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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Lobbying hard, DSG eyes more active role by

Sarah Ball

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The 11th Duke Student Government Senate is not considered formally adjourned until after Last Day of tivities

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clude April 27, when the transfer of power within DSG becomes official.

But amid frenzied campaigning before the March 31 elections, candidates and outgoing executive board members are already reflecting on DSG’s 2004-2005 accomplishments—and shortcomings.

DSG has drawn criticism in the past for failing to execute stump-speech promises. But President Pasha Majdi, a senior, maintained that this has been one of the more effective years in recent DSG history.

“A lot of seniors will understand this perspective. We came in freshman year, and over the years, DSG hasn’t been seen as an excellent organization—it’s been seen as a joke,” Majdi said. “Now, I

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don’t think anyone can even try to claim that.”

Executive leadership within the governing body describes this year’s accomplishments—a mass of reso-

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ence with a resolution on freedom of expression, are the product of weeks and months of lobbying higher authorities—namely, administrators and related subcommittees.

The other “prong” is represented by minor projects.

Installing staplers at all ePrint stations on campus, for example, is what Vice President of Academic Affairs Chase Johnson calls “the low-hanging fruit— SEE REVIEW ON PAGE 10

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Lee Melchionni gets tangled up with two Michigan State defenders.The Spartans battled their way to a 78-68 victory in theSweet 16 Friday night, eliminating Duke.

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Stronger programs top Aviki s agenda By day, junior Emily Aviki is an economics and biology doublemajor, and by night she plays the guitar in two local bands—unless it’s Thursday night, when she’s inevitably planted in front of the television watching The OC. But she still manages to serve as a leader of several student organizations, and she hopes to continue that as next year’s president of Duke Student Government.

A native of Auburn, Ala., Aviki spent her freshman year at the University ofAlabama, where she was active on the student senate.

After only two years at Duke, Aviki has climbed to the positions of junior class president, Persian Student Association vice president and DSG assistant vice president of athletics and campus services, among others.

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AUSTIN, Texas Michigan State had five days to prepare for Duke, to come up with a strategy to end the top-seeded Blue Devils’ season.

The plan was to incessantly pressure the ball, limit Duke’s “big three” and rein in the Blue Devils every time they were a big bucket from pulling away.

And it’s safe to say the Spartans were successful, forcing 22 Duke turnovers and keeping the ball out of JJ. Redick’s hands as they topped the Blue Devils, 7868, at the Frank Erwin Center Friday night.

The win was Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo’s first against Duke in his 10 years in East Lansing. The fifth-seeded Spartans, who lost to Duke Nov. 30 in Cameron Indoor Stadium, advanced to the regional final and beat Kentucky in double overtime Sunday.

In its eighth straight Sweet 16, Duke finished a season marked by injuries, a relatively shallow bench and lower-than-usual expectations SEE MICHIGAN ST. ON SW PAGE 7

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Wanisha Smith and Tasha Humphrey could have been the pair of freshmen leading the Duke atGEORGIA ta ck i nto DUKE 53 the Elite

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Junior Emily Aviki wants to promote community through new social opportunities.

“I’ve been involved in a different variety of organizations, not just student government,” Aviki said. “I see what people SEE AVIKI ON PAGE 8

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Instead, Humphrey, who committed verbally to Duke but ultimately decided to play at Georgia, scored 16 points and 13 rebounds as her sixth-seeded Bulldogs tried to keep the Blue Devils out of their fourth straight Regional Final. But as Humphrey sat on the bench in foul trouble

down the stretch, Smith played 40 minutes, leading second-seeded Duke to a 63-57 win over Georgia Saturday.

The Blue Devils will face LSU, which rolled over Liberty 90-48 in its Sweet 16 matchup, Monday at 9 p.m. The Tigers are the top overall seed and have played like it so far, winning each of their first three games by more than 30 points.

Junior Jessica Foley, who has been out with tendinitis in her foot, played for the first time in the NCAA Tournament Saturday. With Foley limited, Smith SEE GEORGIA ON SW PAGE 5

After a tight win over Georgia,Duke will take on top-seeded LSU tonight at 9 p.m.

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Schiavo's parents end legal battle by

Mike Schneider

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With their PINELLAS PARK, Fla. hopes fading and legal options exhausted, Terri Schiavo’s family appeared quietly resigned Sunday to watching her die and asked protesters to spend Easter with their families as the severely brain-damaged woman went a ninth day without food or water.

Outside the hospice where Schiavo is being cared for, protesters were not as calm. Five were arrested as ministers attempted to bring Terri Schiavo Easter communion. About a half-dozen people in wheelchairs later got out of them and

lay in the driveway, shouting “We’re not dead yet!”

Schiavo’s husband, who a day earlier de-

nied a request from his wife’s parents that she be given communion, granted permission to offer the sacrament.

The priest’s announcement drew applause and cheers from the crowd, which spent most of the day heckling police and protesting loudly. The noise prompted Schiavo’s brother, Bobby Schindler, to come out and ask protesters to tone down their behavior.

“We are not going to solve the problem today by getting arrested,” he told the restless crowd of about three dozen people.

“We can change laws, but we are not going to change them today.... You are not speaking for our family.”

Schiavo’s husband and parents have battled for years over whether the 41year-old woman wanted to live or die.

The two sides have given differing opinions of her status. Her parents have said she is declining rapidly and in her last hours. Michael Schiavo’s lawyer George Felos argued Saturday that her condition is not yet that grave.

A spokesperson for the Schindlers denied a report from David Gibbs 111, their SEE SCHIAVO ON PAGE 12

Government progress slowed in Iraq by

Marian Fam

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD, Iraq —AI Qaeda in Iraq released a video Sunday claiming to show the murder of an Interior Ministry official, while debate raged about religion’s place in Iraq’s much-anticipated new government as lawmakers were summoned to their second session.

As frustration grows over the slow progress in forming a new government two months after historic elections, guards fired on government workers demanding their wages in Baghdad, injuring three people.

Supporters of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi criticized the involvement of the religious authority in politics, while Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Shiiteled United Iraqi Alliance, defended the role of the clergy.

“As long as we’re alive and as long as Iraq and the believers are there, we will continue to work according to the directions and the advice of the religious authority,” al-Hakim told the U.S.-funded Alhurra TV station.

“The religious authority does not want to intervene in the details. It just gives direction when it thinks it will be benefi-

cial,” he added Secular-minded politicians have expressed concern about the influence of religion in the National Assembly.

In a letter to the alliance, politicians who ran under an Allawi coalition warned that allowing religion to play a greater role in Iraq’s government could “lead to instability in the relations between political forces in the Iraqi arena.”

Shiite leaders repeatedly have denied that they are seeking an Islamic state like that of neighboring Iran, saying they plan to include Kurdish and Sunni Arabs in the government.

1 Christian suburb of Beirut Saturday, injur-

ing five people in the third such attack in eight days. Opposition leaders blamed Syria, saying Damascus hoped to sow fear as it withdraws troops from Lebanon.

Pope unable to speak at Easter Pope John Paul II delivered an Easter Sunday blessing to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, but the ailing pon-

tiff was unable to speak and managed only to greet the saddened crowd with a sign of the cross, bringing tears to many.

Power struggle in Kyrgyzstan Political turmoil intensified Sunday in a struggle between rival parliaments as Kyrgyzstan's interim leaders sought to overcome disputes and bring the impoverished ‘ nation a measure of stability after the ouster of its president Police gained control of the capital after nights of looting and gunfire.

Robots funded by Pentagon The Pentagon is awarding $l2 million in grantsto develop a "trauma pod"that would use robots to perform surgery on wounded soldiers on the battlefield- Surgeons will need to manipulate the robots in real time, technology that prevents delays becommands and the robot's actions.

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Field halved in VP race by

Liz Williams

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And then there were two.

In the race for Duke Student Government vice president of athletics and campus services, the field of candidates has already been cut in half. Following junior Hirsh Sandesara and sophomore Daron Gunn’s withdrawals, only sophomore Ryan Strasser and junior Brenda Bautsch still remain. Now, they will face off for leadership of the committee, addressing campuswide issues related to safety, parking, transit, dining, facilities and athletics.

Strasser, currently vice president of the Class of 2007, is also a DSG liaison to Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee and a member of the Interfraternity Council executive board. The New Jersey native, who picks Shooters as his nightspot of choice, has served as a DSG senator for the past two years.

Bautsch, an avid snowboarder hailing from Denver, Colo., has spent two years on the DSG Senate as well. She looks to her leadership of the subcommittee on transportation as a source of inspiration for her campaign. If elected, she would use this experience to ameliorate the bus situation at Duke.

“I would look at improving transportation to off-campus locations and Central Campus, adding another bus during peak times on the Central route and putting another bus stop on Oregon,” she said. She also aims to get Global Positioning Systems installed on the buses and use that to help students locate the buses online.

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Bautsch also highlighted student security as one of her primary concerns. “In the past there have been complaints regarding police behavior, including racial profiling and falling asleep on the job,” Bautsch said. “We need clear ideas of what students should expect and what police should expect. We also need to increase trust between DUPD and students.” office Creating “police hours,” in which students could meet with members of DUPD once a month at the Great Hall, is one of Bautsch’s ideas for strengthening relations between the two groups.

Strasser cited dining concerns as one of the primary issues he plans to address if elected. As DSG liaison to DUSDAC, he helped initiate an equivalence program that allows freshmen to pay for lunch at the Marketplace with unused meal credits left over from breakfast.

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sized that this would increase the diversity of freshman dining options, allowing for increased meal variety and more flexible scheduling for students with classes on West Campus.

Bringing a sports bar to West is important to Strasser, as is increasing the open hours for Wilson Gym. This move is aimed at providing students who cannot find the time during the day with additional exercise opportunities.

Strasser also hopes to improve communication between students and the administration, especially in light of recent frustration over losing the permit for post-basketball game bonfires.

Clarifying what the administration and fire department expect of students is crucial to “ironing SEE ACS ON PAGE 9

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trying to get people in the middle of their lives.”

As part of a full-scale effort to Each candidate will be allotturn the often poster-happy ted five minutes for opening Duke Student Government elecstatements, followed by pre-set tions into an information-based questions ranging from the candidates’ qualifications to campaign, the Election Commission will stage a presidential dethe role of DSG and hypothetibate on the Main West Quadrancal scenarios.

After the first gle tonight at 6 p.m.

With intense adverround of questions, which the contenders tising restrictions and low voter turnout as have already seen, consistent problems, moderator Ryan Welsh the commission moved will fire off more issueto inject this year’s specific questions genelection into the foreerated by The Chronifront of student life, THE VOTE cle and student input.

2005 Three minutes will be bringing back the forum for the first time designated for closing since 1999. Juniors Emily Aviki, remarks to finish the debate, Russ Ferguson and Jesse Longowhich will be held in the Great ria will face off on election day Hall in case of rain.

All three candidates, who Thursday.

“We’re just trying to get this have spent hours recently presscampaign more on a personal ing their messages upon stulevel and off the bulletin dent groups in hopes of public endorsements, embraced the boards,” said junior Jamie Campbell, co-chair of the debate. opportunity for tonight’s pub“Everyone’s voting, but not lic forum.

“I’m really excited that everyone’s going to take the time to go to an event in the Griffith Film Theater. We’re just SEE DEBATE ON PAGE 8 by

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Corrections A March 23 story about Deputy Attorney General James Comey's speech that ran on page 5 of The Chronicle should have stated that no library records were investigated under the Patriot Act in the act's first two years. Since then, the number of times that clause has been invoked is still classified, but Comey said the numberis very small.

A March 24 story about a newly approved certificate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics that ran on page 1 should have said students need not major in any of those departments to earn the certificate.

The caption alongside a March 25 story about the Academic Council's meeting that ran on page 1 should have identified the speaker as faculty athletics representative Kathleen Smith.

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Duke Chorale Tour Concert 2005 Following their recent tour of Puerto Rico, the Chorale sings music with a Latin/Spanish background. Folksongs will be included, as will Copland and Ginastera compositions inspired by Spanish dances.

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Mike Kieman, a veteran newsman and spokesperson for progressive causes, has served as Save the Children’s primary spokesperson for its responses to various crises including emergencies in Iraq, Ethiopia and the Indian Ocean countries impacted by the December 26 tsunami. Kieman recently spent three weeks in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, working on tsunamirelated issues. In the summer of 2003, he helped lead efforts among international agencies to promote greater U.S. media coverage of the famine in Ethiopia. Prior to joining Save the Children, Kieman served as the main spokesperson for two members of Congress as well as the Appalachian Regional Commission, the AFL-ClO’s Working for America Institute and InterAction, a coalition of 160 private U.S. humanitarian aid groups. As a journalist, he worked for columnist Jack Anderson, the Washington Star, WRC-TV (Channel 4 News) in Washington D.C. and U.S. News & World Report. He received the Front Page Award in 1976 for his coverage of the 1976 Presidential race and an Emmy as an executive producer at WRC-TV for a series he produced in 1986 about parents of gay teens.

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Co-sponsored by the Community Service Center as part of Social Justice Week This event is free and open to the public Questions? Email so27@duke.edu

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End of era: Parizade shuts down parties by

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Three undergraduates were among those injured Saturday when a porch at a professor’s house at 9 Brynhurst Ct. in Durham collapsed.

Students said about 10 to 12 people were standing on the second-story porch at an Easter party thrown by Pamela Maxson, a medical psychiatry instructor, when it fell. Sophomores Evan Sherman and Emily Bruckner and senior Adam Katz, as well as about seven others, were treated at Duke University Hospital. No one was fatally injured, students said, but many peo-

pie broke bones and sustained cuts, scrapes and whiplash.

Students said Sunday they did not know why the porch pulled away from the house and collapsed, but they guessed it had exceeded its weight limit.

“It gave no warning. It just kind of happened,” Sherman said. “One second we were watching the Easter egg hunt, and then somebody screamed.”

No one was under the balcony when it fell, but some people dropped about 15 feet to the ground.

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Bush or Kerry. Coke or Pepsi. Shooters or Parizade’s. There are many hard choices to make at Duke, but students will no longer have to make the last one as they get dressed to go out on the weekends.

Cafe Parizade, a restaurant that doubles as a popular night spot because ofits proximity to East Campus, will no longer host the type of large, open parties that has made it a favorite ofDuke students.

The owners decided they wanted to return to Parizade’s roots as a restaurant rather than continuing its trend of becoming more like a club.

“Nothing has changed at Parizade—we are a restaurant as we have been for 15 years. That’s why we opened,” general manager Igor Gacina said. “But people started calling this place asking ‘What is happening in your club tonight?’ and that kind of message really hit us. We thought, ‘Wow, they really think we’re a club now.’”

The loss of Parizade as a nightlife destination will be felt sorely by many students. “I think it’s a bummer. I think Parizade is a place that’s really popular for fraternities and sororities. There’ll be fewer desirable places to go without it,” senior Regi Holman said. But she also expressed optimism in students’ ability to replace the venue. “They’ll just find other places to have functions. That won’t be difficult.”

Students have grown used to the regu-

lar weekend events at Parizade’s, including Delta Sigma Phi fraternity’s regular Thursday night party and Latin dance night the first Friday of every month.

“There’s talk about wanting to continue some sort of a weekly tradition,” said sophomore Julian Dawes, a member of Delta Sig, citing Bully’s as a possible alternate venue. Latin dance night will be moved to Spice Street, a restaurant in Chapel Hill owned by Giorgios Hospitality Group, the same company that owns Parizade’s.

Gacina acknowledged the financial losses that Parizade’s will suffer due to the decision, but he said maintaining the integrity of the restaurant was more important.

“There will be a huge financial effect, butall these people who own this business and this company, we have a passion for the food business,” he said. “We are not in business because this is what we think will make us money. This is what we love.”

Gacina hopes to attract more families and couples in the area who may have been put off by publicity when a former employee was caught spying on female patrons in the restroom, as well as charges of police misconduct outside the restaurant last fall.

“I’m looking in the long run,” he said.

“Financially, we will get a hit for sure for a year or two maybe, but I will have a beautiful couple eating filet mignon, which is $2B, instead of Duke students drinking seven shots for the same SEE

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The Office for Institutional Equity joins Duke University and Duke University Health System

in celebrating National Women’s History Month Know the Answer?

During the 19605, this individual created a dialogue about the Civil Rights Movement by organizing “Wednesdays in Mississippi,” bringing together black and white females from the South and North. Her belief in honoring the diversity

of America was demonstrated by her promotion of interfaith, interracial, and ecumenical movements. She worked closely with Mary McLeod Bethune and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in the promotion of interfaith and interracial bonds among women in advocating for equal employment and educational advancement.

She served as the president of the National Council of Negro Women for over 40 years. In 1989, she received the Citizens Medal Award from President Ronald Reagan, in 1994, she was awarded the Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton and in 2004 received the Congressional Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush.

Who was this female agent of change in America and in what Southern city was she born?

Check OlE’s website, www.duke.edu/web/equity, for the answer.

REMEMBER: As part of Women’s History Month, the Office for Institutional Equity has invited Lieutenant Governor Beverly E. Perdue to speak on Tuesday, March 29 6:00 PM in Richard White Auditorium. The title of her talk is, Women, Leadership and Public Service. @

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AVIKI from page 1 need, and Ijust can’t pass up an opportunity to make such a change on Duke’s campus —a positive change.”

As DSG president, Aviki hopes to develop five main areas of Duke’s student life.

She looks to create social outlets for large on-campus events with provisions for safe alcohol consumption. She is also exploring the possible renovation of the Intramural Building or Alpine Bagels and creating a bar where students can have a leisurely beer with their professors.

But Aviki hopes to forge a tighter-knit community through more than just new social opportunities. She also hopes to bring back many of the University’s traditions, such as bench-building contests and bonfires.

“One of the first things I would do is go to City Council and just say no. [The bonfire] is one thing that we have to have at Duke —that’s one of our traditions, she said.

She would also like to see an annual President’s Ball, similar to the community dance held last semester after President Richard Brodhead’s inauguration.

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reason not to —we have the funds, we have the brainpower and we have the manpower.”

Safety improvement is a current hot topic on campus, and Aviki has plans for bolstering the current system. She sees the need for DSG to annually fund safety groups such as Duke Escort Service that do not presendy receive adequate funding. She also expressed qualms about Safeßides, saying the service is unreliable.

“If it takes senator volunteers to drive on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, that’s something that I will do,” she said. “If they’re going to take you off [campus], they have to bring you back on Aviki envisions students annually interacting with and serving the Durham community in a program she calls “The Great Event.” She said student volunteers would be deployed into the community for projects like building a wheelchair ramp at a nursing home or renovating a park in an effort to strengthen Duke-Durham relations.

Student leadership is a top priority for Aviki and she hopes to promote it in her peers. She said she would convert her summer stipend into a $l,OOO scholarship for freshmen showing exemplary leadership skills throughout the year. ”

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Aviki hopes her passion, genuine concern and undeniable enthusiasm lend her campaign another dimension.

She says she is not running on a “platform,” because she is looking toward doing more than just making a few changes to the University.

“I want to change DSG so it has more of an impression—more of an effect—on the Duke experience. Right now, policywise, it does enhance the Duke experience—programmingwise, it doesn’t,” she said.

DSG has not had a female president since 1999 nor a female presidential candidate since 2002. Aviki believes the prevailing all-male trend needs to be changed.

“Without a woman on [the executive board], DSG is not representative of the student body. The student body is 50 percent female, and that female vote needs to get out there,” she said.

Her colleagues acknowledge her ability to lead such an organization.

“Emily has succeeded at every position she’s had. She cornea up with great ideas and knows how to execute them,” said junior Ajay Kori, DSG director of student services. “I think she would make a great president, especially from a programming aspect.”

DEBATE from page 3 they’re giving a debate because I think it’ll be a real chance for students to see us out in the open instead of in endorsement meetings and quick organizational speeches,” Aviki said.

Longoria relished the opportunity for the candidates to distinguish themselves from one another but did not see the debate as a panacea in changing the culture of voting for DSG. “I think its a great first step,” he said. “There’s obviously more that’s going to need to be done in the future... to get people voting on issues rather than just who they know.”

Ferguson insisted that the presidential race was less about name recognition than the contests for other DSG executive board positions, but he praised the student-generated questions as a vehicle for shifting attention from policy to more, “student-centered” topics.

“It’s a great way to get issues out there that haven’t been out there and get [students] thinking on their issues,” he said. “I think that what student life here is like is a huge issue that should be on the table.”

In addition to tonight’s debate, which will include catered food for what organizers hope will be a drop-in crowd in the hundreds, members of the Election Commission have produced three-minute campaign videos for each of the seven vice presidential candidates that will run today through Wednesday in the Great Hall.

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AUSTIN, Texas Michigan State visited Cameron and lost a close battle to the Blue Devils in December. JJ. Redick and Daniel Ewing scored 29 points apiece and both had five three pointers.

When the two teams collided in the Sweet 16 Friday, the fifth-seeded Spartans already had a first-hand experience of what exactly Duke does well, and it turned out game to be invaluable. Michianalysis gan State drew together a simple game plan. which utilized its advantage as the stronger and more athletic squad. The team also tried to limit the effectiveness of the duo that killed them in the early-season match.

The Spartans executed almost flawlessly.

Like most underdogs who pull off huge wins, Michigan State made big plays in crunch time and shot accurately from the free throw line. But the Spartans also did an excellent job exploiting two major weaknesses the Blue Devils have had all season long: ball handling and offensive rebounding.

The first and most effective measure Michigan State took to hamper Duke was to pressure the ball incessantly. Athletic Spartan guards forced Ewing and DeMarcus Nelson to zig-zag the ball up the court after made baskets and dead balls. Once the Blue Devils got the ball into their offensive set, Michigan State’s smothering defense prevented decent looks for both Redick and Ewing from long distance and created 22 turnovers.

“They took away our vision, and we didn’t see open players,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It was like rushing the quarterback—with pressure, you can’t see your receiver.”

Duke was also abused on the offensive glass. The Blue Devils had 24 defensive rebounds, while the Spartans collected 16 offensive rebounds. For most of the game, Shelden Williams was all alone under the rim fighting with three or four Spartans for SEE SHUT DOWN ON PAGE 11

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Shelden Williams, Shavlik Randolph and David McClure show their frustration (top).Daniel Ewing defendsChris Hill (bottom left), andWilliams tries to block Drew Neitzel.

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Rolling Duke crushes No. 5 Georgetown by

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The only scary mo-

ment for Duke Saturday came when a

Georgetown defender unloaded an afternoon’s frustration as he hit the Blue Devils’ Michael Ward from l2 behind. Ward la DUKE ground but G-TOWN 3 on popped up to his feet a few seconds later and jogged back to his teammates, who yelled their approval in the direction of Georgetown’s bench.

The Hoyas were forced to listen and take it. By that point, it was clear Duke was just having one of those days.

The Blue Devils were winning by eight goals when Ward was hit, and they did not ease up all game. Duke’s 12-3 victory over No. 5 Georgetown, which came before 1,124 spectators at North Kehoe Field, not only extended the team’s record start (9-0), but Saturday’s effort was the Blue Devils’ best game of the season thus far.

“It has been a long time since I can say we put four quarters together like that in every phase of the game,” head coach Mike Pressler said. “I’ve never seen us move the ball more well, unselfishly, like we did offensively.”

Duke held Georgetown (4-2) scoreless for the game’s first 23 minutes and held leads of 7-1 and 10-2 at the end of the second and third quarters, respectively. Senior goalie Aaron Fenton had 13 saves on

15 shots for the Blue Devils—most of

Georgetown’s 44 shots missed the goal.

The Duke starting attack of Matt

Danowski, Dan Flannery and Zack Greer combined for 16 points while the Hoyas’ top two midfielders produced none.

“Honesdy, no, I expected [Saturday’s game] to be a much closer game,” Georgetown head coach Dave Urick said over the Blue Devils’ cheers. “They came to play and played extremely well.”

Urick’s squads had beaten Duke in the teams’ last four meetings, including a onegoal win last year in Durham. Those wins probably did not sit well with the Blue Devils, Urick said.

“I’m sure a fair amount of frustration came to the surface today for Duke,” he added.

The game was won because of Dan Oppedisano’s efforts in the faceoff circle, Pressler said.

Facing Georgetown’s Andy Como, who controlled 15-of-20 faceoffs in last year’s, Oppedisano won 8-of-19 Saturday. Most importantly, though, he neutralized Como head-to-head, winning 7-of-10 and the game’s first several ones.

“Danny worked on it all week,” Pressler said. “And we turned that around today.

For us to win, that had to happen.”

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By the time Stanford scored its first goal with 11:52 remaining in the second period Saturday, Katie Chrest had tallied five, Kristen Waagbo had five assists and starting goalie Megan Huether was on the sidelines.

Duke’s offense, DUKE 18 which produced STANFORD I 1 both in transition and in sets, netted more than 15 goals for the fifth time in 10 games as the the team blew out Stanford 18-1. The sixth-ranked Blue Devils (8-2) outshot the Cardinal (5-3) 45-11 in its second of two games in Nashville, Tenn.

“We expected a much tighter game,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

Duke tried to put the game away early, attacking Stanford’s goal relentlessly. Although the Blue Devils got open looks, Stanford’s goalie made up for her team’s porous defense, and the Cardinals kept the match close in the opening minutes.

With the contest scoreless after eight minutes, Duke finally broke through with a trio of goals from Rachel Sanford, Katie Laschinger and Chrest over the next 1:50 to gain a 3-0 advantage.

The Blue Devils never relinquished their offensive pressure, scoring seven more times before the end of the half.

Huether made four saves, and Duke took a 10-0 lead into the break.

“Once we got into a groove, we were able to finish,” Kimel said.

The Blue Devils’ defense continued to swarm Stanford’s attackers, disrupting any rhythm the Cardinal generated. As a result of Duke’s pressure and anticipation, Stanford only got offfour shots during the final 30 minutes.

“We did a really good job of anticipating what they were going to do,” Kimel said.

A controlled transitionattack in the second half allowed Duke to slow the game down but still maintain offensive pressure.

Rather than running down the field and shooting, the Blue Devils focused on setting up their offense in Stanford territory.

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Kristen Waagbo scored justone goal but assisted on five others as Duke trounced Stanford 18-1 Saturday. al minutes to get on the board, but Chrest scored her fifth goal six minutes into the second half to restart the scoring barrage, The mosdy freshman and sophomore lineup at the end of the game continued to build Blue Devils’ lead.

The methodical offense allowed Duke to attack Stanford’s zone defense by using cutters to give other players lanes for open shots.

“We have a number of threats,” Kimel said. “You have to worry about a lot of different people on our team.”

Duke scored four more times before Stanford finally got a shot past freshman goalie Regan Bosch, who replaced Huether midway through the second half, With Duke leading 15-1, freshman Jessica Adam scored two goals and Kim Wathey added one to seal Duke’s win.

In a typical set of early-season meets, a host ofBlue Devils qualified for the postseason, Debra Vento won the high jump and the distance runners placed well among top competition.

In the second weekend of the outdoor season, the majority of the Blue Devils competed in the Raleigh Relays, where most were not able to muster podium times. The distance runners headed to the Stanford Invitational seeking qualifying marks for NCAAs. As the bright spot in Raleigh, Vento posted her strongest high jump of the year. The sophomore, who closed out her indoor season with All-America honors at the NCAA Championships earlier this month, started her outdoor season by tying her personal best of 1.83 meters.

“I didn’t go in thinking I would jump that well,” Vento said. “I just came back from a week and a half off, and I wanted to see how I would perform on the different surface.”

Both Vento and Cincinnati’s Renee Hein cleared each of their first four heights, but Hein clipped the bar on her fifth jump. With the victory already in hand, Vento’s attempt at 1.86 meters, which would have eclipsed her personal best, fell short.

Nick Schneider, who is primarily a miler, traveled with a select few from the distance team to Stanford to run in his first ever 5,000-meter race. The senior placed second with a time of 14:04.29, the third fastest in Duke history.

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UConn's reign ends Nobody can win championships indefinitely. Not even Connecticut.

If that wasn't clear to the Huskies before, it certainly is now. Their title run is over, ended by a tough, talented Stanford team that exposed the offensive weaknesses that haunted UConn during this up-and-down season and capitalized on them.

With freshman sensation Candice Wiggins leading the way, Stanford beat Connecticut 76-59 in the semifinals of the Kansas City Regional Sunday night, sending the Huskies to their earliest NCAA Tournament exit in six years. (AP)

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Spartans reach first Elite 8 What a great day to be a Spartan.

Shortly after the men reached the Final Four Sunday with a dramatic double-overtime victory over Kentucky, Kristin Haynie had a triple-double and led Michigan State's women past Vanderbilt 76-64 in the semifinals ofthe Kansas City Regional.

Haynie, a 5-foot-8 senior guard, had just two points in the first half that was mostly dominated by the Commodores. But she finished with 13 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for the second triple-double in the program's 32-year history. (AP)

Lady Vols slide on Shyra Ely scrawled her goal on the back of her sneakers: Homeward Bound.

With the way Tennessee is playing, Ely might get her wish.

Ely scored 23 points and led the topseeded Lady Vols into their 20th regional final with a 75-59 win over Texas Tech Sunday. The Lady Vols (29-4) will play. either Ohio State or Rutgers in the Philadelphia Regional on Tuesday night for a trip to the Final Four in Ely's hometown of Indianapolis. (AP)

Buckeyes survive, advance All the bumping, pushing and shoving Rutgers did on defense didn't stop Ohio State All-American Jessica Davenport.

It did, however, shut down the rest of the Buckeyes and put the Scarlet Knights a win away from their first Final Four appearance in five years.

Cappie Pondexter scored 24 points and Rutgers turned 15 Ohio State turnovers into 22 points in posting a 6458 victory Sunday. (AP)

It was 40 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. minutes that came down to less than 40 seconds. It was a game marked by fiery players and coaches and emotional responses to calls, especially as the clock ticked down.

When the Blue Devils stepped off the court to prepare for their fourth straight game Elite Eight, it was clear that despite the tight, analysis competitive

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controlled the game all the way through, mainly because ofits dominance on the boards.

But even before Georgia’s Tasha Humphrey tied the game on a layup with three minutes remaining, and all the way undl the buzzer sounded, a victory never seemed certain.

You could look at Saturday’s play-byplay —especially the five ties and 10 lead changes—and see the game as a batde.

The Blue Devils never led by more than six, and Georgia’s lead never extended beyond four.

The game was in doubtbecause Duke’s offense struggled to do the simple things like making layups and delivering accurate passes, but the Blue Devils’ defense and rebounding made it seem like they was always in the driver’s seat.

In the first half, Duke shot 32.3 percent from the floor and ended up with 39.3 percent game shooting.

Head coach Gail Goestenkors said she had anticipated rebounding to be the key to a Blue Devil victory over Georgia, and tonight it carried them through.

“We knew that the team that rebounded would win,” Goestenkors said. “I was happy with our effort on the boards.”

Duke dominated on the boards, with 31 defensive rebounds and 45 total in comparison to Georgia’s 32 overall.

“It may have been a very exciting game, but from my perspective, we did a poor job rebounding,” Georgia head coach Andy Landers said. “It wasn’t a game where we were ever able to generate momentum early on because of the turnovers —you have to credit some of that to Duke defensively.”

The Blue Devils’ rebounding made up for some of the team’s misfires, as they used it to solidify early momentum despite missing 12-of-18 first-half layups. Duke had d-ch: 2 16 '

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The Blue Devils struggled offensively Saturday, especially with layups, letting Georgia stay in the game. more than half (36) of its points in the paint. But even when the Blue Devils pulled down rebounds, they frequently botched second-change opportunities.

Monique Currie was not immune to Duke’s struggles as the All-American missed six layups on the afternoon. With less than four minutes remaining and Duke holding a two-point lead, Currie hur-

ried down the court as Mistie Williams set up under the hoop. She then heaved the ball out of bounds on a pass intended for her frontcourt mate. Currie was clearly frustrated with her performance throughout the game, at times expressing this emotion to her teammates and the referees.

Hie games that Georgia had lost were where they were outrebounded.

How did you prepare for this?

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bounded them, we'd have a very good chance ofwinning. We had to be warriors on the floor and that's exactly what we did.

How did you defend Tasha Humphrey?

She's a very good player, especially for a freshman She's phenomenal. We just had to make sure that she didn't have the game that she's use to having. We had to pressure her and on the other end make sure she didn't get the shots,

“I struggled to get the ball off. I started looking for my teammates,” Currie said.

“In the second half, we did a better Job of making cuts to the basket. I think everyone’s emodons were high today.”

The Blue Devils are now 27-0 on the season when outrebounding an opponent.

Once Currie got rolling down the stretch, a Williams putback on a Currie miss helped Duke create some separation.

But tonight against LSU, the best team in the nation, Duke will need more than just rebounding to fall into place. If those layups that skipped off the rim Saturday continue to fall by the wayside, so will the Blue Devils.

What kind of difference did it make having Jessica out on the court for this game?

She allows the inside to get open. She can hit the three. She is just a great teammate and a great person to have out there on the court.

What do you think of LSU? They are really athletic, and all we can do is take it in stride. We're not going to be sorry after it is all said and done. We're going to put 110 percent effort on the court. If our legs fall off, we're still going to move. If we have five players, we'll still play.

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Duke must keep Louisiana State from running, or it may get run straight out of the gym.

Playing in its fourth consecutive Elite Eight, the women’s basketball team looks to take its fourth trip ever to the Final Four when it takes on LSU (32-2) tonight at 9 p.m. The past three seasons Duke has been a No. 1 seed, but tonight the second-seeded Blue Devils (31-4) have to take on the tournament’s top overall seed.

“Last year was much more stressful,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “We were the No. 1 overall seed, and we were expected to win.

“This year a lot of people didn’t even expect us to beat Georgia with the injuries that we’ve had. I think it’s great because everyone can just go out and play.”

The Tigers have played like the team that occupied the top spot in the polls most of the season, breezing through their first three games. The team—which was undefeated in the SEC but lost to Tennessee in the conference tournament has beaten its NCAA Tournament opponents by 34, 33 and 42 points, respectively, and all the blowouts have begun early. But LSU has yet to take on a team seeded higher than ninth, the easiest road of any of the Elite Eight competitors.

“They’ve had the big leads so they have a lot of confidence right now,” Goestenkors said. “They have so many weapons that it’s going to take a supreme team effort on our part.”

Duke will likely try to slow the tempo and keep the game low-scoring, a recipe that helped Rutgers and Tennessee hand LSU its only two losses of the season. The Tigers average 73 points per game this year but have only managed 57 points per game in their two losses, including an overtime loss at Rutgers during which the Tigers only scored 49 points.

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“She has come so far this year,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said of Smith, who was also credited with five steals while playing all 40 minutes. “It’s a stressful situation to be in the NCAA Tournament for the first time and running the point for us under a lot ofpressure. Their guards are so quick and put great pressure on the ball.

She handled the pressure.”

In the clutch, Duke turned to All-American Monique Currie, who along with junior Mistie Williams controlled the paint throughout the game. All of Duke’s final 21 points came from either the paint or the free throw line.

With the score tied at 54, Currie hit Foley for a two and then missed a layup, which Williams put back. Humphrey hit a three to pull Georgia within two with 36 seconds left, and after the Bulldogs scrambled to come up with a steal they fouled Currie,-who sunk, both

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scored 21 points per game off its opponents’ miscues in the tournament.

“We need to play great team defense,” Goestenkors said. “We all have to be on

the same page offensively and defensively. I think it will come down to who executes well, who takes care of the ball and

rebounds.”

Junior Seimone Augustus, the only unanimous first-team All-American selec-

“I said, ‘You know Monique is our All- Smith lost her footing and fell into Georgia American. Let’s go through her,” sophomore Cori Chambers, who took adGoestenkors said ofher decision to put the vantage of the bail-out by sinking both free ball in Currie’s hands at the end. throws. Then Currie, hurried by the BullCurrie was one offour post players who dog press, stepped on the baseline, and took a shot at guarding Humphrey, who Georgia junior Alexis Kendrick capitalscored 13 second-half points despite foul ized—hitting a three from the right side to trouble. But against the SEC Freshman of put the Bulldogs up one.

Duke got good looks through the entire the Year, the best defense may have been game but shot only 39 percent because of unintentional.

With 14 and a half minutes remaining, many missed layups.

Duke senior Wynter Whitley got tangled “We’re going to have to make all those shots inside that we missed tonight,” with as the two were runup Humphrey ning down the floor, which resulted in a Goestenkors said. “We can’t afford to miss double foul and the third personal for easy shots. I thought we missed some bunHumphrey. She would pick up her fourth nies tonight, and you don’t get that many good looks against LSU.” soon thereafter.

“She’s phenomenal,” Williams said. “We NOTES; just had to make sure that she didn’t have Foley had five points in 22 minutes of the game she is used to having by maybe frustrating her a little bit and getting her play, the first action she saw since missing two games with tendinitis.... Smith tied a out ofher game.”

With 11 minutes remaining and career high with five steals in the first half.

Humphrey on the bench, Duke seemed She is also one three-pointer away from poised for a run. But back-to-back slips, tying the Duke freshman season record of one physical and one mental, by the Blue 41.... Currie registered her eighth doubledouble of the season with 16 points and 12 Devils kept Georgia afloat.

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No one sacrificed SYRACUSE, N.Y more than Rashad McCants to make sure North Carolina got back to the Final Four. So it was only fitting that he made the plays when the Tar Heels needed him most, WISCONSIN! 82 The star UNC 88 guard, no longer the team’s leading scorer this year while accepting a more team-oriented role, swished a clutch three-pointer and had two huge defensive stops down the stretch, leading top-seeded North Carolina past Wisconsin 88-82 Sunday in die final of the Syracuse Regional.

Sean May led the Tar Heels (31-4) with 29 points and 12 rebounds, and Raymond Felton added 17 points, including four free throws in the final minute to seal it. But it was McCants who did the most to end a marvelous run by the sixth-seeded Badgers (25-9) and send the Tar Heels to the Final Four for the first time since 2000.

With UNC clinging to a three-point lead, McCants jumped high to swat away a three by Clayton Hanson with about two minutes left, Hanson’s only miss of the second half from beyond the arc. Later, when Kammron Taylor drove to the basket, McCants again was there to stop him.

“I knew they were going to come at me,” McCants said. “I took that as an assignment and shut him down.”

Wisconsin closed within three again on an alley-oop dunk by Aland© Tucker before McCants made his 3-pointer, coming off a screen by Marvin Williams to give North Carolina an 81-75 lead. He finished with 21 points.

That proved to be enough, and when the final buzzer sounded, McCants and Felton spent several seconds embracing in the lane while teammates quickly donned hats thatread “Syracuse Regional Champions.”

captain.

Biting his lower lip to hold back the

tears, Ewing took a seat and watched the final seconds of his collegiate career, clutched by the arms of his teammates.

Krzyzewski had called a timeout before taking his senior captain out of the game.

“Especially because he’s in Texas and this is where he ended his high school career, I thought it was a time where it should be Daniel’s moment. Michigan State, with 14.8 seconds left, was going to have their moment,” Krzyzewski said.

“He’s been incredible, and he deserved to have his moment right there—even if it wasn’t going to be a winning moment —with the team.”

Four years ago, Ewing led his Wib lowridge High School team to a 5A state championship here at the Frank Erwin Center. He shared that stage with the likes of Baylor guard Kenny Taylor and Milwaukee Buck and former Texas star TJ. Ford, who returned to his alma mater to support his friend.

Despite the 78-68 loss to Michigan State, Ewing finished his last season Friday night as the winningest player in college basketball. In four years, he amassed 115 wins, three ACC Tournament tides and an ACC Tournament MVP award, while helping his team reach four Sweet 16s as well as last year’s Final Four.

Ewing was called upon for leadership at the start of the season as the only senior expecting to play major minutes for the Blue Devils. Often characterized as a quiet individual, Ewing wanted his actions to do the talking for him. He averaged 15.3 points per game, shooting 42.7 percent from the field this year.

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AUSTIN, Texas To everyone who has ever chided Michigan State’s upperclassmen for being soft, weak and underachieving, the Spartans now have the perfect rebuttal: a gutsy, tough, double-overtime win over Ken. tucky and a ticket MSU 94 to St. Louis to KENTUCKY 83 show for it.

And after knocking off Duke and Kentucky to get to the Final Four, their next foe is North Carolina, giving seniors Alan Anderson, Kelvin Torbert and Chris Hill the chance to really go out in style.

“We had plenty of potholes and valleys—even black holes—during this journey,” Hill said. “We have been through it all, but here, at the end of the day, we are still standing.”

He was talking about his career, but could’ve been talking strictly about Michigan State’s 94-88 victory Sunday over Kentucky, which took two overtimes and featured some of the most dramatic moments in a weekend filled with them.

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senior really well,” Krzyzewski said before the Sweet 16. “Really he’s played better in the last few weeks. He’s had a really good year, but he’s played better in his last go-around.”

After the regional semifinal against

the Spartans when he scored 18 points, Ewing was visibly disappointed but by no means defeated.

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on the rim before falling through, then took five minutes before being declared good.

The referee knew Patrick Sparks let it fly in time, he just wasn’t sure whether the tip of Sparks’ right foot was behind the line. After asking CBS for a zoomed-in replay, he flashed the last three fingers on each hand.

Rejuvenated, Kentucky scored the first four points of overtime, then fizzled. Tied in the final minute, leading scorer Kelenna Azubuike missed badly on an ugly shot, got the ball back but was still holding it when time expired.

Michigan State (26-6) went ahead four seconds into the second OT, and that was it.

The Spartans led the rest of the way, protecting it by hitting 11 straight free throws to secure their fourth Final Four in seven years, but first for this group of players. MSU also went from 1999-2001, winning it all in 2000.

“After what these guys have been through, this one is the most satisfying,” Spartans coach Tom Izzo said.

Izzo boosted his reputation by more than upping his Final Four total. He’s motivated and calmed this club the last few

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Although Duke (27-6) trailed for most of the second half, defeat was far from certain for the Blue Devils until the closing minutes. Daniel Ewing stole the ball from Michigan State (25-6) and sank a three to bring the Blue Devils to within three points with 3:01 remaining. But Spartans center Paul Davis answered Ewing’s deep shot with a three-point play of his own.

“Right there, we had a real chance, and we could’ve gotten a stop that would have stretched the game out,” Ewing said. “But we didn’t, and that really put a dent in the

game.”

The senior played his last collegiate game in the same building where he finished his high school career, ending up with 18 points and five steals but a teamhigh six turnovers.

Michigan State’s defense attacked Ewing and Duke’s other ball-handlers from the inbounds pass to the basket. The Blue Devils had trouble setting up their offense, and by the end of the first half Duke had

feeds off our defense,” forward Lee Melchionni said. “To turn the ball over like that, it just doesn’t give you a chance to play our defense and really gave them a th "bar to State’s first linutes into a 10-0 run within one. ball over on the subsequent possession, and Shannon Brown sank a three-pointer that gave Michigan State a lead it would never relin-

quish.

Redick, who was met by a Michigan State defender off of nearly every screen, said both the Spartans’ pressure and

Duke’s errors contributed to his teams’ turnover woes.

“We needed to be stronger with the ball, but them putting full-court pressure on us made us speed up. When we got inside the half court, we just made some turnovers,” he said.

Despite all of Duke’s mishandlings in the opening half, the game was tied at the break, largely because Michigan State’s shots were not falling. The Spartans went 13-for-36 in the first period and 0-for-6 from behind the arc. Instead, the team concentrated its offense down low throughout the game, sinking twice as many layups as the Blue Devils and scoring 40 points in the paint.

Davis alone pulled down seven offensive rebounds as his team muscled its way to 12 second-chance points. The junior had a

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game-high 12 rebounds and 20 points.

Davis was pitted against Duke’s only consistent presence down low, Shelden Williams, who led the Blue Devils with 19 points and eight rebounds. Although Williams, with the help of Ewing, carried Duke for most of the first half, he only scored six points after the break when foul trouble limited his aggressiveness.

On the possession after Ewing’s lategame three-pointer that brought the score to 66-63, Williams committed his fifth foul when Davis pump-faked under the basket with justunder three minutes to play. Davis sank the free throw, bulging the Spartans’ lead back up to six.

“They have a big force in the middle in Shelden Williams, but we felt like we had a big force in the middle, too,” Anderson said.

Contributions from its bench in the waning minutes kept Duke in the game until the end, as Michigan State went 8-for-8 from the line in the final 65 seconds.

Reggie Love intercepted a Spartan pass and called a timeout as he fell out of bounds. The next possession brought the Blue Devils within four points with less than two minutes on the clock. Likewise, Nelson manned the offensive glass for the Blue Devils and scored the last field goal of the game when he stretched out and tipped in a three-point attempt by Ewing.

“Eve loved my team,” Krzyzewski said.

‘You either want your team to end in jubilation or crying because that emotion will tell you if you really had a great season.”

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Two opponents, eight races, zero victories, Without a number of its top rowers, that was the story of the weekend for the 17th-ranked women’s rowing team against a pair of top-five squads at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge in Columbus, Ohio.

The Blue Devils rowed against fourth-ranked Ohio State in the morning and fifth-ranked Michigan in the afternoon, and no Duke boat finished less than 8.5 seconds behind its counterpart.

“We were really aggressive,” sophomore First Varsity 8 member Alissa Van Arnam said. “Even though we didn’t win, we put up a really good fight.”

Captain Christine Lauro and junior Lauren Case were suffering from mononucleosis and Krista Harryman and 2004 All-America Amber Straight were not able to row.

“It is definitely hard to compete when you know that some of your top rowers can’t be there,” Van Arnam said.

“But as a team, we came together really well. We were very committed to giving it our best.”

The Blue Devils’ top squad finished at least 10 seconds behind its opponent in both races.

The First Varsity 8 squad rowed the fastest Duke time of the day in the afternoon against the Wolverines, finishing in 6:45.3. Michigan eclipsed the Blue Devils’ mark by 11.4 seconds to win the race. During the morning races against the Buckeyes, Duke’s top squad clocked in at 6:48.7, more than 16 seconds behind its opponent.

The Second Varsity 8 crew fared no better for Duke, losing each ofits races by a margin of at least 8.5 seconds. In its matchup with Ohio State, the squad sped its way to a 6:51.1 finish, less than three seconds slower than the First Varsity squad’s time. But the team’s effort was not as strong in the afternoon match as it slowed its time more than 15 seconds to 7:06.8.

“We’ve been really adaptable these past few weeks and are definitely improving,” Van Amam said.

A week ago, in the team’s three victories in the Longhorn Invitational, the First Varsity 8 notched a top time of 6:50.5. Even with key rowers missing action, the squad’s times are improving.

The second squad’s best mark last week was a 6:56.3, which came in a win over Kansas State, was five seconds slower than this week’s best.

“With everything that we’ve been through in terms of injuries, we’re definitely impressed with our improving times,” Van Arnam said. “It just shows that we can come together as a team, through the adversity, be aggressive and really fight for it.”

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In the second game of a doubleheader Saturday at Jack Coombs Field, Duke defeated No. 17 FSU Florida State to 3 capture its first DUKE conference victory of the season while dethroning the Seminoles from the ranks of the ACC unbeaten.

Duke (9-19, 1-8 in the ACC) jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning and held off Florida State (27-5, 5-1) to salvage the final game of the three-game series. The Blue Devils’ 8-7 win over the Seminoles erased a 14-game skid against them.

“Whenever you have a chance to compete against a great program like Florida State and come away with a win, it’s a great win,” head coach Bill Hillier said.

In the bottom of the first, Duke capitalized on the Seminoles’ starting pitcher Mark Sauls’ miscues on the mound. The righty balked twice and threw away a pickoff attempt, helping Duke to quickly JuniorSean O'Brien surrendered two runs in an inning plate three runs before Sauls was replaced by Brian Henry. With John Berger on first, sophomore Corey Whiting gave in the first inning like that set a tone for Henry a rude welcome to the game, the game.”

Duke starter David Torcise cruised for scorching an inside fastball over the rightfield fence for his second home run the first four innings, surrendering two hits of the season and a 5-0 advantage. and no runs. Walks got the sophomore into “I was really excited about getting out trouble in the fifth, however, as the Semito a quick lead, because we’ve had a tennoles capitalized on two free passes with a dency to fall behind in games,” Whiting pair of hits and a sacrifice bunt to cut the said. “Knocking out their starting pitcher lead to 5-3.

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When Torcise left the game in the sixth after surrendering his sixth walk, Jonathan Anderson issued another to load the bases.

Florida State leftfielder Gibbs Chapman—who had won the first game of the series with a two-run home run in the top of the ninth—then knotted the game at five with a two-run

single.

Duke came roaring right back in the

bottom of the inning, however, when Cody Wheeler and Berger led off with back-toback singles. With one out and runners on first and third, Javier Socorro hustled down the line to beat out a double-play, scoring Wheeler as the Blue Devils regained the lead.

After adding two more runs in the bottom of the seventh and holding the Seminoles scoreless in the eighth, Duke headed into the top of the ninth clinging to an 8-5 lead.

But Florida State would not go quiedy, rallying to trail by just one with two outs and a runner on third.

It looked like another Duke meltdown was in the works.

Battling through his first appearance since surrendering the game-winning home run to Chapman Friday, closer Tony Bajoczky forced Josh Spivey to ground out to second base, ending the game and Duke’s season-long futility in the ACC. “I thought our relief pitching was exceptional,” Hillier said. “Torcise didn’t have his best stuff, but he battled, and Bajoczky put out the fire.”

Duke’s defense greatly aided in the victory, as the Blue Devils committed no errors in the field for the first time in four games.

Saturday’s win ended a three-game losing streak for the Blue Devils, as Duke dropped games one and two of the series 53 and 11-4, respectively.

“Beating a team like FSU, [which is] ranked 17th in the nation, is a good start that could turn a page in the season and gain a new mindset for our team,” Whiting said.

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“I can’t believe we pulled this one out,” Amritraj said. “It seemed like we won through smoke and mirrors.”

The junior’s celebration came after his thrilling victory, along with comebacks by two ofhis teammates, led Duke to a 5-2 win.

With five matches in progress, No. 4 Duke (13-2, 3-0 in the ACC) was in danger of losing its first match in conference play.

No. 27 Florida State (12-6, 3-2) was ahead 2-0 and had two matches in control, needing only two victories to win.

After triumphs by Peter Rodrigues and Peter Shults evened the match at two, three Duke wins in a five-minute stretch completed the improbable finish.

“This was one of the better matches I’ve been involved in,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. ‘We were on the ropes all over and until the last three or four minutes, I thought FSU was in control and was going to win.”

Amritraj had just lost a second-set tiebreaker and was knotted with his opponent at 2-2 when he went on to win his next four games and claim Duke’s third victory. Leading for the first time, the Blue Devils needed just one victory from either Ludovic Walter or freshman

Charles Brezac to extend their winning streak to eight.

The nation’s No. 5 Walter trailed No. 26 Mat Cloer 5-3 in the third and deciding set of the top-flight matchup. The junior, however, broke his opponent’s serve and won in a hard-fought and emotion-filled tiebreaker that clinched Duke’s victory.

“Mat Cloer is a very good player, and we’ve always had a lot of trouble with him,” Lapidus said. “With Ludovic down 5-3, I thought he was going to do it to us again.

Ludovic just showed what a great player he was and won a 3040 shot rally and regained all of the momentum.”

Moments after Walter’s triumph, Brezac finished off his opponent and gave Duke its deceivingly decisive 5-2 win.

The freshman was trailing 4-3 in the third set, but he also mounted a comeback and won the third set 7-5.

In addition to the classic win over the Seminoles, Duke also downed No. 33 Virginia Commonwealth. Duke topped VCU 6-1 Friday afternoon, winning the top five singles matches as well as the doubles point. Walter and Amritraj played in the only closely-contested matches, but both emerged with three-set victories. Walter knocked offNo. 11 Amaud Lecloerec, 7-5, and Amritraj needed a tiebreaker tp notch his victory, which he won, 7-5.

Duke kept its lineup mostly consistent during the weekend, only swapping Amritraj and Jonathan Stokke at the two and three seeds, respectively, for the FSU match. Stokke had struggled in previous outings against the opponent he was scheduled to face, and Lapidus said he wanted to avoid that matchup again.

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With Jessica Foley less than 100 percent, more of Duke's offense may have to come from inside the arc. Bales has become an inside threat, scoring in double figures in her last two games. 6-foot-5 freshman Sylvia Fowles and her 2.7 block per game will be a force to contend with for the Blue Devils' forwards. The lineup of Fowles, Willis and Augustus is one of th biggest Duke has seen and could trouble the Blue Devils.

LSU's offensive onslaught is led by All-American Augustus, wh is a scoring threat from both the perimeter and the inside.

She'll have to deal with the size of Duke's front line, but proba bly has both the strength and quickness to do so. Look for diminutive point guard Johnson to wreak havoc, setting up open looks for her teammates against a Duke team that has struggled defending quick guards all season long.

Neither team is a stranger to the Elite Eight, each making its third consecutive trip. But LSD's starting five is composed of tw seniors and three juniors, compared to a number of Duke players with limited tournament experience. Point guard play will b< key if the game comes down to the final minutes. The leadership of senior Johnson against the inexperience of freshman Smith could tip the scales in the Tigers' favor.

The experience and quickness of LSU will give Duke trouble defensively, will also struggle inside against one of the biggest teams it has faced a for the upperclass leadership of LSU to prevent the Tigers' seniors from compiled by careers Monday night. LSU wins, 82-71.

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per contest despite playing limited minutes because of LSU’s large leads. Duke All-American Monique Currie will likely draw the task of guarding Augustus, who is coming off a 10-for-12 shooting performance against Liberty.

Duke may win the battle on the glass between the starting front lines, and LSU’s most productive post player comes off the bench. Freshman Sylvia Fowles adds 11.8 points and 8.9 rebounds per game to bolster LSU’s post play, which receives only eight points and 8.7 rebounds from its veteran starting duo.

Another post reserve, Crystal White, transferred to LSU from Duke in the middle of the 2001-2002 season. White, who

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one ofhis three scores to make it 6-1 just seconds later.

In the second half, Flannery had four of the team’s last five scores. On one of those, Duke made a half-dozen extra passes after it broke Georgetown’s slides.

Even Duke’s longpoles ran around the Hoyas’ players for most of the afternoon. Most notable was when long-stick midfielder Nick O’Hara picked up a ground ball on his side of the field and outran the midfielders on both teams before giving the Blue Devils a 7-1 lead going into halftime.

At that point an older woman in the stands who was rooting for Georgetown remarked, “I think they are having an off game.”

Pressler’s team has now won the first three of five contests against top-tiered teams, having defeated then-No. 5 Maryland, then-No. 15 North Carolina—a Final Four team in many preseason polls—and now No. 5 Georgetown.

“Maryland, North Carolina and Georgetown on the road in the month of March—that’s something to be proud of,” Pressler said of his team, which has five games left before the ACC Tournament.

With No. 2 Virginia dropping a tight game to top-ranked John Hopkins this weekend, Duke will most likely move up to the second slot when the new STX/USILA poll is released today.

Should Duke manage two home wins against Mount St. Mary’s Tuesday and Ohio State Friday, the televised Blue Devil-Blue Jay game in Baltimore in two weeks might be a matchup of No.l against No. 2.

is facing her former team for the first time since leaving for Baton Rouge.

“It will be kind oflike practice because we practiced against each other so much,” Duke senior Wynter Whidey said. “It might be a little awkward for her, but I think that’s natural.”

White’s current team is the definite favorite, but the Tigers are not underestimating the Blue Devils. Duke defeated Tennessee 59-57 in December, and firstyear head coach Pokey Chatman said she has not seen any real weaknesses while watching Duke.

“They are one of the better defensive teams we have played all year,” Chatman said. “They do a good job of playing to their strengths, and to me that’s always a sign of a great basketball team.”

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five and by the second mile had assumed the top spot. After dropping back to fourth, Schneider kicked over the last 100meters to best all but one of 10 runners in a closely contested finish.

“A good percentage of the best distance runners in the country came to this meet because it has good conditions for distance running,” assistant coach Kevin Jermyn said. “It’s one of the best places to qualify in the 5,000 and 10,000. He wanted to get the qualifying mark and to explore a new event.”

Liz Wort and Tia Ferguson also qualified for the NCAA Regional in the 5,000meter run, with times of 16:31.23 and 16:49.78, respectively. The two started the race conservatively and moved up to the lead pack by the second mile. Wort increased her pace throughout the race and in the last mile closed the gap on the leader, earning a fourth-place finish among college runners.

In a field of more than 50 of the nation’s top 10k runners, Laura Stanley’s time of 34:11.22 merited a 21st-place finish and an NCAA Provisional qualifying mark. Stanley missed the automatic qualifying time, however, by one second.

Phebe Ko and Elle Pishny also competed in the 10,000-meter run, earning times of 35:31.14 and 36:09.66, respectively.

Keith Krieger represented the men in the 10,000 at Stanford. His time of 29:53.85 bests his old top time by 20 seconds and is the fastest Duke finish in the event since 1978.

“The men’s race was very deep,” Jermyn said. “Having so many people running so fast made it easy for him to shake off 20 seconds. He was looking to take a big chunk out of his time.”

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the ball. All too often, Williams would successfully block out his man, only to watch a different Michigan State forward or guard dart in for the board.

Shavlik Randolph, who is supposed to provide Duke with a second viable rebounding option, put together another poor performance, capping off they junior’s sub-par year. In 18 minutes, Randolph had two rebounds, three fouls, two turnovers and no points. When

Williams fouled out with three minutes remaining, Krzyzewski elected to go with the tiny lineup of Nelson, Ewing, Redick, Sean Dockery and Reggie Love on defense or Lee Melchionni on offense instead of bringing Randolph into the game. This all happened while the Spartans had 6-foot-l 1 center Paul Davis

dominating the floor.

Michigan State’s effectiveness on the glass and in forcing turnovers allowed them to compensate for their poor shooting in the first half. For the first 20 minutes, the

Spartans only hit one perimeter shot, going 0-for-fi from three-point range and shooting a very mediocre 36 percent from the field.

Meanwhile, the Blue Devils were able to hit exactly halfof their shots, but the two teams still went into halftime tied at 32.

For the game, the Spartans took 14 more shots than the Blue Devils. So when Michigan State finally started to make outside baskets in the second half—4B-percent from the field in the second half— Duke fell behind for good.

“Jump shots don’t always fall,” Ewing said. “For us, we’ve been able to rely on defense and tonight we just couldn’t get the stops and the rebounds we needed, and that was a real big key.”

weeks with tricks that would even impress Final Four counterpart Rick Pitino, who has written books on leading and succeeding.

He started on Selection Sunday by taking a hammer and bashing videotapes of their last two games, a victory over Penn State and a loss to lowa in the Big Ten tournament.

“We said it was going to be a new season,” said Anderson, who missed key free throws against lowa and happened to be sitting next to the films when Izzo began slamming away. “It was either put up or shut up.”

Izzo struck again during the delay.

While officials reviewed Sparks’ shot, Izzo got busy. He told his team to presume it was good and start focusing on what to do next. Holding his clipboard, he told his huddle, “Now let’s beat them a second time.”

This was the third of four regional finals that needed overtime this weekend.

Only once, in 1992, had even two games this round gone to OT. The young Wildcats (28-6) were supposedly a year away from greatness. While

EWING from page 6 about my career,” he said. “This season here has probably been the most special season I’ve had. This group of guys, what we’ve been through and what we’ve overcome and accomplished as a team —the togetherness that we’ve had to come this far, it’s really special.”

Throughout his career, Ewing has consistently played better in the postseason, averaging more points and earning ACC Tournament MVP in 2003.

“Ewing, you’ve got to love the kid,”

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they’ll be expected to go even further next year, that’s too late for their best player,

Chuck Hayes, the lone senior lost from the top of their deep rotation.

Hayes, who played for Izzo on the U.S. Pan Am team two years ago, hugged Torbert, Hill and Anderson, then shook hands with Izzo on his way to the bench with a few seconds left. He began crying and didn’t stop until the start of a news conference.

‘You figure if you give everything you have, you get what you want. But sometimes, you don’t,” said Hayes, who ends his career tied for the most consecutive starts in school history yet never got past the regional finals.

Since winning the championship in 1998, coach Tubby Smith’s first year in Lexington, Kentucky is 0-for-3 in the round of eight. The Spartans also eliminated them in ‘99. This loss also deprived the Bluegrass state of having two teams in the Final Four; only Louisville will be there now.

Instead, there’s the chance for a titlegame matchup between a different set of regional rivals: Michigan State and Illinois, the only team that finished ahead of the Spartans in the Big Ten this season.

Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo said.

“He just keeps competing. He gets a big steal and buries that big three—there was no quitting in Duke.”

As he watched the end of the game from the bench, Ewing savored those last moments.

“I’m just really sad that it’s all over,” Ewing said. “Not being able to put on this Duke uniform, not being able to step out on the court with Coach K again, that’s the biggest emotional part of me right now. Just knowing that there are no more chances for me to play in this tournament, reality is sinking in that it’s my time to move on.”

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Both candidates see a need to make DSG a more relevant organization in the eyes of the student body.

“We need to make sure that DSG doesn’t become a programming organization,” Strasser said. “We need to remain policy-oriented. When we write legislation, we need to focus on things that can be done.”

Similarly, Bautsch said she looks forward to building cooperation throughout DSG to improve the organization’s effectiveness.

“I’m looking forward to increasing collaboration between committees and getting DSG’s reputation back up for producing tangible results,” she said.

“Even when it comes to small changes.”

As for Sandesara and Gunn, both said that, ultimately, leadership of the Athletics and Campus Services Committee could be better served by someone else.

“Considering time commitments, current projects and future goals, I ultimately rationalized that my time was best spent serving the students in my current role,” Gunn wrote in an e-mail.

“The University is making huge leaps in technology across the campus, and I really enjoy voicing student concerns and helping to shape the future development of technology on this campus.”

Gunn is currently responsible for helping to establish DukePass and Online Event Registration.

Sandesara put it simply, saying: “I just thought about it for a while and decided that DSC wasn’t what I wanted to do with my senior year.”

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Gacina said he would recommend students hold their parties at George’s Garage, a Ninth Street restaurant even closer to East Campus than Parizade and owned by the same company.

“George’s Garage—definitely all the parties can be held there because, I mean, it’s a garage. It’s a place for after hours

where they can handle beautiful, huge parties,” he said. “My bar was not set up for that, but people like to come here.”

But many students said they avoid George’s because it has a tougher stance toward underage drinking and students

using false identification.

“George’s has a tough ID policy—l’ve had friends who’ve gotten arrested there,” junior Shannon Kunath said. “I think people know about George’s and how you shouldn’t try to use fakes there. Parizade

historically has been a lot more lenient.

But people will figure it out—they’ll drink before they go out or something.”

Gacina said Parizade’s will still be open to having closed parties with guest lists and appropriate dress codes.

“I will always be available to have a closed private party. They can give me a call—l will be open to that, that’s not a problem,” he said. “I just won’t be open every Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We are done with that kind of thing.”

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Though D&G’s central authority assumed office with plans to address many of the same key issues that have been annual fodderfor platforms—revamping course evaluations, improving campus safety and remedying off-campus relations have been on the collective student agenda for years—some of their larger projects have been reactive.

The Community Interaction Committee, headed by Vice President of Community Interaction Joel Kliksberg, has spent much of the year dealing with off-campus social life. The issue, perennially lurking since on-campus alcohol regulations became more stringent, “really flared up in the fall,” Majdi said. Subsequent DSG action included meetings with Durham residents off East Campus, distributing letters to improve communication between residents and students and working as a liaison among students throwing parties and the city and University police departments.

A separate project tackling trash pick-up was planned to the final stages, but the committee could not find funding.

Both Kliksberg and Majdi said the decision not to publicize their dealings with off-campus concerns was deliberate.

“This is the perfect example of something we do under the radar intentionally. The problem is between Duke students and off-campus residents,” Majdi said. “We did this without publicity because we didn’t want more attention to be drawn to it.”

Behind-the-scenes lobbying is what Majdi and others on the executive board consider to be DSG’s most important function.

Often drawing from its own senators, DSG appoints students to serve on a variety of University committees, including the parking appeals board and the planning committees for Central Campus. Senators also bring a student voice to subcommitteesfor the Board of Trustees, the ultimate governing body of the University.

But actuating student preferences into programs or policies has proven difficult, even in successful years.

“It’s an extremely frustrating job. We see the local ramifications of national issues—racial profiling, anti-Semitism,” said Kliksberg, a sophomore. “We’re definitely not going to find a solution to them here at Duke. We just try to do the best we can.”

Kliksberg, who plans to go abroad in the fall, will not return to DSG next year.

Almost hits and culture change Other committee leaders cite extenuating circumstances that prevented policy enactment. Majdi and Johnson said even after drumming up initiatives for months on end, the administration or student body may lose interest or not support the final product. In particular, the Academic Affairs Committee’s work to improve course evaluations was thwarted when the Arts and Sciences Council would not approve the proposed system.

Johnson said the committee is working to establish an evaluation site independent of the University and is mustering faculty support.

“It’s important to have a pulse on the administration,” he said. Trying to accomplish projects without approval, he said, is an exercise in futility. During Johnson’s year as head of the Academic Affairs Committee, senators were able to chum out a Freedom of Expression and Assembly resolution—a response to Palestine Solidarity Movement controversy last

fall—as well as the Academic Expectations amendment, which will be the only referendum on the March 31 ballot.

Other projects, like encouraging senior theses and combatting honor code violations, are more abstract and have required unorthodox thinking to inspire culture change.

“How do you convince people only interested in paper academic success—having good grades—that cheating is bad?” Johnson said. “Even Gandhi said that the only reason that laws work is because there is punishment. There need to be practical ramifications.”

Though his committee has been unable to definitively find a solution to the problem, it has been a hot topic in the race for next year’s academic affairs vice presidency.

“What if there were a big asterisk next to that A on your transcript if you’d been caught cheating?” Johnson asked.

“What if the top recruiters on campus —McKinsey..., Goldman Sachs—what if they promised interviews to people writing theses?”

But even with diligence, some of the more popular agenda items are not always feasible. Majdi said that after eight months of work to install global positioning systems in the buses, the project was abandoned because it “was not the best for our school.”

Jesse Longoria, vice president of athletics and campus services, said lack of money also constrained his committee’s work. “We went in to address Safeßides and saw a need to ex~ pand the services that Safeßides provides,” he said, noting that he is lobbying to include funds in next year’s budget.

Instead, smaller projects—such as adding a bus stop near the Blue Zone and improving gym facilities—are where his committee had the most success.

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Sorting through both practical and impractical ideas has been a challenge, leaders said; maintaining an effectual senate has also been difficult on occasion.

“With a student organization like DSG, there’s always a propensity for resume-types to join,” Johnson said. “Something we’ve been really good at doing this year is weeding those people out.”

Poor attendance has also been a lingering problem for DSG, though Executive Vice President Andrew Wisnewski said the assembly was only unable to make quorum, or minimum attendance, on one occasion. Still, committee meeting attendance remains far from ideal, and committees are where the bulk of DSG’s legislative action occurs.

“There is an overwhelming majority that are coming to committee meetings, but as you know, there are some that lag off,” Wisnewski said. “There’s more room for improvement to make accountability even stronger.”

As far as improving DSG’s image, Majdi and others point to their accomplishments, preferring students take note of action rather than campaign rhetoric.

“DSG is the antithesis of a glory organization,” Johnson said. “It’s actually paradoxical. We’re the most visible student organization, but when [the Student Organization Financial Committee] gives money to student groups, for example, which is really important—students just aren’t that interested.”

Going into the next year, elected officials hope to increase transparency with more communication. E-mails to the student body and town-hall style meetings, Majdi said, have been vital in enhancing communication with students.

“If there’s a perception out there that we are a government, it’s really not the case. We’re really more of a lobbying organization,” Majdi said. “And we’re trying to give students a voice.”

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nication among campus organizations and between DSG and students.

Leinster plans to focus on the relaStudent Government Vice President of Community Interaction, has a tionship between the Duke and the tough act to follow. This year sopho- Durham communities. She hopes to create a centralized more Joel Kliksberg tt A'* I StaflGdltOrial website where stuhas brought incredidents can find inforble enthusiasm and energy to the position and has done a mation about the city as well as local job and volunteer opportunities. This fantastic job of improving communication among campus leaders through website will make is easier for students to become involved in the the Inter-Community Council.

Leinster has experience with DSG Durham community.

A particularly important aspect of as a Senator on the Community Interaction Committee, as well as other the Duke-Durham relationship releadership experience outside ofDSG. mains the conflict between Duke stuPerhaps the best quality Leinster will dents living off East Campus and the bring to the job is her ability to criticize Durham residents of those neighborDSG. She recognizes that DSG has hoods. Leinster wants to educate stuproblems successfully communicating dents about the community they are with students and with being held acliving in and build a mutual undercountable. It is important thatLeinster standing between the two groups. sees these weaknesses, since she will be She hopes that by building respect, in a prime position to help remedy the the conflict that typically arises can problems. ICC has done a lot to im- be quelled.

The Chronicle endorses Logan Leprove communication, and it is up to inster for VP of Community Interaction.

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Paige Sparkman has a lot of Duke Student Government experience—she has been a Senator or three years on both the Facilities and Athletics committee and the Student Affairs committee and is currently serving as DSG’s Public Relations Director—and this experience will benefit her in her bid for Vice President of Student Affairs.

Sparkman seems to have the knowledge and connections necessary to communicate both with the student body and others organizations. This communication is necessary for all of DSG, but particularly important for the VP of Student Affairs since a lot of the issues Student Affairs deals with overlap with other groups. It is important for the VP of Student Affairs to find out what students’ concerns are and then work in conjunction with Campus Council, the Union and die administration to address those con-

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At the top of Sparkman’s agenda is continuing, and hopefully completing, the organization and implementation of a system for online event registration. Although this may seem like a menial project, it will actually be a wonderful asset to student life on campus.

Right now, the difficulty of registering an event and reserving space for that event discourages students from hosting events on campus, and streamlining the process would be a positive step in improving social life.

Sparkman also wants to tackle some of the funding problems with DSG, particularly the security fund cap. It is good that Sparkman wants to address these issues since funding presents some of the most pressing problems for the organization.

The Chronicle endorses Paige Sparkman for VP of Student Affairs.

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Columnist’s argument flawed again As he did last year, Nathan Carleton misses the point on an important social issue. By asking whether society should “marry gays” instead of whethergays should “be allowed to get married,” Carleton misrepresents marriage and its historical use. Marriage as an institution exists to control, not protect, women. Modem Anglo-European culture developed from three main traditions—the Roman, the Germanic and the Judeo-Christian—each of which gives men a favored status, particularly within the realm of the domestic sphere. If we broaden this perspective to include cultures where bride price or dowry is the norm, we find that bride price turns women into property, while dowry usually Ms into the hands of the husband or his family, thereby reinforcing women’s dependence on men.

I fear that Carleton’s notion of marriage derives from its appearance in our privileged society, and is most likely a symptom of the “postmodern condition.” Having thus diagnosed Carleton’s disease, let’s find a cure. Carleton’s explanation of the logical fallacy in legalizing gay marriage actually amounts to a critique ofall

marriage if we view marriage as a religious institution which offers political benefit Ifinstead we see marriage as a political institution offering political benefits to the state (and religious benefits to those who need them), the picture is very different Homosexual couples offer the same commitment to each other that straight ones do and therefore can offer the same benefits to the state, provided more people gain the understanding of homosexuality that Carleton so disparages. Carleton pretends to examine gay marriage from a political standpoint while actually looking through a religious lens. In a country where church and state are ostensibly separate, it is this type ofrhetoric that we must be most careful of, as it presents the most pressing danger to our American system. Allowing our government to deny legal protection to citizens based on sexual preference is a dangerous step toward removing other civil rights. Perhaps for Carleton this makes sense. To me, it does not.

George Gilbert Trinity ’O6

Tuesday’s Angelica protest was appropriate I attended the March 22 event in Griffith, which had been advertised as an intimate chat where President Richard Brodhead would reveal his ideas on present and future undergraduate life.

My initial reaction when four protesters stepped onstage and unfurled their banner which read “Don’t Angelica Workers Deserve a Living Wage?” was embarrassment I felt sorry for Brodhead; this was supposed to be his grand introduction to undergraduates, but the protesters had usurped his voice. The protest seemed inappropriate and disrespectful to Brodhead.

Luckily for him, though, the audience was firmly on his side. Several audience members shouted that the protesters should organize their own event, since this one was Brodhead’s. Some audience members felt that their time was being wasted. Many felt uncomfortable. As Brodhead began to speak from the stage’s right comer, the audience laughed unnaturally loudly at his jokes.

When he concluded, they gave a standing ovation: compensation for their discomfort.

Since then, I have reflected on the protest

and its juxtaposition with Brodhead’s first major speech on the future of undergraduate life. My conclusion is that the president’s speech on undergraduate life is perhaps the most appropriate setting for a protest advocating a living wage.

The reality is that millions of people suffer in low-paying jobs while Duke undergraduates live the comfortable life of the educated. In a talk where the president’s vision amounted to the creation of a website listing internship opportunities and a loft-style Central, I applaud the juxtaposition of a protest forcibly recalling to undergraduates that many people are worse off than we are.

The protesters stood up and said, silently, that they would not condone an undergraduate body complacent on this issue. Personally, I wish to thank the protesters for reminding me that the disadvantaged need a voice and that the struggle for their rights is rarely pretty. Finally, I ask President Brodhead to answer directly the question raised on the banner.

OazNir Trinity ‘O5

Workers’ rights need recognition Duke Students Against Sweatshops members are doing our part. We asked the University community a question that was unavoidableand challenging —don’t Angelica workers deserve a living wage? While he did not sanction our action, President Richard Brodhead was right to encourage students to engage in the University community and the broader community and work for their passions that “transcend homework.”

The situation and voices of campus workers are often pushed aside, which is why we remained on stage with the banner even after being asked, in solidarity with all Duke employees who are not paid enough or given fair benefits. The University is not doing enough for its workers.

For the Angelica hospital laundry workers, contrary to President Brodhead’s response, there are many serious labor law charges (in violation of Duke’s contract) that have now been found meritorious against the Durham facility.

Many more charges are pending. We have met with President Brodhead and the administration many times, and the response has not changed. President Brodhead should not be idle while these charges accumulate. He

should act immediately to recognize the workers’ rights and demands.

However, solving the Angelica problem is not enough. Duke needs a true living wage for all employees, including contracted ones, not an arbitrary minimum of $lO. As Durham’s largest employer, Duke makes a huge impact upon the community. That impact should be

summarily positive.

Under student pressure, Georgetown announced Thursday its plans to provide all workers, hiredand outsourced, a living wage. Durham County has a living wage ordinance for all its employees, and it is time for Duke to as well.

Tuesday, President Brodhead quoted William Blake, “without contraries is no progression.”

The quote continues, “Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.” It is the energy of students and many other community members who are engaged that help drive this university, and indeed, society at large, to betterment.

Chris Paul Trinity ’O5 with eight others

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Remembering Red Lake

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Outrageous aversion

The following is a fictional foray into the mind of a killer. Inmind it inevitably leaves me empty, as if I’ve not only ruined spired by last week’s massacre at Red Lake High School—the worst someone else’s day but heightened my own depression by school shooting since Columbine in 1999—it contains strong lanattempting to articulate it. Yes, I’m often depressed. And I guage and some explicit content. Any resemblance to your own get depressed easily. Shit, I get depressed whenever I pour a Coke. I once saw this website exposing how Coke hires thoughts is purely coincidental. toddlers to work in its Nicaraguan factories, then pays them faking hate life. The whole f**king charade. Sometimes I just want to slit my wrists or blow my brains out in glue. The kids get addicted to sniffing, then won’t stop and get it all over with. But I don’t have the balls to do working for Coke because it’s the only place they can get it. I’m a coward. It’s not death I’m scared of; we all gotta go the glue so cheap! some day. It’s the prospect of happiness just around the corBut I still drink Coke. It’s the law of Americanism: conner that frightens the hell out of me. suming in the face of everything, your own demise be damned. Besides, there’s nothing better I can’t get out of this stupid body of mine, with my ugly face and skin and fat all than an icy Coca-Cola to go with a thick encasing the twistedness in my head. I don’t juicy cheeseburger. If I don’t die from inknow why I think the way I do, I just do. I sanity, at least my arteries will clog and be can’t stop thinking about how unfair the slowly plagued by the sugary acid I gulp world is. And how the rest of the world down like air.

It’s not like my life has been that rough, traipses onward, probably in contempt of but Jesus! How can that not affect me? Litmy. petty suffering. Or more likely, comhe kids working to sniff glue? And that’s pletely oblivious to it. Feeling empathy in this world is a real b**ch. It doesn’t make philip kurian just the tip of the iceberg. With all the platsense. Not a Peking bit of sense. Life will alitudes I hear in school about not resorting the pen Is mightier to drugs or gangs, the kind of wars we’re ways find away to screw you I can’t even communicate what I’m feelfighting abroad don’t inspire much confidence or patriotism in my heart. ing to my friends. It’s like I’m trapped inside my mind, begWords can always be dismissed or written off as errant ging to be released from my own consciousness. Sometimes I sit there, a plastered smile dripping across my awkward fabecause that’s just it, at the end of the day they’re simply cial contortions, trying to hide all the pain inside. I try my words. But violence, violence is what inspires us to think best to listen attentively, but if I’m with a really good friend and to re-think. It changes our behavior. It helps us underI can listen and stare expressionless at the ceiling, nodding stand the hatred and sorrow ofothers. It moves us to see the and “mmhmm”-ing and sprinkling lightly humorous comgood in the world. mentary throughout.

Happiness means living, and often reveling, in this conSometimes I genuinely laugh—those deep hearty guttradiction. To be constantly prepared for hatred and murtural laughs where you don’t care who hears—and I’m reder, but to espouse the belief that hatred and murder are minded of why I choose to live. These are the reasons for despicable to our collective conscience. If happiness looks living, I guess, those fleeting moments of happiness that like this, then I refuse happiness. Especially the kind ofeasy, punctuate the sad contradictions of our daily existence. But complacent happiness I see around me. what a depressing realization.

Apparently I’m not as good at hiding my depression as The real problem comes when they want to hear from I think. People who care aboutyou have this curious way me. I don’t want to rehash my miserable day, the litany of of understanding that there’s a problem, even if they don’t understand. The parents have tried their best to fix things I did and didn’t enjoy. How I went to the same classes I always go to and how I fell asleep in all but one of them, me. Ritalin, Adderall, Zoloft, the whole nine yards. The PE, but felt bad because I’m not as flexible or quick or blue pill, the purple pill, the dope-me-to-oblivion pill.

Give me re-socialization classes, a full frontal lobotomy, for strong as the others.

I feel bad because I focus on the negatives, in spite of the Christ’s sake something that works. Something that will fact that I’ve been told since I left the womb to look on the cure me of me.

The really hilarious thing I wonder sometimes, is if I bright side. I should be glad someone is interested in my day, I should be glad I had the opportunity for PE, I should were older and had some degrees behind my name I could be glad I can stretch and run and lift. But I’m not. What’s probably make loads of money talking about all this. Grad wrong with me? Did I miss something in the manual oflife? students and sadomasochists from across the globe would I know there’s another side to the coin I just can’t-or flock to hear my lectures. But I’m going through that stage don’t want to-see. Still, I’m constantly left wondering if I of development now, too early, a prepubescent peon withhave a problem, you know, a psychotic dementia of sorts out fame or fortune. I didn’t do life right. I had to do it my that prevents me from interacting like other humans. way, the only way that would work for me.

Awww, f**k it. I don’t know why I’m telling you this.

Everyone else has somehow been clued into this magical secret, except me. I think I threw away that manual of life, Maybe I’ll go shoot up the school. when I stopped caring about my own.

In those rare instances when I actually say what’s on my Philip Kurian is a Trinity senior. His column appears Mondays.

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to go to Indonesia on a Dean’s Research Fellowship? Not anymore. How about using Duke support to go to Burundi or Somalia? Sony. A recent change prohibits the use of Duke funds for travel to countries with a State Department Travel Advisory. Duke undergraduate research will now have to meet the government’s benchmark for safety.

Two basic arguments underlie this policy shift. The first is uniformity: this change makes the research travel policy consistentwith existing rules for Duke’s study abroad programs.

The second argument is an “emerging awareness” about global security challenges facing American travelers. The belief is that students would face great danger in these countries and Duke would face immense liability issues. Besides, how could the University knowingly put its students at risk?

In the past, however, Duke students have traveled to these same “dangerous” countries and have been personally transformed as a result. Just ask Duke graduate and Hart Fellow Pooja Kumar, who traveled to East Timor with Save the Children shortly after the 1999 separatist violence, a trip she called “the most intensive learning experience I have had to date.” Or Eric Greitens, who traveled to Rwanda with a U.N. support team shortly after the 1994 genocide and wrote that the post-conflict sights prompted “some very, very serious reflection about ultimate purpose and what mss things are all about and Wm how I have to reconcile what I know about the world with what I hope to do in the future.” From Isjimmy soni rael to Haiti to Kenya, stumatter of fact dents have broadened their ethical and academic horizons by traveling to these troubled regions.

This policy is also an about-face for an administration trying to cultivate a culture of global awareness and activism among its undergraduates. From the growth of the Humanitarian Challenges FOCUS program to the ever-encompassing global health initiative, Duke is striving to institutionalize scholar-activism. How can the administration possibly justifybanning travel to Haiti mere months after bringing in Dr. Paul Farmer and requiring thatall freshmen read Mountains Beyond Mountains? How can the administration rationalize barring undergraduates from those very countries where professors like Kate Whetten, Sheryl Broverman and Kirk Felsman have been hard at work? How can we validate such a decision after luring Nobel Prize-winning scientist/human rights activist Dr. Peter Agre and DUHS Chancellor and health inequalities czar Dr. Victor Dzau?

Why inspire students to such great heights and then forbid them from their dreams?

Beyond simply being flawed in spirit, the policy is logically unconvincing. For instance, a Duke student could no longer use Duke funds to travel with a professor, as students have done in the past. Furthermore, Duke could not legitimately fund travel for undergraduates who are native citizens of these countries. This policy also ignores enormous regional differenceswithin countries: northern Sudan is not war-tom southern Sudan and Eastern Pakistan is not the lawless Western Pakistan. The list itself is a political instrument: for example, the State Department avoids banning travel to our economic trading partners regardless ofrisk.

In his conversation with the undergraduate student body, President Richard Brodhead praised one studentwho had taken a “great educational opportunity” by exploring cross-ethnic relations in Bosnia-Herzegovina—one of the “central dramas of our strife-tom world.” That project would be impossible under this revised policy! Duke should be encouraging students to explore countries beyond the usual, wealthy, western European nations to which we are accustomed. If we are asking students to challenge their traditional notions of culture and Americanism by studying abroad, we should not do so bylimiting travel to those countries deemed acceptably “safe”—read: Western.

A much more nuanced travel policy is absolutely necessary. Independent research projects are assessed individually to begin with, so it shouldn't take much more to judge whether a student has acknowledged safety concerns and taken appropriate measures. These might include traveling with a professor or with an internationally recognized NGO. As it stands, this policy is restrictive and short-sighted. We are trading transformative experiences and cultural expansion for safety and uniformity. We are preventing students from owning their undergraduate educations and from applying their scholarship in the challenging, risky, edgy way that is Duke.

Jimmy Soni is a Trinity sophomore.

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