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Aviki lose a fraction of her original vote count as punishment, which would send the race into a The Duke Student Governthree-candidate runoff with Lonment presidential race was goria and junior Russ Ferguson. thrown into flux early this mornFerguson submitted his aping when the DSG Judiciary ruled peal of the Election Commisthat part of the Election Commission’s decision early Sunday, but sion’s weekend rulings the Judiciary was unI— was unconstitutional. able to begin considerToday’s planned ing it until Monday berunoff between juniors cause Lemke was out of town for the weekend.

Emily Aviki and Jesse In the original execLongoria will likely not take place as the Elecutive election, Longotion Commission must ria garnered a plurality now reconvene to deof the vote, but he THE VOTE could not muster the termine how to pro2005 ceed. The runoff, how10 percent lead over ever, IRUSt OCCUr by the closest runner-up Thursday, per DSG bynecessary to seal his bid laws. DSG Attorney General Elizfor the presidency. In the final abeth Ladner, chair of the Eleccount, Longoria had 37 percent tion Commission, could not be of the vote, Aviki had 33 percent reached for comment after the and junior Russ Ferguson trailed Judiciary announced its decision. with 29 percent.

Although the Judiciary upFerguson was eliminated fyom held the commission’s April 2 the runoff in the Election Comfinding that Aviki had violated mission’s original decision; if the campaign laws during the March commission follows the Judicia31 executive election, it decided ry’s suggestion, Aviki would be the sanction forbidding Aviki to docked 4 percent and she and campaign during the resulting Ferguson would be tied, so both runoff period was illegal. A would be eligible for the runoff. runoff is a separate election from DSG bylaws permit officials to discount votes when determinthe original vote, DSG Chief Justice Emilie Lemke said, and any ing sanctions for election violapunishments should only apply tions. “If a candidate... is found to the election during which die guilty after polls are open, then violation occurred. the Election Commission may The Judiciary sent the ruling disqualify the candidate’s or back to the Election Commission widi die recommendation that SEE DSG ON PAGE 7 by

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Roy Williams finally won his first national championship Monday after four unsuccessful trips, including withKansas in 2003.

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“I’m just so happy for myself, “He is the greatest coach,” my family,” Williams said. “These Felton said. “If he retired tomorseniors... they took me for a heck row, I would vote for him for the of a ride.”

Hall of Fame. He told us he Sean May had 26 points and would bring us a championship the Tar Heels didn't allow a and we did it as a team.” basket over the final, excruciatLed by May's 10-for-ll shooting 2:30. ing, Carolina took a 65-55 lead Freshman Marvin Williams with 8:51 left and it looked like had a tip-in with 1:26 left, RayWilliams would win his 41st tourmond Felton made three free nament game and first champithrows down the stretch and the onship going away.

Tar Heels (33-4) won their first But Illinois (37-2) never quits. title since 1993, back when Dean The Illini shot 27 percent in the Smith was coaching and Williams SEE UNC ON PAGE 14 was at Kansas, in the middle of career.

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Stymied so many times before ‘n hS | 75 UNC ursu t Illinois 70 of a tide, the longtime coach broke through Monday night. The tears this time were tears ofjoy, the result a 75-70 victory over Illinois that finally gave Williams the national championship that was missing from his otherwise stellar 17-year

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CHAPEL HILL Franklin Street came alive Monday night when the wildest celebration in the country erupted after the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill clenched the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament title for the first time since 1993.

Watching as the final seconds of the tight game ticked away, fans climbed onto bar stools and tables or crowded around the windows of packed restaurants to get a glimpse of the Tar Heels defeating the University of Illinois on the hundreds of television screens broadcasting the game.

Pumping fists in the air or wringing their hands with anxiety, students, locals and out-of-towners of all ages watched breathlessly until the clock hit zero.

And then the floodgates opened.

When UNC claimed victory, cheering fans began pouring out of bars and restaurants that line Franklin Street. As the earliest arrivals hurled toilet paper in the air and leapt into each other’s arms under the streetlights, other students came running from houses and dormitories blocks away. The street was soon nearly invisible as close to 45,000 people packed the pavement.

The exuberant mob’s cries of victory echoed into the night as drunken fans hoisted themselves onto lampposts and tree branches, beat drums and set off fireworks that exploded precariously close to the crowd.

“This is epitome of my college career,” SEE UNC ON PAGE 8

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VATICAN CITY Falling silent, whisthe and their hands, clasping pering rosary tens of thousands of pilgrims paid their final respects to Pope John Paul II Monday after his body was carried on a crimson platform to St. Peter’s Basilica.

Incense wafted through the church where he will be laid to rest Friday in an ancient grotto holding the remains of popes through the ages, immediately after a funeral to be attended under heavy security

by President George W. Bush and dozens of other world leaders.

There was no stopping for a lingering view, a motionless moment of reflection.

Many wept as they walked past the bier.

Some collapsed against the wall outside after leaving the basilica, designed by Bramante and Michelangelo and dedicated in 1626.

People who had never had an audience with the pope felt as if they had lost a dear one. “Every time I saw him (on television) he told me something, he gave me a message,” said Silvia Sandon, 23, a student in Rome, after viewing the body. “Now, I just saw him.”

“His face was suffering,” said Sister Emma, a 76-year-old Italian nun. “I felt a sense of sadness, even though I know he’s in Heaven.”

On John Paul’s feet were a pair of the simple brown leather shoes he favored during his 26-year pontificate and wore on

Iraq prison clash occurs again Prisoners at Iraq's largest detention facility protested the transfer of several detainees deemed "unruly" by authorities, throwing rocks and setting tents on fire in a disturbance that injured four guards and 12 detainees, the military said Monday.

Reward for info on fugitive The U.S. State Department said Monday it was offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture and conviction of the last remaining fugitive wanted for the 1993 bombing of the WorldTrade Center.

Creditors cannot seize IRAs The Supreme Court gave bankrupt Americans another layer of financial protection Monday, ruling that creditors cannot seize their Individual Retirement Accounts. The

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The body of Pope John Paul II passes through Saint Peter'sSquare as public viewing opens Monday. many of his trips to more than 120 countries—a poignant reminder of the legacy left by history’s most-traveled pope.

The crowd cheerfully chanted and clapped hands on the street leading to St. Peter’s Square as it moved slowly toward the basilica. As soon as it entered the square, people fell silent as if they were en-

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So a bunch of gophers are located in front of a bunch of gopher holes. Only one gopher is allowed in each hole. The gophers have exactly T number of seconds to reach the hole before they get eaten by a hawk, and you can spare a certain number of gophers. What’s the least amount of time needed to save all the gophers that need to be saved?

You may have no idea, but junior Ben Mickle does.

“Well, first you run a binary search on the farthest distance the gopher needs to go to get to the hole,” he said. “Then, for each distance, you run a maximum bipartite matching problem. If you can match out a sufficient number of gophers, you try to decrease the binary search. If you can’t match up enough, you increase the distance on the binary search.”

It might sound like gibberish, but for a group of Duke students, those words may be the key to a world championship win.

In addition to Mickle, freshman Matt Edwards and senior Garrett Casto form Team Magabe, a Duke computer programming team led by Coach Owen Astrachan, professor of the practice of computer science.

The team qualified to participate in the world’s most prestigious computer competition—the World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM. The competition, in Shanghai, China, began April 3 and will run through April 7. In order to qualify for the competition, which brings together the top 78 teams from around the world, Team Magabe beat out more than 100 teams to place first in the Mid-Adantic regional.

The grueling national competition is five hours long, and each team of three students has one computer to solve eight

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After months of hammering out details, the curtain is starting to rise on a theater in downtown Durham.

The city is cementing its plans for a new $35-million performing arts center that will host cultural acts including the American Dance Festival, which holds its summer season at Duke. ADF also plans to raise about $8.5 million of its own to build a smaller, secondary theater adjacent to the main stage.

If Durham goes forward with the theaters, University administrators have said Duke would contribute about $3 million to the city for the project.

The city’s theater would seat 2,800 viewers, and performances would focus on artistic and cultural acts. ADF’s smaller theater would be a 40,000square-foot “black box” that would include rehearsal space, studios and administrative offices. With movable seating, the theater would hold up to

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After winning the Mid-Atlantic regional, a team ofDuke students competes this week in Shanghai, China, in the worldfinals of theAssociation for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest.

10 complex problems equal to a semester’s worth of computer programming. Some of the questions involve several hundred lines of code. To get points, the submitted programs must be completely free of bugs, and the team that takes the least amount of time to finish the most programs wins. Recent winners have included teams from Poland, Russia and China. A U.S. team has not won since 1997.

As a requirement to participate in the regional competition, the three students took Astrachan’s course, Computer Science 1495. But each had also had previous programming experience. In high school, Casto and Edwards became involved with TopCoder, an online league for programming competitions. Mickle to

started programming in eighth grade, creating games on his TI-83 calculator.

‘We always have teams that could do well; we just never know if they are going to,” Astrachan said. “The team this year is three good programmers—we don’t have a team of all Americans, but we have a team of good guys that practice well together.”

Casto, Mickle and Edwards believe the key to their success as a team so far has been a result of their various individual strengths. Casto does well with computational geometry, Mickle said, so they tend to give him those problems. Mickle said he prefers the “number theory stuff’ and Edwards does better at “figuring out weird things... to implement stuff.”

500 people.

With minimal backstage room and a limited capacity for scenery, “black box” theaters are used primarily for smallscale productions and experimental theater. During ADF’s off-season, the theater would likely be available for local groups to rent.

“Small, relatively inexpensive and not overly fancy theaters are in demand with arts groups across the country,” ADF Board Chair Carlton Midyette said.

At the same time, having a large theater in addition to a small theater would help ADF build its base of patrons, who would link the location to the festival’s identity, he added.

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Writing 20 class guns for big screen, fame by

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It is 12:30 a.m. on a Thursday night, and freshman Dan Fox returns to his dorm room as the laughs of jubilant—if slightly intoxicated—college students echo through the backyard quadrangle of East Campus. For Fox, however, it has been one of many long nights of script reading and film editing for his writing class.

When most Duke freshmen hear the words “Writing 20,” they think of endless readings, lengthy papers and that unpleasant animal known to many as the core curriculum. But for Fox and the 23 other students in Professor Bradley Hammer’s class “Dorm Room Documentaries,” a simple core requirement may very well be the first step toward the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah next January.

Throughout the semester, Hammer’s two Writing 20 sections have worked to produce a 118-minute feature film that they hope to debut April 21. Hammer presented his students with a movie topic and storyline in January that they have revised and edited over the past three months.

The movie, Hammer said, is a story about students who are taking a filmmaking class; a murder mystery will produce an unexpected twist at the end.

Fifty to 60 people, including the students in the class and an additional 25 student actors who were selected through auditions in late January, comprise a sizeable production team. Most of the pivotal scenes will be shot in the next two weeks.

As they enter the final weeks of preparation before the big day, the students are balancing the fatigue stemming from long nights pouring over scripts with the exciting prospect of creating a full-length motion picture. But amid the murmurings of Sundance, the production team remains focused on the film’s release in less than three weeks.

“For a group of 24 students having no budget except for what I paid for out ofmy pocket, and having three months to make a full length motion picture, I think it’s incredible,” Hammer said.

Hammer, a Mellon Lecturing Fellow who has previously produced documentaries on the writing process, created the

course to combine critical examination of cinematography with the production of a

feature-length presentation.

On top of the movie, students have to submit two written assignments every week and will hand in a final paper at the end of the semester. In order to make them fun and interesting, Hammer said he has always attempted to add an extra component to his writing courses. In past years, he has created a magazine and an online journal.

‘You gotta have fun, but in the context of some kind of meaningful learning at the same time,” Hammer said. “The whole idea of the movie is to produce something that is real, that the kids can be proud of, that they can show off, that’s actually out in the world, and then the writing they do makes more sense to them.”

Many of the freshmen in the class were enthused when they first found out that there was an alternative to the normal Writing 20 experience.

“Basically, it was an opportunity to turn my Writing 20 class into making a movie,” freshman Chiara McPhee said.

Some of the freshmen in the course will call it a wrap after handing in their final paper in May, but others, like McPhee, hope to continue the project as part of an independent study or extracurricular film club.

“To really do this right is probably going to take into next year,” Hammer said.

Doing it “right,” however, has taken much more than just time. Coordinating the project has been difficult at certain points, Hammer said, due in large part to the limited experience of those involved.

There are also the demands of school, work and day-to-day life. Students have had to juggle making a movie in three months with their normal course load, and Hammer said he has been away from home more than his wife would like.

Everyone involved, however, is confident that the project will be well worth the effort in the end.

“If we can actually pull it off and pull it off well, I think it will go far just because of the people behind it,” McPhee said.

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Tensions escalate among branches of N.C. government by

Gary Robertson

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RALEIGH For years, North Carolina’s Democrats have been skilled at keeping intraparty differences behind closed doors—in contrast to their seemingly ever-bickering GOP counterparts.

That’s changed in recent months, as the state’s top elected officials have aired their differences in board meetings, legislative chambers and courtrooms Longtime observers of state government don’t remember a time when tensions between legislative leaders and a governor of the same party have been so high. At the same time, there are notable strains between all three branches of state government.

“I have never seen the legislative branch and the executive branch be so much at odds with each other,” said Alexander “Sandy” Sands, a former state senator and current lobbyist at the General Assembly.

Certainly, said Thad Beyle, a political scientist frotn the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this kind of Democratic infighting is unprecedented in the decades since North Carolina became a true two-party state. Before that, there may have been Democratic civil wars, he said, “but there were no Republicans around.”

Democratic Gov. Mike Easley took office more than four years ago, but has never had particularly warm relations with House Speaker Jim Black or Senate leader Marc Basnight.

Easley didn’t come up through the traditional party ranks and has largely shied away from the power breakfasts of his predecessors Jim Hunt and Jim Martin, where they worked over lawmakers while eating ham biscuits at the Executive Mansion.

Easley’s very first veto—of an appointments bill that handed out jobs to key legislative allies—irked Basnight and Black. And the governor has threatened to block budget bills that leave out his pet projects.

Even so, the Easley Way proved fruitful for his party last

year, when Black was able to ride his education agenda to take back the House for Democrats after a two-year powersharing arrangement with moderate Republicans.

“I respect him. I like his love of improving education,” Black said of Easley in an interview. But “he’s more forceful than some people might think.”

In recent weeks, the governor has tussled with Black and Basnight over two tracts of state-owned land—one in rural Currituck County and the other in downtown Charlotte—raising frustration levels for all three.

In February, Easley won a court battle over the Currituck property, when a Wake County judge said the $1 sale Basnight slipped into last year’s budget was too vague for the governor to enforce. Easley had refused to give away all the property lawmakers wanted him to.

Basnight and Black then quickly penned a bill that strictly specified the Currituck land donations—and gave an 80year state building and surrounding land in downtown

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crimebriefs Police investigating possible arson at the Washington Duke Police are investigating a report of a small fire April 1 in a room at the Washington Duke Inn. A supervisor told police the April 1 fire is the second incident in the last week. The April 1 fire was set in a room in the under-construction addition, but did not cause substantial damage. Estimated damage is $125.

Chapel Hill man charged with breaking and entering A Chapel Hill man was arrested and charged April 3 with breaking and entering after a disturbance in Kilgo Quad. Police said Adam Kendall, 18, punched and kicked a Duke student's door at 5:41 a.m. in House J. Police said the fight appeared to be over a female, and Kendall had been drinking and cursed at officers on the scene.

Kendall was also charged with being intoxicated and disruptive and possessing marijuana. Kendall was unable to be reached for comment.

Virginian for carrying a concealed weapon on campus A Virginia man was jcited March 29 on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon on campus after police recovered a handgun from a car at the Duke Eye Center.

Randall Carter, 52, has an April 22 court date in Durham County. Carter was unavailable for comment.

Student charged with DWI A student was arrested and charged early March 29 with driving while impaired. Gyorgy Bacsa, a graduate student, was driving east on Erwin Road at 2:05 a.m. and turned on LaSalle Street and crossed the center line, police said. Police performed a traffic stop and said Bacsa registered more than a .08 blood alcohol level, the alcohol concentration at which a person is

from police and staff reports considered impaired. Bacsa was unavailable for comment.

she returned after work, the 15-inch, star-shaped rims were gone.

Student leaves laptop in commons room for five days, returns to find it stolen A student's laptop was stolen last week from House GG2. The student told police he left his Macintosh computer, headphones and charger in the unlocked commons room last Saturday. When he returned to take the property to his residence hall Wednesday, the laptop was missing. The laptop is worth $2,000.

Duke flag filched The Duke flag at the Allen Building was reported stolen March 30. The flag was on the pole March 29, but missing the next morning. The rope used to raise and lower the flag had been cut. The flag is valued at $5O.

Snooze and lose the glasses, student found A student reported his prescription sunglasses stolen March 29 from Perkins Library. The student told police the glasses, worth $5OO, were on an armrest while he slept. When he awoke, the glasses were gone.

Student cited for the possession of drug paraphernalia A Duke student was cited April 2 on a charge of possessing drug paraphernalia. Sophomore Stewart Dansby Jr., 20, was cited after police responded to Edens quadrangle about a fireworks complaint, police said. Officers smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from a room and found two bongs.

Dansby has an April 29 court date.

Dansby was unavailable for comment.

Biddle sign purposefully damaged A sign marking the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building was damaged March 31.

Someone used a concrete-filled pole to ram and dent the sign. Damage is estimated at $250.

Car rims ransacked from H Lot Car rims worth $125 were stolen March 30 from a vehicle parked in the H Lot off Anderson Street. The owner of the Toyota Camry told police she parked her car at 7:20 a.m., and when

Walletheisted from Hudson Hall A student's wallet was stolen April 1 from Hudson Hall. The student told police his wallet was taken between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. April 1.

Police investigating illegal trash dumping in Duke Forest Duke Police are investigating a case of illegal dumping of trash in the Duke Forest off Murphy School Road. A Duke employee found several boxes of household trash and reported it to police March 30.

Police discover pizza signs Police removed two Papa John's Pizza signs from rooms in House N and House L. Police found the signs during a noise complaint at 6:45 p.m. April 2 in Kilgo Quad. No one has been charged, and the investigation is continuing.

Counterfeit bill cashed at Alpine Bagel A fake $2O bill was used March 28 at Alpine Bagel in West Union, an employee reported to Duke Police. The employee told police the bill was discovered at about 4 p.m. when a worker was counting money.

Police respond to loud party complaint Duke officers responded to 1111 Urban St. early March 30 to assist Durham Police with a loud party complaint. The party broke up after police arrived at 12:35 a.m. No one was arrested, and no citations were issued.

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New York University NEW YORK will decide whether to renegotiate the graduate student union’s contract in June, according to an official e-mail sent out to the university community Thursday.

Last June the National Labor Review Board, the government organization in charge of monitoring relations between employers and unions, overturned a previous decision recognizing graduate student employees as having the right to unionize.

Consequently, the university is no longer legally obligated to recognize the union as the bargaining unit of the graduate students, whose contract expires August 31.

In the months since last summer’s decision, university officials have continued to say they were gratified with the NLRB’s decision but were still weighing the costs and benefits of the representation of graduate students by United Auto Workers local 2110.

The Graduate Student’s Organizing Committee at NYU, which includes teaching assistants, research assistants and graduate assistants, formed in March 2000, after a landmark NLRB decision characterized graduate students as workers, as well as students, with the right to unionize.

The four-page e-mail was written by the same two university administrators who negotiated last spring’s adjunct contract: Cheryl Mills, vice president for operations and administration, and Terrance Nolan, deputy director of labor relations.

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While praising the benefits gained by graduate student employees in the years since 2000, the e-mail said the union was using its grievance process to challenge the university’s right to academic decision-making, going so far as to exert “exclusive union ‘jurisdiction’ over certain academic programs and activities—despite both parties’ agreement that academic matters are the sole province of the University through its faculty.”

Michael Palm, unit chairman of GSOC, said the university’s claims were “ridiculous,” arguing that the grievances the e-mail referred to were instances where NYU administrators were trying to hire graduate students as adjuncts and preceptors, in order to pay them less than they would be paid under the graduate student union contract.

Several of the other grievances, Palm said, concerned workplace conditions, mistreatment of workers and situations where NYU refused to follow the letter of the contract.

Some graduate student union members said the e-mail isn’t giving the grievance process a fair assessment.

“They seem to be intentionally painting this grievance

process in a negative light,” said Jenny Shaw, a doctoral candidate in Graduate School of Arts and Science who supports the union. “But that is what you do in a union. It’s how you deal with disputes and issues. It’s not like we go around asking our members for grievances; people come to us.”

The current union contract provides graduate students with a $12,000 stipend with $l,OOO pay increases each year, as well as increased health coverage and job assignments appropriate to their skills. While the e-mail presented renegotiation and non-recognition of the union as two possible avenues with which to deal with graduate students, it assured that eitherway, the university«will “remain committed to highly competitive stipends, quality health care coverage, and fair processes for resolving disputes.”

The e-mail suggests that the university may decide to construct an alternative to the current graduate student union: A university framework with similar benefits but with a different grievance procedure.

Palm argued that even if the university raises stipends, maintains healthcare and institutes a new grievance process, the graduate students will lose their collective voice and consequently their power to negotiate a contract.

“If the workers decide they want a union, they should

be able to have a union,” he said, adding that the university may raise stipends this year to appease graduate students, but they could reduce them the next.

No later than April 25, the University Senate Academic Affairs Committee and the Faculty Advisory Committee on Academic Priorities will present their recommendation to the university on whether to renegotiate a contract with the graduate student union, the e-mail said. The university will announce its final decision in early June—which GSOC organizers said is too late to begin negotiating a contract.

“If they plan to gather opinions by April, why only decide in June?” Palm said “The contract expires in August so that won’t leave us enough time to negotiate after their decision. They should have it by the end of the semester if this is really going to work.”

Members of the graduate student union said they were irked the university hasn’t contacted them yet to begin discussing contract negotiations, they said they were glad the issue has been presented to the community.

“At least [the university] recognize [s] that graduate students should have a voice in their own working conditions and are thinking of improving them,” said Miabi Chatteiji, a doctoral candidate in GSAS and supporter of the union.

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When Durham began initial discussions about building to pay for upgrades to the princia theater, Duke ple space, so ADF could hold its major performances there. The dance festival currently holds its performances in Page Auditorium, but Duke and ADF officials have said the on-campus venue—with its small stage and lack of dressing room space—is inadequate as a dance theater.

With renovations to Page and the possible construction of a new Duke theater far off, the University offered about $3 million to the city’s initial vision so the Durham performing arts center could accommodate ADF. Durham’s proposed theater has undergone multiple incarnations since planning began. Originally the project was slated as a 4,000 seat concert venue. After community groups raised concerns about Clear Channel Inc., the initial theater operator, the project was re-structured.

“This proposal looks more rational to us than the earlier one,” said John Burness, Duke’s seniorvice president for public affairs and government relations. “This one is smaller, more focused.”

The theater’s likely operators—Nederlander and Professional Facilities Management —would reserve time for ADF’s performances in the city-owned theater. The space would be an appropriate atmosphere for dance performances, added Phil Szostak, the architect coordinating the project.

Throughout the planning process, Durham has sought as much at $l3 million from the University to fund the project. Duke officials, however, refused to increase their initial $3 million commitment.

Durham is financing the performance center through a one percent increase in the county’s hotel-motel occupancy tax, but the city is still about $7 million shy of the $35 million it needs to finance the theater.

Concerns about money led the city to trim some of ADF’s amenities from its original theater plan. “We always had a rehearsal space in the back of the house for ADF as part of a large theater,” Szostak said.

“When we couldn’t afford it, we moved it out to the front of the house so it could share a lobby and be used as a theater.”

Although Midyette said ADF would prefer that the city pay for its adjunct theater, the festival is prepared to fund its performance needs.

“What’s emerging now is a better arrangement for Durhamand for ADF,” Midyette said. “Whileit’s been along and maybe tortuous path, I think it’s betterfor all of us.”

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DSG from page 1 campaign’s votes,” Lemke said, citing the DSG constitution.

In addition to the ruling, the Judiciary informed all of the candidates that it was “embarrassed” and “absolutely disgusted” with the behavior of some of the candidates, Lemke said. The two-week campaign has been marked by flying accusations, particularly between the Aviki and Ferguson campaigns. Lemke noted that during the appeals hearing Longoria stayed out of the fray.

Over the course of the campaign, Aviki has been charged with premature campaigning and posting an illegal “live” link on her AOL Instant Messenger profile on election day. The Election Commission sanctioned Aviki for those charges but ruled Saturday that she could remain in the runoff, albeit without campaigning.

Candidates and their supporters have also hurled allegations against each other about bribing minors with alcohol and an incident involving slogans painted on the East Campus bridge.

While Aviki has been unable to personally reach out for votes, she said her friends have been campaigning for her.

“My supporters have been incredible in wanting to actually dress up and campaign for me today,” Aviki said.

Refusing to leave the race quietly, Ferguson filed his appeal Sunday with the Judiciary in which he decried the Election Commission’s decision and reiterated ear-

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lier allegations. Ferguson insisted that Aviki’s violations of election regulations should disqualify her from the runoff. The Judiciary did not disqualify Aviki, but its ruling could nonetheless extend Ferguson’s bid for the presidency.

“The more personal reason I’m filing the appeal is because I feel like a candidate cheated, and the election was so close that the votes that she got by cheating probably put her into the runoff,” Ferguson said before the hearing. “No matter what happens to me, for the future of DSG that’s sending a bad statement: to win you can cheat.”

Aviki said Monday she did not take Ferguson’s accusations all too seriously, and she did not believe that the Election Commission or student body would either. “It’s a lot of slander, it’s not a lot of fact,” Aviki said.

Longoria, however, has attempted to run his campaign outside of the controversy, distancing himself from the accusations volleying back and forth between the Aviki and Ferguson camps. “I’m doing my best to stay out of any situations that have arisen. I’m doing my best to control things I can control, and that’s my campaign,” Longoria said. “I trust the Election Commission to make the best decisions.”

Much of the contention arose from an incident March 29 when the Election Commission received notice of the slogans ‘Jesse’s pesky,” “Aviki’s tricky” and “Concerned citizens endorse Ross the boss” on the East Campus bridge. When all three candidates arrived on the scene, Aviki and Ferguson supporters argued over who was responsible for the incident, each accusing

the other. Members of the Election Commission divided the bridge among the candidates that night and ordered that each paint over the section with his or her name on it.

Senior James Saad, a member ofFerguson’s campaign team, filed a complaint with the Election Commission that implicated Aviki in the incident.

Aviki said she was particularly struck by the Ferguson camp’s allegations. “I was very surprised thathe could actually have the gall to say that I was responsible,” she said. Ferguson said Monday he did not know who was responsible for the bridge painting.

Aviki’s campaign has been fraught with controversy since a pro-Aviki banner was hung 20 minutes before official campaigning was supposed to begin at midnight March 21. The Election Commission cut her campaign funds in half and banned Aviki from hanging banners on Main West.

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a fast dorm room alarm clock and said that while the incident hurt the first day and was “unfortunate,” she was able to run her campaign within the budget constraints.

After Aviki’s second campaign violation—leaving a live link on her AOL Instant Messenger profile on election day—the Election Commission ruled Aviki could remain in the race but prevented her from campaigning and disqualified her from receiving the $5 budget allotment for runoff elections. Those final punishments were the pieces of the ruling the Judiciary found objectionable.

Ladner said while the commission decided that the student body should ultimately make the decisions, Aviki was sanctioned “because we did feel that she violated the rules twice, showing utter disregard for the by-laws, and that she should be punished, and have it made public

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UNC from page 1 UNC sophomore Jared Lanier said, caught amid the chaos. “It’s bigger than I expected it to be. I’ve been a fan since the first grade. This is wonderful.”

Chanting with the rest of the crowd as the hum of news helicopters filled the air, senior Max Loosen said nothing in his life compared to the excitement of a national championship win. As fans ignited a bonfire in the middle of the street and leapt over the flames, Loosen said he only hoped the party would get “worse.”

The celebration on Franklin Street started as early as 11 a.m., when people began lining up to get into bars and restaurants. Buffalo Wild Wings General Manager Michael Hayek said he had to close the doors when the restaurant reached its 250person capacity —even though a large group of fans remained on the sidewalk.

Two UNC students who called themselves Derick Foss and Jon Jednak said they stood in line for two and a halfhours to get into the Ham’s Restaurant patio.

Taking a break from cheering during halftime, Jednak said he planned to burn an old couch in his apartment if the Tar Heels won. Foss chimed in, noting that he planned to party even if UNC lost.

“Either way, we’re going home drunk and without a couch,” Foss said.

With many venues requiring pre-paid tickets for admission or filled to capacity, the fans that did not manage to get a seat inside a bar crowded onto street corners or crammed into parking lots.

“This is where the die-hard fans are at,” said Wake Technical Community College student Tony Atkins, gesturing to a rag-tag group of drunken fans in the Ham’s parking lot.

Sitting in the bed of a pickup truck with Atkins, North Carolina State University junior Joseph Flory said he came to watch the game even though he is not a UNC fan because he wanted to support the ACC. “I’m representing the ACC by going buck wild,” Flora yelled. “I probably won’t remember.”

In Spanky’s Restaurant and Bar, patrons slammed chairs on the floor and cheered on UNC head coach Roy Williams and the Tar Heels when Illinois’ score

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UNC students revel in debauchery after theTar Heels'NCAA Championship win Monday night Fans jumped over the many smallfires on Franklin Street and set off fireworks, some of which exploded amid thecrowd. Some believed the celebration was tamer than others of the past but still thebiggest for UNC in recent memory.

began to climb. Fans shook their heads and got quiet when the Fighting Illini tied the game up with just over five minutes to go but said they were only a littie nervous because they had “Ray”—junior point guard Raymond Felton.

Even as the game came down to the wire, Spanky’s employee Carolyn Pearce, who graduated from UNC last May, said she could not wait for the victory celebration to begin.

“It’s going to be a huge party,” she said.

“There will definitely be the usual flooding of the streets, but this is something extra special because it’s a national champi-

onship, and it hasn’t happened in 12 years.”

When the Tar Heels won in 1993, fans painted Franklin Street Carolina blue, and there were rumors circulating Monday there would be a repeat performance if UNC beat Illinois. Police asked local stores to stop selling blue paint after UNC advanced to the championship over the weekend. Nonetheless, fans got their hands on a few buckets of paint and spilled them on the street after the victory.

Some local residents and alumni said Monday’s celebration was quieter than parties after past national championships

in Chapel Hill and noted that the crowd was much calmer than fans at the University of Connecticut in 2004. After winning the national championship last year, students at UConn were photographed turning over cars, rioting and setting fires on campus.

Even if the party on Franklin Street was tamer than expected, plenty of fans made the most of the victory, celebrating well into the early hours of the morning.

“I’ve never felt better because we deserve it,” Loosen said over the roar of the crowd. “The players deserve it, Roy deserves it and all of the students love them.”

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“I was definitely pretty psyched to hear that we could get to that level, but we’re really not worrying about that now,” Fox said. “Right now we’re really just worried

N.C.STATE from page 4 Charlotte to Johnson & Wales University.

The two legislators said the giveaway of the building —which the state already had up for sale—would make good on a $lO million pledge they made to lure the cooking school to Charlotte. Easley sounded angry when their bill passed by wide margins, saying, “This has to stop.”

Easley fired back by ending bidding on the building 10 days early and grabbing the first reasonable offer—which came from a development firm headed by a campaign contributor. The Council of State, meeting in emergency session, reluctantly agreed to sell the building for $5.25 million, making the Charlotte portion of the bill moot.

Easley still made a point of vetoing the entire bill the next day.

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robe, his head crowned with a white bishop’s miter and a staff topped with a crucifix tucked under his left arm.

“I would like to tell him how much I love him,” said Lorenzo Cardone, 9, waiting in line with his parents.

Earlier, as priests chanted the Litany of the Saints, 12white-gloved pallbearers flanked by Swiss Guards in red-plumed helmets gingerly marched the body from the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, where it had lain in state for prelates and dignitaries, to the basilica.

Chicago Cardinal Francis George said the cardinals prayed for one hour before the procession and that the pope looked “at peace, but a man who had suffered.”

Outside, the mourners stood in line hour after hour, starting when the sun’s heat blazed off the Vatican’s old stones, and into the late night chill. Pilgrims older than the late pope struggled to remain standing. Young children, even infants, were unusually well behaved.

All the time, as the line inched forward, it grew longer and longer; out of St. Peter’s Square, stretching out of sight down the Via Della Conciliazione. Police said close to midnight it was two miles long —and many people wide. Up to 2 million pilgrims are expected in Rome to pay their final respects this week.

Since the pope’s death Saturday, the square has been transformed into an outdoor shrine of thousands of candles, farewell letters and notes scribbled on train tickets and tissues fused in puddles of melting candle wax. The scene was reminiscent of the impromptu tributes that swelled in Paris and London after the 1997 car crash that killed Princess Diana.

“Yesterday there was almost nothing here, and now look at it,” said Catherine Pech, who drove 12 hours from Switzerland with her husband and daughter to mourn the pope.

Hours before the body was moved to the basilica, the College of Cardinals set Friday as the date for the funeral.

about getting it done.”

The students hope to submit the movie to local film festivals in Durham and Raleigh by next fall, build up a “buzz” and then begin to think about other possibilities, Hammer said. While Sundance would be nice, Hammer and his students are keeping things in perspective.

“Honesdy, if the movie’s awful, it’s still worth it. I’ve had so much fun doing this, and I’ve learned so much about filmmaking,” Fox said, leaning back in his desk chair after a long night of editing. “No matter what, it’s still a success in my mind.”

“Tough fiscal times are

not over in this state and we cannot revert to the politics of the past,” Easley said in his veto message.

“Giving away this building is not only bad

public policy, it is also bad business.”

Easley’s administration officials and his allies argue legislators had no business offering a nonprofit organization an economic incentive to come to North Carolina. That’s the job of the executive branch.

Besides, they said, Johnson & Wales wouldn’t meet incentive qualifications.

Rep. Beverly Earle, D-Mecklenburg, whose district includes the culinary school, disagrees. “The General Assembly has as much right to make commitments and incentives as the governor,” she said.

But Easley’s bottom line is fiscal restraint.

In his first term, his ambitions were often limited by annual budget crises, and the $5 million from the land sale means more money in the state coffers to cover shortfalls.

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TEAM MAGABE from page 3 The team said they will have to overcome the jet lag caused by the 13-hour time difference in order to avoid making careless mistakes—one error in a program as trivial as a missed semi-colon could cost hours of time.

“Sometimes it’s hard to focus for five hours. In the World Finals the problems are so different your brain starts to give up eventually,” said Casto, the only member of the team who has gone as far as nationals before.

“I’m looking forward to it. I guess I’m a little nervous,” Mickle said. “I wouldn’t say there is too much pressure though.”

Still, the team is an underdog. “We’re West Virginia in the NCAA tourney,” Ed wards added.

Once the competition starts, the team is on its own. According to tournament regulations, coaches can watch from the stands, but guards are stationed nearby to make sure they do not try and interact with the students.

Although Astrachan is a coach, he said he has a different role than most coaches have in sports. “Any role I have is before I go,” he said. “The only thing I can do there is to make sure they get plenty of sleep.”

The contest can also be something of a recruitment mechanism. Students in the contest often go on to internships with IBM during the summer and the school year.

“Many of them are very accomplished and high potential individuals. When they are ready to take on a job, we hope they will give us full consideration so we try to keep tabs on them,” said Gabby Silberman, program director for IBM Centers for Advanced Studies and sponsorship executive.

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He was an athletic prodigy, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound man-child with the court vision of a point guard in a body more developed than that of most college power forwards. Even as a junior, he dominated the high school game like few before him.

In another day and age, James would have been courted heavily by every major university in the country. As it stood, however, he only held offers from a handful of schools, most anticipating the inevitable— James traded homecoming for Hummers in 2003, when he graduated high school and declared for the NBA draft.

And just like that, the NBA had its Next Big Thing. James became just the third rookie in NBA history to average 20 points, five rebounds and five assists and is nearly single-handedly resurrecting the moribund Cleveland Cavaliers. He is one of the NBA’s top players and arguably its biggest marketing draw. But what might not be as obvious is that the NBA’s Next Big Thing might be the worst thing to hit the league in quite some time.

James’ success brought the preps-topros movement to heights it had never seen before, clouding the NBA’s desperate need for an age limit. In 2004, a record eight high schoolers jumped to the league in search ofLeßron’s success. Four got drafted in the lottery. Only one, Dwight Howard, has had the immediate impact one might expect of a lottery pick.

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Freshman Jade Ellis has a one-track mind.

Even when he's dressed for campus, Ellis is always just a mental hop, skip and a jump away from the sandpit, where he has already established himself as a national force only one season into his Duke career.

“I will think about the way that I jump if nothing else particular is on my mind, or something just reminds me of it,” he admitted.

Ellis, who set the Blue Devils’ record in the triple jump with a 51’3” effort at the Collegiate Invitational Feb. 6 and won the long jump at the IC4A/ECAC Championships last month, started competing in track in elementary school in the long, high and triple jumps.

A natural athlete, Ellis also played basketball throughout his childhood.

When he reached high school, however, his plan to play basketball quickly collapsed under his father’s pressure.

“My dad said, ‘You’re doing track,’ and I said, ‘No’ and he said, ‘You’re doing it,”’ Ellis said. “So I did it, and I turned out to be good at it, so I kept doing it. That was pretty much it.”

Ellis’ father, Lawrence Ellis, not only provided the freshman with the impetus to pursue track, but also the talent.

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No long jumperin Duke history has been able to soar through the air quite like heavily-recruited Jade Ellis.

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Weber's dream season over

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ST. LOUIS Bruce Weber didn’t want it to end for Illinois, not like this.

As the final seconds slipped away on a season that was exhilarating, poignant and one victory short of the ultimate goal, the coach with the scratchy voice couldn't do anything but reflect on the journey.

What a ride it was.

The Illini won 37 times, tying the NCAA record for victories in a season. But they ended with a loss, 75-70 to North Carolina in the championship game Monday night.

“It was so much fun,” Weber said. “I cried last night in our meeting. I knew it would be our last meeting with this team and I didn’t want it to end. I’m sad that it’s over.”

Less than a month ago, Weber endured a gut-wrenching tragedy. His mother suffered chest pains while picking up

her tickets for the Big Ten tournament. A few hours later, Dawn Weber died in surgery, the victim of a torn aorta just below her heart.

Her son was back on the bench the next day, fighting through tears for the sport that has always bound the family together. He didn’t stop coaching until the final game of the season, clad in a garish orange coat that matched the color of his players’ uniforms and those tens of thousands of Illini fans who packed the Edward Jones Dome.

Illinois fought back from a 15-point deficit early in the second half, tying the game a couple of times in the waning minutes. But the Illini never got over the hump, leaving their coach to watch helplessly as their last five three-pointers clanged off the rim.

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Washington’s new PHILADELPHIA team was outshined by Philadelphia’s new players.

Kenny Lofton hit a three-run homer and [on Lieber pitched NATIONALS 4 523 solid innings, ulau Philadel 1 PHILLIES | 8 helping phia to an 84 victory in the first game played by the Washington Nationals Monday.

Terrmel Sledge homered and drove in three runs for the Nationals, who moved during the offseason after 36 seasons as the Montreal Expos. Washington, which had not had a major league team since the expansion Senators left for Texas following the 1971 season, plays its home opener April 14 against Arizona.

Lieber allowed three runs and 10 hits to win in his first start since losing Game 6 of the AL championship series for New York against Boston. Lofton, who also played for the Yankees last season, reached four times and scored twice, and Pat Burrell had three hits and two RBIs, helping manager Charlie Manuel win his debut with the Phillies.

Lieber and Lofton were the only significant off-season additions for Philadelphia, which missed the playoffs for the 11th straight year and cost manager Larry Bowa his job after the team entered last season as the favorite to win the NL East.

After three years in limbo as the Expos, playing before sparse crowds at Olympic Stadium and traveling to “home” games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Nationals have a new home and uniforms. They came out wearing gray jerseys with “Washington” in script across the chest in red, blue and gold.

Brad Wilkerson led off the game with the Nationals’ first hit—a bloop single to left field. Sledge had the first RBI on a groundout to second in the second inning. Sledge hit a two-run homer off

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Philadelphia shortstop JimmyRollins was impressive from the leadoff spot with two singles and two walks.

Lieber in the sixth, but grounded into a double play against Ryan Madson with the bases loaded in the seventh.

Cheers of “Let’s go, Nats!” were heard among the sellout crowd of 44,080 at Citizens Bank Park when Washington scored in the second to take a 1-0 lead.

But the Phillies quickly came back against loser Livan Hernandez in the bottom half.

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Dunn’s second homer of the game tied it in the ninth, and Joe Randa followed with a solo shot off Braden Looper that sent the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-6 victory Monday in front of the biggest crowd in Great American Ball Park’s history.

For the first time in their 129 season openers, the Reds finished one off with a homer.

“I felt like I was at a rock concert, screaming for the next song,” said closer Danny Graves, who pitched the ninth and then piled on Randa at home plate.

“We’ve had walk-off wins in the past, but I haven’t had a feeling like this in a long time. It’s the perfect script. I won’t believe it until I watch it [on television].”

The Mets couldn’t believe it, either. Not after the way Martinez and Beltran—the cornerstones of their expensive off-season makeover—performed in their debuts.

Martinez struck out 12 and allowed only one hard-hit ball—Dunn’s three-run homer—during his six innings. Beltran had three hits, including one of the Mets’ three homers, as they went ahead 6-3.

The Mets committed $172 million to those two players, giving the Yankees a run for their money when it came to making offseason headlines. Maybe they should have spent a little more on the bullpen, their weak link.

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The last Duke All-American male jumper was long-jumper Joel Shankle in 1956.

Ogilvie has compared Ellis to Shankle, who was a 24-foot long jumper.

With such a notable comparison and his high school records preceding him, Ellis entered the world of ACC track with an ambitious goal; a national championship during his four years in a Duke uniform.

“Every athlete has aspirations and lofty goals, and I think Jade should,” Ogilvie said. “He still has away to go. There will be competition in the ACC, in the regionals and obviously in nationals.”

Ellis eased through high school without seeing any real challenges until nationals, Ogilvie said—but the competition at the collegiate level has been much stiffen Though Ellis earned a NCAA provisional mark with his Duke record 51’3” triple jump at the Collegiate Invitational, he missed actually making nationals “by inches,” Ogivlie noted.

Entering the IC4A/ECAC Championships for indoor track in March, Ellis was ranked fourth in the long jump, but before the competition he said he was “pretty sure” he could crack the top three and earn a bid for nationals. Ellis left the competition with a 24T.50” long jump victory but without a ticket to NCAAs. For now, Ellis’ focus had shifted to outdoor track, where Ogilvie and the rest of the track staff are working with him to develop his talent.

“There is still a long ways to go,” Ogilvie said. “He is very young. We are taking our time with him this year with one event this weekend and another the next. He only gets better. He knows his competition and isn’t afraid to jump against the best.”

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The older Ellis, ran middle distance in high school, winning a Michigan state championship with his 4xBoo-relay team.

The younger Ellis instead found his ability in the pit.

“T would like you to run, but you’re not going to run because you don’t have lungs, so you are going to do something,”’ Ellis recounted his father saying.

Any lack of lungpower did not hinder Ellis’ jumping ability. The New Brighton, Minn., native won his state’s championship in both the triple for his sophomore, junior and senior years, and captured the long jump tide junior and senior year. His triple jump of 48’11.5” was a mere halfinch from the state record.

Fueled by his tremendous prep career, Ellis entered the college decision process with numerous choices. Competing in track no longer required a parental push, and the dilemma became where to continue his career. After narrowing his choices down to Duke, UCLA, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Michigan, Ellis decided to become a Blue Devil.

For the Duke track program, Ellis became a recruiting victory; he is the best high school horizontal jumper ever to commit to the Blue Devils.

“He is extremely gifted,” Jan Ogilvie said, Director of Special Projects for the Duke track and field program, who works closely with Ellis. “It is just a matter of how much work he puts in to this.

He will get stronger as his four years progress at Duke—we want to prepare him for competition on the national level and beyond.”

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first half and trailed by 13 at halftime.

They trailed by 15 early in the second and 10 a bit later.

They tied the game twice in the last 5 1/2 minutes, but when they had a chance to force overtime, Luther Head missed a three-pointer with 17 seconds left, ending their chance to set the NCAA record for wins in a season.

“We lost our poise down the stretch in the first half,” Illinois coach Bruce Weber said. “That probably cost us because now you have such a margin to come back.”

When it was over—after Felton had made his last two free throws, after May had cradled his 10th and final rebound—Williams took off his glasses and started looking for people to hug.

A few moments later, he was crying, much like he has at the end of every season. Usually, the tears come because he has to say goodbye. No goodbye will be as sweet as this one.

“For Coach to be able to say that the first team to get him a championship was the 2005 team is an honor,” said May, whose 26 points were the same as his dad, Scott, scored in leading Indiana to the 1976 title over Michigan.

“He'll win a few more before he's done.”

Head led Illinois with 21 points. He had a wide-open look at a three-pointer that would have tied the game at 73, but it bounded off. Felton made the final two free throws and Weber's magical ride with the Illini wound up one win short of the real fairytale ending he hoped for.

“It goes down in history,” Weber said. “Not only Illinois history, NCAA history. Tied the most wins ever, No. 1 for all the time. You get to the championship game. You know, I mean, if you're not happy with this, I feel sorry for you, because life ain't getting better.”

It did get better for Williams, though.

The coach left Kansas to take over the Tar Heels two years ago, after the program Smith built had faltered and fallen to 8-20. Williams took a ton of heat for leaving the Jayhawks suddenly after losing in the title game in 2003 his fourth close call at the Final Four.

He defended the move, saying coming back to his alma mater had always been his dream.

“The last three or four days, I had five or six of them call me and wish me good luck,” he said of his former players.

It took two years to rebuild, and this week he dealt with a more familiar issue: Did he need to win a tide to call his career a success?

He told the story7 of Smith insisting he was no better a coach after he finally won one in 1982, but Williams conceded that answering that “same doggone question” did get a little annoying at times.

When he walked into the interview room after this win, his first statement echoed Smith.

“I'm no better coach than I was three hours ago,” Williams declared.

The win gave North Carolina its fourth overall title, fourth-most in NCAA history and one more than archrival Duke. Celebrating in the locker room afterward were former Tar Heel Michael Jordan and Smith, the coach Williams patterned his career after.

After May made a short shot with 11:22 left in the first half for an 18-17 lead, Carolina never trailed again but this game never really got comfortable.

May was unstoppable for the first 12 minutes of the second half, scoring 16 points during that stretch and dishing out two assists to help North Carolina push its lead to as many as 15 and fight off the Illinois rallies.

James Augustine, charged with stopping the 6-foot-9 center, was in foul trouble through most of it. He tried covering May one-on-one, and that didn'twork. Then, he got help, but when May felt the double coverage, he dished out to a wide-open Jawad Williams, who made a three-pointer for a 60-53 lead.

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That set off a chain of events that sent Roy Williams from Kansas to Carolina, Bill Self from Illinois to Kansas and Weber from Southern Illinois to Illinois.

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or a Leon Smith, an immense talent who never quite lives up to his potential.

As a result, the NBA has diluted its product, frustrating fans, players and colleges alike. Journeymen who might look for a few extra paychecks get squeezed out by young projects who may never see the court. Fans have become increasingly disillusioned with a less cohesive NBA that sometimes bears a greater resemblance to streetball than roundball.

And collegiate programs are being ripped apart by the increasingly early defections of their stars. Indiana head coach Mike Davis, for example, might not be on the hot seat if he had had superathletic forward Josh Smith on his roster this past season. Closer to home, maybe Duke would have been playing in Monday night’s national championship game were it not for the early departure of Luol Deng and the pre-college defection of Shaun Livingston.

But in the zeal to restore some sort oforder to the bas-

ketball world with an age limit, perhaps NBA Commissioner David Stern is forgetting one group of people; the prepsters themselves. After all, if a James-like player is able to contribute immediately, why shouldn’t he be afforded the opportunity to be drafted? Why should he be forced to wait two or three years, risking injury and keeping himself and his family from the much-coveted luxuries of the NBA lifestyle?

“If someone is able and ready to play in the NBA and the market is there where teams will compete for these players, there is no reason for such a limit,” Alan Milstein, Maurice Clarett’s lawyer in his suit against the NFL’s age limit, told The Chronicle in March. “There’s no profession other than sports where these types of age limits are even remotely permissible.”

Perhaps not, which is why a total age limit misses the point. Once-in-a-generation phenoms like James should be able to make the jump. But what needs to be restored is the principle of productivity over potential.

Baseball seems to have it about right. In its system, all high school players are eligible for the draft. All players opting not to enter the draft, however, must attend three

years of college before regaining draft eligibility.' And more importantly, draftees are sent to minor league clubs until they are ready to contribute, unlike the NBA, where draftees go straight to the NBA. The foundations for a basketball minor league are in place. Sending players to the National Basketball Developmental League before the NBA would force players to demonstrate their abilities prior to heading off to the big show. That would open roster spots for ready-to-contribute veterans, discourage borderline projects from declaring and increase the quality of the league’s product. And perhaps most importantly from the college standpoint, a baseball-like system would restore the stability gained from having players in programs at least two or three years.

Nevertheless, something needs to be done soon before the both the NBA and NCAA games are permanent-

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“There needs to be a lot of clarification on [the age limit], but I think overall it’s a step in the right direction,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It could be very good for basketball—it just depends how it’s done.”

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Carolina should insti- states, such as Georgia, the lottery a state lottery and use money goes toward a scholarship the proceeds to fund educa- program that pays college tuition at tion projects such as constructing any state institution for students who additional schools, reducing maintain a B average. North Caroliclass size and prona could consider a St3Tt6dltori3l similar scholarship additional viding tute

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Although Gov. Mike Easley has long been a proponent of a lottery, it isjust now receiving the support in the state Senate necessary to pass legislation to legalize it. There are arguments against the lottery—some people consider it sinful and believe gambling unfairly targets those who are economically disadvantaged—but the potential benefits from a lottery significantly outweigh these drawbacks.

The most compelling reason to institute a North Carolina lottery is that North Carolina residents currendy spend approximately $3OO million playing the lottery in neighboring states. Since North Carolinians are already spending money gambling, it only makes sense to keep that money within the state and use it to pay for North Carolina education.

It is important the money earned from the lottery is properly allocated. Some opponents of the lottery say it will not actually increase money spent on education but will simply move around money the state is al-

ready spending.

Therefore, it is necessary for the state to keep the money generated from the lottery separate from the rest of the budget and ensure this money will go to fund education projects that otherwise would not have received support. In other some

N.C. House Speaker Jim Black has expressed his desire to limit advertising for the lottery in order to avoid targeting people who are addieted to gambling or those who cannot afford to play the lottery, which is essentially a regressive tax.

Although Black has conceded such intentions might not guide future classes of legislators, the fact those provisions are being considered should allay some fears about unfairly drawing funds from those least able to provide them.

Although these arguments will not sway those who object to a lottery on moral grounds, the economic benefits for the state far outweigh those qualms. The absence of a legal lottery does not prevent people from gambling, it only forces them to cross a border to buy a ticket.

It would be unwise of North Carolina to not create its own lottery, since the state will simply be losing hundreds of millions of dollars to South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The money North Carolina residents spend playing the lottery cannot benefit North Carolina education programs if it being spent in other states. It is only logical to keep that money in-state and use it to benefit North Carolina schools—many of which are in serious need to

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Let us suppose, just for a moment, that Duke is a five-star restaurant, comparable in reputation and quality to the Universitywe now attend. During our tenure we have chosen our course depending on our preferences. Some chose the cheeseburger, others the filet mignon and still others never made it past the bar. Four years at this classy Joint have given us hilarious memories, superlative educations, and unequalled opportunities as well as a daunting $140,000 tab.

It’s April, the waiter is gathering our checks and we’re all whipping out our wallets, praying that the residue of cash from before spring break will cover our bill. Now the dilemmaarises: that annoying line under ‘subtotal’, the one that says ‘tip’. Duke charged us 140K, and now they have the audacity to ask us for a 0.00014% tip??? Outrageous! What do they want, blood from a stone? My last nickel?

Sure, you never heard “Hi, my name is Duke, and I’ll be your server today”, but the comparison is still apt. Simply put, just how the bill at a restaurant doesn’t cover all the living expenses of a waiter, the tuition cost

for Duke does not cover all the costs of the University. Some services not covered in tuition include: higher acceptances to graduate and professional school; extensive alumni networks; and even some good old romps in the gardens or stacks. These services are open to any duke student, free of charge, and so, giving a small 0.00014% gratuity does not seem unreasonable.

Only the most dastardly and cold-hearted would have the impudence to stiff a server.

Yet when it comes time for contribution to the senior gift, we all want to do just that, somehow rationalizing it by claiming poverty, disapproval of appropriation or dissatisfaction with the price of the bill. But these kinds of excuses simply don’t cut it. Actually, $20.05 is a small gratuity to pay in order to express gratitude for the many things Duke has given us already and will give to us in the future. Please don’t stiff your waiter.

—The Management Gabriel Morgan Outreach Co-Chair, Senior Gift Committee

Columnist’s ethics reprehensible The notion that a “Living wage benefits ing to Newman, it “has a moral imperative to do so.” Newman’s ethics hold as moral the everyone” is inexcusably myopic and yet pandemic, in spite of the fact that it represents sacrifice of the productive to the unproducthe compromised morality that has undertive. As productivity is a principal means to a pinned such social catastrophes as Nazi Ger- life worth living, this morality equates to the many and Soviet Russia. I am speaking, of idea that man is unworthy of such a value. By course, of the altruist mentality, that man’s what ethics does Duke have the “moral imlife is but chattel to be used in the name of perative” to pay employees more than what “social progress.” they are willing to work for? The answer, of

Firstly, Newman’s assertion that “better wages benefit the entire community by increasing worker productivity...” is patendy false. Implicit in this line of reasoning is the idea that paying someone $lO or $l4/hour for $7/hour worth of work somehow constitutes an increase in productivity. Paying an unskilled worker skilled-worker wages is not going to magically make him skilled.

Further, this policy undermines the incentive to gain skills. Newman is demanding that Duke commit economic suicide.

Why should Duke self-immolate? Accord...

course, is altruism.

While she claims that life is her goal by endorsing a “living” wage, Bridget Newman is preaching a completely impractical ethics

that sacrifices the able to the unable. This ethics demonizes those who have thrived as human beings and wish to continue to do so.

To denounce those who thrive by their own productivity is to take not life, but death, as your moral standard.

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tions of power and trust them to act well. basketball fan. I started hating the Blue Devils Bumess and Brodhead (and before him, Nan Keohane) around the time they met my Arkansas Razorbacks have, in fact, established a tremendous track record on a in the 1994 men’s championship game (and—ahem, Scotty wide variety of social issues. Duke’s underreported decision Thurman—lost). Matriculating at Duke meant I had to lose to raise its minimum wage to a de facto living wage of $lO the hate, and I did, but being a sports fan is serious business per hour was a triumph for its low-end workers. I’m proud to me. I like to see the team do well, but can’t artificially of that decision. manufacture that diehard love I have for the Hogs.

Our University is perhaps most misunderstood when it My Duke pride comes from something different. I am comes to our relationship with the city ofDurham. For years, happiest to call myself a Duke student when the leaders of a vocal minority of intransigent anti-Duke zealots have capiour institution show courage and deep morality in the pubtalized on the latent uneasiness manyDurhamites have with lic sphere. That may not be as exciting or universal as aj. J our institution and have made our students’ and administraRedick three, but it is a very real pride to tors’ lives difficult. Duke offers its police me. And given the frequency with which the force to patrol off East Campus? Count on administration has done right in the past these people to object. Duke begins plans few years, my pride is getting to be a dam for a Central Campus renovation that will near permanent condition. bring retail traffic into the city? They cry Duke Stores is a great place to start. foul. No matter how often Bumess assures Last March, Director Jim Wilkerson sevthis coterie of enraged citizens that Duke ered Duke’s relationship with Lands’ End does not intend to crush unsuspecting due to the company’s alleged blacklisting Ninth Street mom-and-pop operations, they andrew collins of union workers in El Salvador. Partly continue to make the Central renovation as hazzards of duke miserable as possible. due to the pressure exerted by Duke and other activist universities, Lands’ End Thank goodness our administrators are agreed to fix its problems in a lightning-quick 36 days patient and have a plan that promises to strengthen Ninth after Wilkerson’s announcement and subsequently reStreet by putting a pedestrian thoroughfare from West newed its contract with Duke. through Central to Ninth and then to East. Thank goodness The University has successfully taken this step before, the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Initiative continues to strengthen local civic projects. Imagine if Duke most recendy against the New Era Cap Company in 2001.

Wilkerson and his Allen Building counterparts are hardly were actually antagonistic toward Durham!

The list of noble and good projects goes on. From genimpetuous, but when a company that services the University is falling short, they are generally good at taking a firm line uine devotion to academic freedom to the Women’s Initiative, our administration has been more courageous than and getting results.

For this reason, Lam inclined to trust President Richard most of us realize. I am also proud of the men’s basketball Brodhead and Senior Vice President for Public Relations program—not because of the number of Ws, but because it and Government Affairs John Bumess in their handling of is the cleanest program in a dirty sport.

Some people will never be satisfied by Duke’s social conalleged worker mistreatment by Angelica Corp., another of Duke’s corporate partners. On the face ofit, local activist orscience. I’m glad we have those long-hairs around to make ganizations seem to make valid points about Angelica’s fail- sure we are not getting lulled into a false sense of security, but I am not among their number. Good people are runure to provide workers with a “living wage.” Durham County agreed, severing its contract with the company. But there’s ning the show. Go Duke. a lot that a bunch ofscruffy protesters might not know about the situation. On something as complex as labor practices, Andrew Collins is a Trinity senior and former University editor the best we can do is put our most righteous people in posi- of The Chronicle. His column appears Tuesdays.

A commitment to honor James Bonk recently announced to his Chem- bureaucratic terms would decrease the feeling that it pits students against each other by turning them into “snitchistry 83 class that homework would no longer be selfgraded due to reports of cheating on the assignments. es.” Furthermore, programs that increase the visibility of When I heard the news, I had to wonder which would be the Community Standard’s importance could lead to a more common: students indignantly wondering, “Who more ethically minded campus.

However, pessimists would be skeptical of the claim that cheated?” or students indignantly demanding, “Who told?” changes in policy can lead to meaningful steps toward a This is not to suggest that I had any firsthand knowledge of cheating. It had just been a tad suspicious that community of integrity. They would argue that such a comthe class average for homework assignments was nearly munity does not—and in the foreseeable future, cannot exist here. Duke, they would say, is primariperfect (despite staggeringly low attenly pre-professionally oriented. As such, dance rates), while that for the openclasses are not so much places of intellectunote, multiple-choice tests lingered in al exploration as they are obstacles to a dethe low-to-mid eighties. I’ve always liked gree. And the “community”—cleaved by dito think that the simple act of giving visions such as those between schools (Pratt someone your trust motivates him or her and Trinity) and among greek groups—is to live up to it. But in the case of my really just a set of individuals, each seeking chemistry class, Professor Bonk’s trust maximum rewards for minimum effort. was met instead with cynicism and oppordavid kleban Obviously, there are a lot of questions to that even tunism. And sadly, it appears leather-bound books be addressed. But there are also some things those who didn’t cheat felt powerless to we know for sure. No university can expect do anything about it. (Only one student without a commitment to honor and integrity. legitimacy until late into the complained about cheating—and not And while we expect the average person to accept inmight semester.) stances of cheating, Duke does not purport to enroll—or Now is a crucial moment for the Duke Community Stan—“average” people. I hope it’s clear to those particCounproduce dard. The Honor Council and the Academic Integrity cil have been doing serious thinking about its policy-level ipating in this debate that any honor code without a serious implementation. One of the most problematic questions “non-acceptance” component is meaningless. Unless we require students to respond in some way to cheating—and facing administrators is how to effectively translate the “nonback up this obligation with the threat of sanctions—then code into regulations clause of the tangible acceptance” we are tacitly fostering a climate that accepts dishonesty. about students’ obligations. At the moment, students are rewe probably do need to address the current policy However, the Bulletin of quired (by somewhat draconian language in Duke University) to provide a signed, written statement to a to make it more palatable for students who are faced with faculty member or the Dean of Students when they have hard decisions about the right thing to do.

It’s scary to think that the pessimistic outlook might be knowledge of cheating. What we’ve learned is that this sim—and that in pursuing honor, we will find out things right determining then, is in does The not happen. ply problem, the Duke community we would prefer not to know. about how to create a climate that is intolerant of cheating when Nevertheless, we owe it to ourselves to remain committed to at the moment dishonesty seems to be so widely accepted. integrity, whatever that commitment is determined to mean.

There are a number ways to look at this dilemma. Optimists would say that a culture of honor could be DavidKleban is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every achieved at Duke if the right policies were implemented.

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not like I was trying to be nosy. I was just minding my own business, waiting for the Science Drive bus (which is perpetually late), thinking about the fact that I hadn’t done my homework for my upcoming classes. I was miserable. It was a hot day, and I hate the heat.

I hate humidity more. I’m from northern California, the part that’s never too hot and never too cool. Very little humidity. Right as I began to wonder why I came to Duke in the first place, two gangly little guys came and stood next to me, talking in that sort of hushed whisper that’s actually really loud and everyone can hear.

“Do you like it here?” asked one. I knew it at once. A p-frosh. It must be that time of year again, I thought.

The gangly freshman responded: “It’s okay. I mean, I hate East. It’s so ugly. West isn’t that nice either.” The pfrosh looked as though the freshman had just asked to sleep with him. “I think it’s beautiful!” he protestpassionately. The freshman looked unfazed and calmly replied, “Everyone’s got their own opinions.” At that, the pfrosh, looking rather startied and confused, thrust ITl3tt dCdTPOm his index finger deeply inside his left nostril. And unreal city I mean deep. I couldn’t contain myself any longer. I began to laugh uncontrollably. The p-frosh looked uncomfortable. The freshman looked gangly.

The whole situation was ridiculous; however, it inspired a quest to find someone who reports positive things about our carbon-copy of a gothic wonderland.

Trust me when I tell you that this task was hard. When the Science Drive bus finally arrived (10 minutes late, which consequently made me late to class), I looked around and saw that the bus was teeming with little pimply p-frosh. And every freshman was insulting Duke. Really, I kid you not. I took notes. “Duke has no comprehensive social scene,” one person said. “The classes are too hard, and there’s never enough time to party,” said another. “The only reason I came here was because I got rejected from Harvard,” that same person said later. For the whole bus ride, I heard nothing positive about our prestigious University. I heard reports from that gangly kid to your typical, popped-collar frat-esque kid. But I didn’t stop there. I kept searching for the rest of the day until I finally found someone who liked Duke. But she was from somewhere in India and had never been to America before. Basically she was talking about how great the country was, not Duke itself.

After that long day of searching which yielded poor results, I began to question people’s relationship with Duke. Everyone I know who graduated from the University has told me that they have a love-hate relationship with Duke. Most say it leans more to the hate side. As most ofyou know, every year around this time someone writes at least one column about how the seniors shouldn’t give their X amount of money to Duke, and instead should donate it to charity, beer and/or prostitutes. No senior that I’ve talked to plans on giving any money to the school. And so you have to ask; What went wrong?

Duke ought to be one of those schools like Harvard where you’re attached at the hip for life. But it’s not; instead, it’s one of those schools from which people can’t wait to escape.

I’m not trying to diagnose this problem. It’s probably up to the administration to figure it out, but then again, I’m sure it’s like giving an angry bull an enema. If you pick at people, especially irritated young people, they’ll gut you in the groin. I guess what bothers me the most about this is that freshmen who hate Duke still sign up as hosts and poison gangly p-froshs’ impressions of the school. But then again, maybe it’s Just as bad that I make fun of them in my columns. We’ve come full circle. In the end, we might not love this institution, but we certainly are stuck here. We’re big boys and girls, the future elite of the world and I have full confidence that we can keep ourselves entertained. Anything less would prove that we don’t belong here. \

Matt Dearborn is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every other Tuesday.

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April 9, Bpm. Page Auditorium. $25 General, $l5 Youth, $5 Duke Students.

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Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by TONY KUSHNER explores “the state of the nation”—the sexual, racial, religious, political and social issues confronting the country during the Reagan years, as the AIDS epidemic was spreading. Directed by JEFF STORER. April 13-16, Bpm & April 17, 2pm.

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