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Defense asks for Forecast clouds LDOC plans Concert will still accuser’s records be held on quad Finnerty stands trial for assault, Nifong to reinstate prior charges BY

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An attorney defending sophomore lacrosse player Reade Seligmann against sexual assault charges filed a discovery motion Monday, asking prosecutors in the case to release the accuser’s medical, criminal and educational records.

“The complaining witness has a history of criminal activity and behavior, which includes alcohol abuse, drug abuse and dishonesty, all conduct which indicate mental, emotional and/or physical problems, which affect her credibility as a witness,” defense attorney Kirk Osborn wrote in the motion.

Seligmann and fellow sophomore lacrosse player Collin Finnerty were arrested April 18 after allegedly raping and kidnapping a dancer hired to perform at a March 13 lacrosse party held at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.

According to court documents, the minimal discovery

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Rain or shine, the Last Day of Classes Committee is determined to celebrate the end of the school year outside.

“The committee is happy to announce that the concert vail occur as scheduled on the main quad,” LDOC Committee Chair Mark Middaugh, a senior, wrote in a

report presented by the prosecution to the defendant shows there is no forensic evidence linking Seligmann to the assault and states the only testimony incriminating him came from the accuser.

“This lack of evidence... heightens the need for impeaching material regarding the complaining witness,” the motion stated.

All documents regarding the accuser’s mental disability, hospital commitments, drug abuse history and education—as well as her probation, parole and social service records—have been

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In the face of forecasts that

predict inclement weather throughout the day, the committee met Tuesday night to discuss possible rain plans for the concert. The National Weather Ser-

vice projects a 40 percent chance ofrain with a high of 52 degrees.

“Current forecasts indicate that the concert can continue as

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planned outdoors,” Middaugh said. “We are really excited about having a great outdoor LDOC.

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Finnerty made a court appearance Tuesday in Washington, D.C., and was ordered to stand trial for a charge unrelated to the alleged rape.

According to court documents, he and two friends were SEE LACROSSE ON PAGE 9

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Despite forecasts foi rain, two men work to set up an outdoor venue for Guster—the band that will headli ine Last Day ofClassesfestivities tomorrow night.

These are great bands, and they are excited about playing on Duke’s campus.”

Middaugh added that the results of a final rain check at 8 a.m. today could still affect the SEE LDOC ON PAGE 11

RLHS faces increasing Noted lawyer represents lacrosse families boosters costs, economic woes ,

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Crowell Quadrangle is one of a few quads in dire need of renovations, straining the RLHS budget.

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Craven Quadrangle has been the site of three major maintenance failures since last fall: a pipe explosion, the collapse of a marble wall and the smell of sewage in shower water.

Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, said some of the incidents did not occur without “help” —a student had stuffed the pipe that exploded with paper towels, for example. Still, the plumbing in Craven is nearly 80 years old and in need ofrepair.

Crowell Quadrangle is in more dire need of renovation, but, in addition to fixing the immediate problems, ResidenceLife and Housing Services will also have to supply the funds for between 1,100 and 1,200 beds that are projected to be created in Phase I of Central Campus renovations.

Relief looks like a distant prospect.

Bob Bennett has represented former President Bill Clinton, two ex-secretaries of defense and controversial corporations ranging from Enron to acfirm counting KPMG. Now the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom super-attorney is at work defending Duke’s reputation.

Bennett is serving as spokesperson for the Committee for Fairness to Duke Families, a nebulous group of boosters and allies of the men’s lacrosse team who want to protect the University’s image in light of recent rape allegations against the team.

Though Bennett declined to com-

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ment, his clients and colleagues painted a picture of a brilliant, media-sawy jurist who is skilled at managing complex cases.

“He is just an excellent lawyer,” said Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter and Bennett client who spent 85 days in

prison in connection with the Valerie Flame affair.

“He is just one of the extremely able lawyers who can do anything, especially in criminal law,” Miller said.

Bill Jeffress, a partner at Washington’s influential Baker Botts LLP, has known Bennett for 20 years.

He said Bennett’s experience in highprofile cases makes him well-suited to deal with the public relations disaster generated by the lacrosse scandal.

“That is a very good role for Bob,” Jefffess said. “He is a guy that can see many aspects of a client’s problem, including the public relations aspect, as well as the legal aspects [and] the concerns for the alleged victims.”

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Bush moves to lower gasoline prices by

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WASHINGTON Under election-year pressure to reduce surging gasoline prices, President George W. Bush halted filling of the nation’s emergency oil reserve, urged the waiver of clean air rules to ease local gas shortages and called for the repeal of $2 billion in tax breaks for profit-heavy oil companies Tuesday.

Still, experts said Bush’s actions wouldn’t have much impact on prices at the pump. The president warned that motorists would have to dig deep into their pockets all summer.

Bush urged lawmakers to expand tax

breaks for the purchase offuel-efficient hybrid automobiles, a politically popular measure that's also supported by environmentalists.

He also directed the Environmental Protection Agency to use its authority to temporarily waive air quality laws in states if that would relieve a local gasoline supply

shortage.

The White House was unable to say how much Bush’s actions could affect gas prices.

“Every little bit helps,” Bush said.

Wholesale gasoline futures prices for June delivery dropped eight cents per gallon to $2.10 on the New York Mercantile Exchange right after Bush’s remarks.

May gasoline futures settled at $2.1291 a gallon, a decline of 4.48 cents.

Democrats, eager to blame Republicans for high gas costs ahead of the November congressional elections, said Bush has had five years to find away to lower prices and has favored big oil companies over consumers.

“It’s crystal clear that the current spike in gas prices is at least pardy due to an act of greed,” said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ., who proposed a 60-day suspension of the federal gas tax.

“Greed that has been enabledj abetSEE GAS ON PAGE 12

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi revealed his face for the first time Tuesday in a dramatic video in which he dismissed Iraq’s new government as an American “stooge” and called it a “poisoned dagger” in the heart of the Muslim world.

The video, in which he also warned of more attacks to come, was posted on the Internet only days after a breakthrough in Iraq’s political process allowing its Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders to start assembling a government.

It also followed a high-profile audiotape from Osama bin Laden and seemed a deliberate attempt by al-Zarqawi to reclaim the spodight following months of taking a lower profile amid criticism of bombings against civilians. It was his first message since January.

A U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said analysts believe al-Zarqawi is showing his face to demonstrate that he is still engaged as a leader of jihad, or holy war.

The message also appeared to be an attempt by the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq to rally Iraqis and foreign fighters to his side

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Al-Zarqawi appeared in the 30-minute video, which he said was made Friday, dressed head-to-toe in black with a black scarf around his head and a beard and mustache.

He seemed healthy, shown in one scene standing and firing a heavy machine gun in a flat desert landscape that resembled the vast empty stretches of western Iraq, where he is believed to be hiding.

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Lax case shines light on police lineup process

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Can police lineups be trusted?

Although the method has long been used to identify alleged criminals, recent studies, past convictions overturned by DNA evidence and, of course, the Duke men’s lacrosse rape scandal have led many to question the reliability of eyewitness identification.

Experts have noted that when devised properly, lineups can be an important tool for investigators. Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson II professor oflaw and professor of psychology, explained that a good police lineup involves several precautions.

“I am totally sympathetic to the problems that police have with trying to identify suspects,” he said. “The problem is that there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt and there is real concern that with a bad lineup procedure, people may be tagged as guilty persons when in fact they are not.”

Typically, a witness will stand with an officer as several suspects are asked to turn to the front and side. “Fillers,” or people included in the lineup who are known to be innocent, are often used as

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a precaution against eyewitnesses with poor memories.

To avoid unintended bias, it is standard practice to to use a lineup with “actual, plausible alternatives to the suspect,” Vidmar said. If a witness described the perpetrator as tall, for example, use of a lineup with short suspects would be unfair to a tall suspect.

Experts have also recommended using a double-blind, where the accompanying officer is unaware of the main

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Senior Chris Davis is going into public service with his Duke degree by working at a Durham firehouse.

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“Even subtle cues can influence the choices that someone makes,” Vidmar said. “Many police departments have changed their procedures to avoid those kinds of problems —but not all.”

In addition to using a double-blind, several states have switched to a new sequential lineup method where each suspect is shown individually to the witness.

The method has yet to be adopted in North Carolina but has been recommended by commissions.

But a recent study conducted in Illinois found that the new strategy is not

With his Duke degree in hand after this year, Chris Davis is doing the unthinkable.

He’s not going to descend into the chaos of a hectic stock exchange floor nor is he going on to debate with professors in graduate school. He is moving on to douse real fires.

“I get that a lot,” Davis said, referring to the question of the value of public service.

“No one, particularly at the fire station, seems to understand [my decision]. No one seems to think twice of anyone going into foreign public service—an African missionary or Peace Corps member—and

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the fact that these are not money-making ventures.”

Originally from Raleigh, Davis has always had his hand in everything outdoors, from whitewater kayaking to backpacking.

His father is a doctor and spent most ofhis career in the Navy.

While at Duke, he became involved with Duke EMS and currendy volunteers at the Parkwood Fire Department in Durham.

“Chris is a pretty big badass,” said junior Andrew Godfrey, who worked with Davis in Duke EMS. “He sacrifices a lot of himself for others and is dedicated to SEE FIREFIGHTER ON PAGE 10

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Tests done in one community show that what was sold as heroin was mostly fentanyl, a drug 80 times more powerful than morphine. It is used to treat chronic pain and as anesthesia for open-heart surgery.

No heroin was in the batch.

Chinese develop new Redberry The Blackßerry e-mail device is coming to China in the next few months. By then, thousands of Chinese may already be checking their e-mail on the new "Redberry." The Redberry is not a new version of the Blackßerry designed by Research in Motion Ltd. for the Chinese market. Instead, it's the name being used by two unaffiliated Chinese companies selling a Blackßerryrlike service on a non-Blackßerry mobile device.

Chicken farms cause pollution It's spring planting season, and K.F. Meismer knows what that means: The ammonia-laden stench of chicken manure will haunt him for weeks."lt's awful," Meismer said.

"It gets in your clothes, it gets in your car and it gets in your house.

And it just won't come out."

This time ofyear, North Carolina officials always hear from angry homeowners who live near chicken farms. But there's little the state can do. Unlike the hog industry, the growing poultry industry is virtually exempt from state regulation.

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Should medications discriminate?

As applications of genomics in the healthcare industry become increasingly tailored to individuals and particular populations, the range ofethical issues involved has taken on a unique nature.

At the onset of the genomic revolution, scientists feared that population genetics—which studies genetic trends within racial groups —could be used to support a biological definition of race.

But since then, advances in molecular genetics and genomics have largely revealed the complexity and irrelevance of racial groups rather than affirming their existence.

“Since genomics were first being explored, there was always some concern that it would serve to reinforce racial barriers,” said Dr. Debra Schwinn, associate professor of medicine and program director in cardiovascular genomics in the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.

Yet some genetic differences between races can be used in a positive way. Pharmacogenetic studies, which apply population genetics to developing drug therapies, have found that tailoring medicine to these differences may lead to improved treatments.

But last June, news reports questioned the social ramifications of genetics when BiDil—a medicationfor chronic heart failure—became the first race-spe-

cific drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

In spite offears that the drug would support a genetic basis for race, public outcry was not extensive.

‘You can’t fail to realize that these constitute only a subset of clinical studies,” said, Dr. Brian Gage, associate professor of medicine at Washington University.

Overall, research in the field of pharmacogenetics reveals disparities as well as similarities within self-defined racial individuals involved in clinical trials, Gage said.

Different studies to identify the implications of genetic variants may yield a range of results, Schwinn said. She added that the

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“Sometimes, you have as many as half of the individuals selfidentified as being [of the same] race respond to drugs in the same manner,” Schwinn said.

“But in many of these cases, complex interactions among genes are involved.”

In studies that yield large correlations between self-reported racial identity and treatment success, only subjects with illnesses are analyzed on an individual basis, Schwinn said.

Huntington Willard, director of IGSP and vice chancellor for genomic sciences, wrote in an e-

mail that in extreme cases of successful correlation, pharmacogenetics could potentially lead to “inequitable treatment” among different populations. A potential outcome of such an approach could lead to the development of superior treatments for more prominent genetic trends.

Schwinn and Gage both emphasized the importance ofmaintaining the “individual” as the target of treatment protocol as the integration of genetics and pharmacology increases in popularity.

“The reality is that we all have a complex range of genetic variants,” Schwinn said. ‘You better bet all of us have distinct susceptibilities to something.”

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Approximately 200 packed Goodson Chapel Tuesday night—not for a late-night service, but for a discussion about the book and upcoming movie TheDa Vinci Code.

Students, faculty and community members came to hear two professors—Bart Ehrman, chair of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Richard Hays, professor of the New Testament at Duke Divinity School—discuss religious questions raised by Dan Brown’s 2003 novel.

Both Ehrman and Hays rejected the historical accuracy of the events presented in TheDa Vinci Code, which follows a professor as he uncovers a Catholic Church conspiracy involving the story of Mary Magdalene and the holy grail.

“Had [The Da Vinci Code’s] claims been written on a final exam, it will definitely show up in such an e-mail,” Hays said, noting that when professors receive student papers that contain “laughable historical mistakes” they will circulate these errors to other professors via e-mail.

Ehrman admitted that he enjoyed the book, but only as a clever murder mystery. Although inaccurate, The Da Vinci Code did perform a service, he added.

“It got people to ask questions that are important and pursue historical knowledge that matters,” Ehrman said, noting that if this discussion was held five years ago, only 20 people would have showed up.

Hays and Ehrman proceeded to discuss questions regarding the Gospels of the New Testament.

Both acknowledged the disparities between the accounts presented in the New Testament and rejected the act of “harmonizing” the Gospels into one.

[The act of harmonizing is] coupled with a certain fear that if one can find one sentence in the Bible that’s not true, then that’s going to be the pin prick that’s going to let all the air out of the balloon,” Hays said. ‘You don’t have to be afraid; the truth will vindicate itself.”

The professors, however, offered different explanations for the existence of the disparities.

Hays said the differences can be traced back to the nature of the Gospels. ‘You have to deal with them as narratives that give the rendering of the identity ofjesus,” he said, adding that each Gospel writer values something different in his portrayal of Christ.

Ehrman, however, attributed the disparities to the formation of the Gospels—a “word-of-mouth” mechanism. With the passage of time, he said, details were changed and deleted.

The speakers also regarded the miracles ofjesus from two different perspectives—one as a historian and the other as a theologian.

Historians, Ehrman explained, can not say with certainty the truth behind the miracles because their occurrence defies probability. The claims regarding the miracles ofjesus, therefore, is a faith claim, he said.

Hays said the miracles are “faithful to the true identity ofjesus Christ.” He admits, however, that it is not a historical claim but a theological claim.

One audience member asked the professors to clarify the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene— Christ’s alleged wife in The Da Vinci Code.

Ehrman said the name was mentioned 13 times in the New Testament—she was with Jesus once in these. Some Gospels indicate that Mary Magdalene was the first to proclaim Jesus rose from the dead, hence it is reasonable to claim that she started Christianity, he said.

“That’s not the same as saying they had sex and she had his babies,” Ehrman added.

A number ofaudience members said they enjoyed the different view points the professors brought to the issues and were impressed by the way they answered them.

“It was very intellectually stimulating,” said John Gentrind, a member of the Hope Ministry Institute. “I disagreed with some of their answers and was disappointed by others; but they left me with plenty to think about.”

Others expected a greater focus on the book. “I thought they would pay more attention to TheDa Vinci Codeand the related questions regarding violence,” said Sonio Dolutskaya, fifth-year graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. “

Hundredsof community Members gatherTuesday to hear professors address the religious questions broached in The Da Vinci Code.

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Senior gift giving on track, unaffected by lax Leslie Griffith

tern, the Nasher Museum of Art, the Marine Lab and the Duke Gardens.

Seniors slogging through their final Each year, the donors’ names are put set of papers and exams—or slacking off on a plaque in the Alumni Lounge. with jobs secured—can make one more Senior Logan Leinster, co-chair of the contribution to the University with their Class of 2006 Committee, said that students showed no clear preference in their senior gift.

The senior gift collection, which kicked gift destination.

“Most people gave unrestricted to the off in February before the men’s basketball Annual Fund, but it’s all over the place,” team’s senior game is progressing smoothshe said. ly despite computer problems and reluctance from some students.

Leinster said she believed the collection Seniors are encouraged to give upwards was going well but noted that a recent of $20.06 and can pick from a wealth of optechnology glitch made it impossible to tions where their money will be used. know precise participation rates. Although Choices include the general Annual Fund, students can still donate on the Senior Gift Trinity College, the Chapel, the library sys- website, committee members have not by

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been able to view or update giving information since April 14.

“It’s very frustrating, because people have been asking why their name isn’t on the list or why no percentage is up,” Leinster said, adding that she expects the problem to be resolved soon.

The online list of donors had 225 names, or approximately 12 to 15 percent of the senior class as of April 14.

Efforts to solicit donations intensified during Senior Week, a series of events held the week ofApril 17, which included a barbecue, a pub crawl and a picnic with President Richard Brodhead and wife

seniors to give with a pledge of his own.

“He pledged to give $200.60 if 50 percent of seniors donated and $2006 if participation was 60 percent or more,” said Jay McKenna, senior and committee co-chair.

Senior committee member Lome Bycoff said he thought a similar pledge Brodhead made last year was a large factor in the record-setting 69 percent participation rate set by the class of 2005.

Bycoff said he thought this year’s numbers would be comparable to last year’s.

“Especially after Senior Week, I think we’re right where we need to be right now, maybe a little behind last year’s

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Internal communications undergoing reform by

David Graham

“Internal communication was

dergoing a major redesign. The changes are the fruits of a report issued in June said. “We’ve found that residents find out 2004 by the Duke University Committee on Internal a lot about Duke from Communications, requested their neighbors “A new policy, a crime on campus, who work at President by a good thing on campus —and the Richard BrodDuke—it seems like an external head and sponquestion kept coming up: How do issue, but it resored by Burwe communicate that?” iiess ally isn’t. Duke “We’ve always employees are —David done a more our ambassadors consistent and The lacrosse mindful job with incident has come just as the University’s external communication, but we haven’t internal communications structure is un- done so much with internal,” said Paul ex-

tremely important on this issue,” Mock

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When allegations of a rape by members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team surfaced in late March, the Office ofNews and Communications kicked into high gear.

In order to effectively communicate with Durham residents, communications officials went straight to the big guns.

Although John Burness, senior vice president for public and government relations, became Duke’s public face in the national media, it was Geoffrey Mock, manager of internal communication, and his staff who were working overtime to make sure the University’s message was heard locally.

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ter Working@Duke.

In February of this year, the communication office eliminated the long-running Duke Dialogue leaflet by introducing This Month at Duke and the Duke Today website. Working@Duke debuted in March.

All three publications are targeted at both faculty and staff at the University.

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COMM from page 6 they spend all kinds of time wading through materials.”

The push also consolidated news sources, shifting from the more episodic, segmented approach of the past to a broader, more centralized front.

David Jarmul, associate vice president of news and communication, said the publications are a good medium through which to improve Duke-Durham relations and inform people about events arts happenings, for example—occurring on campus.

“One thing after another would come up—a new policy, a crime on campus, a good thing on campus—and the question kept coming up: How do we communicate that?” Jarmul said.

Still, Jarmul said he was nervous about eliminating Dialogue, a mainstay of internal communication for two decades.

“I worked with Dialogue for 20 years and I was really proud of it,” Mock said.

“But I think we’re getting impact from This Month at Duke and Duke Today in a way we never did with Dialogue.”

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Jarmul said one of the problems with Dialogue was that it was distributed on racks scattered around campus. In focus group testing, faculty and staff repeatedly said the publication was useful and attractive but said they were unlikely to take the trouble to seek it out.

Working@Duke is mailed to all University employees and as an online resource Duke Today is also more accessible than previous publication. “[The transition] went more smoothly than I might have thought,”Jarmul said.

“People want to be featured on that lead story on Duke Today, which I think is a good sign.”

He said the efforts of internal communication have reached a stopping point, and that the restructuring is simply the first stage in a progression.

All those involved meet with Burness each month, and the publications will be assessed quarterly by a random sample survey “More important than any office is getting people to look outside their silos and see the campus more holistically,” Jarmul said. “I’m sure we haven’t completely solved the problem, but we’ve gone a long way.”

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BUDGET from page 1 “You wrap that all together and it’s a very daunting situation,” Hull said. “It becomes an institutional problem.”

RLHS is an auxiliary service of the University, thus receiving all of its funding internally. It can only pay for projects in two ways—by raising housing fees and by taking out loans. But Hull said housing fees are “very high already.”

Loans are also problematic, said Michael Scott, director of finance and administration at RLHS. Kilgo Quadrangle was renovated between summer 2002 and summer 2004 at a cost of about $3O million in loans. West Campus’ Keohane Quadrangle and Bell Tower Dormitory on East Campus were also debt-financed.

RLHS’s annual budget is about $3O million.

“The debt load is significant,” Scott wrote in an e-mail. “As you might imagine, our annual operating budget precludes us from paying ‘cash’ for projects of that size.

The amount of debt we can service is limited and forces hard choices relative to any future major projects.”

The cost of renovating Crowell was estimated at $34 million a year ago, although the estimate did not include furnishings.

Scott said there has been no formal estimate made for Craven’s renovations, but the price will likely be similar.

RLHS officials do not yet know what the costs of the Central project will be.

The office uses an estimated $2,000 per student for outfitting residence halls, but without knowing the size of the apartments or what would be included, Scott said he cannot estimate any cost.

Per capita housing costs for residence hall rooms —not including the existing Central Campus apartments —have increased nearly $1,200 in the last five years with steady annual increases.

The increase for the 2006-2007 academic year is the smallest in the past five years—between 2.8 and 3.4 percent depending on die room. In previous years, fees were increased by a range of 4 to 7 percent.

Campus Council Presidentjay Ganatra, a junior, saidthe rising costs will be something on which he intends to focus next year.

Residence Life and Housing Services increases the price of living in residence halls annually. The rate hike for the 2006-2007 academic year is the smallest in recent memory.

Below is a brief summary of recent price changes. The average cost is based on the mean of the cost of singles, doubles and triples, both air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned.

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RLHS, which has an annual budget ofabout $3O million, will feel the economic pinch next year.

“There’s a problem with students paying for renovation of dorms that they won’t be around for and that [RLHS] hasn’t been taking care of with maintenance,” Ganatra said. “We have to work together with Student Affairs and on up and tell them that we’re not going to take all of the tab.”

Members of the administration, however, said it is impossible for RLHS to finance all the residential projects. “[RLHS] cannot afford to be responsible for the debt on Central housing and the renovation on West,” said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.

Trask said the University will give RLHS between ssojnillion and $lOO million for either West Campus renovation or Central costs, although he said it would more likely be for renovation.

He added that the auxiliary model has advantages in that it breaks even, but also has disadvantages for services like housing and food due to limited funds.

“There’s a certain attractiveness to that bottom line and methodology, but it also leads to bad food,” he said. He added that

the current structure might change as part of the University’s strategic plan.

The average cost of a residence hall room in the 2005-2006 academic year was $5,837 per student.

The cost of apartments on Central has risen at a faster pace as part of an effort to bring the fees to levels comparable to those ofresidence hall rooms.

The 2005-2006 cost of residence hall living at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was $4,600 per student, and Wake Forest University charged $5,498 per student.

Many housing offices around the nation are also auxiliaries, including those at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, Wake Forest and UNC. “It’s been a problem at times in the past,” said Rick Bradley, assistant director ofhousing at UNC. “Next year will probably be a year that will be tighter. We have a $6O-million apartment project that’s coming in at $9O million, so that’s going to cause some squeezes elsewhere in our budget.”

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charged with punching a man last November after the victim told them to “stop calling him gay.”

Finnerty’s charges would have been dropped if he had completed 25 hours of community service and was not arrested for six months.

A judge, however, ruled that his arrest last week was reason enough to reinstate the charges.

New restrictions imposed by the Washington judge demand that Finnerty and his co-defendants adhere to a curfew of 9 p.m. and refrain from being anywhere where alcohol is sold or consumed.

Finnerty is scheduled to stand trial for charges of simple assault July 10 in Washington. He may serve six months in prison and receive a $l,OOO fine if convicted.

District Attorney Mike Nifong said he also intends to reinstate prior charges of several other lacrosse players.

Sixteen team members have prior misdemeanor charges but were granted deferred prosecution deals and placed on probation. They were expected to perform community service and abide by both the law and University regulations.

“For a long time, we have treated deferred prosecution as a right,” Nifong told the Associated Press. “It is a privi-

lege.”

Nifong may reinstate the charges for players whose deferred prosecution deals are still active and those he believes were at the party. As of Tuesday, Nifong had only reinstated the charges against senior David Evans, one of the team captains who leased the house where the party

was held.

Evans had previously been charged with a noise ordinance violation and underage drinking. He is scheduled to appear in court in May. Nifong told the AP Tuesday he does not plan to present charges in the lacrosse case to the grand jury when it reconvenes May 1.

Several lawyers have said a third team member identified by the accuser could be indicted at that time.

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DA Mike Nifong reinstated charges Tuesday,against lacrosse team captain David Evans, one of the seniors who rented 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. ,

The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and

Democracy of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy

Invites Submissions for THE MELCHER FAMILY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM An award for the best article by a freshman, sophomore or junior at Duke University Richard Melcher, (Duke, ‘74) is co-founder and principal of Melcher Tucker Consultants, a strategic consulting firm based in Chicago. Prior to founding the firm he was a writer and chief of the London and Chicago bureaus ofBusiness Week. He has maintained close ties to the Sanford Institute and the DeWitt Wallace Center and fondly recalls his years working on The Chronicle. This award represents his commitment to student journalism that is thoughtful, well documented and well presented.

The Award Process; 1. Eligibility; Any piece published by a freshman, sophomore or junior at Duke in a recognized print publication or website between May 15, 2005 and May 15, 2006. One submission per student We encourage students to be creative in submitting pieces from nontraditional publication venues.

Sophomore Collin Finnerty will stand trial for charges of simple assault July 10 inWashington, O.C.

2. Submissions may be sent by e-mail to media@pps.duke.edu or by mail (5 copies) to: The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy Box 90241 Duke University Durham, NC 27708 Faxed copies will be ineligible.

Submissions should include all current contact information (phone, email, mailing address) and the source and date of publication.

The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2006, although candidates are encouraged to send their pieces at any time before that date.

3. The Melcher Family Award Committee will evaluate the submissions: David Jarmul, Duke University Associate Vice President for News & Communication Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy Studies and Director, DeWitt Wallace Center William Raspberry, Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism Kenneth Rogerson, Research Director, DeWitt Wallace Center Susan Tifft, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Journalism

4. The award will be presented in the fall of 2006 5. For questions about the award, please contact: Kenneth Rogerson at rogerson@pps.duke.edu or 613-7387.

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what he does.”

Having obtained his EMT intermediate certificate as well as his firefighter certificate, Davis is currently working toward earning his paramedic degree in Durham. “[lt’s] an interesting place,” Davis said. “It’s all its own especially for someone trying to be a new paramedic. You’ll get a lifetime worth of experience in Durham that you wouldn’t get in years in other

As the attorney for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the indicted former vice presidential aide, Jeffress has worked closely with Bennett in the Miller case.

Some critics have said the committee hired Bennett whose fees reportedly exceed $7OO an hour—because he is ruthless when defending powerful men against charges of sexual improprieties.

Bennett drew fire from some attorneys when he represented Clinton in a sexual harassment case filed by former Arkansas state employee Paulajones.

Bennett suggested Jones was pressing the case to extort money from Clinton, and he threatened to put her sexual history under meticulous scrutiny.

The Washington Post reported in 1998 that after Jones’s case was dismissed, a businessman accosted Bennett at a swanky Washington restaurant and yelled, “Choke on your food, sir, and wallow in the consequences of choking!” .

An essay criticizing Bennett, entitled “Privilege Meets Protest at Duke University,” has recently been spread around a series of left-leaning e-mail mailing lists and websites.

“A new well-heeledbooster club... hired the ultimate authority in smearing women who ‘cry rape,’” the essay stated.

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places.”

Davis’ friends, who work with him or have worked with him at Duke EMS, echo his sentiments about the value of public service.

“I think Chris would agree that money is not everything in life,” said junior William Pitt, another friend of Davis’. “Firefighting has its own allure that is different from a higher paying job. It’s a very interesting and fulfilling job to have.”

Other Duke students agree that community service of some kind is not only important but also fulfilling.

“I think that public service is a very important and central part of society,” said juniorKyle White, one of the student directors of Duke’s Community Service Center.

“A lot of people joke around that those from Duke go on to run or change the world. However, [making money] is not the only way to make a difference out there.”

Davis does not note any one thing as driving him to public service, but did cite the events of 9/11 as a contributing factor.

“I remember it well,” Davis said. “Although it was kind of far away, it hit home for us, and by the time the towers came down everyone was amped up and wanted to join the Marines. Most people didn’t, but it definitely has changed the face of public service.”

Although Davis does not see firefighting as a lifelong profession because he “likes [his] lungs and health too much,” he may consider medical school, but ultimately he’d, like to end up in the wilderness—and of course, helping others.

“More of us need to go out into the community and show that we aren’t a bunch of stuck-up white kids,” he said.

How other defense attorneys describe Bob Bennett, the high-priced, high-profile lawyer hired by the Committee for Fairness to Duke Families.

"I've known him for about ten years and found him to always be a very tenacious advocate, and I'm sure the boosters will be well served by him... This is someone who unabashedly will defend his client."

—Mark Geragos, former defense attorney for Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder and Nate Dogg.

"There is nobody better than Bob Bennett at un-

Mark Geragos, a California criminal defense attorney who for a time represented Michael Jackson in his sexual assault case, said Bennett would tenaciously defend the lacrosse team, adding that it was the appropriate approach to take.

“I never would think of Bob Bennett as tiptoeing lightly through the tulips when it comes to anybody,” Geragos said. “You can’t tiptoe around the facts—the woman is a stripper. We’re not talking about a nun that is picked off the street.”

Geragos noted that the 24-hour news cycle requires defense attorneys to aggressively defend their clients.

“A lot of times people tend to condemn someone just because there has been an accusation made,” he said.

“People always say, ‘You can’t attack, you can’t attack’ that is all that anyone has been doing with the men in this case.”

Attorney Casey Cooper said he agrees that Bennett—who has yet to assume a prominent role in the case—must defend the players in the court of public opinion. A partner at Baker Botts, Cooper also criticized Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s handling of the case.

“The prosecutor is making statements to the press every time you look up,” Cooper added.

“Every time the prosecutor holds a press conference or makes a campaign appearance, he is potentially influencing the jury pool, which is very dangerous.”

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derstanding the legal dimensions, press aspects and strategic considerations of a problem. Bob is one of those people who has forgotten more than most people know about complicated legal and P.R. cases and problems."

—Abbe David Lowell, attorney for lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

"He's a very wise choice, in a very difficult case.

Bob's as good as anyone I know in our profession with dealing with the media."

—Mark Tuohey, 2001 D.C Lawyer of the Year and partner at Vinson <S Elkins LLP.

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Leinster called the 2005 participation rate “ridiculously high” and estimated that before last year, participation rates had typically been below 50 percent. She said this year they are shooting for 60 percent or more.

“Student satisfaction is a big part of it,” she said, explaining why giving rates may vary from year to year.

Leinster added that she heard senior class giving rates fell the year the administration banned kegs from Main West Quadrangle.

Both Leinster and Bycoff felt confident that the recent events surrounding the men’s lacrosse team would not affect giving.

Senior Ethan Fleegler, however, said concerns about financial transparency contributed to his decision to abstain from giving to the 2006 class gift.

“During my time here, the student activity fee has increased without an increase in transparency,” Fleegler said. “It was mosdy out of frustration from giving to funds where the direction wasn’t necessarily clear.”

Fleegler noted that while he thought a senior gift was a good idea in theory, he wished it operated as more of a studentled initiative.

“If I give to the library, will that go toward building a new cafe or buying more books?” Fleegler asked, adding that he wanted more details about what his money would fund.

Leinster said that while people refused to give for a variety of reasons, many said they had “given enough to Duke.”

“It’s their opinion, but I feel it’s kind of misguided,” she said. “Tuition doesn’t cover what it costs to go here.”

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“If for some reason when we wake and we now have a high percentage of thunderstorms, we’ll have an emergency meeting and move indoors,” he said. “If we were to move inside, it would be in Page [Auditorium], but that’s just not going to be the case.”

Although the main concert featuring Guster, Rahzel and Matt Costa is scheduled to remain on Main West Quadrangle, the LDOC committee announced several changes due to the forecasts of

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cold and rain In an e-mail sent to all undergraduates, Middaugh said some outdoor activities —mainly a capella and student dance performances—were cancelled due to the possibility of rain.

“Not only would they be performing on a stage with no cover, but it would be a wet stage and in 55-degree weather,” Middaugh said, explaining the reasoning behind the decision.

The LDOC committee will instead host a party in the Great Hall featuring live music from student bands—including Chromatic, Alexander Street, Running Lights and Starting Tuesday.

“This party in the Great Hall is going to add a great dimension to LDOC,” Middaugh said, adding that “Bring Your Own Beverage” policies will still be enforced.

In a break from tradition, no t-shirts will be handed out at this year’s LDOC. “It was a budgetary decision made early on in the process,” Middaugh said. “We decided that focusing on the bands and daytime programming was our top priority.”

Junior Will Carlson speculated that a concert in Page would be unsuccessful.

“I bet no one is going to go to Page and sit there—Page doesn’t have a good vibe,” Carlson said. “People are going to stay outside and drink.”

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In the lacrosse case, a photographic to a prosecutor’s report obtained by Newsweek, the alleged victim was asked to identify the suspects using a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of the 46 team members.

Sophomores Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were indicted after being selected with “100 percent certainty”—according to the alleged victim—from the lineup.

A third team member was also identified and may be indicted at the next grand jury meeting May 1.

In the lacrosse scandal, defense lawyers have noted that the absence offillers from the lineup could call the identifications into question.

Vidmar declined to comment on the lacrosse case but noted that live and photographic lineups each have advantages and disadvantages.

A problem with live lineups, he noted, is that the behavior of suspects—nervousness, for example —may sometimes influence a witness’s identification, yet that suspect may be innocent.

But photographic lineups may also have some drawbacks.

“If it’s a color photograph, even then it’s one-dimensional and front along.

When they do a live lineup, they are faced front on, turn right, turn left, and that makes a difference,” Vidmar said.

Wells noted that due to the absence of fillers, additional evidence would be needed to support the lacrosse team lineup identifications.

“I could pick someone who is a plausible person, and I wasn’t even there.

There’s no sort of internal control in this to find out about her credibility,” he said.

“It doesn’t mean that she’s wrong—it means that there needs to be some pretty good corroborating evidence.”

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necessarily more effective. The study was recommended by the Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment in 2002, after several death row inmates were exonerated through DNA evidence.

The experiment, run by the Chicago Police Department, found that sequential lineups were less accurate than the traditional ones.

The correct suspect was chosen 45 percent of the time when a sequential lineup was used, and 60 percent of the time with the simultaneous lineup.

Legal experts, however, have called the study’s methodology into question.

Gary Wells, a professor of psychology at lowa State University, found that fewer innocent people were chosen with sequential lineups than with the simultaneous method.

“The problem with [the Illinois] study is that they manipulated two variables at once,” he said. “Every time they did their sort of simultaneous procedure... it was administered by the case detective.”

He added that the sequential procedure, by comparison, was used with a double blind.

“It may be that the difference that they’re observing is that in one case the detective is influencing the witness and in the other case not,” Wells said. “What was missing here was a condition in which they used the traditional simultaneous presentation, but that they did it in a doubleblind fashion.”

Another alternative to live, in-person lineups has been the use of photographic lineups.

“Sometimes, it is difficult to find the person.... So you have to use photos when you have something like that,” Vidmar said.

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GAS from page 2 Ted—even encouraged, I would say—by this administration.”

The country’s three largest oil and gas companies were expected to report combined first-quarter profits later in the week in excess of $l6 billion, a 19-percent surge from last year.

Bush, a former oilman, asked his administration to investigate possible price gouging and said Congress should revoke about $2 billion in tax breaks that Congress approved and he signed into law to encourage exploration.

“Cash flows are up,” Bush said. “Taxpayers don’t need to be paying for certain of these expenses on behalf of the energy companies.”

Menendez spoke at a press conference where Democrats sought to turn gas price—like Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war—into an issue to undermine Bush’s standing with voters.

“What happened to Iraq oil, Mr, President? You said Iraqi oil would pay for the war. Ain’t seen no money. Ain’t seen no oil,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, DMd. The suspension of oil purchases for the federal emergency oil reserve until the fall is likely to have only a modest

impact.

The halt in deposits involves only 12 million barrels—less than the 20 million barrels of oil used every day in the United States for transportation.

Bush resisted calls for a suspension of shipments to the reserve in the past.

When his 2004 presidential opponent, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., suggested the same idea during the campaign, Bush called it “playing politics.”

Bush said Tuesday that the nation’s 685million barrel petroleum reserve had enough fuel to guard against any major supply disruption over the next few months.

The president said Democrats in the past have urged higher taxes on fuel and price caps to control fuel expenses, but he said neither approach works.

Instead, he called for increased conservation, an expansion of domestic production and increased use ofalternative fuels such as ethanol.

David Friedman of the Union of Concerned Scientists said an even more effective move would be to require that vehicles sold in the United States get higher gas

mileage.

“The fundamental problem is that the fuel economy of cars and trucks is a disgrace and the world is just consuming too much oil and gasoline,” Friedman said.

The EPA said it will consider fuel waivers on a case-by-case basis if gasoline supply problems become apparent, which could result in price spikes or shortages of cleaner summer-blend

gasoline.

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John Millett said the waivers would not adversely impact air quality because they are only for 20 days, although states can request extensions.

Refiners, meanwhile, said that most of the change to summer-blend gasoline already has been completed and waivers may not be needed—and might even be counterproductive in some cases.

“You’re going to have to be careful that you’re not upsetting a plan that already is in the last stage of implementation,” said Bob Slaughter, president of the National Petrochemical Refiners Association.

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ZARQAWI from page 2 He delivered his statement, sitting inside with an ammunition vest hung from his neck and an automatic rifle propped nearby.

Al-Zarqawi addressed Sunni Arabs in Iraq and across the Arab world, warning that their community was in danger of being caught between “the Crusaders and the evil Rejectionists,” the terms used by radical Sunnis for the Americans and the Shiites.

“God almighty has chosen you (Sunnis) to conduct holy war in your lands and has opened the doors of paradise to you So mujahedeen, don't dare close those doors,” he said. “They are slaughtering your children and shaming your women.”

Any new government—“whether made up of the hated Shiites or the secular Zionist Kurds or the collaborators imposed on the Sunnis—will be stooges of the Crusaders and will be a poisoned dagger in the heart of the Islamic nation,” he said.

He trumpeted the success of the insurgency, saying “when the enemy entered into Iraq, their aim was to control Iraq and the area. But here we have been fighting them for the last three years.”

He addressed President Bush, telling him, “By God, you will have no peace in the land ofIslam.”

“Your dreams will be defeated by our blood and by our bodies. What is coming is even worse,” he said.

A U.S. intelligence official, who also declined to be identified in compliance with office police, said a technical analysis had determined that the voice on the tape was ...

al-Zarqawi’s.

Al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility

The leader of al Queda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, speaks in a video posted on the Internet April 25. for some of the bloodiest suicide bombings in Iraq since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein and for the beheadings and killings of at least 10 foreign hostages, including three Americans and a Briton.

The U.S military has put a $25 million bounty on his head.

He has made several audiotapes with similar messages, but the last time video in which al-Zarqawi was believed to have appeared was one released on May 11, 2004, in which U.S. intelligence says he is

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Arab television network aired portions of the tape at the same time that Iraq’s government-owned TV broadcast an interview with the Prime Minister-designate Jawad alMaliki, who called for Iraq's sharply divided Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds to unite in a front against terrorism.

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terrorism will dry up,” al-Maliki said.

If made Friday, the tape came three days before a triple bombing at a resort in Egypt thatkilled at least 24 people, including 21 Egyptians and three foreigners.

It was believed to be the first time alZarqawi's group has released a video showing his face, said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, an Alexandria, Va.-based firm that provides counterterrorism intelligence services to the U.S. government.

The counterterrorism official said U.S. intelligence still believes that al-Zarqawi is in Iraq and there was no evidence the video was linked to either the Egypt bombings or the bin Laden video.

A video, rather than an audio, is thought to increase the risk to the speaker, he said.

One or two pictures of al-Zarqawi’s face have circulated on Islamic militant Web sites before, and he appeared in a video of his sister’s wedding in Afghanistan in the 19905.

U.S. and Iraqi troops hunting al-Zarqawi also have several old photos of him at their checkpoints—showing a younger, softer face.

Wanted posters offering a $25 million reward are kept at checkpoints across Iraq—with several photos showing al-Zarqawi at different stages of his life.

Iraqi security forces detained al-Zarqawi in Fallujah in 2004 but released him after a few hours because they didn'trealize who he was, deputy interior minister Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal said last year.

The footage showed al-Zarqawi and about two dozen insurgents undergoing combat training together.

In another scene, he sat indoors with masked lieutenants and a man identified in a caption as the insurgent commander for Iraq’s western province ofAnbar.

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It had been said in media rooms

throughout the year that for a photographer to capture a Shelden Williams smile in a picture was the equivalent of a reporter knowing Coach K’s actual salary—that is to say it is a rare privilege.

But March 20 in a press conference the week leading up to Duke’s Sweet 16 matchup with LSU, mike Williams was all smiles. He sat in front V3II QO of a room full of reporters recounting the dinner he had thrown for his teammates the previous night. He talked about the obstacles he had overcome in his time at Duke and the sacrifices he had made.

Earlier that week, ESPN The Magazine had run a story about how rape allegations involving Williams’ high school team during his senior year had forced the 6foot-9 big man to become somewhat of a recluse and fearful ofunfamiliar members of the media. It revealed the importance that his roommate Lee Melchionni—rarely seen without a smile—had played in Williams’ transformation from the timid player who first set foot on campus four years ago to the senior All-American.

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Duke’s quest for a National Championship has been all about small steps. The

Blue Devils will take their next step this weekend at the ACC Championships, where they hope to defend their ACC title and prepare themselves for their final step, the NCAA Tournament.

The first-seeded Blue Devils (14-1, 4-1) will begin the tournament in the semifinals Friday at M & T Bank Stadium in Baldmore. They will match up against the winner of Thursday’s first-round contest between No. 4-seed Maryland (11-5, 2-3) and No. 5-seed Boston College (8-7, 1-4).

“It is a challenge to go back and repeat,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

“There is so much competition in our conference, and you are usually balding one of these guys to get into the final four or in the final four. So, I think it has been tremendous competition for all our ACC teams.”

After defeating Virginia (13-3, 4-1), 96, in last season’s ACC Championship game, Duke fell to Virginia, 15-13, in the national semifinals. The team’s ultimate goal this season was to secure the program’s first National Championship.

Kimel, however, has said all season that her team is taking it one step at a time.

So far, the Blue Devils have succeeded in taking these baby steps. Before Duke played North Carolina March 8, Kimel said one of her team’s regular-season goals was to secure one of the top two seeds in the ACC Championships in order to gain a first-round bye.

Duke went on to defeat the Tar Heels, 10-8. Because the Blue Devils fell

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Attacker Leigh Jester's 40 points on 28 goals and 12 assists place her fourth among theBlue Devils. to Virginia, 11-10, April I—the1 —the only blemish on Duke’s record—and UNC defeated the Cavaliers, 10-9, March 18, there was a three-way tie between the three teams at the end of the regular season. Duke’s two-point victory over UNC proved to be the difference-maker and helped the team to win the point-

differential tiebreaker to garner the No 1 seed.

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To say that North Carolina has Duke’s number on the baseball diamond is an understatement. The Tar Heels are 11-1 at Jack Coombs Field since 1998—thelone Duke victory coming in 2004. UNC is 23-3 overall against the Blue Devils in that eightyear span.

Many of those games haven’t been particularly close, as the Tar Heels have scored in douVS. ble-digits against Duke 12 times in the last six seasons.

This weekend, Duke (14-30, 6-15 in the ACC) will look to alter that history against the nation’s top-ranked Tar Heels (34-8, 15-6).

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Jack Coombs Field “I don’t think any of that [history] is relevant,” manager Sean McNally said. “All we can do is focus on this year’s team, play to our strength, be aggressive and get ready to play well.”

Duke hopes to carry over the momentum from its series win at Virginia Tech. It was the second consecutive road series victory in conference for the Blue Devils, who failed to win a single road game last season. After its previous road series win at Boston College earlier in the season, however, Duke couldn’t

in four years at Duke, Shelden Williams grew from a shy freshman to a team leader as a senior.

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Lapidus said.

Senior Jonathan Stokke capped his Duke regular-season career with a critical upset against Virginia in the ACC finals, but behind his quiet and calm exterior, he is just a fun-loving guy off the court.

“He’s actually like a five-year old off the court,” senior teammate Stephen Amritraj said. “Stokke can always joke around.

He is the best teammate I’ve ever had and one of my best friends off the court.”

One of Amritraj’s fondest memories of Stokke has been his eating habits.

Cattleman’s Steak House, an off-campus eatery that used to accept food points for delivery, became an immediate obsession for the senior.

“Stokke ordered Cattleman’s steak and fruit punch for four months,” Amritraj said. “That’s all he ate.”

But at the end oflast year, Cattleman’s stopped delivering to Duke’s campus.

“The kid didn’t know what to do,” Amritraj said.

It wasn’t the first time the senior had unusual eating habits, either. Stokke, who is from Chapel Hill, had quirky eating patterns during his freshman year, too.

“I had Armadillo two to three days a week,” Stokke said. “Really, that’s what I was known for.”

Though his taste for unhealthy food became a joke among his friends, the freshman Stokke cut down on his favorite meals to get into better shape.

“A lot of people say that tennis is all in your legs,” Stokke said.

Throughout his four years at Duke, Stokke has worked on his physical conditioning and now, at 6-foot-3, 195 pounds is in peak shape, head coach Jay Lapidus said.

“He’s one of the best, if not the best athlete I’ve ever had on my team,” Lapidus said. “Physically, he’s imposing because he’s big, he’s strong and he’s fast. [Stokke] could’ve played any sport he wanted—thankfully he played tennis.”

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“He’s got a lot more consistent off the ground,” Lapidus said. “He can find his way up to the net and gets enough balls in play now. He plays a little bit better defense, which enables him to play better offense.”

In his senior season, Stokke has shined in tournament competition. He posted 15 wins in 22 singles matches and an impressive 11-3 record in doubles contests, playing alongside junior Joey Atas.

The pinnacle of Stokke’s career, however, was his performance in the ACC Championships Sunday, which earned him Most Valuable Player honors.

“In the last few matches, he’s really raised his game,” assistant coach Ramsey Smith said.

Entering the championship game against Virginia as the 58th-ranked player in the country, Stokke upset No. 45 Rylan Rizza, who defeatedDuke’s top player Ludovic Walter handily one week earlier.

But besides achieving an impressive record this season, Stokke has assumed a leadership role for the Blue Devils this season.

A day earlier against Florida State, many of the Blue Devils were in the middle of tight matches when a rain delay halted competition for several hours.

During the tense period, the usually reserved Stokke gathered his teammates around him and said, “I just want to let you guys know that I refuse to lose.”

To his teammates, however, Stokke is more than a competitive tennis player that can serve and volley or chip and charge.

“He’s brought a level of class to the program,” Lapidus said. “He carries maturity and classiness on the court. He’s been a great leader for us this year, certainly one of the guys that everyone looks up to. We’re No. 3 in the country and he’s a big part of it.”

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MIAMI Ricky Williams will sit out another season.

The NFL suspended the troubled Miami Dolphins running back for one year Tuesday after he violated the league’s substance abuse policy for the fourth time.

Williams met April 10 with NFL counsel Jeff Pash in an attempt to have the league overturn the test. He had been participating in the off-season training program at the Dolphins’ complex, and he was there working out shortly before the league announced that his appeal had been rejected.

“I’m disappointed with the decision, but I respect it,” the 2002 NFL rushing champion said in a statement released by the team. “I’m proud of my association with the National Football League and look forward to returning to the Dolphins in 2007.”

Williams also sat out the 2004 season after retiring shortly before training camp.

He returned last year to play for new Miami head coach Nick Saban.

Williams’ previous positive drug tests were for marijuana, which he acknowledged using. The latest test apparendy involved a substance other than marijuana and may have been related to his interest in holistic medicine.

Since his return last season, the NFL required Williams to undergo drug tests up to 10 times a month. He was in India studying yoga when news of his latest failed test surfaced in February.

Williams served a four-game suspension

the start of the 2005 season for his third violation of the drug program, then ran for 743 yards and averaged 4.4 yards a carry while sharing playing time with rookie Ronnie Brown.

Saban repeatedly has praised Williams’ conduct and performance last season and supported him in the appeal process.

“This is a league decision, and we are disappointed in what it means for Ricky and the team,” Saban said in a statement.

“Ricky did an outstanding job for the Dolphins, not only as a player but also what he added as a person to the team’s chemistry and to our overall success.”

One sliver of good news for Saban is the timing of the decision; He now knows he’s in the market for a running back in the NFL draft this weekend to back up Brown.

The suspension represents a financial blow for Williams, who owes the Dolphins $8.6 million for breaching his contract when he retired in 2004. His return last season was motivated partly by the need for a paycheck, and that may be a reason for him to return in 2007.

Attorney David Cornwell represented Williams in his appeal.

“We raised substantial and legitimate issues arising out of the application of the NFL’s policy and program for substances of abuse,” Cornwell said in a statement. He urged the players’ union and ownership to “review the issues we raised on the appeal and restore the original intention of the NFL’s policy to put equal focus on helping NFL players as is put on testing and suspending them.”

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Connecticut point guard Marcus Williams said Tuesday he will forgo his final year of eligibility and enter the NBA draft.

The 6-foot-3 Williams is considered one of the nation’s top playmakers. He appeared in 70 games at UConn, starting 51 and averaging nine points and 7.3 assists.

Williams is the third underclassman to announce he will leave UConn early this year, joining junior forward Josh Boone and sophomore swingman Rudy Gay. Boone is the only one of the three who has said he won’t hire an agent, allowing him to possibly return to school next season. He has until June 18 to withdraw from the draft.

Williams said he plans to hire an

agent soon.

“I just want to get to the next level and hopefully provide for my team,” Williams said.

Williams missed most of the 2003-04 national championship season because of poor grades and was suspended from the team for the first half of the 2005-06 season after being charged with trying to sell laptop computers stolen from campus dorm rooms.

He eventually was granted a special form of probation for first-time offenders and will have his criminal records erased if he successfully completes 18 months of probation.

Williams said he tried to turn that experience into something positive.

“I think it made me grow up a lot faster than I wanted to, but I needed it,” Williams said.

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Longhorns'Gibson enters draft, does not hire agent AUSTIN, Texas Texas sophomore point guard Daniel Gibson said Tuesday that he plans to declare for the NBA draft but will not hire an agent, meaning he could keep his college eligibility.

“Playing in the NBA has always been a dream for me since I was a little kid,” Gibson said in a statement released by the university. “If I’m comfortable with where I feel I’ll be drafted, I’ll stay in the draft. If not, I’ll be back.”

Texas coach Rick Barnes said he has no problem with Gibson exploring his status

for the June 28 draft, Gibson ranked third on the team in scoring (13.4 ppg) and set a school record for most three-point field goals made in a season (101). Texas won a school-record 30 games last season and reached the Atlanta Regional final of the NCAA Tournament before losing to LSU. Gibson is the third Longhorn to declare for this year’s draft, joining LaMarcus Aldridge and RJ. Tucker. Only Aldridge is hiring an agent, making him ineligible to return.

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Wizards rough up King James, tie series at 1 by

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CLEVELAND The Washington Wizards got mad, then got even.

Angry at allowing Leßron James to dominate them with a triple-double in Game 1, the Wizards roughed up Cleveland’s superstar and downed the Cavaliers, 89-84, Tuesday night to tie their Eastern Conference series .

WIZARDS 89 at a ;ame a; uece Gilbert Arenas CAVALIERS scored 30 points, Antawn Jamison added 21 and Caron Butler was the primary defender on James, who wasn’t the same after he got wrapped up by massive Wizards center Brendan Haywood in the first quarter.

“Actually, that wasn’t the plan going in,” Arenas said of Haywood’s hack. “Brendan just decided he was going to give a hard foul to let him know he was there. For some reason, that just threw him off a little bit.”

James got 32 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in his playoff debut, but he played like a mere mortal in his second postseason game as a pro.

He finished with 26 points on 7-of-25 shooting, and matched his career high with 10 turnovers. James also made some mental errors, including a costly one late when he made an out-of-bounds save under his own basket that was picked off by Arenas for an easy layup.

The Wizards came up with all the right adjustments and snatched away Cleveland’s home-court advantage.

“We destroyed ourselves in Game 1,” Arenas said. “So we decided to come out __

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and play better basketball.”

The Wizards stopped James and also snapped Cleveland’s 12-game winning streak at home. Instead of double-teaming the 6-foot-8 James, who dissected them with passes to open teammates in Game 1,Washington coach Eddie Jordan let Buder and Jared Jeffries guard him with no assistance.

“They had a great scheme by playing me 1-on-l,” said James, whose 10 turnovers were a team playoff record. “I missed a lot of shots, layups that I usually make. They did a great job. I didn’t come to play.”

The series shifts to the Verizon Center for Game 3 in the best-of-seven series on Friday night.

Drew Gooden scored 24 points on 11of-12 shooting and added 16 rebounds, and Larry Hughes had 16 points for the Cavaliers, who trailed, 85-77, with 1:34 left following Arenas’ gift layup and free throw.

A free throw by James and two by Gooden got the Cavs within 85-80, and Cleveland was still alive when Arenas missed an ill-advised 3-pointer.

Hughes’ jumper made it 87-82, and James made two more free throws with 20 seconds left to pull Cleveland within three.

Billy Thomas then missed a pair of free throws for Washington, and the Cavs looked as if they would get closer.

James rushed the ball up the floor, but instead of calling a timeout or trying a game-tying 3-pointer, he passed inside to a wide-open Anderson Varejao.

But as Cleveland’s backup center was gathering himself for a shot, Arenas slapped the ball away. Varejao fouled Jamison, who made two free throws to ice it.

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VAN PELT from page 15 at what would be his final press

conference in Cameron Indoor Stadium, it was as if his growth was complete. Having attended nearly every men’s basketball team press conference during the past two years, I can honestly say it was the happiest I had ever seen him.

It was Williams’ way of saying, “I have put my past behind me, and I am better for it.”

Williams’ development was a product of four years of mentoring from one of the best motivators and teachers in America, of the support of his teammates and of immersing himself in the Duke

experience.

The past month and a half has been an extremely difficult time for the entire Duke community.

The rape allegations against the men’s lacrosse team that have captured the attention of the nation have left a black mark on the University and the Athletic Department.

But forgotten amid the media frenzy have been stories of studentathlete triumphs and the pride that Duke students take in the classmates that represent them on the field—regardless of whether they are competing on national television or in front of a small crowd at Koskinen Stadium.

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sional teams as ‘theys’ all they want, but ‘we’ is reserved only for the Blue Devils.

It might seem like a matter of semantics, but I believe there is a big difference that is even more apropos given the current situation.

We all attend the same classes, eat at the same places and live in the same dorms—athletes and non-athletes alike. We share many of the same experiences during our four years in Durham.

And it seems to me that all of that has been forgotten.

This past year, I’ve had the unique privilege of serving as sports editor ofThe Chronicle, following virtually every pitch, shot or goal involving a Blue Devil team.

I’ve witnessed the tremendous amount of passion that Duke athletes play with and the support they receive from their friends and classmates.

It’s a collaborative effort—student and student-athlete. It’s a ‘we.’

Over the past month and a half, it hasn’t been that way. Being a part of Duke and cheering on its athletes has not been a source of pride. Rather it has been perceived as a source of shame.

College athletics engage people’s emotions in a manner professional sports never could. We shared in Abby Waner’s anguish when she crouched at center-court as Maryland celebrated its national title just beside her. But that’s because we also rejoiced with her when the Blue Devils made it to the NCAA tide game.

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We lauded the men’s tennis team for their remarkable comeback to win the ACC Champi-

onship and rallied behind the women’s lacrosse team when it snapped Northwestern’s 31game win streak to move up to No. 1 in the polls.

And when I listened to Williams win over the media

room that day, I couldn’t help but get chills. I felt like I shared in his sense of accomplishment because I had watched and witnessed so many steps along the way.

Duke has had its ups and downs this year, but there have been far more highs than there have been lows.

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So it’s time for all of us to move on. It’s time that we celebrate the accomplishments of our student-athletes and once again look to our teams for a sense of school pride.

So in this, my final byline as sports editor, I’m going to throw out objectivity for a change.

Let’s go Duke.

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ule that mirrors the structure of the NCAA Championship’s final weekend.

“The tournament format definitely kind of mimics the final four format, the FridaySunday kind of setup,” junior midfielder Michelle Menser said. “Obviously, we are playing some of the best competition which is great preparation for the NCAA tournament.”

Since the Blue Devils will not find out who they will play in their first matchup until Thursday evening, they have to prepare themselves for both Boston College and Maryland. Kimel said she is using practice this week to get her team ready for either team’s high-tempo transition game.

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ting back to the fundamentals,” junior attacker Leigh Jester said. “Either team we face, we want to show up with a good defense and transition game.”

Duke defeated both squads earlier this season. The Blue Devils withstood a late comeback charge by the Terrapins to win, 9-7, Feb. 25. In Duke’s last ACC regular-season game, it took advantage of a 21-1 shot differential in the first half to roll over the Eagles, 19-5, April 15.

If the Blue Devils advance to the finals for the third year in a row, they will likely face either North Carolina or Virginia—who both have championship aspirations.

“I think this tournament has always been tremendous preparation for all our ACC teams,” Kimel said. “We have done a great job of representing well in the final four and in the NCAA Tournament the last couple of years.”

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sustain the momentum and was swept at home by Wake Forest.

The Blue Devils will go for their third straight road win Wednesday at Davidson.

Clutch hitting helped Duke dismantle the Wildcats, 11-5, in the only other meeting this season between the two April 12 in Durham.

Duke will need its bats to stay hot if it is to compete with North Carolina’s dynamic starting rotation. The Blue Devils scored 25 runs in their last two games at Virginia Tech behind junior lead-off man Jimmy Gallagher and senior Adam Murray. The two combined for 10 hits, eight runs scored and three home runs in the final two games of the series.

Virginia Tech’s staff, however, doesn’t possess nearly the same quality and depth as that of North Carolina, which boasts some of the best pitchers in the nation.

UNC’s rotation is anchored by southpaw Andrew Miller, Friday night’s starter.

Miller, who most Major League scouts agree will be the top pick in the upcoming draft, has compiled a 9-0 record with a 1.56 ERA in 10 starts this season. The Tar Heels have yet to lose a game started by the junior.

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Duke’s Danny Otero (5-4) will try to halt a personal two-game losing streak Friday night and hand Miller his first loss of the season. Despite the consecutive losses, the junior ace still has the sixth-best ERA in the ACC at 2.32. He has been victimized by 15 unearned runs this season, including six in the last two games.

Otero will face a Tar Heel lineup spearheaded by left fielder Jay Cox, who leads the ACC with a .399 average, and Josh Horton, who is fourth in the conference at .394.

Duke, will also try to forget its history against No. 1 teams this season, having been swept at then top-ranked Florida State in March. The Blue Devils lost the three games by a combined 2!Truns.

Freshman designated hitter Nate Freiman can’t contain his excitement at getting another shot against No. 1.

“I can’t wait. I absolutely can’t wait,” Freiman said. “That’ll be really exciting—to get a chance to step in against the best team in college baseball. This is why we play—to get a chance to play against the best.”

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are the days of free bus-ride soundtracks. Gone are the days of the free iPods.

They will still be around and so will iPod classes, but Duke will loan them out instead of gifting them for keeps, Now students will be required to return loaner iPods to the University at the end of future semesters or pay a $99 fee.

Students can still look at the $99 as a gready reduced price for one of the hottest pieces of technology around, But a $99 iPod is a much smaller discount than a free

for regulating an experiment that gave out iPods to too many people.

Giving out iPods to every member of the Class of 2008, for example, did not give each of the current sophomores an enhanced educational experience.

Duke invested about $3OO in all sophomores and other students who enrolled in iPod classes. This investment was designed to integrate educadon and technology and to improve Duke’s educational

opportunities,

But administrators have in-

telligently realized that students could receive the same

techonological-educational

synergy at a much lower cost.

And thus was born the loaner program.

By not gifting iPods anymore, the University is saving money and cutting down on waste.

Reducing the costs of this program is smart, considering the increased popularity among students and faculty.

Two years after the first iPods were doled out to an entire freshmen class, the program has become institutionalized.

Since it seems it is here to stay—which it should—it makes sense for the University to aim for long-term sustainability of the program.

The iPod loaner program makes sense in a lot of respects,

You can't tiptoe around the facts—the woman is a stripper. We're not talking about a nun that is picked off the street.

—Mark Geragos, a criminial defense lawyer who has represented celebrities such as Michael Jackson, regarding the woman who is accusing lacrosse players of rape.

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pilots, into courses’ curricula.

These technologies seem

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the Duke Digital Initiative is trying to accomplish anyway.

Also, the University should keep monitoring the successes and failures of the continuing iPod experiment.

As long as students and professors like the idea of using iPods in the classroom, the program should continue.

If it stops becoming useful or effective, the program should be dropped.

The University should also continue to buy new iPods to keep the loaner pool up to date with the latest generations of the multi-function gadgets so as to ensure that Duke students complement their worldclass educations with groundbreaking innovations.

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but there are a couple of concerns that need to be addressed about the changes to it.

First and foremost, the now popular (for obvious reasons) iPod classes may become less desirable to students. The loaner program deincendvizes enrolling in these courses since students will no longer receive a $3OO mp3 player just for being in the class.

The powers that be should create safeguards to make sure that students are still interested and excited about bringing iPods—and other technology—into the classroom.

On the topic of other technology, the University should continue to explore new opportunities to incorporate other cutting-edge innovations, like tablet PCs and palm

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It’s

Tuesday night, and I’m doing something comout of the ordinary. In fact, it’s almost alien.

I am being a student.

That’s right, with the last night ofregular Chronicle production in full swing, I’m typing a 25-page conseyward darby stitutional law editor's column paper—in addition to directing staff members as they piece together what is our final daily issue this year.

After months of giving up my usual role of student—writer ofpapers, reader ofpoems, analyzer of theories —to be a newspaper editor, I’m now headed back to the same old, same old that I grew accustomed to during my first two years at Duke.

And to be frank, I’m terrified. This year has been a wild ride, and I expected nothing less.

A Chronicle alum put a hand on my shoulder about a year ago and asked, “Are you ready for this?”—meaning the insane hours, responsibility and resilience that the coming job of editor would entail. Just about a month ago, a Duke administrator eyed me in the Allen Building hallway and asked the same thing—’’Are you ready for this?”

The second time, however, the question referred to the impending lacrosse rape scandal, by far the most important story to cross my desk this year.

Tonight I’m being asked that same question yet again—am I ready for what is to come? But this time I’m asking myself, and I’m not sure what the answer is.

The first two times, my response was a resounding yes: I was ready to be editor, and I was ready to do whatever was necessary to cover the lacrosse story. Now, however, I am not at all sure of my answer, for I have come to love this job ofeditor more than anything I could ever imagine—and it will be hard to walk away.

It’s hard to put into words the incredible experience that was my junior year. There was the boiling hot summer spent learning the ropes of the editorship. The rush at the launch of daily production. A trip to hurricane-ravaged Mississippi on a whim one September weekend. Sleeping through part of a midterm after a full night of production.

Watching JJ break about a million records. Staking out the local Jail to witness the dramatic and disheartening arrests of two fellow students (I popped my kneecap out twice chasing the rest of the media). Realizing with amusement that an expletive

pletely

made its way via a typo into our staff editorial.

But the most memorable part of being editor of this newspaper, a publication and organization that means so much to me, has been the people.

The Chronicle staff is my family. I have watched with pride as this group of individuals, holed up in the hallowed space that is 301 Flowers, grew as journalists and as a team (cliche and soccer-coach-like, I know). They have provided love and support—as well as frustrations that usually ended in humor—to me and to one another.

Now, as I return to devoting myself not to editorial decisions and interviews but rather, to a looming English thesis and other course responsibilities, I don’t know if I’m ready. Sure, there will be more free time, better grades perhaps. But in the end, will I be as satisfied as I am now, as I was this year?

Who knows. Only time will tell. But one thing I’m sure of now as I pen my final editor’s column is that I never really did stop being a student. I just became a different type of student.

I learned through day-to-day experience, through mistakes and triumphs (yes, a smart investigative article and a newspaper full of lined-up text are, to me, triumphs). I learned how to lead, how to listen, how to manage my stresses, how to overcome uncertainties. I could not have asked for a better teacher than this newspaper.

I’m scared to let it all go, this experience and the gifts it offers. But I know I won’t ever let its lessons or its people go, holding them close as I move into my future.

My constitutional law paper—which, by the way, I completed 10 hours before my self-imposed deadline of 7 a.m. —is about censorship of the college press. At the top, I have a quote by Heinrich Heine that reads, “In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.”

The Chronicle has been my fortress this year, a haven and training ground that I adore. And it will continue to be, as it always has been, a fortress for thought, ideas and truth on this university campus, even as I pass its torch on to a new editor.

I’ll still be around next year, in the office causing trouble, losing DukeCards (no. 19 today) and honing my writing and reporting skills. I can’t wait to see where this newspaper goes and where I go along with it—and eventually, where I go holding it only in my heart and memory.

So, forget being terrified.

I may not know what’s coming, but I’m ready.

Seyward Darby is a Trinity junior and editor of The Chronicle. Like her predecessors, she aches with the knowledgethat she’ll never be either again.

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lettertotheeditor Lack of alcohol due to miscommumcation The failure of the DSG Student Services Committee to obtain alcohol for the Tent Masquerade Party was an unfortunate mistake that highlighted fundamental problems in DSG and wasted this year’s only real opportunity for kegs on the Main Quad. Students are owed an explanation as to why the event was advertised to feature free beer and wine, but the 40 kegs and 200 bottles of wine never materialized.

The DSG Student Services Committee spent months planning this event, in conjunction with Campus Council and the Engineering Student Government; Roy Bostock and Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst also provided generous support. Since student activity money cannot be spent on alcohol, CC funds, ESG funds and money from Mr. Bostock were to be spent on the alcohol.

Due to a miscommunication, DSG's Student Services Committee and CC each thought each other were to place the order. Once the mistake was discovered shortly before the party, newly-elected leaders of DSC and CC attempted to find kegs and bartenders, but could not do so within Duke’s policies

governing to the distribution ofkeg beer on campus.

Current DSG leaders were also not present at the event and thus could not spend money to try and remedy the situation. Those present had to declare the event 8.Y.0.8. and encourage students to bring their own alcohol.

This will not happen again—DSG is not a programming body and it will no longer attempt to do any programming. The Old Duke Party and the Death Cab/Franz Ferdinand show are clear examples of CC and the Duke University Union’s prowess in such matters, and DSG will continue in its defined role of disbursing funds to student groups and lobbying the administration. We encourage CC or the DUU to make use of the alumni tents for a similar event next year, but it is clear from this and other incidents that DSG is not well suited to do so.

DSG’s Student Services committee was in charge of the event, and this lapse was ultimately DSG’s responsibility. I assure you, this will not happen again.

Elliott Wolf Trinity ’OB Duke Student GovernmentPresident-elect

Legal limit between looking the other way while underage kids drink and hence disregarding the law, or going enforcement-heavy and pushing the party scene off campus where it can’t be monitored and won’t fall under University jurisdiction. Like the “cool” parents in high school who let their kids have parties because they’d rather have them drunk and home than on the streets, modem universities find themselves in a Catch-22. Flout the law or disregard the safety of their students? Regulated onOkay, maybe apparendy. campus disobedience or off-campus mayhem? Duke, not. But at least there like many schools, has chosen to let the tap keep flowwere parties—parties ing. where people could get Better to have students on campus under University drunk and where no than passed out in the back of fraternity supervision one got in trouble.

001111110 IOW houses, the rationale goes, and I’m hard pressed to disNow, as campus soagree. Yet something about the whole thing feels fishy cialites can frequently senior column lair' to me. Administrators don’t just have a contract with be hr ieard compi ning, the University that mandates enforcement, as RAs do; the Duke party scene is a shell of its former self. Vigilante RCs like Lesley Hill they’re bound by state law.

Eager to appear like it’s at least attempting to comply, and restrictions on everything from tailgating to LDOC have effectively squashed the campus social scene, we’re the University has adopted a policy whereby events with alcohol must either be registered as BYOB, or feature told. And students are NOT happy. to about what University-approved bartenders dispensing beverages. peoBut let’s stop think for a moment This is the so-called draconian policy limiting alcohol about: alcohol enacting are so unhappy by policies ple that restrict the distribution of alcohol to minors, Duke consumption on campus. But those of us charged with has stopped fully supporting routine law-breaking on enforcement of this vague proclamation know it’s really just a wink and a nudge saying that as long as you’re not campus.

The thing is, I don’t think anyone really thinks of on East Campus, everyone is assumed to be 21.

But what is lost in such a policy goes far beyond legalunderage drinking as breaking the law, because all of the adults-turned-University-policymakers did exactiy ity, though that’s part ofit. At universitieswhere the task the same thing when they were in college. But does at hand is theoretically preparing students for life in society, one of the biggest struggles is to teach honesty and that make it okay?

As a third-year freshman Resident Advisor, I’ve had accountability. Ladduster half-enforced alcohol policies to grapple with this issue more than most. Personally, I teach just the opposite. They instruct students that there don’t agree with the 21 drinking age. I think it’s much are indeed times when the law just doesn’t apply to you, more dangerous for freshmen to sneak around with especially if you attend a private school.

Was lacrosse-gate bred out of a “culture ofcrassness?” bottles of everclear-laced Snapple than to learn to How about a culture of illegality? classmates, beer with drink responsibly by sharing a Some of you might argue that there is a difference and even RAs. yes, professors between morality and law, and when the two come into I’d rather not have to write up my residents for alcohol infractions and consequently preclude them from conflict, morality should prevail. Indeed, that’s the being open with me about their drinking habits. I’d whole idea behind civil disobedience. But civil disobedirather know that they would come to me if someone ence entails publicly and steadfasdy breaking laws that were really sick withoutfear of repercussions. I’d rather are deeply out of step with one’s values in order to urge be able to find out if one of them had a serious alcohol their reconsideration. It doesn’t mean quiedy sidestepproblem. I’d rather be told if someone threw up, got ping inconvenient state statutes.

So while many on campus have taken to tossing barbs hurt or was sexually assaulted while intoxicated. I’d rather just tell them how I really feel: “Drinking under in the direction of Moneta and Co., I have a different age is fine. I did it; everyone did it. But please just be bone to pick. If Duke genuinely feels, as I do, that the 21 drinking age causes more harm than it saves, it should safe, and for the love of god don’t drive.”

But I don’t. I follow the rules. I try to tell them that I be taking its cause to congress—or at least going public.

Otherwise, administrators don’t really have a choice put their safety first, that they should worry about consebut to keep squeezing campus culture, and to keep hearquences much more grave than black marks on their Duke disciplinary record, that they should think of me as ing from students and alums alike about what losers a resource before an enforcer. But at the end of the day, if we’ve all become.

For those of you who expect more from your univerI see them with alcohol, I file an incident report. After all, sity—you should. You should expect it to play by the it’s in my contract.

In some ways, my situation is analogous to that of rules, or accept the consequences of breaking them. every school administrator when they try to decide how CanineLow is a Trinity seniorand editor ofRecess. far to take alcohol enforcement. The choice, it seems, is

When

the alumni returned to Duke this past weekend, there was a common thread of conversation among the five- and ten-year-outs: “Man, when I went to school here, it was so much cooler.”

Kegs lined the quad, and the drainpipes flowed with jungle juice,

“i plan on killing the b as soon as [they] walk in and proceeding to cut their skin off while c in my duke issue spandex.

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most distressing thing about Ryan McFadyen’s email is that it would seem pretty mundane coming from any large, all-male listserv on this campus. His words are symptomatic of a norm for behavior, a picture of the sort of humor and language that pervades the socalled “culture of crassness” on this campus.

When this imagery is dif) en ‘'>' in “ anthony cross light of an alleged sexusenior column begin assault, al we to see it as a shockingly graphic manifestationof aggression, violence and elitism.

Our discourse on this campus is, to a large extent, shaped by our commitment to pervasive images of who and what Duke is about. We reach toward ideal images of what our life at Duke should be —ideals of crass, sophomoric behavior, “effortless perfection” or academic excellence—and often get lost in trying to draw ourselves inside the lines. We become captives to a picture, and we cannot get outside it or see past it. It is difficult, if not impossible, to realize that we are turning ourselves into caricatures in the process.

I am a photographer, first and foremost. I've spent the past four years taking photos for The Chronicle as a photojoumalist, a documentarian and a student. I deal in photographs—in images—and I'm no stranger to both their power and their limitations.After these four years of looking at the Duke community, this is what I've found: Duke is dominated by the culture of the image. This phenomenon is exemplified in our reaction to the lacrosse scandal and our concern for Duke’s reputation. However, even in the everyday we find ourselves trapped before different images and ideals, with no way to look beyond them. We mistake percipi for essi, trying to reify these images within ourselves without even evaluating them first.

How many times have you thought about how your resume will look to a potential employer? Is your GPA high enough? Have you had enough leadership positions, and good enough internships? Are you going to fit the description of a standout applicant for your first choice law school, grad school, or i-bank? I know too many students that have spent four years trying to craft an image that will allow them to “take the next step” —at the expense of enjoying their time here at Duke.

I hardly have to mention problems with body image on this campus; the number of hours we spend running nowhere on treadmills in Wilson is staggering. “Effortless perfection” hasn’t gone away, nor have we gotten outside the image of the perfecdy thin girl, or the massively muscled boy. The extent to which these images dominate social life at Duke is astounding.

Finally, the much talked about “culture of crassness.”

The phrase has been picked up by the national media as a perfect characterization of Duke students. While I don’t think that such a culture is endemic here, it is certainly present to an uncomfortable degree. The humorous, irreverent picture of social life we idealize—of KY wresding matches, nights spent pounding drinks at Charlie’s, even tellings of potentially offensive jokes—can land us in dangerous territory, as recendy evidenced by Sigma Chi’s “Viva Mexico” party and the Lacrosse scandal.

My point here isn’t to say that achievement, exercise and crass behavior are unconditionally bad; there’s nothing wrong with caring about your GPA, working out, or having a killer party. On the other hand, we ought to think as a community about the sort of images we latch on to as ideals and norms. We need to recognize them for what they are in order to gain some critical distance between them and ourselves. Don’t waste your time at Duke bending over backwards to conform to an image; some of the best things come when you start drawing outside the lines.

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Anthony Cross is a Trinity senior, photography editor of Towerview and former photography editor of The Chronicle. He wants to thank everyone at The Chronicle and at Duke who made his four years such a sweet ride. Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!

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