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Communication, community building ancHcontinning progress.

These were the three goals made last fall by Heather Dean, Graduate and Professional Student Council presiyear in dent and sixthreview year student in

Brad Berndt, who oversees drug testing and academic support, said Duke’s new policy for ensteroid Questions involving use at Duke have surfaced this forcement and education is commonth, but the Athletic Departparable to otherACC schools and was instituted primarily to help ment has sought to provide answers for its student-athletes the student athletes.

“We felt like there was some since the beginning of the school year, when it adapted its ambiguous language in our policy, and it really wasn’t clear to wide-ranging drug policy. the student-athletes; ‘What’s Student-AthDuke’s revised lete Drug Policy, which went going to happen if I test posiinto effect in August, no longer tive?”’ Berndt said.

“If we could put something in includes athletic suspensions for an athlete’s first positive SEE TESTING ON SW PAGE 6 drug test—a change made to a net” with the “safety provide threat of suspension and revoked scholarships at stake. The Athletic Department can still invoke other forms of sanctions for a student-athlete’s first positive test.

Although Athletic Department officials pitch their testing program to student-athletes as random, they can add players suspected of substance use to a random group selected for testing five to six times a year. The University has no obligation to report any finding from its own DAN RYAN/THE CHRONICLE institutional drug tests to the Brendan Dewan said Duke NCAA, which performs its own Linebacker to be tested at expect football players sporadic tesdng.

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GPSC has come a long way in achieving these goals this year. The organization has gained considerable visibility across campus as it has placed graduate and professional students on many major committees, increased programming and doubled membership in graduate student groups.

Dean mentioned GPSC made progress on a number of fronts this year, including community building and communication.

GPSCNews, a weekly e-mail to all graduate and professional students about current events and news on campus, has been a major factor in increasing communication. In two years, it has grown from a bi-weekly publication listing just a few events to a weekly e-mail with news and tips for graduate and professional students, as well as advertising many events from a wide range

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Sixth-year graduate student in neurobiologyWeather Dean served as the GPSC president, focusing on communication and community building. of student groups “When I first arrived here at Duke, many graduate and professional students said they were disconnected from the University, and I hear that a lot less now they know where the resources are,” Dean said.

Rachel Lovingood, GPSC communications coordinator also believes GPSC has improved their campus image.

“One thing Heather did a really good job with is reaching out

to administrators,” she said. “It puts contacts in place so that we can use it down the road with the coming administration...the conduit of information flow is

open.”

But Rob Saunders, GPSC community affairs coordinator and newly elected GPSC Young Trustee, still believes more work must be done.

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Sibulele Sibaca, a self-described daddy’s girl and sports afficionado, was inspired to become a representative of loveLife South Africa’s national HIV prevention program for youth —because of her personal experiences as an AIDS orphan.

As a communications officer for the group, Sibaca works with young South Africans to reduce the infection rate among teens and young adults in the country and raise awareness about the risks associated with teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Having lost her mother in 1996 and then her father in 2000, Sibaca described the emotional toll caused by her loss at an AIDS panel discussion this month hosted by the Health Inequalities Program at Duke. “Had I been a horrible child?” she

wondered. “Was there something that I was supposed to do?”

The unwillingness of other adults to reveal to her what had caused Sibaca’s parents’ deaths—probably due to the moral questionability that many people associate with HIV and AlDS—extended her suffering.

“Now I wasn’t sad,” Sibaca recalled. “I was mad—I was pissed off.” Because people knew that her parents were AIDS victims, Sibaca said she felt isolated and discriminated against in her own community.

Behind the bare statistics on AIDS lies a growing crisis: the plight of AIDS orphans, children who have lost their parents to the disease and have nowhere left effort to to turn. As a part of an ongoing raise awareness of the issue, the Health Inequalities Program at Duke recently SEE AIDS ON PAGE 6

During a panel discussion April 13, speakers focused on the emerging problem ofchildren orphaned by AIDS.

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An emboldened Iraqi insurgency staged carefully coordinated dual bombings in Saddam Hussein’s hometown and a Shiite neighborhood of the capital Sunday, killing at least 21. Lawmakers loyal to the new prime minister said he was ready to announce a Cabinet that would exclude his interim predecessor, Ayad Allawi.

An American soldier was killed in a separate attack.

Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim alJaafari had decided, some members of his political bloc said, to shun further attempts to include members of the party headed by BAGHDAD, Iraq

Allawi, the secular Shiite politician who had served as prime minister as the country prepared for elections Jan. 30.

Members of Allawi’s Iraqi List, which controls 40 seats in the National Assembly, said his party had not been officially informed of the development. Allawi loyalists were bidding for at least four ministries, including a senior government post and a deputy premiership.

“I heard from the media, and some of the other assembly members told me about it,” lawmaker Hussein Shaalan told the Associated Press late Sunday. But he said the party would continue to support the government even if excluded from the Cabinet.

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list could be put to parliaas early as Monday, some of his bloc said. Others indicated the Cabinet announcement would be made Tuesday. Many such forecasts have proven wrong so far.

Many Shiites have long resented the secular Allawi, accusing his outgoing administration of having included former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, which brutally repressed the majority Shiites and Kurds.

Militant violence over the weekend took at least 38 lives.

Insurgent attacks had dropped dramatically after the vote but spiraled upward in recent weeks as the politicians failed to name a government. ment

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WASHINGTON Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday it was not “radical” to ask senators to vote on judicial nominees as he hardened his effort to strip Democrats of their power to stall President George W. Bush’s picks for the federal court.

Frist, speaking at an event organized by Christian groups trying to rally churchgoers to support an end to judicial filibusters, also said judges deserve “respect, not retaliation,” no matter how they rule.

A potential candidate for the White House in 2008, the Tennessee Republican

made no overt mention of religion in the brief address, according to a text of his videotaped remarks released before the event in Louisville, Ky. Instead, Frist seemed intent on steering clear of the views expressed by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and other conservatives in and out of Congress who have urged investigations and even possible impeachment of judges they describe as activists.

“Our judiciary must be independent, impartial and fair,” Frist said.

“When we think judicial decisions are outside mainstream American values, we

will say so. But we must also be clear that the balance of power among all three branches requires respect —not retaliation.

I won’t go along with that,” Frist said.

For months, Frist has threatened to take action that would shut down the Democrats’ practice of subjecting a small number of judicial appointees to filibusters. Barring a last-minute compromise, a showdown is expected this spring or summer.

“I don’t think it’s radical to ask senators to vote. I don’t think it’s radical to expect senators to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities,” said Frist.

In a broad message of outreach to begin his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI stressed his church's bonds with Jews and other Christians and promised followers Sunday he would not ignore their voices in leading the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.

Prisons swell dramatically Growing at a rate of about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, the nation's prisons and jails held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents, the government reported Sunday.

By last June 30, there were 48,000 more inmates, or 2,3 percent.

U.S.-Russian mission completed After undocking three and a half hours earlier, a space capsule carrying a U.S.-RussianItalian crew landed safely on the steppes of northern Kazakhstan early Monday, following a mission aboard the international space station.

Gas prices fall in past 2 weeks The average price for ail grades of gasoline nationwide has fallen nearly 41/2 cents per gallon in two weeks because of a drop in crude oil prices and slightly lower demand.

The average retail price for all three grades dropped 4.46 cents to $2.27 per gallon between April 8 and Friday.

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School is almost -out, and before you know it Duke’s Unix computers will be as well.

This summer, the Office of Information Technology’s division of Academic Technology Services will be at work replacing the machines that run with Unix—an operating system commonly used in scientific fields—in labs around campus, including the engineering lab in 106 Teer Library. The current crop ofSun Ultra 10s and Sun Blades will be replaced with new Dell hardware. These new machines will run CentOS 3.3 as supported by Linux@DUKE. CentOS is a distribution of the popular open-source operating system Linux.

Linux, a Unix-type operating system, was originally created by Linus Torvalds in the early 1990s and is freely available to everyone.

Sarah Roberts, an information technology analyst in OIT, is working with other OIT groups to manage the transition to Linux. “Pragmatic and technical considerations have driven this change, as Linux continues to gain a greater userbase and more third-party commercial software is made available on the platform,” Roberts said. “The availability of software should be a real boon to users. Duke also has a very strong Linux presence and knowledgebase among students and other campus users.”

Since Linux and Unix are so similar, all the programs on the computers will stay the same, and students will notice minimal differences.

“The project will be put into effect over the summer so as not to disrupt any courses currently using Solaris for coursework, as well as to add it as a part of the normal computer migration schedule that occurs every summer,” Roberts said.

Of the 20 labs managed by OIT, seven currently have Unix machines. The labs that will be upgraded include 125 Carr Building, 117 Hudson Hall, 106 Teer Library, 133 Social Psychology Building, 108 House E in Craven Quadrangle and the Perkins Library basement lab. Construction of the new French Science

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Center will lead to the elimination of the public Unix lab in the Biological Sciences Building.

Mechanical Engineering graduate student Howard Conyers uses the labs “three or four times a week,” he said. It is his first year using Unix, and though he said he did not know much about Linux, he found the current setup efficient and its scientific tools useful.

Junior Amit Joshipura, who is double majoring in biomedical and electrical engineering, said he is usually in the lab every day. Working on a problem using the engineering math program MATLAB, Joshipura sometimes has a different issue on his mind. “I don’t have a problem with the computers; I have a problem with the

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Freshman Aijun Madan-Mohan, a biomedical engineer, uses the labs several times a week during class labs. He uses the lab computers mainly for engineering programs MATLAB and LaTex and was disappointed that they lacked Microsoft Word, Since Microsoft Word cannot run on Unix or Linux machines, the open source alternative, OpenOffice.org, will most likely be included on the new Dell machines, “There is a strong interest in Linux, and it has a wide and far-reaching footprint on campus already," Roberts said.

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Before it heads to Washington for a month, North Carolina businessmen have been lobbying hard for the Central American Free Trade Agreement —sure to become one of the most influential such pacts Congress has tackled in more than 10 years.

CAFTA, like its model, the North American Free Trade Agreement, would clear most trade barriers with Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

As one of the leading U.S. states in trade relations with Central America, North Carolina is home to textile leaders and politicians on the front lines among lobbyists for passing CAFTA. State textile officials stormed Washington this month, claiming that the proposed agreement would boost their staggering businesses.

Cass Ballenger, a former Republic Congressman from High Point who chaired the International Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, returned to the House for a hearing on the agreement.

“CAFTA is created basically to help Central American sewing machines,” Ballenger said. “If we don’t pass CAFTA, [businesses] will go to China.”

Ballenger contended that China has an unstable government and that it is in the interest of U.S. trade to invest in Central America.

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newsbriefs Respected former Duke surgeon dies Dr. James Semans, the husband of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and a Duke University surgeon and urologist who combined a career as a leading medical scientist and physician with a passion for the arts and charitable causes, died at his Durham home Thursday. He was 94.

Semans was a pioneer in rehabilitative and urinary surgery who during World War II developed an operation on the bladder neck sphincter to relieve retained urine because of spinal cord injury, said Dr. Saul Boyarsky, a retired Duke professor and physician.

Duke President Richard Brodhead said Semans “contributed so much to the Duke community and the larger world. He was a physician who was a wonderful clinician and teacher whose passion extended to the arts and human relations, the needs of the disabled and beyond. He will be missed at Duke and across North Carolina,

NORTH CAROLINA fromstaffreports where his rich legacy will be felt for decades to come.”

A funeral service is planned for IT a.m.

Tuesday, April 26, at Duke Chapel.

New MOP restaurants debut The four merchants on points restaurants previously delayed are now serving student’s delivery orders.

Dale’s Indian Cuisine, Mad Hatter’s Cafe and Bakery Shop, The Q Shack and Chai’s Noodle Bar and Bistro are now serving students through the Gourmet Dining and Bakery, LLC. company.

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RALEIGH, N.C. In a variation on the traditional state budget dance, lawmakers in the House and Senate are putting potential budget cuts on the table early in the process this year—perhaps paving the way for tax hikes and a lottery.

In an unusual move, the joint HouseSenate subcommittees for both health and education earlier this month unveiled draft proposals that would trim $330 million from Gov. Mike Easley’s $16.9 billion budget proposal.

The drafts—based on predetermined spending reduction targets—threaten to eliminate funding for half of the state’s third-grade teacher assistants and 750 university positions. The proposals also reduce coverage for 57,000 patients by removing them from the Medicaidrolls and leaving them covered by Medicare alone.

Normally, news of such cuts doesn’t leak out until weeks later in the budgetwriting process.

Yet so far, the proposals have not sparked the usual cries of doom and gloom from advocates for the poor, mentally ill and students.

With the state facing a potential $1 billion budget shortfall, lawmakers say they feel obliged to put the proposals on the

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“I think the public really sees that we are in a very tight money situation,” said Sen. Kay Hagan, D-Guilford, one of the three co-chairs of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “There will be many more cuts unless there’s more revenue.”

Some lobbyists say privately that they think the joint subcommittee hearings are theater—designed to scare lawmakers and the public into extending the half-cent sales tax due to expire this year, increasing tobacco and alcohol taxes and approving a lottery. Combined, revenues from those sources could cover much of the shortfall.

Dave Richard, executive director of the Arc of North Carolina, which advocates for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled, isn’t sure what to think. In years past, Richard has sent out mass emails to his grass-roots organizers when bad budget news came out. So far this year, though, he has resisted the urge.

“It’s sort of an eerie time because the sense of urgency doesn’t seem to be there on either side,” Richard said.

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“We developed Central American industries, which created jobs for them,” Ballenger said, adding that failing to pass CAFTA would encourage more Latino immigration.

North Carolina accounts for 11 percent of the $15.7 billion in U.S. shipments to the CAFTA countries, ranking third among U.S. states. The $1.7 billion in goods shipped to the six countries last year makes the group of nations North Carolina’s second-largest trading partner after Canada, according to the U.S. Commerce

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A U.S. Chamber of Commerce study projected that CAFTA would create more than 5,000 jobs in North Carolina in its first year alone.

North Carolinian apparel sellers VF Corp. of Greensboro—which manufactures popular brands like The North Face, Lee, Nautica and Kipling—and Sara Lee Branded Apparel of Winston-Salem actively support CAFTA. Some of their executives were present at the congressional

agreement.

Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science Frederick Mayer, who specializes in trade agreements, said he tends to support CAFTA. “It is unlikely that it is going to have positive or negative effects,” he said. “It will have a bigger impact on Central America than on the U.S. economy.”

Mayer added that the textile industry’s lobbing has more political motivations than economic foundations.

“In the textile area, it might make the Latin American countries somewhat more competitive,” he said. “So much has been shifting to China, but the impact will be

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Ballenger argued that CAFTA is a stronger agreement than NAFTA, which opened up trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. CAFTA would eliminate one-sided tariffs paid by U.S. companies pushing to do business in Central America —something NAFTA’s regulations do not allow.

The American sugar industry and some U.S. and Latino advocacy groups, meanwhile, continue to claim CAFTA would eliminate jobs.

“Sugar is highly subsidized; they oppose all free trade agreements,” Mayer said. “I don’t think either the U.S. or North Carolina has so much to fear from CAFTA.”

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Duke stands out as one of the first universities in the U.S. to lead research in AIDS prevention. Since the mid-19905, investigation into the disease has extended to classroom studies and student activism—efforts supporting the University’s stated goal to broaden its healthcare involvement on an international level.

As recently as August, the National Institutes of Health awarded a $4-million grant for the study of AIDS in Tanzania, where about 10 percent of the population is infected with HIV. Activist groups like Generation HIV and students in the AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases course have also worked to draw attention to the epidemic, which kills about five people every minute.

Topics at the discussion ranged from AIDS-related discrimination to the exploitation offemale orphans to the struggle that local organizations face in terms ofboth social and economic instability.

“These are people that you would never hear from otherwise. They’re from grassroots organizations that often go without funding for years,” explained Rachel Whetten, director of the Health

Inequalities Program.

Frehiwot Alebachew, executive director of the Save Lives Ethiopia Development Organization, highlighted the stigma that prevents many AIDS victims from seeking treatment, as well as a vast inadequacy of funding.

“Alone, Ethiopia cannot adequately address the human tragedy of children or-

phaned by HIV/AIDS,” she said. “Is this not a problem for all countries, though?”

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help AIDS orphans. On a personal level, the responsibility for caring for orphans af-

fected by the disease often falls on grandparents or siblings who survive on a few dollars a day at best. The financial problems often prevent potential caregivers from assuming long-term responsibility.

The stigma of AIDS is pervasive among victims as well as their children, regardless of whether or not the children suffer from the disease themselves.

Founded in 1990 by local women, Dafrosa Itemba’s KIWAKKUKI, Swahili for “Women Against AIDS in Kilamanjaro, Tanzania,” aims to accelerate women’s access to information on HIV and empower them with skills to fight HIV/AIDS in their communities. Itemba noted at the discussion that the information push is a response to the pa-

triarchal tendencies in African culture that make it extremely difficultfor women to obtain information on the disease.

The social stigma associated with AIDS increases people’s reluctancy to admit they suffer from the illness. KIWAKKUKI provides educational programs for the community and work opportunities for victims, thereby fighting discrimination and encouraging people to “go open” about their condition.

Inequality between men and women in terms of AIDS deaths and property rights is one of the most alarming aspects of the AIDS crisis, Itemba said. In some areas, up to two times as many men than women are killed by AIDS-related complications.

“Many women and children find themselves disadvantaged by an oppressive cul-

their land and prevent mothers from returning to their childhood homes, Itemba added.

“Together,” Itemba said, “we can give AIDS a human face, I think. Don’t you?”

Sibaca tells her story to help facilitate this goal, though her transformation from victim to AIDS prevention advocate was not the epiphany one might expect. “Why did I get involved in loveLife? Because I had nothing better to do,” she said. Hearing how her volunteer work with the organization had helped and inspired other orphans, though, convinced Sibaca to remain with loveLife. The support and encouragement she found within the organization made it possible for her to move forward with her life and help others do the same.

“I realized there was someone out there who had faith and trust in me when I didn’t have faith and trust in myself,” she said.

“I’m still a statistic in my country, but it was my choice how to respond. I’m going to make it. And why? Because I can.”

Students who attended the panel were struck by the passion and dedication ofthe speakers.

“This is the fourth time I’ve heard them speak, but I still came tonight,” said Nissa Mohomed, a junior Health Policy Certificate candidate.

The event provided a more personal take on the AIDS crisis, as compared to the policy aspect that health students come to expect.

“This gave me a chance to put a face behind each number and see people working without the benefit ofconventional resources,” junior Nazaneen Homaifar said.

“I think Duke students often overlook their ability to help in these types of situations. These people have really turned their situation around.”

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CHAPEL HILL— With Roy Williams by their side and Dean Smith lurking in the tunnels of the facility that bears his name, Sean May, Raymond Felton and Marvin Williams all declared for the June 28 NBA draft at a press conference Friday afternoon.

“It’s been a lot of tough times, and it’s been a lot of great times, especially winning the National Championship this year,” junior Felton said. “It was a dream come true. It was a dream coming to this University.”

The announcements, which have been discussed since the Tar Heels defeated Illinois in the National Championship game April 4, come just two weeks after junior guard Rashad McCants made known his intentions to forfeit his final year ofeligibility in order to pursue a professional career.

Felton, McCants and May were all recruited by then-head coach Matt Doherty in an attempt to turn around a program thathad won just eight games the previous season. After one rocky season under Doherty, Williams was coaxed back to North Carolina to coach the trio and return the program to prominence.

All three players said that winning a national championship this season allowed them to leave without regret. Felton and Williams both cited financial and family concerns as sons for turning pro. May said he had originally intended to be a four-year player but the combination of Felton leaving and dominant performances down the stretch and through the NCAATournament caused him to reconsider.

“I don’t think of him as a cow but his stock was pretty doggone high,” Williams said of May’s draft prospects. “I think he opened some people’s eyes to how good he could be.”

Williams said since the season ended he has been in contact with NBA sources to help advise his underclassmen.

“What’s best for each individual player is what I’ve always been concerned about and what I will be concerned about until the day I stopped coaching,” Williams said. “These three youngsters have dreamed of being an NBA player, and they

also had dreams of winning a naNow tional championship. they’re moving on. As a coach you are sad but only because you’re not going to be able to coach them any longer at this

University.”

All four North Carolina early

entrants figure to be first-round

picks. Although only a freshman

who did not start all season, Williams is likely to be the highest pick of the bunch near the top of the lottery. May, Felton and McCants could all be picked anywhere from the mid-lottery to the middle of the first round.

If all four are selected in the first round, the Tar Heels will be the second college team ever to have four top-round picks. The 1999 Duke team that had Elton Brand, Corey Maggette and William Avery all leave early, along with senior Trajan Langdon, was the first one.

In addition to the four early departures, the Tar Heels are also losing seniors Jawad Williams, and Melvin Scott, Jackie Manuel leaving the team without its top

seven scorers. Rising-senior David Noel, who averaged just 3.9 points per game last season, will be the team’s leading offensive producer to return. The only other contributors from last season’s team coming back are rising-junior Reyshawn Terry and rising-sophomore Quentin Thomas, whose only start was in the North Carolina loss to Santa Clara when Felton was suspended.

“If the program was devastated, I’d be leaving with them,” Williams said. “We’re still going to showup on game night. That’s the attitude I’m going to have.

You might beat me, but you’re not going to have to beat me by hitting me in the back. I’m going to come right at you.”

North Carolina will not be the only ACC team dealing with departures. Wake Forest guard Chris Paul has decided to enter the draft, and center Eric Williams has declared but is re-

taining amateur status by not hiring an agent. John Gilchrist of Maryland said he is in the process of hiring an agent, and Georgia

North Carolina will be without its top seven players from this season's championship squad after Sean May, Raymond Felton and Marvin Williams said Friday that they would enter the NBA draft.Rashad McCants declaredfor the draft two weeks ago.

Tech junior guard Jarrell Jack is expected to announce his intentions in the coming days.

The ACC will be inexperienced next season with a rash of underclass departures, and the graduation of four-year standouts such as BJ. Elder and Julius Hodge. Even if Shelden Williams decides to jump to pros, Duke will be one of the only teams returning a significant amount of its contributing roster. Boston College, which

was undefeated well into this past season, will join the ACC next fall and should be able to compete immediately with its

experienced roster, Especially in the depleted ACC, the departing UNC players

don not fear a return to the preWilliams era, though.

“Don’t count this team out next year,” Felton said. “This coach over here just won the national championship. He can coach. They will be prepared.”

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Duke’s offense was clicking from the opening faceoff, and the Blue Devils’ bid for a second-straight ACC regular season

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With the win, Duke will enter this weekend’s ACC Championships in Baltimore, Md. as the top seed and will face the winner Thursday’s game between North Carolina and Virginia Tech. The Tar Heels were the only ACC team to beat the Blue Devils this season in a 12-11 decision March 12.

“For us it’s a nice testament to the type of season that we’ve had,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said of the regular season title. “With the exception of the Carolina game —which we are certainly hoping we get the opportunity to play them again— I’m really proud of this group because they’ve just been such a fun group to coach. They’ve responded well in the face of adversity or after we haven’t performed well.”

Junior Katie Chrest netted three goals, giving her 54 scores on the season. That total ties her with former Blue Devil Tri-

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“Of course she’d downplay it,” sophomore Kristen Waagbo said of Chrest’s accomplishments. “She’s such a great teammate. No one probably would ever know that she tied that record unless the reporters or whatever told us.”

Since the team’s loss to No. 1 Northwestern April 10, Kimel has made regular references to things the team learned from that “turning point,” particularly regarding the team’s tempo on offense.

The Blue Devils managed a number of goals in transition Friday, including Waagbo’s third goal, which put Duke ahead 114 with five minutes to go in the first half.

The sophomore drove toward the right post and when the Hokies’ goalie Nikki Schiavone bit on her fake, Waagbo fired a no-look shot over her shoulder into the left side of the net.

Just as Kimel has been preaching, the Blue Devils slowed the pace of the game when fastbreak opportunities were not available and worked through their motion offense.

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Dan Flannery and Matt Danowski scored six goals each,as the Army defense keyed in on Duke's top scoring threat Zack Greer.

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One last regular-season hurdle remained for the men’s lacrosse team. With the postseason quickly approaching, it was very possible that DUKE D uk e 9 could ARMY have lost its concentration against the No. 7 Army Black Knights.

The No. 2 Blue Devils (13-1) played their fifth road game against a top-25 opponent Saturday. For the fourth time this sea 1 son, they won.

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close for the first two quarters and only trailed by an 8-6 margin. But Duke opened the second half with a 5-0 run on its way to a 19-9 victory.

“Our play in the third quarter, in the first five minutes, was probably the strongest third quarter we’ve had,” head coach Mike Pressler said. “It took Army right out of the game.”

Junior Dan Flannery served as the Blue Devils’ offensive catalyst during the critical stretch. He scored three goals in the period and finished die game with a career-high six. Sophomore Matt Danowski also finished the game

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“I was not surprised with Danowski and Flannery,” Pressler said. “Army made a concerted effort to stop Zack Greer and deny him his opportunities. With that said, the other two guys had to step forward and take a load off of Zack’s shoulders, and both of those guys did a tremendous job.

Flannery and Danowski had 12 goals on 24 shots—those guys shot 50 percent between the two of them—that is phenomenal.”

Greer, Duke’s leading scorer, was held to just one shot in the SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 6

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The women’s rowing team finished third at the sixth annual ACC Championship Saturday.

Holding the event for the second-straight year at Lake Hartwell in Clemson, S.C., Virginia claimed its sixth championship in as many attempts. The host school, Clemson, had its best finish since 2001 and came in second. Miami took home fourth, and North Carolina fifth to round out the field offive.

Duke had finished runnerup to the Cavaliers for three consecutive seasons but snapped the streak with its third-place showing this year.

“It was a little disappointing,” sophomore Emma Darling said. “We finished lower than we had expected.”

The Blue Devils finished third in both the Varsity Eight and Second Varsity Eight events behind Virginia and Clemson. In the Varsity Eight, Duke edged out ACC-newcomer Miami by less than a second and also defeated rival North Carolina.

In the Varsity Four, the final scoring event, the Blue Devils finished in last place. Heavy winds plagued the field, but the Cavaliers and Tigers were able to handle the weather and once again came in first and second, respectively, cementing their final overall positions.

Virginia finished with a perfect 49 in the total tally with Clemson not too far behind at 41. The most points are awarded for good finishes in the Varsi-

ty and Second Varsity Eight events, so Duke still finished with 25 points, 6 ahead of Miami even

with the Blue Devils’ last-place performance in the Varsity Four.

“We thought it would be tight with Clemson,” Darling said. “We definitely didn’t expect to lose by as much as we did.”

In the fourth and final event, the Novice Eight, Virginia proved to be vulnerable. During the previous five years’ championships the Cavaliers have won all four races in the ACCs, but this year they fell to Clemson by SEE ROWING ON PAGE

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The women's rowing team finished behind Clemson and Virginia at theACCs.

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Miami ousts depleted Duke in quarterfinals by

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The 15th-ranked Blue CARY, N.C. Devils entered the ACC Championship seeking their 16th title in 18 years.

Even after a disappointing regular season, Duke cruised past N.C. State in the first round and looked ready to make another run for a DUKE 3 conference crown. instead, But MIAMI I4 the Blue Devils’ regular-season woes carried through to the postseason. For the first time in 18 years, Duke failed to reach the the finals of the conference tournament, losing to No. 12 Miami 4-3 in the quarterfinals Friday at the Cary Tennis Center.

The second-seeded Hurricanes (20-4, 11-2 in the ACC) prevented the seventhseeded Blue Devils (1540, 6-6) from reaching the championship match for only the third timejn the history of the tournament.

“Physically we weren’t able to match [Miami’s] emotional level,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

In two previous matches with Miami this season, the Blue Devils had held the advantage after doubles play. The Hurricanes, however, took the opening point Friday, putting pressure on Duke’s injuryladen singles lineup.

Without the presence of No. 1 and No. 3 singles players, Katie Blaszak and Jennifer Zika, the Blue Devils struggled to compete with the intensity of the Miami squad.

“After every point, they were pumping their fists and high-fiving. Miami teams are known for that,” Ashworth said.

Playing at the top spot, Jackie Carleton looked poised to give the Blue Devils a needed boost in momentum as she squared off against the nation’s No. 1 player, Megan Bradley. Duke’s junior matched the big-serving Bradley shot-for-

shot until late in the first set After a break of serve gave Bradley a 43 advantage, Carleton appeared to level the match at four when she called a Bradley forehand long on break point.

The chair umpire, however, overruled Carleton, moving the game to deuce.

Frustrated with the umpire’s reversal, Carleton smacked a ball toward her opponent, a fellow UCLA transfer. The ball bounced over the back fence, causing Carleton to be penalized a point for unsportsmanlike conduct. She never recovered from the incident, and Bradley went on to win the game and the match 6-3, 6-1, giving Miami a 2-0 lead.

“She had the momentum,” Carleton said. “She just played big. I had to play at my best, and I couldn’t keep that level up the whole match.”

Senior Saras Arasu then brought Duke to within a point of Miami at 2-1 with a straight-set victory at No. 2 singles, but the Hurricanes had control of the overall match as they held a one-set lead in three of the four remaining matches.

As the team gathered to watch the final parings, Clelia Deltour missed three backhands that gave her harder-hitting opponent the edge in the final game. Physically outmatched by Miami’s 5-foot-8 Melissa Applebaum, Duke’s 5-foot-2 freshman then lost the final point, going down 6-3, 6-0.

Two minutes later, all hopes of a Blue Devil comeback were extinguished when Miami’s Emily Mowery hit a backhand by Parker Coyer as Coyer moved to the net.

The shot completed Mowery’s 6-2, 6-1 victory and propelled Miami into the semifinals with a 4-1 win.

The Hurricanes would later use the same attitude they used to beat Duke to reach the finals where they lost 4-3 to topSEE W. TENNIS ON PAGE 7

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Jackie Carleton was forced to play in the top singles spot, and her efforts were not enough for Duke to win.

MEN'S TENNIS

Blue Devils topped by lower-ranked Tar Heels by

Jordan Koss

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The second-seeded men’s tennis team (18-5, 8-3 in the ACC) had a major letdown at the ACC Tournament, losing to seventh-seeded North Carolina 4-2 at the Cary Tennis Center Friday.

The loss came only nine days after the Devils Blue UNC 4_ whipped UNC 7snapped DUKE I 2 0. and 11-match Duke’s win streak against the Tar Heels (16-10, 67). The Blue Devils were a depleted team, though, as senior Peter Shults had to sit out the match because he became ill with pneumonia, and fellow starter Stephen Amritraj is out for the year with a tom anterior cruciate ligament.

Jonathan Stokke—who won in three sets at the second singles posidon —acknowledged that the team was shorthanded, but thought the squad’s inability to give maximum effort uldmately led to the team’s demise.

“I don’t think that was the case for all of us,” Stokke said of team’s heart and focus.

“But it definitely played a role. Tm not going to name names, but we could have given a better overall team effort. Most people feel we should have beaten UNC, and \ think we were better on every court.”

The Blue Devils, ranked eighth nationally, looked strong coming out of the gate, winning two out of three doubles matches. >«

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Jonathan Stokke won his match but questioned how hard the rest ofhis team played in the loss to UNC. Peter Rodrigues teamed with the inexperienced freshman Alex Stone to win 8-4 at No. 3, while Ludovic Walter and Charles Brezac earned an 8-5 victory at the No. 2 position to clinch the doubles point.

Without Shults and Amritraj, head coach Jay Lapidus chose to play Walter at No. 1, and then Stokke, Rodrigues, Brezac, Ned Samuelson and Jason Zimmermann in flights two through six, respectively. At No.

4, Brezac lost rather quickly to UNO’s Derek Porter, 6-3, 7-5. Rodrigues lost two tough sets at the third singles position to succumb to Geoff Boyd, 7-6, 4-6. Walter—the fifth-ranked player in the country —lost in straight sets for the third time in five matches, quickly leaving Duke in a 3-1 hole, “It’s not a slump, it’s something that happens to everyone for a three or four game stretch over the course of a season,” Stokke said. “For Ludovic at No. 1, he never gets to take a match off, and if he is off his game just slightly, it gets exploited.”

Stokke gave the Blue Devils hope, battling for a three-set victory at No. 2 over Brad Pomeroy, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6. Down 3-2, Duke needed wins from their bottom two players to advance to the ACC semifinals, but the freshman Samuelson fell in three sets at No. 5, clinching the match for the Tar Heels.

“I thought everyone fought hard,” said Zimmermann, whose match at No. 6 ended before it was finished when it became irrelevant. “But I didn’t think we played as well as we could at a couple of the positions that we lost.”

UNC went on to lose in the semifinals to Florida State, which eventually lost to Virginia in the finals. The tournament victory gave UVa its second-consecutive ACC crown, and Cavaliers junior Darrin Cohen garnered tournament MVP honors with a 5-0 record over the weekend.

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Shannon Rowbury got the best of rival Erin Donohue from North Carolina once again as the Blue Devil broke her own school record in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:14.81 on her way to a first place finish at the ACC

Championships Saturday.

Rowbury sat behind Donohue for the first 1,000 meters of

the race and then made her uncontested move for the win.

Rowbury’s time is the secondfastest in the country, only slower than NCAA Indoor Champion Anne Shadle, who edged out Rowbury in their meeting earlier this spring.

“She simply toyed with what the best of the ACC had to offer,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

“She looked like she was jogging when Donohue was struggling.”

Both the men’s and women’s track teams traveled to Tallahassee, Fla., for the ACC Championships this weekend. Rowbury’s first-place finish helped the women’s team to an eighth-place finish overall while the men’s team finished 10th.

Junior Liz Wort smashed her own school record by 30 seconds in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, a run with water jumps and hurdles, finishing in first with a time of 10:10.15. Wort, who ran in third for the majority of the race, moved into the lead with two laps to go. On the last water jump Wort fell but was able to recover and beat the closest competitor by five seconds.

“She kind of got the celebratory drink a little too early,” Ogilvie said. “She had the fifth-best time in the country, and is going to be a national contender.”

Graduate student Lauren

Matic nearly captured first in the 800-meter run but was edged by Donohue at the finish line. Matic suffered a “blow to the head” when leaving the hotel, Ogilvie said, but she wanted to race since it was the lastACC meet of her career. The Blue Devil took the lead in the race with 250 meters to go, but Donohue won on her lean at the finish line. Matic’s time of 2:09.07 was one-hundredth of a second shy of the winning mark.

Debra Yen to’s jump of 6-1.5 feet in the high jump was her personal best by an inch and a half, but the Blue Devil setded for third place, as competitors posted record jumps. Vento cleared 6-1.5 on her third and final trial, but Georgia Tech’s Chaunte Howard’s leap at 6-4.5 set a new meet record.

On the men’s side, Nick Schneider placed third in the 5,000 with a time of 14:18.81 and placed sixth in the 1,500-meter run. In the preliminary race of the 1,500, Schneider was pushed from behind leading to a fall that left the Blue Devil badly scraped and out of the finals. Because of the foul, Schneider was allowed to compete in the final, but he ran conservatively because of the injury.

“He landed really hard and scraped up his hip and back, but he got back up and finished the race,” Ogilvie said.

Freshman Jade Ellis led the men’s team in scoring by placing third in the triple jump with a leap of 50-8 feet and fifth in the long jump with a mark of 23-11.5.

Ellis’ hit his sixth and final long jump to place as a scorer. Ellis’s first triple jump Saturday was his best, putting him in second place, but he slipped to third by the end of the competition.

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Shannon Rowbury (top) broke her own record in the 1,500-meter race at the ACC Championships.Nick Schneider (bottom left) and Debra Vento (bottom right) took homethird place in their respective events this weekend.

BASEBALL

Offense struggles as UNC sweeps Duke by

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Coming off its best stretch of the season with three victories in its previous four games, the baseball team was primed for its series with North Carolina in Chapel Hill this weekend.

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Adam Murray divesfor a grounder, but the Blue Devils made a number of defensive mistakes against UNc.

through, though,

as the No. 12 Tar 7 Heels (33-8-1, 144-1 in the ACC) swept the Blue Devils (12-30, 3-18) in the three-game set. Duke managed just three runs all weekend.

The Blue Devils came closest to winning Saturday when sophomore left-hander David Torcise pitched into the eighth inning while only allowing one earned run. Defensive miscues proved cosdy once again, and the team’s offense could only muster two second-inning runs on the way to a 5-2 loss.

Duke’s Corey Whiting tripled in the

team’s first run with one out in the second and then scored on John Berger’s groundout. North Carolina bounced right back, though, taking the lead for good in the bottom half of the inning. Shortstop Brett Bardes’ error on a potential double-play ball led to three unearned runs.

Torcise worked his way out of trouble several times on his way to a career-high seven and one-third innings with three

pickoffs.

The Blue Devil bats were quiet again

Sunday as Tar Heel right-hander Daniel Bard pitched a complete-game shutout on the way to North Carolina’s 7-0 victory. The Tar Heels jumped on top early, scoring

three runs in the bottom of the second.

Duke’s offense struggled again, only tallying two hits__bpth s j ngies in the series finale. Starting pitcher Danny Otero, who has received little run support all season, lost his 10th game, most on the team.

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by an Army defense that was sliding from Danowski and Flannery in an effort to contain the freshman. The Blue Devil offense adapted quickly.

“It feels good,” Danowski said.

“I’ve struggled with my shooting all year. To finally get six, you don’t really expect that, but it feels good to finally get your shooting back.”

The early stages of the game did not suggest a Blue Devil blowout, however. Duke’s balanced attack allowed four different players to build the Blue Devils’ 4-2 first-quarter lead, but miscues on the defensive end prevented them from pulling away.

“They just had the ball way too much,” sophomore Nick contest

O’Hara said. “Our defense stopped them a couple times, Aaron [Fenton] came up with a couple saves, but they just had too many opportunities. We made some uncharacteristic mental mistakes.”

The Duke defense tightened second half. the in “I think of those six first-half goals, we gave them three,” Pressler said. “We felt that going into halftime we could make those adjustments and take away the mistakes on our part and make the Cadets beat us.

“The guy on defense who really carried us was Casey Caroll. With 10 ground balls, a bunch of intercepted passes —he was definitely the defensive player of the day.”

The Blue Devils managed to

triumph despite winning only 42 percent of their faceoffs. Sopho-

TESTING from TC page 1 there that would give them a little bit of a safety net—not an easy way out but a safety net—to seek assistance and seek opportunity to be educated, and for us to help them we wanted to have that flexibility.”

The drug policy, included in an orientation handbook distributed to all players each fall, outlines an athletic suspension of 40 percent of the regular season for a second offense and permanent suspension after the third. All positive tests also include notification of teammates, parents and coaches, as well as mandatory counseling and community service.

In addition, the policy states, “The department also reserves the right to impose alternative sanctions at anytime, where appropriate.”

Officials said the previous protocol, which they estimated was adopted in 1999 or 2000 to institute Duke-sponsored drug testing for the first time, suspended athletes 10 percent of their teams’ games for the first positive test, followed by 50 percent of the season and removal from the team for the second and third positives, respectively. Athletic officials did not respond to several requests by The Chronicle for documents outlining former testing and enforcement policies.

“In 2002, we had a much more open policy with much more flexibility to it,” Berndt said. “We’d suspend certain situations, and other situations we would not.

The bottom line, to be honest with you, we felt like we wanted to make our policy from a sanction standpoint —more clear to our student-athletes.”

more Dan Oppedisano kept Duke alive at the faceoff X, winning 7-of-15. Freshman Dan Ross and junior Matt Zash combined to go 6-for-16.

The win, Duke’s 13th of the season, ties the school record for most regular-season victories.

The Blue Devils will have a chance to add to their win total Saturday when they begin the ACC Tournament as the top seed and face fourth-seeded North Carolina.

Greer, Danowski and Flannery become just the second front line in school history to score at least 30 goals apiece.

“We had a good feeling at the beginning of the season,” Danowski said. “We knew we were going to be good; I don’t know if we knew we were going to be this

good.”

policy to players in order to maintain the appearance of complete randomness.

“The motivation behind any drug testing is to try to dissuade any student-athletes from using drugs,” Athletic Director Joe Alieva said. “If we have suspicion that any athlete is using any drug of any kind, we can put them on the list.”

A number of Duke student-athletes believed the testing selection process was for the most part random, but they did notice some inconsistencies and were largely unaware of the probable cause clause.

“They say it’s totally random, but there’s one guy on the team that’s been tested five or six times in his three years here so far,”

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Totally random?

The Student-Athlete Drug Policy states that students are selected for testing either randomly or “when a coach or the Director of Athletics has a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the student-athlete has used a prohibited drug.”

The latter clause, referred to as “probable cause” testing, was part of the impetus for last year’s change in the penalty structure, said Chris Kennedy, senior associate athletic director.

“All burden fell upon coaches, administrators, officials of the athletic department to become accusers, to put them in the position of turning somebody in—potentially causing them to lose their scholarship,” Kennedy said. ‘You’re going to ask for a very high level of certainty before you do that, and we were afraid that that high level of certainty standard would preclude getting help to some people who might have problems that would visibly meet that standard.”

Probable cause additions are common at many other schools, but Duke has not actively communicated the longstanding

freshman tennis player Ned Samuelson said. “I guess they do rounds of testing randomly, but I guess depending on who you are they test you more.”

Junior men’s lacrosse player KJ. Sauer said he has been tested twice—once during the fall of his freshman year and once this past spring—and both tests were negative.

“I know kids that have been tested more than me, and these kids are straight as they come,” he said.

Junior linebacker Brendan Dewan said it was likely that all football team members would be drug tested at least three times during their collegiate careers by either the University or the NCAA. Bemdt acknowledged that some athletic teams are tested more often than others in order to “try and identify a problem early on if there is a problem.” He added that a player who tests positive is “certainly more likely” to be added to future testing groups under the probable cause provision.

The Athletic Department increased its testing of Duke’s baseball team following the Fall 2002 arrest of former player Grant Stanley for possession of anabolic steroids.

Stanley said he was tested multiple times

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The men's lacrosse team has beaten four top-10 teams this season.

the following spring.

Another former baseball player, Aaron Kempster, said he and three of his teammates employed the amnesty clause that has existed in Duke’s drug policy for years to tell Kennedy in a confidential meeting that they had each used steroids.

Because the goal of the drug policy is both to educate students and provide support for athletes engaging in substance abuse, players can consult Berndt or Kennedy privately. The Athletic Department pays for counseling and therapy after an initial admission of a problem.

To prepare its student-athletes for drugtesting, Duke distributes guidelines in the Student-Athlete Handbook each year and also discusses it at eligibility meetings that begin the academic year.

Athletic trainers are knowledgeable about the long list ofbanned drugs, which include anabolic steroids, other performance-enhancing substances, narcotics and illegal drugs, officials said.

“They bring in multiple people to discuss not only anabolic steroids but also the stuffyou get at GNC,” Dewan said. “The majority of that stuffis banned by the NCAA.” The testing landscape The University contracts the National Center for Drug Free Sport, the same company that administers the NCAA’s testing, to conduct tests on campus approximately five to six times a year.

Beradt selects a date and, after compiling a list ofbetween 25 and 30. student-athletes, notifies Duke coaches the day before a test. Coaches normally relay the information to their players at practice, leaving players approximately 12 hours before having, to report early the following morning.

While testing officials observe them, the athletes are asked to provide a urine sample, which is then tested on-site for specific gravity and pH to determine if the athletes have diluted it by drinking large quantities of water or taking a masking agent. Once a valid sample is collected, student-athletes watch as the officials seal the vials to prevent any tampering. Further tests are completed at outside labs.

Because steroid-specific tests cost more than those for street drugs—marijuana and heroine, for example—they are not necessarily conducted each time a sample is given. A 2001 NCAA study of substance use in programs across the country reported that only 26 percent of samples collected in Division I institutional drug tests were tested for anabolic steroids.

In a report about the Duke baseball team published in The Chronicle April 15, current and former players described a culture of steroid use that reached its peak in the summer of 2002. Kempster and Stanley said they used steroids that summer without fear of being caught.

Bemdt said Duke has the authority to conduct drug tests during the summer but has never invoked that right. Most steroids clear out of a body’s system after about a month, said Dr. William Roberts, president of the American College of Sports Medicine.

“Testing didn’t occur all that often, and, plus, once school got out you weren’t tested,” Stanley said. “There were loopholes within the testing program. At the end of each semester you were confident that you weren’t going to get tested and you could do what you please.”

Each institution has the right to define its own drug-testing policy and sanctions without having to report its findings to the NCAA or any other governing body.

NCAA President Myles Brand said the NCAA investigates information it receives regarding accusations of drug use, but he admitted that the collegiate governing body is limited in its authority.

“Sometimes in the summer, if they’re not attending summer school, we don’t have the legal authority to test,” Brand said at a panel discussion Tuesday at North Carolina. “So we test when they come back.”

The NCAA conducts year-round testing at every Division I institution in football and, in a policy change implemented this year, one additional sport each year. Before August, football and track and field were the only sports subject to year-round testing by the NCAA, although all teams could be tested at any stage of both team and individual postseason championships.

The NCAA penalizes athletes who test positive for any banned substance with a minimum one-year suspension and loss of a year of eligibility.

“We have a guarantee to test every championship once every five years,” said Mary Wilfert, the NCAA’s assistant director of education outreach and point person on drug testing and education. “Some sports are tested more often than others because of history, drug use surveys and increased performance use.”

In 2002-2003, the latest year for which results are available, about 1 percent of the NCAA’s samples came back positive for a banned substance. Duke has not released any of its drug testing results.

The NCAA conducts its tests at Duke once or twice a year, and it remains unlikely that the NCAA will bring institutional testing under its monitoring umbrella.

“There are different programs that have different needs and different problems, and so I think it’d be pretty difficult to do across the board,” Bemdt said of the possibility of the NCAA overseeing all Division I drug testing. “They’ve streamlined the process for championship events, and I think that’s the extent of their involvement, at least for right now.”

Jake Poses, Matt Sullivan and Andrew Yaffe contributed reporting to this story.

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five seconds. With a time of 8:25.3 the Blue Devils finished over one minute behind the Tigers and once again crossed the line in last place.

Two Duke rowers, Darling and junior Tonia Boock, were named to the All ACC-Team. With two All-ACC selections, the Blue Devils matched their 2004 performance.

After rowing against Miami in one final tune-up, the Blue Devils will take the water at the NCAA Regionals May 14-15 in Oak Ridge, Tenn. With a strong showing, Duke could qualify for the 16-team NCAA Championships for the first time in program history.

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“I don’t think the matchups were great for us,” Ashworth said. “That’s no excuse for how we played, but I think the lineup changes really helped them.”

The loss concluded Duke’s worst ACC campaign in 23 years of tennis at the University.

“The program will be back. We’ve got a lot of talent coming back next year, and hopefully everybody will be healthy,” Ashworth said.

The team will spend the next few weeks practicing doubles and trying to get healthy before the NCAA Championships begin in mid-May, Ashworth said. Although Zika may return to the lineup, Blaszak will remain on the sidelines because of back problems, effectively ending her career at Duke.

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BASEBALL from page 5 North Carolina took advantage ofDuke’s mishaps Friday night in a rain-soaked affair that ended up a 10-1 win

for the home team. The Tar Heels jumped on the board with two runs in the bottom of the third off Duke starter Greg Burke, but the Blue Devils were able to cut the margin in halfwhen rightfielder Cody Wheeler’s single to leftfield drove home Javier Socorro.

North Carolina scored three runs in the sixth inning when Wheeler slipped while fielding a single and allowed the two runners already on base to score. A third crossed the plate on a throwing error.

The Tar Heels put five more runs across in the seventh inning behind Chad Flack’s two-run homer off relief pitcher Jonathan Anderson, who allowed four earned runs.

With the loss, Duke becomes mathematically eliminated from the Carlyle Cup competition between the two rival schools. The Blue Devils are next in action Wednesday night at Davidson.

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Duke outshot Virginia Tech 20-13 in the first half as eight different Blue Devils found the net for a 13-4 advantage.

Although goalie Meghan Heuther recorded eight saves in the opening stanza, Kimel said she was unsatisfied with the overall play of her defense.

“I felt like a lot of the goals we gave up in the first half were soft,” Kimel said. “They were out of transition. It was because of disorganization, because we weren’t communicating—kind of the same things we’ve been working on trying to correct But after Kimel told the defense it had a chance to redeem itself in the second period, it responded by forcing a number of turnovers, many of which led to scores on the other side of the field.

As the team turns its attention to the ACC Championships, itfinds itself in a similar position to last season, but with a much different mindset. Last year’s finals ended in disappointment at the hands of eventual National Champion Virginia, 17-7.

“It’s definitely exciting but we want an ACC Championship via the tournament so that’s more important,” Chrest said. “It’s definitely a huge accomplishment for our program. The ACC’s a pretty competitive conference, but I think we want that trophy at the end of next weekend.” ”

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“Having a lower seed doesn’t stop me from believing we will go far in the tournament,” Zimmermann said.

“This loss shows us what we really need to work on, we will be positive from here on out and hopefully improve in the next three weeks before the tourney.

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upon a time, an education or the humanities. Math in high used to simply consist of the school often seems like an abstract three Rs; reading, ’ridng and realm with a plethora ofrules and lit’rithmatic. But that was decades ago tie use. Most of us have limited need and long before the advent of Cur- for calculating the area under a curve. The easiest riculum 2000. Since StaTteClltOnal students way for the University C2K, Duke to excite students have been struggling to fill the boxes marked CZ and El about math would be to demonstrate and SS. The letter that students have its practical applications.

Many statistics classes, such as stats been having the most difficulty checkfor psych majors and stats for bioloing off, though, is M. Math.

One of the subjects students try to gists, already do this. A level-two class duck, math is one of the few areas along this vein is a great first step. where universities often fail to create Other fields, however, also offer the interesting courses. Math classes chance for students to become encontinually build on fundamentals gaged with arithmetic without the classes earning nicknames such as and even for students who succeeded at geometry in high school, the counting for credit.

Engineering as a discipline is idea of calculus can range from daunting to dull. Still, quantitative based on using math and science in skills are an integral part of the liberpractical applications. Computer scial education Duke promises. And M ence also offers opportunities to see credits are a valid way for University how mathematics fit into actual proddeans to ensure that 6,200 students ucts that are relevant even to art hisare getting at least an introduction tory majors.

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When C2Krevisions took effect this counting classes, those would be well year, one of the main alterations was received as students could see a variety of uses for complicated equations. increasing the number of math coursIn a more creative sense, departes to two. In theory, this will encourage ments could team up to offer semore students to follow a path of inquiry in a mathematically-based field. quenced classes among disparate disIn practice, however, Duke doesn’t ciplines. Some scholars have offer many classes like that. suggested that Jackson Pollack’s This is a problem the University has paintings are not random paint drips, recognized. A new committee is work- but visual expressions of mathematical formulas. Music and acoustics are ing to develop ways to make quantitative classes appealing for student who deeply grounded in mathematical formulas. Why can’t these serve as claim to be “not math people.” off points for a Duke mathorder for these two-course sejumping In ries to work, faculty need to tailor the for-non-majors curriculum?

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Where’s the mascot color?

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seems as if this year’s musical choice for the last day of classes is not the only thing lacking in regards to the upcoming celebration to the end of this semester, On Thursday morning, I, as well as every undergraduate here, stood in line for the annual Last Day of Classes T-shirt. However, after briefly taking a glimpse at my new excuse to postpone washing my clothes another day, I was disappointed. Now, this disap- IH3rCIIS pointment had nothing to do guest with the skill of the design, size of the shirt, or if it was even cotton. No, this disappointment came from the subtle message this T-shirt sent to me, as well as a few friends. Where are the Blacks, Latinos and Asians?

Where’s the color?

So, now you must be thinking, “Take it easy, take it easy. It’s a.T-shirt!” And you know what, this is absolutely true. It’s a simple white T-shirt that we will all soon forget once it shrinks. However, this simple article of clothing depicts a very complex issue that continues to define our Duke experience, the ever-present state of self-segregation on our campus.

As we know, Duke is not Ivy nor is it a traditional southern university, however, we have defined ourselves by these stereotypes.

For many students of color, before we arrived, we were told that as a minority, Duke was not the place to go.

In fact, I was even told that our campus was one of the most racially charged in the South. Thankfully, this has not been the completely truthful, yet it does have some validity. We, as undergraduates, have (hopefully unconsciously) allowed the simple social construct of race deter us from enjoying the company of others, outside of our groups of predominately [blank] friends. We are, in some ways, like a dys-

functional family, who can only coming together for those large “family functions,” where you don’t always know who’s going to “reintroduce” themselves.

Sometimes it’s that drunken uncle or that cousin who was cut off, but in our case it’s each other and events, such as the Last Day of Classes concert, are our “family funcTherefore, tions.” why aren’t we taking advantage of this time to find DGtGI*SOH some common ground, commentary even though it may be littered with beer cans? If events like these are our stomping grounds of camaraderie, then why are we not more vocal Campus Council to provide performers who are universally entertaining, not audience specific. I do realize that we all have our own specific preferences in music, yet is everyone trying to end their semester with alternative rock?

I’m sure that hearing “Shine” and “Runaway Train” will remind me of those “scandalous” school dances of yesteryear, but am I, along with many students on campus, trying to send off the year to ambience? Yes, they have had eight number-one hits and yes, they are extremely talented, but Michael Bolton has seven, and we would not invite him to sing ballads while someone’s holding our legs during that keg-stand.

All in all, Duke’s social environment has been our “great equalizer” and music is the perfect catalyst for cross-cultural interaction. So, while some of us may need an extra drink to feel the music, I know I will definitely be there. Just look for me. I’ll be right by the band chasing the Tar Heel through the quad wearing my Last Day of Classes T-shirt with “Where’s the Color?” on my back.

Marcus Peterson is a Trinity junior.

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Some baseball players respond to article These statements are in response to The Duke Chronicle’s article printed April 15, 2005 titled “Steroid Charges Rock Duke Baseball.” During the seasons of 2000-2004 Duke Baseball may have had a few problems, but steroid use was not one of them. The Chronicle took it upon themselves to publish an article on Duke Baseball over the Bill Hillier era without consulting the “true” Duke Baseball Alumni of those years.

When they did contact a “true” former player, they did not get the answers they wanted for their biased article. If a couple of young sports reporters thought they found their big break with a scandalous story on Duke Baseball, they were wrong.

Make sure you check your facts before you decide to run an entire program’s name through the mud.

The article was a slap in the face to Duke University and the Athletic Department. At no point in time was steroid use ever prevalent within the program. If we recall correctly, no player during this time ever tested positive for steroid use. In fact, Grant Stanley was the only player along with Aaron Kempster ever to have reported steroid use, which occurred over the summer of 2002, not during the Duke Baseball season. If steroid use was encouraged throughout the Duke Baseball program, why were the only two players ever known of using steroids not part of the Duke Baseball program for the remainder of their careers?

Our point is this: The Chronicle published an article on Duke Baseball over the last few years citing unreliable sources. The sources cited in the article never were or will be part

of the Duke Baseball Family; they only had the opportunity to see what it was about. It wasn’t about steroid use, inappropriate behavior, and bad coaching. Coach Hillier only had one fault at Duke University: He did not win enough baseball games.

Ifyou talk to his former players, you will always get the same answer, “Coach Hillier has done so much for me. He truly cares about his players, past and present.” The Duke Baseball experience was about life lessons, relationships, and mosdy baseball. Coach Hillier only asked a few things from his players: 1) Be on time, 2) Be honest, and 3) Give me everything you have every time you step between the lines.

It was no “nod-and-wink kind of thing” [as Kempster told The Chronicle]. You knew what was expected of you everyday. Justin Calliham, Aaron Kempster and Grant Stanley all made a mistake and unfortunately they have put the blame on the one thing that screwed up their Duke Baseball experience. We were Duke Baseball from 20002004. The only bad memory we will ever have about Duke Baseball was the opportunity not to stay longer.

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Wake up “The transitionfrom one order of to another is not life always accomplished by degrees, like sand running through an hourglass, grain by grain. It is rather like water pouring into a jug floating on a stream. At first the water enters onlyfrom one side, sloxoly and steadily, but as the jug grows heavier it suddenly sinks

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human spirit. Yet it is what we are taught to do, even though our education suggests entirely otherwise.

Wise people have come and gone, without changing the fundamental nature ofhuman society. Empires built on war are destroyed by war: the great civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates, the Nile, the Indus and the Yangtze have laid way for the colonizing influences of Europe

roommate can attest to the fact that I watch The and the United States. America’s time as the last remainMatrix movies too often. On occasion, Kevin will ing superpower is coming to an end. Our neglect has find me engrossed in the saga of Neo, Morpheus nurtured hatred and will ultimately result in our downand Trinity struggling to “wake up” others from their opfall. Others will take our place and will meet their demise pressive un-reality. I get goose bumps every accordingly. time Morpheus intones to Neo how, in the And so time marches, ever onward. real world, human beings are grown for What can we do to halt this seemingly consumption and how, in the matrix, we endless cycle of death and destruction? are all manipulated to ward off a full unSimplify your life. Never commit or supderstanding of the truth. port murder. Resist evil non-violently. AcThat eerie feeling in the pit of my stomcept ridicule. Endure suffering. Give up ach always reminds me that the Wachowsworldly possessions. Give ofyour time, give ki brothers ifeve captured an uncannily acofyour talents, and continue to give. Have curate picture of human existence. The Philip kurian faith in what you commit to do. Don’t be Matrix is an allegory for the process of the pen is mightier afraid to change your mind. Embrace unmoving out of darkness into light; where certainty. Seek truth. Be conscious of your once there was confusion, now there is faults, and forgiving of others. Strive toclarity. Like in Plato’s cave, we mistake shadows for the ward selflessness. Love unceasingly. things themselves, duped as we are into blindness. We reFew have anything new to teach the world. Yes, we at main bound by unseen forces. And we each, in our own Duke are in the business of discovering new knowledge, way, yearn for salvation from the uncertainty of this murky but the oldest of truths are still the same. While it is universe. strange that my education here has convinced me of its As in the movies, it is not easy to see the light—to see frivolousness, I might never have arrived at this conclureality for what it is. There are obstacles around every corsion without it. I would certainly never have reached this ner, preventing us from realizing what we should have point without the people who defined it. known all along. Grades, prestige, money, family, power, Leon Dunkley, one of those rare cups of water in the sex and ego: these ephemeral benchmarks help us forget Duke desert, writes in his poem “when wars can end”; the infinite contradictions between our lives and our conhave we chosen station beneath the blade? science. We choose to live in perpetual hypocrisy, because (each of ns) bom of the conquering steel that Gabriel betrays to grapple with these contradictions would admit the tenhow we worry... the things were guilty of.. uousness of the false world we have constructed—a world the reasons we fall to our knees and the ways we 10ve... of imagined frontiers, divisions, barriers, and hierarchies. does Glory sing thy name for the cannons taking aim?

Besides, what incentive do we have in this false world to see the truth? Those who receive the praise and adulation Glory sings thy name and Glory sings of thine of the masses must surely conform, at least in part, to their and when Glory sings my name and I’m thine, brother, complacency. Our brand of complacency teaches fairness whole wars can end alongside abject poverty, non-violence with war, and love Dunkley challenges us to shape a new world from within a system of structural hatred. in. Like James Baldwin, he and I really do believe in the Those who strive to smooth out the contradictory wrinNewjerusalem, that we can all become better than we are. kles in their lives find themselves without fame or fortune, But we must be ready. Are you? because they refuse to serve themselves. If asked would they do it all over again, not a few would hesitate to answer.

Philip Kurian is a Trinity senior. He is happy with his time at Self-promotion, however slight, does not sit well in the The Chronicle and who it has helped him to become.

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Living longer is the best revenge

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release of a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that overweight people actually live longer than normal-weight people represents an important moment in the history of world civilization. It is the moment when we realize that Mother Nature—unlike Ivy League admissions committees—doesn’t like suck-ups.

It turns out she doesn’t like those body-worshiping, multi-abbed marvels who’ve spent so much time at the bench press machine they look as if they have thighs growing out ofeither side of their necks. She doesn’t like those health-conscious rice cake addicts you see at Manhattan restaurants ordering a skinned olive for lunch and sitting there looking trim and fit in their tapered blouses while their buns of steel leave permanent dents in the upholstery.

Mother Nature, we nowknow, is a saucy wench, who likes to play cosmic tricks on humanity. If the report from researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is correct—and it is the most thorough done to date—then it seems that CI3VICI DTOOKS Mother Nature has built a little Laffer curve into the guest commentary .

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conscious people can hit a point of negative returns, so the more fit they are, the quicker they kick the bucket. People who work out, eat responsibly and deserve to live are more likely to be culled by die Thin Reaper.

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. Since I read about this report a few days ago, I haven’t been able to stop grinning.

I’ve been happy because as a member of the community of low-center-of-gravity Americans, I find that a lifetime of irresponsible behavior has been unjusdy rewarded. If this study is correct, I’ll be ordering second helpings on into my ‘9os while all those salad-munching health nuts who have been feeling so superior in their spandex pants and cutoff T-shirts will be dying of midriff pneumonia and other condescension-related diseases.

I’ve been happy because now there will inevitably be a shift in the fashion winds, favoring members of the Zaftig Corps. Sports enjoyed by people with Rubenesque proportions, like floating, will come into vogue. More people will appreciate the thigh-rubbing musical rhythms you hear when overweight people wear corduroys. More people will realize we should all be patterning our lifestyle decisions on those made by Christopher Hitchens.

Mostly, I’m happy on an existential level. I like to be reminded that the universe is basically crooked. This is what the zero-tolerance brigades and all the better living gurus never quite get. They’re busy trying to mold everybody into lifelong valedictorians, who spend their adulthood as carb counters and responsible flossers —the sort oforganized folk who actually read legal documents before they sign them.

In reality, life is perverse and human beings don’t get what they deserve. The people with the worst grades start the most successful businesses. The shallowest people end up blissfully happy and they are so vapid they don’t even realize how vapid they are because vapidity is the only trait that comes with its own impermeable obliviousness system.

The people regarded as lightweights, like FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan, make the best presidents, while you—so much more thoughtful and better read—would be a complete disaster.

Life isn’t fair, logic is oflimited value and, as Woody Allen observed years ago, everything your parents once thought was good for you turns out to be bad for you: sun, milk, red meat and college.

The chief moral lesson I take away from this report is drat Mother Nature is happy to tolerate marginally irresponsible misbehavior. She doesn’t want you to go completely to seed. Ifyou’re truly obese and arouse hippos when you visit the zoo, you could still punch your ticket at any moment.

But she does want you to eat the occasional Cinnabon, so long as it isn’t bigger than Delaware. She wants you to have that fourth glass of wine, and lecture the dinner table on the future of the papacy based on your extensive reading of The Da Vinci Code. She wants a little socially productive mediocrity.

Darwin was wrong when he talked about the survival of the fittest: It’s really the survival of the healthy enough to get by. As it says in the Good Book, the last shall sometimes be first, the meek shall inherit the earth, and the chubby will get extra biscuits at the breakfast buffet.

David Brooks is a syndicated columnistfor The New York Times

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