, and I was much.you can drink still determines how cool you are. Parready to be an adult.Little did I know, I was entering a world tying is a decisive factor on the cool scale. Without it, you that may be bigger than high school, but it has all the same can only reach a certain level of coolness, and that inherent characters. Welcome to Duke High. barrier stares you in the face, taunting you.

As I walked around my East Campus “I’m sorry, but you must stay over there with dorm, I still heard high-pitched squeals. the other engineers.” Although frat parties ymmm “What should I wear? Should I wear the differ from our old high school house parties... wait, how? Welcome to Duke High. pink tube top or the red tank top? God, deNow, you may be thinking, where is she cisions! I have no cute clothes,” whines girl with closets and closets full of clothes. “It’s going with all of this? You bring up a good my first weekend in college, I had better point. I could end my column here saying how look good for all the strangers I’ll meet much I hate this place, but I don’t. I can say Sarah kwak that I, too, am guilty of all said transgressions. tonight.” Taking four hours to get ready to However, there is a lesson to be learned. go out is still protocol. Make-up, hair, the skwak box clothes—it’s all an intricate art of looking I was afraid of something new and differdesirable to the opposite sex. Oh, the ent. I was afraid that college was something I malaise. Gel in the hair, backwards cap placed just right, wouldn’t expect, when in fact it is, in its purest form, a conthese boys mean business. The lacrosse house is obviously tinuation of high school. There’s an evolution that takes the coolest place to be, right? Welcome to Duke High. place here, as there was one in high school. None of us can People are all still grade-obsessed. Going to Duke, you’d say that we did not change in high school. There were lesexpect some of the smartest kids in the country. You would sons we all had to learn, sometimes the hard way. There are expect to hear about all their accomplishments in high events that shaped us, molded us into who we are now. And school and you would be impressed. That is not to say that it’s not only high school; it’s applicable to our entire lives. we’re all calculator-touting philosophical drones; those kids Things never come to a complete stop, nor are they so differchose the Ivy League. “Failing” a test still constitutes a Bent from one day to another that we’re shocked to see that minus and is completely worthy of tears. But, I mean, we are we’ve been left behind. College is indeed different from in school, an institution for learning. Grades mean the high school, but we’re all the same. We’re the same people world; for without high ones, you are doomed to a future we were in high school; whether that means you’ll always care about how people see you or care about nothing at all. earning low six-figures. Welcome to Duke High.

Although making friends is always important, it is even There’s no doubt that who we were and what we did in high more important to find a significant other with whom you school plays a huge role in who we are and what we do here, plan to spend the rest of your life... and yes, it must be within college. Some of us will always be five year-olds at heart.

Some of us will never understand what youth is, but it’s not in three weeks of getting here. People are vulnerable, getimportant how old you are. We’re not here to pretend we’re ting over summer romances or better yet, long-term relationships. So, naturally, finding someone or something that something we’re not. And most importantly, we’re not here can quench your hormonal thirst is of utmost importance. to impress each other. College is nothing more than grades Not only that, but talking about sex and hot girls and guys 13 to 16 of high school. So, welcome to Duke High. still reigns as drunk AND sober topic of choice. Porno and sexual frustration rank a close second and third. And still, Sarah Kwak is a Trinity sophomore. hen I came to Duke last August, I didn’t know ex-

actly what to expect, and I was nervous when the time actually came. After spending four years in high school, I wasn’t really in the mood to make new friends,

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will never excel if it tries to mimic another institution. If we concentrate on replicating the best universities of today we will never be the best university tomorrow. Duke has a unique institutional geography and culture among the top academic institutions. We need to find and exploit our comparative advantages.

Duke is located in the South. There are fewer academically prestigious universities per capita in the South; Duke would have less intellectual competition if it sought to more rigorously pursue studies specific to this region. Being in the most culturally unique region of the United States only heightens the potential payoff. If Duke were able to make an investment in an interdisciplinary Southern studies program, we could have a unique advantage over other top schools.

Duke has already expanded its studies of the South in areas that include race and immigration.

Decades ago Duke became a leader in exploring racial issues in the South. Recently, Duke created a huge intellectual response to increases in Latin Americans immigrating to North Carolina. The Center for Documentary studies and other departments have mobilized in large ways to chronicle and examine this phenomenon. Needless to say, the timely response allowed Duke to build prestige.

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m are already constructive criticism wor. mg on ese less popular issues, there are plenty examples of topics that could stand more study. Studying the cultural interactions between areas such as North Carolina’s urbanized Research Triangle and the rural coastal and mountain areas, is one of the least academically considered cultural clashes. Why such an academic topic has not been seen as immediately enticing is uncertain; but, Duke could, with initiative, become a leader in and a creator of a new category of study.

Another understudied area of interest is the uniquely Southern phenomenon of wide-spread, vigorous Christianity. This issue has been taken up to a considerable degree by our Divinity School, but Christianity in the South clearly deserves interdisciplinary study. This group of Southern religious believers has become too politically and culturally important—locally, nationally and internationally—to ignore. While this issue has commonly been studied by academics that quickly dismiss the views of such people, we could leave our mark by doing more than ignoring and chastising the more conservative Christians in the area.

We need to do more than claim that their beliefs are purely systems of racism and sexism. Perhaps the current faculty in our cultural studies programs do not specialize in this type of study; but, that doesn’t mean we should not do it. If Duke were to take a leadership position on this issue it would contribute greatly to social and political understanding. We would also gain prestige from uncovering this new intellectual territory.

With all the excitement such a program could bring, I am loath to advocate the strategy of building a Southern studies program. There is a high likelihood of “mission creep” on the part of minority studies programs that would lead any Southern Studies effort to focus purely on racial, class, and gender issues. While these issues are part of the story, they are not everything. Many other universities expend a large percentage of their resources studying race, gender, and class; let us leave our mark by considering other issues on at least equal footing. If we were to emphasize and popularize categories that others were not currently focusing on, we could make larger contributions to academic knowledge than if we continued with our current course. We would also build a leadership position in a category we spearheaded. If we are as good of a university as we say we are, and if we are to be as good of a university as we know we can be, we must discover and explore new intellectual terrain. sors

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Roof looks to resurrect Blue Devils' program by

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At first glance, one might have wondered if anyone could have lifted Duke’s football program out of its perpetual doldrums.

Duke finished 4-8, their ninth consecutive losing season. The Blue Devils lost 11 starters, and recruiting under former coach Carl Franks was so bad that Duke had just three verbal commitments at his midseason firing. And just like every year since 1999, just about everybody expects Duke to finish last in the ACC. “We have a lot of convincing to do,” admitted new head coach Ted Roof, who took over in the middle of the season for Franks on an interim basis and permanently after season’s end.

Yet slowly but surely, Duke has taken steps toward rebuilding their onceproud football tradition. For the first time since 1989, the Blue Devils ended their regular season with a victory over rival North Carolina. The coaching staff has undergone a major facelift in the offseason. And most importantly, Roof is back as Duke’s head coach.

“When he walks into the room, everyone knows that Coach Roof has something to say,” quarterback Curt Dukes said. “I think that his attitude and his approach to the game really generate a lot of respect, not just as a coach, but as a person as we 11... He’s a coach that you want to play for. You want to go out and put your body on the line for [him]. He’s just that kind ofcoach.”

With loyal, motivated players firmly in tow, Roof must now face the onerous task of

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Starting quarterback Mike Schneider leads the resurgent Blue Devils into a tougher ACC this season.

returning the Blue Devil football program to respectability despite a difficult schedule and a talent pool that, though improving, is

still shallower than most in the ACC. “Coach Roof is very blue-collar,” said cornerback Kenneth Stanford, a returning starter and co-captain. “He believes in hard work, dedication and commitment,

Football is a game that you have to have those three things for and he brings it. It’s not just words; it is actions.”

For a team losing its two leading rushers, two top wide receivers, two leading ladders and four-fifths of its starting offensive line, those three attributes could spell the difiference between futility and success in the

ACC this season and in years to come.

“We’re going to have to be mentally tough because that’s an element that relates to winning and control,” Roof said.

‘We need to make sure that we can push through things.”

The team has already been under extreme mental duress over the off-season.

Khary Sharpe, expected to be the team’s go-to receiver, transferred to James Madison for undisclosed reasons. Later in the summer, Lance Johnson, the player expected to replace him, was dismissed from the team. And perhaps most severely, the Blue Devils lost defensive leader Micah Harris when he was tragically killed in a car accident June 11.

“He was such a great person,” defensive end Phil Alexander said. “When we lost him, it was a huge blow to everybody.

When we all traveled to his funeral in Ohio and saw his family and high school, it made me realize how precious life is and how lucky I am to be here. It gave us all a chance to step outside ourselves and see how lucky we all really are.”

To commemorate its fallen leader, the team will wear a black heart patch this season containing Harris’ number, 55.

Despite their difficulties, however, the Blue Devils enter the season confident they can continue their success from last season. Under Roof last season, the Blue Devils went 2-3, including a pair of impressive ACC victories and two competitive games against eventual bowl participants Tennessee and North Carolina State.

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The whole defensive staff has helped Alexander adjust to the change, but the coach who Roof and Alexander both credit most is co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach Scott Brown.

“Coach Brown has spent a lot of extra time with me, a lot of one-on-one time to get my steps and my pass rush pure,” Alexander said.

Despite having to change his mentality completely, Alexander’s most difficult task was preparing his body for the brutish nature of playing in the trenches.

“The hardest part was more physical than mental because there’s a lot more reads at linebacker,” Alexander said. “At end there’s a lot more body stuff, so it’s just getting accustomed to taking on bigger guys.”

With even bigger and better linemen to take on in the expanded ACC, Alexander is up to the challenge —he is a remarkable twenty pounds stronger than he was a year ago.

“I just hit the weight room real hard,” Alexander said. “I also changed my diet around a little bit trying to put on more muscle mass.”

Alexander, who hails from Bronx, N.Y, brings more to the table than his strength and speed on the football field. In 2003, the public policy major was named to the Academic All-ACC team, and this season he was selected for the preseason ACC

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Senior co-captain Phillip Alexander knows that Duke’s defense has lost a chunk of its heart and soul. Graduated linebackers Ryan Fowler and Matt Zielinski will no longer be positioned behind him, and Alexander’s good friend, the late Micah Harris, will not be in a three-point stance on the opposite end of the line.

In 2004, it is Alexander’s time to step up.

“He’s a guy that needs to make big plays,” head coach Ted Roof said. “At the same lime, we’ll count on Phillip for a whole lot more than that, we’re counting on his leadership as well. We expect him to have a great year, [and] he’s got to have a great year for us.”

Alexander’s success in 2003 was somewhat unexpected. Prior to last year, the coaching staff asked him to switch from linebacker to defensive end, even though he was undersized at 240 pounds. It turned out to be a breakout season for Alexander, who recorded 6.5 sacks and 18.5 tackles for a loss.

“I think the transition has been good,” said Roof, who was defensive coordinator at the time of the switch. ‘The thing that he’s had to work on is being on the line of scrimmage at the point of attack, where as a linebacker you’ve got three or four yards to recognize things. Phil’s gotten a lot better, and I expect him to be [even] better at the point of attack this year.”

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Stanford, Green stabilize depleted secondary enced secondary because the stakes are so high back there. They’ve been doing a The Duke football team will face many good job with tackling and not giving up challenges this season, both from its own the big play.” lack of experience and from the talent its Although the starters are veteran playopponents will bring to the field. Fortuers, there is very little depth behind them. nately for the Blue Devils, their secondary, The Blue Devils’ second team is composed the most experienced unit on the team, of one junior and three freshmen. Airy inmatches up well against the myriad of juries could cause problems, especially high-powered passing attacks in the ACC. against the potent passing attacks of With a combined 70 games of action, Duke’s ACC opponents.

“We have to continue developing more including 51 starts, co-captain cornerback Kenneth Stanford and safety Alex Green depth, and we have to stay healthy,” Roof lead a close Duke secondary. Junior safety said. “Hopefully that will come.”

Brian Greene and sophomore corner John Stanford is going to be a key player not Talley join the two seniors to form a foronly for the secondary, but for the entire midable starting group.

Blue Devil team. Named Duke’s outstand‘We’ve been together for a while so ing defensive back the last two seasons, communication’s not a problem,” Stanthe 5-foot-9 corner is poised to have anford said. ‘We can look at each other and other strong year. Chosen as a team cappretty much know what we’re going to do. tain last week, Stanford is already demonWe’ve been playing off each other and strating the leadership that earned him coming in together and watching film to- the position. gether. Us just playing together for so long “[Being a captain] places a greater reis really going to help us out.” sponsibility on me,” Stanford said. “Even if Head coach Ted Roof is counting on I don’t feel like practicing on the inside, I that experience to help lead the team. try to show a good example on the outside, “These guys have broken a lot of hudbecause that kind of thing is contagious. If dles together and that’s really going to SEE SECONDARY ON PAGE 18 help us out,” he said. “You want an experiby

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The battle started last spring and will not end any time soon.

Head coach Ted Roof had three differviable options or his starting quarterback. If Roof wanted a solid pocket passer, he’d send in rifle-armed sophomore Mike Schneider, last year’s starter for much of the season. For intangibles, Roof will turn to senior co-captain Chris Dapolito. And should Roof decide to run the option, he would select fleet-footed Nebraska transfer Curt Dukes.

For now, Roof has elected to start Schneider, but judging from recent history, being named the starter before the season is not quite a lock for anything. Adam Smith, last year's projected starter, only made it through two games before being replaced by Schneider. Smith is no longer in the quarterback picture after transferring to Western Illinois.

It makes sense, however, that Roof named Schneider the starter. Newly instated offensive coordinator Marty Galbraith ent yet

used wide-open offenses while at the helm of N.C. State’s offense. Roof likes the idea of taking shots down the field, but he’s not about to revert back to Steve Spurrier’s late 1980s Fun ‘N Gun offensive schemes.

“We’d like to spread it out, spread the field, and throw the ball all over the place,” Roof said. “But we’re going to go with the situations, try to keep people off balance and trying to keep balance within our offense. You really can’t just do one or the other and be effective, you need to have some balance with the ability to do both.”

In the No. 2 and No. 3 slots on the depth chart are two athletes who contrast in style from Schneider but are also capable of running the offense. Backup quarterback Dapolito does not throw as well as Schneider, nor does he run as well as third-string quarterback Dukes, but he has a lot of value for Duke. Dapolito has superb leadership abilities and the utmost respect of all his teammates, who elected the fifth-year senior co-captain, a feat that Roof believes is very impressive for a backup. Dapolito has also worked

accepted the backup role very well.

“Your quarterback is a guy who has to be in the game all the time,” Roof said.

“He can’t be standing there drinking water, watching the cheerleaders and all of a sudden his number gets called. It’s been a positive relationship for [Schneider and Dapolito].”

But this spring, ironically, it was the third string quarterback Dukes who received all the hype. The Nebraska transfer is one of the strongest and best all-around athletes on the team. Stated simply, he is a powerful and dynamic athletic machine, a type of player that doesn’t often end up playing for the Blue Devils.

With the Cornhuskers, Dukes was trained as an option quarterback, and he is the least polished of the three Blue Devil quarterbacks as a passer.

“He’s grown up playing option football, and he’s having to learn how to run a pass-oriented attack,” quarterback coach Tom Knotts said last spring. “But he is a tremendous athlete with excellent speed and strength.”

Because of those attributes, do not expect Dukes to spend too much time off the field. Roof will try to get him the ball as. much as possible and plans on playing him at widereceiver and at running back as well.

“Curt has done a good job of moving around, and good things seem to happen when he touches the ball,” Roof said.

Bringing all three quarterbacks together is one of the best quarterbacks coach in the nation. Tom Knotts, who mentored current Florida quarterback Chris Leak during his high school days, is one of Roof’s newest additions to the coaching staff.

One possible problem for any Duke quarterback this season is the flux within the wide receiving corps. There will be a lot ofyoung faces with important roles this year, but Dapolito is optimistic.

“I think the receivers have done a great job of picking up the offense, the young guys and the old guys,” Dapolito said. “As quarterbacks, along with them, we know what to expect and we are pretty much on the same page.”

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Can a football team ever have too much depth?

Head football coach Ted Roof and offensive coordinator Marty Galbraith hope the answer is “no.” Sophomore Ben Patrick, junior Andy Roland and senior Galen Powell are arguably Duke’s best players, but they all play tight end.

The trio combines to form one of the best tight end cores in the nation and provide so many options that Galbraith and Roof are experimenting with ways to keep all three on the field at once.

“The coaches definitely recognize the tight ends are a strength of the team,” Powell said. “We’ve been doing a lot of ‘l3-personnel,’ which basically means one running back and three tight ends. So we’ve been doing a lot of three tight end formations.”

Patrick, emerging as the best of the three, may just be the first superstar of the Ted Roof era. The Sporting News named the Georgia native third-team freshman All-America after finishing 2003 with 218 receiving yards, and his teammates voted him one of Duke’s co-captains.

“He’s got to be [our best receiver],” Roof said. “I expect him to have a good season. And it’s not hard to see how his teammates feel about him. He was elected captain as a redshirt sophomore. I haven’t been around that too much.”

Although Patrick has displaced Roland as the team’s No. 1 tight end, the John Mackey Award candidate has graciously tutored his younger counterpart.

“Coming in as a true freshman, I had to learn how to block,” Patrick said. “That was the hardest thing for me.

Andy Roland is a great blocker and I worked with him, met with him outside of football to talk about different techniques and what to practice. He’s done a good job of pushing me in the process.”

In an attempt to keep the three on the field more often, the coaches have also moved Roland to fullback for several sets. Although Roland rarely played the position in high school or in his first two seasons at Duke, Galbraith thinks transition will be natural.

“He’s going to be more of a move guy, not a traditional fullback,” Galbraith said. ‘The move to fullback just gets him different patterns, different block angles.”

Roland has welcomed the challenge.

“It’s one more way to get on the field, so that’s fine with me,” he said. “I just got to help the team by making some blocks and catching some balls.”

Complementing the three tight ends is redshirt freshman Nick Stefanow, who has emerged as fourth tight end worthy of playing time.

With the tight ends playing such an integral role, how well each player adjusts to his new role will dictate the Duke offense.

“Certainly the tight ends are some of our better players, and we need to get the ball to our best players,” Roof said. ‘They should make quite a contribution.”

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Senior Calen Powell is one of the team's strongest players and an excellent pass-catcher, sporting a career 14.3 yards-per-catch average.

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Sophomore Ben Patrick, a third-teamfreshman All-American last season, headlines a deep and talented corps ofBlue Devil tight ends.

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Young infusion bolsters shaky WR corps There’s a lot depending on Landrum, in particular. At the end of last season, he was one of three wideouts returning for Duke. But Duke’s top two receivers at the time, Khary Sharpe and Lance Johnson, are no longer members of the team.

Still, Landrum’s athleticism and ball-catching ability are not the issue—a preseason magazine tabbed him as one of the top 10 kick returners in America but it is his height that could prove problematic against taller, longer-limbed defensive backs and safeties. Regardless, Landrum will be one of the keys to the Duke passing attack. “[Senterrioj’s a leader, he’s been here five years, so he’s going to come up big for us, I know,” fellow receiver Deonte McCormick said.

But Landrum is quick to deflect any presumptions of added self-importance on the field, noting that there is plenty of potential among Duke’s wideouts—particularly a trio of freshmen—that will alleviate the onus on Landrum’s shoulders.

“I don’t really think they’re specifically looking for me,” Landrum said. “I just feel like we have a lot of talent at wide receiver, they’re just looking for the guy that gets open. We have a lot of talent, a lot of people that have a lot of ability to get open and make plays.”

Deon Adams and true freshmen Corey Thompson, Jomar Wright and Chancellor Young are the speedsters that will serve as the pistons for Roofs machine. Each was a highly-touted recruit, particularly

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The last time Duke’s receiving corps was this excited about the upcoming season, the Blue Devils were playing under the not-so-humble tutelage of Steve Spurrier.

With apologies to Carl Franks’ attempt at rejuver nating “Air Ball” at the beginning of his tenure in 1998, head coach Ted Roof and his pass-happy staff have assembled an offensive philsophy that aspires to confuse defenses and light up scoreboards just like Spurrier did 15 year ago.

And though the Blue Devils are a few years away from being able to score at will, a la current offensive behemoths Texas Tech and Southern California, Duke’s offensive plan of attack will at the very least be fun to watch—there will be sets ranging from zero to five receivers on the field at a time.

But will the Blue Devils’ young receivers be able to handle the complicated formations and multi-varied attacks that Duke will employ (not to mention the rotating door at quarterback of Mike Schneider, Chris Dapolito and Curt Dukes)?

“Compared to whatwe’re used to, it’s a little more difficult and I feel like we have to work extra hard to learn what to do,” senior wide receiver Senterrio Landrum said. “But I feel like it’s a great offense though. I guess at the wide receiver position now we have to know basically what’s going on at all positions, like the protections, because they refer to us.

What the offensive linemen are doing up front depends on us, our routes.”

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Starting running back Cedric Dargan has looked impressive in preseason practices despite an inexperienced offensive line.

Cedric Dargan sees quarterback Mike Schneider’s short pass floating towards him as he runs sideways towards the flat. As he secures the ball, the junior tailback looks upfield and sees that his line has cleared holes, leaving only one defender near him. Dargan can try to make the defender miss; Instead, he runs right at him, crashing through his opponent’s arms. Ten yards later, Dargan has rumbled to a first down, one of many times Duke will move the chains this season by short passes to running backs.

New offensive coordinator Marty Galbraith’s West Coast-style offense will add a new dimension to Duke’s running game. The system relies heavily on short passes, and Dargan, as the team’s only experienced back, will frequently be on the receiving end.

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Secure as he may be, Dargan is aware that he will only go as far as Duke’s young and inexperienced offensive line is able to lead him.

“It all starts with the offensive line; if they’re having a good game, then I’m going to have a good game; if they’re having a bad game, then I probably won’t do so well,” said Dargan, who rushed for 264 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2003. “My success .

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Total offense: 403 ypg Points per game: 32.2 Rushing yards: 1,732 Passing yards: 3,505

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When Florida State was down 16-14 with 5:30 to play in last year’s Orange Bowl, kicker Xavier Beitia missed a 39-yard field goal wide right against then out-of-conference rival Miami—the fifth time in the rivalry’s long history that a botched kick cost the Seminoles the game.

The two teams meet again in their season opener Sept. 10, and not only will the Seminoles be looking to stop a five game skid against the Hurricanes, but the winner may eventually go on to be crowned ACC champion in the newly expanded conference.

Florida State —ranked fifth nationally and the preseason favorite in the ACC—is chasing its 12th league tide in 13 yearsand has high hopes for a run at a national crown.

“People ask why do I think that this is our year to win it all. It’s simple. In years past when we lose, we haven’t played as a team,” senior Craphonso Thorpe said. “Everybody was trying to do their own thing.

This year, we’re close-knit, like a family, like brothers, a hundred of us.”

A large reason for the feeling of unity is that head coach Bobby Bowden, the nation’s all-time leader in wins, has nine starters returning on the offensive side of the ball, including four-year starter Chris Rix at quarterback. Rix, whose 60 touchdown passes currently rank fourth all-time in the ACC record books, has the potential to end his career as one of the school’s best.

Rix’s primary target at wide receiver will be Thorpe, an All-American candidate who has fully recovered from the broken leg he suffered at the end of last season. P.K. Sam’s departure for the pros has opened up opportunities at the wideout position for Dominic Robinson, Chauncey Stovall, Willie Reid and even Sam’s younger brother Lome.

Without Greg Jones, who left after three years for the NFL, Leon Washington is expected to carry much of the running load—he averaged better than 5 yards a carry on 74 attempts last season and also played on special teams.

JuniorAJ. Nicholson leads an inexperienced group of linebackers thathas no starters returning from last season.

“Leon’s a game-breaker,” Thorpe said. “Everybody knows that. On special teams, running the ball out of the backfield, catching it. When the ball gets in his hands, everybody stands up with excitement to see what he’s about to do.”

Although the offense is expected to turn some heads, Florida State’s weakness will be its defense. It lost seven starters and only returns one member of the front seven, Senior Eric Moore, who led the team with 7.5 sacks last season, will provide leadership on the defensive line. There are no returning linebackers, but the secondary consists of three starting lettermen from last year’s 10-3 squad, including All-American hopeful Jerome Carter.

The Seminoles have the talent and depth to fill the gaps in their defense and march their way to the Orange Bowl, but standing in their path are fellow preseason top-25 teams Miami, Florida, Clemson, Virginia and Maryland.

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For most teams, an 11-2 record and a win in the Orange Bowl is considered an outstanding season. For the sixth-ranked Miami Hurricanes, however, the 2003 season was the worst the school has ever had under head coach Larry Coker, whose 35-3 record in his first three seasons is the best of any coach in history.

In its last game, Miami defeated the Florida State Seminoles in the Orange Bowl. The game ended when a Florida State kicker missed a field goal wide right, giving the Hurricanes a 16-14 win. Miami will play its first game of the season at the Orange Bowl in a rematch against fifth-ranked FSU. It will also be the Hurricanes’ first game as a member of the ACC and one they might have to win if they want a shot at winning the conference.

Senior Brock Berlin will return as the starting quarterback for Miami. Berlin threw for only 12 touchdowns and had 17 interceptions in 2003. Although he is definitely the starter, many critics wonder how short Coker’s patience will be since freshman Kyle Wright is waiting in the wings.

At the starting running back position, senior Frank Gore will focus on trying to stay healthy, something that has eluded him in previous seasons. Gore suffered season-ending injuries in both 2002 and 2003, when he rushed for more than five yards per carry before going down.

“Frank was getting ready to have a great year last year,” Coker said. “I just hope he can come back.”

The Hurricanes’ starters at wide receiver will be sophomore Ryan Moore, a big-play threat who caught 44 balls last year, and junior Roscoe Parrish, a 5-foot-9 junior who is the fastest player on a receiver corps of

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At tight end, the loss of Kellen Winslow will certainly be felt, but seniorKevin Everett is expected to continue to make tight end a key position in the Hurricane offense.

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Senior Brock Berlin threw for 12 touchdownsand 17 interceptions in 2003 and his job may be on the line this season.

The unsung heroes of the Miami dynasty have been the offensive linemen, and this year’s tandem of junior tackle Eric Winston and senior guard Chris Myers will anchor one of the best offensive lines in the country.

On the defensive side of the ball, ends Baratka Atkins and Thomas Carroll will lead a dominant line, but linebacker is a position of concern for the Hurricanes. Miami lost standouts Jonathan Vilma and DJ. Williams to the NFL, and now that prized recruit Willie Williams has suffered a torn knee ligament, new starters Roger Mclntosh and Tavares Gooden will have large shoes to fill.

In the secondary, senior comerback Antrel Rolle will anchor a unit that lost hard-hitting safety Sean Taylor. Fortunately, one new safety, junior Greg Threat, is a force to be reckoned with, Coker said.

“If all of our team was as focused and worked as hard as Greg Threat, we’ll be really good,” Coker said.

“That kid has had a tremendous off-season.”

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DEFENSE: Total defense: 385 ypg Scoring defense: 20.4 Rushing defense: 2,102 Passing defense: 2,899

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It’s finally starting to come together for head coach A1 Groh and the Virginia Cavaliers.

Despite a spate of off-the-field problems, including the dismissal of freshman tailback Ahmad Bradshaw, the fruits of previous top-notch recruiting classes are beginning to mature and pay off. Entering the season, Groh’s Cavaliers, ranked 16th in the nation and third in the ACC preseason poll, are in position to compete for the ACC crown.

The Cavalier offense has a number of potential stars, including senior right guard Elton Brown. The 6foot-6, 338-pound behemoth is on the Lombardi Award watch list and anchors a strong offensive line that also features highly regarded offensive tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson.

Although the Cavs do not feature a marquee bigplay receiver, they have one of the nation’s top tight ends in Heath Miller. Another potential Lombardi award recipient, Miller caught 70 passes for an ACCrecord 835 receiving yards last season. Also a powerful blocker, Miller helps pave the way for All-ACC secondteamer Wali Lundy, the team’s starter at tailback, one ofits deepest positions.

The offense’s biggest question, however, lies at quarterback, where converted wideout Marques Hagans has the onerous task of replacing 2002 ACC Player of the Year Matt Schaub. At 5-foot-10, Hagans is a bit undersized, but he is a strong runner and performed well in one start last year while Schaub was injured.

On the defensive side of the ball, end Chris Canty anchors a front seven that returns all but one starter.

Canty, is a second team All-ACC performer who led the conference’s linemen in tackles last season, but he might not even be the team’s best defensive player. That honor could go to one of the team’s topnotch linebackers.

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If there is a relative weakness in the Cavaliers’ defense, however, it is their defensive backfield, which does not feature a starter taller than 5-foot-11. Additionally, the team loses two starters from last season and starts a pair of sophomores, Marcus Hamilton and Tony Franklin, at comerback.

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Still high off last year’s surprising mid-season turnaround and Peach Bowl victory, Clemson, with 14 returning starters, expects to build off last year’s momentum in Death Valley.

“We have to be more consistent from one season to the next,” said head coach Tommy Bowden, who is in his sixth year at the helm. “The way we finished last year, some people are putting the ‘Clemson’s Back’ headline on our season. We won’t be back until we show more consistency.”

Among the returning starters is quarterback Charlie Whitehurst, the offensive catalyst for the past two seasons. During those years, Whitehurst put up monster numbers. He is only the second quarterback in ACC history to record 5,000 yards before the end ofhis sophomore year.

With coaches favoring the passing game, the offense rests almost entirely on Whitehurt’s right arm, but this season the signal caller will be without his favorite targets from last year. Clemson lost its top two receivers to the NFL, and Airese Currie will step into the primary receiving role. To match last year’s passing game, the Tiger will have to develop young wide receivers to keep Whitehurt’s options open.

ANDY YUN/THE CHRONICLE Clemson hopes to have two options on the at the The to build momentum off a late-season run will Tigers hope strong but, start, least at the rely ground, Tigers on senior Yusef Kelly. Duane Coleman, the leading that might have saved head coach Tommy Bowden's job. ground gainer from a year ago, broke his foot in prewas second in the nation with 27 tackles for loss in a season practice and is expected to return in the midbreakout 2003. Part of the celebrated secondary crew is dle of the season.

Although Whitehurst and the passing game have Justin Miller, a candidate for the Thorpe Award given been Clemson’s hallmarks in the past, its defense may to the nation’s best corner.

The Tigers face what may be the toughest ACC be the team’s greatest strength in 2004. Highlighted by the No. 2 secondary in the ACC that returns all four schedule, having to play the league’s top-three starters, the defense should be able to at least contain teams, —Florida State, Miami and Virginia —on the road. If Clemson fails to fill holes on offense, even its some of the conference’s juggernaut offensive units.

Any number of individuals are strong candidates for strong defense may struggle to keep last year’s mopostseason awards including linebacker Leroy Hill who mentum going.

Terrapins combat inexperience in search of 10 win campaign by

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After their second place ACC finish and third straight 10-win season, the No. 22 Maryland Terrapins are faced with one major obstacle that could prevent them from achieving similar results in

2004: Inexperience.

The Terrapins have only nine returning starters, making their youth a major concern for head coach Ralph Friedgen. In fact, Friedgen has been forced to pare down the playbook in order to make things easier for his squad.

“We started that at the end of the spring practice,” We cut things back and tried to install only what we thought our quarterbacks could handle. We’re not putting in as much as we have been in the past. We’re trying to narrow it down, do the things we need to do and try do them well. I’m fairly pleased with where we’re at right now. It’s nice to see how we’ve improved over the summer.”

Senior Domonique Foxworth is considered by his teammates to be the squad’s leader, but the All-ACC comerback is the only returner on what is otherwise a new secondary.

“We are not very experienced as a whole, but we have some very experienced players who can lead the younger guys,” Foxworth said. ‘There is no reason why we can’t continue our success.”

In addition to Foxworth, junior linebacker D’Qwell Jackson led the team with 10.5 sacks per game and should continue to dominate the middle of the field.

Jackson is also feared as one of the hardest hitting players in the country.

On the offensive side of the ball, standout senior

guard CJ. Brooks looks to replicate the success he enjoyed in 2003, when he was named first team AllACC. Brooks will be leading the way for junior tailback Josh Allen, who rushed for 922 yards on only 186 carries last season. Maryland’s big play threat comes in the form of senior wide receiver Steve Suter, who also holds the ACC career record for punts returned for touchdowns.

In the end, the team’s success will ultimately rest on the arm of redshirt sophomore quarterback Joel Statham. Although Statham has only thrown 25 career passes and had a less-than-stellar spring game, he has shown improvement in the pre-season, prompting Friedgen to name him the starter. If Statham struggles early on, however, he will likely be replaced by highly touted recruit Jordan Steffy or redshirt freshman Ryan Mitch.

The Terps’ key game will come Oct. 30 when they square off against No. 5 Florida State in College Park, which will largely determine their chances of claiming a 10th ACC football crown. The team also faces a rather brutal road schedule, with games at No. 10 West Virginia, No. 15 Clemson and No. 16Virginia.

Overall, Friedgen remains cautiously optimistic about replicating the success that his teams have enjoyed over the past three seasons.

“Every year it gets tougher to duplicate,” he said.

Winning the league may or may not include winning 10 games. It’s probably going to get tougher and tougher to win 10 games with the people we’re playing.

I think I’ve won 10 games six or seven dmes in my career that’s a special feat.... I don’t know if you can categorize that as the norm. I think we’ve had three exceptional years, now let’s go back and do the best we can and see where we end up this year.”

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September 18, the Virginia Tech football team will become a true member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. That is the date when Duke will roll the welcome wagon all the way to Blacksburg, Va., and take on the Hokies in their first ever ACC contest.

The Blue Devils are 7-4-0 all-time against Virginia Tech, but the two teams last played in 1984, well before the Hokies became a national powerhouse.

Although Virginia Tech will field a formidable squad in 2004, the players who are no longer wearing the orange and maroon are grabbing as much attention as the players still in uniform. The Hokies lost 13 starters from last season, including eight AllBig East members.

“I think we have a football team that is a little too young,” head coach Frank Beamer said. “This is a team that probably has more question marks and more unknowns than we’ve had in some time. But I do think it’s a football team that has good talent—a lot of good young talent—and if we can stay healthy, I think we’ll be a good football team before the season’s over.”

Virginia Tech’s most notorious loss however, was not yielded to graduation or the lure of the NFL. Backup quarterback Marcus Vick, the brother of NFL star Michael Vick, was suspended for the 2004 season after being charged with reckless driving and marijuana possession. Vick, who was expected to challenge for the starting quarterback position, joins fellow reserves Michael Brown and Michael Hinton, who were also suspended for disciplinary reasons.

In Vick’s absence, Virginia Tech’s offense will be

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Total offense: 402 ypg Points per game: 35.4 Rushing yards: 2,721 Passing yards: 2,502 DEFENSE:

Total defense: 368 ypg Scoring defense: 23.0 Rushing defense: 1,768 Passing defense: 3,009

anchored by speedy senior quarterback Bryan Randall, who passed for 1,996 yards last season and was the team’s second leading rusher. Randall exhibited both dimensions of his game in the 2004 season opener against the USC, where he passed for 153 yards and rushed for another 82.

Junior Justin Hamilton will assume the Hokies’ rushing duties from consensus All-American Kevin Jones, who left Virginia Tech for the NFL in 2003 with a school single-season record of 1,647 yards on the ground. Hamilton was converted from wideout to fill Jones’ prodigious cleats. Junior Cedric Humes was slated to become the starting running back this season, but a broken leg in the spring prevented him from fulfilling this duty.

Hamilton’s departure to the backfield leaves Virginia Tech with a widely unproven receiving corps.

Senior Richard Johnson is the Hokies’ leading returning receiver with a mere 141 yards in the 2003 season. Three-star recruits Justin Harper and Josh Morgan will be expected to catch a hefty load of passes as freshmen.

The Virginia Tech defense will be playing with a hefty chip on its shoulder this season—they are looking to redeem themselves after allowing 175 points in the final five games of last season. The Hokies lost five of their final seven games, including a 52-49 loss to California in the Insight.com Bowl.

The secondary is dangerously thin, and it was heavily exploited by the USC offense. Trojan quarterback Matt Leinart passed for 272 yards and three touchdowns against the Hokies, who have only one returning starter among the defensive backs, Junior cornerback Jimmy Williams.

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'Pack prepares for life after Rivers by

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With the nation’s sixth-hardest schedule, N.C. State will undoubtedly have the opportunity to prove itself against some of the strongest teams in the nation. This will not be easy, however, after losing Philip Rivers, one of the most impressive quarterbacks in ACC history and Jerricho Cotchery, the Wolfpack’s leading receiver last season.

Nonetheless, a talented core of receivers and a more experienced defense will help N.C. State, provided Rivers’s replacement, Jay Davis, turns in solid performances.

“Rivers was a person who was just on another level; he was a great quarterback,” offensive tackle Derek Morris said. “But Philip Rivers wasn’t the whole offense. He had a whole offensive line in front of him....

He had a whole team around him. People have got to understand that he didn’t do it by himself. He had 10 other guys out there helping him out. We’ve got nine of those 10 guys coming back.”

Though it seems obvious that the quarterback position is integral for the success of any team, the Wolfpack’s offensive and its growing defensive strength may be able to make up for the departure of a strong quarterback.

With the addition of a new defensive coordinator, Reggie Herring, the Wolfpack are hoping to reinvent

and improve their defense this season.

“I think we’ll bounce back this year because of the simple fact that our defensive line has matured,” safety Andre Maddox said. “Mario [Williams], Manny [Lawson], Johhny [McCargo]... I can go on forever. They’ve stepped up, they’ve got a year under their belts and they’re playing excellent. In practice, I see a lot of things that I haven’t seen before. It’s a great situation.”

Two more new additions, tailbacks Bobby Washington and Darell Blackman, have surprised many with strong preseason performances in scrimmages and practice. With T.A. McLendon’s hamstring still a question mark, Washington and Blackman have added much-needed depth in the backfield.

“In practice, they’ve done an outstandingjob... that’s in practice where there are no people, no sportswriters, no internet and no television cameras,” head coach ChuckAmato said. “The thing that has impressed everybody is how fast they have absorbed the offense, terminology wise. You can certainly get mixed up listening to a play ca11... We’ll find out,[though]. You never know what’s going to happen when the lights go on.”

Although the Wolfpack may have lost of couple of key players last season, the players who remain have only improved and shown greater promise for the future. Though Rivers and Cotchery left large shoes to fill, this N.C. State squad seems to be up to the task.

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For head coach Chan Gailey and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, last year presented the best of seasons and the worst of seasons.

The year included a 7-3 victory over Maryland and a 52-10 rout over Tulsa in the Humanitarian Bowl, a game that saw the Yellow Jackets set the school bowl record for points scored. Yet Georgia Tech struggled with consistency all season long. Despite their impressive wins, the Ramblin’ Wreck also lost 41-17 to Duke in Durham and suffered a 39-3 drubbing against Clemson.

It was that sort of erratic play that led many to question the Yellow Jackets’ chances this year in the even more competitive ACC—Georgia Tech is eighth in the preseason poll. Yet the Jackets have many of the tools necessary to turn in their eighth consecutive winning season and become a force again in the ACC. Defensively, the Yellow Jackets return preseason all-Americans James Butler and Eric Henderson. Butler, one of the nation’s top free safeties, was also named to the preseason Thorpe Award watch list. The award is presented annually to the nation’s best college defensive back. Henderson, a defensive end, looks to build upon last season’s first-team all-ACC performance, where he notched an ACC-leading 11

sacks. He is on the Lombardi Award watch list for the nation’s top lineman.

On the other side of the ball, the Yellow Jackets are solid at a number of skill positions. Former walk-on PJ. Daniels, who rushed for over 300 yards in the Yellow Jackets’ Humanitarian Bowl rout, returns for his junior season. Daniels rushed for 1,447 yards last year, a school record.

Although the Yellow Jackets lose second-team AllACC wideout Jonathan Smith, Nate Curry, Levon Thomas and Damarius Bilbo look to spearhead a relatively deep wide receiving corps. Additionally, Calvin Johnson, one of the nation’s top recruits last year, figures to add size to the receiving corps with his lanky 6foot-4 frame. Starting quarterback Reggie Ball returns as well this season, albeit under a microscope.

“We do have higher expectations for Reggie [Ball] this year,” Gailey said. “He has some talent, which is obvious, but he has some improving to do.

He has the opportunity to be a very good quarterback because he has talent, he knows the game and he's a great competitor.”

Most of the Yellow Jackets’ problems will lie on offense, where the team must address significant questions about its offensive line. Three out offive starters return, but the Jackets must replace All-ACC center Hugh Reilly and NFL draft pick Nat Dorsey.

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Total defense: 454 ypg Scoring defense: 28.9 Rushing defense: 2,092 Passing defense: 3,358

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Wake Forest running back Chris Barclay wants to be a physical therapist after college, but this season he’ll be breaking ankles rather than mending them. Described as a “shake and bake” back by running backs coach Billy Mitchell, Barclay looks to be a star in one of the ACC’s most talentedbackfields.

Barclay, who led the ACC in rushing last season with 99.3 yards per game, is only one third of the Wake Forest running attack. The three “B’s”—Cornelius Birgs, D’Angelo Bryant and Barclay—led the ACC’s top rushing offense last season and are all returning for a Wake Forest team that went 5-7 and 3-5 in the ACC in 2003.

Blocking for the Demon Deacon trio is an offensive line anchored by seniorBlake Lingruen, who is on the preseason watch list for the Outland Trophy—the award for the nation’s best lineman.

“Blake is our leader on offense right now. He’s our bell cow,” said head coach Jim Grobe, now in his 4th season at the helm.

Although the Demon Deacons led the ACC in rushing in 2003, their mediocre pass offense, averaging only 151.5 yards per game, prevented them from being one of the fop teams in the league. Coaches, however, describe this year’s receiving corps as one of the team’s strengths. Last season, Jason Anderson was one of the top wide receivers in the ACC and Willie Idlette was a freshman All-American at the all purpose position. He will step into a primary receiving role this season.

Wake Forest will have to rely on their offense to put up big numbers, as defense remains the biggest question mark going into 2004. The defense includes eight returning starters from last year’s team, but they ranked second to last in the conference in total defense, pass defense and rushing defense.

“Many of the guys we’re asking to play right now do not have a lot of game experience,” Grobe said. “I like what we’re doing structure-wise; it’s just finding the

The Demon Deacons' 42-14 victory over theBlue Devils last season proved to be Carl Franks' last game as Duke's head coach.

right guys to play it.”

Senior cornerback Eric King, who says he models his game after NFL star Champ Bailey, is a bright spot on defense. The 2003 team MVP, King was the first Wake Forest defensive back to be named first team AllACC since 1987.

“King is just a great player and he had a great spring. We take him for granted sometimes because he is so dependable,” Grobe said.

The Demon Deacons will have their work cut out this year as the face four opponents in the preseason top 25 including fifth-ranked Florida State. They will also finish the regular season with a trip to the Orange Bowl to play ACC newcomer and perennial national powerhouse Miami. Wake Forest plays Duke on October 30. Last season the Demon Deacons embarrassed Duke on homecoming, leading to the dismissal of head coach Carl Franks.

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North Carolina was once a school that at least flirted with a bowl berth each season. After winning the Peach Bowl in 2001, head coach John Bunting’s team won only three contests the next season, and had an abysmal year in 2003, winning only twice.

Although recent results have been disappointing and Bunting’s job appears to be on the line this year, the Tar Heels have experience at skill positions —an ingredient that has been lacking during the recent losing seasons.

Senior starting quarterback Darian Durant returns as the linchpin ofUNC offense. After leading the ACC in total offense in 2002, Durant accumulated 2,551 passing yards last year. The quarterback, however, will not have to carry the offensive burden alone, as sophomore tailback Ronnie McGill and senior wide receiver Jarwarski Pollock will provide the Tar Heels with experience at its critical offensive slots.

Although the offense managed to stay in the middle of the pack in the ACC last year, the defense proved to be North Carolina’s Achilles heel. The unit finished last in the ACC in total defense, allowing a whopping 505.2 yards per game and surrendering a dismal 38.3 points per contest.

In an attempt to turn things around on the defensive side, Bunting brought in a pair of new defensive coordinators—former Minnesota head coach John Gutenkust and former Nebraska assistant Marvin Sanders.

However, the injury bug has already bit a prominent member of the defense. The Tar Heels lost senior defensive lineman Chase Page for the season when he tore his left pinky tendon two weeks ago. The new faces on defense will provide another hurdle for UNC. Gerald Sensabaugh, a transfer from Middle Tennessee State, will start at strong safety, and freshman Khalif Mitchell will receive more time on the line with Page’s injury.

The Tar Heels still return eight of their top nine tack-

the challenges.”

Saturday the Blue Devils will face the option-oriented offense of Navy, a prospect that can be just as daunting as a powerful passing attack like Florida State’s. Duke’s cornerbacks and safeties will have to help out on the run but will also have to be aware that a surprise pass could yield a big play. “[The secondary] is going to have to be very precise and very exact, very disciplined with their eyes,” Roof said.

“They’re going to have a big role in all phases of our defense.”

Duke’s secondary will be tested early and often this season, and its performance will play a large role in determining the team’s success. The right mentality could mean the difference between winning and losing.

“I just want to win,” Stanford said.

“Whatever it takes.”

I’m having fun maybe somebody else will start having fun and then it will catch on to the whole team.”

The entire team will have to adopt that work-hard attitude if the Blue Devils hopes to keep up with its opponents. Whether it is Clemson’s Charlie Whitehurst, Florida State’s Chris Rix or Virginia Tech’s Bryan Randall, the ACC is loaded with experienced quarterbacks who can get the ball downfield in a hurry.

“This is a great league and we’re going to play against great teams with great players,” Roof said. “Hopefully we rise to the level of competition.

We’ve got a bar where we set a standard no matter who we’re playing against, so I think we can step up to

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The Tar Heels hope that experience at skill positions will help steer them toward their second bowl berth in four years. lers from last season, including linebacker Larry Edwards. The sophomore, who recorded 85 tackles last year despite only starting eight games, will once again give North Carolina a force in the middle of the field.

With the addition ofMiami and Virginia Tech to the ACC, the Tar Heels’ perenially tough schedule will not get easier—North Carolina will host both former Big East powers late in the season. The Tar Heels also must play their games against fellow cellar dwellers Wake Forest and Duke on the road. In the season finale, North Carolina will attempt to reclaim the Victory Bell by avenging its first loss to the Blue Devils in 14 years.

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and Notre Dame to play in Wallace Wade.

One of the guys that will be throwing the ball in Young’s direction this year, Chris Dapolito, is confident that the downfalls of youth and inexperience have been watered down, in part, by the sage assistance ofLandrum.

‘The veterans are really taking the young guys under their wings and showing them what to do, but I think they’re all adjusting pretty well now,” Dapolito said.

The period of adjustment was also eased by voluntary passing drills that the quarterbacks and receivers conducted while in summer school. That’s not to mention the coaching abilities of new associate head coach and wide receivers coach David Kelley, who Roof lured away from Stanford last spring.

“Coach Kelley’s doing a real good job teaching them, and they’ve been catching on, doing what he’s been telling them to do,” said defensive back Kenneth Stanford. “You see a vast improvement from last year, and even from the beginning of two-a-days, they’ve been doing real well.”

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comes from them making the holes.”

Dargan’s success, however, rests in the hands of an extremely inexperienced group of linemen. Senior right tackle Christian Mitchell is the unit’s only returning starter, having started for two full years.

Neither center Tyler Krieg nor right guard Lavdrim Bauta has started a college game, and Junior left tackle Jim Moravchik’s three 2003 starts make him the second most experienced man on the line. Sophomore Bob Benion played defensive tackle until August, but will start at left guard for the Blue Devils this season.

“Obviously [the line’s inexperience] is a concern, but, at the same time, it’s their job and I expect them to do it,” head coach Ted Roof said. “You see them coming together, you see them getting better every day. We’ve tried to use a lot of game situation-like reps, so hopefully we’ve made up for a lot of that inexperience by playing full-speed football.”

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Alexander notched 6.5 sacks and 18.5 tackles for loss after being moved to defensiveend last season.

ALEXANDER from page 4 Academic Honor Roll. He believes his family is responsible for helping him become the scholar-athlete he is today.

“My grandparents and my motherreally helped me get to where I am right now,” Alexander said. “They always stayed positive, and when things weren’t going my way at first, they just always stayed in my corner.”

On the field, his task will be to lead both the defense and the team back to respectability. Last season the Duke defense flashed a lot of potential after Roofs promotion to head coach, but that was only after the defense gave up 42 first-half points to Wake Forest, leading to thenhead coach Carl Franks’ dismissal.

The Blue Devils finished fifth in the ACC in total defense, but they surren-

dered 28.6 points per game. With the offense mustering just 17.6 points per game a year ago, both sides will need to improve.

The rest of the defense knows how intertwined Alexander’s performance is with the team’s success this season. “[Alexander] brings a presence to our defensive line,” co-captain Kenneth Stanford said. “He’s always a threat to sack the quarterback and he is a very important [player].”

Alexander knows that with a tougher schedule, he and the defense will have to step it up even more if the team wishes to continue its rise. Having put in the hours to improve himself, the defensive end thinks his team is ready to do the same.

‘When you’re trying to climb to respectability, you don’t want an easy road,” Alexander said. “You definitely want to earn everything that you get, so we welcome the competidon.”

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“For him to do what he did in such a short period of time, you have to feel good about what he’s doing and feel good about being a part of it,” said Cedric Dargan, who enters the season as the team’s primary ballcarrier. He replaces All-ACC selection and all-time leading Blue Devil rusher Chris Douglas.

Mike Schneider is the team’s starting quarterback after a heated spring battle with senior Chris Dapolito and Nebraska transfer Dukes. At wide receiver, senior Santerrio Landrum—one of the nation’s top kick returners —and sophomore Deonto McCormick will attempt to fill the void left by Sharpe and Johnson’s departures. Additionally, the team welcomes three freshman receivers, Jomar Wright, Corey Thompson and U.S. Army All-American Chancellor Young. All three will get playing time this season, Roof said.

The Blue Devils also feature exceptional depth at tight end, where sophomore Ben Patrick assumes the starting role this season from junior Andy Roland. Because of Duke’s tight end surplus, Roland has

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The unit has been working together in practice and as the long hold-over from 2003, Mitchell has been working to ease the transition for those stepping into new roles. “[l’m] teaching the younger guys that playing the game is different from practicing. Everyone here has practiced a lot, but when you get in the game... it’s hard to explain,” Mitchell said. “You try to impart to them how hard you have to work in practice to play the game and how hard you have to focus and how much you have to just commit yourself to learn what you have to do because in the game you don’t get a second chance.“ Roof said Dargan has been a similar positive influence with his work ethic at practice, and that he expects a “big year” from him. With Duke’s loss of two running backs from 2003 team to the NFL, including all-time leading rusher Chris Douglas, and the lack of experience among all the other backs, Dargan will touch the ball often this season, regardless ofhow it gets into his hands. moved

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On the defensive side of the ball, sophomore Eli Nichols will replace Harris on the line, and senior Orrin Thompson, who reported 30 pounds heavier this season, will face the daunting task ofreplacing All-ACC defensive tackle Matt Zielinski.

Despite losing one of the team’s leading ladders in Ryan Fowler, the linebacking corps projects to be one of the Blue Devils’ strongest defensive units once again in 2004.

Giuseppe Aguanno moves to inside linebacker this season to accommodate the addition of outside linebacker Malcolm Ruff.

At the other linebacker position, Brendan Dewan, the team’s third-leading tackier last season, resumes his starting position.

Most importantly, however, Roof and company enter the season confident and eager to build upon last season’s successes.

‘This is the first season that we’re coming off a win in our final game, so everyone has been in high spirits during the offseason and we’re looking forward to starting up the new season,” Dargan said. “We went through the offseason more confident and we wan t to get that feeling of winning again because it’s just an unbelievable feeling.”

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