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DA throws out ALE citations from party Lawyers to seek suppression of evidence from 2 off-East houses, other locations detain students and collect evidence at 1026 W. Trinity Ave. District Attorney Mike Nifong and 910 Gregson St. were unhas decided to dismiss citations constitutional. issued to about 75 Duke students About 30 students were cited

by Alcohol Law Enforcement at the Gregson Street house, agents at 1206 W. Markham Ave. and about 10 students were cited at the Trinity Avenue in an Aug. 25 raid.

Nifong’s decision came after house, attorney Tom Loflin said.

“We are maintaining that the District Court Judge Craig Brown ruled last week in favor actions of the North Carolina of a motion to suppress all evi- Alcohol Law Enforcement were dence gathered in the house. unconstitutional—that they Local attorneys presented the were violative of the defendants’ motion on the students’ behalf. Fourth and Fifth Amendment Evidence that is now suprights, in violation of the North Carolina Constitution and the pressed includes any observaNorth Carolina general statutes tions the officers made, statements given by the students, with respect to search and evidence seized and results of seizure,” said attorney Bill Thomas, who is representing breath tests.

Local attorneys also constudents cited at the Trinity Avfirmed that they will file moenue house. tions to suppress evidence in There were similar legal isthe cases of students who were sues involved with the detencited at other houses, in street tion of students near East Camencounters and vehicle stops pus or in vehicle stops, said

by ALE agents as part of the Robert Ekstrand, an attorney same operation during the first representing students cited at weekend Duke students reall three houses and a lecturturned to school. ing fellow at the School ofLaw. The lawyers contend that the methods the ALE agents used to SEE CITATIONS ON PAGE 5 by

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Less than half of the students who applied will beable to live in off-campusresidences, such as Blue Crest, during the spring semester.

RLHS lets 113 move by

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Residence Life and Housing Services released the results of the spring semester off-campus hous-

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lottery Monday, ending months of speculation by students currently studying abroad.

Because of the high number of rooms available on campus, significantly fewer students will be released from their housing contracts than last year.

Marijean Konopke, director of housing assignments and communications for RLHS, said 242 students requested to be a part of the

off-campus lottery.

Of those, 113 were given the option to be released from their

contracts.

Last year, 220 students were permitted to live off campus.

Students are required to live in on-campus housing for six semesters. Because of a space crunch last

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off campus year, almost all juniors returning from abroad who wanted off-campus housing were released from this requirement.

But with a record number of seniors living off campus this year, only about half of the juniors who requested off-campus housing were released from their contracts.

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A crowd of 300 rocked to the beat of The Breakfast Club, an ‘Bos cover band, at Shooters II lastjanuary to join seniorKevin Coleman in celebrating his first legal drink.

“A ton of people showed up that I didn’t invite and snuck around the bouncers,” Coleman said. “But looking back, the more the merrier,” With a new wave of 20-year-olds reaching the age for trips to Las Vegas, legal beer runs and inevitable adulthood each year, students at Duke are finding new ways to commemorate the infa-

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More than two months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, displaced students throughout the country must decide whether or not they want to make adopted colleges their permanent homes.

In order to accommodate visiting students from the affected areas, Duke Student Government called for a revision of the current undergraduate transfer policy Wednesday night.

The proposal states that displaced freshmen should be allowed to transfer to Duke as full-time students in Spring 2006. The proposal was jointly presented by Senators Jordan Giordano, a freshman, and Ryan Strasser, a junior.

“I think the take-away message is that we are addressing issues of students on campus, whether they’re visiting students, transfer students, or whatever,” said DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior.

Under the current undergraduate admissions policy, all transfer students must complete at least two semesters of transferable credit before they are able to matriculate

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Suicide attack claims 57 lives in Jordan Jamal

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AMMAN, Jordan Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneousattacks on three U.S.-based hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding 115 in what appeared to be an al Qaeda assault on an Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States.

The explosions hit the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels just before 9 p.m. One of the blasts took place inside a wedding hall where 300 guests were

celebrating.

A man strapped with explosives had in-

filtrated the crowd Black smoke rose into the night, and wounded victims stumbledfrom the hotels.

“We thought it was fireworks for the wedding but I saw people falling to the ground,” said Ahmed, a wedding guest at the five-star Radisson who did not give his surname. “I saw blood. There were people killed. It was ugly.”

Jordan’s deputy prime minister, Marwan Muasher, said there was no claim of responsibility but that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-bom leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was a “primef suspect.”

A U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because

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the investigation is ongoing, said the strong suspicion is that al-Zarqawi was involved because of his known animosity for Jordanian monarchy and the fact that it was a suicide attack, one of his hallmarks.

In February, U.S. intelligence indicated that Osama bin Laden was in contact with al-Zarqawi, enlisting him to conduct attacks outside of Iraq.

Jordan has arrested scores of Islamic militants for plotting to carry out attacks and has also sentenced many militants to death in absentia, including al-Zarqawi.

Its capital has become a base for Westerners who fly in and out of neighboring Iraq for work.

Blair suffers terror bill defeat In a political blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair, British lawmakers rejected tough antiterrorism legislation that would have allowed suspects to be detained for 90 days

without charge. Blair had staked his authority on the measure.

Calif, rejects gov's initiative In a stinging rebuke from voters who elected him two years ago, all four of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposals to reshape state government were rejected during a special election that darkened his

Oil companies defend huge profits by

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WASHINGTON Oil executives sought to justify their huge profits under tough questioning Wednesday, but they found little sympathy from senators who said their constituents are suffering from high energy prices.

“Your sacrifice appears to be nothing,” Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif, told the executives, citing multimillion-dollar bonuses the officials are receiving amid soaring prices at gasoline pumps and predictions of more of the same for winter heating bills.

There is a “growing suspicion that oil

companies are taking unfair advantage,”

high gasoline and home heating prices

said Senator Pete Domenici, R-N.M. “The oil companies owe the American people an explanation.”

The executives represented five major companies that, along with their global parent corporations, earned more than $32.8 billion during the July-September quarter. Consumers, meanwhile, saw gasoline prices soar beyond $3 a gallon in the aftermath of supply disruptions caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Lee Raymond, chairperson of ExxonMobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, acknowledged the

“have put a strain on Americans’ household budgets,” but he defended his company’s profits. Petroleum earnings “go up and down” from year to year and are in line with other industries when compared with the industry’s enormous revenues.

It would be a mistake, said Raymond, for the government to impose “punitive measures hastily crafted in response to short-term market fluctuations.” Exxon Mobil earned nearly $lO billion in the third quarter.

Raymond was joined at the witness

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted two men for allegedly conspiring to smuggle surface-to-air missiles into the United States for use abroad.The U.S. attorney's office saidthe charges marked the first time a

prospects for a second term.

Burned body found in trunk The body of an Appalachian State University student was found in the trunk of a burning car, and three men are charged with murdering him. Firefighters responding to a call about a burning vehicles found the remains of Stephen Harrington, 19, of Raleigh, Watauga County, News briefs compiled from wire reports

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11.5 M gift to fund Duke

Islamic Studies Center Jared Mueller

tion direct the funds to support “a scholar of true eminence and excellence in the The University will establish a new field of Islamic Studies whose primary apcenter for Islamic studies geared toward pointment is within [the Trinity College of] undergraduate education, Provost Peter Arts & Sciences,” Peter Vaughn, executive director of alumni and development comLange announced Wednesday.

“The Duke Islamic Studies Center munications, wrote in an e-mail. will seek to advance interaction and un“The Goiters’ support ofIslamic studies at Duke is intended to increase Western studerstanding between citizens of American and Muslim cultures,” Lange said in dents’ knowledge of Arab/Islamic religion, a statement. culture and language and to expose Muslim DISC will offer a curriculum that instudents to Western education and ideas,” cludes a firstVaughn added.

Several stuyear course in Islamic studies, dents said lanDISC is a welforeign that this might “Fin hoping come addition guage instrucbring in some extra professors study tion, to Duke’s reliabroad progious offerings. and expand the number of Is“It’s imporgrams, a senior thesis option lamic classes that they offer tant, especially and a certificate in today’s each semester.” world, that for qualified students. are Saad Mir people aware of MusIn addition lims and what to a broadened curriculum, we believe and DISC will try to recruit undergraduates not get all their information from unreliand visiting scholars from predominantable sources,” said Zubair Chao, a senior and president of the Muslim Students Asly Muslim countries.

Officials plan to establish a residential sociation. “It’s a good way to build underfellowship program to attract Islamic standing between people.” scholars from abroad.

Junior Saad Mir, a religion major, said Bruce Lawrence, the Nancy and Jefhe hopes the center will raise the profile of Islamic studies at Duke. frey Marcus Humanities Professor ofReligion, will serve as the first director of “I’m hoping that this might bring in DISC. An Islamicist, Lawrence said the some extra professors and expand the center will reshape juke’s approach to Islamic studies.

SEE ISLAMIC STUDIES ON PAGE 7 “What does not exist right now is a depth and breadth of courses that accurately reflect the Muslim world,” Lawrence said in a statement. “This is alThe article on page 1 of the Nov. 8 edimost a dream come trueTor me.” tion ofThe Chronicle should have Gorter, and of Audrey parents James noted that James Joseph is a professor -two Duke alumni, made the center possiof the practice in the public policy ble with a donation of $1.5 million for an studies department. endowed professorship.

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Senior Brandon Goodwin, DSG's executive vice president, and otherstudents are seeking new mass e-mailrules.

3 student groups lobby for revised e-mail policy executive vice president of DSG. “It’s very frustrating.”

If the policy is approved by the Office of During the past few weeks, leaders of Duke Student Government, Campus Student Affairs, DSG, Campus Council Council and Duke University Union said and the Union will each be allowed to they have been surprised and frustrated by send one mass e-mail every month.

In addition, each of the three organizamass e-mail restrictions the University administration has placed on them this year. tions will be granted one emergency e-mail by

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In response, leaders of the three organizations presented a new mass e-mail proposal to members of the administration at a meeting Tuesday.

Under the current policy, the three organizations are permitted one collective mass e-mail per month. In previous years, e-mail has been used to regularly communicate with students and solicit feedback.

“In years past, we were able to communicate with students when it was necessary.

This year we haven’t had the opportunity to do so,” said senior Brandon Goodwin,

per semester and one election-related email per year.

Members of the administration said the current policy was implemented a few years ago in response to complaints from many students about the excessive number of broadcast e-mails, said Melinda Roper, assistant dean for student advising and programming. She was present at Tuesday’s meeting.

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In an effort to increase use of space in McClendon Tower, University officials formed an advisory board earlier this semester to let students express their opinions on how the building can be used best.

Until this year, decisions concerning the use of space in the Tower were determined by student-run Campus Council.

Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, and Jon Acton, current residence coordinator for Edens Quadrangle, brought about the board’s formation this year.

“McClendon Tower is principally a student place,” Hull wrote in an e-mail. “As such, we

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A student board was formed this semester to discuss how the Duke community can use the various gathering spaces available McClendonTower most effectively.

it to provide opportunities that would be enjoyed by broad sectors of the student body.”

Hull oversees the board but does not sit on it.

Acton, the student group’s adviser, is the former RC for Keohane Quadrangle, where the Tower is located. So far the board, which currently includes three students who were recruited by other RCs, has met only once this semester.

Acton said he wants about one student from every quad to sit on the board.

His goal is for it to meet about once a month or as frequently as he thinks is necessary. “[The main goal is] to make sure we are getting students’ input and advice for how the want

Tower is used for its primary purpose, which is to enhance the residential experience/life for our students while they are at Duke,” Acton wrote in an e-mail.

When he was choosing Che songs for the jukebox in the third-floor game room, Acton thought student input would be necessary, he said.

When Acton met to talk with Hull and Debbie Lo Biondo, assistant dean of residence life and housing services for West Campus, they realized the space had a lot of potential uses and suggested forming a student-led advisory board.

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Study may reveal custom-tailored cancer treatments by

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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have taken another step toward curing cancer.

Joseph Nevins, Barbara Levine Professor of Breast Cancer Genomics, has headed a new study that may eventually allow doctors to tailor drug prescriptions for individual patients. The study was published in the November issue of Nature, one of the world’s most respected science journals.

rector emeritus of the Duke Com-

prehensive Cancer Center.

Nevins and his colleagues used DNA microarrays, which can identify the specific activities of gene expression in a cell, to classify tumors according to which drugs would affect them.

In cancer cells, normal pathways of gene expression are disrupted, Nevins explained. As a consequence, several “checkpoints” that regulate cell growth

fail to function properly, allowing for the uncontrolled growth that forms a tumor.

“We have a series of profiles that serve as signatures for those pathways,” Nevins said.

The specific changes in these pathways, however, can vary from person to person.

Using the methods of Nevins’ study, doctors would be able to choose the drugs that are most likely to combat an individual patient’s cancer.

While many drugs exist that

target specific aspects of cancer, deciding which ones to use can be a daunting task.

“The fact of the matter is there are upwards of maybe 50 drugs that are developed that target specific components of cancer cells,” Nevins said.

But often, tumors do not respond to a particular treatment, noted Andrea Bild, research associate at the Center for Genome Technology and lead author of the paper.

“The advantage of this treat-

merit is that we

could target something we predict would be deregulated, whereas other treatments take a more global approach,” she said.

A patient-specific approach could help produce a higher survival rate.

“There has been a major effort in the last several years to understand the pathways that drive cancer,” Colvin said.

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HOUSING from page 1 already signed leases for off-campus apartments because they expected to be allowed off campus. Many are now decrying the lottery process.

“People are unhappy. Parents had already made plans for their sons or daughters to move off campus and have signed leases,” said Marijean Konopke,

director of housing assignments and communications for RLHS. “Dealing with any upset person is difficult... We understand, but we have our obligations, too.”

RLHS officials previously told The Chronicle that approximately 140 students would be released from their contracts.

Konopke added that the number of students likely to reside off campus based on the lottery results could change as students make their final choices about where to live.

‘We try to make it a science, and itcan’t be a science because we are dealing with individuals,” Konopke said. “Everyone has different circumstances, and we try to work with people individually.”

Of the 113 students released from their contract, 74 are women and 34 are men.

This is consistent with the gender makeup of students who go abroad, Konopke said.

She noted that almost all students will be able to room with their preferred roommate and will be given either their first or second housing choices.

Junior Frank Coleman, who is currently studying in London and applied to live off campus, was one of the students selected in the lottery.

“I was really nervous at first, but I still kept my hopes up,” he said.

Coleman noted that although he never signed a lease, he put his name on a waiting list for The Belmont apartment complex and was notified recently that an apartment was available for him.

“I don’t like that you’re stuck on campus no matter what, but rules are rules, and that’s what they say,” Coleman added.

Junior Caroline Walsh, who is a part of the Duke in New York program, was not as lucky as Coleman.

She and her roommate will be living on campus next semester, even though they had hoped to live in the West Village

Apartment complex.

“We have been sending e-mails fran-

tically trying to figure out what we are going to do,” Walsh noted. “At this point in our college career a lot of us have lived abroad and lived other places.... Dorm life is no longer fun at some point.”

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have used [Brown’s ruling] as a basis for dismissing those charges as well,” attorney Eddie Falcone said, noting that the situations seem similar. “Obviously, if that was the case there would be no reason for a judge to rule differendy.”

The DA’s office will take recitations from ALE agents about what occurred at the off-campus houses and may dismiss the citations before the students’ December

“Most important to the decision was that students were in custody and basically forced to confess or prove their innocence before being allowed to leave without being read their Miranda rights,” Ekstrand said. “That happened in virtually all of the cases that I’ve seen, whether that took ~>k place in pi “The only way you get consent a house or a car.” court dates, ALE agents Loflin said. into to house is somebody’s get testified last week “It’s my that they did not if you are voluntarily invited in.” hope [the DA] have a warrant will have exAttorney Mike but did have conhaustive consent when enterversations with the ing the Trinity ALE Avenue house, agents and the said Loflin, whose clients were only cited at Durham police officers involved so he the Markham Avenue house. “The only gets a full understanding of precisely way you get consent to get into somebody’s what happened,” Ekstrand said. “If he’s house is if you are voluntarily invited in—- able to do that, then I think there’s a very and the question ‘Was that voluntary?’ is strong possibility the other cases will be going to be very, very fact-specific,” he said. dismissed without the need of a hearing.”

A number of lawyers expressed surIn court Tuesday, students cited at the prise that the DA did not dismiss the Trinity Avenue house who pled for motions of continuance had their next court charges against students cited at the Trinity Avenue and Gregson Street houses in date set for-Dec. 6. the face of Brown’s ruling.

Other cited students had their cases con“I would have hoped that the DA would tinued until Dec. 13.

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them around our off-campus house.”

By the end of the night, everyone was singing along with the live band to top off an unforgettable night, he added.

Senior Marc Munfa also celebrated his 21st birthday with a theme party. “Marc’s Boozemitzvah,” held at Partners Place apartment complex, celebrated his birthday with a mock bar mitzvah. Both

BIRTHDAY from page 1 woke up the next day,” said Junior Pat O’Brien. “My party was better because my dad got so drunk that he tried to climb the water tower outside of Symposium.”

O’Brien and junior Peter Williams held theirjoint birthday party earlier this semester at Symposium Cafe, a restaurant in the American Tobacco Complex.

“I made out with way too many people that night,” Williams said. “It was just a classic 21st birthday party—there was a lot of frat brothers and a lot of family members.”

It is not uncommon for these no-holdsbarred celebrations to be a family affair. In fact, many parents even provide the funds to pull these gatherings together.

Coleman’s Shooters bash boasted a night of “unlimited beer and bull rides,” courtesy of his parents. “I didn’t get a thing for Christmas or my birthday because I knew they were doing this,” Coleman said.

In addition to his friends’ impromptu ‘Bos themed costumes, the usual Old West setting at the club was transformed for a night as well.

“My mom decorated Shooters with poster-sized baby pictures of me,” Coleman said. “All of my friends took down the more embarrassing ones and hung

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Corp., ConocoPhillips Co., BP America Inc. and Shell Oil Co. But senators pressed the executives to explain why gasoline prices jumped so sharply in the aftermath ofHurricane Katrina, when prices at the pump in some areas soared by $1 a gallon or more overnight.

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“It was the absolute best way to spend my birthday money,” he said. “People bought a lot of matzah and Manischewitz wine as my birthday gifts, and my roommate played standard bar mitzvah music all night.”

In true bar mitzvah fashion, Munfa provided T-shirts as party favors, handing out about 40 shirts that read: “I bemom decorated Shooters with came a man pictures of me. All at Marc’s Boozemitzof my friends took down the more vah.” Many people beembarrassing ones and hung them 0 came angry, however, bearound our house.”

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“They did the whole Jewish thing vah for my 22nd birthday,” he said. “For this where they put me on the chair and year’s shirts, I’m gonna bump up the numstuff,” Munfa said. “They also made me a bers a little bit—if I can afford it.”

Busch Light yarmulke.”

There are other students, however, who The party took place during the first choose to reach their legal drinking age weekend of last year’s spring semester away from the Durham club scene, and also served as a reunion for students Junior Dan King celebrated a “transconwho were returning from studying tinental birthday” that started in Costa Rica, °

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Senator Bill Nelson, D-Fla., asked why the industry didn’t freeze prices, as it did after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

“We had to respond to the market,” replied Chevron chair David O’Reilly.

Raymond said that after Sept. 11 “the industry wasn’t concerned about whether there was adequate supply,” as it was after this year’s Gulf storms.

By keeping prices higher, adequate supplies were assured, he maintained.

Democrats said that during the storm

some Exxon Mobil gas station operators complained the company had raised the wholesale price of its gas by 24 cents a gallon in 24 hours.

Raymond said his company had issued guidelines “to minimize the increase in price. But he added, “If we kept the price too low we would quickly run out [of fuel] at the service stations.”

“It was a tough balancing act,” said Raymond, who noted that ExxonMobil was not price gouging.

where he was studying abroad during the summer. “My first legal drink was on an airplane,” King said. “The girl sitting next to me, who had just graduated fromj’uqua, bought me drinks the whole ride back.”

King continued his birthday celebrations with house parties in both Cape Cod, Mass., and Durham.

Nevertheless, local business owners benefit from the annual rite ofpassage.

“I remember Kevin telling me at the end of the night that it was the greatest thing,” said Kim Cates, owner and manager of Shooters 11. “We enjoy working with [Duke students]. It’s fun because they’re so young... and they should be able to have fun at this point in their lives.”

Julian Jahoo, owner of Symposium Cafe, shared similarviews about hosting parties for Duke students. “Generally, they’ve been a great group to have,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of functions with 21st birthday parties—theyjust have a good time, and they’re wellbehaved. It’s been great.”

With every new super sweet 21st birthday gala, lasting memories are formed for all those who join in the celebrations.

‘When I was planning it, I was thinking of something that nobody’s ever done,” Coleman said. “A lot of my buddies said it was their favorite night at Duke, and that was what I was going for.”

A number of Democrats have called for windfall profits taxes on the industry.

Other senators, including Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., have said it may be time to enact a federal law on

price gouging.

Some Republican and Democratic lawmakers have suggested that the oil companies should funnel some of their earnings to supplement a federal program that helps low-income households pay heating bills.

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at the University. If they want to graduate from Duke, the 12 visiting freshmen displaced by Katrina would need to return to their New Orleans colleges before applying as permanent transfer students in the spring.

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DSG passed a resolution stating that freshmen displaced by Katrina should be enrolled fully in the spring.

E-MAIL from page 3 affairs, said he would be receptive to “reasonable” revisions to the existing policy.

“What we have to do is avoid a free-forall. If it gets excessive, people will just push delete,” Moneta said.

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, DSG President Jesse Longoria and Union President Chris Kallmeyer all said they understood administrative concerns, but thought they should have more email flexibility.

“It’s important to keep students in check, but at the same time we don’t operate on a schedule where there is a routine,” said Ganatra, a junior. “[E-mail is] our ofifi-

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dal communication tool. We just wanted to have some freedom to do that on our own.”

As a result of the limitations, the organizations have had to resort to less effective and more expensive means of communication.

In the next few weeks, DSG will begin to distributepaper newsletters, Goodwin said.

The move is unprecedented and will come at a cost. Money used to produce the publication will come from student fees.

Aside from providing basic information, Kallmeyer said e-mail was an important way of promoting Union events.

“Every student pays money,” the senior said. “We want to make sure that students are aware of how that money is being spent.”

With large portions of New, Orleans wrecked by water damage, displaced students will return to fundamentally different college situations, Giordano said. Although all 12 visiting freshmen may not opt to stay at Duke, he said it is important to give them the option of early transferral in light of extenuating circumstances.

“They’re going to be held to the same standard. The only difference is that they will be here for an extra semester,” Giordano said.

Many of the visiting freshmen have already moved into college twice. Some have The student leaders’ proposal would alleviate communication strains but still put a check on the use of e-mail by the three organizations. All three leaders said administrators were receptive toward the policy.

“They were all for it, and it kind of went through easily,” Ganatra said. “I think it’s definitely going to happen. This is going to be huge for the upcoming weeks.”

Although she was unsure whether the policy would be approved by Student Affairs, DSG adviser Deborah Hackney said it was well-written and well-argued.

The proposal was sent to Moneta late Tuesday. Ganatra said he hopes to hear back from the Division of Student Affairs within the next few days.

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performed well at Duke but will only receive pass/fail credit for their courses at their home colleges.

The next step is to present the proposal to members of the administration, who seemed resistant to the change earlier this week, said Senator George Fleming, a junior. He sat down with Provost Peter Lange and Robert Thompson, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, earlier this week.

Accepting transfers would deprive New Orleans institutions of both students and tuition dollars, some administrators told Fleming. In addition, they thought it would be unfair to make an exception for one group of transfer students, Fleming said. “[Lange and Thompson] didn’t seem particularly willing to change their policy based on what I said,” Fleming said, adding that he hopes DSG’s decisive vote will sway the two.

In other business, Tom Wall, director of public services for Perkins Library, said he wanted to work closely with DSG in order to make the library a more useful space.

ISLAMIC STUDIES from page 3 number of Islamic classes that they offer each semester,” Mir said. “It’s limited right now, definitely limited.”

Lawrence said DISC will absorb and replace the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks, a program directed by Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor of religion, and housed in the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies. Moosa will become the research director ofDISC. “This is the successor to the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks,” Lawrence said. “It will be on a broader scale but will have the same internationalreach.”

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There was also discussion about how to better use the floor above Rick’s Diner.

“It would be nice to get computers up there like they have in the Bryan Center,” said sophomore Meredith McAdams, a member of the board. “E-print is also much needed because many students work in the Beanery and the media room.”

The committee also wants to help spread the word about the spaces in McClendon Tower to students who are not familiar with them. “Not many people seem to know about the game room,” McAdams said.

on the board didn’t even know about it.”

Some recent changes to McClendon Tower independent of the advisory board have already been implemented.

The walkway to the Beanery has been enhanced “as an outdoor place to relax and grab a bite to eat,” Hull noted.

Additionally, a stage with electrical power to support low-key performances was installed on the walkway.

For the future, Hull said it is hard to say where the board will go, but he believes “it could set the tone for greater shared ‘ownership’ in the social opportunities available to Duke students.”

Acton said he would like the advisory board to meet once more before the end of the semester.

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that we have right now, especially in patient tumor samples,” Nevins said.

He added, however, that his team will complexities involving these different not know the efficacy of their approach toward humans until the completion of pathways pose a major difficulty in treatthe clinical trials. ing cancer.

“I think most people would agree that Testing could begin in the next six a cure... is not likely to happen with one months and would initially make Duke the only place in the world to offer such drug,” he said.

Instead, substantially effective treata treatment, Nevins said. ments will involve using a combination of If successful, the trials would be expanded to other institutions. drugs, Nevins said.

The next step in exploring the method Nevins also noted that some clinical trials and subsequent developments will will be clinical trials in which patients receive their own tailored treatments. require more funding, which could lead to an increase in grants for DUMC. Since drugs that are already in use are known to target certain pathways, reAt the moment, many researchers searchers could profile a patient’s specifare hopeful that the new method will benefit patients. ic case of cancer, prescribe a combination of drugs based on that profile and “It’s nice when something you’re worklook for an increase in his response rate. ing on has translational applications,” Bild “I’m certainly confident in the results explained. “We’re all very excited.”

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Pandora Breaks the Musical Box Andrew Gerst discusses musical mix-ups with the creator of Pandora, a Web site that encourages musical exploration

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The result, the Music Genome Project, was unveiled in late August with the release ofPandora, which Westergen founded. Located atwww.pandora.com, the web program allows users to select a song or artist they enjoy. Pandora then uses the Music Genome Project algorithm to find songs of similar character. It’s pretty nifty—though there’s no Latin or classical music yet—and the first 10 hours are freewith a $3 monthly subscription charge after that. recess: So how does the algorithm behind Pandora work?

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Tim Westergen: There are close to 400 genes, or musical attributes, that every song gets scored across. To give you an idea, there are 32 “genes” for the voice alone including such genes as vibrato, range, ornamentation, glottal.... We have 30 musical analysts who go through each song—it takes 20 to 30 minutes to do a song. They score them very deliberately across these 400 measurements; that winds up like a musical DNA. When you put in a song for Pandora, it compares

that song’s DNA to everything else that we have, and it puts together what makes sense musically as a playlist.... If your song’s a star, it’s finding the other songs in the universe that are close to it. Musically speaking, whenever you interact with [a song], if you give it thumbs up of thumbs down, Pandora understands that as musical feedback—then the algorithm gets better for you.

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Films Around the World in Seven Days Catiun Donnelly ever Colombian noir.” recess Our neighbors to the north explored similar territory.

Nine days, four directors, three countries, one school. A highlight of Quebec Week was Denis Chouinard’s Over the past week, Duke has been a veritable UN of LAngedegoudronb {Tar Angel), which screened Wednesday features, playing host to two film series and a festival, all afternoon in Griffith Theatre. The film takes a harsh look of which feature screenings from around the world and at the state of immigration in Canada. “People in Canaintimate discussions with many of the films’ directors. da have this image that everyone who comes to Canada is It kicked off Monday when Duke went French with accepted... [but] we have our own little sh- in the backQuebec Week, a series of six films. Tomorrow begins a yard that we don’t want to look at,” Chouinard says, If this sounds a bit like America, it should. Chouinard pair of screenings that take the school south for the 19th annual Latin American Film Festival, and it all ends Mon- goes out ofhis way to point out that the political message day night with a screening of the appropriately-titled I he furthers in his film can be applied globally (“It’s the Love Cinema, an Egyptian film that is part of the No Visa same everywhere”) and that part of his intent as a filmmaker was to promote action against this reality. This parRequired series currently touring the country.

While students may see this as escapist fare, by their ticularly applies to young people, own admission, the filmmakers’ purpose in showing their “The age people rebel is in the 18-to-25 group. The films is as much about changing expectations as it is en- dme you are in school and have ideas about how to tertainment. change the world,” says Chouinard of his trips around the “The films are meant to show a picture of Colombia, a university circuit. Although Duke, a school with a somecountry with problems, but [that] is much more than the times-reputation for a student body fed with a silver drugs and war that are usually depicted with it,” says direc- spoon, doesn’t seem the most likely candidate, the director Luis Ospina, whose two entries in the Latin American tor adopts a different vantage point. “People who study Film Festival run the gamut from documentary to noir. in such a university as Duke will be in power,” he notes, Ospina will be at Duke Saturday night to discuss the latter of these efforts, Breath of Life, which he claims is “the first SEE FILMS ON PAGE 4 by

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We were beyond thrilled when we heard Mad Hatter’s, our favorite overpriced cafe and bakeshop, was coming to the newly built Bostock. We were even more thrilled when said vendor started providing free coffee leading up to the opening. Needless to say, our excitement had reached near fever pitch by the time the long-awaited eatery finally opened its doors. Er, counter. The flowers on the tables were the same, the special Mad Hatter’s house blend coffee, identical. Surely they had transferred the entire workings of the space-as-big-asCameron to the Bostock pavilion, right? After all, what else could we expect from the state-of-the-art library construction that kept us from doing any work all of last year?

Alas, we were destined to be disappointed.

Perhaps we were a bit naive to expect warm salmon salads and grilled chevre sandwiches, a la locale originate but would it be so much to ask to get a darn quesadillah? Apparently the new Perk eatery was destined to be the same as the old Perk, a kitchenless portal for stale product from a nearby vendor that is just out of reach for the famished undergrad.

The menu offerings are slim at best, featuring a few salads, a couple sandwiches, and plenty of carb-loaded baked goods. The food—at least the few menu items they weren’t out if—was mediocre, and the normally wide array of vegetarian options was reduced to a single, soggy salad. We did however thoroughly enjoy the “boxed lunch” option, which offered a wrap, choice of beverage, cookie, and fruit salad for the only slightly insanely-expensive-for-lunch price of $9.95. Nonetheless, the heavenly brownie alone made it worth the ticket.

Bottom line? The new Mad Hatter Quick Stop, as we have dubbed it, is a fine place to pick up hot tea and a piece of 1,000-calorie cake for a long night oHable-hogging. Much like Mad Hatter’s Original Flavor, the atmosphere is perfect—just the right mix ofbustle and studiousness. But for tepid food and over-worked service, you might as well just pack your lunch from the Great Hall. At least there you can get a darn quesadillah.

recesstopS Underwater Smallville. OK, American Idol alum and former model Alan Ritchson’s stint as the ultimate fishy superhero didn’t make for the best Smallville episode ever. But that’s not stopping the show’s creator from contemplating a spinoff starring the human amphian. Which is good news because when recess was growing up his favorite comicbook was Aquaman. Sigh.

The new metrosexuality, like the old metrosexuality. The latest craze to sweep America’s heartland is metrospirituality, meaning Americans are yuppier and hippier than ever. If you’re shopping for hybrid cars and organic cheeses, talking about wu wei and aromatherapy or adopting a new religion of celebrity persuasion, then you’re just feeding into the trendy madness. You foxy Kabbalist, you.

Magical Year, book. Joan Didion, our favorite literary stylist, is back with her latest batch of memoirs in The Year of Magical Thinking. It’s got a National Book Award nomination, a couple of comas, a death and a grief-stricken widow. No, it’s not the plot of the latest Lifetime movie. It could be the book of the year.

Old ‘it girl.’ Overshadowed for. years by Lisa M Kudrow’s caustic wit and Courtney Cox’s cleavage (and perhaps Brad Pitt too) Jennifer Aniston is finally breaking out with four upcoming releases, including this weekend’s Derailed. The TV-film crossover is a tough one though. Aniston is our pick for the next Kirstie Alley.

Real-life dolls. After recording the song of the summer (“Don’t Cha”), the Pussycat Dolls have returned with sultry ballad which is already “Stickwitu,” V ■0? clawing up the charts. We have no Spice Girls. We have no TLC. We have no Destiny’s Child. But we have the Dolls.

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We’ve asked all the questions, decanted, swilled and quaffed probably a few too many glasses, to provide you with all the notes you’ll need to be ready to walk past the shelves of Arbor Mist and Franzia and move on to the You may have noticed our “cheap - wines come a good stuff. We’ve done all the work; all you do is drink. or $l7. While that may b< the elite wine world, it’s the average college stuc did we include these di the secret: We only paid I II Cuore Rosso Classico 2001 ($l2) This wine is made from a blend ofTuscan grapes and How, you ask? That’s one does not stand out in any particular way. While very when it comes to buying drinkable, the most interesting aspects of this otherwise know your sommelier (i flat wine were its slight spice and bitter, mouth-puckering speak for wine person), finish. Expect guests to be happy to down this bottle with have one or two bottles dinner, but more reluctant to save it a spot in their own brand they’re looking to big discount to make cellars.

TV 1 Majella “The Musician” Cabernet and Shiraz 2004 ($l7) Sometimes a big-ticket wine (well, big-ticket compared to our other options) isn’t that much better than competitors half its price. What “The Musician” possesses in uniqueness, it somehow loses in balance. The wine’s bouquet is immediately filled with olives and sea salt, then hitting the palate with an unctuous amount of bark and spice. This wine might not be worth its full retail price, but it would be worth trying by the glass, simply to sample the bold components.

Rex Goliath Pinot Noir 2003 ($8) For those of you familiar with the oenophile cult-film Sideways, the character of Miles effectively represents the Pinot Noir varietal. Often times confused and neurotic, but when right, oh-so-mysterious and affecting, Pinot Noir is a grape for the sensitive and analytical wine drinker. This version offers a glimpse into that complex world with its sweet cherries and lingering hints ofcinnamon. Perhaps a little on the sweet side, it is worth trying if you enjoy the fruitiness of Rieslings. To quote Miles, “Quaffable, but not transcendent.”

Les Jamelles Cabernet Sauvignon ($10) This is a fine example of how a widely utilized grape like Cabernet Sauvignon can encompass characteristics from numerous other grapes. This wine is admirably balanced, incorporating some of the olives and sea salt from “The Musician” but tempering that with subtle undertones of ripe plum and green vegetables. The clear winner and most drinkable of the reds, Lesjamelles takes an oft-boring grape and reinvigorates it.

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Rudolf Muller Riesling 2004 ($10) Rieslings are a big hit with the ladies and, for some reason, much of the male contingent of the recess staff. This version was on the sweet side even for a Riesling, making it so easy to drink it was a little frightening. It tasted of apple and pear and, to be honest, a little like Mott’s apple juice. This is a wine for beginners; easy to drink and low in alcohol; it’s the Smirnoff Ice of wine.

Santa Julia Torrontes ($6) When a wine evokes Pine-Sol cleaner and Sprite with rubbing alcohol, it’s probably a good idea to stay away. This is not to say, however, that this wine is completely without merits, recess tasters were divided, most gagged but a few were intrigued. The unique Argentinean grapes create a wine that is neither too sweet nor too dry. Regardless, as soon as the subde peach flavors fade, this wine finishes with the harshness ofhard liquor but none of the buzz.

Lawson’s Dry Hill Chardonnay 2001 ($l2) If you’re in the mood for something different, this is your wine. This does not drink like your mother’s Chardonnay but instead awakens the palate with hints of yeast, sweet oak and an unmistakable savory finish. With each sip, this wine reveals yet another layer of itself and is best enjoyed with a good meal.

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“America is a vault. It’s impossible to get your films screened here except for the big cities and the university circuit,” he says.

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Good Night, and Good Luck is set in an era when cigarette commercials were still on television and anchors lit up on air. This smoke-and-jazz-filled film chronicles the 1950 fight between Senator Joseph McCarthy and reporter Edward Murrow over the Senator's red-baiting ways. Of course, the point seems to be not-so-veiled allegorical implication that McCarthyism is still pening to some extent today. Shot in black and white, the f cinematography evokes the great political dramas from the color era, and the fast-paced newsroom scenes and rapid-fi alogue bring to mind His Girl Friday.

As Murrow, character actor David Straitharn is pitchperfect in the role of the classic reporter. However, George Clooney as Murrow’s producer, looks rather anachronistic in what otherwise feels like cinema verite from the 19505.

Clooney, who also wrote and directed, does a fine job acting, but the former ER it-boy seems curiously out of place in this small political drama with all character actors. Credit goes to Clooney, however, for not trying to cast the difficult role of McCarthy. Instead, the Senator appears in carefully-edited archival footage.

Perhaps the film would have been more effective as a straight documentary, because this hybrid effort delivers a plot that is only occasionally interesting. The two subplots, one involving married reporters (Robert Downey Jr. and indie star Patricia Clarkson) and the other a depressed anchor on the way down (Ray Wise), both hold the promise of intrigue but are never fully explored. There are also occasional cuts to a jazz singer in a recording studio which, although a Well-sung respite from the newsroom-centered drama, are never explained and thus feel entirely random.

In the concluding scene of Good Night and Good Luck, Murrow speaks before a crowd, decrying America’s proclivity toward game shows instead of the news. It feels like he is justifying this “thinking man's movie” when all we asked for was a little entertainment.

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manji, sends his second work to the screen with this week’s release of Zathura. The two plots are eerily similar—two kids find an old board game that, once begun, spins their world out of control and the only way to right themselves is to finish the game. Now, Jumanji was better, but it was also aimed at an older crowd than its relendessly PG successor.

That said, Zathura is one of the most well-done children’s movies in recent memory. In sharp contrast to the dark African jungle theme many of us found so enticing, this movie plays off of all the ridiculous B-movie sci-fi stereotypes of the ’sos and ’6 1 space toys, and the two kids and their teen sister are rocke ning. Surprisingly well-worked effects help make this them are welded iron with wildly disproportionate flame-tails, an eyes in protest. Zathura may not be as solid a movie as Ju\ children and their legal guardians, will be having too much

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didn’tknow about Screen/Society, but they have been supportive.

[Now], there is more awareness, and appreciation for the breadth of programming around,” says Hank Okasaki, exhibitions director for Film/Video/Digital. But, what happens when you build it and still no one comes? L’Ange de goudrmb may have won the Public Award at the prestigious Brisbane International Film Festival, but it didn’t win any accolades at Duke. Wednesday afternoon’s screening drew no more than 50 people.

Oussama Fawzi, who will be in attendance Monday night to discuss his film I Love Cinema, must have similar concerns. Last month The Prince, the first installment of the No Visa Reqiured series, played to a crowd numbering in the 20s, many of whom were required to be there as part of their FOCUS program.

Annie Leahy, program director of the Tribeca Film Institute, which co-sponsors the series, states that Duke was specifically chosen as a site for the series because of its continued investment in Middle Eastern cinema. Yet, how long will she, and other organizers for that matter, continue to come to Duke if the audience fails to materialize?

Okasaki, for one, isn’t concerned. “It takes time to build some literacy about international cinema,” he says. “What you do get are people who come for films... and they may bring their friends and increase awareness, and they appreciate the experience and the event a lot more than the normal Hollywood screening.”

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After straight-laced and married ad exec Charles (Clive Owen) meets the alluring Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston, in a departure from her typically bubbly roles), his life is forced into a downward spiral. An illicit tryst is interrupted by a robbery and rape and the criminals won’t leave the couple alone. With demands for dollars rising and Lucinda’s behavior becoming increasingly enigmatic, Charles begins to question his relationships and where he puts his trust. The stars are sexy and the final twist is fun, but this thriller feels like a throwaway in a season of Oscar contenders

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in terms of elements. I had to craft a new composition that they’d like, based on what I knew about their tastes. Those kinds of experiences kind of gelled together over a course of time, and in late 1999 I knew I wanted to find away to model that knowledge and make it intelligible for an information system. It was when online music was going through the roof.

And how long has it taken to get Pandora running?

Pandora sits on top of the Music Genome Project—the Genome is the guts of the service. Genome’s never going to end. That’s something we add thousands of songs to every month, which we’ll do until people stop writing music, which I hope won’t be soon.

So the actual template for the Genome was done in the latter part of 2000, but the Pandora service we launched seven weeks ago.

It seems like you get a lot of repeats on the stations Pandora creates, and it doesn’t traverse as many genres as one might hope. Why is that?

The way the service works, if you type in a song, what Pandora is really good at is finding other songs that are similar. The way you get variety is by inputting more than one artist or more than one song on one station—that functionality is not obvious but it’s there.

People having been using it in different ways. Some people create lots of stations and flip through them. Other people create a station with more variety within it.... Part of the premise ofPandora is that people like music for different reasons.

How much did it cost to make the Music Genome Project?

Many millions, and we’re still spending.

But do you think it will be profitable in the long run?

Well, we don’t release the numbers, but it’s growing way, way beyond our wildest expectations. We’ve had an onslaught of users from all over the w0r1d.... We could not have hoped for a better start. taste

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launched this service under the guidelines of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—a legal structure put together by the industry to govern webcasting.

There’s a huge amount of commerce that happens because of this. You can link off to buy a song from iTunes or Amazon. It’s driving people to a lot of music from things they haven’t heard before. Pandora really is a friend to the recording industry because we’re helping people find new music.

How did you come up with the idea for the Music Genome Project and Pandora.com?

Ah yes—the moment of insanity. It grew very much out ofmy own experience. I spent 10years out of college playing in independent rock bands, traveling around the country, just trying to promote music. I came face-to-face with the challenges of making it as an emerging artist. I got a real deep education.

Then I spent four years as a film composer. My job was to try to find out the desires of a film director. By and large they’re not musicians... so I got to thinking about music

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Pandora Test Drive Sure, it’s a music recommendation service. You can (after a minimal wait) the name of your favorite band or song and it will automatically suggest other similar songs; most of them you probably have never heard.

It’s not just a musical matchmaker, though.

Similar to (my rudimentary understanding of) gene sequencing, it is named the Music Genome Project, not only can you pinpoint possibly fallacious genes but you can also look back and research who your ancestors were and where you came from. The same goes for the online Pandora. You’ll be linked to seemingly random songs plucked from different decades. So at least in the site’s formulation of what makes music similar, you’ll be able to pinpoint predecessors ofyour favorite songs as well as possible offspring and relatives.

I entered the names of a few favorite tunes to investigate if there were any intersections with my own playlist.

There was. Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love” linked me to my other favorite club song: Mariah Carey’s “It’s Like That.” t.a.T.u.’s “All The Things She Said” conjured up the ultimate ’Bos anthem, Love Spit Love’s “How Soon Is Now?” And Christina Aguilera’s “Fighter” got me songs that I liked from Evanescence, Maroon 5 and Natalie Imenter

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Perhaps most startingly, when I plugged in the name of my all-time favorite singer, Nancy Sinatra, it displayed songs it thought similar from some of my favorite musicians today, including Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, The Cardigans, and admittedly, Ashlee Simpson. Somehow I feel this legitimizes my iTunes “Top 25 Most Played”—rife with wistful female vocals and grrrlrock rhythms. After being continuously criticized because I listened to supposedly “bad” music, I realize now that it isn’t my fauh that I do. It’s Frank’s fault for birthing Nancy.

Suddenly, it all makes perfect sense.

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9.) To me, Diamond on 12 Songs is The Man in Black remixed (ever so acoustically) with Vegas crooner Tom Jones. Which is not an awful thing.

8.) This is the first decent Diamond album in years. Sporting production from Jay-Z and Johnny Cash mastermind Rick Rubin, there’s more than a couple songs here (see “Save Me A Saturday Night,” “Hell Yeah” and “Face Me”) that will appear on his next greatest hits compendium.

7.) What’s the one flaw on his latest Rick Rubin-assisted LP? Diamond doesn’t sing-song the lines from another Rubin collaboration: “99 problems and a b—h ain’t one.”

6.) “I’m a man of God, though I never learned to pray” begins one of several revelatory—in more ways than one—tracks on Diamond’s 12 Songs. The line’s almost autobiographical in that it sums up the career of Diamond as he’s sung about faith and the Gospel (and women) in way as of yet unrivalled by his musical contemporaries.

5.) It’s all about the Voice. And no, recess is not talking about Mariah. Or Xtina. Or even Ruben Studdard.

4.) I grew up listening to the sounds ofDiamond’s voice, booming and eerily resonant. Sure, he was schmaltzy but he was gpod-schmaltzy. And truthfully, I dreamed ofmy own traveling band.

3.) Nothing touches one so much as an aging rock star. Especially one you’ve followed and appreciated for a while. If rock sort ofreflects the possibility of youth, aging icons in that genreremind us of our own impending mortality. I felt that \yay with Johnny Cash. I felt that way with William Shatner (on his wonderful spoken-word album, Has Been, before his inappropriate gig on Boston Legal.) After listening to Diamond’s latest set 12 Songs, I’m starting to feel it again.

2.) My mom has a huge crush on Neil Diamond. She will not appreciate this shoutout.

—Robert Winterode 1.) As witnessed on 12 Songs, Neil Diamond is forever. Forever? Forever ever.

My mom always taught me to not judge a book by its cover. But it’s really difficult when the cover’s name is as dumb as Floetry. If you’re able to detach yourself from previous biases and actually sit down to listen to the album, the product is just as disappointing as the name. Just a few days ago, the R&B duo released their third LP, Flo’Ology (an album with an equally dumb name) into the hands of the American mainstream and MTV’s TRL alike. But let’s not get too mean now. There is one standout track, “Supastar,” which features intelligent emcee Common. But the reason for the song’s quality isn’t Floetry—it’s Common, along with his thoughtful lyrics and flawless delivery. The rest of the album, however, falls flat on its face, with poorly made beats and even worse lyrics to boot. All in all, the album isn’t worth $l5. But I would recommend buying “Supastar” on iTunes, because if you purchase the album, you’re likely to fall into a depression and question your ability to find decent music. But hey, what else can you expect from a group named Floetry?

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The woman’s husband comes home and the story spirals into a ridiculous tale of violence, lust and stupidity. And while the idea itself is admirable, the execution is not, as the album combines juvenile lyrics and just plain embarrassing beats. And plus, everyone knows that the story is really R. Kelly’s experience with a 13-year-old’s dad who found him sleeping with the girl. So please, don’t buy this album. Save yourself some dignity and don’t contribute to America’s decline.

—Matt Dearborn

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The photographs ofSteven B. Smith put us on familiar

ground. Smith spent nine years shooting suburbia for his project “The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of

the Suburban West,” the winner of the second Honickman Book Prize awarded by the Center for Documentary Studies. But viewers who think they know suburbia—either as a subject of artistic scrutiny or simply as home—may be surprised at what they see in his book and accompanying exhibition, displayed in the Perkins Special Collections Gallery.

These black-and-white images are stark examinations not of suburbia itself, but rather of where suburbia comes from.

Smith approaches his subject with the eye of a landscape photographer exploring the deserts of the Western United States. In place of pristine mountains and dunes, however, he finds the destruction of natural topographies to make way for housing developments. The tide of the project is from a quote by author James McMichael, who accused modem developers of “selling the weather and a place to live,” leaving behind nothing else of the original country.

“To me the landscape was a real, vivid portrait of our cultural values at this specific time,” Smith said. He said he believes these landscapes result from a post-war American dream that dictates that “people should be able to live in suburbs, and their lives should be ruled by the car. They should also have a single-family home, and they should

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live a certain distance apart from each other but also still

together.”

Smith, who teaches photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, admits some similarity between his work and other recent landscape photographers, especially Lewis Baltz of the New Topography school. Comparisons to Baltz and Robert Adams come naturally enough. But the careful, form-driven compositions

Smith frames with his view camera also give his images the feel of Edward Weston’s Oceano landscape work.

This attention to composition and Smith’s skillful use of light imbue even the most sardonic images with an undeniable beauty.

This beauty presents an unsetding contradiction: How can a photographer create beautiful images of a controversial subject without somehow morally condoning it?

Smith said he believes the answer lies both in the nature of the art object and a careful deployment of humor in his work.

“For me, the smart way to make a social comment/criticism of something...is to fetishize it,” he noted. By turning the destruction and development of desert terrain into objects of art, Smith succeeds in opening the topic up to interpretation and discussion.

Smith goes one step further by framing this discussion with spot-on visual humor that perfecdy captures the absurdity of suburbia. In Draper, Utah 1999 (see middle image, above), Smith gives us a twilight scene at the edge

of a lawn, where grass gives way to dirt and gravel. A view of mountains and a distant valley, spotted with city lights, is truncated by an opaque fence. Instead of the distant landscape, we are made to focus on two small spotiights in a gravel pit. The lights illuminate a pair ofrocks no bigger than bowling balls, pathetic remnants of the rugged terrain tamed by development.

Smith employs a similar tongue-in-cheek approach to maximum effect in a shot of Utah’s Interstate 15. Again, he foregrounds man-made structures—in this case, the highway and the noise-reducing wall that abuts it. Mountains tower in the background of the wall, hinting at another dazzling view obscured. Etched onto the wall is a design mirroring the contours of the mountains it hides—an emblem both of human knowledge of the destruction we are causing and our willingness to accept cheap substitutes.

Thanks to the Honickman prize, Smith’s photographs are now available to a wider audience in book form. From the valleys of California to the outskirts of Boston, consumers everywhere can purchase copies of Weather and a Place to Live to take back to the pristine suburban homes that are slowly replacing everything else.

Smith mil speak about his photographs and sign books in the opening reception of “The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West today from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library. ”

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Do you listen to any non-classical music, or go to any outrageous rock concerts?

I like going to non-classical shows just to see the audience. I actually wear earplugs—I don’t want to wreck my ears!

But really, I tend to appreciate music that I can understand and appreciate as a musician. Fortunately, I have friends with a wide variety of tastes in music. It’s kind of nice for me to be able to listen from both the perspective of a 25-year-old and the perspective of—OW, my mouse just bit me!

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I’m sorry. Where were we? No, but when I’m listening, I listen for certain aspects of quality—l listen for people who I can tell have spent a lot of time developing their art, whether its singing or the creativity of the music they’re creating or performing, that it’s really something that they’ve spent time on—alt or pop or =

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from. I really enjoy alternative radio stations. Still, I tend to evaluate other music from a classical perspective. There’s so much to choose from and there’s just as much of a range within classical music as in all of the ranges outside of it. As a result, I find those things I like in classical music in trip-hop or alternative rock or you know electronica or whatever it is that I listen to that I like.

Have you ever tried other genres for violinists, like fiddle or Stephan Grapel-

li-style jazz?

Hmm. I played for a dinner and President Clinton was there; one of things we played was a blue-grass style, and I really enjoyed it. I’m friends with people who

are very much in the blue grass and something scene. I went to a show with Bela Fleck and Stanley Clark and Jean Luc Ponty. Afterward, I went backstage to say “hi” to Bela, and Jean Luc Ponty came up to me —he said he really enjoyed my recordings. I was really surprised.

What about collaborating with other people?

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soundtrack for The Village, I was about to do a collaboration in folk-rock alternative group but that fell through. I know that whatever comes along will be interesting.

Crossover—mixing things up—is endlessly interesting to me. I learn something from other musicians. I get something from it.

Do perhaps those contemporary collaborations makes classical music more “accessible,” so to speak?

As far as being a violinist is concerned, I don’t want to take classical music and make it more accessible just by adding pop elements. Whatever people want to do as far as creative developments is fine, I don’t resent that. But, as far the projects that I do, if I’m doing something with classical music—which is basically my background and my musical life—l really want to do it well. I don’t want to talk down to people; I want to present the music for what it is.

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Tickets are available through the Duke Box Office, 684-4444.

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Twenty-one seconds later, Lander’s Jennifer Hukill tied the game with a Jump shot from the left elbow, but die quick backand-forth scoring action was only a tease.

No. 1 Duke crushed Lander—an NCAA Division II school from Greenwood, S.C.— 116-29, at Cameron Indoor Stadium in its second exhibition game of the season.

Following the 2-2 start, the Blue Devils did not let the Bearcats score for nearly 17 minutes. In the interim, Duke racked up 50 points to open up an embarrassing lead.

“It was just kind of a tough game to play,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I give Lander a lot of credit. They played really hard. They’re very feisty, and they never gave up. It just gave us the chance to really work on our transition game and some different things defensively, but it was justa

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CARY In what the announcer called “the first course ofa fourcourse soccer feast” over the loudspeaker at the SAS complex in Cary, N.C., fifth-seeded Duke men s soc 19 miKF cer took on I VA.TECH 0 fourth-seeded Virginia Tech Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championship.

In the teams’ first matchup Sept. 20, the Blue Devils tied the Hokies (10-5-4), 2-2, in a tighdy contested game—and through 43 minutes it seemed like Wednesday’s game might be headed the same direction.

But with less than two minutes left in the half, Duke (10-4-2) took the lead and never looked back on its way to a 2-0 victory, the first ACC Championship game the team has won since 2000.

“A shutout and first-round win is huge for our confidence,” Duke head coach John Rennie said.

Sophomore Tomek Charowski floated the ball into the box to junior Chris Loftus. He headed it cleanly, popping it up in front of junior Chase Perfect, who finished with a diving header past the fingers of leaping Hokie goaltender, Chase Harrison—the goal marked Perfect’s first of the season.

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One year ago, Duke defeated Division II North Carolina Central in an exhibition game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, 95-58.

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The Blue Devils, ranked preseason No. 11 last year, were a nearly unanimous top pick this preseason, gamerTONIGHT, 7 p.m. ing 28 of 31 first-place votes.

JJ. Cameron Indoor R e dick, then an established junior with lingering questions, is now the reigning ACC Player of the Year. Senior center Shelden Williams, then a budding star, is the reigning National Defensive Player of the Year.

N.C. Central—a mere three miles from Duke but never in the same basketball hemisphere—lost a host of key contributors since last season. Only one offive starters, senior SEE NCCU ON PAGE 10

When Amanda Blumenherst was just 12years old, an age when most people were still struggling with their multiplication tables, she teed off in her first national golf tournament. Competing against more experienced golfers, Blumenherst did the unexpected. She won.

At the Mason Rudolph Classic this fall, the freshman proved that history repeats itself and won her first collegiate tournament against many of the nation s top players.

“I just went out there and I played the best I could,” Blumenherst said. “I took it one shot, one hole at a time, and I didn’t think about how the other giris were playing.

Blumenherst set a record for best 54-hole total by a Duke freshman and became the first golfer to win her first collegiate tournament since former Blue Devil Candy Hannemann accomplished the feat in 1998.

Since her early victory, Blumenherst has been nothing short of spectacular. She posted nine consecutive rounds of even par or better to start her rookie campaign, and she has placed in the top four in each of her four tournament appearances.

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Devils would need. Although Duke’s defense had a few close calls, key saves by goalie Justin Papadakis and strong play by defenders Darrius Barnes and Tim Jepson kept the Hokies scoreless.

“We did a tremendous defensive Job on our part stopping their offense which has been so productive this year,” Rennie said.

With the game still scoreless and only 6:30 left before the half, Virginia Tech had its best scoring chances of the game.

The Hokies had three consecutive free kicks from just outside Duke’s box.

Jepson received a yellow card in the 38th minute, but the Hokies’ subsequent free kick soared high. Just a minute and a half later, Perfect and Virginia Tech’s Eric Vickers got tangled up in frontof the goal, resulting in a call against Perfect and another kick for the Hokies. But Virginia Tech struggled to convert the opportunity, passing the ball several times before Duke’s defenders broke up the play.

Soon after, Barnes was issued a yellow card, giving the Hokies yet another free kick, but Duke was able to clear it, ending Virginia Tech’s flurry of shots.

With less than a minute left in the game, it appeared the game would end in a 1-0 win for Duke. But in a desperate attempt to tie the game, the Hokies pulled Harrison all the way up to midfield. With the ball at his feet, the goalie faltered and opened up the field for Duke sophomore Zach Pope.

Successfully tackling Harrison and gaining possession of the ball with a mere six seconds left, he lined the ball down the empty field into the open goal as the clock ticked down to 1.3 seconds, giving Duke a 2-0 win.

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Shelden Williams and theBlue Devils will take on theEagles in the theirfinal preseason tune-up tonight.

But you’re not the No. 1 team in the country for nothing.”

Not like the Blue Devils need added motivation, but with a load offreshmen capable of contributing right away, the game could be important for the neophytes to gain experience playing in the tight, loud, pressure-packed confines of Cameron. An exhibition game gives Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski a perfect opportunity to show the rookies —both players and fans what Duke basketball is really about.

“Playing here gives you a rush,” said Krzyzewski after Duke’s first exhibition game, a 123-66 win against Concordia.

“That’s why I think the students being so vocal was good for u5.... The freshmen need that atmosphere more than the up-

NCCU from page 9 center Jason Hervey, returns for the Eagles.

Hervey averaged a respectable 9.8 points per game. Junior point guard Chris Tyrance, who averaged a paltry 2.8 points per contest last season, will likely be the second highest contributor for the Eagles this season.

“As a Division II school, we’re just excited about playing in Cameron,” NCCU head coach Henry Dickerson said. “You just go in and play hard, you just want to be competitive. In no way, shape or form do we have the types of players that Duke has, but I still think it’s a good experience.”

Although the matchup appears to be lopsided, Dickerson did not rule out the remote possibility of a victory.

“Anything’s possible, but you have to be realistic too,” Dickerson said. ‘You have to realize who you are playing. Now, if Duke does not come put and play, and we do play, then it’s going to be a game.

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This victory was especially rewarding for the seniors, as it was their first ACC Championship win in four years as Blue Devils.

“The ACC is the strongest it has been since I’ve been here, and it’s ironic that this is the first win my class has gotten in the ACC tournament since I’ve been here, so it feels doubly good,” seniorBlake Camp said.

Rennie agreed with Camp regarding the strength of the ACC and insisted that eight of the nine teams in the league will make the NCAA Tournament.

The Blue Devils will face first-seeded Maryland Friday in the semifinals. This game, however, could be more challenging, considering Duke lost, 3-1, to the No. 1 Terrapins Oct. 7.

“It’s very hard to play on one day’s rest,” Rennie said. “But we live to fight another day.”

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W. BBALL f,„m page 9 named to the preseason All-America team, tallied 11 points and five assists for the Blue Devils in her first game this season. Along with teammate Jessica Foley, the senior sat out against EA Sports Nov. 2 because of minor injuries.

“It’s nice to be able to play and not have any nagging injuries,” Currie said.

Foley, who had two points and five assists in her 16 minutes of play, also said that she felt comfortable on the court. Foley and Currie contributed 10 ofDuke’s 32 assists, as the Blue Devils’ strong passing game resulted in evenly distributed scoring. Duke split its 116 points between 11 players, led by junior Alison Bales with 19.

“It’s basically impossible [not to run up the score],” Goestenkors said. “Towards the end, we finally just said ‘no more fast breaks’ because we could fast break at almost any opportunity. We basicallyjust stopped running the ball to try and work on some quarter-court stuff. Even that’s difficult because it’s hard to tell players when they have breakaway layups not to shoot them.”

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Although Duke’s defense was effective, Goestenkors still was not pleased with her own team’s sloppy play—the

Blue Devils totalled 17 turnovers on the night “Sometimes we steal the ball; we get a turnover, and then we’re in a such a rush to score that we turn the ball over unnecessarily. And we can’t have that,” Goestenkors said. “Defensively we’re taking too many chances. We’ve just got to do a better job staying in the play and not just going for the block or going for the steal.”

With more than a week to go before Duke’s season opener at Penn State Nov. 18, Goestenkors said the team will need to improve upon Wednesday night’s mistakes.

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appeared hastily assembled accommodate the crowd is, in general, an insufficient solution. Even when an event is primarily aural, a visual focal point helps people conto

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With space constraints of the weekend’s schedule, it is understandable that the venue was not sufficiendy large to hold the crowd. Spokespeople for the Sanford Institute for Public Policy, which organized the event, said both Page Auditorium and Cameron Indoor

Stadium were booked. But perhaps Powell’s speech should have trumped more flexible campus events in the other spaces. Only rarely does a speaker of Powell’s stature come to campus, and better communication with other event planers could have allowed him to speak in Page, which holds more than thrice the people as Wilson.

For Powell, however, and major speakers in general, the University ought to plan better for overflow. On this technologically wired campus, closed-circuit television in overflow spaces and a clear plan for extra onlookers are necessities.

Tickets, which can be given

out for free, are a cheap and easy way to gauge community interest prior to the event and plan for appropriate numbers.

Although some tickets were available for the Powell speech, their availability was poorly publicized. Especially for campus residents, tickets should be advertised through tabling.

As Duke continues to invite high-profile speakers to campus, it needs to keep in mind the lessons from this past weekend.

Students and Durham citizens proved Friday that they will turn out in droves to hear people speak.

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I think there are also some ethical issues in DSG Duke Student Government has made great strides that deserve a very hard look, like how politics or since Oct. 24, and I haven’t said a word about it. personal preferences may be determining what acSince that day a few weeks ago, when the “Duke tions our senators take. But Vice President of Aca24” town meeting was held in the Bryan Center, DSG demic Affairs Joe Fore has been working hard on has done some of the best work I’ve making more course evaluations ever seen from them available for students, and his guest The direct results of the meeting column on Oct. 13 urging students were: The freshman meal equivato choose classes for themselves instead of for their majors or requirelency plan will be reinstated in some form, Bostock will soon be ments is exactly what he should be open until 4 a.m. and parts of Wildoing in his post. son gym will be open 24 hours a It’s important to stress here that DSG is not a monolithic, faceless day. There is even talk that the lielizabeth rudisill group. An organization is first and brary may start opening 24 hours if Do SomethinG the 4 a.m. plan is successful. foremost its people, not its rules or cannot this I structures or tenets. DSG is comoveremphasize point: These policies, for which students have been posed of the people taking notes across the aisle in clamoring for years, are a huge success for DSG. econ, the people who live down the hall, the They have taken wishes and empty promises and Cameron Crazies jumping around next to you. They turned them into action—and they deserve the credare leaders outside of DSC. They are passionate it for it (assuming they follow through, as I believe about Duke and about changing it for the better.

DSG deserves credit as a body, and DSG members they will).

Besides these three facilities victories, DSG has deserve individual credit for the recent achievealso put together a new Krzyzewskiville policy that ments. If you see these people on the quad, in class, eliminates black tenting and balances the rigors of or on facebook, thank them for doing their elected tenting with the rigors of a full course load. It looks duties with competence and results: like K-Ville will not be the rule-by-committee (of parJesse Longoria, Brandon Goodwin, Joe Fore, ents) it was last year, and students will again self-govLogan Leinster, Brenda Bautsch, Paige Sparkman, em the tent city.

Lauren Troyer, Adam Chandler, Ajay Kori, Atin I have criticized DSG for its elitism and lack of Garg, Bryce Walker, Craig Bohn, Daron Gunn, Duncommunication. It is clear that they have begun to can McKenna, Elise Schmidt, Emily Jones, Emily rectify these problems. DSG brought students and Pontzer, Erica Stalnecker, Genevieve Cody, George administrators together to look at facilities manageFleming, Jamie Campbell, Jason Gross, Javier Roment and reached out to the student body for its driguez, Jeff Buchan, Jeff Vaughn, Jeremy Marshall, input on K-Ville policy.

Jordan Giordano, Josh Solera, Julie Yu, Kathleen DSG has started to fulfill its duties as a student Greene, Keshia Williams, Kristin Pfeiffer, Lauren government, and may be working toward a cure for Garson, Lee Komfeld, Madison Li, Mark Jelley, Matt its institutional impotence. The town hall meeting is McNeill, Matthew Hoekstra, Michael Koler, Nicole an excellent example of how DSG can be a more Cederblom, Nisha Choksi, Pete Dickos, Racine Harpowerful force on campus, despite a slow start to the ris, Russ Ferguson, Ryan Strasser, Samson Mesele, year. This is not the end of what DSG can accomScott McKenzie, Shannon Murphy, Sunny Kantha, plish; it is only a glimpse of the power they can wield, Tina Hoang, Tom Musgrave, Tyler Green, Vishal Amin, Wei Li. the change they can effect.

But these early actions still leave much to be deTo all ofyou, from me: Thank you, and I look forsired. In particular, I would like to see better publicward to seeing what you can accomplish the rest of the year and beyond. ity for DSG meetings and the promised student-senator dinners. In addition, DSG has often talked about and voted on ARAMARK’s dining contract, Elizabeth Rudisill is a Trinity sophomore. Her column but never actually done anything about it. runs every other Thursday.

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multimillion-dollar development campaign, which has given rise to Bostock Library and a new, Mad Hatterized Perk, can only be described as sick-nasty.

These projects will be a boon to the University in attracting attention from prospective students and professors, along with donations from alumni.

But as much as I love the idea of cupcakes and water-free urinals (despite what all notions of common sense may suggest about the ridiculousness of the latter), and labs for research—the nature of which is beyond my grasp—l can’t help but feel david kelban a bit miffed. the naked truth these Sure, projects are glitzy, intellectually and aesthetically uplifting and pretty freakin’ sweet overall. But compared to the fortunes we sink on this stuff, how much would it cost to make my day-to-day life a little better?

For example, I love Bostock. It’s got that great wood-grain-glass-and-carpet feel to it—it almost seems like a bell-hop should be carrying my backpack for me on the elevator ride upstairs. But the lobby’s missing some crucial accoutrements.

I don’t know about the backroom financial dealings of the University (ask that Elliott Wolf kid about that). But don’t you think they could have kicked in another couple G to get some electric staplers? We have one in Vesic Library on Science Drive, and let me tell you, it’s a treat. And I don’t mean to brag, but I have yet to encounter a manual stapler that can handle my thickest documents.

Deficiencies in paper binding options aside, I’d like it if we threw some scratch at bread-andbutter campus life issues. Can someone install that soundproof tiling stuff in the ceilings on Central? Right now I feel like I’m listening to sasquatch going about his daily roudne upstairs. I don’t have class on Friday, and I certainly don’t want to have to wake up to the sound of an ogre stomping on bones.

Speaking of Central, I was really excited to find out that I’d be living across the street from tennis courts. That was before I found out that apparently they lie on a fault line. It’s okay though, leave the surfaces untended long enough and the crab grass will just take over we can pretend it’s Wimbledon. But unless they keep the nets (at least, the ones that still exist) in good shape, we’re going to have to start really using the honor system (“That one was just a little low”).

It would also be nice if Duke Cable got some reliability. My roommate and I ordered the Platinum package because we’re serious about our TV. We didn’t splurge so that we could find out sporadically that Cinemax isn’t working and we won’t be able to watch IntimateSessions Volume 4 tonight. I can put up with a lot, but when I’m missing the Sunday night HBO lineup, something has to be done.

I’m glad Duke is making grandiose developments and additions. That big Belltower honesdy sounds like it’s great. But let’s get a committee going to look at the mundane but crucial details. Like my recreational or soft-core pom needs. It may be an exaggeration to say that my inability to find an adequate stapler is a sign of a rotting foundation beneath the Duke behemoth. But let’s pay some attention to such matters so we don’t have to take that risk.

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used to work in a diner/ Never saw a woman look finer / I used to order just to watch her float across the floor —Neil Young

also interests me that she, for the most part, this human has performed the role of “woman” as I perceive it in my cu itural framework. Great stuff, but I’ll leave it for the experts in anthroAs a human being, I pological sciences here, have a minimal ability to and delve into the percook hot meals for mysonal and emotional as self. And away from the I am so often wont to bosom of the Duke meal aaron kirschenfeld do IVe In lhe P:isl plan and out of my parso far, so good ents home, the most been in contact with waitcommon way for the hot resses in a variety of sets meals to arrive in front of me is via waitand settings. I worked at Elmo’s Diner for ress. Waitress: well, a nice gendered a while as a bus boy slash host slash allword; a lady who brings food and drinks. around, incompetent, front-of-house But there’s more to it, to the relationship staffer (I had a lot of trouble carrying the between me and a waitress and that’s big tray). We had waiters and waitresses there; the waiters were my friends, the what I want to get into.

I often empathize with Neil Young waitresses were my secret crushes. Then I and more or less tend to echo his sentiwent to Brazil and actually pursued to ments on life. This case is no different. fruition a romantic involvement with a waitress, a pinnacle in my life and also a I love waitresses. I love waitresses constandy and indelibly. I love waitresses ir- piece of column-worthy braggadocio if I rationally and selfishly. I love to watch do say so myself (because really, folks, what is a column without braggadocio?). them walk around with grace, take orders, fetch drinks and deliver food. I am This summer, I spent time on the road pretty concerned about this. eating in sit-down diners, dives and I’ve never broken into a full out gengreasy spoons throughout rural and der rap in one of my columns before, urban America, in the South, the Southand I don’t plan to start now. I think west, the Northwest and the Midwest. that gender issues play a serious role in And now I’m in Europe and frequenting the Waitress-Aaron relationship, but so a pub where Jana, my current waitressdo more vague and, to me, more fascicrush, brings me tall, cold beers and creamy chicken and potato dishes and nating issues of control, self-aggrandizement, fantasy and perhaps biology. sometimes soup, when she has it.

It interests me that a female (anatomiSo what’s this all about, anyway? Is it a cally) has always brought food to me. It control thing? Do I like ordering women ”

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around to do my bidding and thereby develop lustful feelings toward them? Nah,

I don’t think it’s that. I think it is, in this controlling sense, the old rescuing-thedowntrodden-damsel-in-distress-”diamond in the rough” impulse. I think I hear my friends, exes and old flames vomiting. No, seriously. I think there’s some element of “I can take you out of this restaurant and make life better... you won’t have to wait on asshole customers anymore!” Sounds pretty sick, but why else is one person, aside from pheromones and physical characteristics, interested in another (from my rather narrow, mostly heterosexual and mostly masculine point ofview)? I think I’m better than other dudes, point blank, and can offer the “feminine-actor” a better situation than her current one.

But the more likely thing is this: Caught up in the biological excitement of eating and drinking, I develop a favorable bond with the waitress. I don’t have the same kind ofattachment to a lady at the DMV, for example. I also eat alone a good deal, and in that case she becomes my companion, more of an exotic dancer/bartender relationship but without the exorbitant tips. I dunno, maybe I just like waitresses because they’ll talk to me. Or because they walk around and I like to watch girls walk around.

Oh Neil, I’m really feelin’ you on this one, man.

Aaron Kirschenfeld is a Trinity junior.

His column normally runs every other Tuesday, and he really wishes people would call him Orbit.

letterstotheeditor Parking on campus universally poor Graduate students aren’t alone in lamenting parking shortages. Many staff members also deal with campus parking shortages. With the opening of Rubenstein Hall, many employees within the Sanford Institute moved onto campus from off-campus offices. This increase in staff and faculty resulted in limited parking within the PubPol parking and surrounding proximate lots. Many individuals were forced to take Green Zone parking. Oftentimes, if I didn’tarrive to work by B:lsam, I wouldn’t be able to find a parking spot except in the gravel lots, a 10- to 15-minute walk.

Parking suddenly became an impediment to get to my job. Some of my coworkers work both in the office and community, and travel to and from the office multiple times a day, spending up to 6 hours a week walking from the car to the office, as one coworker timed.

A recent article discussed carpooling, a wonderful idea. However, there are rules regulating that, one of which is that the carpooling individuals cannot live at the same address. Therefore, my husband and I, who both work at Duke, carpool, but are unable to benefit from die permit parking discount nor convenient parking for him. The days I don’t go to work, he has to walk 30 minutes to his office from our lot.

I understand that there are limited options for parking, but as the university grows, new buildings are taking the place of parking lots. New lots need to be built to compensate for the loss, ideally planned out prior to the building of new buildings. Duke is going to contin-

ue growing in faculty, students and staff.

Parking is going to continue to be a necessity. Parking is already selling more permits than the number of spots, resulting in unhappy individuals. “A happy worker is a productive worker,” but beginning your day frustrated trying to find parking creates poor work-

It is situations like this that 1) completely validate all the Duke “stereotypes” 2) make me embarrassed to be a Duke student. Shame on the Duke parents who footed the bill to dismiss their children’s wrongdoings. Be assured, you are not only teaching your children that Alcohol Law Enforcement officers ing environments. must obtain a search warrant to enter a If Duke wants to help its staff and suspicious home (in which there are 87 maintain a positive employee relationunderage drinkers!), but that they are ship, it should invest in its parking. A above the law; you are denying the existence of right and wrong. policy shift should occur allowing parking to increase its budget through other And we wonder why many students University money to create additional lack an awareness of the ethical obligation to respect their neighbors off East parking lots.

Campus, or clean up after themselves—Laura Sample this is why.

SeniorData Technician Rest assured that I am not conservaCenterfor Health Policy tive in my worldview, but I cannot deny the value in discipline and taking reStudents act too entitled sponsibility for one’s actions. That’s Am I the only one around here who how it works: you make a mistake, you thinks it’s ridiculous that nearly 75 stufix it—whether that means taking redents cited for underage alcohol possponsibility and paying the consesession are having their cases disquence. Where along the way did we missed, all because of a frivolous lose this important insight?

As a fellow Duke student, one that technicality? While I’m sure I will offend and outrage all the privileged darlives off-East campus and may have lings whose parents bought them out of even done my share of under-age this one, I can’t help but be disgusted. drinking, I don’t ask (as I would like) Whatever happened to right and that you all discover your social conwrong? Were you drinking underage? sciousness but simply that you take reThis is a yes or no question-no buts alsponsibility for your actions. Your privilowed. Oh right, I forgot, the rules are leged position at this elite university for everyone else, or at least everyone does not put you above the law—or as else who can’t afford to exploit the law we saw this week, maybe it does? I’m for their own selfish purposes. Don’t moving to Europe. bother writing a refutation regarding the vernacular of the law; you miss my Angela Jarman point entirely.

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“We’ve got two of them.”

The Blue Devils are led this season by preseason All-America first-teamers JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams.

The two superstars are complemented by fellow seniors Sean Dockery and Lee Melchionni. All four are team captains, the first time in team history there have been four.

Although Duke had solid senior leadership from Daniel Ewing last year and Chris Duhon two years ago, neither was a bona fide star, like Redick and Williams, entering his senior season nor had the responsibility of guiding a team that will be disappointed with anything but a National

Championship.

The four captains are joined by the team’s two non-scholarship seniors,

Ross Perkins and Patrick Johnson.

The sextet of seniors will provide much-needed leadership to a team that has five freshmen.

“We haven’t had seniors like this for a long time,” Krzyzewski said. “I am relying more on them and actually trying to teach them to teach [the younger players]. I believe you learn things better when you teach them.”

And the captains are welcoming the opportunity to help the younger players grow.

“I think it is exciting because as a senior you get to pass on your knowledge and wisdom to those younger guys so they can continue the tradition that we have here at Duke,” Melchionni said.

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Ask Dockery about his transition from growing up in the South Side of Chicago to attending Duke and he’ll discuss it.

Ask Melchionni about his impersonations of his teammates and he’ll break into his routine.

But there is one subject the team captains will not touch.

Which of the Blue Devils’ two preseason All-Americans is the favorite for National Player of the Year, Shelden Williams or J.J. Redick?

“Shelden and J.J., both of those guys deserve it,” Dockery said of the team’s other two captains. “If they read this or something, they’ll probably beat me up if I pick one of them.”

Melchionni would not touch the subject, either.

“I love both of those guys,” he echoed.

“I say we’ll go with co-National Players of the Year.... I don’t want to upset anybody in the locker room.”

Dockery and Melchionni can be excused for their inability to choose; they are talking about their three-year teammates and fellow captains. But even the national media could not reach a consensus —some publications picked Redick for preseason National Player of the Year, while others selected Williams.

“It is rare that you have two seniors that are All-Americans on a team,” Williams said. “We live in a time and age where if the NBA is presented in front of a player, they’re going to be jumping off to the NBA.” Honors aside, Redick and Williams’ play will go a long way toward determining Duke’s success this season.

Redick, last season’s Rupp Award winner, is one of the best scorers in the country, scoring 20 or more points in 42 of his 103 college contests. The shooting guard topped the 20-point mark 21 times in 33 games last season and ranks 15th on Duke’s career scoring list, giving him a chance to

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Making the adjustment from high school basketball to the ACC is difficult. It is even harder trying to adapt as a shooting guard with an injured shooting hand.

Sophomore DeMarcus Nelson knows that all too well. During last year’s BlueWhite Scrimmage, the freshman ruptured a thumb ligament in his right hand and had to undergo surgery during the preseason. Although Nelson never missed any regular season games, he was forced to wear a splint early in the season that altered the way he held the ball.

As a result, the California high school points record-holder changed the mechanics of his shot, which led to his offensive woes.

“His injury hurt him a lot,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “When a freshman gets injured early, he’s never able to establish his reference point.”

The freshman averaged 6.2 points and 4.5 rebounds per game—good enough to earn a spot on the ACC All-Freshman Team—but Nelson struggled shooting, convertingjust 53 percent of his free-throw attempts and 40 percent of his shots from the field.

Entering Duke as a McDonald’s AllAmerican and the nation’s No. 17 prospect according to rivals.com, Nelson at times exhibited the potential that had made him such a heralded recruit, but struggled with consistency all season.

In Duke’s win over North Carolina in Cameron Indoor Stadium Feb. 9, Nelson scored 16 points and was a perfect 2-for-2 from behind the arc and 4-for-4 from the free-throw line. But in 24 minutes against N.C. State in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, the shooting guard scored

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Nelson’s father, Ron, said it was a very rough and frustrating year for his son.

“I’m back and I’m healthy, 100 percent,” DeMarcus Nelson said. “Last year I was balding injury a lot. This summer I made sure I got the proper rest I needed and made sure I was healthy.”

During the preseason this year, Nelson suffered a similar, but less severe, injury to his left hand, but Krzyzewski said the more mature sophomore was better prepared to cope with it and was back on the court the next day.

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Nelson’s athleticism and strength gives him the ability to drive to the basket and slash down the lane—in the Blue-White game and Duke’s first exhibition contest against Concordia, Nelson’s aggressiveness led to 15 total free-throw attempts.

With Redick and Williams, both preseason All-Americans, drawing most of opponent’s attention, Nelson will have many opportunities to showcase his explosiveness around the basket and improved shooting.

“There are going to be a lot of situations where teams double down on Shelden or double out on J.J., and that’s going to give me wide-open situations where I have maybe one defender guarding me,” Nelson said. “It’s going to put me in a lot of scoring opportunities, which will TOM MENDEI/THE CHRONICLE make my game a lot easier.” injuries and expectsto be more effective on offense.

Already this season Nelson has showcased his improved skills. In the BlueWith a strong supporting cast, improved White Scrimmage Oct. 22, the sophomore health and a year of experience under his went 10-for-13 from the line, and in Duke’s belt, Nelson is in position to become the tune-up against Concordia College, Nelson shot 7-for-l 1 from the field.

Blue Devils third option this season, comThe sophomore said he has refined his plementing JJ. Redick and Shelden offensive repertoire, working to improve Williams, Krzyzewski said.

Taking hundreds of shots each day and his floater and reverse layup to provide viewing tape from his high school years, him with more options close to the basket.

Nelson spent the summer working to re“One of his greatest strengths is his athstore the mechanics of the shot he used beletic ability, he’s really going to be a force in fore his injury. the paint and a strong finisher this year,” as“During the summer, the coaches and I sistant coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “DeMarcus has done a great job for us and is sat down and watched video of how I was shooting before I injured my hand and how going to be a key player for us this season.”

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In 26 years of coaching, Mike Krzyzewski has seen a lot of special players come and go. Few, if any, he says, have had the impact on his fellow Blue Devils that Sean Dockery has.

“Sean has been as good a teammate as any kid I’ve ever coached,” Krzyzewski said. “He just wants to win and he’s everybody’s friend—just a really good kid.”

So what is it about Duke’s senior captain that would elicit such praise from a head coach who has mentored 18 first-round NBA draft picks and seven National Players of the Year?

Loren Jackson, who coached Docker)' for the duration of his four-year career at Chicago’s Julian High School, knows exacdy what Krzyzewski sees in the former Julian star. “[He’s] just very supportive of his teammates—always putting the team before himself,” Jackson said. “It was something that was looked at and talked about every day in our program because he was such a high profile kid.

He’s just got a very caring and loving spirit about him.”

Dockery attributed his selfless attitude to the way that he was raised by his parents, Steve and Sherry Dockery, who stressed the importance of putting others before himself.

“I like seeing people do well,” Sean Dockery said. “It’s just something about that feeling when somebody’s doing good on your team. It’s a great feeling.”

Don’t be fooled by Dockery’s nice guy persona, though—he is no pushover. The senior plays with a tenacity and toughness that has transformed him into one of Duke’s best defenders, with 133 career steals. Dockery added that he also uses his strong work ethic to help motivate his teammates. “[l’m] just a hungry guy—every day come hard,” Dockery said. “Come to practice hard and try to get everyone better.”

After graduating from Julian as the all-time steals and assists leader in Illinois high school basketball history, Dockery admitted that his college career has not been exactly what he expected.

Though always a great leader, Dockery has had trouble adjusting to a new role at Duke that has been vastly different than the one he played at Julian. In high school, Dockery played both guard spots and running the team was not his main responsibility, Jackson said. Playing as more of a pure point guard at Duke was a challenge.

“In high school he was the man, he was the man everybody wanted to see score, he could score over everybody,” Steve Dockery said. “But he comes to Duke and there are four high school McDonald’s All-Americans and everybody’s got to share the time. And he just figured that the team is a lot better team than it was in high school.

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Senior point guard Sean Dockery says he finally feels comfortable with head coach Mike Krzyzewski's complex offensive system. it didn’t work out for him and he’s just going to make it work better for him. Now in his senior year, he can get back on that same pace with other people.”

Dockery’s transition from high school to college was not helped by the differences between Chicago’s South Side, where he grew up, and Duke’s academic prestige, Dockery said only about 250 of 800 students in his class at Julian graduated high school.

Coming to Duke, Dockery had to adjust to a new lifestyle, not just a new style ofbasketball. Still, Dockery said he would not have changed his decision to attend Duke.

“Hearned sb much from my college experience, on and bff tHe'Ctftirt,” Dockery said. “I matured as an indi-

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vidual and as a person, academics —just everything in general, I learned so much from being here.... There’s been some hills that I’ve had to climb, but I’m going to climb them.”

After three years of sporadic starts and a career average of 4.0 points and 1.4 assists per game, Dockery feels that he has finally become completely comfortable with Krzyzewski’s offense.

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When former Blue Devils Christian Laettner and Brian Davis made a $2 million contribution to the Duke Basketball Legacy Fund this past summer, they both said they were thrilled to still be involved with a basketball program and a school that had given them so much as student-

athletes.

“Today they are really taking care of family,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said at the press conference announcing the gift.

Entering his 26th season at the helm of the Blue Devils, Krzyzewski has worked hard to foster a community atmosphere where everyone who has either worked or played for Duke feels like the men’s basketball team is “their program.”

The sense of a “Duke Family” is a culture that has blossomed since Krzyzewski arrived in Durham in 1980, and it has been successful, he said, because of the continuity that has existed within the program over the past few decades.

What Krzyzewski has created since he reached his first Final Four as Duke’s coach in 1986 is a program whose household names have served as big-brother figures to the teams new lifeblood.

“That’s the thing that's really made us for all the years,” Krzyzewski said. “Grant Hill was helping [Jeff] Capel. Laettner and [Bobby] Hurley were helping Hill. [Johnny] Dawkins was helping [Quin] Snyder and [Tommy] Amaker was helping him.

[Mark] Alarie was helping [Danny] Ferry

and Ferry was helping Laettner.”

The lineage between Blue Devils past and present is continuing this year on a team that features the unique dynamic of four scholarship seniors, five freshmen and only a lone active sophomore between the two classes.

Krzyzewski has said National Player of the Year candidates like Shelden Williams and JJ. Redick will have a vital impact on helping the younger players mature and sustain Duke’s recent level of success.

“I know for me I had the ultimate respect for them because that’s who I grew up watching,” Duke’s all-time three-pointshooting leader Trajan Langdon said of some of his predecessors. “The older I got, the more I realized as much as they were helping us, we were helping them to get ready for the season.”

Redick, who said he lacked a true senior mentor when he was a freshman, still managed to become good friends with a lot of the program’s more recent alumni.

“I come and work out with the guys and I’m around them a lot,” said former Blue Devil Chris Carrawell, who lives in Raleigh.

“We want these guys to do well because they’re representing Duke University and us. We get to brag on these guys, so giving advice to them is only going to make them better and make Duke University better.”

With many ofhis former players playing in the NBA and in other leagues around the world, Krzyzewski said it has become increasingly more difficult for him to keep

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Josh Mcßoberts did not know what to do. It was September of his junior year, he was 16 years old and he had to stand up at a press conference the next day and announce his intention to accept Duke’s scholarship offer. Mcßoberts wanted to own, without his he did not know

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Mcßoberts had tot yet talked to fellow Duke commit , Greg Paulus, but he knew that Paulus had weathered a press conference of his own earlier that month. So when the point guard called, the big man knew just what to ask.

“He just kind of told me what he said,” Mcßoberts said. “When you’re 16 and you’re having a press conference, you get help wherever you can.”

It would be easy to extend the story from there—the highly-touted freshmen who committed to Duke within two weeks of each other would come to campus, room together and be generally inseparable. It would be especially easy because both were McDonald’s High School All-Americans and both said playing for Duke was a dream of theirs when they were younger.

Paulus and Mcßoberts did wind up rooming together at Duke, and they are good friends, but their story is not so simple.

The 6-foot-10 Mcßoberts struck up a friendship with star Blue Devil guard JJ. Redick, who hosted him on an official recruiting visit during the forward’s second year of high school. Though Redick initially thought high-school-age Mcßoberts looked like a “tool,” and decided that he “would never hang out with that kid,” the two remained in touch and grew close.

Paulus, meanwhile, said he is close with all of his teammates but has no relation-

ship with any of them like Mcßoberts has

with Redick.

And while Redick and Mcßoberts bonded further on fall trips, while travelling to each other’s hometowns, Paulus struggled a little more with the adjustment to college life.

“It’s been a little tougher than I thought it would being away from home and being on your own and the basketball and the high level that it is,” Paulus said.

“It’s been fun being on my own, but it’s been a lot of learning. But I’m starting to get it now.”

Even if they are not as close as might be assumed, Paulus and Mcßoberts both said that talking to each other, as well as to other teammates, before their arrival on campus helped their adjustment to college life during the team’s summer workouts.

Mcßoberts’ mother, Jennifer, echoed those sentiments and said that Josh’s already established relationships with the coaches and his teammates made it easier to drop him off at school.

The two moved into an Edens Quadrangle dorm room together in summer. They helped each oi through summer workouts befi moving to East Campus at the stan the year.

“Me just knowingjosh or him kn ing me, if we were having a bad day, know, we’d know what to say,” P; said. “I definitely think that it wo both ways with us helping each out this summer.”

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Pocius crosses ocean to pursue hoop dreams the college basketball world after his junior year of high school because he spent a lot Before any Duke student had heard of of time adjusting to life in America and Martynas Pocius, the Blue Devil recruiting played alongside several other Division-I class was already considered one of the prospects, Jamie Gallagher, Pocius’ high best in the country, and as a result, little school coach, said. fanfare was given to Pocius’ commitment Ironically, Pocius made a name for himlast October. self when he traveled back to Europe to Now that he has arrived, however, peoplay in international competitions the sumple are beginning to notice the young mer prior to his senior year.

Lithuanian who teammates call “Marty.”

“I went home for a couple months and “Marty has the chance to be outstand- had the European Championships,” Pocius said. “I did well there, and after that I had ing,” Duke assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “He has a terrific attiNBA Camp in Italy, and I did pretty well tude. He just needs to keep getting better there, too.” every day.”

By the time Pocius returned for his final Pocius seems to fit the Duke mold peryear of high school, he had already begun fectly. At 6-foot-4, the athletic freshman to receive national attention. Coaches said he loves to run the floor, float around from Kansas and Arizona, two traditional the perimeter and play above the rim. national powerhouses, were heavily pursuBut perhaps most fitting, in a program ing the Lithuanian. famous for its floor slapping, players and But Blue Devils head coach Mike coaches praise Pocius for his enthusiasm.

Krzyzewski and his assistants had not yet “He’s always going so fast,” senior Lee contacted Pocius.

Melchionni said. “I’m sure he’s going to be So when Gallagher asked him what his dream school would be, Pocius halfjokinggreat by the time he’s done.”

A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, Pocius ly mentioned Duke.

“I said to Marty, ‘Where do you want to (pronounced POTE-suess) came to America before his junior year of high school for go?” Gallagher said. “And he said, ‘Well, the chance to play basketball in the United do you think I could play at Duke?’ I States. When he enrolled at the Holdercalled Wojo the next day. He called back ness School in New Hampshire, he already 20 minutes later and said they’d like to spoke English, but was naive about Ameriget involved.” can culture.

Although Pocius was unfamiliar with Nevertheless, he knew that he wanted to many of the NCAA’s major basketball go to a major American college to continprograms, he had seen the Blue Devils on ue his playing career.

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The coaches lay down the ground rules for their players from the start.

No hats on during team meals.

No hats on indoors. Cell phones must be turned off in the locker room. Look the coaches in the eyes. Be honest. Stay cleanshaven. When you work out, in the off-season or with some of your teammates, you wear Duke apparel. Always go to class, and don’t even think about cheating.

For the rookies, leave your cars at home this year.

And most importandy, don’t get caught in Chapel Hill.

“It’s kind oflike what the NBA is trying to do right now with the dress code,” freshman Jamal Boykin said. “But we’re college students and we’re representing not only ourselves but Duke University. So, it’s part of the job.”

The rules, however, are not posted on the locker room wall or handed out on a piece of paper.

They’re part of the culture of the team, and the players are reminded time and time again.

Whether in the classroom or in the locker room, Duke’s men’s basketball players have to abide by the program’s rules. Although he doesn’t think of himself aS much of a “rule guy,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski knows that his team understands his expectations. And those who don’t get it learn from those who do.

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“Upperclassmen take care of that,” he said. “Somehow, I never have to make rules about it.”

But many of his players know that the rules come from him and the rest of the coaching staff.

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Upperclassmen, then, are charged with helping the new players out with rides to class or to eat

off campus —all of the little things that build team chemistry—senior Shelden Williams said.

“I’m like Josh’s taxi driver,” Redick said jokingly of his freshman teammate Josh Mcßoberts.

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“They call it clean-shaven,” Boykin said. “Coach Dawkins is the one that really talks about that the most. It’s being professional.”

As for academics, the players have a team of advisors who keep an eye on them in the classroom and encourage them to be professional student-athletes. The two cardinal rules for the team are not to miss class and not to cheat.

“We have a rule that if a player misses class, you run five at five in the morning,” Boykin said. “Five miles at five o’clock in the morning.”

The most important rule for Krzyzewski, however, is honesty, Boykin said.

“He kind of repeats it a lot,” he said. “It’s not something that I’ve just heard once, and I’m remembering the one time he said it, it’s repeated. It’s like a tattoo.”

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Last season, the Blue Devils were hampered by a lack of depth.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski took care of that problem in a big way during the offseason, hauling in five players to compose the nation’s secondbest recruiting anaivck ;o scoui

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“Initially, they add spirit, enthusiasm and hard work,” Krzyzewski said. “When they are doing that, they will pick up the other things.

You’re not going to learn it all at

one time. When you have conscientious kids, they tend to stop at a point where they’re not doing one of the things well, and they forget about all of the things that they do well. That is one of the keys for us is to remind them of what they are doing well.”

Forward Josh Mcßoberts, one of the top-two freshmen in the country on most recruiting rankings, is the gem of Krzyzewski’s class, and appears to be the only freshman that will start to begin the season.

The 6-foot-10 Mcßoberts is a very effective shotblocker, rebounder and passes extremely well for his size.

He is also remarkably athletic, as evidenced by his second-place showing at the McDonald’s All-American Dunk Contest last year. Mcßoberts is more than capable of replacing the departed Shavlik Randolph as the team’s power forward.

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In 2004, Connecticut became the first school in NCAA history to win the men’s and women’s basketball titles in the same season. With its men’s and — women’s teams both ran ked Pre_ look 3 season No. 1, D3CK Duke is primed to make a run at becoming the second team to do so this year.

Blue Devil fans remember UConn’s run in 2004 all too well. Under the leadership of junior standouts Ben Gordon and Emeka Okafor, the men’s team snuck by Duke in the Final Four and beat Georgia Tech in the championship game two days later.

The Diana Taurasi-led women’s team took home its tide the next night with a win over Tennessee. The Huskies knocked off Minnesota, which had beaten the Duke women in the Elite Eight, in the national semifinals.

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Six-foot-10 freshman Eric Boateng provides Duke with a backup post player, who can relieveShelden Williams or Josh Mcßoberts. rorized both his high school football and basketball teams with his precision passing and sharp vision.

Paulus’ questionable defense will keep him out of the starting lineup at the beginning of the season, but his passing ability is too good to leave on the bench. He will likely receive substantial playing time as the top backup to starting point guard Sean Dockery, and may challenge him for his spot.

Of the other freshmen, power forward Jamal Boykin is most likely to contribute immediately. The 6-foot-7 Boykin is a fiery player who rebounds well for his size. His offensive skill set remains somewhat limited, but his work on the glass, defensive ability and energy could earn him the lastbench spot

in Duke’s eight-man rotation.

The remaining two freshmen, Eric Boateng and Martynas Pocius, both possess tremendous potential.

The 6-foot-10 Boateng is a long and athletic center with many of the physical attributes needed to become an AU-ACC center someday.

Pocius, a shooting guard, has athleticism to spare and an accurate longrange shot Both, however, will need to refine their games somewhat before their abilities can be realized.

“I expect all of our freshmen to help us in some way,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s now just a matter of seeing how they do in practice. One of the best things about having a little bit more depth is that we actually can have a practice where two teams are going after one another.”

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It’s been two long years for the Waner sisters, but the duo will finally be reunited on the basketball court this season as Blue Devils.

Emily Waner and her two-year younger sister Abby began playing basketball together 12 years ago on a team their father Tim coached. And since then the two have formed a bond on the court that could only be described as extraordinary.

“They knew each other so well, it’s like each knew what the other was going to do before they did it,” said Ron Burgin, their Thunderßidge high school coach. “One time in particular we were playing Highlands Ranch [one of the school’s main rivals]. Emily was driving and made a cross court pass to Abby. I swear she never looked. It was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen, and it won the game.”

This season, both Emily and Abby will make their debut as Duke guards.

Emily, a junior academically but a sophomore athletically, transferred from the University of Colorado at the start of the 2004-2005 academic year, but NCAA rules forced her to sit out last season.

At the same time Emily decided to transfer, Abby, the 2005 high school National Player of the Year, was going through her own recruiting process. Missing' the rapport they shared on and off the court, the sisters, who talked every day while

Emily was away at school, decided they would attend the same university.

Both sisters stressed that during their search, the schools had to be willing to offer each a scholarship individually, regardless of the other’s recruitment.

“We’ve always wanted to play together,” Emily said. “I realized that I wasn’t happy, and that we would look at schools together.

I knew it would be worth it.”

The girls’ games complement each other well on the court, Burgin said.

Emily’s outstanding shooting balances Abby’s knack for slashing and scoring. And Abby’s fiery intensity is counteracted by Emily’s ability to control her emotions and calm her teammates. At 5-foot-10, Abby is two inches taller than her sister, which also enables her to defend bigger players.

“Having two kids that good on one team is pretty darn good,” Burgin.

In addition to their basketball skills, the pair’s biggest contribution to the Blue Devils so far this preseason has been the intensity they bring to the team.

“They are very competitive,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “When those two go at it, you don’t want to get in the middle. They are probably harder on one another than they are on anybody else on the team. I think they make one another better.”

They have always acted this way.

The sisters often played one-on-one games at their local recreational center in Highlands Ranch, Colo., which Abby said they never finished.

Like many sibling competitions, the games would deteriorate into arguments over fouls or travelling calls.

In one particular game shordy after Emily turned 16, Abby thought she had

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Fed up with Abby, Emily drove home— without her sister.

“She told me I could either call home or walk home,” Abby said.

To this day, the two disagree on how long the walk home really was. While Emily estimated the trip to be 10 minutes long, Abby remembers it taking her clos-

er to 20 minutes.

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What a difference a year can make Last November, Duke was forced to start its season without a true point guard to run its offense. This season, with a pair of top-notch lead guards to bring the ball up the court, the Blue Devils are ready to rely on their two floor generals to make a run for the national tide.

On Nov. 3, 2004 the Blue Devils susTIAN, QINZHENG/THE CHRONICLE notebook P ended Lindsey Harding, then a co-captain and starting point guard, for violat- Returning from her season-long suspension, juniorLindsey Harding is eager to get back on the court to help the Blue Devils thisyear. ing team rules. The suspension left Duke with just six returning letter winners, and transfer Emily Waner, who had to sit out the entire season as per NCAA rules. This year, however, both Harding and Waner are ready to contribute to the preseason No. 1 Blue Devils.

Although not allowed to play in any games, Harding practiced with the team all last season. Instead of complaining about her situation, the Houston native worked even harder to her improve her game.

“Lindsey has grown so much over the last year both on and off the court,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Sitting out last year was difficultfor her but I think it helped her.”

Without Harding, many players took turns bringing the ball up the court, including Jessica Foley, Monique Currie and Wanisha Smith. Foley and Smith are natural shooting guards, while Currie, the reigning ACC Player of the Year, primarily plays forward.

“It’s so much nicer to have Jess go to the wing for her shot rather than having to bring the ball up against the whole press,” center Alison Bales said. “I think it’ll help with everyone’s strengths, just having someone who’s that good at bringing the ball up.”

With a true point guard in the backcourt this season, Currie, Foley and Smith will take more specialized roles in the offense. Foley and Smith, however, have missed time this preseason with various injuries and neither will start the season at full strength. The team’s new depth at all guard positions will allow the Blue Devils to play at a high level even without a fully healthy squad.

Waner, a former Miss Basketball of Colorado, transferred from Colorado after her freshman season. Waner said the time off actually helped her prepare for the high level of play in the ACC. “I think I got a good feel and understanding of the ACC and the way Duke plays—the up-tempo and excellent athleticism,” Waner said. “I worked a lot on getting quicker. I think playing against Duke every day in practice—that is the best competition I can have.”

Having two starting-caliber point guards could be a distraction to a team expected to challenge for the national title. However, Goestenkors said the team does not think that they have too much of a good thing.

“Emily and Lindsey play very well together,” she said.

“Emily is an incredible three-point shooter. When she shoots it, I think all of us expect it to go in. Lindsey is such a great push guard, she finds people in the court for the open three.”

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Although several players recounted unnerving experiences when they first met Currie, once they got to know her better each described her as competitive but more importantly as a great teammate.

As Currie has grown older, she has become more outgoing with her teammates.

“I’m a lot closer with the team this year than I have been in the past,” she said. “Especially with the freshmen, I think I used to

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Senior Monique Currie passed on the WNBA to come back and help theBlue Devils try to win theirfirst National Championship.

distance myself a little bit, I mean not altogether, but I’ve really made an extra effort to get to know everyone on the team this year.”

Currie is not afraid to joke about her demeanor with her teammates either. During the team’s annual media day Oct. 23, she was sitting behind freshman Brittany Mitch. Currie reached over with one hand, shook the freshman and asked, “I’m not in-

timidating, right?”

Mitch’s response; “Not at all.”

But the aggressive attitude she carries with her is magnified once she steps on the court. Since her collegiate debut in 2001-2002, opponents nationwide have gotten to know her, and she has certainly lived up to her reputation. In her freshman year, she was named the ACC Tournament MVP as well as second-team All-ACC. While opponents have since become accustomed to Currie’s style of play, they have not slowed her down.

“I think it’s definitely my demeanor on the court,” Currie said.

“I try to bring it as a part of my game. It Just helps me to be more focused on the court and more aggressive.... I bring a fire, and I’m intense in everything I do. Just the desire to win, I don’t know, it rubs off on people sometimes.”

Freshman Abby Waner witnessed that passion firsthand during preseason practices. One of the first times she attempted to guard Currie during a scrimmage, the senior scored seven straight points—all with Waner feebly trying to defend the six-foot forward.

When Goestenkors was recruiting Currie, the future Blue Devil ran off a long string of points, prompting the then-high schooler to yell, “Guard me!” at her defender. The coach knew then that Currie was a special player.

“There’s a mental and physical

toughness about her and I think it rubs off on all of~her teammates,” Goestenkors said. “Even as a high school player, you could see that within her.”

Currie returned to Duke for a fifth year rather than opting for the WNBA draft because she wanted to try one last time for a National Championship. Currie, who sat out the 2002-2003 season with a medical redshirt, is currendy working on her graduate degree in humanities.

The preseason ACC Player of the Year believes that the Blue Devils have all the pieces necessary to win the school’s first NCAA tide in women’s basketball.

Currie said building stronger relationships with the team and coaches and growing as a player and person are what lead her to believe her decision to remain at Duke was the right one—even if the Blue Devils fall short of their national title hopes.

“Everything has to fall in place perfectly for you to win a National Championship,” Currie said. “I won’t say that if we don’t win a National Championship it’s a waste of my time, or a waste of this team’s effort.”

As only the third Blue Devil ever to register over 1,500 points, 650 rebounds and 300 assists in a career, the team is certainly happy to have her back.

“I’ve always loved Mo’s attitude on the court,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “She’s going to do whatever it takes to win. She’s a warrior. She’s one of those players that when you are in a battle, you want her on your team because you know she’s going to do what’s necessary to win.”

Currie is certainly not going to argue.

“I love to win,” she said. “I hate to lose. I carry that over in everything I do.”

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Last year’s defending ACC maybe its the attitude she brings Player of the Year, Currie takes to the court.

But there’s no doubt among her teammates’ swipes in stride, Monique Currie’s teammates of but knows that her fearsome deone thing—she’s intimidating. meanor is just part ofher game.

“I’m not the type of player to “I wouldn’t say I’m the most always be intimidated by someoutgoing person there is,” Currie one,” junior Lindsey Harding said. “So, I keep to myself a lot. said. “But if I was intimidated by So, it could come across as being somebody, it would probably by intimidating.” by

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Defensive specialist looks by

Meredith Shiner THE CHRONICLE

As a sophomore, Alison Bales was the

cornerstone of Duke’s defense. At 6-foot-7,

she nearly doubled the school’s single-season record in blocks with 134.

The center was named to the All-ACC Defensive Team and ranked sixth in the nation in blocks per game.

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percent of her shots—the second-lowest percentage among the Blue Devils’ frontcourt.

Her emergence as a threat on the offensive end of the floor is the next step in elevating her game.

“We feel like she turned the comer last year on the defensive end and became really a dominant post player defensively,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Now we need for her to have that same type of turnaround on the offensive end.”

Toward the end of last season, Goestenkors said her center had shown improvement with the ball in her hands, but that she still needed to become more aggressive on offense.

The junior agreed, devoting her entire summer in Durham to honing her offensive skills and improving her conditioning.

“I was here for most of the summer, mostly running and lifting with the team,” Bales said. “I worked on offense, offensive aggressiveness, post moves and just regular shooting.”

The coaching staff worked with Bales on adding more effective moves around the basket including right- and left-handed baby hooks, Goestenkors said.

“Everybody has a favorite move and a comfort move, and we’re trying to get her to expand her game a little bit more,” the coach said. “She can accomplish really whatever she wants to. She’s just got to be

JuniorAlison Bales spent the summer in Durham working to improve heroffensive game.

In addition to training with the team this summer, Bales played pick-up games at Wilson Gymnasium and tried out for the USA World University Games team in Colorado Springs, Colo.

While she spent significant time work-

ing on mechanics in the post, she also made conditioning a priority.

Bales said her right knee, which forced her to miss games early in her Duke career, did not inhibit her from working out during the offseason.

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aggressive.”

“It only took me twice to make my mile time this year, instead of running it the whole preseason like I did last year,” Bales said half jokingly.

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In a game during her senior year of high school, Carrem Gay found herself all

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Athleticfreshman Carrem Gay, a 6-foot-2 forward from New York City, is one of Duke's four freshmen.

alone, on a fast break, with a chance to do something very few women’s high school basketball players have ever done before.

Then Gay performed the incredible; she threw down a slam dunk. The crowd went crazy.

If the freshman has her way, the Cameron Crazies might have to prepare to witness their first women’s basketball dunk.

But the 6-foot-2 Gay gives the Blue Devils more than just an athletic leaper. She runs the fast break, posts up and shoots from the outside. And, most importantly, Gay’s addition gives last year’s Elite Eight team another proven winner.

As a senior at Christ the King High School in New York City, she led the team to a 27-0 record, a state championship and a No. 1 final national ranking.

“My high school team was successful. I understand what it takes to be at the top,” Gay said.

For Gay, transferring that success from high school means working even harder at her strengths. The freshman said she wants to dominate any way that she can—whether that is racking up assists, rebounds or points.

Though Gay will be coming off the bench this year, head coach Gail Goestenkors knows she will benefit the team. Gay will fit in well with the team’s running and pressing style of play, the coach said.

“Carrem can run the floor like a deer and has excellent post moves, good patience inside,” Goestenkors said.

Gay said she accepts her role as a substitute, adding that she would be willing to do whatever would most help the team. Com-

ing off the bench has not been the only aspect of playing for Duke she has had to handle—the transition from the high school to college game has not been seamless.

“Adjusting to the style of play has not been that easy,” Gay said. “It’s a lot more aggressive and I have to learn how to batde differently.”

Part of that battle for Gay is realizing that she has to work hard on each play. The freshman said her talent and athleticism allowed her to get away with slacking off every once in a while in high school, but she said those days are over.

The Blue Devils will count on an energized Gay to provide hustle while she’s on the court and think the power forward’s size and versatility will be hard for opposing defenses to match. Smaller defenders will be hard-pressed to match up in the post, and taller, larger centers will have difficulty with Gay’s speed.

In practice, Goestenkors has seen Gay more than hold her own with 6-foot-7 center Alison Bales.

“She’s been able to score over Ali now, which is really good for her and good for Ali to have to defend that kind of player,” Goestenkors said.

Gay displayed the very versatility that is tough for Bales to handle in practice in her final high school season. She averaged 18.1 points, 12.4 rebounds, 5.3 blocks, and 4.7 assists and was named New York’s Miss Basketball and a McDonald’s All-American.

But statistics and awards are only part of what Gay takes away from her 27-0 season.

“I learned from that season that it’s not really about talent, it’s about chemistry on and off the court,” Gay said. “That really defines a team.”

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Doubters, critics beware: Here comes The Train Attention haters, skeptics, Carolina fans, Maryland fans, Texas fans, Villanova fans, Connecticut fans, Michigan State fans and any other misguided soul who is not absolutely certain Duke will win the NCAA Championship this year.

Repeat after me: Duke is the best team in the country.

Everyone else is just playing for second place.

Keep saying it until you believe it, ■He because The Train has one simple rule.

TOM MENDEL/THE CHRONICLE Thou Shalt Not Be a Hater. Ever.

Unless Duke loses.

Senior Lee Melchionni, who averaged 7.7 points per game in 2005, is known for his intensity and is a favorite among Cameron Crazies.

(And Thou Shalt Not Wear Span*eX dex to Tailgate, but that’s a given.)

Break the rules if you want, but Lee Oil “The Human Emotional Highlight Reel” Melchionni is The Train’s official enforcer, and he says * he may have a new flexing pose this year.

Alex, are you kidding? Another “Duke mil win the National Championship column? Can’t you think of anything else to write?

O O JL Hey baby, The Train’s not stopping until Duke wins the championship, so why should I? Besides, there are too many skeptics out there.

Open The Train’s Official Mailbag and check this out: “While we certainly have the most talented and wellcoached team in the nation, I’ve learned in my years as a hoops fan that nothing is a ‘foregone conclusion.’”

Nothing, except Duke winning the 2006 NCAA tide.

People like Gregory “An Analyst, Not a Hater” Beaton are going to use reasoned argument to try to convince you Duke’s tide case isn’t so certain. Doubters like Jason “Isn’t PessimismFun?” Strasser are going to sayDuke has “weaknesses.”

Weaknesses, Shmeaknesses.

Here’s a weakness; Connecticut guards Marcus Williams’ and AJ. Price’s propensity to steal laptops from fellow students.

Here’s another: Villanova forward Curtis Sumpter’s knee.

Want a third? Texas head coach Rick Barnes’ inability t to win the big game. He’s won one big game in his cam reer —to reach the Final Four in 2003—and he needed TJ. Ford and a virtual home game in San Antonio to do it. & Here’s the point. Every team in college basketball has DODGE DURANGO weaknesses and deficiencies, Duke just has fewer. w Yeah, if JJ. Redick goes cold from the outside Duke won’t score as many points, and it may be harder for the team to win. Duh. But if PJ. Tucker forgets to do his homework (again), Texas is sure going to miss his toughness. And if Paul Davis continues to be the worst rebounding 6-foot-11, 270pounder of all time, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo just may DODGE GRAND CARAVAN rip his own head off. And then \yhere would the Spartans be?

Coach K has made every effort to ensure that Redick won’t have those puzzling games when he never really gets going by allowing Redick a ton of offensive freedom.

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Um, let’s just move on. toward any new at Another proposed condition for Duke’s winning the n title—brought to you by “An Analyst, Not a Hater” BeatDODGE STRATUS JEEP WRANGLE 1% Morgan Dodge-Jeep. on—is that role players like “The Human Emotional Highlight Reel” Melchionni and DeMarcus Nelson must effecfactory PLUS tively complement Duke’s superstars.

A condition? Sure things don’t have conditions. any rebates and incentives Krzyzewski has 10 players ready to contribute this season, which means his game-planning potential is about as purchase. at JEEP LIBERTY flexible as Nadia Comaneci. Duke’s going to run and press, which is going to make everyone look better. visit our 24/7 at Nelson is thrilled because he should get tons of easy baskets in transitions, and Melchionni should be, too; defenses scrambling to get back will leave him alone for long-range shots. “The Human Emotional Highlight Reel” does not miss open shots. mssm So do Duke’s hopes depend on the team’s role players?

Duh. Is The Train worried they can’t perform? No. The runnin’ Blue Devils are fast and athletic enough to score 100points per game. And even if Redick, Nelson and Melchionni all go Ricky Williams and decide to spend the season touring with Lenny Kravitz instead of playing basketball, Duke has enough lock-down defenders to win ugly like they did last year.

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Last year was a banner year for the ACC by all accounts, as the conference led the nation by sending a league-record seven teams to the NCAA

onship,” Hatchell said. “It used to be that you felt like the Final Four was going to be these few teams and the national champion would be one of three or four teams, but not anymore.”

North Carolina and Maryland are expected to challenge Duke at the top of the ACC. The Tar Heels were the only conference team to defeat the Blue Devils last season and did so three times, including a 88-67 drubbing in the finals of the ACC Tournament. Point guard Latta and three other re-

Tournament. This year, however, could be the best ever for the now 12-team ACC, which welcomes a Boston College team that spent all of last year in the AP Top 25.

The conference lost little star power, as an astounding 13 of 15 All-ACC performers from last season return, including the top four candidates SEE WOMEN’S ACC ON PAGE 37 for Player of the Year—Duke’s Monique Currie, Miami’s Tamara James, North Carolina’s Ivory Latta and Maryland’s Shay Doron.

The returning standouts will be further complemented by an influx of new talent. In addition to five McDonald’s High School All-Americans entering the conference as freshmen this season—tied for the most of any conference—the ACC also sees the return of Duke junior Lindsay Harding, who was mentioned as a potential All-American last year before her season-long suspension.

“It’s the best our league has ever been,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Last year was the best the league had ever been, so we continue to grow and improve and the addition of Boston College makes us even better. I think most teams are better than they were a year ago.”

The large number of second-tier ACC teams could result in a logjam in the middle of the ACC standings but could also result in even more NCAA Tournament bids for the conference. North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell said she thinks the parity of the ACC reflects a larger trend in the sport as WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE more talent pours in to the college ranks. look at the 20 teams the North Carolina Latta was fifth “If you in in the ACC last seaguardIvory top country, I think any of those could win the national champi- son in both points and assists.

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Depleted conference expects to surprise nation with parity Gregory Beaton The Chronicle The ACC may have been the big winner at the June 28 NBA draft, but its teams were the big losers.

Nine ACC players were drafted, including three in the first five. Defending champion North Carolina was most notably pillaged, losing its three junior stars and its freshman stud Marvin Williams, who was chosen second overall.

The familiar faces of the ACC’s past few years are now gone. North Carolina’s Raymond Felton, Rashad McCants and Sean slay will no longer be leading what was the nation’s most prolific offense.

Wake Forest’s Chris Paul will no longer be tearing apart opposing defenses and his nemesis, Julius Hodge, will no longer be leading N.C. State’s balanced attack.

And the losses don’t stop there. Georgia Tech point guard Jarrett Jack and Maryland point guard John Gilchrist departed after their junior seasons.

Florida State’s playmaking guard Von Wafer left after his sophomore year. Familiar faces such as Duke’s Daniel Ewing, UNO’s Jawad Williams and Georgia Tech’s Luke Schenscher. are gone too.

‘You can’t replace that experience,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said. “For our situation we lost so much it’s unbelievable.”

Reflecting the departures, the Tar Heels are unranked to start the season. The ACC begins the season with only four teams in the top 25, as compared to six last year. Wake Forest, North Carolina and Georgia Tech began last season in the top-five. This year the No. 1 Blue Devils are the only ACC representatives in the top 10.

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October don’t play out in March,” Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser said. “I think there will be some teams that surprise us. This time last year people were bemoaning Miami and Virginia Tech—‘How could they succeed in the league?’ And they both did very, very well. It’s early.”

Helping to absorb some of the damage inflicted by the NBA departures is an influx of talented freshmen. North Carolina may be without its topseven scorers from last season, but heralded forward recruit Tyler Hansbrough was picked as ACC Rookie of the Year.

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The question for head coach Gail Goestenkors, is if her Duke team can finally break through and win a National Championship. In her tenure, the Blue Devils have reached three Final Fours and one national championship game. But Goestenkors has never won it all.

“We have more depth and more talent than we’ve ever had so it’s a really good feeling,” Goestenkors said. “Fortunately, we have players here that have one goal in mind, and that’s to win championships. They understand that everybody’s going to have to sacrifice in order for us to obtain that goal.”

When Duke fell to LSU in the Elite Eight last March, in -a *1 year when expectations were not quite as high, Goestenkors | cited fatigue as a major factor in the defeat. The Blue Devils had been playing all season with only eight players, and two of them—Monique Currie and Jessica Foley —were playing at far less than 100 percent coming down the stretch.

This season figures to be vastly different for Duke. The topseven scorers are back after Currie decided to forgo a chance to | be one of the top picks in the WNBA draft. Add to that a toptwo recruiting class, point guard Lindsey Harding back from a year-long suspension and newly-eligible transfer Emily Waner and the Blue Devils are now 13 players deep.

“I’m really tired of having only eight players at the end of the season,” Goestenkors said.

But a deeper roster provides this year’s Duke team with a new set of potential problems. The Blue Devils, who have succeeded in the past in part because of well-defined roles and team chemistry, will have to handle playing-time dilemmas and more intra-team competidon.

“I assume everyone’s minutes will go down from last year, so we need to be more productive with the minutes,” Goestenkors said. “We’re going to run and press more than we ever have to help utilize our depth. The more you run and the more you press, the more bodies you can use.”

An influx of contributors at the point guard position will be the backbone of Duke’s high-tempo style of play. Abby Waner, who was last year’s McDonald’s and Gatorade National Player of the Year, will compete for playing time with Harding, who started at the point for most of the two seasons prior to her suspension.

Waiter’s older, but less heralded, sister, Emily, sat out last season after transferring from Colorado and also figures into the backcourt mix.

“I thought last year, Jess Foley, Monique Currie and Wanisha Smith all stepped up big for us in that point guard role because none of them had ever really had to play it before,” junior center Alison Bales said. “I think it’ll help with everyone’s strengths, just having someone who’s that good at | bringing the ball up.”

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“We know we have a good team this year but we take it da’ by day,” senior co-captain Sean Dockery said. “We are a lean that knows we aren’t the team that we want to be right now Every day we are just trying to get better.”

Though No. 1 Duke features four seniors with extensive play ing experience, this season’s Blue Devil team will look very different from last year’s version and implementing those changes will take some work, several players have said.

Limited by a short bench and a number of injuries last season, the Blue Devils eventually fell victim to fatigue and foul trouble in their Sweet 16 loss to Michigan State March 25.

Guard J.J. Redick, forward Shelden Williams and departed-senior Daniel Ewing were all among the ACC’s top seven in minutes played per game.

To remedy the problem, head coach Mike Krzyzewski brought in a quintet of freshmen he expects to provide productive minutes immediately.

With the freshmen joining the fold, Duke’s game plan will be different than it was a year ago. The sheer number of bodies, allows Duke to play its patented pressure defense for all 40 minutes.

“We will pressure teams more,” Redick said. “We didn’t create a lot of turnovers last year and get out in passing lanes because we didn’t have a lot of people and couldn’t get in foul trouble. We played more of a passive defense and just packed it in. This year we are going to look to create more turnovers.”

The team expects those turnovers to spark an up-tempo, fastbreaking offense, a pace that suits the athletic Blue Devils. Poini guards Sean Dockery and Greg Paulus are fast players who car push the ball up the court quickly, and the team has plenty ol players who can finish on the break.

Add Redick and forward Lee Melchionni’s three-point shoot ing when opposing teams slow the first wave of the break and it easy to see how Duke’s fast break could be extremely successful.

“With us playing at a faster pace it will give us a lot ofchance to run in transition which is one of my strong points,” guard Dt Marcus Nelson said. “The way our team is set up this year, it is r« ally exciting for me because it will allow me to showcase everythini I can do and contribute to the team. It will also allow a lot of pla} ers to do the same. On our team we have so many different talem ed weapons that this style of play will benefit everyone.”

Even when opponents manage to stop the Blue Devil breal the team’s offense will be less rigidly structured. Duke’s four contributing seniors—Redick, Williams, Dockery and Melchionni—have three years of experience running Krzyzewski’s offense, allowing the coach to give them more freedom than he has given them in years past.

Redick, in particular, has started all but five contests in his 103-game Duke career. As a result of this experience, he has been granted the freedom to change plays on the fly, leading him to describe himself as the “Peyton Manning” of Duke’s of fense, after the Indianapolis Colts’ quarterback who enjoys similar privileges.

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After leaving the Big East, Boston College is hardly coming into the ACC under the radar.

The Eagles return four starters from a squad that went 255 last season and climbed as high as No. 3 in the polls.

“We’re coming into this league with some respectability, and I think that’s important,” head coach A1 Skinner said.

“When Boston College shows up it won’t be, ‘Boston College who?,’ and I think my players are excited about that. They’re obviously excited about the challenge.”

Despite being the new kids on the block, the Eagles are expected to make some noise in their first season in the league. Chosen second in the ACC’s preseason poll, Boston College boasts something that few ACC teams enjoy this season—experience.

The Eagles are led by senior power forward Craig Smith and junior wing Jared Dudley, both 2004 All-Big East firstteam selections. Junior wing Sean Marshall and senior guard Louis Hinnant round out a core group of returning starters.

The four helped earn the Eagles a No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament before Skinner’s squad was bounced in the second round by Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

“We’re coming into a new venue and the more experience you have the more it’s going to help you,” Skinner said.

“We’re happy that we’re able to come in with this type of experience, and that’s really going to be important for us if we’re going to have any chance to be successful.”

Boston College will encounter a number of challenges in its transition from the Big East to the ACC, however. The Eagles will have to adapt to their new league’s style of play, which is more run-and-gun than the Big East.

“The Big East is more physical, more bumping and grinding,” Dudley said. “I’d say the ACC is more up and down, hoisting threes.”

Despite these expectations, Smith said the Eagles will continue to play to their strengths, regardless of what other teams throw at them.

“As far as being a physical team we’re going to keep at it, it got us W’s,” Smith said. “Wear and tear on people, beat ‘em down, we’re going to keep going with it.... Blue collar guys, the hard workers, that’s what we are.”

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Even with these challenges, Skinner said he expects his team to adapt smoothly to its new conference.

“I like to think that we’re going to be OK,” Skinner said.

“We’ve had our share of success on the road, and I like to think thatwe’ll be able to go in and kind ofhold on.”

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Wake Forest suffered two of the worst losses of the college basketball year March 19. The Demon Deacons lost a thrilling double-overtime game in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to West Virginia, and they lost star point guard Chris Paul to the NBA Draft.

This season, Wake Forest, which finished 27-6 and in second place in the ACC, will be forced to cope with the loss of their All-American floor leader.

‘You don’t really replace a Chris Paul, you substitute for him,” head coach Skip Prosser said.

Playing the part of Paul this year will be senior captain Justin Gray. A year ago, Gray was the Demon Deacons’ second-leading scorer with 16 points per game. He played mainly shooting guard as a junior, connecting on 40 percent ofhis three-point attempts.

But this season, in the absence of a true point guard, the senior will need to be the proverbial coach on the floor.

“In college basketball, the point guard is key,” Gray said. “He can win some games for you and he can lose some games for you.”

Gray, who started 31 of the team’s 33 games last season, will also be responsible for filling the void left by guard Taron Downey, who graduated after last season. Combined with Paul, the duo accounted for nearly 30 percent of Wake Forest’s scoring.

Downey also served as the team’s backup point guard and played in three-guard sets with Gray and Paul. This year, Gray will be almost entirely alone in the backcourt he is the only true guard on the roster who has a minute of collegiate experience.

“Justin was a guy who finished plays—a scorer,” Prosser said. “Now he has to be the alter ego of the coach.... He’s a very bright guy, he has a high IQ for the game, he recognizes situations.”

Other than Gray, Wake Forest’s strength will come in the paint, mainly in the form of Eric Williams. The senior—who entered and subsequendy withdrew from the NBA draft—was the team’s leading scorer in 2005. He shot an astonishing 63 percent from the field and pulled down a team-best 7.7 rebounds per game.

“Much of what we try to do on offense begins with Eric,” Prosser said. “I think it’s pretty difficult for one player to guard him. He has serious heft to him. You have to pack a lunch to get around him.”

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It was definitely not supposed to be this way for John Gilchrist. As a sophomore two years ago, the point guard dominated an ACC Tournament which the Terrapins eventually won.

But last season, Gilchrist and Maryland struggled, missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time in more than a decade. The Terrapins’ only consistency was their inconsistency, as they swept two games against Duke, but lost all three of their contests against lowly Clemson.

The star point guard was similarly enigmatic, shining at times but often drawing criticism for his selfishness and offcourt attitude. He left school early for the NBA, but went undrafted.

Now, faced with the loss of their most talented player, the Terrapins hope for addition by subtraction.

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the exception of Gilchrist. But with DJ. Strawberry coming back from a torn anterior cruciate ligament that put an early end to his sophomore season and the emergence of senior Sterling Ledbetter, the Maryland point guard position should be in good hands.

Ledbetter, a senior, finished the season as the Terrapins’ point guard after Gilchrist was injured. Despite not having started a game all season prior to the NIT, Ledbetter led Maryland to a 3-1 record in the postseason tournament and averaged 6.0 points and 5.0 assists per game in that stretch.

“Sterling had an opportunity at the end of last year to start the NIT games and averaged 30 minutes per game,” Williams said. “He is in great position to be the starting point guard, but he has to earn it. Part of being a good point guard is to be a leader, and you have to be respected by your teammates in terms of helping the team win. We’re looking forward to Sterling doing a good job this year.”

Strawberry has played a mix of guard positions over his career, and regardless of his role on the Terrapins this year, the junior will add much-needed defensive support to a unit that finished tied for last in the ACC a year ago, allowing 76.0 points per game.

“He was our best perimeter defender as a freshman,” Williams said. “He makes us better defensively. We missed him for a lot of the intangibles, the loose balls, the deflections that we need to be a good team.”

If Ledbetter and Strawberry can handle the point efficiently, Maryland should be in good position to reach its goal of returning to the NCAAs. With 15 victories at home, the Terrapins put themselves in position to reach their 12th consecutive NCAA Tournament last season. The 2003 National Champions, however, missed the NCAAs after recording a 4-10 record away from the Comcast Center and losing to ninth-seeded Clemson in the ACC Tournament.

After losing in the NIT semifinals to South Carolina, the preseason No. 24 Terrapins have set their sights on a bid to the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

“Anytime that you have expectations and you don’t reach the goals, you’re going to sit back and set new goals,” senior Nik Caner-Medley said. “Sometimes you can use the goals you didn’t reach as extra motivation.”

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Ilian Evtimov came to N.C. State as part of a 2001 freshman class that earned berths in four straight NCAA Tournaments and vaulted the Wolfpack into one of the ACC’s perennial contenders. Evtimov, now a fifth-year senior, is the only remaining member of that class and will be counted on as one of the leaders for this year’s team.

Without the 2004 ACC Player of the Year and departedsenior Julius Hodge—their statistical and emotional leader—the Wolfpack’s solid core of experienced upperclassmen will use more of a team-style approach.

“I think when you lose a guy like [Hodge], for graduation or for injury, it has a ripple effect through your team,” head coach Herb Sendek said. “The new guys will have their first role, and our returning players will have roles that bend to the dynamics and the personality of this year’s team.”

For the first time since his freshman year, Evtimov enters the season completely healthy. Throughout his career, the Bulgarian has played the role of big man in the Wolfpack offense. But this year, he is twenty pounds lighter and ready to increase his production, especially on the perimeter—he is a career 39 percent three-point shooter.

The emergence of sophomores Andrew Brackman and Cedric Simmons as low-post threats will help facilitate Evtimov’s switch to the outside. The 6-foot-10 Brackman made key contributions down the stretch last season, including a clutch three-pointer that helped to defeat No. 2 seed Connecticut in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The versatile sophomore also became a defensive presence, leading the team with 40 blocked shots. “[Brackman] getting this big and Cedric Simmons getting to be one of the top two strongest guys on the team right now gives me an opportunity to lose weight and start playing more perimeter since those two guys can handle the paint,” Evtimov said.

In addition to Evtimov, N.C. State returns fifth-year senior Tony Bethel and junior Engin Atsur as backcourt starters. Bethel, like Evtimov, has struggled through a rash of injuries throughout his collegiate career. He will likely miss the beginning of the season while still recovering from the effects of a severe groin pull he suffered during last year’s ACC Tournament.

Unlike Bethel, Atsur has not had to struggle to stay on the court. Although only a junior, he has started 58 consecutive games and has developed into one of the ACC’s top defenders.

If N.C. State can avoid injuries, it will be one of the deepest and most experienced squads in a somewhat-depleted ACC. Along with the seniors, the Wolfpack expect contributions from their strong recruiting class, including McDonald’s All-American Brandon Costner.

“Every year our league seems to lose great players to graduation and the NBA,” Sendek said. “But there are always other guys who step in and write their own stories and I don’t expect this year to be any different.”

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A year after shocking its new conference with seven ACC wins, Miami is adjusting to its new role as a known threat.

“This year we’re not going to surprise anybody so we’re going to have to work a little harder to win some games, but now we know what it takes,” said senior guard Robert Hite who joins Guillermo Diaz in the league’s top-scoring backcourt.

The Hurricanes’ success last season, coupled with the move to the star-studded ACC, has increased the team’s profile on a traditionally football-dominated campus. Miami’s average attendance for ACC home games last season was nearly double that of Big East home games in 2004, and attendance is expected to further increase this season.

“The attitude about basketball has changed,” second-year head coach Frank Haith said. “I think before basketball was justsomething they did right after football, maybe. But now I think there is some anticipation and excitement about basketball season.”

Such excitement is not unwarranted as Miami returns an ACC-best 86.5 percent of its scoring and adds a recruiting class ranked No. 12 in the nation by scout.com. Haith said', however, that although an NCAA Tournament berth is an “attainable goal” this year, his team must not take it as a given. Despite their returning depth, the Hurricanes were only picked to finish seventh in the conference this season by the ACC media.

“If you assume we are going to get there because people lost some players and we have the bulk of our guys back—we can’t assume that that is going to happen,” Haith said. “You only get better or you get worse, you don’t stay the same. We have got to continue to get better.”

Among its four returning starters, Miami boasts two of the league’s top four scorers from last season in guards Hite and Diaz. The talented duo combined for nearly 36 points per game last year, and Diaz was voted to the Preseason All-ACC team.

Starting point guard Anthony Harris—who ranked fifth in the ACC in assists a year ago—complements the two scorers, contributing more than 12 points per game in 2005.

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in the ACC 1 think every coach will tell you to win big [games], you have to have good guards,” Haith said. “We are very fortunate, we are pretty good in that area.”

Last year, the Hurricanes’ explosive backcourt often compensated for a weak frontcourt—Miami’s top three post players combined for less than 20 points per contest. Junior center Anthony King, who ranked second in the ACC in blocks, provides an interior defensive 'presence but only scored in double figures five times last season. Haith said, however, the team’s increased comfort with his offensive system should increase the big men’s offensive production.

“Our frontcourt has gotten so much stronger and so much better, it’s really going to be a tough task for any team thathas to play us,” Hite said.

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North Carolina head coach Roy Williams finally got the monkey off his back last year by winning his first national championship in 17 seasons. But faced now with an unprecedented challenge, Williams’ job may just now be getting difficult.

Gone from the Tar Heels’ roster are lottery picks Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton and Sean May, the trio of juniors central to North Carolina’s championship run last season. Also departed is sensational freshman Marvin Williams who opted for NBA riches over a second season in Chapel Hill.

“We’ve never had anything like this,” Williams said. “I can never remember a time when we lost more than three starters in my entire coaching career, and if we did, we still had some guys coming back who could really play.”

Senior David Noel, who scored fewer than four points per game last season, is the Tar Heels’ leading returning scorer.

Nobody else on North Carolina’s roster averaged more than seven minutes a game last season, making this season’s Tar Heels’ squad one of the most inexperienced teams in NCAA history. No national championship team has ever lost its top seven scorers after the season.

“It’s funny because everyone I’ve talked to over the past couple of weeks has said, ‘Well, what do you expect?’ or ‘Are you going to be able to do this?’ and ‘Do you think this will happen?’”

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Despite a surprising 8-8 conference record and a No. 4 seed in the ACC Tournament in its first season in the league, Virginia Tech is not yet satisfied.

“We want to win 20 games and make the NCAA tournament,” junior forward Coleman Collins said.

This statement would have been bolder last year, when the Hokies were picked to finish 10th in the 11-team conference, but is not so farfetched this season.

Virginia Tech returns four starters from its 2004-2005 squad as well as Markus Sailes, who started every game in 2003-2004, but sat out most oflast season with an injury. The Hokies also return three others who have started in the past, making them among the most experienced teams in the ACC. “We’re in a very envious position,” head coach Seth Greenberg said. “We have three returners in the backcourt, including Sailes.”

Without Sailes, Virginia Tech formed one of the best backcourts in the ACC last season with Zabian Dowdell at point guard and Jamon Gordon at shooting guard.

“They’re winning players,” Greenberg said. “They are guys with a little chip. When you talk about the better guard duos in the league, or nationally, you never hear Zabian Dowdell and Jamon Gordon.”

Dowdell, a junior, was an honorable mention All-ACC pick a year ago. Gordon, also a junior, was selected to the ACC AllDefensive team after finishing second in the league in steals with 67.

Although guard play is certainly the Hokies’ strength entering this season, they must find away to replace the 13.8 points per game Carlos Dixon scored from the smallforward position.

Projected starter Wynton Witherspoon went down in preseason practice with a broken foot and could be out for two months.

Witherspoon’s injury, along with backup center Robert Krabbendam’s recent knee surgery, could make it more difficult for the frontcourt as they go up against some of the top forwards in the nation.

“We need to improve our defensive transition, and we need to rebound the ball better,” Greenberg said. ‘We were No. 1 in turnover margin [in the ACC], but last in rebounding.”

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Virginia Tech upset then-No. 7 Duke, 67-65, in Blacksburg, Va., Feb. 17 on its way to a fourth-place finish in the ACC last season. for Greenberg is that basketball matters again in Blacksburg.

Little success in the Big East led to small turnouts at Cassell Coliseum. Last season, however, the Hokies led the nation in attendance increase, and they plan on creating a similar atmosphere this season.

“I think this shows the tremendous support and passion the Hokie Nation has for their university,” Greenberg said.

“It’s obviously a reflection on the ACC and the excitement it has brought to our campus.”

With new enthusiasm for the program, Greenberg recognizes how important it is for his players to not get caught up in the hype.

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More than that, though, the season brought a renewed In his 17 years as a college head coach, Oliver Purnell has sense of excitement to Litdejohn Coliseum, as the Tigers deearned a reputation as a program builder. veloped a sense for the dramatic. Clemson beat in-state rival In his previous stops at Radford, Old Dominion and Day- and eventual NIT champion South Carolina by one on the ton, Purnell has resurrected programs, winning 20 games at road and conference-foe Virginia Tech on a steal and dunk at least once at each school and eight times overall. Purnell the buzzer at home.

The season was highlighted by Clemson’s dominance of also led Old Dominion and Dayton into the NCAA Tournament a total of three times. Now in his third season at the perennial ACC power Maryland, as the Tigers won all three helm of Clemson, Purnell is looking for similarresults. games against the Terrapins, including their first win in the “I can feel the excitement,” he said. “I think you see on ACC Tournament since 2001.

Purnell is looking to build on last season’s progress with a paper a bunch of teams bunched together, which is going to make for an exciting race. The key will be for one or a numteam that returns much of its young nucleus. Unfortunately, ber of those teams to emerge from that group to be in the top he does have the unenviable task ofreplacing graduated senechelon of the ACC. Obviously, we’re hoping that that’s us.” ior Sharrod Ford, who led the Tigers in scoring and reboundThe 2004-2005 season was a big step in the right direction ing on his way to earning third-teamAll-ACC honors last seafor Clemson. In just his second season, Purnell guided the son. To make up for the loss ofFord in the post, Clemson will Tigers to a 16-16 record—a six-game improvement from his look to increase the tempo.

“To give yourself the best chance to win, you tweak your style depending on your personnel, so we’re going to be more perimeter-oriented this year,” Purnell said. “We’re going to spread, and if we stay healthy, we’re going to nm more and press more.”

Senior shooting guard Shawan Robinson is the team’s leading returning scorer after averaging nearly 11 points per game last season. He is joined in the backcourt by junior point guard Vernon Hamilton and sophomore Cliff Hammonds. With newcomers Troy Mathis and K.C. Rivers also sharing time in the backcourt, the Tigers can run a three-guard set and shoot more three-pointers than they did a year ago.

“The reason we play a certain style is because of the type of players we have, to give them the best opportunity to be effective,” Purnell said. “But I think it still comes back to the by

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“We don’t have JJ. Redick or Shelden Williams or a firstteam All-American or that kind of thing,” Purnell said. “But I think we’ve got a number of good players that hopefully will make a terrific team.”

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After reaching the NCAA Championship Game in 2004 and the finals of the ACC Tournament in 2005, the Yellow Jackets are dealing with serious personnel issues of their own. The team lost starters Luke Schenscher, Anthony McHenry, BJ. Elder and Will Bynum to graduation while Second-Team All-ACC

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“I’m not going to sit here and say ‘Oh, we can’t do this and can’t do that,” head coach Paul Hewitt said. “The overall talent level is good. To me, we’re talking about hard fought games, end of the games—do you have the stamina and mental strength and physical strength to make the right decisions and the right plays at the end of the game?”

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“As a whole, we’re trying to lead by committee,” guard Anthony Morrow said. “Everyone wants to put in something to the team, everybody has to do their role, everybody has to speak up. We don’t have those obvious leaders that we had last year so everyone has had to step up and be a leader on this team.”

Hewitt and the coaching staff are hoping that guard Zam Fredrick will become the floor general that the Yellow Jackets so desperately need. Although Fredrick returned to school 25 pounds lighter and has improved his shooting, Hewitt said the sophomore has yet to develop the communication skills necessary to run the offense from the point.

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time Jarrett wasn’t where Jarrett was his first time out. I like what Zam has been doing so far.”

Despite the team’s lack of veteran players and game experience, Hewitt still expects his team to be competitive in a relatively wide-open ACC and to challenge for a bid to the NCAA Tournament.

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In 2004, Leonard Hamilton brought in the nation’s llth-best recruiting class to play alongside the nation’s top-ranked sophomore class.

Florida State appeared to be a program on the rise, having increased its win total in each of the four previous seasons. The Seminoles had even knocked off a top-five team in each of the previous three years.

And when Florida State shocked No. 3 Wake Forest, 9183, Jan. 18, 2005 in Tallahassee, Fla., it seemed that Hamilton’s recruiting efforts were beginning to pay dividends.

But the season took a dramatic turn for the worse after that game, as the Seminoles dropped 11 of their final 13 games on their way to a disappointing 12-19 record and a tie for 10th place in the ACC. Even more frustrating for Hamilton was the fact that six of the team’s 12 conference losses came on the final possession.

“I’ve watched them 100 times,” Hamilton said of the six games his team lost by a combined 10 points. “So you say, ‘Were we almost that good or were we just that bad?’ Well I know the answer.”

Hamilton blamed some of his teams’ late-game struggles on the inexperience of his Florida State squad, but he added that the difficult losses will teach his players how to deal with those situations.

“Experience —I think that is the biggest factor,” senior guard Todd Galloway said. “We have four or five guys who have been there and been through those tough battles, when those things come around we have some leadership.”

Galloway, along with juniors A1 Thornton and Alexander Johnson, will be counted on for their experience and for the offensive production the team lost by Von Wafer’s departure. Florida State’s leading scorer last season, Wafer left for the NBA after his sophomore season and was drafted in the second round by the Los Angeles Lakers.

Wafer had the ability to create his own shots, and although Hamilton said his team still has a number of good spot-up shooters, the Seminoles, who were ranked 11th in the ACC during the preseason, will have to execute better to get them open looks.

“I definitely see the scoring being a little collective somebody stepping up one night and another guy stepping up the next night.” Galloway said. “I think there’s definitely going to be 4 to 6 guys who are going to score every night in league play.”

In addition to the returning players, Hamilton continued his hot recruiting streak by bringing in the 15thranked recruiting class in the country, according to scout.com. Its highlight is Nigerian native Uche Echefu, the 6-foot-9 Maryland Player of the Year. The four-star recruit is expected to make an immediate impact.

But despite Hamilton’s stockpiling of talent, the fourth-year head coach has yet to produce a consistent program—a problem he hopes to rectify this season with a more balanced attack.

“I think when you watch our team play you will be turning your program asking, ‘Who is that?,”’ Hamilton said.

“All three of our seniors have made tremendous improvement, our two juniors, our freshmen. You’ll be evaluating us more as a team because on any given night, any of the players can step up.”

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The winds of change are blowing at the University of Virginia.

Gone is head coach Pete Gillen, who resigned in March after guiding the Cavaliers to a 118-93 record and just one NCAA tournament berth in his seven years in Charlottesville, Va. Enter Dave Leitao, DePaul’s head coach the past three seasons and a former Connecticut assistant.

“Dave is one of the country’s most highly regarded young coaches,” Virginia President John Casteen said at the time of Leitao’s hiring. “As we work to rebuild a program that has enjoyed and richly deserves prominence in the ACC and NCAA, Dave’s leadership and example matter in critical ways.”

Leitao led the Blue Demons to a 58-34 record in his three years at the school, including two NIT appearances and an NCAA tournament bid in 2004.

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Coming off a 14-15 season (4-12 in the ACC), Virginia returns three starters from a team that finished tied for tenth in last year’s 11-team ACC. The Cavaliers, however, lost their top two scorers and rebounders from last year’s team, center Elton Brown and forward Devin Smith. Guard Gary Forbes, who averaged 9.4 points per game a year ago, transferred to Massachusetts.

Even if they fail to make the field of 64 for the fifth straight season, Leitao can take solace in the fact that he will be presiding over a young team going through a rebuilding phase.

“Change in practice has definitely been a shock to some people, but they’re getting a feel for it and they’re understanding why we’re doing certain things,” sophomore guard Sean Singletary said. “Getting up in the morning and just having to do things the right way has instilled discipline in each one of us.”

Singletary, who made the All-ACC Freshman Team last year, is expected to be one of the top point guards in the conference after he averaged 10.5 points and 3.9 assists in his freshman campaign.

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This team will be the last to play in the venerable University Hall, which has housed Virginia basketball since 1965.

Virginia is constructing the newjohn Paul Jones arena, which will be ready for action by the 2006-07 season.

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Redick, who also has noticed the progression, commented that Dockery has been playing with greater confidence than ever before and believes that he will have a breakout year.

“I think that maybe I’ve rubbed off on him a little bit,” Redick said with a laugh. “I see him playing with a little bit more of a swagger, and it’s something that’s good to see.”

Despite Dockery’s bolstered confidence and improved play, the senior will likely batde freshman Greg Paulus throughout the season for the starting point guard position.

Steve Dockery said he knows his son would rather be starting and that sitting on the bench would “disappoint” his son. But Steve also said that Sean is a team player, and that he would adapt gracefully to any role the team needs him to fill.

LAURA BETH DOUGLAS/THE CHRONICLE “I really don’t care about starting, I just care about that to expects Duke,” and care about the name on and that’s Sean be for W my jersey, Dockery pushed playing time by freshman Greg Paulus, but he welcomesthe challenge as long as it will benefit the team.

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tabs on all of them, especially during the season.

But associate head coach Johnny Dawkins and the other assistants have welcomed that role and understand its importance. Dawkins prepares workouts for past players who wish to train in Durham during the summer, and the whole staff is hoping that more of the program’s greats will return to the school during the offseason once the team’s planned practice facility is built.

The interaction between the Blue Devil alumni and current players is most evident at events like the annual K Academy, an adult dream basketball camp. Around 20 of Krzyzewski’s former players attended the event this summer, bridging together nearly three decades worth of talent.

‘You get Laettner and his crew coming back and now they’re messing with the younger guys, Dunleavy and Jason Williams—you’ve got a lot of history right there,” Carrawell said. “A lot of schools—I’ve talked to a lot of players —they don’t have this. What we have here is kind of sacred because you get guys coming back, and guys who are happy to see each other.”

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Williams, a power forward, might be the nation’s top shot-blocker and rebounder, and his offensive skills have improved in his time at Duke. He earned Nadonal Defensive Player of the Year honors last season, and with more than 15 points and 11 rebounds per game, became the first Mike Krzyzewski-coached player to average a double-double for an entire season.

“We have two of the best players in the country,” Krzyzewski said. “[The other players] are going to get some open 100k5.... For our team, we have to teach kids how to complement those two kids.”

The head coach added that NBA scouts projected both Redick and Williams as potential first-round draft picks after their Junior seasons, but that Redick never seriously considered leaving. Williams did consider skipping his senior year, but he ultimately decided to stay in school.

Redick said the power forward called him to let him know of his decision even before he called Krzyzewski.

“He called me, and I was like T hope this is good news,’” Redick said. “And right away he was like, ‘Hey J, I’m coming back’ and immediately I got chills. I was like, ‘Alright man, let’s do this thing, and we’re going to win the National Championship next

year.’

“He was like, ‘Alright man, well listen, I’ve got to call the coaches. I’ve got to let them know I’m coming back, too.”

It was fitting that Duke’s National Championship dreams would take root in a phone call between Redick and Williams, a call that delivered what Melchionni called “the final piece of the puzzle.” In addition to their national acclaim, Redick and Williams make up the team’s emotion-

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Redick, a second-year captain, has embraced his role as a team leader and mentor to the Blue Devils’ five scholarship freshmen, and teammates said Williams is also an effective leader. Dockery said the

two set an example for both old and young teammates with their intensity on the court,

“You look at stuff they do and you can learn from it, and then maybe one day you’ll be great,” Dockery said. “When they’re playing against each other, they

hate each other, I’ll tell you that, because both of them want to win so much.”

Redick and Williams stressed that the season’s focus would not be on their personal honors, and instead would be on the team’s National Championship hopes. But the records, milestones and honors the two are chasing are significant.

Redick is 751 points shy of Dawkins’ scoring record. Should the Blue Devils advance to the Final Four, Redick would need to average about 20 points per game to pass the 20-year old mark. He is also just 24 three-point baskets behind Trajan Langdon for the all-time Duke record in that category.

Williams ranks eighth on Duke’s alltime rebounding charts, 364 boards behind Mike Gminski. With another season of averaging double-digit rebounds, Williams could surpass Gminski’s mark. He is 60 blocked shots and 25 double-doubles short of Gminski’s other records.

“Those two seniors, just individually, they have a chance to do crazy things,” Krzyzewski said. “JJ. could end up being the all-time three-point shooter in college basketball, or free throws, or the alltime scorer here at Duke.... And Shelden, as far as Duke records, with rebounds and blocked shots. So that’s kind of nice to see because they’ve been such good team guys.

“Not that that’s their goals, they’d never talk about that at all.”

It may be sophomore guard DeMarcus Nelson who truly nailed down how Redick and Williams feel about their potential for national honors.

When asked who he thought should be named National Player of the Year, the team’s only active sophomore replied, “Duke is team of the year.”

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every other part of the day, but not that part.”

Paulus is the more studious of the two, and Mcßoberts will occasionally make a joke at the expense of Paulus’ frequent studying. But the point guard, a self-described dork, laughs off the insults.

“Josh is the man,” he said.

That thick-skinned nature may be essential for both Paulus and Mcßoberts this season. Redick, the Duke player other teams’ fans love to hate, expects Mcßoberts and Paulus to be his most-hated successors.

“The first thing I thought when I saw [Paulus] play was that he was a punk, and I loved it,” Redick said. “He’s going to be the next hated Duke player, I’ll tell you that right n0w.... I know when we go up to [lndiana, Mcßoberts’ home state] Josh is going to get it a lot.”

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“I didn’t really know what to expect, so I just wanted to see everything,” Pocius said. “I had a few visits scheduled, and I didn’treally know what was waiting for me. The next weekend I took a visit to Duke and decided after that.”

Pocius committed to the Blue Devils immediately after his visit, allowing him to take his mindjoff recruiting and focus on improving his basketball game.

Gallagher cited Pocius’ growing confidence as the major difference between his play in his junior and senior seasons. As a senior, Pocius became more involved in the offense and began converting his opportunities. He averaged 18 points, five rebounds and three assists his final year while leading Holderness to its second straight New England Prep School Class C title.

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WANERS from page 12 as a coach, fan and, most importantly, a father, Tim Waner said he believes his daughters’ rivalry is the reason they have become such dynamic players.

“It’s not real easy to hide from your sister’s criticisms,” Tim Waner said. “They can say those kind of bold truths. It’s helped them to develop this synchronization on the court.”

This mentality has made the Waners the ideal teammates in the atmosphere that Goestenkors is trying to foster for the women’s basketball program.

“It’s been a positive for our entire team because they’ve shown us how you can treat one another and be tough on one another and still know that at the end of the day, when you get off the court, you still care about one another, just like sisters do,” Goestenkors said. “That’s the kind of feeling we want with our whole team, that we’re a very large family of sisters.”

Although Goestenkors said she

will not deliberately play Emily and Abby together during games

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more than other guard combinations simply because of their rapport, the instincts they share will benefit the Blue Devils.

“They’re double trouble, and it’s double the fun,” Goestenkors said. “They’re both really, really good. They’re extremely talented, and they’re two of the most competitive players that I’ve had.”

And now that they are representing the same school for the first lime since winning the Colorado 5A State Championship in 2003, the sisters are having a blast on the court.

The pair will have three seasons—if Emily chooses to use all her remaining years of eligibility—to. play together and try to help the Blue Devils capture their first national championship.

But for now, they just want to renew the rhythm they shared two years ago.

“In high school, I could read her,” Abby said. “She knew what I was going to do, and I knew what she was going to do. Here it is just a completely different XIAN, QINZHENG/THE CHRONICLE level. We’ve talked about developing that look again, and it’s After transferring from Colorado following her freshman season in Boulder, guard Emily Waner sat out last season as per NCAA rules. getting there.”

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Goestenkors said Bales’_work has been paying off in the preseason and that she is in great shape Another result of her hard work this summer is that her confidence has continued to increase.

“I’m finally getting the game,” Bales said. “I understand where the help defense is supposed to be, and understand what Coach G wants and can play the game

better—especially compared to

my freshman year, because I was a little lost back then.”

This season Goestenkors said she is implementing a new motion offense that the Blue Devils were unable to run last year because of their lack of depth and a true

point guard.

Bales and the rest of the Blue Devils’ frontcourt expect to figure prominently into that scheme.

“With our offense—our highlow—we put an emphasis on our post players,” Goestenkors said.

“We need them to win a National Championship, and I think they know that.”

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WOMEN'S ACC from page 18 turning starters will continue to run North Carolina’s fast-paced offense, which was second in the nation in scoring last season.

Maryland also returns four of its starters from an extremely young team that went 22-10 a year ago. Doron and sophomore forward Crystal Langhorne, who was named ACC Rookie of the year after averaging a double-doublelast season, lead the Terrapins—the duo combined for more than 34 points per game last year.

Sophomore 6-foot-4 center Laura Harper, who averaged more than 13 points per game in nine contests before rupturing her Achilles tendon last December, will join Langhorne in the frontcourt.

Despite their talent, the Terps will still be relatively inexperienced—head coach Brenda Frese said she expects to start two freshmen, two sophomores and one junior during the season.

Boston College enters the stacked ACC also lacking experience, having lost their top two guards to graduation. The Eagles do have some familiarity with the

ACC BASKETBALL PREVIEW ACC teams, having faced Virginia Tech and Miami in the Big East and having lost to Duke 70-65 in the second round of last year’s NCAA tournament. Still, head coach Cathy Inglese said there would be some adjustment to the difference in style of play.

“I think there is a little bit more athleticism,” Inglese said. “It is a little more up and down,running style than what you see in the Big East.”

The expected improvement of both Miami and Virginia Tech in their second year in the ACC will bolster the depth of the conference. The two programs went a combined 13-15 in conference play last year while adjusting to the move from the Big East, but should have the talent to pose real threats in their sophomore ACC campaigns. James led the league last season with 22.3 points per game, and Virginia Tech returns 75 percent ofits scoring from a year ago.

“There is a comfort level they now have that they didn’t have a year ago,” Goestenkors said. “The first year for them was difficult because they had to learn so many new teams.”

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Miami guard GuillermoDiaz was second in theACC last season with an average of 18.6 points per game.

MEN'S ACC from page 19 but the teams without experience have a whole bunch ofMcDonald’s All-Americans,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said. “People have to understand that everyone in this league has players.”

The dynamic of the league is somewhat different this year, though. Many of the players who graduated or left early for the draft were guards.

Returning players such as Tar Heel sophomore Quentin Thomas and Demon Deacon senior Justin Gray will be expected to play lead guard much more than they did last year, while Maryland is still searching for answers at that position.

The lack of experience makes this year’s ACC more wide open than last year. Traditional league powers Wake Forest and Maryland were ranked No. 18 and No. 21, respectively. After No. 1 Duke, former Big

East member Boston College was picked to finish second in its first season in the new league. The Eagles were ranked No. 11 in the preseason poll.

After the defections of Boston College, Virginia Tech and Miami, the Big East recruited several new league members such as basketball powerhouse Louisville.

With those additions to the Big East and the subtraction of experienced players from the ACC, league coaches have been blitzed with questions over whether the ACC is no longer the best basketball conference in the country.

“I think that college basketball, that’s the way it is,” Prosser said. “You have turnover, you don’t have guys for 10 or 12 years. This league has been around for 53 years. With rare exceptions it’s been considered the premier basketball conference in the country. Until proven otherwise I think that will still be the perception.”

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still going to play in the thirties, but it will be in different segments.”

The five new freshman also make for an plays for him because then everybody interesting team dynamic. All four ofDuke’s stands around and watches.” seniors have been named captains, the first Of course, it takes work to put in all of time the Blue Devils have ever had four captains in one season, and sophomore Nelson those changes. Krzyzewski said Duke’s veterans, who are used to a slower tempo, is the only active recruited scholarship player who is not a freshman or senior. might have a tougher adjustment.

But the seniors have embraced their But the more experienced players said the changes would not be too hard to role as mentors to the freshmen, and handle.

Krzyzewski said teaching the younger “Running more will give us an opporplayers could help the older players reinforce their skills. Many of the older playtunity to speed the game up a lot," Nelson said. “What happens when you speed ers grew close to the freshmen while the the game up is you don’t think hard team was at Duke for summer workouts, enough, and mentally you aren’t sharp and all of them tell stories about the enough, or you make plays that you rookies’ idiosyncrasies. wouldn’t normally make if you were play“I have a younger brother who is the ing at a slow pace. That is something we same age so I just look at it like I am talkare getting adjusted to now.” ing to my little brother,” Dockery said. “It is The new, faster tempo will give the something that I enjoy. It is like giving Blue Devils a different look, but one imback. Chris Duhon did the same for me. portant thing will be the same as last year. Dahntay Jones and guys like that were Redick and Williams—both preseason there from the start and that is what I am All-Americans—will be the team’s focal going to do for these guys.”

The Blue Devil seniors need to make points. The two have been fixtures in Duke’s starting lineup for three years, sure the freshmen are ready to play, if only starting a total of 190 games in theirBlue because having more available players will Devil careers, including 22 NCAA Tourallow Duke’s returnees to avoid the long nament contests. minutes and conservative play they were The pair gives Duke the nation’s top deforced into last year. fensive presence and the country’s premier And of course, their talent is a welcome outside shooter. addition to an experienced group of senWith the influx of freshman talent, iors that expects to go very far this season.

Redick and Williams are sure to see a de“It’s so hard to set a goal of a National cline in their minutes, but Kr2yzewski said Championship because only one team can they were forced to play too many last sea- walk away happy then,” Melchionni said. son and that reducing their playing time “But then you look at our talent on paper, could actually allow them to score more and there’s a big divide between us and the other teams this year, and of course, it points in fewer minutes.

“They can play harder and a little bit would be a little bit of a disappointment if shorter, and maybe, not that they’re then we don’t make it there, or get to the Nagoing to sit out eight minutes, but they can tional Championship, or win a National come back in,” Krzyzewski said. “They’re Championship.”

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DUKE WOMEN fro.pa ge2 o addition of three freshmen—Carrem Gay,Keturah Jackson and Brittany Mitch—at forward.

All of the new faces will join a team with an already-established post presence. Bales set an ACC single-season record with 134 blocks last year. Senior Mistie Williams and sophomore Chante Black proved to be reliable options in the low post.

The three comprise a formidable post rotation that could be even more successful than last year’s now that the rest of the team is better balanced.

Even if this year’s team is Goestenkors’ most talented yet, though, critics will still question whether her Duke teams can win the big game come tournament time.

“I’ve been on teams that have been No. 1 going into the season before,” Foley said. “I’ve played on a couple of really good teams here at Duke, and I don’t think we’re really paying much attention—I know I’m not—to the Sophomore forward Chante Black's 260 rebounds last season were the most by a Duke freshman in the program's history. preseason ranking.”

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