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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2006

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Students stage new protests by

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legations involving the University’s men’s lacrosse team, students are looking to an array of venues —from the residence where the alleged incident took place to the doors of the Allen Building —to voice a wide range of concerns and opinions regarding the incident.

Many students have positioned themselves in stark opposition to the accused, while others have given the players the benefit of a doubt.

Numerous posters were hung outside the home at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., where the alleged incident occurred, both supporting and condemning the players. One poster defined the word “alleged,” while another stated, “Duke students support Duke students” and a third declared, “You have support —hang in there.”

Despite views backing the players, as indicated by the posters, no students showed up to support SEE PROTESTS ON PAGE 5

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DSG President Jesse Longoria (right) speaks to a news crew, as lawyers for two of the men's lacrosse players look on Thursday.

Media descend on Duke by

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Local and national media outlets have swarmed Main West Campus this week, seeking answers and attempting to ensure that their audiences have the latest information pertaining to allegations that three members of the men’s lacrosse team raped and assaulted an exotic dancer at an off-campus party March 13.

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more than 1,500 articles related the incident. The London Times featured a story about the incident in their international section Thursday, and The New York Times’ March 29 frontpage article about the controversy was the second-most emailed story for the publication by that evening.

As some media outlets left Duke Thursday night, community members began to reflect on the coverage.

“Some of them, you don’t to

know where the next arrow is going to come from,” said John Bumess, senior vice president for public and government relations about media coverage of the incident. “Until the investigation is completed, there is going to be more of this.”

Although the current onslaught of attention might befuddle some members of the community, top brass said they know exactly why Duke is under SEE MEDIA ON PAGE 4

Attorneys representing members of the men’s lacrosse team defended their clients against allegations of rape Thursday. They said the media and community are jumping to unfair conclusions based on insufficient evidence. “[The players] all categorically deny—to the [last] man—that any sexual act occurred with the dancer,” attorney James Williams, who is representing lacrosse team captain and senior Dan Flannery, said in a media interview on the Main West Quadrangle.

The attorneys questioned District Attorney Mike Nifong’s actions in the investigation—particularly his decision to require that DNA samples be taken from 46 of the team’s 47 members.

“Steps have been taken, and statements have been made without sufficient investigation and evidence to back them up,” said SEE LACROSSE ON PAGE 7

Wolf wins DSG presidential race by

Katherine Macllwaine THE CHRONICLE

Sophomore Elliott Wolf was elected 2006-2007 Duke Student Government president after a computerized runoff Thursday night.

The women's basketball team, which defeated UConn in overtime Tuesday, will head to the Final Four, where they will face the LSU Tigers Sunday in Boston. Maryland and North Carolina will play in theother semifinal game.

Wolf, who is a Chronicle columnist and Angier B. Duke Scholar, received 36.76 percent of the 3,479 votes cast in the presidential race. The DSG website indicated that 3,543 people voted for at least one of the positions—the highest voter turnout in recent years. Although made official by the DSG executive board, the results will be challenged by sophomore Hasnain Zaidi, who finished behind Wolf with 27.36 percent of votes.

The election bylaws state that if no candidate receives alO percent plurality—a requirement that Wolf did not meet—the winner will be determined by a runoff. Zaidi drew attention to a potential conflict between two sections of the bylaws regarding how the plurality will be determined.

DSG Attorney General Bryce Walker, a senior, said the conflict within the bylaws is not definite. “It’s not a black-and-white situation,” he said. “They aren’t necessarily two different things.”

He added that the election commission will further SEE DSG ON PAGE 5

Sophomore Elliott Wolf, a Chronicle columnist, was elected as the 20062007 Duke Student Government president Thursday.

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where she called her family and gave an interview to Baghdad Television before being handed over to U.S. authorities.

The 28-year-old freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor said her kidnappers confined her to a small, soundproof room with frosted windows but treated her well.

Although her captors issued televised threats to kill Carroll if American forces did not release female prisoners, she said, “They never said they would hit me, never threatened me in any way.”

Carroll said she did not know who her kidnappers were, where she was held or why she was set free.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq American reporter three-month Carroll’s hostage ordeal Jill ended Thursday when she was left on a Baghdad street in front of a Sunni polidcal party office. She appeared composed and eager to talk about her 82 days she spent capdve in a tiny room.

“It’s important people know that I was not harmed,” she said.

Wearing a green Islamic head scarf and a gray Iraqi robe, Carroll was dropped off at midday near an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party. She walked inside and was then driven 20 minutes to party headquarters,

Shortly before she was released, the

journalist said, “They just came to me and said, ‘OK, we’re letting you go now.’

That’s all.”

The U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said there was no ransom paid by the American embassy, but his remarks left open the question of whether “arrangements” were made by others. None of the kidnappers were captured, he said.

In the interview, Carroll seemed well and animated and spoke in a strong voice.

She frequently tucked her hair under her headscarf, and appeared excited to be free nearly three months after she was ambushed and her translator killed.

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turned less than a mile off the coast, the agency said. Television footage showed the ferry capsized but not sunk, with rescue workers walking on its brown hull.

U.S. helicopters and divers joined the rescue operation launched by Bahrain’s coast guard. Bahrain, a tiny island nation on the western side of the Persian Gulf, is home to the Navy’s sth Fleet.

Rescue teams brought bodies covered with white sheets to the shore, and hospital workers hurried them to waiting ambulances.

Scores of officials and relatives waited on the dock watching small rescue boats

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up to 150 people capsized Thursday night in the Persian Gulfoff the coast of Bahrain, and at least 48 bodies were recovered, the country’s coast guard chief said.

Coast guard chief Youssef al-Katem said at least 63 people survived. A passenger on board the ferry calling from his cell phone was the first to alert officials that the ship was listing, he said.

The official Bahrain News Agency said the ferry—the al-Dana—was on an evening cruise that was to last several hours. It over-

with flashing blue lights bring more bodies and survivors.

There was no indication of what caused the ferry to capsize in what appeared to be ideal weather conditions. The government dismissed terrorism as a cause, and the news agency quoted Interior Ministry spokesperson Maj. Mohammed Ben Dayna calling it an accident.

“It’s too early to say what caused the accident,” Ben Dayna said.

Al-Katem said an investigation was underway. According to Bahrain television, the ferry’s owners said overloading could have caused the ferry to capsize.

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The state's highest court ruled Thursday that same-sex couples from states where gay marriage is prohibited cannot tie the knot in Massachusetts. Gov. Mitt Romney welcomed the decision, saying he did not want Massachusetts to become "the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage."

Taylor trial may move to Europe Prosecutors requested Thursday that former Liberian President Charles Taylor's trial for crimes against humanity be moved from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands. He is the first African head of state tried for war crimes before an international court.

U.S. Army bans private armor Soldiers will no longer be allowed to wear body armor other than the protective gear issued by the military, Army officials said Thursday. Officials said soldiers were buying inadequate or untested commercial armor from private companies.

La. repair could take 25 years Much of New Orleans' rebirth from Hurricane Katrina hinges on factors beyond the government's control and could take up to a quarter-century to complete, President George W. Bush's Gulf Coast recovery chief said Thursday.

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For the 19,358 applicants who applied

to become part ofDuke’s class of 2010, the

wait is over.

Today, the University is mailing decision letters to more than 18,000 applicants. Decisions became available online at 6 p.m. Thursday. Only 3,778 students won admittance, including the 470 accepted in December through early decision.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions accepted roughly 19 percent of applicants this year, the lowest rate on record. They hope to enroll 1,665 students, reflecting an expected yield of more than 40 percent.

“The increase that we saw in regular decision [applications] this year was not expected,” said Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions.

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plications, 7 percent more than last year.

Guttentag said that number usually rises in proportion to the change in early deci-

sion applications, which grew only 1.9 perdisparity, the University offered admission to a smallerthan-planned fraction of seniors applying through regular decision.

“I think if we had known... we might have made some different decisions,” Guttentag said.

He was quick to note that he did not regret accepting any of the students who received early admission.

“I think [the class of 2010] will be as intellectually or academically accomplished or powerful as last year’s class,” Guttentag said. He added that on a personal and extracurricular level, “They may be even more impressive than the current first-year class.”

The University sent out 171 fewer acceptance letters than last year, not counting students admitted from the waitlist, despite a stable target class size.

Last year, an unexpectedly high fraction of the strongest admittees chose Duke, leading to an overly large class of 2009, in which a record 1,724 students enrolled.

Many of the admitted students will be on campus this weekend for Latino Student Recruitment Weekend and Duke Up Close, an invitational event for some of the most qualified applicants. The students’ visit comes during a period of high publicity for the University, due to the recent controversy surrounding the men’s lacrosse team.

“The main thing we will be telling the students is [that] whatever happened at the off-campus party is not representative of the student body and of the University as a whole,” Guttentag explained.

“For the students that host visiting students, we don’t expect them to do anything other than talk about the Duke they know.” cent this year. Because of the

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James Yee was imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit—and he shared his story with a crowd of about 100 students and area residents Thursday night.

Attendees gathered in Richard White Lecture Hall to hear Yee read from his new book, For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire. Yee, a former U.S. Army chaplain, was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba because he was -suspected of espionage and treason.

“My story is an American one,” Yee said.

The veteran began the evening describing his conversion to Islam.

Raised as a Lutheran, he began to notice a number ofsimilarities between Islam and Christianity.

When Yee was deployed to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the Gulf War, he took the opportunity to visit the holy city of Mecca. “It was the most eye-opening experience of my life,” he said.

Yee continued to study the religion and became an Army chaplain Jan. 2001.

After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Yee

said he was called to be a bridge-builder between the army and Muslims. “I became what you may call the poster boy for Muslims,” he said.

Yee was then assigned to serve as the prisoner chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “[The prisoners] would tell me how they were often mistreated and abused,” Yee said.

He gave several examples of instances when religion was used against prisoners in an attempt to glean intelligence information Sometimes prisoners were forced to sit in the center of a satanic circle painted on the floor.

“The interrogators said, ‘Satan is your god, not Allah,’” Yee recalled.

He added that the intelligence officers also took advantage of Islamic culture and etiquette.

Tensions ran so high among prisoners that Yee said riots and mass suicide attempts became a problem.

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Campus Council and Residential Life and Housing Services officials discussed damages to living space at the Council’s general body meedng Thursday night.

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior, invited Deb Lo Biondo, assistant dean for residence life on West Campus, to inform members of policies about common room damages on West Campus.

Lo'Biondo explained thatwhen a group of students can be identified as culprits for damages, they will be required to pay restitution fees. A majority of damages, however, are not attributed to anyone.

She noted that there has been a decrease in damage costs compared to last year, but restitution fees collected have increased this year.

Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, said he does not budget damages into RLHS’s expenses. If such costs were budgeted into housing fees, fees would increase and have a direct effect on financial aid, he added.

“I choose to treat students as adults and give them the benefit of the doubt,” Hull said. “If I treat them as children then I will start budgeting damages, and I won’t.”

Both Lo Biondo and Hull believe the real problem is not expenditures but student behavior.

“What we are really concerned about are the behaviors that instigated these damages,” Lo Biondo said. “There is a blatant lack of respect by some to public property.”

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Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior,listens to a presentation on vandalism Thursday night.

whelming majority of damages, she noted In other business: Ganatra raised concerns about sponsoring the Old Duke party, scheduled for Friday afternoon, in light ofrecent allegations against the men’s lacrosse team.

Members unanimously decided to carry out the event as scheduled, saying the party can act as an opportunity to resume normal campus life and is a chance for students to demonstrate their ability to act responsibly in the presence of alcohol.

“Students can get together and unwind,” said sophomore Hasnain Zaidi, at-large representative. “It’s been a tough week. They can let off steam in a responsible fashion.”

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noting that sensationalist issues followed by race and class controversies certainly trigger media inquiry. the microscope.

In response to the rape allegations Bumess explained that because the inand subsequent media frenzy, the cident involves various controversial lacrosse team’s roster was pulled from gofacets—alleged sexual abuse, off-campus duke.com. The players also closed their partying, as well as socio-economic and facebook.com profiles earlier this week. racial factors—it has easily become fodder The removal of personal information for news coverage. “It’s almost like a perfrom the sites has made it more difficult fect storm,” Burness said. than usual for reporters around the naKenneth Rogerson, a media expert tion to find players’ names, contact inwith the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media formation and photographs. and Democracy, said the situation would Some media oudets, such as MSNBC, have been newsworthy locally no matter left campus Thursday and will return when the circumthe DNA results come back next stances, but other eleweek. Other sta“They’re being invasive.... I ments have tions’ representatives said they catapulted don’t really appreciate the issue into were unable to the ranks of reporters asking, tell if the end of national intheir Duke visit ‘Do you feel violated?”’ trigue. was near.

“The main Doha Mekki “People have reaction inisaid ‘How loner tially was that are you going to the team was be here?’, stuff so highly ranked,” he said, explaining that like that. It’s pretty early,” Anthony Sozinational interest continued because the ol, a freelance sound technician with team’s silence resulted in only one side of ESPN, said Thursday. “When it turns the story was being told. into a circus—as I’m sure this will—and Rogerson noted that he does not think there are vans parked on the sidewalk, the media coverage is extraneous. that’s when people get annoyed.”

“Do we give people what they want or For some students, however, the media give people what they need to know?” he are already a source of annoyance. asked. “Too much [coverage] ? No. Too litMany complained about having to tle? No. It is what it is.” . weave around vans, cameras, lights and Rogerson added that although he reporters to make their way to classes. would call some of the reporting “scrap“It’s no longer a Duke issue because they’re being invasive and trying to py”—specifically the publishing of criminal records of 15 lacrosse team memmake it seem like a race riot in the Jim bers —he does not think coverage has Crow South. It’s a question of accountabeen biased. bility,” junior Doha Mekki. “I don’t real“[Media outlets] are picking up on ly appreciate reporters asking, ‘Do you things they think are necessary,” he said, feel violated?”’

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ministrators communicate with students more consistendy regarding legal incidents to protect students and that they address the racial component of the incident.

In another facet of student response decrying the lacrosse team’s alleged conduct, several students at a rally Thursday evening said they agreed with calls urging players to speak openly about the incident; Posters, which featured photos of 43 of the 47 team members, were hung around campus Wednesday encouraging members of the lacrosse team to come forward.

Hoping to expand Duke’s “arena for response,” third-year mathematics graduate student Rann Bar-on, who is known for his work with Progressive Alliance and Hiwar, organized the open microphone rally—the sixth event in response to the incident since Saturday—outside the Allen Building.

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Concerned Citizens at Duke University, however, disagreed with support for the lacrosse team, noting in the draft of a report disseminated Thursday via e-mail that the incident was not the first instance of racism involving members of the team.

The report pointed to “a blackface picture with [team member] Nick O’Hara and a lacrosse player found last year on Facebook.com.” In addition, the group described an incident involving a lacrosse player who “deridingly asked if AfricanAmerican students were eating watermelon and chicken” at a barbecue held by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., a black fraternity on campus.

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“Despite the open-ended nature of the situation, students need outlets beyond the University-sponsored events,” Bar-on said.

Candace Webb, a graduate student at the Divinity School who attended Thursday’s rally, said she appreciated President Richard Brodhead’s efforts to address the issue of sexual assault.

“I think he should own up to the cloud ofracism that now represents the University,” she added.

At the conclusion of the rally, students resolved to gather at the team’s next practice in opposition to players’ silence regarding the incident.

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Among the other five executive office races, the only other forced runoff was for the position of vice president of community interaction. investigate the situation by discussing possible interpretations of the bylaws with the candidates and the designers Freshman Jordan Giordano won the hotly contested race, beating junior Daniel Bowes by 30 votes. of the software that conducted the runoff.

Zaidi has a 24-hour period from the time the results Winners of the four other races received enough votes were made official Thursday night to present a formal to render runoffs unnecessary. complaint. The election commission will meet tomorrow Juniors Joe Fore, Jimmy Soni, David Snider and Magto review any complaints and reach a final decision. gie McGannon will serve as executive vice president, “I’m pleased with the results of the election,” Wolf said. vice president of academic affairs, vice president of ath“We’ll see what happens.” letics and campus services and vice president of student This year, instead of selecting one candidate, voters affairs, respectively.

Walker said the website—which featured profiles of all ranked all five on their online ballots. The software—which used the rankings to conduct an instant runoff—- the candidates—may have been responsible for what execwas added to the voting website in order to prevent probutives called the high voter turnout.

This year’s voting pool exceeded last year’s by 691 stulems raised in last year’s runoff, which lasted six days.

Walker would not on whether dents.

With 52.4 percent of the student body casting balcomment Although lots, DSG executives said they were surprised by the level of there was in fact a flaw in the bylaws, he said Zaidi pointturnout because of campus’ current focus on the alleged ed to a potential conflict between two sections.

The first section of the bylaws states that if no candirape of a woman by members of the men’s lacrosse team.

“I was even more excited by the turnout —especially date receives the necessary 10 percent plurality, the top two finishers will compete in a runoff election. The secsince the DSG elections haven’t been the dominating ond section states that the lowest finisher will be dropped topic on campus, as they were last year,” Longoria said. “It just speaks to the importance of having a representative from the race, and all votes for that candidate will be redistributed among voters’ other choices. The second body of the students.”

Wolf attributed the increased participation rate to this process is repeated until the first section’s criteria are met.

Kendall, Felix and Thomas wide pool of candidates.

Li year’s Remington Juniors With five students running for president —as opposed Storrs finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in this year’s race. Zaidi said that by dropping Storrs from the to last year’s three—candidates were able to reach more students, he said. race, the software conducted a four-way runoff that redis“There was a lot of opportunity for presidential canditributed approximately 1,100 votes to Kendall and Li. dates to get out there,” he said. “I hope it will make DSG “That’s a third of all the votes cast,” Zaidi said. “Regardless of the outcome, I just want to make sure that every an effective lobby on behalf of the students.”

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High school underclassmen touring An all-time high of 1,234 Latino high campus seemed generally unfazed by the school students applied this year, a numheavy media presence, saying that their in- ber that Rivera said includes internationterest in the al students from University was Latin America. unaffected.

She noted that “The main thing we will be “I think bathe establishment of a Latino sically [visiting the students is [that] telling admitted stucommunity on whatever happened at the offare dents] has campus coming with helped recruit is not representacampus party different quesstudents who that tive of the student body and of tions with identify that minority. maybe they the University as a whole.” wouldn’t think The applicant about [other—Christoph Guttentag pool also includsaid wise],” ed record numbers ofblack and junior Catarina Rivera, coAsian/Asianpresident of Mi Gente, the Latino stu- American students, and the trend toward dent group that helps to organize increasing interest among international LSRW. “I don’t know how their percepapplicants continued. tion of Duke is being affected.”

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YEE from page 3 “[The guards] were busy trying to pull prisoners down from the nooses they had made from their bed sheets,” Yee said.

In response, Yee created a policy which took into account the respect and dignity of the Quran, while also maintaining security procedures for personnel.

After 10 months in Guantanamo Bay, Yee took what he thought would be a twoweek leave from duty.

When he arrived in an airport in Jacksonville, Fla., he was stopped by customs officials. “It wasn’t a routine custom search,” Yee said. “It wasn’t a coincidence —it was a

sting operation.”

Yee was thrown into prison for allegations of sedition, aiding the enemy, spying and espionage. The military refused to contact his family. “I basically disappeared from society,” Yee said.

His family later learned from the news that Yee would be charged with capital crimes, punishable by the death penalty.

Yee was transferred to a maximum security prison in Charleston, S.C. “I was shackled just like the prisoners at

Guantanamo—at the wrists, at the waist, at the ankles—what is called a three-piece suit,” Yee said.

He added that he was deprived of his religious rights and held in solitary confinement for 76 days.

Yee was then suddenly released and charged with lesser offenses, including mishandling classified documents.

He sought representation and learned that the charges were unsubstantiated. “[The government] had never even definitively showed that I had anything that was classified,” Yee said.

Eventually all charges against him were dropped, and Yee resigned from the Army, receiving an award for his exceptional conduct.

“That’s something I strive for today—an apology,” Yee said.

Although some audience members said Yee did not present both sides of the story, many attendees said they supported Yee’s opinions.

“I think the government is not necessarily being open with a lot of what they are doing,” said Hope Homesley, a North Carolina State University graduate student.

attorney Kerry Sutton, who is representing captain Matt Zash, a senior.

The Durham Police Department obtained an order mandating DNA testing for the 46 white members of the lacrosse team March 23.

Nifong has said he is “convinced” that rape occurred. “The statements that [the team] makes are inconsistent with the physical evidence in this case,” he said

Wednesday.

Williams expressed indignation at what he said has been one-sided news coverage of the allegations. “The boys are being tried in the media before there was any charge or any specific defendant in the case,” Sutton said. “And that’s just not fair.”

Sutton and Williams were joined by attorneys Joe Cheshire and Robert Ekstrand for a press conference Thursday afternoon. Ekstrand is currently representing 35 team members, and Cheshire is representing captain Dave Evans, a senior.

Attorneys Wade Smith and Bill Thomas, who has said he is representing a captain, were not present at the press event. Sutton said all the attorneys are

working closely.

Although the DNA testing has been the subject ofwidespread criticism and speculation, it will be up to Nifong to decide whether or not to make the results public, saidKammie Michael, DPD public information officer. Because the DNA evidence is only one part of the investigation, any potential formal charges would not depend exclusively on the results, Michael added.

The results are expected from the State Bureau of Investigation next week.

A judge sealed a search warrant issued for a room on the second floor of Edens Quadrangle House 2C earlier this week.

Junior Kevin Riddles, who lives on the hall where the search was conducted, said he saw two or three police officers in street clothes and only realized who they were when he saw one of their badges.

University officials have continued to respond to the allegations and the national media attention they have attracted.

President Richard Brodhead sent separate letters to alumni and parents of undergraduate students Thursday morning.

“It’s understandable to feel badly when

Attorneys representing members of the men's lacrosse team have noted discrepancies in one of the 911 calls released by the Durham Police Department Tuesday.

In the call, made at 12:53 a.m. March 14, an unidentified black woman reports that a white man shouted racial slurs at her and a friend in front of 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. —the house where the alleged rape occurred.

James Williams, an attorney representing team captain and senior Dan Flannery, questions how the woman knew the street number of the house—repeatedly stating it in the 911 call—even though the house has no numbers marking it. "You can't see the numbers. You don't even know what the address is, but yet she says, 'Oh we're at 610,"’ he said. "You don't know you're at 610. You don't know if you're at 608 or 606."

The search warrant issued for the residence, however, states that "the numbers 610 are black and are on the front door of the residence," leading to speculation that the numbers were removed after the incident occurred.

In addition, Williams pointed out that the woman variously says she is walkingand driving by the house on the tape. "[The discrepancies] glared out at me," Williams said. "1 know somebody lied—no doubt." terrible things may have happened at a place you love,” the letter to the alumni stated.

Brodhead also met with the Academic Council Thursday afternoon to address the concerns of faculty members.

Athletic Director Joe Alieva invited all student-athletes to a forum in Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday evening.

“It was brought together because we were concerned for our student-athletes.

We just want to help them and answer any questions for them,” Alieva said after the meeting. “It was a terrific dialogue.”

Administrators wanted to know from student-athletes if they are being treated differendy on campus as a result of the situation, said Kathleen Smith, professor of biology and faculty athletics representative.

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From staff reports After engaging in a cross-country scoring race that captured the attention of college basketball fans nationwide, J.J. Redick and Adam Morrison split the United States Basketball Writers Association player of the year award Thursday.

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With the first game of next season more than six months away, the football team has plenty of time to work on its skills.

Coming off a 1-10 season, in which the Blue Devils did not win a league game, Duke knows it has many areas to work on if it wants to be more competitive in ACC play this season.

The 13 returning starters and 40 lettermen began their spring practice March 25 and will conclude its 15 workouts with its Spring Game April 22.

“The first of our goals is for everybody to learn the tools of the trade and for everybody to execute the tools of the trade,” Roof said. “Number two is to build the team, some people call it unity, chemistry, or trust, but we want to add that value to the team. The third thing I want to do is just to have some fun. I want the guys to have fun competing and playing the game. I want this to be the best two hours of the day for them.”

Although the Blue Devils are focused on Roof s objectives, spring training also offers the young team an opportunity for many different types of growth.

“There is so much teaching going on,” Roof said. “It’s so good to see younger players grow and get better and go from a role where they were maybe a back-up or a redshirt to now where they’re the guy the team is counting on to be at the front of the position.”

Attempting to foster growth in the spring is not an unfamiliar theme for Duke. During the past two years, the Blue Devils have seen more freshmen play than any other team in Division I, Roof said.

Duke’s reliance on freshman play highlights an essential part of the Blue Devil program that will not be on the field for spring drills—the 26 incoming recruits.

“Some of those guys are definitely going to have to play,” Roof said. “I hope that’s a trend we can cut back on as we grow our program but that’s the landscape of where we are right now.”

Duke only returns one starter from its offensive line, rising-junior center Matt Rumsey. Several other linemen did receive significant playing time at the end of last season, and the young group will

attempt to protect rising-sophomore quarterback Zack Asack, the returning signal-caller.

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ever, is one area in which the team has veteran experience. Led by seniors John

Talley, Casey Camero and Eli Nichols, the group offers guidance and leadership to the younger players during the practice season.

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The last time the Blue Devils lost was more than 10 months ago when Virginia beat them, 15-13, in the NCAA semifinals May 20, 2005.

No. 2 Duke (9-0, 3-0 in the ACC) will have a chance to avenge that loss and solidify itself atop the ACC Saturday at 1 p.m. at Koskiyg nen Stadium. If the team wishes to do so, it will have to correct its SATURDAY, 1 p.m. recent habit of building Koskinen Stadium early leads, only to relax and allow its opponents to creep back into the game.

In last year’s season-ending loss, the Blue Devils jumped out on Virginia, 5-2, early, but that lead slipped away amid a 71 first-half run and was lost for good during a five-goal second-half barrage by the Cavaliers (9-2, 2-1).

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“About once in a generation, we see a situation where there are two extraordinary players who separate themselves from the rest of college basketball and clearly stand together as the best in the game,” USBWA President Tony Barnhart said.

It is Redick’s third National Player of the Year award this season. He repeated as the Rupp Award winner and Sporting News also gave him the honor.

Redick set the single-season scoring record at Duke after averaging 26.8 points per game. He also broke the NCAA record for three-point shots made and became the school’s and the ACC’s all-time leading scorers.

Redick is the first Duke player to win the USBWA award since Jason Williams captured it in 2002.

Morrison, a junior at Gonzaga, averaged 28.1 points and 5.5 rebounds while leading the Bulldogs to a WCC championship and a Sweet 16 appearance.

Redick and Morrison are good friends, having met at a summer camp, and play each other regularly in Halo 2 on Xbox.

Both players have been invited to the USA Basketball National Team training camp this summer.

So far this season, the Blue Devils have counted on fast starts to gain an early edge. Even though Duke has yet to blow any ofits leads during its undefeated run, it has been susceptible to sporadic

charges by opposing teams.

After the Blue Devils jumped out to a 7-1 advantage over No. 4 Georgetown March 18, the Hoyas crawled their way back into the game and were only down a goal with 10 minutes to play. Duke, however, held on for a 10-8 victory.

“I think we’ve worked on not being satisfied when we get up by a certain number of goals,” junior attacker Kristen Waagbo said. “We just really want to stay aggressive and savvy and not allow other teams to get back into the game.”

Virginia is not the same team that held Duke to one goal in the final 11 minutes of the teams’ previous matchup. But the Cavaliers return plenty of experience, SEE W. LAX ON PAGE 10

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Senior JJ. Redick was named the USBWA Player of the Year, his third such honorthis season.

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W.LAX from page 9 such as senior attacker Tyler Leachman who is tied with Duke senior attacker Katie Chrest for second in the ACC with 28 goals—and senior midfielder Nikki Lieb, who, along with Leachman, was part of Virginia’s 2004 National Championship team.

Although Virginia dropped games to No. 9 Richmond and No. 5 North Carolina, the Cavaliers rebounded with a 16-3 win over No. 8 Princeton March 25. The Tigers are a team that the Blue Devils barely squeaked by in a 13-11 victory March 12. Blue Devil junior defender Meghan Ferguson said Virginia will likely use a balanced and disciplined attack against her team.

“Right now they are running a very patterned offense,” Ferguson said. “They are very solid, but we think that after watching a lot of film this week, we will have the opportunity to scout out patterns and really be able to anticipate what they are going to show us on Saturday.”

If the Blue Devils stay true to form and establish themselves early against the Cavaliers, it will be up to the Duke defense and transition game to prevent a comeback.

Kimel said the problem all year for her team has been becoming lackadaisical and —

careless with the ball when it gets ahead.

Turnovers by her players allow other teams to close the gap and create closer games, Kimel said.

When Duke was up, 15-8, against Vanderbilt March 26, several Blue Devil mistakes allowed the Commodores to mount a mini-rally, as they fired off three straight goals. The Duke defense, however, clamped down and held the Commodores scoreless for the final 7:37.

The game Saturday has greater implications than simply retribution for the Blue Devils. If Duke can emerge victorious, then it will not only set a school record with its 10th straight win to start the year, but it will also stay undefeated in ACC conference play.

Duke has only one conference game left after Virginia—against a weaker Boston College opponent. With a victory Saturday, the Blue Devils will strongly help their chances of not only capturing the regular-season title but also securing a first round bye in the ACC Championships.

“We’re hoping to get off to a good start against a tough conference opponent in a game that has seeding implications for the tournament,” Kimel said. “We want to make sure we take care of business instead of worrying about anything that happened last year.”

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Any other week this were any other week, JUMP Asian Express Cuisine dinner actually began life as a ARAMARK Corp.’s decichicken can attest it was time sion not to pursue renewing its contract as Duke’s chief for the company to go.

The administration defood provider would be the serves credit for hot topic of conthe gin g versation staffeditorial chan contract strucWhile crimiture for this round of bidnal allegations surrounding lacrosse members of the team ding and inviting numerous have rightfully dominated the companies of various sizes to attention of Duke students, compete for the right to run faculty and administrators, the individual restaurants. Direcnews of die conglomerate’s tor of Dining Services Jim withdrawal is significant Wulforst deserves special enough to merit comment. recognition for holding ARAWe may never know what MARK responsible for its discussions went on behind poor service and for leading closed doors at ARAMARK’s the effort to reform this Philadelphia headquarters, round of dining contracts. but anyone who has suffered Reserving the right to award through sushi night at the different companies the conMarketplace or doubted tracts to run on-campus whether the meat in their restaurants will breed healthy

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Perhaps ARAMARK, which has long been criticized for price gouging and ignoring customer concerns, realized its poor service would no longer fly when its formerly captive market has the chance to eat at restaurants run by Sodexho or Meriwether-Godsey instead.

Duke Student Government and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee also deserve credit for persevering in their criticism of the company, even when there were no immediate results.

Both organizations have consistently represented the interests of their constituents, awarding ARAMARK three

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The boys are being tried in the media before there was any charge or any specific defendant in the case. And that's just not fair.

ual assault occurred at a party thrown at their off-campus house on March 13, 2006. A police investigation of the victim’s claim is still underway, and at the time of this printing, no one has yet been charged for the alleged assault.

Accounts of the incident have sparked outrage about elitism, racism and sexual violence. And while the situation is intrinsically heated and divisive, it seems as though

player Matt Zash, on the media’s coverage of the alleged rape. See story page 1.

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lar to provide substandard food and service with few consequences. This' component of the freshman board plan should be re-evaluated as soon as a new vendor is signed to run the East Campus eatery.

Looking forward, we hope the University hires a vendor or team of vendors who will see the ARAMARK experience as a cautionary tale. Any company that becomes complacent once the ink has dried on its contract will, at best, become a lightening rod for criticism and the target of a torrent of negative publicity.

At worst, the company will hemorrhage money as customers flock to restaurants run by firms that provide superior service.

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“no-confidence” votes in recent years. While it is unclear what effect—if any —their advocacy had on ARAMARK’s decision, they conveyed the frustrations of students loudly and clearly to both the corporation and the University.

That is all we can ask of student organizations that have no formal power, and who are only as powerful as the arguments they njake to those who pull the strings.

Administrators should remember that aside from changing firms, changing certain aspects of the dining plan also could improve the culinary experience of students. Forcing first-year students to pay for 12 meals a week at the Marketplace has allowed that outlet in particu-

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munity is naturally in want of more answers—answers that, given the particulars of a routine criminal investigation, are still unavailable at this time.

The Duke and Durham community is right to be offended at the survivor’s account of what transpired, and I am indeed grateful for the community’s outrage and indignation oyer the humiliating and intolerable acts of hatred committed by perpetrators of sexual assault.

Despite the community’s best intentions, however, I simply cannot condone its readiness to allow guesswork to supercede available evidence. It is unfair to those accused, and it is harmful to the victims ofassault.

But the public has contented itself with castigating and condemning every party involved; The men’s lacrosse team has already been presumed guilty by the public for its “wall of silence;” the woman involved in the incident has been faulted for her “bad career decisions” and consequendy blamed for her own violation; even University officials have taken flack from students and national media alike for “not doing more,” such as suspending the accused from their classes and the field.

These unwarranted suppositions and condemnations are downright shameful. In the absence of more information, this campus has a responsibility to accord every alleged victim of assault dignity and has an obligation to respect the rights of the accused.

Forty-six men on the lacrosse team are facing very serious criminal investigation—yet there is a widespread sense ofmoral indignation at the team’s collective determination not to disclose any further information. Of their decision, I am entirely

supportive

To those who demand that the players in attendance feed the public more details, I am appalled. It should be obvious to any rational American citizen that coercing public disclosure of “facts” unequivocally undermines the constitutional guarantees of the accused.

Moreover, just because the public has not yet heard the players’ side of the story does not mean that individual team members have been unforthcoming or uncooperative with authorities. Any account released at present could raise later motions to suppress integral physical evidence and vital witness accounts.

According to the News and Observer: “During a ‘Take Back the Night’ rally and march on campus Wednesday night, anonymous fliers were placed on nearby cars. They contained photos taken from Duke’s website of all but four of the lacrosse team players and urged the players to tell what they know about the incident.”

But with the local Durham community hanging on every word of every version ofevery news release, the publication of even a single player’s statement would undoubtedly contaminate the local jury pool.

At this point, to disclose anything more to the public could compromise any chance at a fair dispensation ofjustice for both the team and the victim.

The team’s disparaged “wall of silence” is not only preferable but necessary—at least for now. Unfortunately, for some people, the silence seems to be incrimination enough.

Regardless of what the investigation may yield, the dialogue that this incident has provoked suggests that our community is actively looking for ways to understand and help survivors of sexual assault more fully: Duke’s increased awareness of Sexual Assault Prevention Week; the voicing of emotive opinions at protest rallies on the main campus quad; pledges, clothesline displays and pinwheel projects; the inspiring attendance at Wednesday’s Take Back the Night march and speak-out—all these wonderful demonstrations buoy my optimism in our community’s responsiveness, concern and dedication to social change.

We finally seem ready to talk about how events like this make us feel about rape and sexual assault.

And perhaps more importantly, we finally seem ready to listen.

In this time of uncertainty, pain and doubt, there is nothing left for me to do but hope. Hope for forgiveness, hope for healing and hope that in the end, the constitutional rights of our nation will ultimately bring justice to all.

Boston Cote is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every Friday.

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Race also stood as a primary source of power for those whites with privilege.

But so did gender. Women were denied the vote, just as blacks were. Women could not pursue careers in medicine, law or higher education until the late 19th century, just as blacks could not. Sex stereotypes, like race stereotypes, provided vehicles for the collective denigration of whole peoples—witness the pernicious humor associated with portraying women as scatterbrained, or blacks as lazy buffoons. Sex and race were both instruments of domination. White men of means could access and exercise power. Through most of our history, African Americans and women could not—and those who tried to act otherwise were perceived as “uppity,” and slapped down.

Worst of all, sex was an instrument by which racial power was manifested and perpetuated. Why are most African Americans of a lighter hue than Africans from Nigeria? Because at some point in the past, or present, white males have “had their way” with black women.

White slave masters were the initial perpetrators of sexual assault on black women, but subsequent generations continued the pattern, which is why black parents, for so many generations, feared letting their daughters take on domestic service roles in white households, where white males could molest them.

To make matters worse, white men portrayed black women as especially erotic, more driven to sexual pleasure and expressiveness than white women; and then, in a perverse form of projection, created the specter of black men seeking to rape white women. That is why most lynchings ofblack men in the late 19thand early 20th century were justified by accusing black men of lusting after white women—even though there was little evidence that such attacks ever took place.

So sex and race have always interacted in a vicious chemistry of power, privilege, and control. Emmett Till was brutalized and lynched in Mississippi in 1954 for allegedly speaking with too easy familiarity to a white woman storekeeper. And in 1958, two black male children under age 10 were imprisoned in North Carolina because they allegedly had kissed two white girls in a game —the infamous “kissing case” in which North Carolina became a target ofridicule around the world.

What has all this to do with America today, and with Duke? Among other things, it helps to put into context what occurred in Durham two weeks ago. The mixture of race and sex that transpired on Buchanan Boulevard is not new. Whether or not a rape took place (and this is an issue that needs to be assessed objectively and with full fairness to everyone), there is no question that racial epithets were hurled at black people. Nor is there any question that white students hired a black woman from an escort service to perform an erotic dance. The intersection ofracial antagonism and sexual exploitation is all too familiar.

The real issue is how we will respond to thislatest example of the poisonous linkage of race and sex as instruments of power and control. Who are we, the student body and community, of Duke University? Do we seek to be a community of inclusion, where in action as well as in theory, we encompass and embrace people of all races and backgrounds? Or do we seek to replicate patterns of racial and sexual control that have constituted such an affront to our claims of being a society of

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Students from Duke and N.C. Central marched along with local residents in the annual Take Back the Night march, sponsored by Sexual Assault Support Services.

Initially I thought the rally was another directed against the lacrosse team, but I soon saw (and heard) that their message was much broader in scope. The cry of the marchers was not one of recrimination or hate, but of solidarity and strength. The object of derision was not President Richard Brodhead or Provost Peter Lange, but the culture of rape at Duke and around the country.

The march ended under the Chapel, where the students were invited to simply share their stories, their thoughts and their support. I am usually a skeptic of group healing, but I saw something in that crowd truly remarkable.

People have said that issues like the alleged rape will divide Duke and Durham, that it will increase racial tension. I did not see that. I saw Dukies and Durhamites shoulder to shoulder. I saw black and white and Asian students, men and women both, in a common call for common decency.

You see, that is what it is really all about. It is deeper than Duke and Durham. It is deeper than politics. It is deeper even than race. It is about pure human decency.

There were people at that rally whom I spend hours every day finding new ways to disagree with, but I was proud to blend my voices with theirs, because I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.

I am mad as a Duke student, because every dme there is a rape or a sexual assault at Duke, my name is on it.

Now, I do not have nearly enough information to judge the lacrosse situation, and anyone not on the team or in

the prosecutor’s office who says he does is kidding themselves. Unfortunately, we can only wish that this lamentable incident was the only problem Duke has with sex crimes. A short trip to Sexual Assault Support Services should be enough to convince any skeptic otherwise. And while I do not know that we are any worse than any other university, thatis not really the standard I want to keep for my school.

I am mad as a man, because other men are dragging my name through the mud. There exists all too often a sort of good-old-boy-cronyism that is just revolting—a code of silence that protects offenders. Even worse, there is sometimes a sick sort of pride that offenders take in their action and those of their buddies. That is perhaps what scares me the most about the lacrosse team: The team captains are the ones speaking for the team. Boys, if there was ever a time to break team ranks, this is it.

Finally, I am mad as a human being because there are animals in our society who prey on the innocent, and even on those who are not, perhaps, innocent but who regardless walk among us and hold their heads high like anybody else.

And as disgusting and depraved as sex crimes are, I am mad about other crimes we put up with, too. Why is it that no one is surprised any more, let alone outraged, when they hear about a student getting held up on the block and a half between East Campus and Ninth Street?

Because it is just something that happens? Not good enough. Not good enough for the students of Duke, not good enough for the residents of Durham, not good enough for human beings. So let’s not take it anymore And that means that we do not hide from crimes, or dust them under a headline. That we don’t shake our heads in despair, or just say “the government should fix that.” To be sure, one of government’s most important duties is to maintain order in society, but we live in a democracy, and that means nothing will happen unless we get mad, and we stay mad, and we tell that to everybody and anybody who will listen. And when, you ask, can we stop being mad?

We stop being mad when we don’t have to take it anymore.

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Thrown into a tough regional bracket, top-seeded North Carolina had to beat national powerhouse Tennessee to get to the Final Four. In the second round, UNC had to take down Vanderbilt in the Commodore’s home arena in Nashville, Tenn. In the Sweet Sixteen, point guard Ivory Latta had to hit a game-winning layup with 2.8 seconds left for the Tar Heels to squeak past Purdue.

But for the Tar Heels, winning despite the circumstances is nothing new. In the nation’s top conference, North Carolina survived its run through the gamut this season, without breaking stride—almost.

There was one stumble in UNC’s run this season, against Maryland, the very team the Tar Heels will play Sunday in theirFinal Four game.

The Tar Heels fell to the Terrapins, 98-95, in overtime Feb. 9. North Carolina redeemed itself, however, against Maryland in the ACC Finals March 5 in Greensboro, when it captured the conference title, 91-80.

“I will tell you, [it was] just a tremendous game by two great teams that I hope we see back at the Final Four playing,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said after her team’s loss in the title game. “North Carolina did a tremendous job today. They were extremely aggressive.”

The Tar Heels’ aggressive play has been key to their success this season. Embodied in the play of Latta, who was recently named to the AP All-America first team, UNC brings a tenacity to the court that troubles many opponents, apparent in its 33-1 record.

The trio of senior La’Tangela Atkinson, sophomore Erlana Larkins and junior Camille Little join Latta in helping to create a seamless squad that works together to attack and pressure opponents. The Tar Heels force 13 steals per game, second in the nation.

“They do a great job with their traps and you don’t see it everyday so it’s very hard to prepare for,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said Jan. 29 after the Blue Devils’ loss to the Tar Heels. “They’re the most athletic team in the country and it’s difficult to prepare for that.”

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Much was made before the Tournament about UNC's difficult regional draw, but Ivory Latta has led her team into theFinal Four. ence in the country, it’s not surprising that North Carolina and Maryland will meet again in postseason play. With an ACC tide already in hand, the Tar Heels will have to beat Maryland again Sunday for the chance to win the school’s second National Championship.

“They are a great team,” North Carolina head coach Sylvia Hatched said of the Terrapins March 5. “They are young.

They are going to be tough for a long time. But we are learning more about them and how to play them, you know. We did a few things today that really made a difference that we learned from when they beat us in Chapel Hill.”

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Although UNC features a veteran starting five, Maryland’s lineup includes just one upperclassman. The Terrapins’ Maryland has been surprising people all year, but the Ter- young lineup, however, is not unprepared for UNC. As the rapins are not surprised at all to be in the Final Four—in fact, second-highest scoring team in the nation, the Terrapins will be able to keep up with the fast-paced, high-scoring Tar Heel they expected it.

When their Regional Final game against No. 5 seed Utah offense. An offense that is run by point guard Ivory Latta, went into overtime Monday, there was no doubt in the Terone of the most explosive players in the country and a firstteam All-American. rapins’ minds that they would pull out the victory.

“Overtime is our time,” freshman Kristi Toliver-said after “She’s the engine that makes our offense go,” North CarMaryland defeated the Utes 75-65. “I didn’t worry about it.” olina head coach Sylvia Hatchell said.

The Terrapins have been surprising people ever since If Maryland guards Toliver, ACC Rookie of the Year Maristhey handed No. 1 North Carolina its only loss of the sea- sa Coleman and junior Shay Doron, who blocked Latta’s son Feb. 9. Earlier this month when most ACC fans had al- buzzer-beater in February’s win, can shut down that engine, then Maryland may see the winner ofDuke-LSU in the finals. ready penciled in Duke and UNC for the conference championship game, Maryland stunned the Blue Devils with a If they make it there, it will just be the latest shock in a sea78-70 victory in the semifinals. It was their first win against son of surprises for the Terrapins. You can be sure, though, Duke in 15 tries. they will have expected it all along.

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Maryland got to the Final Four as a No. 2 seed in the Albuquerque Region. Before their overtime victory against Utah, the Terrapins surprised some by dethroning last year’s National Champions Baylor in the Sweet Sixteen, 82-63.

Although Maryland was picked to—and did—finish third in the ACC this season, the great play of the young Terrapins team has been consistently overshadowed this season by the Tar Heels and Blue Devils, the conference’s top two teams.

While Duke and UNC have faced high expectations all season long, Maryland enjoys its role as the underdog of the ACC. “I love it when the media continues to hype up the Carolina schools,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “This team is motivated by any challenge you give them, and they definitely responded.”

Despite the Terrapins’ motivation and the confidence they gained from their previous victory over UNC, they will need to perform as well in the post this Sunday as they did in WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE their victory at North Carolina. After grabbing 22 offensive rebounds in that win, Maryland could not match the Tar Shay Doron and the Terrapins received a scare fromSt. John's in the second Heels’ rebounding effort in the ACC Final. round of theTournament and escaped in overtime against Utah.

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For Louisiana State, it’s been a long, but ultimately reto the Final Four.

With their 62-59 win over Stanford Monday, the top-seeded Lady Tigers (31-3) advanced to the national semifinals for the third consecutive year, the longest active streak in the nation. The victory also made LSU just the seventh school in history to have both their men’s and women’s teams in the Final Four.

Much ofLSU’s success can be attributed to reigning National Player of the Year Seimone Augustus, who is the NCAA’s scoring leader at 23.0 points per game. A middle school AAU teammate of men’s center Glen “Big Baby” Davis, Augustus is shooting 56.8 percent from the field and averages 4.8 rebounds per game.

For the senior, this Final Four has added importance as it represents her last shot at winning a national title before entering the WNBA Draft. The Lady Tigers did not advance past the semifinal round in each of the previous two seasons, losing to SEC rival Tennessee in 2004 and Baylor in 2005.

‘You want to go out on a high note,” Augustus said. “It would be great, the first ever. It’s a great opportunity to play the best ever and end on a high note.”

Despite all their recent success, however, LSU has had to battle its fair share of adversity this past year.

In August, former head coach Sue Gunter, who was forced to leave the team because of poor health in 2004, passed away after a long battle with a respiratory illness.

The loss was particularly hard on current head coach Pokey Chatman, who played for Gunter in college before getting a job with her as an assistant coach. Chatman told ESPN.com that watching her mentor suffer was an especially trying experience for her.

“I’m still okay with Sue and her loss, just because of watching her demise,” she said. “On my worst day of missing her, I wouldn’t want her back because she was in such bad condition. I still have my moments where it will just overtake me, but I think that would be the case with anyone who was close to you. She was a really good friend.”

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Sophomore Erica White is averaging 5.5 assists and 5.7points forthe Tigers, who knocked Duke out of the Tournament in the Elite Eight last year. rive just a few weeks later when Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast. Although Baton Rouge escaped the brunt of the storm, two players on the team, Khalilah Mitchell and RaShonta Leßlanc, found their families displaced and without a home.

“I think so much of their athletic mettle and strength probably helped them with that,” Chatman told ESPN.com.

“But also, we were so engrossed in it—we didn’t have the opportunity to step back and realize how devastating it still is.”

In the aftermath of Gunter’s death and the storm, the team escaped together on the basketball court, which helped them get through the trying time“l think we’re all okay, but that’s because we come to this place called LSU Lady Tiger basketball that we draw strength from,” Chatman said to ESPN.com. ?

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When Tennessee defeated Duke, 66-56, in the semifinals of the 2003 Final Four, the four players on the Blue Devils’ current roster that were part of that team assumed they would soon be back.

It has taken them three years, however, to return to college basketball’s highest stage andTor three of them, this will be there final opportunity to win a National Championship.

“My freshman year I didn’t realize how special it is,” senior forward Mistie Williams said. “When we lost my freshman year, we were upset, but I was like T’ve got three years I can

do it.’ Then the first year it doesn’t happen, and then the second year it doesn’t happen. ‘My gosh is it going to happen?’ And now it’s like, wow, this is a great feeling.”

Williams, along with senior Jessica Foley and fifth-year senior Monique Currie, will don Duke Blue for the final time this weekend. Instead of being nostalgic, Williams said they are feeling the urgency of this being their last chance.

For the past two years, the Blue Devils’ season culminated with losses in the Elite Eight. In 2004, No. 7 seed Minnesota upset the top-seeded Blue Devils, 82-77, in the Mideast Regional final. Currie said she expected to make a run at the championship that season after she sat on the bench in the 2003 semifinal game with an ACL injury.

In 2005, a battered Duke team advanced to the Elite Eight with only eight active players on its roster. The secondseeded Blue Devils fell to their upcoming Final Four opponent LSU, 59-49. Currie said she returned for a fifth year instead of entering the WNBA Draft to capture Duke’s elusive • . championship.

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against second-seeded Connecticut. With the Blue Devils clinging to a two-point lead as time was running out, Connecticut’s Mel Thomas drove the lane and hit a pull-up jumper over Alison Bales to knot the game at 55 with 20 seconds remaining in regulation. This time, however, the Blue Devils were able to get over the Elite Eight hurdle and hold on for a 63-61 overtime win.

“I felt a little reserved when I came to the last game because it had been the stopping point for the past two seasons,” Williams said. “I was more relieved than excited that we were going to the Final Four. With all that tension that you build up wanting to get there, there is more of an exhale, and I was just happy that we are there now. The Final Four is the last step. It’s hard to get there.”

For the Blue Devils to take the next step, they will have to get past LSU Saturday. The Tigers advanced to the Final Four with a 62-59 victory over Stanford March 27. They were led by forward Seimone Augustus, who posted 26 points and had three blocks in the Elite Eight matchup. Augustus, one of five Wooden All-Americans along with Currie, poses Duke’s biggest problem as a versatile forward that is the centerpiece ofLSU’s offense.

“She causes matchup problems for everybody,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “She is so good and so smart.

She is the best player off the ball we’ve ever faced. She makes such great reads. They run motions 99 percent of the time. She knows when to curl and when to flare. They set so many screens for her. Because of her size and her height she can score over so many players.”

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The only time Duke advanced to the title game was 1999, when they lost, 62-45 to Purdue. If the Blue Devils capture the title this year, it will be the first National Championship in the program’s history.

“I’m just prepared to leave it all out on the floor,” Currie said. “That’s what I try to do every time but especially this time. I’m glad that we were able to get back to the Final Four. We want to reach our ultimate goal of winning the championship.”

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tional Player of the Year awards. But 16 games into her college career, Waner was coming off the bench and her confidence had been shaken.

She played well the rest of the season, but never up to her own expectations, she said. Then, before the second round of the NCAA Tournament, she and head coach Gail Goestenkors had a chat, in which the coach compared herself to Waner.

“She said that we both expect the most out of ourselves and when we don’t [get it], we go even lower than we were before,” Waner said. “It was really good to have that talk with her. I feel like I can just go out and have "fun and let things go. Once it started to be fun, I started to loosen up and play the way I can.”

And in the last three games, Waner’s play has taken off. The freshman has averaged 11 points while shooting 50 percent from the field and 39 percent from beyond the arc.

In the Blue Devils’ overtime victory against Connecticut, Waner played a season-high 36 minutes and contributed in several areas.

“Abby was huge for us,” Goestenkors said. “It wasn’t just her 10 points. I think it was the way she carried herself on the court. She played with so much confidence and really great freedom.”

Waner is not the only Blue Devil to have picked up her game come Tournament time. Starting center Alison Bales has transformed from being a defensive role

player to a force at the offensive end. She said she knows her team relies on her to make her 15-foot jump shot consistently.

After a 15-point, 13-reboundand eightblock performance against the Huskies, Bales was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Bridgeport Regional.

“She knew her teammates needed her to win the game,” Goestenkors said. “Ever since the Maryland loss in the ACC Tournament, she’s been a different player every single practice and every single game.”

Entering Duke’s matchup against LSU, Bales knows she will need to play as large a role as she has in recent games to compete with the Tigers’ star forward Sylvie Fowles.

Fowles, a 6-foot-6 sophomore, averages more than 16 points and almost 12 re“bounds per game. She~also shoots”better than 61 percent from the field, a number that Bales knows she’ll have to bring down.

“She’s a great player,” Bales said of Fowles. “I think we really need to keep it a priority keeping her off the boards, especially offensively.”

Goestenkors kept up with that theme, noting that rebounding is one of the areas in which Duke will need to excel in order to cut down the nets Tuesday night.

“We were out-rebounded three of our last four games [of the regular season],” Goestenkors said. “That was a strength of ours throughout the season. We were ranked third in the country in rebounding. So we got back to the basics —specifically rebounding—and now in the Tournament we are out-rebounding people by over 22 rebounds a game. So in my mind, it’s been all good.”

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Coach G looks to finally win 4 The Big One’ The Big One The National Championship.

Some coaches walk right into it as if it’s not even a challenge. Purdue’s Carolyn Peck beat Duke in the 1999 NCAA final in just her second year as a head coach.

Some never get it even after a lifetime ofchasing it. Former LSU coach Sue Gunter won more than 700 games during her 34 years of coaching, but she never got to cut down the nets at the end of the year.

If Gail Goestenkors was not lucky enough to win one on her first try, she surely doesn’t want her legacy to be llSf that of a great coach who never cap* ■" tured a tide. michae!

Goestenkors has the fifth-highest winning percentage in NCAA history. Not yet finished with her 14th season at Duke, the Blue Devils’ head coach has already amassed 363 wins.

But at a school that knows too much about athletic excellence with just a handful of National Championship trophies to show for it, there has been only one question.

Can she win the Big One? If she can, this is the year. Goestenkors has a team with depth, talent and experience. And for the first time in her career, she enters the last weekend with the most Final Four experience of the remaining coaches.

That’s not to say that this will be easy. While the men’s Final Four features some surprising teams, the women’s version includes what have been the best four teams in the nation all year. With a quartet of evenly matched teams, the games will likely be close and will come down to lategame execution.

And if the Elite Eight win over Connecticut was a preview ofDuke’s late-game heroics, I’m worried.

The Blue Devils were out-choked by the Huskies, despite trying their best. With 20 seconds left in regulation, Duke had the ball with a chance to win. Even after two timeouts to set up plays, the best shot the Blue Devils could muster was a half-court heave from Monique Currie.

Then, with less than a minute to go in overtime, Duke had possession and a two-point lead. The Blue Devils ran the clock down and called a timeout with eight seconds left on the shot clock, presumably to set up a good look.

On the play, however, the offense looked disorganized and the ball went back to UConn after Currie’s long threepoint attempt hit only backboard.

Two possessions to win or seal the game, two ridiculouslylong three-pointers from Currie as the clock expired. All I can say is LSU won’t alligator-arm a four-foot shot to tie.

Still, one thing that may help Goestenkors and the Blue Devils is they are familiar with all the Final Four teams, even if it’s in a losing experience. Since the start of last year’s NCAA Tournament, Duke is 2-4 against the other three teams in Boston.

Last year, Pokey Chatman and the Tigers beat Duke in the Elite Eight, 59-49. While Seimone Augustus led the game with 23 points, the obvious difference between the teams was at point guard, as senior Temeka Johnson controlled the game for LSU. This year, Johnson is gone, and Lindsey Harding has returned for Duke as one of the best point guards in the nation.

But, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, the Blue Devils have a worse mental block when it comes to UNC than UConn has with George Mason. I highly doubt Maryland will take down UNC, so Goestenkors will definitely have to earn her first National Championship.

Goestenkors needs to convince her team that it has nothing to lose and should come out as the aggressor. If she can, it’s two for the price of one. Duke can rid itself of the “can’t win it all,” and “can’t beat UNC” knocks with one performance Tuesday night.

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Can Duke beat UNC? Duke’s not overlooking LSU, but the real question on the minds of the Blue Devil faithful is whether Gail Goestenkors’ team can beat North Carolina if, the rivals meet in the National Championship game.

UNC 56, Duke 51 Chapel Hill—January 24, 2005 Coming into the game, no Tar Heel had ever been part of a team that had beaten the Blue Devils. But playing in the cavernous Dean Smith center both teams looked lost for most of the game. At halftime North Carolina was up 26-13, and it did not get much prettier after the break. Neither team shot above 30 percent for the game.

Monique Currie would not let Duke lose without a fight, however, as the then-junior scored 17 points in an eight minute run coming down the stretch. The Blue Devils brought the game within two with just over a minute to go, but Currie and thensophomore center Alison Bales each missed a pair offree throws down the stretch while the Tar Heels hit 3-of-4 to ice the game.

It’s been chronicled how UNC has won five straight in the series, but before last year, the Blue Devils had won 12 straight games against the Tar Heels and had taken 15 of the last 16 meetings.

UNC 77, Duke 68 Durham —February 27, 2005 This was Ivory Latta’s coming-out party against Duke. With the game tied and less than two minutes to go, the 5-foot-6 point guard nailed a three-pointer to put the Tar Heels up for good. After the nationally televised contest, Latta danced in front of cameras and earnestly celebrated the victory.

Latta’s 23-point output was slightly better than Currie could manage. Duke’s star poured in 22 points, but she epitomized the Blue Devils’ trouble hanging onto possession of the ball.

Currie had eight of Duke’s 25 turnovers during the game.

UNC 88, Duke 67 Greensboro—March 7, 2005 Before this game, the Blue Devils had not lost an ACC Tournament game since 1999. North Carolina, however, was the team looking like it felt most comfortable that night. Playing with confidence, the Tar Heels blew Duke out. Latta continued her hot play, dropping 26 on the Blue Devils and forward Camille Little chipped in with 23 ofher own.

Currie’s 26 points were not enough to stop UNC from pulling away with a 22-8 run early in the second half. During the run, Little and forward La’Tangela Atkinson hit ‘daggers,’ as Goestenkors would call the three-pointers after the game.

UNC 74, Duke 70 Durham—-January 29, 2006 This was the closest Duke came to beating North Carolina during the past two years. The Blue Devils led from the start until relinquishing the advantage at the three-minute mark.

Duke, which had gone up by as many as 16 in the first half, led by 13 at halftime and looked to have the game under control just six days after knocking off then-No. 1 Tennessee in Cameron. But over the final nine minutes of the game, North Carolina outscored Duke, 28-12. The Tar Heels scored on 14 of their final 16 possessions.

UNC 77, Duke 65 Chapel Hill—February 25, 2006: Playing in Carmichael Gymnasium, Duke dug itself a big hole early. The Blue Devils stormed back late in the second half to pull within five at 67-62, but it was too little, too late.

Duke held Latta in check for most of the game, as the junior point guard shot just 5-for-17 on her way to 18 points. Lindsey Harding’s defense harassed her all game, and Latta turned the ball over nine times.

The difference for the Tar Heels was Larkins, Little and Atkinson. UNO’s starting frontcourt combined for 45 points and 30 rebounds.

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duke'skeystovictory rebounding Latta gets all the press, but in the victories over Duke UNC's frontcourt has hit the boards hard. In the first half of this year's home loss, the Blue Devils went up big in part because they controlled the glass on both ends of the court. To win, Duke can't let up like it did in the second half of that game.

turnover margin Duke struggled with UNC's press last year, going over 20 turnovers twice. The Blue Devils handled UNC's 1-3-1 better with Lindsey Harding back this year, and they must control the ball and limit the Tar Heels' transition game if they want to snap the streak.

the mind game It's often said in college sports that it's difficult to beat a team three times in a season. Well, what about three times in a season two years in a row?

Even though Duke might be having trouble believing it can actually beat the Tar Heels, North Carolina could be over-confident. The Blue Devils have come close before, and believing they can win is the most important factor.

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