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Pratt council passes DOCK BEATS THE CLOCK opt-out evals policy by

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advocacy from students, the Engineering Faculty Council unanimously approved a new opt-out professor evaluation policy Thursday.

The policy will be voted on by the general faculty of the Pratt School of Engineering early next semester, but officials said approval seems likely.

The state of course evaluations has been a hot topic on campus recently. Numerous students, professors and administrators have been protesting the use of opt-in policies on ACES. Under the proposed plan for Pratt, which was backed by the Engineering Student Government, professors will have to notify officials if they prefer not to make their course ratings public; otherwise their evaluations will appear on ACES by default.

“This is a step in the right direction,” said Kristina Johnson, dean ofPratt. “Anytime you allow for transparency, it’s very helpful.”

Johnson added that releasing professor evaluations allows for a higher degree of accountability.

For the past year, Pratt, like the Trinity College of Arts and

Sciences, has abided by an opt-in evaluation policy, whereby professors’ ratings are withheld unless the instructors’ authorize their release.

Although they had the option to release their ratings, few professors did, said seniorlan Shakil, president of ESG. EEC Chair Craig Henriquez said professors may not have opted to post their evaluations on ACES because they found the process to be too time-consuming and complicated.

“There have been several instances where faculty tried [to electronically opt-in] but weren’t sure if it worked,” he said.

Henriquez added that an optout policy would be better than the current plan because it places the burden of decisionmaking on faculty who want to withhold their evaluations rather than those who would like to release the data.

Although the policy still must be approved by the general faculty of Pratt before professor evaluations will appear on ACES, it does not seem as

though professors will object to it, Henriquez said.

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The Cameron Crazies held their breath as Sean Dockery drained the 40-foot game-winning three-pointer Sunday night.

Dockery hits 40-footer as time expires to down Hokies by

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players did their best to recreate the magic of Hill-to-Laettner.

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gave the Blue Devils a 77-75 win, will go down as Mcßoberts-to-Dockery.

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tner’s role for Duke (7-0, 1-0 in the ACC) by setting a pick near the foul line and then receiving a full court heave from Josh Mcßoberts. Sean Dockery was supposed to screen for JJ. Redick as a secondary option.

But while the referees were determining how much time should be put back on the clock after the Coleman Collins tip-in that had put Virginia Tech (5-3, 0-1) up 75-74, associate head

coach Johnny Dawkins saw a flaw with the Hokie defense. He called out to Dockery and told the senior guard, playing his best game as a Blue Devil, to break off from the classic play’s script and look for his own shot instead.

Mcßoberts saw the same opening Dawkins did. The freshman slung the ball right-handed down the court to Dockery, who SEE THE SHOT ON SW PAGE 3

Dillard frosh calls Duke new home Board plans for by

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Ryan McCartney THE CHRONICLE

Unlike most incoming freshmen, Zach Stanfill packed light when he came to Duke.

After Hurricane Katrina pushed through New Orleans’ Ninth Ward in late August, the Dillard University freshman threw three shirts, a few pairs of pants and dress shoes into a suitcase and headed to North Carolina.

“This is a home away from home,” Stanfill said, looking at a small black photo album filled with pictures of his hurricane-ravaged house. “Right now, this might be the only home I have.”

Stanfill, whose brother is a senior, hopes to stay at Duke next semester. Under the current undergraduate admissions policy, however, all students must have two semesters of transferable credit under their belt before they can matriculate at the University.

In recent weeks, Duke Student Government has pushed members of the administration to change the policy for the 12 visiting freshmen displaced by Katrina—a push several members of the administration are resisting, some student leaders say.

“These are the only classes I’ve had, the only friends I’ve made,” Stanfill said. “I’m going to remember this SEE STANFILL ON PAGE 6

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The new Financial Aid Initiative was the cornerstone of discussion at the Board ofTrustees meeting this weekend, as President Richard Brodhead kicked off the public phase of the campaign. Officials hope to raise $3OO million in endowed aid over the next three years.

In addition, the Board gave the official go-ahead for the next stage of planning the overhaul of Central Campus, discussed the development of the health system and approved a new doctoral program in theology.

Prior to a large gala celebrating the launch of the FAI, the Financial Aid Initiative Development Committee, which is comprised of 34 trustees, faculty and other figures, held its first meeting Thursday to discuss the trajectory of the Initiative and consider ways to reach out to potential donors.

“Hopefully this resonates with students,” Board Chair Robert Steel said of the FAI Saturday. “There are a lot of

Freshman Zach Stanfill came to Duke after Katrina and hopes to stay.

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Parties boycott Venezuelan elections Patricia Rondon Espin THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARACAS, Venezuela Candidates aligned with President Hugo Chavez were widely expected to increase their legislative majority Sunday as Venezuelans voted for a new National Assembly in an election boycotted by several opposition parties.

Willian Lara, a leading lawmaker in Chavez’s governing party, said internal tallies of the Fifth Republic Movement indicated pro-Chavez candidates could sweep all 167 of the assembly’s seats.

Chavez earlier dismissed the boycott as a failed ploy to sabotage legitimate elections and avoid an embarrassing defeat,

and officials later blamed a pipeline explosion on government opponents.

“The whole world knows a true democracy is in motion here in Venezuela,” Chavez said after voting at a school where cheering supporters greeted him outside.

Chavez accused the United States, with which he often clashes, of being behind the boycott—a charge Washington has denied.

The boycotting parties said they did not trust the voting system. Chavez said Venezuela has the most solid electoral system in South America, and that its integrity was secure despite “attempts to sabotage this process.” Turnout was estimated at 25 percent, National Electoral

Council chief Jorge Rodriguez said Maria Gorina Machado, who leads the U.S.-backed vote watchdog group Sumate, called the vote “illegitimate.”

“We are going to have a single party parliament that doesn’t represent ample sectors of society,” Machado said in a statement.

Government officials say the U.S. has been meddling in the elections through Sumate, which receives money from the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, a private group funded by Congress. Officials and election observers said the voting proceeded peacefully Sunday,

Militants fire rockets at Israel Palestinian militants fired two rockets from Gaza into an Israeli village Sunday evening, despite Israeli airstrikes earlier in the day launched in response to previous There were no serious injuries, but changes carried the danger of sw calatiijon.The rockets hit an Israeli vill '

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foreign fighters because they are the ones conducting the most horrific attacks and

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BAGHDAD, Iraq The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq has adopted a two-track approach to bring peace —concentrating military forces on attacking foreign fighters while trying to persuade Sunni Muslims to join the political process, a U.S. general said.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a senior coalition staff officer, told The Associated Press Saturday that even though nationalists are the largest part of the insurgency, they are not the U.S. military’s primary target.

“We’re focused on the terrorists and

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he works closely with coalition diplomats and Iraqi officials.

The insurgency in Iraq has long been categorized into three broad groups: Islamic fundamentalists with ties to al Qaeda, Baathists who once served under Saddam Hussein and Sunni nationalists, who have rejected the current government dominated by Shiite Muslims.

In a speech outlining his Iraq strategy last week, President George W. Bush said the coalition was committed to defeating “Saddamists and terrorists” but held open the door to those he called “rejectionists.”

are the most ruthless in the pursuit of their objective, which is to derail the democratic process and discredit the Iraqi government,” he said at the end of a week in which at least 22 American service members have died in Iraq, including 10 Marines killed Thursday in a roadside

bombing.

Lynch’s job with the Multinational Force-Iraq is to work on big picture issues such as Sunni outreach, economic development, election logistics and media relations. His office is in the U.S. Embassy and

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While most students are spending the last days of the semester finishing term papers or cramming for exams, a few students are completing atypical final projects.

This semester, a number of professors have assigned projects that have encouraged students to step away from their books and apply what they have learned to the broader Duke community.

Professor William Tobin’s FOCUS class, Topics in Modern America, meets every Wednesday night to discuss issues involving social change. Tobin, a visiting associate professor of sociology, showed his students the movie Pay it Forward one week and asked them to apply its theme of doing good deeds to life at Duke.

Although Tobin’s initial intention was academic in nature, students soon took the project one step further.

“We’ve been trying to figure out ways to better Duke,” said freshman Reuben Goetzl.

In order to complete Tobin’s assignment, Goetzl and some of his classmates decided to shutde students direcdy between East and West campuses on two Thursday nights last month.

The idea was met with so much support from students that Goetzl and his classmates plan to continue the service on a regular basis.

“I learned about a different part of student life,” Goetzl said. “We’re going to start doing it every Thursday because we had so much fun.”

Some students decided to tackle the task on a smaller scale. Tobin said he was equally impressed by the students who chose simply to comfort upset friends in their dormitories. “I wanted this to be as informal and unregimented as possible,” Tobin said. “I wanted them to think about how social change occurs.”

Freshman Jordan Giordano has not yet decided how he will pay it forward.

“It kind of has to fall into your lap,” Giordano said of creating a unique project. “It’s not really doing the assignment unless it’s something significant.”

Other professors have also encouraged their students to apply what they

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As part of a class project, sophomore John Kearney decided to be rude to people on campusfor a day. have learned in class to their own social interactions.

For a social psychology and personality class, sophomore John Kearney was required to act against the expectations of his peers for a day. He decided to be rude to everyone he encountered, ranging from his close friends to the servers at Alpine Bagels & Brews.

Kearney was able to see social psychology in action through the effect of his bad mood on peers.

“I was as offensive as I could be without

making people suspicious,” Kearney

said. “By the end of the day, pretty much everyone was unhappy.”

Kearney and his classmates said it was valuable to see classroom lessons working in the real world.

“It means more,” said junior Lisa De Obaldia, who gave up her habit of consistently greeting her friends with hugs.

‘You don’t have to research in books. You go through it.”

Several students consider such out-ofthe-ordinary projects to be welcome breaks from their typical workloads.

“I think you can learn more from these assignments than you could sometimes from essays or tests,” Goetzl said.

Although the professors who assigned the projects may not have expected such enthusiastic reactions from their students, they were satisfied by the results.

“I was surprised by how eager they were to do things about it,” Tobin said. “It was good for students to realize that there are consequences to the things they do.”

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Yet he saw an opportunity in what he called a “big rivalry” between the two schools—and capitalized on it.

Hughes, a resident of Norwich, Ohio, made cartoon decals of a boy in an Indiana University cap urinating on the Blue Devil mascot.

He sold only six of the stickers on eßay for a profit of $36 before HI pursued legal action, seeking penalties of $9,000 for trademark infringement.

Although he immediately stopped selling the decals and offered to pay $4,500 in damages, Hughes was afraid that the school could potentially seize his property.

The fears, however, were unfounded, and last month IU settled the case for an undisclosed amount.

“We’re talking about something that I made $36 on,” Hughes said. “I paid way more than that to settle with Indiana.”

Though Hughes joked to The HeraldTimes of Bloomington, Ind., that if anyone were to sue him it should have been Duke, University officials said they had not heard about the decals using the Blue Devil mascot being sold.

“This is news to me,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public and government relations. “We’re hoping the mascot ducks.”

Bumess said it seemed like IU had stopped Hughes from selling the stickers but added that officials would look into the situation.

Hughes said he did not know the logo and mascot were trademarked and assumed that even if they were he would simply get a cease and desist letter from SEE STICKER ON PAGE 6

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Various student dance groups participated in Awaaz this weekend.The annual two-night event is a celebration ofSouth Asian culture.

BOARD from page 1 things we could do with our time and with our energy and with our money, and basically, under President Brodhead’s leadership, this has become central to the mission [of Duke].”

The University has already raised $148.6 million for the FAI. Brodhead said there are two components to the Initiative: raising the money and publicizing its existence to potential students. “When people see the price tag of higher education, they think, ‘That’s a luxury good,’” Brodhead said. “Our effort is to disassociate the question, ‘Can I get in based on intellectual achievement?’ from the question, ‘Can my family afford it?”’

The Board also authorized the University to continue planning the redevelopment of Central Campus. Officials can now define Phase I of the project, which is expected to include the con-

struction of new housing, office spaces and academic facilities.

In May, University administrators pushed back the target completion date for Phase I untilFall 2008. Last month, they selected the Boston-based firm Elkus Manffedi as the lead architect for the project.

“This is the last short discussion we will have about Central Campus,” Steel said, echoing Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, who presented the project to the Board. “We are getting close to dealing with the nitty-gritty issues.”

Steel added that the matters at hand largely include the infrastructural needs such as roadways and water pipes—of facilities and space on the 200-acre campus.

The trustees also heard a presentation on strategic planning for Duke University Health System. Steel noted that development for the School of Medicine is integrated with strategic planning fqr academics throughout the University’s various schools.

Emphasizing that the DUHS plan is only in a draft stage, Brodhead added that —

an important theme of development will be attracting researchers of “high quality and creativity.”

The Board also approved the creation of a doctoral program in theology in the Divinity School. Officials hope to enroll between 12 and 15 students each year in the Th.D. program, which will take four to five years for students to complete.

In other business, the trustees authorized the construction of a second module at the off-campus Library Service Center, which is nearing 90-percent capacity.

The new $ 6-million facility will double the space available for housing books and archival materials. Plans are already in the works for a third module.

The Board also approved a $ 4-million project that will keep Duke’s coal-fired steam plant in compliance with the Federal Clean Air Act and authorized changing the name of the Ph.D. program in bioinformatics and genome technology to the Ph.D. program in computational biology and bioinformatics.

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“This was the biggest hurdle,” Shakil said of EFC passing the policy, adding that receiving approval from the general engineering faculty is “viewed as a formality.”

Shakil said he has been pushing to make Pratt professors’ evaluations public for nearly two years. He added that he hopes the move will spark similar policy changes throughout the rest of the University.

In January, the Arts and Sciences Council voted down a professor opt-out evaluation policy by one vote. Since then, students have been demanding a reconsideration of the opt-in policy.

Student leaders are now pushing the Council to reconsider the policy at its Dec. 8 meeting.

“There’s no way to hide information about professors. If anything it would potentially put more moderate information out there,” Shakil said.

He explained that although evaluar tions websites like ratemyprofessor.com and the one created by sophomore and Chronicle columnist Elliott Wolf have garnered feedback, there is no way to monitor who posts evaluations or how many times they do so.

As a result, students can submit multiple responses for the same professors. Instructors can even rate themselves to increase their approval score, Shakil noted.

Johnson said the proposed plan would institutionalize the rating process, allowing for a maximum number of students to evaluate a professor based on the number of students in a course at a given time.

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The military said it stepped up security at oil installations to prevent any possible sabotage in the country, the world’s No. 5 oil exporter.

Government officials reported several disturbances leading up to the vote, including blasts from small explosives that injured three people in Caracas on Friday and a pipeline explosion Saturday night in the western state of Zulia.

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BREAKOUT GAME Senior Sean Dockery plays an outstanding 40 minutes and caps the game with a 40foot game-winning buzzer-beater.

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Mistie Williams' strong play down low helped stave off an athleticTexas squad that exploited Duke's slower frontcourtfor most of the game.

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AUSTIN, Texas Without Mistie Williams in the game, Duke had trouble exploiting its size advantage in the post.

Without the senior forward, the Blue Devils had difficulty even rivaling the presence of Texas’ athletic frontline.

For all of Duke’s depth in the post, Sunday’s win against the Longhorns disflam#* played deficiencies in both the team’s offenanalysis sive and defensive approaches. Texas’ starting frontcourt of Eamesia Williams and Tiffany Jackson showed the havoc that a pair of quick, if undersized, post players can cause the Blue Devil defense.

Jackson may have single-handedly ended Duke’s thoughts of pressing on Texas’ first possession. The junior forward, who was left unguarded by the Blue

Devils’ press, dribbled the length of the court and buried a short pull-up jumper in the middle of the lane.

Knowing that neither Mistie Williams nor juniorAlison Bales would be able to contain the athletic Texas forward in a full-court defense, Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors soon abandoned the press, which had been so effective early this season.

“They just were sprinting the floor,” Goestenkors said. “We’ve got nice size, but we weren’t sprinting with them. Their athleticism was tough for us throughout the game. I thought they did a real nice job of running the floor.”

Even in the half court, however, Jackson and Eamesia Williams pestered Duke’s defense. The duo combined for 24 points and four assists and often caused the Blue Devil defense to collapse as they drove the lane against the slower Duke defenders.

This left shooters like Erika Arriaran, who finished with 16points, open on the wing.

Goestenkors even tried playing Laura Kurz post position to match the Longhorns’ speed, but the perimeter threat often looked lost in the flow of the offense.

“They were smaller in the post, but they were also a lot faster,” Goestenkors said. “We were trying to take advantage of it on the offensive end, but we didn’t do a good job of that. We did initially but when Mistie had to go to the bench with two fouls, we didn’t take advantage of it on our end, but I thought they took advantage on their end.”

The main reason Duke could not capitalize off its size advantage in the first half is that Williams stands alone as Duke’s only post threat who can score with her back to the basket. Freshman Carrem Gay and sophomore Chante Black provide decent athleticism, and junior Alison Bales has shown a soft shooting touch, but when at a

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AUSTIN, Texas In a game in which head coach Gail Goestenkors pleaded with her team multiple times to “get tough” in the first half, the play got awfully tough in the second period.

With less than 13 minutes remaining and No. 1 Duke DUKE 84 (6-0) beginning to TEXAS 70 extend its onehalftime point lead, senior Monique Currie led with her elbow while fighting through a screen, sending Texas forward Eamesia Williams to the ground and drawing an intentional foul. As Williams was getting up, the freshman pushed Currie, eliciting a technical foul call from the referees.

The minor scuffle turned an already loud Longhorn crowd of more than 8,000 fans hostile and seemed to reenergize the Texas players. Following two made free throws by both teams, the Longhorns (3-3) went on a 94 spurt to de the game at 61, forcing a Blue Devil dmeout.

“At that point, we knew we needed to settle down a little bit and run our sets on offense and just get a stop one at a dme,” Currie said. “I think our experience helped and we were able to play calm and poised and get good shots.”

Duke showed the grit of a top team after the timeout, clamping down defensively and relying on 10 points from Currie down the stretch to outlast No. 16 Texas 84-70.

The play continued to be physical with several players hitting the deck hard, but the Blue Devils capitalized by shooting 8-for-10 from the free throw line in the last six minutes to maintain their lead. Duke also held the Longhorns to just 3-for-15 shooting and forced five turnovers in the last 9:40.

“They did pick it up defensively, and we just didn’t match their intensity on the defensive end,” Texas guard Nina Norman said. “[Currie] ran the break really well, and she got a couple easy baskets on the fast break.”

Currie finished with a game-high 23 points, shooting just 7-for-17 from the field but a perfect 9-for-9 from the charity stripe.

Mistie Williams added a season-high 14 points despite playing just five minutes in the first half because of foul trouble.

Texas came into the game reeling from an embarrassing 41-point loss at No. 2 Tennessee Thursday. The Longhorns, however, did not back down from the top-ranked Blue Devils and looked much more deserving of their ranking, something Duke players said they expected.

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Led by a career-high 25 points from Reyshawn Terry, North Carolina upset No. 10 Kentucky on Saturday, giving the Tar Heels an emphatic win on the road that ended the Wildcats' 11-game winning streak at Rupp Arena.

This was a matchup of basketball teams that rank 1-2 in NCAA Division I in overall wins, and North Carolina showed it remains plenty dangerous despite a roster depleted after three players graduated and another four entered the NBA draft.

North Carolina held off two second-half runs

by Kentucky to beat the Wildcats for the second straight season. (AP)

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Jeremis Smith scored a career-high 17 points and just missed another double-double, leading Georgia Tech past Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener Sunday.

The sophomore forward grabbed 9 rebounds in a strong follow-up to his 14-point, 10-rebound performance at Michigan State four nights earlier.

Georgia Tech snapped a two-game losing streak against the cold-shooting Cavaliers, who hit less than 28 percent from the field. (AP)

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Not until after Sean Dockery hit a running 40-footer to win Sunday’s thriller and the initial pandemonium died down did the Cameron Crazies finally start chanting the senior’s name.

Although the shot will go down as one of the most memorable in Duke history, Dockery’s performance over the first 39 minutes and 58 seconds was not to be lost. ft Tii m p Put simply, Dockery had a career game. But until his shocking buzzer-beater went through the net, it seemed as if the crowd hardly recognized his outstanding performance.

He kept Duke alive in the second half on a night when head coach Mike Krzyzewski said the Blue Devils’ play at times was uninspired.

“He bailed us all out,” freshman Greg Paulus said. “As far as the points given up or the lack of execution on offense, it’s a collective responsibility. It’s not just he bailed JJ. [Redick] out, he bailed all of us out, because we put ourselves in that position.”

Dockery scored Dufe’s final five points to finish with a career high of 19.

He emerged from an early-season slump, making four three-pointers, more than he had in the team’s first six games. And on the defensive end, he recorded a season-high six steals.

He did all that coming off a less-thanstellar performance Wednesday against Indiana when he looked lost on the court and scored just two points.

Krzyzewski said the injury sophomore DeMarcus Nelson sustained Nov. 23 changed Dockery’s role and made the guard unsure of himself on the court.

“I had a meeting with Coach after the Indiana game and he just told me I work harder than anybody, and I’ve got the best attitude of anybody he’s ever coached,” Dockery said. “And when Coach K tells you that, you’re going to play your butt off. You’re going to have confidence.”

Dockery was fearless as he carried himself Sunday.

He drove hard toward the basket and hit a floater with the shot-clock winding down in the first half. And after already nailing two shots from beyond the arc in the second half, the career 32-percent three-point shooter crossed over his defender, pulled up at the top of the key and drilled another to extend Duke’s lead to 63-59 with 7:59 remaining.

Accused by the coaching staffof being too passive on offense over the first six games of the season, Dockery appeared as if he wanted the ball down the stretch.

With Redick dribbling the ball at the top of the key and Dockery on the wing in the final minutes, the two seniors made eye contact and Redick tried to deliver the ball to Dockery as he drifted to the corner.

Although the ball was deflected out of bounds, the play exhibited Dockery’s faith in his own shot—one in which he has spent countless hours improving—and his teammate’s trust in him.

“We’ve always had confidence in him,” Paulus said. “He’s been playing really well in practice the last couple weeks.

He’s been shooting the ball great. I think we all knew he was going to have a breakout game, and this was definitely one. It was not just the last shot. He played terrific the whole 40 minutes.”

On defense, the Chicago native was just as solid, making several key stops on

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Jamon Gordon over the final few minutes,

including one that nearly sealed the game

with 11 ticks remaining on the clock and Duke clinging to a two-point lead.

As Gordon brought the ball up the court, Dockery cleanly knocked it away, but as he dove for the loose ball, he was

whistled for a foul “I thought Sean won the game when he stole the ball at half court,” Krzyzewski said. “Sometimes those basketball gods work in mysterious ways. I thought he made a winning play there, and he ended up making the winning shot.”

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DSG President Pro Tempore George Fleming, a junior, told The Chronicle Nov. 17 that members of the administration had shown “pretty much an unwillingness to cooperate with what students want.”

Some members of the administration said that such plans were inappropriate.

They also said the policy would be unfair to other transfer students and would raise certain institutional concerns.

DSG members met with President Richard Brodhead before Thanksgiving Break and will meet with members of the administration later this week, Fleming said.

“Hopefully they’ll be understanding.

Everybody is just moving on with their lives,” Stanfill said. “I don’t think people are being compassionate and understanding. You never know what’s actually going on until you actually see the damage.”

When Katrina first hit, Stanfill said he had trouble understanding the magnitude of the destruction. His family reluctantly set out for their relatives’ Baton Rouge home.

Before they left, Stanfill’s mother made sure the house was clean and the rooms were neat, he said as he glanced at a picture of his debris-scattered living room. “We thought we would have a mini vacation and be back in four or five days,” he said.

Twenty-five family members packed into the Baton Rouge home as Katrina descended upon the GulfCoast.

“The lights went out while the hurricane was passing through New Orleans,” Stanfill said.

It was the first time reality set in, he added.

“I was in denial, I just couldn’t believe that I spent 17 years ofmy life in this house and it was completely under water, totally

the schools “I plead ignorance. Realty, just because someone has a logo doesn’t mean that it’s copyrighted,” he said. “I thought I would just get a letter saying, ‘lt’s copyrighted.

Don’t do it.’ Instead, I got a letter saying I’m being sued.”

Burness said University officials will periodically find out someone is using Duke logos illegally and, like IU did, usually contact the perpetrators and inform them to stop or pay an appropriate royalty.

“We have to approve it,” he said. ‘You cannot use Duke’s logo without the institution’s permission.”

When IU officials found out about the decals, they sent Hughes a letter, and he stopped selling the stickers. However, in the ensuing months more letters arrived from the school demanding thousands of dollars in damages.

When he ignored them, later letters demanded a court appearance and threatened for a lien to be put on his property, in addition to monetary penalties.

“That’ll get your attention real quick when they start saying they’re going to put a lien on your house,” Hughes said.

He added that he has made similar products using the mascots and logos of other schools—all made from a CD purchased off of eßay—but stopped after the ID lawsuit.

“I don’t think the ordinary man in the street realizes you can get in trouble doing something like that,” Hughes said.

“I’m never going to do anything like this ever again.”

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Dillardfreshman Zach Stanfill, sitting in his Duke dorm room, would like to continue studying in Durham.

gone,” Stanfill said. “All my awards from baseball, totally gone. I have nothing to show my grandchildren or my kids.”

Stanfill said he was embraced by others in his Bassett dorm, friends in the Black Student Alliance and the larger Duke community after coming to Durham. He said his freshman experience is the Duke experience and that he has trouble imagining,

himself back at Dillard.

“It would be frustrating having to start over,” Stanfill said. “But you just have to deal with it. Life comes at you from all ways.”

As letters and e-mails roll in from Dillard, Stanfill has opted to not enroll at his old school next semester. If he were to return, Dillard would be a very different place, Stanfill said.

Under current plans, Dillard will

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house students on boats and merge with other New Orleans institutions for the spring semester, he said. Stanfill’s family cannot afford the transportation from Baton Rouge to New Orleans every day.

If he cannot stay at Duke, the freshman said he will get a job and try to transfer later to the school he now calls home.

When Stanfill returned home for Fall Break, denial ceased completely. His family’s construction company is struggling, and now his family is homeless, the freshman said in a moment ofrealization as he fingered the photo album.

“I’m here right now, I’m laughing and having a good time with my buddies and stuff, but when I go home, I don’t have a house to go to,” Stanfill said. “When I go home, I’m going somewhere temporary. I don’t have anywhere to live.”

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Bales, Black and Gay combined for just 13 points, while Williams was very efficient, scoring 14 points in just 22 minutes.

Bales and Williams also seem to work well together as a high-low tandem, as Bales twice made nice entry passes from the top of the key to her senior counterpart. The second of these was a critical basket that put Duke up 72-65 with just less than six minutes to play, after which Goestenkors threwm her hands as if to ask, “Why don’t , x do mat every time?”

That seems to be a question worth answering, as Williams has proven to be the most irreplaceable player on the Blue Devil roster. Still, Sunday showed that even with Williams on the floor, Duke is vulnerable to a team with an athletic frontcourt, such as future opponent No. 2 Tennessee.

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“With the way that the game against Tennessee turned out, I knew they were going to come out fighting and battling—and that’s what they did,” Goestenkors said. “When you’ve got a team that has the pride and the tradition—and they are also extremely talented and they are at home—it’s a very dangerous combination.”

Duke started the game in the full-court pressure it had been utilizing in its first five games of the season but gave up on the strategy early after Texas repeatedly broke the press with ease. The Blue Devils' defense in the first half was the worst of the season, as Texas scored 38 points while shooting 56 percent from the floor. Duke still managed to take a lead into halftime, grabbing seven offensive rebounds and

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“I thought we did a better job in the second half, but in the first half I didn’t feel like we took anything away from Texas,” Goestenkors said. “We let them run their sets, we let them penetrate and break us down. Really we just weren’t on the same page defensively.”

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After Sean Dockery's buzzer-beater, theCameron Crazies stormedthe court in celebration of No. 1 Duke's 77-75 win over unranked Virginia Tech Sunday.The crowdremained on the court cheering for more than 10 minutes.

shot over the outstretched hand of Virginia Tech guard Shawn Harris.

“It felt like it was in the air for like 10 seconds,” Dockery said.

The 40-foot shot floated toward the net as the Cameron faithful watched, hoping Duke could overcome an overall lackluster effort with one unlikely play.

The ball rattled in, giving the Blue Devils the two-point win and sending the fans into hysteria.

“It’s a cra2y feeling,” Dockery said.

“After I shot the shot the student body was on me and my teammates and some of my family members were out there. It’s unexplainable, but it’s one of the best feelings you can have playing basketball.”

On the play before Dockery’s shot, Collins won position inside Williams and tipped in a missed Zabian Dowdell six-footer. The game clock initially ran down to 1.0 seconds, but the referees reviewed the play and added an additional six-tenths of a second. The additional time allowed Dockery the opportunity to advance the ball and release the heave with approximately 0.5 seconds remaining.

“I feel for my kids,” said Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg, who returned to Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday night for the first time since being ejected in his first visit to the arena last season., “They

and they had a chance to win.”

Dockery’s last-second heroics masked an ugly last four minutes for the Blue Devils. Duke squandered an 11-point lead over the final 4:19, allowing the Hokies to get back in the game and have a chance to win in the final seconds.

Until Dockery’s shot, Duke was held scoreless during that stretch. JJ. Redick, who was harassed by Virginia Tech defenders all game long and finished with 18 points on 6-for-19 shooting, missed four shots in the last four minutes. The Blue Devils turned the ball over on their other three offensive possessions.

While Duke struggled to find away to score, the team’s defense also collapsed.

Collins led the Hokies with 25 points and slammed in two open dunks during the team’s 12-0 run. Dowdell drove the lane once for an easy hoop, and Virginia Tech also converted four-of-six free throws down the stretch.

“Virginia Tech, I thought, outplayed us,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“The thing that I was disappointed in was that we did not play defense. You cannot lose the game if you play defense.”

The Blue Devils opened up the game’s only double-digit lead immediately before the Hokies’ late run. Duke was down 56-55 with just under 10 minutes left, but the Blue Devils went on a 19-7 spurt over the next five minutes to extend the lead to an

11-point margin.

Dockery, Redick and senior Lee Mel-

chionni all hit three-pointers during the the duo of Williams and Mcßoberts limited Collins inside. Dockery finished with a career-high 19 points, while Williams led the Blue Devils with 21 points and 19 rebounds.

Throughout the game neither team could sustain any momentum. The score was tied 12 times, and the lead changed on 19 occasions during the game.

Much of the back-and-forth action came during the first half. The Blue Devils were without leading scorer Redick for five minutes after the senior guard was hit with a technical foul—his third personal foul of the game—with just over five minutes left in the period.

Redick was upset with an offensive foul call the previous possession when he had been trying to shake loose Hokie guard A.D. Vassallo. The next time down the court, the two went nose-to-nose, yelling at each other. The confrontation resulted in a double technical.

“They got JJ. off his game,” Krzyzewski said. “I feel like I didn’t do a very good job of getting my kids ready to play at an emotional level. I’ve known it for three days, so how we were playing was not a surprise to me.”

Dockery’s shot, however, allowed the Blue Devils to escape a tough challenge for the third straight game. This one, however, may be more memorable than the others.

“It was kind of surreal,” Mcßoberts said.

“I threw it, and I kind of walked down and I saw the ball go up, and I was like, ‘That has a good chance to go in.’ Then when it went in, I don’t even know what happened. I just

saw a bunch of people on the floor.”

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Usual starting guards Dowdell and Jamon Gordon came off the bench for the Hokies for disciplinary reasons, but the two finished with 15 and 11 points, respectively.

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After finishing 14-0at home, Duke earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament, defeating American in thefirst roundbefore falling to No. 1 Nebraska.

Nebraska ends Blue Devil run Mange, a first team all-ACC selection, and Norman, a first team all-ACC freshman selection, combined to After defeating American in the first round of the record only seven kills against Nebraska after posting 16 NCAA Tournament Friday night for its first postseason the night before against American. victory since 2001, Duke saw its season came to an end Junior Tealle Hunkus was the only Blue Devil to Saturday. The Blue Devils (24-8) fell to No. 1 Nebraska, record double-digit kills, as she posted 10 to go along 3-0, snapping their nine-match win streak. with 11 digs—her 16th double-double of the season.

Duke was held to a season-low .043 hitting percentage Despite dropping the match’s first two games and in the loss after tallying a seasonfalling behind 17-6 in the third game, Duke did not go quiDUKE -3 high .494 in their win over the edy. The Blue Devils batded back to within five points, AMERICAN 0 Eagles (25-10). With their victo- forcing a Nebraska timeout with the score at 2T19.

“We started to block more in game three, which was rery over the Blue Devils, the Cornhuskers advanced to (30-1) ally exciting,” Nagel said. “I was pleased with our effort alq DUKE next weekend’s Regional Finals though the match did not turn out as we wouldhave liked.”

NEBRASKA .3 Nebraska’s crowd provided a championship-like atin Omaha, Neb. The preseason favorite in the mosphere that Duke had not seen before. The Blue DevACC, Duke struggled out of the gate in the conference. ils did not see this as a disadvantage, however, and actuThe Blue Devils started the season 5-4 in the ACC but ralally enjoyed playing in front of such a large audience. lied through the second half of their schedule to finish “Even though there were 4,000 fans in red cheering in third place with a conference record of 17-5, earning for the other team, they were really friendly,” Nagel said. a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Nevertheless, they had “They were a knowledgeable crowd—cheering after not faced a team as talented as Nebraska, Nagel said. every rally. Just to play in front of a crowd like thatis a re“They passed really well, which made it difficult to set ward in itself.” up our block,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “They had Many of the problems that plagued Duke against Nethree options to set to every time, and we couldn’t get two braska were absent Friday night against American. The blockers up to defend as much as we would have liked.”

Blue Devils were able to return the Eagles’ serve consisThe two teams split the first eight points of the first tendy and jumped .out to quick starts in each game. Segame, but Nebraska gained control by going on a 16-6 nior Sarah Salem led the team with 14 kills, while Derun. Duke had trouble defending Nebraska’s serve, which Mange and Hunkus recorded 12 and 11 kills, respectively. enabled the Cornhusker offense to dictate the tempo and Sophomore Ali Hausfeld, the Blue Devils’ other all-ACC force the Blue Devils to play from behind early. first-team selection, added a match-high 46 assists in the “We had a little bit of trouble receiving [the serve] 54) victory. and getting our offense going,” Nagel said. “Normally we Although Nagel said that she was disappointed with have a pretty balanced offensive attack, and we weren’t her team’s loss to the Comhuskers, she added that the able to do that tonight because Nebraska was serving very Blue Devils’ appearance in the NCAA Tournament was a well and very tough.” big step for the program.

The Comhuskers, the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tour“I’m so glad that our team got the opportunity to nament, successfully took Duke middle blockers Carrie compete here,” Nagel said. “This was a blessing for us. It DeMange and Jourdan Norman out of the match, holdwill motivate us in the spring as we challenge ourselves to ing them both to negative hitting percentages. De- be better.”

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Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, the Blue Devils and head coach Clar Anderson felt that the gamble paid off.

“There were very, very good wrestlers there, including All-Americans from last year’s finals that placed in as low as fifth, sixth in the tournament,” Anderson said. “It was a very nationally competitive tournament, which was exciting for my guys because they had a chance to wresde some of the best guys in the country and test their wear.”

The tournament annually attracts a large turnout of very competitive wrestling programs from all across the country, allowing the Blue Devils to have the opportunity to wresde schools they would normally never meet.

“I think that it was a first-time opportunity to wrestle with a lot of teams from California, the Midwest, Idaho and Oregon,” Amderson said. “It was just a great opportunity for the guys.”

Sophomore Wes Kuser turned in one of the Blue Devils’ more impressive performances. In less than two minutes, Kuser pulled off an upset victory, pinning Missouri’s Josh Wagner, who Anderson said is a nationally recognized athlete.

“Wes Kuser probably had one of the biggest wins in the tournament by pinning a wrestler from Missouri, a Big 12 competitor,” Anderson said. “That was a big win for him.”

Kuser, who had Duke’s only pin of the tournament, finished the two-day competition at 3-2 in the 149-pound weight class. As a team, the Blue Devils racked up a total of 14.5 points in their 36th place finish. Michigan, the tournament’s winner, weighed in with 145 points.

“The matches that we lost we were competitive in,” Anderson said. “We didn’t have the most successful outcome, but I was pleased with a lotof the guys’ performances. Wes Kuser and Dan Tulley did a great job for us and probably went the farthest in the tournament.”

Anderson also highlighted strong performances by sophomore Turner Rooney, junior Antwone Floyd and freshman Addison Nuding, representing the 174-, 141and 157-pound weight classes, respectively.

Despite the team’s 36th place finish, Anderson seemed happy with his team’s showing and the national exposure, especially considering his squad’s inexperience. The Blue Devils sent just 10 wresders to the tournament, five of whom were either freshmen or redshirt freshmen.

“I was real pleased with their performances,” said Anderson of his first year wresders. “I hope they will gain confidence from this, and hopefully next year moves better.”

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President Richard BrodFew things in acadehead revealed the number StSTTGCIItOriSI mia are more embarThursday and followed the rassing than failing to understated announcement with a reach a fundraising target, But since then, the University has gala kick-off dinner for donors, trustees, and a handful of other Uni- proven its ability to rake in money. Part of this success has been the developversity VIPs. With the current level of financial ment of a carefully fostered network aid endowment, this celebrated boost of alumni, parents and friends of the would bring the total endowment re- University. But part of the success served for financial aid to $1 billion. has been the causes Duke has chosen At first glance, $3OO million to use as rallying points. sounds like a lot of money, but in the For the past several years, buildworld of Duke fundraising, it is hardings have served as the central symbol ly an ambitious goal. of Duke’s achievements. The benefit After all, during the five-year Camfor donors is semi-immortal fame, as paign for Duke that closed just two rooms, landmarks and even whole years ago more than $2.2 billion buildings bear their names. poured into the school.

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With these gestures, Duke is showing the way that the seemingly abstract gift of money for aid has tangible effects.

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Duke experience, I’ve become well aware of the unStill, sometimes I forget it’s there. I’ll be walking spoken animosity between staffers—who actually put on a parallel street, turn my head at in the hard work to write all the stories an intersection and glimpse a surprisin the paper—and columnists, attening slice of the structure at the end of tion-seeking rock stars who take all the the alley. Or in a taxi, I’ll know I’m glory away from the kid who worked close to home when suddenly we’re on his page-four story for three weeks. driving next to a wall of pink stone.

There is little overlap between Unlike St. Mark’s in Venice or St. these two camps, largely because Peter’s in Rome, both of which have columnists are afraid to come to the grand accompanying piazzas, it is imnewsroom and active Chronicle news emily rotberg possible to see the entire structure of staffers cannot write columns. It this cathedral. The Duomo appears common language turns out that the only way to actualonly in snatches. ly get to write a column is to write for From the top ofits belltower, Florence stretches out Sports, which the sports editors won’t allow me, of like a pop-up map. We go around the thin walkway the “why is it called a field goal in basketball?” inand point at landmarks in all four directions. Most of famy, to do, or to write from abroad, where you are them are churches: Santa Croce, Santu Spiritu, Santa removed from the day-to-day production and newsMaria Novella, Orsanmichele... the list goes on. And making. Luckily, with that arrangement you already there’s the market, the Amo, the Boboli Gardens know most of the people in the newsroom, so if they and—is it? Yes! My apartment. say mean things about your column, they’re more A few nights ago, a roommate, a friend and I willing to share the criticisms. Thanks to everyone at walked back to the flat through empty late-night the Chron, who would much rather have had me on streets. Nobody called out from the steps of the editboard than on the edit pages.

Duomo, usually full of teens, tourists and drunks Thanks also to all the friends who let me crash on in warmer weather. The crowds have thinned since their couches while humoring my vague questions and winter came a couple of weeks ago. Soon there will unknowingly listening to me test snippets of columns. be even fewer people in the streets.

Lately, I’ve been asking friends I’ve had the fortune We came across a colonnaded patio, by day a to run into how they’re going to make their semesterbustling leather market but completely empty after long homes part of their lives back in the States. dark. A bronze sculpture of a boar, one ofmany symKatie wants to take flamenco lessons. Jess wants bols of Florence, sat at the opposite end of the marto continue following political developments in ket. It’s famous—ifyou mb the boar’s nose, they say the European Union. Another girl is considering you’ll come back to Florence. Every city has these taking an intense Arabic course in Lebanon to touchstones. In Prague, you touch the place where a continue what she started in Egypt. Sophia wants priest was thrown off the Charles Bridge. In Rome, to maintain Barcelona’s laid-back attitude in you throw coins over your left shoulder into the Duke’s high-stress environment.

Trevi Fountain. Here we have a boar.

Another friend, notorious for running himself But do I want to come back? This place is stuck in to the ground with extracurricular commitments, the Renaissance, and since that brings in money, also said he wants to preserve the more relaxed there’s little impetus for modernization. Anyone way of life he found in Spain. who thinks all European countries are basically the The topic came up over a Belgian chocolate same should compare the experiences of sending and banana crepe at the Kensington Creperie. packages from London and Florence. And the peo“That’s easy,” Lindsay said, as if it were the most ple haven’t been the warmest. There are dozens of obvious thing in the world. study abroad programs here, and thousands of gap“I’ll come back.” ing tourists trudge and click their way past the sights Well, of course—after all, I did rub the boar’s every day, but to still feel scowled at and unwelcome snout. after three and a half months?

See you soon I don’t think it’s just me.

A trickle of water drooled into a basin below the Emily Rotberg is a Trinity junior studying abroad in boar’s big ugly snout. We took turns rubbing the Italy. This is her last column.

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have no right to exist as a group on campus,” said Jeff Federspiel, Student Organization Finance Committee chair, in the Nov. 30 Duke Student Government meeting where Estacion Libre was denied both charter and recognition status. We are a campus group dedicated to the political organization and empowerment of people of color and the elimination of the global exploitation imposed on the peoples of the world in the name of free trade. But DSG decided that EL was too similar to other “liberal” or-

ganizations Federspiel said we were not a “unique” group and that it would be a “terrible precedent if [DSG recognized] two groups with identical missions targeted for chien two different races; everyone needs to be toguest commentary gether in one group, for one purpose.”

There is a new racism afoot, and DSG embodies it flawlessly. It calls itself “color-blind” and is promoted by those who stand most to gain from the empty rhetoric of a pre-existent “equality” (which masks the material reality of racial inequality and the persisting social segregation on campus).

But Federspiel is onto something indeed; By insisting that people ofcolor must surrender their unique concerns in the name of some delusion of a “color-blind” society and continue to be satisfied with white-dominated organizations, he

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guarantees that racial hierarchies—whether on the left or of the global market, the most powerful force of homogethe right—can never be challenged. nization today. In this market, you can buy your difference Although DSG recognizes both “cultural” groups and (come get your Salsa tickets and Malcolm X hats!) and you “political” groups, they have rejected a group organized are paid with indifference (the insipid color of money). around the concept ofa ‘people-of-color’ politics. This is the This is the logic of the global market on Duke’s campus height of irony for many of the members ofEstacion Libre, where you can buy your difference and you are paid with inwhose own experiences have led them to explicidy refuse difference—the insipid color of money. In neither case are the only two options presented to us on this campus: you allowed to access the means to produce your difference.

1) the objectification made possible by a false notion of a It should be clear that DSG’s decision and the logic it embodies is a danger to everyone. Should queer people be depoliticized and frankly essentialist identity, and 2) the indifference to difference provided by the call to forced into heterosexually dominatedorganizations? Should women be forced into male-dominated organizations? This “equality” in race-blind organizations.

In other words, DSG itself functions on the very logic decision should be a wake up call for us all.

Estacion Libre was founded to combat: that people ofcolor The struggle against the logic of the global market is the must be held hostage to a homogenizing logic whereby difstruggle for our very difference. This was the fight of the ference will be tolerated only if it is constructed for us to perBlack Panthers Party in the United States. This is the strugform for the enjoyment of others, or where our self-articulatgle occurring across the globe today, from the Zapatistas in ed difference must be neutralized and silenced in the name Mexico to the workers’ movement in South Korea and from of political organizing. the Autonomists in Italy to the Piqueteros in Argentina. So And yet it makes perfect sense that Estacion Libre, whose too is Estacion Libre creating a politics based on the notion project is precisely about the self-determination of people of of “people ofcolor” that interrogates the construction, percolor as active, political agents, would be deemed illegitiformance and appropriation of difference within capitalism and critically examines alternatives for democratic decisionmate by a process wherein a white-dominated student government monopolizes the power to adjudge for us what difmaking processes and political agency. ferences rise to the level of significant political differences.

We are unique (and maybe a little too different) and we DSG decides which differences are not significant, and conare relevant to the student body. DSG may not recognize our sequently who should be denied “recognition.” Such are the right to organize—such is their choice; but as far as the right itself, it is ours. Here we are! indignities of representational politics.

In the Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison says, “Whence all this senior. She is a member of passion toward conformity anyway?” The logic that DSG apJennifer Chien is a Trinity . plies on Duke’s campus towards people ofcolor is the logic Estacidn Libre.

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