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SlllinD CHARGES ROCK DUKE BASEBALL 'O2 suicide attempt linked to failing team Coach on hot seat, University scrambles to answer allegations by

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Head coach Bill Hillier (top) was hired by Duke in 1999to rebuild the baseball program but has yet topost a winning record. Players have said there has been steroid use by team members and that the coaching environmenthas been hostile.

Under the influence of a mercurial coach and a sluggish Athletic Department, Duke’s baseball team has endured coaching misconduct that has led to a collapse of morale and hampered its ability to win, The Chronicle has learned.

Head coach Bill Hillier brought consensus top-20 recruiting classes to Duke during his first two seasons, but the program has been rattled by a 116201 record, 12 players who transferred and 22 total who have left the team. Even as players have accused Hillier of implicitly encouraging steroid use and dissatisfaction with his coaching has mounted, the Athletic Department renewed his contract after each of his five losing seasons.

Although the University and several players said steroids are not currently a problem in the program, two players who have since transferred, Aaron Kempster and Grant Stanley, both told The Chronicle they injected

themselves with steroids during the summer of 2002.

“It was a nod and wink kind of thing: You need to get bigger, stronger, faster by any means necessary—wink, wink,” said Kempster, who attempted suicide in his dorm room in November 2002.

Of the three current and 12 former players interviewed over the past seven months, several confirmed that players on the baseball team used steroids while they were on the active roster. Six estimated that between four and 12 teammates took performance-enhancing drugs at some point.

Ke'mpster said he and three teammates confidentially admitted to an Athletic Department official in Fall 2002 that they had used performance-enhancing drugs. After Stanley was arrested for possession of testosterona Sept. 29, 2002, the Athletic Department increased its drug testing of baseball players.

According to a statement the University issued to The Chronicle Wednesday, no baseball player has SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 12

Baker named new Duke, Singapore ink agreement A&S Council chair by

Skyward Darby THE CHRONICLE

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Meg Bourdillon THE CHRONICLE

anthropology, works in an office

Lee Baker, associate professor of cultural anthropology, will be the next chair of the Arts and Sciences Council, outgoing chair Kathy Ewing announced Thursday at the council’s final meeting of the year.

Arts andSciences faculty members elected Baker to a three-year term by electronic vote. He won by what Ewing described as an

across the hall from him. Thus, he is aware of the challenges and frustrations he will face. Still, he is enthusiastic.

“I’m excited about the opportunity,” Baker said.

George McLendon, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences, concluded the meeting by presenting Ewing with flowers and a black, wooden chair bearing a plaque in recognition of her service as chair. He credited

Baker noted that Ewing, also an associate professor of cultural

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“overwhelming majority.”

day, representatives from Duke University Medical Center and the National University of Singapore officially partnered to estab-

lish a new medical school in Singapore. Slated to open in 2007, the National University ofSingapore Graduate Medical School will be Singapore’s second medical institution.

The Singapore government approached Duke about the partnership a few years ago based on the University’s reputation as a premier center ofmedical education and research, according to the Singaporean Ministry ofEdu-

cation. Thursday’s agreement is the formalization of a memorandum of understanding signed in 2003 The school's curriculum will closely follow that of Duke’s School of Medicine, and researchers from Duke will be encouraged to collaborate with faculty in Singapore. In addition to boosting the educational opportunities available to students in Singapore, Duke officials hope the developing partnership will also increase Duke’s international medical efforts.

“Joining together as partners represents a valuable strategic opportunity for Duke to have a global presence in science, and to apply the very best science to the challenges of global health, Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, said in a statement.

Dzau also stressed the value of building transnational relationships in an era marked by ”

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Car bombs kill 18, wound 36 in Iraq by

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Two car bombs ripped BAGHDAD through a crowded street in front of the Interior Ministry in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding

three dozen others. A1 Qaeda in Iraq said it carried out the attack, the bloodiest in more than a month.

In a statement posted on the Internet, the group, headed by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said the attack targeted a patrol outside the office of Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib, who is in charge of the nation’s police. The claim could not be independently verified.

Al-Naqib was in his office at the time of the explosions, but was not injured. He

came out afterward to examine the scorched road and blackened rubble left by the blast. The ministry building, built

by Saddam Hussein’s government to survive major attacks, was not damaged.

Meanwhile, a new video broadcast on al-Jazeera television showed a man who identified himself as a Pakistani diplomat kidnapped last weekend in Baghdad.

The Arab satellite station said the man, who was wearing a white skull cap, urged the Pakistani government and international community to intervene and secure his release.

The station said the kidnappers, identified as being from the previously unknown group Amuriya Brigade, made no demands for his release.

Malik Mohammed Javed, deputy charge d'affaires at the Pakistani mission in Baghdad, was last seen Saturday leaving his home for prayers at a mosque.

The Pakistani Foreign Ministry earlier said the Omar bin Khattab group claimed responsibility and demanded money for his release. The video broadcast Thursday couldn't be independently verified and the discrepancy between the groups’ SEE BOMBS ON PAGE 8

NASA shuttle passes tanking test

BY MARCIA DUNN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASA fueled a CAPE CANAVERAL space shuttle for the first time in more than two years Thursday, and Discovery’s redesigned external tank aced the crucial

prelaunch test.

The 154-foot, rust-colored tank undermajor modifications after the Columbia disaster, which was caused by a chunk of insulating foam that fell off the tank during liftoff and gashed the shuttle's wing.

“From our standpoint, we’d say we got an ‘A,’” said Neil Otte, chief engineer of

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the external tank project. “It performed exactly as we expected it to perform.”

Added deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale: “All in all, I couldn’t be happier at the conclusion of today’s test. I think it puts us on a really excellent course to be ready to go launch here in the next few weeks.”

No astronauts were aboard Discovery for the daylong tanking test, a rare event in the 24-year history of the shuttle program. But the entire launch team was on hand in the firing room, and eight inspectors equipped with new cameras and scopes were at the pad to look for any ice or frost on the tank, which

was filled with super-cool fuel.

Ice could be even more dangerous than foam if it broke off during liftoffand smacked into the shuttle. Otte said minimal ice formed on the tank during the test, but noted that the low humidity and strong wind helped prevent buildup.

Discovery is scheduled to blast off no earlier than May 15 on a flight to the international space station. It will be the first shuttle mission since the Columbia

tragedy in February 2003.

Midway through the tanking test,

Congress approved legislation Thursday that requires individuals who want to wipe out their debts in bankruptcy court to work out repayment plans instead.

President George W. Bush said he was eager to sign the measure.

Four charged in U.N. scandal Four more people were charged in the scandal in the U.N. oil-for-food program, including a Texas oil executive and a South Korean businessman. The indictment also suggested that two U.N. officials may have received some' money skimmed from the oil program.

Over 10,000 fugitives arrested More than 10,000 fugitives wanted for murder, rape, child abuse and other crimes were arrested in Operation Falcon, the largest nationally coordinated crackdown by law enforcement officials in history.

Bush seeks passport reforms President George W. Bush withdrew support from plans requiring passports from people who want to enter the United States. He expressed concern that the effort to tighten borders against terrorists would hamper legal travel from U.S. neighbors.

News briefs compiled from wire reports

"Today, if you are not confused, you are U. Peter just not thinking clearly."

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A & S to give DSG opt-in list by

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Students wait in line at the West Campus bus stop in between classes .The new course schedule implemented in Fall 2004 spreads class times out over theweek.

Scheduling policy gets mixed reviews by

Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE

Some students are mourning the loss of their .Thursday night revelry because they have Friday classes, and others love the fact that 8 a.m. courses are now obsolete. They can all thank one source—the new course scheduling policy that went into effect last fall.

Two years ago, Provost Peter Lange assembled a faculty task force to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the former scheduling model. Based on the findings of the resulting report, the University Schedule Committee developed a new plan for course scheduling.

“The primary issue was too many classes in a small band of time,” University Registrar Bruce Cunningham wrote in an e-mail. “This caused room scheduling

problems and course choice problems for

students. Both of those issues have been addressed to some extent by this new policy, but we’ll keep looking for ways to continue to address these concerns.”

Cunningham said the new model emphasizes a “greater spread of classes across the day and across the week.” The former model left “a glut of classes” at prime-time scheduling spots—such as 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The current policy also features the nesting of 50-minute courses within 75-minute course slots.

For example, 75-minute courses start at 11:40 a.m. and 50-minute courses begin at 11:55 a.m each Monday.

Cunningham said he thinks the new model has worked well.

“I think, overall, that the policy has

met the goals originally outlined by the faculty committee that proposed the policy,” he said.

Though the new policy alleviates the bunching of courses offered between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Cunningham said there could potentially be a concentration of

courses offered between 2:50 p.m. and 4:05 p.m.

“We need to monitor that situationand see if we can do something to keep that period from becoming overloaded with course offerings,” he said.

Cunningham explained that it was necessary to make some adjustments for the Spring 2005 semester, and he added that further adjustments will be made if necessary.

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More professors have opted in, making their course evaluations available on ACES, but Duke Student Government still plans to forge ahead with its own website.

Members of the Arts and Sciences Council voted Thursday to give DSG the names of faculty who decided to post their evaluations for the most recent semester. DSG had asked Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College, for the list.

Thompson reported that so far, the professors of 26 percent of Fall 2004 courses have decided to let their evaluation data appear on ACES. In the preceding semester, only nine percent chose to do so.

“That’s progress,” Thompson said, “but we still have away to go.”

In presenting DSG’s request for information, Thompson described student government as historically working in partnership with the council on this issue. “I’m obviously in support of this,” he added.

Sophomore Joe Fore, DSG’s incoming vice president of academic affairs, assured the faculty that the students’ request is not a form of “blackmail.”

He could not, however, give them details of the plan.

“We’re not exactly sure what angle to take,” Fore said. “We just want a positive SEE A

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CORRECTION In the caption that appeared in the women's tennis story April 14, the player depicted should have been identified as Clelia Deltour,

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4 FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2005

Campus Council passes bartender, RC resolutions by

Ikee Gardner

THE CHRONICLE

Campus Council passed two resolutions at its meeting Thursday night, each by a unanimous vote. One resolution proposes that bartenders be considered as party monitors at events held outside residence halls. The council also decided to survey undergraduate opinion about residence coordinators.

University policy currently requires both bartenders and party monitors at parties held outside residence halls where alcohol is served. If bartenders replaced party monitors at these parties, bartenders would effectively do party monitors’ jobs—regulating the behavior of partygoers —by controlling the supply of alcohol, senior Ryan Kennedy said.

Volunteer party monitors are often difficult for organizations to find, Kennedy said.

He added that Campus Council and the Duke Wine Society are among the organizations that encounter this

problem.

Campus Council plans to consult Gregg Heinselman, director of the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, in order to gain administradve consent.

“It’s one of the most novel resolutions I’ve ever heard in years,” said senior Anthony Vitarelli, outgoing Campus Council president.

University policy dictates that parties must have one party monitor for every 25 students. Yet organizations holding parties often under-register their events, Vitarelli added.

“The whole system is totally broken,” he said.

The Council also unanimously approved a resolution to conduct surveys of undergraduate students about the RC program.

Beginning at the end of the Fall 2005 semester, the Council will survey students on RC performance, including asking how accessible RCs are, how well students know their RCs and whether RCs effectively balance interacting with students and disciplinary enforcement.

“An RC is responsible for bringing the quad together, and unless you get student perspective, you really don’t see that side of the story,” said sophomore Ben Rubinfeld, incoming Campus Council vice president.

“We evaluate our RAs—it seems weird that we don’t evaluate our RCs too,” junior Katie Cox said.

Campus Council members decided to survey students at the end of each semester, allowing for RCs to adjust their procedures during the second semester if necessary.

Students who respond to the survey will remain anonymous, and survey results themselves will remain confidential. Campus Council will create a report of the survey re-

suits, which will be available to RCs. Campus Council hopes to use the survey to increase positive interaction between RCs and students.

“Students are going to realize that they have an RC, if they haven’t yet,” Rubinfeld added.

in other business: Matt Greenfield, chair of the Last Day of Classes committee, discussed plans for the annual celebration.

Though funding was the biggest problem for the committee this year, Greenfield expressed his satisfaction with the LDOC plans. Greenfield, a senior, said that if a proposed fee referendum, on Thursday’s Duke Student Government ballot, did not pass, the LDOC committee would consider seeking corporate sponsorship for future last day celebrations. The referendum, however, passed by a 26 percent margin.

Central Campus will be receiving some physical improvements after fruitful Campus Council discussions with Duke Facilities Management and Durham County. Duke Facilities has started installing streetlights, and Durham County has agreed to fix and fill potholes.

Crowell Quadrangle will not fund any more student events this semester because the quad has overdrawn its

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SCHEDULING fromP age3 “The first version of the policy included a requirement that at least 30 percent ofall classes offered by any department had to meet at least three days per week,” he said.

“This proved to be difficult to implement for some departments because, pedagogically, their courses worked better in a one-day or two-day per week format. We were able to adjust the policy to allow for more flexibility in this area, while still maintaining a spread across the week.”

Though many students are ambivalent about the new course scheduling policy, some do have complaints.

Junior Gary Liao said he favors the new scheduling policy for the later starting times but still sees some drawbacks.

“It’s pretty good because I don’t have

A&S from page 3 spin. We want to recognize the professors who have addressed the issue."

Council members were hesitant to agree, and many had inquiries for Thompson and Fore.

Some raised concerns about whether professors who have only taught graduate courses or are teaching new classes would be included on the list. Others complained about the difficulties of opting in under the current system.

“I’m a little uneasy about what might be done with this list,” said Craufurd Goodwin, professor of economics.

George McLendon, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences, reminded the council that the data is in the public domain.

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Tiffany Gelott, a sophomore, agreed with Liao’s opinion on enrolling in Friday classes.

“There are some classes offered Wednesday and Fridays, and I’m not sure what to do because they seem really appealing,” Gelott said. “But I don’t think I’d put my full effort into a Friday class when I just want the week to be over.”

Freshman Lesley Chapman, however, said her frustrations center around how 75-minute courses often occur at the same time as 50-minute courses.

“I couldn’t take African-American history, which I really wanted to take, because I had to take math, and they overlapped,” she said.

list all on their own. They could go through course by course, professor by professor,” McLendon said. “All that’s really being asked is that we make their task a little less onerous.”

If the faculty would not agree to give students the list, McLendon continued, “It puts us in a rather churlish position.”

Although there were several abstentions and opposing votes, 17 members—a substantial majority—elected to fulfill DSG’s request.

After the meeting, Fore explained that DSG hopes to create a website that will direct students to “the most comprehensive source of data” on professors—either ACES or an unofficial evaluation database.

He noted that it should be ready by registration next semester.

“Everything is not finalized, but it’s coming together,” he said. “This is hope-

Students listen to a lecture in class.There were fewer classes offered between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. this year.

fully a first step to a more comprehensive system.”

Fore added that DSG was pleased with the increase in the percentage of evaluations now available on ACES. “We’re thrilled, as a committee, that so manyadditional professors have chosen to opt in,” Fore said. “It’s a tremendous resource for students, and we hope the trend continues.”

In other business: A proposal to note on seniors’ transcripts that they are “Pursuing Graduation with Distinction in [name of major]”

passed unanimously.

“The intent here is to encourage individuals to think about honors,” said psychology Professor Philip Costanzo, chair of the Undergraduate Teaching, Academic Standards and Honors Committee.

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Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on December 5, 1776 by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Since then, it has evolved to become the nation’s leading advocate for arts and sciences at the undergraduate level. Phi Beta Kappa elects over 15,000 new members a year from 270 prestigious chapters across the United States. The Society’s distinctive emblem, a gold key (with the Greek character Phi along with B and K as the initials of the name of the society), is widely recognized as a symbol of academic achievement.

The Duke Chapter, Beta of North Carolina, was formed in 1920 at Trinity College. We are delighted to receive into membership the following: Lauren Elizabeth Abell

Jennifer S. Hainsfurther

Sara Marie Monti

Nita Amomsiripanitch

Amelia D. Hairston-Porter

Shaambhavi Mayank Pandya

Andrew Milbank Archer

James Ernest Head

Jessica Marie Parrish

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Aaron D. Hedltind

Sarah Parylak

Laurie Ball

Andrew Bruce Holbrook

Amit Patel

Alex Ashok Baranpuria

William K. Hoskyn

Benjamin Pollack

Courtney Baron

Adam Hosmer-Henner

Rebecca Prince

Monique W. Bruinsma

Katie Marie Hrapczynski

Stephen L. Relyea

Haley Burchfield

David T. Hsu

Claudia M. Reuben

Ruth Denali Carlitz

Elizabeth Diana Kirby

Natasha C. Roetter

Adam Daniel Chandler

Amy Carol Knight

Michael Todd Rosenberg

Julia Connors

Phebe S. Ko

David Jeffrey Sackel

Courtney Crosson

Adam J. Kole

Xuyang Alfred Sun

Danielle Mousseau Da vidian

Jessica Harris Laun

Jonas Jacob Swartz

Leahthan F. Domeshek

John Strudwick Lewis, Jr.

Shiyi Teo

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Julia M.

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Marcus Andrew Feehan

Kathryn Lowry

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efforts to turn academic discoveries into “useful therapies” accessible to people around the world.

“In order for us to reap the benefits of medical science for our society, we need to be adept at both discovery and translation,” Dzau said. “Collaboration and teamwork are essential to the process of translation.”

Sanders Williams, dean of the Duke’s School of Medicine, will be the interim dean of the new school in Singapore. He will also chair a committee focused on addressing issues ranging from the construction of facilities to faculty and student recruitment.

Williams said Duke’s leadership will complement Singapore’s recent focus on improving research, education and health care for its citizens.

“Singapore has made a vast commitment to becoming a leader in biomedical

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names could not be explained.

The death toll from Thursday’s car bombs was the highest from an explosion since March 10, when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shiite mosque during a funeral, killing 47 people.

The force of Thursday’s attack threw people to the ground and sent thick black smoke billowing over the city.

Ali Ahmed, 28, said he was selling ice cream when he heard an explosion, followed by gunfire and another explosion.

“My stall was partially destroyed because of this terrorist act,” he said. “Some people have lost their lives. As for me, I have now lost my source ofincome.”

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The new medical school is a part of the Singapore government’s initiative to enhance the nation’s medical community and industry, particularly in the biomedical sciences.

The government will provide $3lO million in funding for the new school over the next seven years.

At the signing ceremony, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan expressed hope that the school will advance the nation’s medical development, helping to fulfill its “vision to be a center of excellence in medical education, clinical research and healthcare delivery.”

Singapore began its biomedical sciences push in 2000 with the goal of doubling the industry’s $6 billion output by 2005. It surpassed its goal in 2004, reaching $15.8 billion, according to the Singapore Economic Development Board.

Abdullah Hussein Zamel was cleaning tables at a restaurant near the heavily fortified Green Zone when the blast shattered the windows.

“I went outside and saw dead and injured people,” he said. “After that, I heard police open heavy fire on a second car.”

Panicked students from a nearby secondary school and university gathered in the street, some weeping.

“We are terrified,” said Hoda Raheem Hadi, a 22-year-old computer science student. “Why is this happening?”

After clearing the area, U.S. forces set off a third car bomb that apparently failed to explode earlier. Nobody was injured in that blast. Interior Ministry official Capt.

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NASA from page 2 NASA's new administrator, Michael Griffin, addressed employees for the first time and promised that the resumption of shutde flights will be his highest priority.

“All other commitments will flow around what I have to do in order to support the return-to-flight decision,” he said in a televised speech from NASA headquarters in Washington.

NASA began filling Discovery’s tank with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the morning. The practice countdown ended at the 31second mark in late afternoon, followed by the slow draining of the fuel for use later.

The last time NASA conducted such a test was in 1998, also on Discovery. The test does not include any firing of the engines.

After a 1.67-pound piece of foam brought down Columbia and killed all seven astronauts, NASA removed foam from some places on the tank and applied the insulation differently, to prevent big chunks from breaking off. Heaters were also installed to prevent the formation of ice at spots that no longer have insulation. The heaters performed well.

No further tank modifications are needed, Otte said.

“We’ve got a tank that as of today we say meets all the requirements and we'd be ready to go fly,” he said.

NASA plans to reassess the launch date soon, in light of all the delays in getting Discovery to the pad.

In addition, a mound of engineering paperwork still needs to be completed and the results of final design reviews presented to the task force overseeing the return-to-flight effort. The latest snag was a 1 1/2-inch hairline crack found in the tank’s foam right before the shuttle was moved to the launch pad last week.

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BAKER from page 1 Ewing, who focused on streamlining the council, with easing his work with the faculty.

“Part of the reason that my experience may have been different from the experience of others in the past has been the reorganization of this body,” McLendon said.

He expressed his gratitude for Ewing’s efforts and thanked all outgoing members for their participation.

“I’ve really enjoyed working with you this year,” Ewing responded. “It’s just been a tremendous experience.”

Technical difficulties delayed voting by about six weeks, Ewing said, but faculty who have been elected to the council will soon receive their invitations to serve.

The election of the Executive Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council will take place soon.

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Senior goalie Aaron Fenton has never won an ACC regular-season

championship. Saturday against Virginia, that could all change.

Sophomore Tony McDevht and the Blue Devil defense will need to stop two-time ACC Player of the Week John Christmas.

When No. 2 Duke (11-1, 2-0 in the ACC) squares off against No. 3 Virginia (8-1, 2-0), the Blue Devils will have their sights set on their first regular season title and undefeatedACC season since 2001. The Senior Day game begins at 3 p.m. Saturday at Koskinen Stadium.

“Obviously it is special,” Fenton said. “It could be another thing under my belt—to say I have a regular-season ACC title.”

Head coach Mike Pressler said going undefeated in the ACC and winning the league have been the two main goals for his team this season.

“We have a chance to do both of those against a tough UVa team,” Pressler said.

The matchup comes a year after Virginia thrashed Duke 134 in Charlottesville. The game was tied 3-3 in the second quarter before the Cavaliers exploded for 10 straight goals to put the game away.

“Last year we struggled with offense and at the end our defense kind of gave up,” Fenton said. “This is a different situation. We weren’t 11-1 going into that game.”

Duke lost a double-overtime

thriller to No. 1 Johns Hopkins, 11-10 last Saturday. Despite losing their perfect mark, the Blue Devils managed to extract some positive lessons from the experience.

“That game sort of grounded us,” Fenton said. “It definitely makes us less cocky going into big games like this.”

Pressler believes his team’s character showed through in the loss. After the Blue Devils found themselves facing a 5-2 deficit, they were able to bounce back and went on a 6-1 run to capture the lead, before falling in the second extra period.

Virginia will attack Duke with two-time ACC Player of the Week John Christmas, who is second on the team with 13 goals and 12 assists, and leading scorer Matt Ward, who enters the contest with 27 goals.

Pressler said that focusing on just those players, however, would be a mistake as it would leave dangerous players open, most notably star freshman Ben Rubeor.

Not only do the Cavaliers dominate teams with a stellar offense, they also counter with a poised defense.

“They are probably the most athletic defense we’ve seen,” Pressler said. “We are going to have to come out and do our thing.”

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The last time Duke failed to win an ACC title in women’s golf, Hootie and the Blowfish and TLC topped the Billboard charts. O J. Simpson was on trial for murder, and Forrest Gump was on its way to a Best Picture Oscar.

Nearly a decade later, the top-ranked Blue Devils will be gunning for their 10th consecutive ACC Championship this weekend.

When Duke’s impressive run began, the ACC field was comprised of only four teams. But with the addition of Miami to the mix in 2005, the Blue Devils will be competing against seven other teams in the largest ACC Championship ever.

Adding to the challenge, No. 15 Wake Forest has risen national to prominence this season, even defeating Duke at the Lady Gator Invitational earlier this year.

‘Wake played really well at Florida and has shown they re capable of good things,” head coach Dan Brooks said. The ACC as a whole is just getting better and hopefully we 11

have a very competitive tournament this weekend.”

Of the six other teams, two are also ranked in the top 50. Virginia sits at 29th in the Golfweek poll and N.C. State comes in at 37th.

But even with the Demon Deacons’ victory over the Blue Devils this year and the improved ACC, Duke enters the tournament as the clear favorite.

Since starting the spring with consecutive third-place finishes, the Blue Devils have found their stride. At the Bryan National Collegiate April 1-3, Duke won by 10—its largest margin of the season —and freshman Jennifer Pandolfi turned in her best collegiate performance.

“It felt really good,” Pandolfi said ofher third-place finish. “I’ve been working really hard on my game and I feel like I can help the team win this weekend.”

Sophomore Brittany Lang took home the individual tide and junior Liz Janangelo finished in fifth place. At the end of the regular season, Lang and Janangelo were SEE W. GOLF ON PAGE 18

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What are anabolic steroids?

Commonly called steroids, these synthetic hormones are related to testosterone and promote the development of male sexual characteristics and muscle.

Anabolic steroids can help the body rebuild tissues that have become weak because of injury or illness.

What are some common ones?

Equipoise (boldenone undecylenate) is an injectable steroid, designed to build muscles in horses.

Testosterona is a veterinary version of testosterone. It is most commonly used as an intramuscular injectable or a gel. Although it is a synthetic version of testosterone, it is still chemically the same, said Linn Goldberg, the head of the division of health promotion and sports medicine at Oregon Health and Science University.

Winstrol (stanozolol) is an orally administered tablet and generally more difficult to detect in urine tests.

How are they administered?

Orally administered drugs pose greater risks to the liver but tend to be cleared from the system more rapidly than injectable steroids.

There are two types of injectable steroids—water-soluble and fat-soluble. The latter lasts longer in the system, while the former is shorter-lasting.

There are creams and gels that can be rubbed on the skin. These topical applicants must usually be reapplied every 24 hours.

Taking two or more kinds of steroids at once—called "stacking"— is thought to maximize muscle-building potential with minimal toxic side effects.

It is believed that the interaction of the steroids will produce a greater effect.

Another practice called "pyramiding" consists of increasing and then decreasing dosages in cycles of 6 to 12 weeks. Those that pyramid believe that these cycles give the body time to cope with higher levels of hormones.

Neither practice has been scientifically proven to work.

How does testing work?

Urine testing records the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone. The normal ratio in both men and women is approximately 1:1. A ratio of 6:1 is often considered indicative of steroid abuse.

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tested positive for steroids since then.

The same statement said the University and the Athletic Department are aware of concerns about baseball coaching techniques, morale, attrition and substance abuse among players.

“Probably 40 percent of the team was using steroids,” said Justin Calliham, who transferred to South Carolina after the 2002 season following two tumultuous, injury-riddled years at Duke. “It is so rampant that some people don’trealize. It is almost so normal that it was just normal kind of stuff: You need to get on that juice.’”

Hillier denied the allegation. “No one to my knowledge has taken steroids,” he said. “Without a doubt, I’ve never encouraged my guys.”

Athletic Director Joe Alieva said he first learned of steroid use in the baseball program when Stanley was arrested but said it was an “isolated incident.”

“We didn’t see any kids that were getting huge or hitting monstrous home runs. We didn’t see any occasions of that,” Alieva said. “There was no outward evidence of steroid use on the baseball team.

We just thought we had one get caught, so let’s check it out.”

Officials, including Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, said that through interviews with the Athletic Department and observations from the trainers, they found no evidence that a substantial percentage of the team was using steroids.

Alieva and Hillier agreed prior to this season that Hillier would not return unless “the situation improved significantly,” the University statement said. The Blue Devils are currently 9-27, and players say Hillier’s misconduct has continued.

The University administration also received a letter from a concerned parent in Spring 2002 detailing her son’s experience with Hillier’s abrasive style and irre-

sponsible coaching.

In response, Chris Kennedy, senior associate athletic director, interviewed team members about their experiences. He said he also asked if any coach encouraged steroid abuse. “My conclusion based on what the players told me is that they did not,” he said.

Suspicions of steroids Larry Broadway was a .324 hitter in his three seasons at Duke before becoming the school’s highest Major League Baseball draft pick since 1976. Players described Broadway, now a top prospect for the Washington Nationals, as the leader of the team, emotionally and on the field.

Several players also said his weight gain from a 200-pound freshman in Spring 2000 to a 222-pound sophomore to a 230pound junior led them to believe steroids were being used, but none of them saw him using steroids.

“I could never figure out why it was Larry would be hitting change-ups off the plate opposite field for home runs,” said

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Larry Broadway (left) and Drew Jerdan were teammates during the 2002 season, when Duke finished 24*34. one current player, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “I was like, ‘This guy must be inhuman.’”

Broadway, who left Duke for the minor leagues in 2002, said he never used steroids. He said he gained weight and strength through an intensive workout program combined at times with high protein shakes Hillier told him to use in order to get bigger and advance his career.

“There’s no denying that me gaining weight, working out and eating right helped me stay healthy, helped me perform, helped me improve my draft status and hit it harder and for more power,” Broadway said. “Hard work paid off. Just because I gained weight doesn’t mean I did steroids.”

When Stanley came into his freshman year as a 6-foot-3, 185-pound third baseman, he said he felt Hillier expected him to be the next Broadway. After struggling to produce in the 2002 season, Stanley remembered Hillier telling the team after the last game in May “everybody needs to get bigger and stronger.”

Stanley said the coaching staff never explicidy told him to take steroids, but he ultimately did to advance his own career. He said Hillier’s speech was an example of expectations in the program that some players came to accept. “People pretty much took that as an invitation to get bigger and stronger—one way or the other,” he said.

Hillier said he did not remember what he told his team in the locker room at the end of the 2002 season, but he said that as a coach who preaches “consistent, intense”

strength training, he “had that conversation of getting bigger, stronger, maybe faster.”

The coach said he encouraged his players to push new boundaries with their strength training during the summer. “If it’s not important enough in the summer to go out and play and get bigger and stronger and faster and add some arm strength, then give the game up. You’ll be replaced,” Hillier said.

Five current and former players*—including Kempster, Stanley, Calliham and former outfielder Drew Jerdan—said Hillier went so far as to implicidy suggest to his players that they use steroids.

“After my freshman year, he said, You saw what Larry did. You need to gain 30 to 40 pounds like Larry did.’But you can’t do that on your own,” said Jerdan, who left to play baseball for a year at Georgia but returned to Duke to finish his degree. He said he has never taken steroids.

“He’d tell ’em you need to get bigger or he’d cut ’em in the fall,” the unnamed current player said. “So I can do steroids or transfer—break the law or transfer.”

Hillier denied the allegations. “Without a doubt, I’ve never encouraged my guys,” he said. “I think my guys are too smart to do steroids.”

The summer of 2002, Calliham, Kempster, Stanley and the unnamed current player said, was the height of steroid use on Duke’s baseball team.

Although Duke tests a selection of its student-athletes about five to six times a year, the University has never employed drug testing over the summer or off cam-

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pus, said Brad Berndt, assistant athletic ditesting coordinator.

And until August 2004, the NCAA only tested in baseball during its playoffs—-

the University, including athletics. Still, Alieva, as director of athletics, said he spoke to

rector and Duke’s

which Duke has not made in Hillier’s The timing of the tests left a loophole for college players to take performance-enhancing drugs with minimal risk of getting caught.

The unnamed current player, who played in summer leagues with other ACC players, estimated that steroids were so widespread across college baseball during that time that most other teams had more players taking steroids than Duke did.

In Durham, Kempster said he injected several of his teammates with steroids while working with them that summer at Duke-run baseball camps; he returned home for the second half of vacation, when he used steroids himself.

Kempster and Stanley both said they took steroids before the 2002-2003 school year without fear of being caught by drug testing. Furthermore, all four players interviewed who left the team to play at other schools said they were drug tested significantly fewer times at Duke.

“I went to another program where if you get caught doing it, you’re done,” Kempster said of the steroid policy at Fresno State, where he played after leaving Duke. He said Duke was never so explicit: “If they said you would be kicked out if you did it, I would have never done it.

The Athletic Policy Manual, which was updated in September 2003, says students who test positive for a prohibited drug “may be denied permission to represent the University in intercollegiate events or to participate in team practices.” The University can also dock athletically-related financial aid, but the manual lists no mandatory consequences in the drug-testing section. That section also states that if coaches or Athletic Department officials have “a reasonable and articulable suspicion” of substance abuse, the suspected student must be tested.

In 2002, Stanley was playing summer ball in Ohio, where he said he experimented with testosterona—a synthetic form of testosterone —that was sent to his East Campus address the previous spring by a friend from home. Seeking to gain speed to improve his draft status, Stanley estimated that he took 2 to 2.5 cubic centimeters twice a week over a two-week span, alternating injections to his arm, shoulder and buttox. Stanley said he got a minor boost from the drug, but he found the process disquieting. “Just the fact that sticking a needle in my body was weird to me, I just didn’t feel normal doing it,” he said.

Anabolic steroids provoke the body to produce abnormal, synthetic versions of testosterone, expanding muscle mass regardless of changes in diet or activity; proper eating habits and strength training boost their effects. Studies published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine have shown that side effects may include heart disease, liver tumors, testicular atrophy, sudden death and, in adolescents, the pre-

die team about steroids and “a problem widi some players.”

Hillier picked Stanley up from jail Sept.

29, and Stanley said he dismissed him and Layden from the remainder of fall practice. Alieva later suspended Stanley and Layden for the first six games of the season because of marijuana possession; he suspended Stanley an additional six due to hi§ possession of illegal—and NCAAbanned—steroids.

Employing an amnesty clause in the Student-Adilete Drug Policy, Kempster said that during that fall semester he and three of his teammates told Kennedy in a confidential meeting that they each had used steroids. Kempster could not recall whether this happened before or after his teammate’s arrest. He declined to reveal the names of his teammates because they are all still involved in baseball at some level.

Athletic Department officials said they could not comment on specific cases; Kennedy said he did not recall this particular meeting. During the next Universityscheduled drug test Nov. 11, Duke records show that four baseball players —Kempster, Stanley, Layden and Blake Walker—were tested.

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Grant Stanley was arrestedfor possession of steroids in Fall 2002,prompting Duke to step up its testing. mature shutdown of skeletal

growth. Under the influence ofsteroids, the body’s muscles grow without comparable strengthening of tendons—a disparity that can increase the risk of severe muscle injuries.

Steroids remain in the body for several weeks, clearing the system after an average of five half-lives—or somewhere in the vicinity of a month, said Dr. William Roberts, president of the American College of Sports Medicine and associate professor of family medicine at the University of Minnesota.

In Fall 2002, Stanley brought his unused testosterona back to Duke without the intention of using it again. But Sept. 29 a resident adviser suspicious of marijuana in the room alerted the Duke University Police Department. After finding marijuana and continuing to search the room that Stanley shared with teammate Tim Layden, a regular Duke starting pitcher now in the Chicago Cubs’ farm system, officers found the unfinished vial and packaged needles among Stanley’s belongings.

At that point, Athletic Department officials seriously questioned steroid use in the baseball program. The University increased its drug testing of student-athletes, with baseball players receiving extra attention.

“I didn’t suspect anything prior to that point,” Berndt said. “Obviously when that came about, then there were some suspicions.”

Kennedy, who was officially overseeing the baseball team at the time, noted that when a player is arrested for possession of steroids, “you can certainly be suspicious” of the rest of the team.

Alieva said he was not suspicious that members of the team were using performance-enhancing drugs. “But I thought it was propitious of us to increase the educational process and increase the testing process,” he said. Because Alieva had two sons on the baseball team at the time—and during most of Hillier’s tenure —he was removed from the daily operations of the team, said Trask, who oversees all non-academic aspects of

April 13, 2005 Calliham sends another let- The University and the Athletic Department ter to Brodhead, stating how issue a statement to The Chronicle, recogniz"disappointing" it was that ing several complaints with the baseball program, but refuting allegations of a steroid no action had been taken problem or other misconduct | after his first letter !

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Baseball America top-100 prospect in a top-tier recruiting class. He was batting second for a team hovering around .500 until a shoulder injury limited Kempster’s playing time by April 2002.

After an incident at N.C. State that April, though, Kempster was frustrated with his coach and ready to quit. Going into a three-game series with N.C. State, Kempster had missed the bus and gotten a ride with Hillier. Because he was playing with an injury, Kempster said, he did not participate in pre-game drills. Hillier said Kempster was sitting out because he was cut from the line-up for being late.

The conflict between the two escalated.

Several players, including Kempster, recalled Hillier grabbing Kempster and knocking the glasses and hat from his head before Hillier was restrained.

Hillier recalled the altercation with Kempster but said it ended differendy.

“I never touched him,” Hillier said. “Did I want to? Oh yeah, I was heading to get him. I was going to get a piece of him—and knew that if I’d done that, I probably wouldn’t have been coaching the next day.”

Kempster, unable to raise his arm above his shoulder and struggling academically, said he was fed up with a coaching staff that rolled its eyes at his injury. He would have been the ninth player to quit in Hillier’s first two years on the job.

Eric Filipek, an assistant coach who was fired after the 2002 season and declined to comment for this story, convinced him to stay. Kempster was still burdened with a shoulder impingement that team doctor Laurence Higgins, an orthopedic surgeon at Duke University Medical Center, said needed surgery. But Kempster said Hillier was unsympathetic.

“He didn’t really give a shit about the rest of my career. He wanted to use me as a pinch hitter and runner for the rest of the season,” Kempster alleged. “That is not why I was playing college baseball.”

Hillier did not respond to requests to confirm or deny this accusation.

Not wanting to jeopardize his career by playing through a major injury, Kempster underwent shoulder surgery in early May and sat out the remainder of the 2434 season.

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Duke, the undersized shortstop waited until he got back home to California that summer to spend more than a month simultaneously taking two anabolic steroids: Equipoise, a veterinary steroid injected to increase muscle mass, and Winstrol, a version of the steroid Startozolol popular among track athletes and swallowed to stimulate fast-twitch muscle fibers. Kempster started his steroid cycle at 175 pounds and ended at 200.

In addition to the physical effects, anabolic steroids alter a user’s mood. Steroids are anti-depressants, but when users stop their cydes it takes about a month for natural testosterone levels to return to normal.

During that time, users are susceptible to depression, according to numerous studies.

While Kempster was using steroids, he noticed an amplification of his moods.

“I am a pretty emotional person as it is.

I would wear my emotions on my sleeve,” he said. “It wasn’t ’roid rage all the time. I fought more with my girlfriend but nothing to the extreme.”

The oil-based Equipoise likely lingered in his bloodstream into the school year, but as the steroid left his system, it left Kempster with low levels of testosterone in his blood. He was not expecting the depressive side effects of stopping the drug, and when academic troubles mounted, he said he felt like he had nowhere to turn for help.

Duke’s “domineering” coach was “pretty stoked” about his weight gain, Kempster said, but he was “an absolute joke” advising him on his studies.

University administrators said coaches are not meant to be student-athletes’ scholastic support, even though many coaches choose to be closely involved with their teams’ academics. The University runs an academic advising and skills center specifically for athletes.

By Fall 2002, the infielder’s arm was back at 75-percent strength, and he said his career seemed to be back on track.

Kempster’s teammates noticed the difference in his size. “Aaron came back, and he’s huge —there is nothing more you need to say,” Stanley said.

But Hillier said he did not suspect Kempster had taken steroids that summer.

“If he was a steroid abuser, he sure didn’t look like it,” he said.

With Kempster’s growing academic troubles, he tried to look to the baseball diamond as an oudet, but the stress came from there, too. “The one place I could go to forget about anything wasn’t any better than the rest of my life,” he said.

The night of Nov. 13 Kempster had had enough. Alone in his dorm room, he said he swallowed a botde of 800-milligram Ibuprofen pills and a botde of Motrin, all chased with a fifth of 151-proof rum.

‘You just lose all interest in what is going on in your life,” he said. ‘You feel like you hit rock bottom and have nowhere else to go. Some people deal with it in different ways, and I picked the wrong one.”

When he came to, Kempster was lying in the inpadent psychiatric ward at Duke University Hospital. Hillier spent several days with Kempster at the hospital, and the two talked. Less than 10 days after that Kempster was back in California for good, fighting to get on the field again.

Doctors have not conducted full studies on the connection between anabolic steroids and suicide, but strong anecdotal evidence and biological explanations support a link. Studies have shown it can take several months for testosterone levels to bounce back, leaving the brain susceptible to mood swings, said Dr. Kirk Brower, an addiction-treatment specialist at the University of Michigan.

“That information is definitely consistent with steroid-induced depression,”

not pretending that the transfers are not a source of concern.

They are—they absolutely are,” Kennedy said. “They’re high nationwide in baseball.

We don’t think they should be as high here as they are nationwide, so the fact that we’ve had kids leaving is a real thing we’re thinking about.”

Many of the morale problems in Duke baseball pre-date Hillier, said Kathleen Smith, professor of biology and faculty athletics representative. “That’s one of the reasons the coaching change was made.

And it improved, certainly in terms of the interviews we had,” said Smith, who conducts exit interviews with student-athletes.

Although some players praised Hillier’s care for their personal lives, several former and current players told stories of how Hillier’s moods would suddenly shift and how he belittled them on and off the field.

“When you have people saying, ‘Man I need to find something that I can injure so I don’t even have to play anymore the rest of the season’—l mean, people want to go home,” said a second current player, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“They want to get out of this.”

Hillier’s players said he is a traditional coach who demands punctuality, hard work and continual improvement. When he was hired, he expected to turn the baseball program into a conference championship contender.

“My expectations were much higher than Joe Alieva’s, and I don’t think I’ve met them,” Hillier said. “Not even close.”

Duke baseball has not been a top ACC program since the early 19605. Under head coach Steve Traylor from 1988 to 1999, the Blue Devils went 356-286, but only once finished better than .500 in the conference. Alieva and the Athletic Department knew Hillier from when he had been a Duke assistant, and then associate, baseball coach from 1987 to 1994.

After Hillier served as head coach at UNC-Asheville and went 97-175, Duke brought him back to Durham as head coach in 1999 based partially on the reputation he had for bonding with his players when he was an assistant coach.

“He had inherited a program that was down, and he was trying to build the program,” Alieva said. “He had some tough luck with some injuries, and I was giving him a chance to build a program.

“I think I’d much rather err on the side of being fair,” he added, “than being

ering. “We’re

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Brower said when asked about Kempster’s specific case. He added that numerous

studies have shown that there is a direct link between discontinuing steroid use and suicide.

Kempster hasn’t experienced the same feelings of depression since he attempted suicide. By the spring he was playing at Fresno State, where he mosdy pinch hit there for three months before undergoing major elbow surgery, effectively ending his big-league hopes and his baseball career.

He cannot pin his suicide attempt on any one factor and is unsure exacdy how steroid withdrawal affected his depression.

He said, however, the overall baseball situation at Duke “played a major role.”

“It wasn’t the only thing, and it wasn’t 100-percent them,” Kempster said of the baseball program and Hillier. “There were other issues going on. It was definitely a contributing factor.”

Kennedy said the incident raised concern within the Athletic Department.

“Coach Hillier and I had a long talk about the incident afterwards and he told me what had happened and, you know, what it looked like going forward, but without

being specific, I don’t think that anybody

identified baseball as a primary cause.”

Jerdan said Kempster’s story was an example of the way the baseball program affected the lives of many of the players in his recruiting class.

“He was one of the best players in the country coming in,” said Jerdan, who would stay through the turbulent 20022003 season before transferring to Georgia. “He had a few psychological issues, but the coaches just rode his ass and broke him down. Rather than develop talent, the coaches just broke people down. No one ever got better at Duke.”

A lost coach

Over nearly six sub-.500 seasons, Hillier has lost not only games but also his players—at least 22 players have left the program during the six years Hillier has coached. Numerous current and former players said Hillier’s demeanor and often blatant negativity directly contributed to the Blue Devils’ low team morale, personal doubts and losing record.

All these are issues that the Athletic Department has acknowledged and is consid-

too

quick.”

Hillier’s first season the team went 1741, the losingest season in Duke baseball’s history. Although the team had broken .500 in seven of the previous eight seasons, Hillier has not had a winning season during his entire tenure.

Part of Hillier’s initial strength was in his ability to recruit players. By the time Hillier had one season behind him and a full year to survey the country, he brought in one of the top recruiting classes in the country. That class looked as though it could spark the turnaround of Duke baseball. But only one of those nine players, who would currendy be seniors, remains on the traveling roster.

Even with those recruits, the team has been wracked by injuries. Approximately 20 arm surgeries alone have been performed during Hillier’s tenure, players said, and several players have had multiple major surgeries.

Kempster and Calliham both recall their arm surgeon, Higgins, telling them the number of surgeries was abnormally high and that the team’s lifting and throwing schedule may have contributed to the problem.

Higgins said he may have said with “some exacerbation” that there was a rash of surgeries at certain times but the number of injuries at Duke is not higher than

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“If he thinks you’re not working hard enough, he’s going to chew you out,” Broadway said. “That’s good. You needed that when you’re a young player who needs to learn discipline. Even in regular life, when you’ve played for him, you feel you’ve

got a natural pressure to everyday life.”

Hillier expected so much on the field, players said, that he repeatedly suggested players put baseball before their academics. Hillier said he told his players that academics and baseball should have “equal importance” in their lives.

Brent Reid, who left the program in 2000 after two and a half seasons, said he was mocked when he asked Hillier to accommodate his studies. He said Alieva preached “balance” between the two primary realms of a student-athlete’s college life, but the baseball coach straighdy ignored this message.

Other players echoed Reid’s sentiment, emphasizing lackluster advising that fell short of the Athletic Department’s promises.

“At Duke it was fuck school, fuck this all we care about is baseball,” Jerdan said.

Hillier said he took interest in his playIn his six seasons as head coach, Bill Hillier has amassed a 116-201 record at Duke. ers’ academic lives. “They can do both,” he said. “I have a lot of guys who we adjust our practice schedule to, because of academics. I think I understand what a good education is worth.”

In a March 2005 NCAA report evaluating retention and academic progress of student athletes, Duke’s baseball team barely cleared the acceptable threshold while every other School program well surpassed the academic progress rate. The team still exceeded the national average in its sport, even though the transfer rate and several major academic problems depressed the figure.

Calliham, Kempster, Stanley and several current players all said alcohol and marijuana are prominent parts of social life for many people on the team, and Hillier maintains a laissez-faire attitude about alcohol and marijuana consumpcredited Hillier tion—endearing him to his players. and other Stanley players that of other elite athletic programs. The them and off“He said you guys can smoke pot, just with for forging standing up said and consecusurgeon throwing lifting tively could cause injury, and the team of the-field bonds. Hillier has worked to help don’t get caught,” Calliham said.

Calliham also alleged that Hillier chaldoctors and trainers continually evaluate secure jobs for some of his players once they them to drinking contests. KempSember noted. lenged effort increase have left the program, an to training practices in But many players said the jovial man ster and Calliham said Hillier was routinethe workout’s focus on flexibility. ly drunk while conducting room checks By mid-May 2002, five starting pitchers who recruited them to Duke is unpreHillier when the team was on the road. field. said forced send dictable on the and Hillier was to were injured, Jerdan Hillier denied that he ever drank in inexperienced underclassmen to the often implemented game strategies that front of his players. Disciplinary issues, he difficult understood.” “nobody mound, only making winning more said, are dealt with on an individual basis. field, Hillier sometimes emconferences.

Off the of the nation’s toughest in one to under“Most of that stuff comes from my boss“I probably didn’t do my homework ployed unconventional tactics es,” he said. who stand his personal problems. players’ well enough and signed some kids In Spring 2003, just months after were injured coming in or who got injured Communicating conclusions Kempster’s suicide attempt, Stanley’s arafter the fact,” Hillier said.

About a week after he took office, Presiand cirest for steroid possession Layden’s He added that training and medical Hillier disdent Richard Brodhead received a letter aware of extation for marijuana possession, to be staff now take more steps dated the entire July 6,2004 from Calliham. In the letisting vulnerabilities to injury. They also tributed a questionnaire to teamwhich The Chronicle has obtained, Calter, asked to identify were concentrate more on preventative training team. Players his frustrations with Hillier for liham described who had the propensity highest mates when players arrive. had and the team’s team, to the who losing record, as well as Even with the new precautions, current behavior detrimental more issues relating to team morale most talent and who worked the least. specific the players Greg Burke and Danny Otero are to One in the middle meant and transfers. sentence said the were questions Players the ACC games in the top two pitchers in two-and-a-half letter page says: “Steroid individuals. of a started, combining to start 24 of Duke’s 35 target specific and tolerated.” forced use was also encouraged said the were never Hillier players games so far this season.

Brodhead responded in a July 22 letter.

Hillier said Burke and Otero generally to call each other out. “They could have said. blank wanted he “As president,” he wrote, “I would normalif they to,” throw fewer pitches per outing than their turned it in leave these types of matters to our Direcwas one examly The just questionnaire conference counterparts, and his other tor of Athletics, the person with most disaid is the what intensely of players less talented ple starters are considerably the team. rect responsibility for them. However, I than his top two, necessitating the high competitive climate on it is will make a point of talking with him every are practicing “When you number of starts. is team concept about your experiences.” himself.

There no man for a Although injuries certainly played Since the time Calliham played basesaid. “Our team motto was Calliham record, all,” the at Blue losing Devils’ part in the ball at Duke, the University has reminded players’ frustrations may have been both a ‘Fuck your buddy.’” said Hillier was the medical team to watch for signs of other simply But players losses. cause and result of the team’s sometimes steroid use, reached out with more extena team that “When guys get recruited to go play trying to motivate effort when sive academic resources and increased the than less 100-percent baseball in college, we are all used to showed scope of drug testing for baseball, dipped. morale being the guy who gets all the playing win; to said.

Kennedy He wants “He’s just competitive. time and notoriety,” said Ryan Sember, Brodhead said Kevin replied to Calliham Sept. 22, Perry, win,” to all wanted we the remaining senior on the traveling roshim he discussed the issues with Alvolunteer assistant coach telling became a look who ter. “When you are not playing, you ieva and was “satisfied with his and his during his senior year in 2003 after an infor excuses. I think a lot of guys have never had a staffs handling of the situation.” Both “I his career. shortened taken that out on coach and blamed their jury Brodhead and Alieva told The Chronicle problem with his tactics or styles.” problems on him.”

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they did not discuss steroids at that time “What made me say that I was satisfied was that I learned the process of consideration going back to 2002, which spoke to these concerns, gave us assurance that some of these were not sources of worry, and gave us assurance that others—not the steroid one —were subjects of ongoing conversation with the coach and the team,” Brodhead said.

Brodhead told The Chronicle Wednesday: “What seems very clear to me is, at that time and then going forward, an appropriate step was taken to look into the situation and to try to find out its parameters and address it in an ongoing way.”

Alieva confirmed that he gave Brodhead background of the baseball program, but he did not specify that he mentioned steroids. “This was three years after that,” Alieva said when The Chronicle directly asked him. “And we had no evidence of any steroid use on the team.”

No baseball player has tested positive for steroids since 2002, according to the statement issued by the University Wednesday. The same statement also explained that Duke found some of the complaints to be without substance. Others were found to be isolated incidents.

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Some complaints were deemed sources of concern, and the University said Alieva has addressed them with Hillier on several occasions.

Alieva said Wednesday he had not seen the improvement he required when he discussed Hillier’s contract renewal before the start of the season. “Overall, I am obviously not pleased with where we are in baseball right now,” he said.

Putting his time with Duke baseball in perspective, the first unnamed current player said the team’s problems might be fading away.

“It’s a different atmosphere. I will say this: the way things were freshman year, the ways things were sophomore, that was when the biggest problem was,” he said. “The problems that we have today, they’re ones that’ll happen forever if he stays here—they’re ones of overpitching, overplaying, brow-beating, hitting people—all that stuff will never change until he leaves. Steroids, I think that’s on its way out the door.”

Although Hillier declined through a spokesperson to speak further with The Chronicle, he said Monday that he has coached the team as well as he could.

“When you look at everything, go back and look at the history of Duke baseball,” Hillier said, “yeah, I think I’ve done as good a job here as anybody in the history of Duke baseball.”

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When No. 2 Duke (11-3) steps on the field at noon Saturday for a show down with Loyola (3-7), the team will take in a sight it hasn’t seen in a month—a home crowd.

The Blue Devils will finally return to friendly Koskinen Stadium after six straight road games, but their play this year indicates that they might be better off staying on the road.

So far this season, Duke has collected its biggest wins on the road, defeating then-No. 3 Georgetown, No. 2 Virginia and No. 7 Maryland in their own backyards. The Blue Devils, however, have yet to replicate this success at home, losing a pair of close games to then-No. 1 Princeton and No. 8 North Carolina.

While Loyola’s inferior record suggests that Duke should finally break through with a significant home victory, the Greyhounds have been competitive in every game they’ve played this season.

Moreover, Loyola is ranked No. 1 in strength of schedule according to LaxPower.com “I think it’s the kind ofyear in women’s lacrosse where everybody’s kind of beating everybody,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

One area of concern for the Blue Devils is their defense, which had a sub-par showing in Sunday’s 16-11 loss at topranked Northwestern. Augmenting Duke’s defensive woes was an ankle injury suffered by stand-out goalie Meghan Huether, who was forced out of the Northwestern game for a six-minute stretch that saw three Wildcat goals.

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The Blue Devils hope the only similarbetween the 2004 and 2005 ACC Tourity naments are the performances of the team’s two leaders.

A year ago, Duke finished sixth out of nine teams, 20 strokes behind victorious Clemson. But when they make a run for the ACC tide this year, the No. 9 Blue Devils will have three new golfers to go along with their two best scorers from 2004, juniors Ryan Blaum and Nathan Smith.

“We’re really excited about the opportunity to play,” said head coach Rod Myers of the tournament that starts today in New London, N.C. “There’s no question that having Ryan’s and Nate’s [experience] will help us.”

In addition to its two stars, Duke’s lineup features sophomore Jake Grodzinsky and freshmen Michael Quagliano and Michael Schachner. None of the three have played at the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point, but Blaum does not believe the new surroundings will cause them trouble.

“I don’t think they’ll struggle, mainly because these three players have had this kind of experience throughout the whole

Senior Katie Laschinger has scored 12 goals and scooped up 18 ground balls for the Blue Devils thisyear.

Fifth-year senior Caline McHenry, Duke’s best defensive midfielder, is also not at full strength, although Kimel expeds her to be ready to play Saturday.

“Defensively, we had a really tough game against Northwestern,” Kimel said. “I think getting our unit back, coming out of the gate with good presence and playing good strong fundamental defense is huge

The defensive unit will be tested by a Greyhound attack centered around captain Rachel Shuck, a second team Ali-

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ranked second and third in the nation,

Pressler said that former Duke players are coming to Durham from across the country to come watch the game and for their Alumni Reunions.

“Senior Day, reunion weekend and playing for the regular season title, it doesn’t get much better than that,” Pressler said.

With beautiful weather in Saturday’s forecast, there will likely be plenty of students tailgating before the game, and Pressler believes that a big crowd would make the game that much more

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Junior Matt Zash has scored nine goals and is tiedfor third on the team with 10 assists.

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thirds of the team’s total assist output. In addition, Shuck led all players with one goal and three assists in the Greyhounds’ 10-8 win over the Blue Devils last season.

“Rachel is a strong leader for us,” Loyola head coach Kerri O’Day said. “She’s our quarterback on our attacking end.”

In the net, Loyola has taken the unorthodox approach of splitting time between two goalies, with Kim Lawton starting the first half and Cindy Nicolaus playing the second. Of the two, Lawton holds the statistical advantage with a higher save percentage and the lower goals against average.

“Our philosophy has always been until you beat the other one out, you play for 30 minutes,” O’Day said.

Loyola’s tag-team of goalies will be hard-pressed to stop Duke’s offensive duo of junior Katie Chrest and sophomore Kristen Waagbo, who have tallied a combined 92 points this season. Although the Blue Devils are certainly capable of piling it on again this weekend, Kimel has tried to refocus the offense on controlling the ball and taking the pressure offof its hobbled defense.

“I feel pretty confident that we’re coming out of this weekend with a good idea of what we have to work on at this point to get to where we want to be in May,” Kimel said.

“The bigger the crowd, the more exciting the atmosphere is and the better you will see us play,” Pressler said. “We are playing for something, the ACC regular season title and the No. 1 seed in the tournament. Let’s get a little home cookin’ going for the Blue Devils.”

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ence tournament her freshman year, Lang will be shooting for her second consecutive ACC individual title.

Rounding out Blue Devils in the top-25 is Anna Grzebien, who crept up to 24th in the individual rankings. The sophomore has played exceptionally well in the last two tournaments, and her second-place showing at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational in early March was a personal best.

Duke’s final player, Niloufar AazamZanganeh, has been sidelined with tendonitis, but Brooks said she will be back for the ACC Tournament. The senior’s wrist is still weak, however, and Brooks will monitor her condition closely.

After winning the last three ACC Championships, each at the Salem Golf Club in Clemmons, N.C., Duke will now have have to master the Carmel Country Club. Duke has never competed at the Charlotte, N.C., course, which will host its first ACC Championship.

“I’ve heard it’s a great course,” Brooks said. “It has great greens, and with the way my team plays, I expect great things.”

Though no player on Duke’s roster has ever lost a tournament held at the Salem Country Club, the whole team is enthusiastic about the opportunity to play the new course.

“It’s going to be like freshman year for me again,” Janangelo said. “It’s going to take a little bit of time to get used to the course, but I feel like the whole team can get comfortable with it during our practice round.”

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Tech, third in the nation, is ahead of the Blue Devils “I feel that Georgia Tech is the team to beat,” Myers said. “Of their five guys, almost every one played [at the ACC Championship] last year.”

In Duke’s only tournament that included the Yellow Jackets —the Puerto Rico Classic in the end ofFebruary Duke finished seventh, 24 strokes behind the triumphant GeorgiaTech squad.

Individually, the Yellow Jackets are the only team with a player ahead of Blaum—Roberto Castro ranks seventh in the country. Georgia Tech also has the 18th and 23rd best

season, Blaum said. They ve played on new courses every

week. This is just another tournament.”

The par-72 course, which was home to the tournament a year ago, could be troublesome with 10 to 20 mile per hour winds in the weekend forecast.

“The course does have good length at 7,100 yards, but as long as all these guys hit the ball, 7,000 yards is not long any more,” Myers said. ‘You have to get to almost 7,400 yards before you think a course is long.” players nationally.

Quagliano and Grodzinsky have played the most this seaThe Blue Devils will not be grouped with the Yellow son, but Schachner has gained momentum recently.

Jackets on day one. Instead, Duke golfers will be teeing off Schachner finished in a tie for second last week at the Courtwith those from Clemson and Maryland. The Terrapins yard Marriott Invitational, a tournament that Duke won. are currently the lowest-ranked ACC team at 161st in the “[We’re] coming off playing really good golf, 16-under nation, which worries Myers slighdy. par in two rounds, is as good as we’ve played all year,” “I don’t think it is an advantage,” Myers said of playing with a weaker opponent. “I think you always feel like Myers said. “That’s a real positive.”

To continue their winning ways, the Blue Devils will need you’re going to play better when you play with better playstrong showings from both Blaum and Smith. In the current ers. But honesdy, right now I feel that our confidence is so rankings, Duke is the second-best ACC team. Only Georgia high that it won’t affect our players.”

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Reassess sabbatical policy are pleased to see that and if the majority of the professors Dean George McLendon is in a particular concentration are on considering a reassessment leave at the same time, it could reof the University’s sabbatical policy, suit in a lack of courses in that field.

These types of problems —not Changing the policy may have a poshaving the specific itive impact on stuStaTTCdltOlicll courses students dents’ academic exnee’d or want to penence.

Duke’s current sabbatical policy take—is probably more pronounced is quite flexible relative to Duke’s for graduate students, who are alpeer institutions. While tenured ready more specialized than underprofessors can only leave and get graduates.

Even though there is no direct evUniversity funding after every six years of service, the policy does not idence that students are negatively prevent professors from leaving affected, the University’s relaxed sabbatical policy has the potential to more frequently if they independharm students’ academic experiently secure their own funding. ence. Therefore, it is appropriate The policy has not been re-evaluated in recent memory, and in that that the University re-evaluate the policy and its possible impact on stutime Duke has risen as an institudents. tion. Duke’s sabbatical policy is conThe University is in a position to siderably less stringent than some of the universities it considers its peers. ask some serious questions about its Years ago—before Duke became a academic standing and how that will perennial top-five University—the affect its policies in regard to faculty flexibility in the sabbatical policy members. Is Duke prestigious enough to continue to attract and was an attractive way to recruit accomplished professors. Now, howev- retain professors without the bonus er, the University is in a position to of a flexible sabbatical policy? If the ask if such flexibility is still necessary University creates a stricter policy, will it still be able to compete with to retain top faculty members. other top universities for the best rethe sabbatical policy Although has not created problems at the Unisearchers? If Duke improves its sabbatical packages so professors no versity level and individual departments longer have to find their own grant are for compensating money, will this be enough incentive changes in their faculty when professors go on leave, there exists anto keep professors at Duke despite a ecdotal evidence on the sub-level stricter policy? that certain departments are sufferThe University must ask these ing. Which professors are taking questions as it reconsiders its sabbatsabbaticals significantly affects what ical policy to determine how to best courses are offered each semester, serve both faculty and students.

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class. Business class. Economy class. paradoxically high. Take the pool section: Coach class. In an ostensibly classless Skymall offers the Reclining Pool Chaise for society, the airline cabin remains as $295, the Pool Shot freestanding basketball one of the few spaces in which we allow the hoop for $595 and the 50-inch Deep social hierarchy to take a visible form. In Swimex Aquatic Exercise Center for fact, the airplane is the only context in $21,900. The men and women capable of which many Americans will hear the word such expenditures don’t fly Delta. And even class at all—pre-boarding, leather seats and if they did, they certainly wouldn’t feel coman extra six inches of legroom standing as fortable making them via seat-phone during silent metaphors for elite education, gated the beverage service.

But even if Skymall is essentially a subdivisions and all the other privileges of dummy catalogue, it serves the haute-bourgeoisie.

One might have expected two key functions in mainthis state of affairs to be disastaining the airborne truce.

First, it assuages the upper trous? Bottling up the class class. Significantly outnumwar and then periodically rebered, it inside of a 10-footclinging to arbitrary leasing and shrinking privileges, the wide metal tube should by now have resulted in interpossible wholesale elimination of their cabin—and the brawls, cabin first-class rob goodman Pinkerton guards, lavatory precious opportunity to barricades—or at least the oc- lobster sticks to magnet openly flaunt their status hanging over their heads, casional accidental-on-purthe first class can always turn pose shin kick during boardto Skymall and reassure itselfthat even if it is ing. But instead—nothing.

The coach passengers pass through the not going to buy the Portable Roll-Up Piano, first-class cabin and keep their eyes down. it always could. For the uppers, Skymall is the They meekly apologize when their suitcases ultimate class privilege, a constant testament nick a foot or a leg. The first class fidgets to and reminder of wealth. So the first class and stares into its scotch. Each set seems sits unthreatened in its leather seats, bearing frankly embarrassed of the other. In sum, no ill-will toward coach.

And Skymall prevents coach from rethey act like Americans do when conTrue, the back of the plane has class other belling. in any sphere: They try fronting even less access to glossy luxury than the to ignore it. In the broader culture, the aircaste system has been subject to tepid satire front. But such is the brilliance of Skymall: If you can’t pay, it removes your desire. Conon Seinfeld and the like, but that’s about it.

At least, such have been my observations. sider the over-excited product blurbs: “InAnd I believe that the tenuous harmony of sect Vacuum: Quickly dispose of insects the airplane has a great deal to do with the from almost 5 feet away. A 14,000 rpm motor draws insects into a sealed cartridge Skymall catalogue. lined with a non-toxic gel (harmless to huI’ve been flying back and forth for job interviews lately, and in the past two weeks mans and pets), that traps and kills insects.

With built-in rechargeable battery, two disI’ve spent a cumulative 26 hours in airplanes. (Incidentally, I’m writing this from posable cartridges, two 17-inch extensions the Fort Myers airport at a rate of $3 per 10 for a 54-inch reach, and wall mount.”

Middle-class Joe reads that and thinks, minutes.) In that time, I’ve read Skymall “Imagine the snob who pays $5O for a fancynearly cover-to-cover. Provided free-ofcharge in every seatback pocket, it’s the pants insect vacuum, when you can flush a only reading material available to most pas- bug down the toilet with your bare hands for sengers; and even if they opt for in-flight free. I’m glad I’m not a snob!” And so it is for the rest of Skymall. Blurb after blurb on magazines or John Grisham books, practically everyone, at some point between take- high-end baubles paint a picture of an upper off and landing, will spend time flipping class that is not just effete and overindulgent, but morally pitiable. Those guys up there in through Skymall.

It is a remarkable document: It offers first class, thinks Joe, are nothing more than overgrown children, the poor guys. wine- and fruit-of-the-month club memberThe end result is not envy or even anger, ships, chocolate-fondue fountains, 24-caratgold-dipped fresh roses, portable gazebos, but moral superiority. And as Nietzsche so self-inflating sleeping bags, polyglot elec- rightly observed, once the lower classes tronic-translator pens, skin-softening have convinced themselves of their moral gloves, talking Abraham Lincoln figurines, superiority, they feel the need for no further action. the full range of Successories posters, theraThus it is that Skymall coddles the high peutic ionized bracelets, Andy Warhol rugs, and restrains the low. And if it does so robot vacuums, terracotta garden hedgehogs in three sizes and, through a special through an elaborate apparatus of self-departnership with New Line Cinema, the ception, that is the fault of the high and the One Ring, all theoretically purchasable in low, not of the catalogue.

And if none of the hundreds of thousands flight with a call to 1-800-SKYMALL on the seatback phone. I have never seen anyone of flights leaving American airports each make such a call. year turn into Paris, 1848, that is to the lastAnd there is the rub—because Skymall is ing credit of Skymall, a thing of genius and the work of superior minds, the most signifinot a catalogue at all, but rather an elaborate class-pacification device. The in-flight cant class-pacification device of our times.

Social harmony: Priceless. ordering of luxury baubles is too extravagant for all but the greatest socialites and Rob Goodman is a Trinity senior. His column merchant princes, and they have their own planes. Moreover, Skymall’s prices are often appears Fridays.

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here, writing my final column, there’s the temp(assuming I ever get hired), or maybe never. When you tation to turn it into something major and profound. start thinking about graduation, you might start thinking All I can see in my head is some amalgamation of the that you have to justify these four years in terms of a skill set last scenes of The Breakfast Club and Animal House... diere’s or job experiences. You’ve got the diploma now, though... some crappy ’Bos music playing as the screen freezes and you don’t have to justify anything. The same people who the subtides comeup: “Matt DeTura is now living in a box have wasted the last four years of their lives, so long as they in East Orange.” Not really my style, though. got enough C’s, are going to walk down the same row and Other columns this year have made you think, gotten shake the same hands as the people who busted their asses you excited, had you writing letters, pissed you off. I mostfor almost half a decade. In fact, thanks to the magic of die ly phoned it in (think the hockey column right before alphabetical order, I get to walk well before Pasha and Anbreak) and made inappropriate jokes (think the one about thony and therefore will have much fresher hands clapping Terri Schiavo). Every so often I did both. for me. Sure, those kids are going to have One school of thought says that a good higher starting salaries. Probably by a faccolumnist should be controversial, which tor of 14. But nobody can take diat little was apparently a particularly successful tack slip of paper (and the $5O Duke University this year, getting one set of writers kicked Official Frame, available at the Duke off the paper and another with angry pitchStore) away from me now, baby! fork-toting mobs ready to chase him out of So, my fellow seniors, remember this. town. I think the most controversial thing I When you’re sweltering in your caps and intimated this year was that Duke is trying gowns this May, listening to the President to kill off its student body by equipping the (Jetil ra ofChili’s drone on about mozzarella sticks matt dorms with deadly chairs. Of course, there x and the sampler platter, or whatever, there d f was also the column in which I advocated vi- ?.r B°» °r for awesome may be slight pangs of guilt that, like me, olence against your fellow students, urging you didn’t accomplish everything you set you to punch the ones saying stupid things. Not to menout to. That’s cool. There’s time for that. tion, the secret plot to overthrow the entire administration, It’s called grad school. which I’ll now reveal can be deciphered by taking the first Thanks to my patient editor, my favorite proofreaders letter of every sentence I’ve written this year. (I’ll now take and joke-testers, everyone who wrote me e-mails (sorry I a short break while the more gullible amongst you browse was too lazy to write any ofyou back), my friends and all the the online archives.) other people I found tolerable on this campus (special That said, as low as I set my goals as a writer, I don’t thanks to tire staff of Chick-Fil-A; I would be remiss if I didthink I accomplished as much as I intended with this coln’t once mention that they are the nicest people at Duke). umn. Mainly, I feel that way because only one cute girl Of course, thanks to my parents for spotting me a couple came up to me at a bar this year and said she recognized thousand and sending me on a four-year vacation out of my name from the paper. (My headshot, taken about 10 Jersey for reasons beyond any comprehension.

Wait, I’ll now leave you with something profound minutes after I had seen sunlight for the first time that day, and memorable... may have had something to do with it.)

Everyone keeps asking me about graduation, and I’m Yeah, right. Peace, bitches! not ashamed to say that I haven’t really thought about it that much. Probably won’t until I’m walking into Wally Matt DeTura is a Trinity senior. His column appears every Wade, or even walking in the door on my first day at work otherFriday. .

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would never expect to learn so much from eighth cause she is black, and “only the white kids make honor graders. Duke professors, yes. Duke students, of course. roll.” As much as I always try to have something to say to these students in terms of advice and encouragement, she But from scrawny, gossiping pre-teens?

It’s true; I attribute the most indelible learning experileft me absolutely speechless. And I can’t even count how ences this year to my eight eighth-grade tutees, who never many other times I—smart, all-knowing Duke mentor have struggled to find the right words. I can’t blame them eifail to make me burst out laughing even when I try my hardther; even as a college student, I have yet to deal with half of est to focus them on math. Their humor and personalities what they face on a daily basis. are unmatched, and my time with them is an enjoyable outYou simply don’t experience this in a classroom, not let to the somewhat-suffocating Duke bubble. They are brutally honest with me, knowing full well when I’ve had late even at Duke.

Often I find myself venting with their burnt-out nights, and they never hesitate to give me advice, including teachers, to on how succeed at Duke out or ranting to my friends and seeking the advice of (seek suggestions JJ. my education professors. These students!

Shelden, date and then many them when How can a school and teachers best help they are in the NBA and live richly ever them? Is there even a solution? Every tuSince the show a loyafter). beginning, they toring session, I leave with more quesalty to me like I am their older sister, a role tions than answers.

I am honored to have Through these experiences though, while viewed them as a few Yet, I initially my personal philosophy of teaching has students who just needed a little more attenundergone its own transformation, a type tion in the classrooms, the teachers and adlearning only made possible through otherwise and warned me ministrators knew miho kubagawa of these tutees and my research serviceso, in hopes of preparing me for what may dlscere vivendo learning course. Recruiting “better” lie ahead. These are the “special” students, teachers and implementing national the the end-of-grade failures, likely droppolicies to address the “at-risk” does not work...or at outs and the future gang leaders. One administrator continued to remind me my first week of tutoring in October, least, not enough to make a difference. The teachers “Please, don’t be scared, and don’t take anything personally here will flat-out tell you, the achievement gap isn’t closing, even in my tutees’ school that boasts a well-respectwhat thesekids might say to you.”

So, like any overachieving Duke student, I assumed I ed reputation here in our community.

And, as the last days of our school year unwinds, when would be able to make a difference. I confirmed my hopes when the students unexpectedly warmed up to me after they many Dukies like me prefer to throw away notes and to forfound out I was their new tutor and teacher’s aid. My height, get a semester’s worth of materials, I cannot and will not stop thinking about these “special” eight. I don’t know how my youthful appearance and my ties to Duke, the better basmany of them will return next year. I honesdy don’t know I, “cool. was too, made me ketball school, automatically where they will be in four years, when most of their classpleasandy surprised with them; these students are just as mates will be college-bound high school seniors. And I don’t anything, skinny and awkward as I was in the eighth grade. If even know how much I have helped them. cute. they are still But what I do know is that I can only hope by doing.. .by But, as our friendships grew stronger over the course of five months, the real problems began to surface, like their discere vivmdo, learning through living. unstable home lives, their interests in gangs and their low Miho Kubagawa is a Trinity sophomore. Her column appears self-esteems. Once, one of my tutees flat out told me very other Friday. every roll behonor adamandy that she would never make the —

Shift focus from numbers We let numbers control our lives. Arbitrary symbols on pieces of paper are supposed to summarize our efforts, our worth and even our health. From grades to weights to calories and carbs, it is dme dial we step back and examine where diis preoccupation with numbers really gets us in die end. In response to Andrew Collins’ April 12 column, die decision not to post nutritional facts is not only about diagnosable eating disorders. Diagnosable eating disorders, whether diey entail under-eating or overeating, represent just one end of a spectrum of unhealthy eating habits. Shifting die focus awayfrom numbers is about getting die big picture, about not losing sight of the forest for die trees. It is about fostering a healthier Duke.

Instead of crunching diose numbers, snack on this simple formula: 1. Balance, variety and moderation.

A colorful plate that draws from all food groups goes a long way to ensuring diat you are getting the nutrients that you need to get you through that stressful day.

2. Listen to your body.

Eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full.

Melissa Fiffer Trinity ’O6 Healthy Devil Peer Educator

Defy Phelps; attend play For those who have not heard, Reverend Phelps and his supporters will be gracing Durham. Although many aspects of his visit are still uncertain, his anti-gay rhetoric and horrific hate speech will not be met by silence here at Duke. That said, I have been asked by those involved in the Durham School of the Arts’ production of The Laramie Project to please attend the play, rather than counter-picket. I totally respect their wish, and I feel that by filling up their theater seats, we can create just as an effective form of protest. Also, if you so please, you can carry a picket sign, in what is sure to be a long line to the ticket counter. We have only begun to organize our response here at Duke, so if you wish to join us, or want any additional information, please e-mail me (bfw2@duke.edu) or Karen Krahulik (krahulik@duke.edu).

Brian West Trinity ’O5 President ofAQUADuke

Not today, Fred As a native of Topeka, Kansas, my heart sank when I read The Chronicle Wednesday morning and saw that the hatred I observed in my childhood had made its way to Duke. I have walked into my church many Sundays past signs declaring “God Hates Fags.” Fred Phelps is infamous for his hatred in Topeka and across the nation. His offensive, homophobic remarks and picket signs held by himself and his followers will shock and offend most, as we are forced to witness the extent to which the First Amendment and its freedoms reach and protect each of us. I agree with Voltaire when he wrote, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

It is a challenging price offreedom. Phelps is NOT politically correct, is NOT kind, is NOT rational and does NOT care about offending others. He is also NOT violent and thus far, he has not violated the laws of our land to a point where he can be stopped through legal action.

That doesn’t mean, however, that he cannot be stopped. Each of us has a choice. You can choose to sit by apathetically, frustrated and dismayed. Or you can choose to stand up and say, “Not Today, Fred.” His hatred can be overshadowed by understanding, dialogue and acceptance. Wear your “gay? fine by me” shirt. Engage in dialogue. Ask questions within your faith community. Stay on campus an extra day before Myrtle Beach and support students at the Durham School of the Arts by attending The Laramie Project. Whatever your choice, do notrespond with violence or hatred. The horrors many will witness on his signs provide an opportunity for each of us to address the tough social, political and religious questions of today. As someone who has grown forced to observe his repugnant signs and hatred, there is nothing Phelps delights in more than watching his actions divide. You have the chance to show him that Duke and Durham are better than that.

Katie Owen Trinity ’O6

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