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The Chronicle#
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 126
FAMILIAR FOE, SUPREME SHOW Duke looking for Ist NCAA Championship in program history by
Gregory Beaton THE CHRONICLE
BOSTON When Duke traveled to Boston in January to play ACC foe Boston College, the Blue Devils told each other they would be back. Once they got back to Beantown, they told each other simply getting here was not good enough. And now after trouncing LSU, 6445, 13*pTjrwTl in the semifinals in Boston, Duke (31-3) has a chance to make ood ultimate ? TONIGHT, 8:30 p.m. ectlve of winnmS Boston ESPN J program’s first National Championship when the Blue Devils play Maryland (334) tonight at 8:30 p.m. “[We’re] just excited to be playing for the National Championship,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It feels good to be able to say that. It’s been our goal all season long.” In the finals, Duke meets a Maryland team that it has beaten 14 of the last 15 times. That one loss, however, came in the teams’ most recent meedng in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
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Duke's Monique Currie (left) and Maryland's Marissa Coleman lead theirrespective teams into tonight's matchup for the 2006 National Championship.
SEE W. BBALL ON PAGE 20
Ellerbee elected NCCU responds to alleged assault GPSC president by
Victoria Ward
THE CHRONICLE
by
Holley Horrell THE CHRONICLE
Representatives of the Graduate and Professional Student
Council ushered in a new Executive Board Monday night, voting on four
positions approving
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seven other uncontested candidates.
Audrey EUerbee, a fourthyear biomedical engineering student, will take the helm as president. Ellerbee, who described herself as a behind-the-scenes
Audrey Ellerbee
leader, said that reaching out to students will be a major goal for the organization next year. “Too many students still think that GPSC is not relevant,” she said. “Most of them will come up with issues that we can address, but they won’t come to us.” Ellerbee also stressed the need to make representatives accountable to their constituents. Representatives should report back to their departments with news of GPSC’s progress on issues, she said. Recruiting more professional students into GPSC will be another objective, she said. “Audrey is really the backbone of [the Executive Board],” said Lettye Smith, SEE GPSC ON PAGE 7
A crowd ofabout 250 students and community members held a vigil Monday night at North Carolina Central University to pro-
healing. They gathered to show their
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support for an NCCU student who alleges she was raped by three Duke men’s lacrosse players at a March 13 party. The case has sparked rallies and protests almost daily at Duke and in the surrounding area. No charges have been filed. NCCU’s Voice for Planned Parenthood sponsored a Clothesline Project before the vigil, allowing crowd members to sign a banner and T-shirts to address the problem of violence against women. Speakers at the student-organized vigil included religious SEE VIGIL ON PAGE 10
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Hundreds of people gather at North Carolina Central University for a vigil Monday in light ofrecent allegations that an NCCU student was raped by Duke lacrosse players.