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When students return to the start offootball season in the fall, they will be met with a sobering announcement.

Bo Carrington and members the men’s lacrosse team bit their tongues and watched as ! teammates were indicted in the scandal that rocked the University and captured the attention of the nation.

Months after the now-infamous 13 party, several players share experiences with The Chronicle. wrap

Administrators announced in that tailgate—in recent years a University-facilitated social event —will no longer be allowed to exist as it has, as a gathering of hundreds of students in a designated area of the Blue Zone parking lot.

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Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said last month.

“We are meeting to discuss restoring a more traditional form of tailgating, which is a pre-football-game event that does not revolve around underage drinking.”

In a drastic change from the policy in place this past year, administrators decided at a meeting July 18 the University will remove itself entirely from the event, making no effort to provide institutional support for the

The numerous measures im mented last fall addressing concerns—such as monitoring administrators and student leaf and food distribution—will be scinded and no specific adm: trative oversight will be in place The role of Duke Univei Police forces will remain same, with officers patrolling ensure public safety.

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Judge reminds defense Duke nets record-high lawyers to keep quiet $342M in FY 2006 gifts ‘Not a gag order, 9 attorneys say; ruling on DAs 9 access to unindicted players records delayed by

Andrew Yaffe THE CHRONICLE

During proceedings in the Duke men’s lacrosse case July 17, the judge reminded defense lawyers for three indicted players to keep public state-

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The University received a record-setting «.

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$341.9 million in charitable gifts during the 2006 fiscal year, officials announced July 17.

The sum—totaling every dollar Duke received between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006—surpassed the previous year’s total by $66.1 million and broke the University’s previous record of $302.6 million, which was set in 2000.

minimum.

“It is this court’s responsibility to ensure that the defendants and the state proceed with the constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair trial by a jury free of partiality, bias or prejudice,” said Superior Court Judge Kenneth Titus.

Defense lawyers acknowledged the judge’s request but said they did not view Titus’ reminder as an admonishment “This is not a gag order,” said Joe Cheshire, attorney for David Evans, Trinity ’O6. “We have not violated Rule 3.6, we embrace it.”

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More than one-third of alumni donations were acquired during the fourth quarter, which began April 1 and ended June 30.

Officials said the increase is indicative of donor optimism, even in light of recent events involving the men’s lacrosse team.

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Although Duke seems a lot emptier and more relaxed over the summer, it didn’t stop the construction, decision-making, discoveries, victories and losses that occurred over the past three months.

In May, the Board of Trustees approved a $4O-million addition to the Fuqua School of Business for classrooms, offices and an expanded library. Construction will begin in the fall. The renovation of the first floor of Perkins Library and the construction of the plaza and the French Science Center also progressed according to schedule.

The same month, a team of researchers including a Duke physics professor, mapped Chromosome 1, the final and largest chromosome in the Human Genome Project.

Admissions numbers for the Class of 2010 were finalized. Duke admitted 21 percent of nearly 19,400 applicants and had a student yield of 4041 percent. Admissions officials deemed the class the most diverse and most selective in Duke’s history.

At the end of the month, the women’s golf team received its second consecutive national title the NCAA in championships —the fourth for the team and the eighth tide for the University.

The women’s lacrosse team hoped for similar results that week but fell short in the national sejuifinals, losing. 11-10 to

Northwestern in overtime.

The same week, officials announced that at least five off-campus houses pur-

President Richard Brodhead, with 4 other University officials, announces the reinstatement oflacrosse June 5. chased by the University in March would be put on the market over the summer.

In early June, administrators confirmed that Compass Group will replace ARAMARK Corp. as the campus’ dining vendor. A pair of Compass brands, Bon Appetit and Chartwells, will take charge of dining operations on East and West Campus, respectively, starting in the fall.

Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, announced she will take a leave ofabsence this September through November to explore intellectual pursuits.

Friday June 23, Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva was injured in a boating accident and his 27-year-old son was charged with operating the boat while impaired. Alieva received 42 stitches on his head but suffered no major injury and returned to work the following Tuesday.

Former basketball player Shelden Williams was selected No. 5 in the NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. JJ. Redick was drafted No. 11 by the Orlando Magic despite being arrested June 13 for driving while impaired.

stated in June, but the case has been developing throughout the summer.

May 15, David Evans, Trinity ’O6, was indicted by a Durham grand jury on charges of first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual offense and first degree kidnapping —the same offenses with which juniors Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were charged in April.

Evans spoke at a press conference in front of the Durham County Jail, during which he denied all charges and maintained his and his teammates’ innocence.

That same week, defense lawyers received nearly 1,300 pages ofevidence from District Attorney Mike Nifong, some of which showed medical evidence contrary to the accuser’s previous statements.

Other inconsistencies with the evidence came to light. In earlyjune, the second dancer present at the party told national media the charges were a “crock.”

June 5, President Richard Brodhead reinstated the lacrosse team for the 20062007 season under stricter oversight and a self-imposed code ofconduct. Assistant Coach Kevin Cassese, Trinity ’O3, was named interim head coach and a national search began to fill the permanent

coaching position.

A couple of weeks later, the first court appearance for the three indicted players occurred, at which defense lawyers received more evidence from the prosecution and Seligmann’s bond was reduced.

Men’s basketball head coach Mike

Krzyzewski spoke about the situation

after several weeks of silence, offering support for the players and former lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler.

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The Class of 2010 may not receive free iPods this fall, but they will get the next best thing—free money.

Each freshman will receive a $5O gift card for use at 19 local restaurants—completely gratis, administrators announced July 5.

The pilot program, which will be limited to first-year students, was created to encourage new students to explore the surrounding community off East campus.

‘We needed 'to make this happen, and we need to make this happen this year,” said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services.

There have been efforts to promote off-campus dining for years, and Wulforst said the program is not a response to negative media coverage regarding Duke’s town-gown relations.

‘You can’t eat at the Marketplace every night,” he said, referring to the University’s freshman dining hall.

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Khanna said she anticipated the coverage that would follow.

“We sort of went into it knowing that news as soon as it came out perspective the next day, everyone would be all over it,” Khanna said, adding that the only unknown factor was the amount of time required for the media frenzy to develop fully.

“How long would it take to reach all the corners of the country? The answer is not long,” she said.

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Just one week after Khanna’s story ran, the case was featured by news oudets ranging from Newsweek to ESPN to the BBC. “The first week when the story was breaking was absolutely the craziest,” Khanna said. “It was definitely dominating the 24-hour news cycle.”

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Durham’s gang problem: A mother Frosh to demands answers from city leaders see some

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BY ShREYA RAO THE CHRONICLE

Sheryl Smith was in the bedroom of her

Baker Street home when she heard the doorbell ring.

Moments later, day-to-day Durham life was shattered by a gang-induced nightmare. “[A friend of Smith’s son] came running in the house, screaming and crying.

He said, ‘Call 911, momma, they shot him!

They shot him!”’ Smith recalled. “And I said, They shot who?’ And he said, ‘They shot him, momma, they shot him.’”

Nov. 5, 2005, Smith’s only son, 18-yearold Todd Douglas, was killed in a gang-related drive-by shoodng just blocks away from his house—and less than five miles from Duke.

“What is occurring in Durham isn’t different as in other cities,” Mayor Bill Bell said. “The difference is Durham is willing to admit it has a [gang] problem.”

Fighting the school system Smith’s story began when Douglas was labeled a gang member by his high school’s administration—an erroneous label, she said.

“My son has never been a problem, he’s never been in fights," she said. “How many gang members do you know are home on a Saturday night at eight o’clock?”

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Sheryl Smith's son, Todd Douglas, was killed in an act of gang violence justa few miles from Duke last year.

Smith said Douglas’ problems in school started when another student approached him and Douglas stood up to defend himself.

Though Smith said nothing else transpired between the two boys, Douglas was suspended for a year and was named a potential threat to the school.

“As a parent I was doing my job,” Smith said. “They wrongly kicked him out of school. As a parent, I stood up for my child.”

Smith took her fight from high school hallways to city streets, trying to get her son back in the school system.

She achieved a bittersweet victory when Douglas was allowed to enroll in Lakeview High School—an alternative schoolfor misbehaving students.

Douglas’ year at Lakeview was incidentfree, Smith said, and by the start of his senior year, he was allowed to re-enroll in the public school and hoped to graduate.

“My baby was murdered for trying to get a high school diploma,” she said. “It was just a piece ofpaper—it didn’t mean that much.”

Douglas’ senior year began smoothly, but it was not long before he was sent home after an altercation with another student —

a suspected gang member and later a suspect in Douglas’ murder. “[Gang members] keep messing with you until you do something,” Smith said.

Seeking justice after tragedy On the night ofNov. 5, Smith didn’t notice Douglas and his friend leave the house to go to the comer grocery store.

When she heard the doorbell ring, Smith chased her son’s friend down the street to where she said some police officers had gathered.

“The police dragged me away from him,” Smith said. “They placed me in handcuffs and said they were going to take me to jail. By the dme I calmed down, they looked at me and said, ‘He’s gone.’”

Smith’s two-year-long batde ended on a dark street instead of at the graduation ceremony she had envisioned.

Tears of joy were replaced by tears of mourning. “My whole life has changed,” she said. “He should have graduated. He had never been behind. He had never been in the streets. He’s never been a gang member.”

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Members of the Class of 2010 will begin their college careers with what officials hope to be a more' relaxed, welcoming freshman orientation.

This year, administrators added an extra day to orientation and reorganized social events so that students “didn’t feel quite as frazzled,” Assistant Dean of Students Ryan Lombardi said.

Among the featured events, a party at the Nasher Museum of Art—which was completed last year—will introduce new students to the University’s

burgeoning arts scene.

Taking advantage of the soon-to-becompleted West Campus plaza, administrators have also planned a “big kick-off bash” —complete with live music and other entertainment—as a means of bringing the entire student body together, Lombardi said.

Although the addition of high-profile

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Concerts, popsicles and a mist fountain are coming to a plaza near you.

By Aug. 14, two weeks before the start of the fall semester, the new West Campus student plaza will be complete and students will be able to enjoy all these amenities and get to the Bryan Center more quickly.

“The plaza will be ready, on time and on budget,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, who has overseen the project from the start.

Moneta said he hopes that instead of merely traversing and tabling, students will make the plaza the epicenter of quadrangle life. But several students have said its main function will be the same as its predecessor’s —a walkway.

“It won’t affect my life,” junior Shi-Fan Yang said. “I’m probably just going to use it to get to the BC, buy food and bring it back to my dorm.”

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bolster relations between Duke and Durham. Senior Daniel Bowes, who was appointed to the position, is focusing on fostering personal relations between students living off campus and their neighbors.

Historically, residents living near the University in neighborhoods like Trinity Park have expressed frustration over rowdy parties hosted by student-neighbors.

Alice Bumgarner, president of the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association, stressed that the relationships between full-time residents and students vary from year to year, and this year residents are hoping for a more positive climate.

“We’re looking forward to having different kinds of relationships than standing around on your front lawn at 2 a.m. yelling back and forth,” Bumgarner said.

In 2005, students were surprised and angered by encounters with officers some of whom were undercover—at

Although the telephone number to District Attorney Mike Nifong’s office has recently been changed, calls for reform have not ceased in the past few weeks.

Since granting about 60 interviews immediately after rape allegations surfaced against members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team, Nifong has faced criticism for making controversial statements early in the investigation. For more than three months, the district attorney has rarely spoken to the press, citing ethical rules of post-indictment conduct.

But Nifong’s silence has continued to generate disapproval. Defense lawyers and many others have raised questions about his behavior in pursuing the case.

The district-attorney seat is open to election this fall. In the May Democratic priNifong mary, edged out former Assistant District Attorney Freda Black and Durham lawyer Keith Bishop by only 883 votes for Lewis Cheek a spot on the November ballot.

Though Nifong was expected to face no opposition in the general elections, two new challengers have since emerged.

Durham County Commissioner Lewis Cheek, a Democrat, and Steve Monks, Durham County Republican Party chairman, participated in petition drives to get their names on the ballot.

While Monks’ campaign fell short of the required percent of Durham’s

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The new West Campus student plaza, connecting the Bryan Center and Main West, will be ready by Aug. 14.

ALE’s return to campus uncertain by

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Last August, ALE agents issued 194 citations during its"back-to-school" raids at properties near Duke.

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Each year students arrive in August ready to hit the books, but when they hit the bottle too, law enforcers object.

During the first months of the Fall 2005 semester, North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement officers increased efforts around local universities to control underage drinking, doling out more than 200 citations to Duke students for alcohol-related violations.

“We routinely, either at the beginning of the [fall] semester or the beginning of the spring semester, have some extra agents around in the college areas,” said Jeff Lasater, ALE Raleigh district supervisor.

Formal planning for any potential back-to-school operation this year will not take place before August, Lasater said.

Duke Student Government, anticipating problems fueled by off-campus parties, created a community liaison position to

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Duke University Medical Center was recognized yet again as one of the top hospitals in the country, coming in at No. 7 in U.S. News and World Report’s annual “Best Hospital” rankings.

Prior to last year’s slip to eighth place,

the medical center had claimed the No. 6 spot for six consecutive years.

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Health System. “With the exception of [Johns] Hopkins, we’re probably one of the few institutions that is top-ranked as both [a school and a hospital] and I’m very proud of it. We obviously can do even better.”

Johns Hopkins Hospital was ranked first for the 16th straight year, followed by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and the Cleveland Clinic.

The rankings, presented in the July 9 issue of the magazine, relied on a mixture of reputation surveys, mortality rates and statistics such as nurse-to-patient ratios and technologies available to rank 5,189 hospitals.

DUMC was rated in the top 25 for 15 of the 16 specialties reviewed by the magazine.

Duke’s cancer, gynecology, heart and heart surgery, urology, digestive disorders, ophthalmology, kidney disease, orthopedics, respiratory disorders and psychiatry departments were all ranked in the top 10.

Dzau cautioned against placing too much importance on these annual rankings, however.

“It is a good way for the world to look at us, but it’s only one of the

ways, by no means the only way,” Dzau said. “Every ranking system everybody’s going to argue with unless you’re number one, mainly because it’s a methodology issue.”

He added that though DUMC is continually recognized nationally as a superb medical center, providing quality service to local patients is an important part of being an integrated health system.

“We like to believe we are a regional power in providing service to the patients in our region and particularly in our own community in Durham,” he said.

Neurology and neurosurgery saw the biggest gain, moving up eight spots from 22nd to 14th.

Dr. Allan Friedman, chief of neurosurgery, expressed appreciation for the ranking but downplayed its importance.

“Obviously it’s positive but in actual fact I think that these ratings are very unscientific,” Friedman said. “I wish we could tell you that we’re a third better than we were last year. We’ve always had a very strong neurosurgery department here. I’m unclear exactly why we’re rated eight points higher.”

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The Duke University Health System is experiencing a recurring publicity nightmare.

Bennie Holland of Coats, N.C., filed claims against DUHS July 13, alleging negligence and a cover-up in the wake of a 2004 incident in which DUHS staff mistakenly rinsed surgical tools in elevator hydraulic fluid rather than soap for two months.

Holland, who received back surgery at Duke Health Raleigh in November 2004, was one ofapproximately 3,800 patients treated with the contaminated tools. He is the first to name DUHS in a lawsuit.

Although numerous patients have complained about their treatment and sought legal action against the elevator repair company that filled the fluid containers and the medical supply company that provided DUHS with the tainted solution, no formal charges had been brought against Duke prior to Holland’s suit.

Patients treated at two DUHS hospitals in November and December 2004 were notified of the mix-up Dec. 28, 2004. In January, several news sources reported about 500 affected patients had consulted lawyers.

Initially, Holland did not name DUHS in a March 2005 lawsuit against the other two companies because he was still undergoing treatment at Duke Health Raleigh.

In the amended lawsuit, Holland, who suffered a severe infection after his surgery, alleges the infection was caused by contaminated surgical tools and that DUHS took part in efforts to cover up the incident.

Additionally, the lawsuit claims DUHS did not properly follow up on warnings that surgical instruments were “greasy” and exposed patients to contaminants from the dirty hydraulic fluid and even to blood from prior surgeries.

“The fact that the instruments were used is a premise for damages,” said Dan Titsworth, a Cary attorney representing another patient treated with contaminated tools at Duke Health Raleigh. “But obviously, in a case like this, it’s going to be difficult to prove the medical negligence.”

Duke continues to stand by the results of independent studies and internal investigations that “confirmed that the surgical instruments were fully sterile,” DUHS officials said in a statement July 14.

Independent studies of affected patients found no noticeable increase in infections—a small risk in any surgical procedure—between November and December 2004.

Titsworth said his client will likely seek damages of an undisclosed amount to exceed $lO,OOO. Like Holland, his client held off legal action while he was still being treated at DUHS facilities, he added.

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“We want to find out why some individuals naturally fend off the disease upon infection or don’t contract it at all,” said David Goldstein, director of the Center for Population Genomics and Pharmacogenetics at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy and director of CHAVTs host genetics research core.

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Sites like CollegeConfidential let soon-to-be studentsdiscuss their future homes before arriving on campus.

staple of campus life, has had epidemiclike success among students who have yet to take their first college class.

“About two-thirds of the Class of 2010 are currently members of the ‘Class of 2010’ Facebook group,” freshman Gwen Gettliffe, the group’s creator, wrote in an email. “More and more join every day.”

Increasingly, younger high school students are also logging on to sites like College Confidential to get a taste of prospective schools’ social environments or to see how their test scores and CPAs hold up against those ofother students.

“There’s about 60,000 posters on CC, and it’s very active,” Duke sophomore Michael Moore wrote in an e-mail.

A couple months after the release of the Campus Life and Learning report—an in-depth study of undergraduate life at Duke—administrators and campus leaders are still reviewing how the information will be used.

“I’m not going to lie and say that [Duke Student Government] has complete power over student culture and is in the best position ofanyone to address these issues, but we do have a role to play,” DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, wrote in an e-mail.

The study, which tracked the Classes of 2005 and 2006 across their undergraduate careers, examined how and why various groups of students experience their college education differently.

Although the project was originally geared toward the experiences of minority students, the scope was expanded to examine a number of variables, like socioeconomic class, greek life and gender.

“From the beginning, we didn’t want this to just be a study on race,” Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, said in June.

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To the shock of many on Capitol Hill, the North Carolina congressman behind “freedom fries” is now one of the most vocal critics of the war in Iraq.

“Going into Iraq was not justified—there were no weapons of mass destruction,” Republican Walter Jones said. “I’m in the firm belief that neoconservatives in and around the Department of Defense manipulated the intelligence to send us into Iraq.”

Jones—who represents the state’s third congressional district—was once a prominent supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

When France criticized American war planning in the United Nations, Jones led the campaign to rename all French fries and French toast served in House of Representatives cafeterias “freedom fries” and “freedom toast.”

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Jones’ skepticism was reinforced by meetings he had with former Marine generals Anthony Zinni and Greg Newbold and scholars who have criticized the planning of the war and the intelligence failures that led to it.

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According to New Jersey police officers, the state medical examiner determined the cause of death was drowning and the manner of death was accidental.

“There’s no foul play involved—it’s just an accidental drowning and a tragic situation,” said Lt. Edward Byrnes, head of the detective bureau for the Township of Bernards, NJ. Vasireddy—who was from Krishna, Andhra Pradesh, India—had been in New Jersey about a month for a summer research internship at Avaya Labs, a telecommunications company.

At Duke, Vasireddy was a teaching assistant for Kishor Trivedi, Hudson Professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The two met while at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, where Vasireddy was working on his master’s degree. Trivedi, who was on sabbatical there, was one of his professors, Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, wrote in a statement sent to the Pratt community.

“He was a wonderful human being, very respectful, very sincere—an ideal graduate student,” Trivedi said in the statement. He added that Vasireddy had also been an excellent TA and had assisted Trivedi in completing several research papers.

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Groundbreaking on the new Central Campus has been further delayed, as administrators continue to revise construction plans, taking into account suggestions from the Board ofTrustees.

Administrators had expected to move dirt on the existing campus this summer, but now say construction will likely be held off until next summer, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said.

“The plans are still being tweaked,” he said. “The Board wasn’t ready to agree unanimously with it.”

Board members were presented with the plans at their last meeting in May and—as Trask continues to meet weekly with the architects of the project—their comments are being worked into the new draft of the drawings.

Phase I of the renovation of Central Campus will include the construction of 14 new mixed-use buildings—in-

cluding performance space, a bookstore, an alumni center, classrooms and dining facilities—at a projected price tag of $240 million.

Students are expected to move into the apartment-style rooms in Fall 2009.

One point of concern raised by Board members regarded the proposed glass water tower that would have served as the signature structure of the campus, Trask explained, adding that it may be left out of the final plans altogether.

The Board was invited to review the revised plans, and about a dozen members visited campus the week of July 17 to give further input, Trask said.

“I don’t expect it to be radically different,” he added.

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September.

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between East and West Campus from a residential to a university-college zone.

A vote on the proposal was postponed after neighborhood representatives sent a letter to the commission asking for more details from the University about what the rezoned space would house.

The commission will reconsider the proposal at a public meeting in August.

Two years ago, two-thirds of Central Campus was rezoned as UC—a then newly created zoning category that allows both residential and retail space.

The land included in this month’s proposal was not included in the original request because there was confusion about what the UC zone designation meant, Trask said.

“As the plans for Central expanded, it seemed weird to have two-thirds of campus one zone and the other third another zone,” he added. “I don’t think we’re going to have anything that doesn’t comply [with UC zoning].”

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Although the study revealed many positive aspects of campus culture, it also shed light on a number of problematic areas—such as a “striking” decrease in students’ self-esteem when they arrive at Duke and the prevalence of self-segregation.

Wolf said he hopes to address the latter of these issues in the upcoming year. “As DSG, we do have some influence there,” he said.

In addition to confirming the existence of self-segregation on campus, the CLL report also discovered that students’ social networks at Duke closely resemble their social circles from high school.

“People tend to replicate some of their high-school social network—particularly with ethnic and racial background—even when we restrict it to new friends at Duke,” said Kenneth Spenner, professor of sociology and one of the principal investigators in the study.

Wolf added that ,DSG had a few ideas to address the issue after students return in the fall including revising how student groups are chartered and acquire binding to encourage interactions between diverse groups.

The study was designed to be independent of the administration, but the breadth and relevance of the data to University policy have made it a valuable resource—one that, although not yet addressed formally, has been read by many top administrators and faculty members.

“There’s a policy side too—what Duke can do to address some of the differences,” Spenner said.

Members of the Campus Culture Initiative, a committee commissioned by President Richard Brodhead in the wake of the lacrosse incident, were given copies of the report. The information will be considered when the committee continues to meet in coming months to discuss issues of alcohol, athletics, race and gender/sexuality.

ALE from page 6 parties in off-campus houses, bars and clubs. ALE agents handed out citations for underage drinking, possession of fake identification and aiding and abetting underage

possession.

Lasater said officers focus on places that sell alcohol, although they will also respond to calls from residential areas.

“After hearing about all of the citations I generally tried to stay on campus,” said sophomore David Berendes,

who was friends with several students who were in attendance at off-campus parties inspected by ALE last year.

A number of students who received citations challenged the constitutionality of certain methods used—such as entering houses without warrants—and won the court case.

Nonetheless, Lasater said he doubted ALE would change its procedures dramatically.

“We may tweak things,” he said. “But, then again, with another judge the ruling might have been different.”

Administrators have said the problem lies in the culture of the social scene itself.

“This is not a quick fix,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. “We’ve been working on it, some would argue, for decades.”

The potential for ALE raids may act as a deterrent to the kind of play-hard behavior administrators find troubling.

“It makes me nervous to think that there’s stricter control of what’s going on,” said freshman Jen Regan, who heard about last year’s citations from her sophomore brother. “Although maybe if it’s out of hand, [the control] is a good thing.”

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sponse but did not rule out asking for such a statement at the next hearing, which will be held the week of Aug. 21.

In a second hearing the same afternoon, lawyers for Rule 3.6 of the North Carolina Bar Association code of several uncharged members of the lacrosse team argued for the protection of their clients’ private information. conduct prohibits spreading information that could prejudice a pool of possible jurors for a trial.

Nifong has subpoenaed the players’ home addresses and DukeCard records from the night of the alleged rape. who is or has the “A lawyer participating participated in “There has to be some connection other than curiosity investigation or litigation of a matter shall not make an exor T just want to see it’ in order to have a court issue an trajudicial statement that a reasonable person would exbe disseminated means of communicaorder which would invade the privacy [of a player and his by public pect to tion if there is a reasonable likelihood that the statement family],” said Thomas Manning, attorney for unindicted will materially prejudice an adjudicative proceeding in the senior lacrosse,player Fred Krom. matter,” the rule reads.

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from the district attorney or a third party, Cheshire said.

During the hearing, Kirk Osborn, attorney for junior Reade Seligmann, encouraged the judge to ask District Attorney Mike Nifong to establish when exacdy he believes the rape occurred. Titus did not require Nifong to do so, noting that he did not have a chance to prepare a rements

March 13.

“We’re not trying to investigate them,” Nifong said.

“We want to be put in a position to call them, to tell the jury in Durham what they observed go on that night when this took place.”

Titus said he will likely announce his ruling on the subpoenas Friday morning.

ORIENTATION from page 4 events, like the soiree at the Nasher, is expected to be

popular, Lombardi expressed hope that the best-received change will be the extra day of orientation.

“We’re moving them in on Tuesday—we’re giving them the whole day to move in, no programming that afternoon,” he said. “We didn’t want to fill an extra day, because we realize it’s a hectic time.”

Lombardi added that the change was implemented after receiving consistent feedback from students.

“Increasingly, students were saying that it was great, but ‘Hey, I was pretty tired and overwhelmed by the end of it,’” he said.

Also for the first time, the student activities fair which has traditionally been geared toward freshmen during orientation—will take place several days later to include other undergraduate classes.

Although the summer reading program will continue as before, faculty members will now lead additional discussion sessions in East Campus residence halls in order to better examine the issues of this year’s selection, “My Sister’s Keeper.”

“We’ve been so far 100 percent successful at giving [summer reading books] real life,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. He added that he expects the book’s author, Jodi Picoult, to speak at Duke as part of this year’s events.

Along with other pre-orientation programs, such as the popular Project BUILD and Project WILD, the newly created Project Waves will allow incoming students to experience water sports and marine life along the North Carolina coast.

Lombardi said interest in the program was the greatest ofany pre-orientation program he had ever seen—so great, in fact, that applicants had to be turned away by the dozens.

“There were 149 official applicants, but we had told a few people not to even bother applying to Waves since we were way over capacity,” said senior Matt Hoffman, a director of the program.

Last year, the University’s alterations to orientation focused largely on Duke-Durham relations, and this year’s events will see a continuation of that effort.

In order to expose incoming students to the city that will be their home for four years, freshmen will be taken to a number of events around the Bull City.

“This will be the second year we take the entire class to American Tobacco [Complex] for a barbecue and to a Durham Bulls baseball game,” Moneta said.

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“I want to express my deepest gratitude to all the Duke alumni and alumnae, parents, students and friends who made contributions.”

The gifts will go toward funding a variety ofprograms and initiatives, supporting everything from the School ofMedicine to athletics, said Peter Vaughn, executive director of alumni and developmental communications.

Donations came from a total of 95,614 donors, about 41,000 of whom are Duke alumni Vaughn said the record-breaking year can in part be attributed to the University’s Financial Aid Initiative, which was launched in December and aims to raise $3OO million in the next three years.

Vaughn said it was impossible to determine whether there was a direct correlation between the lacrosse incident and the rise in alumni contributions. Increases in fourth-quarter giving are “not unusual,” he explained.

“But what seemed interesting was that the giving was every bit as high as in the normal year,” he added.

John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the record-breaking number of philanthropic gifts seems to corroborate the fact that alumni have supported the general position of the University during the lacrosse scandal.

“It’s evidence of Duke alumni rallying,” Bumess said. “If the lacrosse issue had been a serious issue, then we would have seen a decrease in donations.”

The Duke Endowment, which in October pledged $75 million to be paid over three years to the financial aid endowment, was the University’s largest single donor with a $53.6-million contribution.

“Duke donors have made it clear that they support the University’s direction and are optimistic about its future,” Robert Shepard, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said in a statement.

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GIFT CARD from page 3 Dining/Durham Dollars,” are clustered around Ninth Street —a popular commercial area adjacent to East Campus.

“I think this is just the start of a really great partnership between the University and Ninth Street,” said Jason Balius, owner of the participating Mad Hatter’s Bake Shop.

But Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf said he fought to have more far-flung locations included.

“People should be going more than a block offcampus to begin with,” Wolf said. “But [administrators] weren’t receptive to taking major student input into account.”

He said he hopes the program is the beginning of what is to come. “This program only has value in as much as it is going to be expanded.... We aren’t satisfied with this limited fashion,” Wolf said.

There is an “evolutionary process” to making major changes, however, said Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, whose purview includes dining.

“This is totally different from what’s been talked about before. These are not dining points off-campus, this is a

program to introduce freshmen to the area,” Dawkins said.

On an online town-gown listserv, some residents criticized the University for not taking a bolder action.

“Both UNC and NC State have liberal student card policies that do not penalize students for spending off campus and that do not have exorbitant set-up costs for participating merchants,” Durham resident Kelly Jarrett wrote. “When will Duke follow suit?”

Wulforst said the suggestion was not feasible. “Those cards aren’t getting access to student meal plan money,” he said, noting they simply act as debit cards for food vendors.

He added that the University does not charge the merchants a fee and the program’s estimated $BO,OOO cost is coming entirely out of the auxiliary department’s coffers.

“I think expanding it is really the big question mark because we know students are going to blow through $5O in a month,” Wulforst said. “There are definitely some ongoing questions.”

Among those are whether to include supermarkets like Whole Foods and whether it is feasible to have all dining points used off-campus. “This is the best we can do at this point, but we’re continuing to move forward,” he said.

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“We’re going to keep on doing what we’re doing and try to provide more and better services,” he said. “We’re definitely not changing our strategies just because of our

ratings.”

Overall, six specialties fell in the rankings, six rose and three saw no change.

Geriatrics, in which Duke received a fourth-place ranking last year, was not included by the magazine in this year’s calculations.

DUMC has been in the top 10 every year since the U.S. News and World Report began publishing the annual list 17 years ago.

Next year, Duke would continue striving for excellence, Dzau said.

“We had a good year but there’s always the-possibility of doing better,” he said.

PLAZA from page 6 The plaza has been designed to encourage students like Yang to dine in an outdoor social setting.

Doors have been cut into the back of the Great Hall, leading to a patio that spans the back side ofthe West Union building. A large canopy will hang over tables and chairs, allowing diners to enjoy a vista of the plaza while eating.

“The [patio] is a very nice feature,” said Tony Bumphus, associate director of student activities and facilities.

“It’s something extra that allows people to take their food out onto the plaza.”

Four permanent food carts will be featured on the plaza itself, serving a variety of food, Bumphus said.

Chartwells, a new University food service provider, is in charge of selecting these four vendors, but Bumphus said Pauly Dogs has been chosen as one and Loco Pops —a local popsicle vendor—is likely to be another.

The plaza will also create two new performance spaces, Moneta said. A raised, grass-covered platform designed for concerts and performances is at the center of the plaza. This space will be christened homecoming weekend Sept. 30 with the appearance of a “big-name band,” Bumphus said.

During the first six weeks of the fall semester, Duke University Union will be in charge of scheduling events on the plaza every day in an effort to get students to embrace it and employ its full capabilities. “[The Union] wants to get as many students out there, to buy into the idea,” said senior Alex Apple, president of the Union. “We want it to be the place to go.”

These efforts will likely be necessary given the current student sentiment about the plaza. Students have expressed frustration regarding the lack of a walkway this past year.

“I’ll finally be able to get to the Bryan Center,” senior Weston Ijames said.

Moneta noted the recent success of Bostock Library and the von der Heyden Pavilion, both ofwhich were completed this past year and have become campus “hot spots.” He said he hopes the plaza will join these ranks but was careful not to set the bar too high.

“This is a great gathering space at a University with lots of great gathering spaces,” he said. “Duke has done a masterful job unveiling new facilities—hopefully the plaza will be another one of those facilities.”

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JONES from page 12 gave up a third star to oppose the war.”

Jones is among a growing number of conservative politicians who have drawn the ire of fellow Republicans by criticizing the Bush administration’s conduct of the war.

Along with fellow Congressmen Ron Paul, R-Tex. and Med. ’6l, Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, and Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, Jones authored a resolution calling for Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq beginning in October 2006.

This has angered some ofhis constituents —the author of a letter to The Greenville Daily Reflector wrote Jones “has failed to support his president, his constituents, and most importantly, our thousands of troops fighting the global war on radical Islamic terror.”

Michael Speciale, a Republican and retired Marine from New Bern who is running for the North Carolina State House, said he still supports Jones but disagrees with his views on Iraq.

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The chairman of the Craven County Republican Party, Robert Shuck, said he was not aware of Jones’ shift in policy. “That is very surprising to me. That seems to be a change of position for him,” Shuck said. “I’ll ask him directly about what is going on.”

Speciale and other Jones supporters said they were worried the congressman’s principled opposition to the war would put him in electoral jeopardy, especially because his Democratic opponent this year is a former television personality who is well-known in coastal North Carolina.

But Jones said his conscience is more important to him than his poll numbers.

“I hope when I meet my Lord and Savior he will say ‘Walter you are welcome to my kingdom, because you helped my people to know the truth.’”

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With online college forums increasing in number—the Duke University forum at CC has more than 20,000 posts —it is not surprising that some students said these sources of information are playing bigger roles in both their decisions to apply to and attend Duke.

“I was pretty set on applying to Duke anyway, but it definitely influenced my decision to matriculate,” said Moore, who first found the site from a link on his high school’s website. “There were several Duke students that posted comments and answered my questions, and it really helped me to decide that Duke was a fit.”

Threads on Duke’s section of CC run the gamut, with posters asking about anything from the prevalence of tae kwon do to suggestions for scheduling organic chemistry.

“I’d assume once you live on West [Campus] every night is a legit night to party,” wrote one poster, “thethoughtprocess,” in response to a question about “party nights” at Duke. “[Freshmen] probably end up sticking to Thursday through Saturday since that’s when official parties are.”

Weather is also a popular topic among high school students curious about North Carolina’s fickle climate.

“Our weather can be sporadic, but it’s never too unbearable,” another poster, “lex,” assured applicants.

After the lacrosse scandal broke this spring, anxious high school students and their parents began posting furiously, questioning current students and discussing the unfolding minutiae of the case.

Mirroring the broader public response, CC posters simultaneously criticized and defended the University.

“I know that the recent ‘Duke lacrosse’ thread on CC was ridiculously long and had many hateful things to say about Duke,” a parent of a prospective student who asked to be identified only by his member name “dajadaO?”—wrote in an e-mail. “However, cooler heads were also part of the discussion and an intelligent/fair-minded reader would not get influenced by much of the diatribe posted there (both pro and con).”

“Some may come on CC to disparage Duke in the hope that their own schools will displace Duke near the top of the rankings,” “dajadaO?” added.

Though some have questioned the accuracy ofinformation presented by online sources, users of College Confidential and similar sites said they weren’t very concerned about the presence of inaccuracies.

“Can one find misinformation in a public discussion forum? Of course. You’ll find biased opinions, inaccurate statements and similar issues whenever you have thousands of people posting in a community,” CC’s cofounder Roger Dooley wrote in an e-mail. “But... large groups of people can often arrive at better conclusions than even expert individuals.”

Dooley added that as the success of the site has grown —in the last year and a half, it has accumulated more than 2.5 million posts—he and other administrators have worked to implement safeguards to protect against blatant misinformation.

Still, prospective students often look for more than facts and figures.

Several students said that although they found College Confidential valuable, they flocked to sites like Facebook, MySpace and Xanga because of the social networks they enable.

Gettliffe cited the new Class of 2010 blogging on a Xanga community as an example of how students are getting to know one another during the summer.

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LAX MEDIA from page 3 the case, and media experts said it was the attention to issues surrounding Duke-Durham dynamics that attracted not just local but also national media.

“This is exacdy the kind of story we would be interested in,” said Newsweek Senior Writer Susannah Meadows, Trinity ’95. “It has all these sorts of elements that are at play that pull together the most compelling strands ofAmerican life.”

Khanna said the contributing factors—including race, class, wealth, education, entitlement, sex and drinking—are very common across the country but rarely occur simultaneously as they did in the Duke case.

“These are all hot topics on college campuses and elsewhere,” she said. “To have them all together is what makes national news.”

As indictments in the case were eagerly awaited, familiar talking heads from cable news channels and reporters from national media outlets swooped into Durham, dotting the campus with satellite trucks and swarming Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s office.

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social life on college campuses.

In June, a Rolling Stone magazine piece entitled “Sex and Scandal at Duke” induced heated controversy about the behavior of students outside the classroom.

A few weeks later, a Newsweek article asked “Has the Duke Case Collapsed?” and described “an angry e-mail” Nifong sent to Meadows, leading the district attorney to publicly release the correspondence, claiming he had been mischaracterized.

Khanna said national coverage is now focused on “analysis and speculation” rather than first-hand reporting.

Ted Vaden, public editor of the N&O, said local oudets, however, still pay attention to the smaller details in the case.

“The local media is more interested on a day-by-day basis on things like the Durham DA’s race,” he said. “I doubt that the national media is checking each day to see if the potential candidate opposing Nifong is going to run because people locally care about that more.”

Meadows said the decline in coverage is unlikely to be permanent.

“It does seem to be teetering out a bit,” she said, noting that Durham appeared much calmer during a recent visit than it had in prior weeks. “It will all come screaming back if it goes to trial.”

Dozens of reporters surround David Evans May 15 after he was indictedfor the rape of an exotic dancer.

policy and research director for the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, added that in any situation, major national coverage of a story requires a significant amount ofchance.

“Sometimes it’s just a matter of luck of the draw as to what catches someone’s eye,” he said. “Once one national media outlet picks up on it, it’s much more likely that other national media will follow suit.”

Media experts also agreed that the style of coverage evolved—with local and na-

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By early summer, local newspapers still closely followed developments like law professor James Coleman’s public criticism of Nifong and the emergence of potential challengers in the upcoming district attorney’s race in November.

Waning national coverage, however, focused on broader questions, often extrapolating the issues stirred up to spark debate about topics such as privilege, athletics and

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SMITH from page 4 Smith fought for her son in life, and she was not going to stop in death.

Of the eight boys arrested for the murder of her son —the majority of whom had prior charges and are listed by the Durham Police Department as suspected gang members—only one, Calvin Nicholson, was charged for the crime.

In a Nov. 7 police statement, Nicholson explained the circumstances surrounding Douglas’ death,

Smith’s friend said she had not always been the mother of a gang member—she said her son had once been a star student.

His lifestyle began to change in middle school when he was suspended because his mother had not been able to afford a

school-required bookbag.

Rawls blames the school system for her son’s turning to gangs. “We are parents,” she said. “We see things in our children... [but when] we say our children need help, they don’t help.”

Soon, her son was kicked out of school for marijuapOSSCSna sayingafellowgang sion. When member called to “Nobody is trying to stop any gang tell him, “He’s the boy a dead bro pulled problem. If they wanted to stop it, the knife on her “I hung up they could. Our black leaders have eldest daughphone and started Rawls ter, crying,” Nicholson out.” sold us said her son said in the statewas arrested Sheryl Smith ment. “I’m truly and put in sorry for what I did Durham resident whose son was murand I know that I group don’t want to be a homes. dered in gang-related violence in 2003 “He felt gang member.” like nobody That Nicholson alone was charged really cared for the murder ofher son was insufficient about him, like everyone was out to get for Smith, she said. “I went to the mayor, him,” she said. “[He thought] I didn’t I went to the chief of police—any and care just because I sent him to therapeueverybody in Durham that has a title in tic foster homes.” front of their name, I went to them,” she Today, Rawls’ son is 19 years old and is said. “Nobody did a thing.” raising a family of his own. Rawls said he is In the end, however, Smith said she doesno longer in a gang, but that many of his n’t seek revenge —onlyjustice and safety. friends still are, so he may never be able to fully rid himselfof his former identity.

Escaping the pull of gangs As Smith recounted her story, a friend lisMayor versus mother tened intendy across the kitchen table.

Since the start of his tenure as Durham Janet Rawls first suspected that her son mayor, Bell said his administration has rechad joined a gang when, as a 15-year-old, ognized the gang issue and has sponsored he came home from school with gang programs to alleviate the problem.

But programs created to promote gang paraphernalia decorating his book bag.

Smith, with her four daughters, blames city officials for not doing enough to keep youth from joining gangs.

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awareness and provide children with guidance typically “aren’t worth a damn,” Smith said.

Her son was active in a mentorship program for Durham youths and the mentors, she said, “did nothing.”

“The mayor and all them, they say one thing, but they don’t care,” she said. “Nobody is trying to stop any gang problem. If they wanted to stop it, they could. Our black leaders have sold us out.”

Bell, however, said he “take[s] exception” to such accusations.

He said his office has implemented several new programs to offer Durham youth alternatives to the gang life, such as an initiatives to give them jobs in local businesses or to help them with education, economics and healthcare.

Nonetheless, Bell said it is not the government that is the source of Durham’s crime problem.

“You can’t lay all the waywardness on the police not doing their job,” he said.

[Parents] have to accept responsibility as parents in terms of what their children do and don’t do.” “

Both Smith and Bell noted that the issues of gang and crime in Durham seem linked to the young black male sector of the population.

“There are far too many black-on-black homicides and we need to come to grips with that,” Bell said.

In a January address Bell said in 2005 80 percent ofDurham’s homicides were attributed to blacks, who make up about 43 percent of the city’s population.

Smith said, however, that it is society’s seeming lack ofinterest that pushes young children into gangs in the first place.

“That’s how these children feel—there isn’t anyone that cares,” she said.

“It’s like join [a] gang or die.... And if you refuse to join, you’re going to die, because they’re going to get somebody else to join and kill you.”

Today, she said, gangs seem like the best options for many young black males in Durham.

“They can’t get a job, they can’t do nothing,” she said. “They have bills to pay and they have to take care of their children.

“This is our real life.”

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DA RACE from page 6 registered voters—Cheek collected 10,000 signatures.

“I think [the petition drive] shows that people in Durham are very concerned about what’s going on in Durham, how Durham has been portrayed in the media,

both in the state of North Carolina and outside the state of North Carolina,” Cheek said.

Cheek permitted his supporters to circulate petitions after they approached him about the possibility of running against Nifong. Cheek has not yet decided whether he will actively campaign for the position, although, according to state law, his name will remain on the ballot as an unaffiliated candidate even if he decides not to run.

Democratic activist Jackie Brown, who worked on Nifong’s successful primary campaign, switched allegiances when she became Cheek’s campaign treasurer.

Brown helped to coordinate Cheek’s $lB,OOO mail program, sending petitions and stamped envelopes to 25,000 Durham voters.

Monks had originally chosen a Republican candidate to petition for a spot on the ballot. However, Monks himself stepped in when the first candidate dropped out upon learning that Cheek was also campaigning.

“If people are sufficiently alienated by Nifong, then Cheek may have a chance even if he doesn’t campaign.”

David Rhode Duke professor of political science Before the May primary, Monks and Nifong held a meeting to discuss the election, at which Monks told the district attorney that he would face no Republican opposition.

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Monks said he hopes Cheek will make a decision soon.

“It effectively kills my ability to fundraise,” he said. “It wouldn’t be until it’s too late that everyone concluded that he isn’t embracing the challenge.”

Before Cheek makes a decision, however, he said he must thoughtfully consider what’s best for the fate of his three-year-old law firm and the people in it, his 30-yearold civil litigation career and the community. “[The issues are] personal, they’re professional, they’re financial,” he said. “First I’ve got to decide whether it’s feasible, and second, whether it’s the right thing to do.”

If Cheek were elected and declined the job, Democratic governor Mike Easley would be required to appoint a new district attorney.

Durham lawyer Marcus Hill, who helped fundraise for Nifong in the primary, said he does not think the November election is a race until Cheek decides to actively campaign—but if it does becomes a competitive race, he is not sure whom he will support.

If Cheek decides not to seek the office, he said he will actively encourage voters not to support him. Still, some say it will be possible for him to win the election.

“If people are sufficiently alienated by Nifong, then Cheek may have a chance even if he doesn’t campaign,” said David Rhode, professor of political science at Duke. “It just depends on how strongly they dislike the other candidate.”

Despite their involvement in campaigns against Nifong, neither Cheek nor Monks is quick to criticize his legal colleague —politically or personally.

“I look more at myself and what I think and try to point out to people those things, [more] than I try to point out things that I don’t like or think of as deficiencies in other people,” Cheek said.

He added, however, that many issues were raised by the way Nifong handled statements made about the case, questions from the media and commentary about evidence.

“I think there were many people who think that matters should have been handled differently and better,” Cheek said.

Several senior staff members in Nifong’s primary campaign have switched camps in the wake of new developments in the lacrosse case. Along with Brown, Roland Leary, a former sheriff who was once a Nifong supporter, has agreed to help Cheek.

“I think it might be an embarrassing thing if your chief supporters switched sides,” said Black, Nifong’s closest competitor in the primary.

She added that she has received dozens of calls from people who are happy to have an alternate choice on November’s ballot. “I think it’s wonderful that the voters will have another option besides Mike Nifong,” Black said.

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HIV from page 10 EuroCHAVI, the new collaborative effort, will operate through the original center established at Duke in 2005. CHAVI was funded by a grant of up to $3OO million awarded by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases over seven years to study interactions between the human body and HIV. “[EuroCHAVI] will be the first largescale effort to analyze variations among a large number of individuals in a standardized way,” Goldstein said. “Also, the project will focus on the early stages ofinfection a key period for understanding immune —

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During early stages of EuroCHAVI, numerous research teams will work independently to study topics such as viral di-

versity and the ability of cells to host the nucleotide variants to explore qualities of virus. Eventually, nine research cohorts host cells’ genetic structures among individuals likely and unlikely to contract HIV. in the United States, Europe and Aus“The biggest thing that we know by far tralia will analyze genetic variations is that some indiamong 600 paviduals with mutatients. A larger, tions in a small parallel initiative Duke researchers will renumber of genes will be implementare unlikely to be ed in Africa. ceive up to $3OO million to infected,” GoldResearchers will study interactions between stein said, adding seek out individuals that the project with “acute HIV inthe human body and HIV. will rely on adfection” those who have contractvances in the deed the virus but do velopment of the not yet express related antibodies—at International HapMap —a catalogue of STD clinics, said Barton Haynes, director common genomic variations that may be used to identify diseases and responses. of CHAVI and of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.

Scientists working through EuGoldstein’s host genetics core, which will roCHAVI may likely contribute to the guide future “discovery teams,” will analyze control of HIV by further researching im—

munological responses, joining the ranks of discoveries being used in three ongoing trials to control the virus once it has infected the body.

Haynes said research through CHAVI aims to impact more directly the actual prevention of the disease, and EuroCHAVTs contributions could more likely contribute to the control of HIV. He added that leaders involved with CHAVI will implement technological advances made possible by today’s globalized society in order to collaborate on HIV/AIDS vaccine research.

“We have established a communications mechanism comprised of phone conferences and video conferences and face-toface meetings,” he said. “Constant communication and coordination is the key —it is also key for folks to be inspired for the project to work diligently.”

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President Elliott Wolf, a junior. “The singular term ‘tailgate’ is ending, but tailgating will very much continue.”

Students will still be permitted to gather in the Blue Zone on game days—though no section will be reserved—and their cars will be admitted into the parking lot with a Blue Zone permit, but the packed party atmosphere to which students have become accustomed will likely become a thing of the past.

Moneta said the administration hopes to “work with students” to advocate small-group tailgating.

“The key is that in place of the single major tailgate site, we will encourage and support small events that are focused on supporting football,” he said.

Wolf speculated, however, that tailgating may become increasingly fraternity-oriented if subjected to size restrictions.

Moneta also tentatively introduced ideas of quadrangle programming dispersed throughout campus to move the focus away from a large, single event.

Incentivizing student attendance at football games through such means as prizes or food vouchers—will also be a potential consideration in the coming season, Wolf said.

“There was no real love [among administrators] for the event that tailgate,” he added. “It’s just a record of what can be stopped, what is messy, what is both in the interest of the football team and in the interest of student safety, and the approach that we came out with was ‘hands off.’”

For many students, game days had escalated into being more about tailgate and less about football. They gathered en masse in the Blue Zone Saturday mornings and many—a large portion of whom were underage—drank excessively.

In addition to binge drinking, there were several incidents involving violence and vandalism. Visits to the hospital also occurred more frequendy as the season progressed.

“Even with the monitors there, the conditions were incredibly dangerous,” Moneta said.

Wolf originally proposed changes to tailgate in May, including moving the event to a less public parking lot and limiting the number of vehicles.

Administrators, however, said the changes would not have eliminated tailgate’s underlying problems.

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Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church An evangelical PC(USA) congregation located between Wellspring and Bruegger's 1902 Perry Street, Durham, NC 27705 (919) 286-5586 www.blacknallpres.org

Worship which is holy and lively Teaching which is engaging and practical Fellowship that is deep and transformative.

Food that is tasty and abundant, a home away from home

Worship 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

College Class. Breakfast 9:30 a.m.

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Special greetings and welcome to incoming students and faculty.

The next scheduled Sunday Mass is August 27 at 11am in Richard White Lecture Hall on East Campus.

Welcome cookout will follow Mass.

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Called to the Ministry of

The Westminster Fellowship Welcomes Incoming Students

RECONCILIATION 2 Corinthians 5:18

Undergrads and Grads from all faiths are welcome to join

the Baptist Student Ministry in a year of study, fellowship, worship, and missions devoted to the Christian traditions of social justice and racial reconciliation.

UPCOMING EVENTS Westminster Welcome Urban Hike Sat, Aug 26, Ham on ECBS Join us at the East Campus Bus for

stroll down to Brightleaf Square for coffee (or iced tea) and scones.

Meet the Westminster crowd and learn more about our fellowship. a

Westminster Fellowship Mon., Aug 28, 7-B:3opm “Hap Hour” (fellowship and snacks)

followed by program and worship in the Duke Chapel Basement Lounge.

Fall Retreat to Montreat, NC September 8-9

We are an open-minded, open-hearted fellowship of Duke Christians in the reformed traditions of the Presbyterian church (USA) and United

Our group will continue to meet on Wednesdays from 6-Bpm throughout the year first semester at Union Baptist Church and second semester at Watts Street Baptist Church.

Please feel free to contact Campus Minister Rev. Sarah Jobe at sarah.jobe@duke.edu with any questions or needs in your time at Duke.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS DUKE UNIVERSITY and Duke University Health System are committed to sustaining learning and work environments free from harassment and prohibited discrimination. Harassment of any kind is unacceptable. Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status, gender or age is prohibited.

The Office for Institutional Equity (OIE) administers the Duke Harassment Policy and other polices related to prohibited discrimination. If you have questions or concerns related to harassment or discrimination, you are encouraged to seek prompt assistance from your chair, dean, manager or Duke Human Resources Staff and Labor Relations. You may also contact OIE directly at (919) 684-8222.

Additional information, as well as the full text of the harassment policy, may be found at: www.duke.edu/ web/ equity.

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HOMES FOR RENT Brick House for rent in Trinity Park.

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Please email resume to austincal23@yahoo.com or call Christy at 919,361.2471 NEEDED CHILD CARE Responsible person needed to care for toddler and infant T, W, Th 9:305:30 beginning in August. Must have own car. 919.402.9482

CHILDCARE PROVIDER Dependable person wanted to care for 3 active school aged children.

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TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT

BEAUTIFUL HOME FOR RENT This house is located at 2015 Carolina Ave. in an excellent neighborhood just a short distance from Duke. Yard maintenance is included as part of the rent. The house includes all brand new appliances, new carpet, central air and a lovely gas log fireplace. The home sits on a 1/2 acre yard that is fenced in.

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TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL WOODCROFT CONDO FSBO

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TOWNHOMES APARTMENTS, Two bedroom, 2.5 bath townhouses starting at $425/ bedroom.

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Rebounding from lacrosse It’s been a tough four months for change since Brodhead first outlined the Blue Devils. the University’s response to the More than eight weeks after rape lacrosse situation in his April 5 Letter allegations rocked campus, President to the Duke Community.

Yes, the lacrosse season was canRichard Brodhead encouraged members of the Duke community to see celled—and then reinstated—and tailthe good in an otherwise gate was altered, editorial bad situation In addition, officials an“Only by facing up to nounced a plan to implethe challenges of this situation will we ment a loosely worded code of conduct get the good of these difficult times.” for student-athletes, and Brodhead will he wrote in his June 5 Letter to the now more actively oversee athletics. But Duke Community. even administrators have said the move won’t change the actual day-to-day opApdy put, President Brodhead.

Tough times call for bold measures, erations of the athletics program. and Duke has been given the tremenTheseactions are simply not enough. dous opportunity to re-evaluate itself At a time like this, daring steps are and lead the way in addressing issues not just helpful but necessary. The of social life, town-gown relations and University needs to confront the big race relations—issues that colleges problems raised by the lacrosse situaacross the country have struggled to tion in a practical and concrete way. address for years.

Obviously, there is no panacea to all Sounds great. Just one problem. of the complex issues raised during the Since allegations of rape first made past four months. headlines March 20, administrators That said, here are three practical have talked the talk but haven’t quite steps the University can take to start: walked the walk. We know change takes Alcohol and Social Life time, but we’re each only here for four It’s a fact—social (and, yes, unyears, so time is certainly of the essence. derage) drinking is inevitable on There has been little concrete most college campuses.

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But it also needs to be addressed on campuses throughout the nation.

President Brodhead should harness the national spodight and use it to spearhead- a very public effort to convene a commission of top college presidents to discuss alcohol issues. An environment in which alcohol can be enjoyed safely and sensibly should be the ultimate goal.

Duke and Durham Town-gown relations are strained, although not nearly as badly as some people have made them out to be in recent months.

Duke recentiy created a program to give all incoming freshmen $5O to

spend at off-campus restaurants.

The idea is a great way to begin to address this problem, and following in its path, the University should set aside funds for a number of events in downtown Durham that promote student-city interaction.

It will be a little bit expensive, but the University can afford to take the $3 or $4 million it makes selling houses off

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ontherecord Nobody is trying to stop any gang problem. If they wanted to stop it, they could. Our black leaders have sola us out.

Sheryl Smith, a Durham resident whose son was killed by a gang member last year. See story page 4.

Dear readers, “The Tower of Campus Thought and Action.”

Before Coach K ruled Cameron, back when “Old Duke” still reigned supreme, those were the words that ran on the Chronicle flag.

A lot has changed since those days.

Our office looks much less like a “tower” and much more like an “attic” in West Campus’ Flowers (we Building sprung a leak last week) The Chronicle shrank to tabloid size, be fyail mCCar tneV came a daily and, from the editor's desk perhaps most imof all, portant added Sudoku (turn to page 37).

The flag has changed, editors have come and gone, but our mission remains the same.

In the months after I was elected editor of the 102nd volume ofThe Chronicle, a number of people asked me what big changes were in store for paper this year. Well, there are a number of things we’ve been working on, and I’ll talk about those in a second..

But when all is said and done, “big changes” in a newspaper aren’t worth anything unless they help to spark discussion, thought and action—that is our mission.

Hold us to it.

This year, we are committed to providing the Duke community with well-reported, well-written and well-presented news.

In the words of former Chronicle editor Matt Sclafani “journalism is perhaps the only profession where you receive more criticism for doing a better job.”

This is your paper, and we want to hearfrom you.

So, what’s in store for The Chronicle this year?

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Well, it begins with die Send Home Issue that you’re holding (or looking at online) right now.

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East Campus to pay for events that will help bolster relationships on both sides of the wall. Take freshmen to American Tobacco or the Hayti Heritage Center and show them all that Durham has to offer. They’ll want to go back.

Racial Relations The lacrosse situation has sparked an increased awareness of racial issues on campus. But genuine discussion is still missing.

The University should create a number of classes on race relations—small, research-driven seminars taught

by engaging professors.

Taking an “RR”-designated class should be required of anyone who hopes to change the course of our integrated world.

Any university would struggle to get

its footing in tough times like these.

Instead of simply riding out this socalled “perfect storm,” however, administrators must take the time to ensure they get things right. Don’t take the easy way out.

And this is the year. The entire Duke community has been dealt a blow, and it’s time to rebound like true Blue Devils.

us to it Check out Sportswrap and get The Chronicle’s exclusive coverage on what life’s been like for unindicted members of the men’s lacrosse team.

During the year, check out the sports section for in-depth reporting, game stories, columns and features on your favorite teams and players Read recess, The Chronicle’s weekly arts and entertainment section, and learn about Tennessee’s mega-music festival Bonnaroo while also getting some tips on how to save a buck while touring NYC or D.C. this summer.

Take a look at Towerview, The Chronicle’s monthly news perspective magazine, and get all the background on the past, present and future of Tailgate (with a capital “T”). Also, check out the top 10 things you should keep an eye on in the year ahead.

When daily production starts Aug. 28,1 am excited to say The Chronicle will launch an independent editorial board.

For the first time in the 102-year history ofThe Chronicle, our editorial board will not be composed of the; paper’s top editors.

Instead, a number of the top thinkers and leaders on campus have been charged with keeping abreast with what’s going on at Duke, in Durham and around the world, forming opinions, debating issues and writing editorials on the news that most directly affects you.

We hope this will allow The Chronicle to truly represent the voice ofits readership.

So welcome to the Send Home Issue, stay a little while.

And welcome to The Chronicle’s 102nd volume-rwe expect great things this year, and aim to put out stories that challenge you to thought and action every day.

Hold us to it.

Ryan McCartney is a Trinity juniorand editor of The Chronicle. E-mail him at editor@chronicle.duke.edu

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AN, Vietnam What defines Duke? I suppose that is a loaded, multi-faceted question. On the one hand, there are the admissions-office-brochure answers:

good academics, good basketball (ok, great basketball) and a diverse student body.

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scene, interesting classes—some challenging, some a breeze—and overall, a pretty great college experience.

But this March, the general public was introduced to Duke’s new and now most

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the lacrosse rape scandal.

When I came to Southeast Asia in June, it became blatantly apparent to me that what did, or did not, happen on the night of March 13 in that house on Buchanan Boulevard is what most people think of when they hear the word “Duke.”

Sure, we at Duke were all aware the mess was a huge deal from day one. How could we not, what with the media descending on campus by the satellite-truckload? I remember knowing how out of proportion the whole thing was going to get when the week after spring break I had The New York Times calling my office begging for a faxed copy of the initial search warrant.

But sitting in the Bangkok airport June 2, meeting for the first time a handful ofyoung people I would be living with for the next several weeks, it became clear to me that what defines Duke now to the rest of the country, and perhaps the world, are the words lacrosse and rape.

One girl in the terminal looked at me quizzically and asked, “Don’tyou go to Duke? Haven’t I seen you on TV about that rape stuff?” I gave an embarrassed nod.

When I told another of the fellow volunteers I went to Duke, her immediate, wide-eyed response was, “Oooooh, scandal, scandal!” A few weeks later, she told me that in her tiny Michigan town, Duke lacrosse was a staple on the nighdy news for months.

‘Yeah, we’d have the regular local news, you know, farm festival, water-skiing squirrel and—the latest update on Duke lacrosse,” she explained.

So there it was—proof that in the minds of most Joe Shmoes and Jane Does across America, Duke equaled lacrosse and rape.

I found it disheartening, to be honest, knowing all that is good or improving about Duke got lost in the media frenzy about sex and sports. But I also had trouble figuring out how best to defend the University; I didn’t want to come off sounding like a PR representative. So I just let the comments go.

Then a few days ago, over lunch in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, a young woman from Florida changed everything.

‘You go to Duke? That’s a great school,” she said, munching on rice. “I bet you work hard.”

Fork almost to my mouth, I stopped and nodded. Yeah,” I said. “I do—most students do, I think. It’s a pretty intense academic environment.”

And the mealtime chatter for the next 10 minutes was about nothing but Duke’s merits—from classes to basketball, the business school to the average graduating GPA. I was thrilled to answer what I could, and even more thrilled to not utter the word lacrosse.

The conversation made me realize more than ever that the lacrosse scandal is at best ephemeral—a phenomenon that was largely created by, and will be destroyed by, the media.

What matters about Duke are its people, those who create the "academic statistics, the athletic scores and the outcries for certain aspects of campus life to improve.

My hope now is the rape scandal will become a launch point for new Duke-defining factors. It will forever be a part of the school’s history; that fact cannot and should not be avoided. But if addressed correcdy and tangibly by students, committees, administrators, et al., the scandal can help open eyes, ears and minds so at least some things that need to change on our campus can, well, be changed.

When I look back on my time at Duke and at The Chronicle, lacrosse and rape will forever come to mind. But I know that will not be true for everyone, especially those who learned of it only through bad news broadcasts and misleading magazine articles. I also know that eventually both I and they will be able to see Duke for what it really is.

Seyward Darby is a Trinity senior and former editor of The Chronicle. She is now the managing editorial page editor.

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I heart Haterade Class of Dimes, Wow. I sure am amped to meet you all. You’re smart as heck. And you’re cute, too—as yet unscathed by the Freshman 15, sleep deprivation and professorial assertions that you’re a freakin’ failure Enjoy it while you can Yep, can’t wait to meetcha—but for approximately none of those reasons.

Truth be told, it’s scientific inquiry that’s prosarah ball pelling my curiosisummer league ty. I want to see what makes you tick. Because congratulations: You are the most blindly trusting human beings in the world. Somehow, some way, you didn’t let CNN Headline News thwart your plans to don Duke blue—and I, for one, am impressed.

What I want to know is, what exacdy do you have to hedge your bets on? A rave review in a magazine? Your parents’ attendance and assurance that Duke is swell—at least it was, 30 years ago?

Aside from viewing the horticultural triumph that is Blue Devil Days —aside from spending a well-oiled night on the dank carpeting of somebody’s dorm room floor—you probably have no idea what you’re getting yourself into.

How do you know it’s not as bad as Rolling Stone or Newsweek says? Believe them, and you know you’re about to shell out the big bucks to attend classes with a bunch of ho-bags, racists and felonious

and then going home with the bartender.

Being despised is nothing new for us. My freshman year I went to every game in the ACC men’s basketball tournament in Washington, D.C., from whence I hail. I sat with my old man in the Georgia Tech alumni section (he’s a Yellow Jacket). Whooping for Duke, I had great success in pissing off my gold-sweatered boxmates.

And then came the final. Georgia Tech v. Duke.

“Mmmkay, lovebug,” my dad said to me on the threshold of the box, the day of the final. This was it: our last 30 seconds of father-daughter civility, Our Moment, before we’d become archenemies.

He reached into his pocket to hand me my ticket.

I looked down at what he’d given me. It was not, as I’d seen every day before, a laminated pass to luxe fanhood —to cheering from the comfort of a plush chair. It was instead a pair of scalped, palm-sweat-wilted tickets to the ground arena.

“Sorry, honey,” he said, looking guilty but firm.

“But you just can’t sit with us.”

Betrayed, my roommate (who’d accompanied me) and I went down into the Colosseum-like depths of the MCI Center. Two young gladiatorial envoys, ripe for slaughtering at the hands of 20,000 Duke haters.

A few hours later, ragged and bloody, sustaining severe wounds we stood court-side, clinging to the remaining shreds of our togas. We were mercifully alive, swaying to our alma mater blaring over the sound system. Sweet victory.

So what if we’re hated, and for ill-founded reasons? So you’re smart. So some of your classmates think s4ok per annum is no sweat. Others are on massive financial aid. Most people are just somewhere in the nebulous middle. strangulators.

Welcome!!

And so what if good judgment isn’t equally allocated to everyone at age 18? For every bacchanalian And by now, people of every stripe have quesreveler, there’s a proselyte to the Order ofBostock tioned your decision. By now, you’ve probably mastered the inflection for betraying the name of your and plenty in the middle strata. chosen school. David Sedaris trenchantly chided But you had faith in us, young grasshoppers, and Printh-ton grads for that same thing last month. Rouyou will reap the benefits. tine awkwardness also dwells down here. How many Not just in the form of four beautiful letters that will top your diploma. Not just in the form of bastimes has this happened to you: ketball, or good people, traditions, landscaping or Q: “So, kid, where’re ya headed in the fall?!” barbecue.

A: “Uhhh, Duuuuke??”

That’s right, drag out that vowel. Act like you’re If nothing else, you’re getting a collegiate life not really sure. Like it could be, you know, DeVry. lesson before you even set foot on campus: UniverOne of those D schools. sal acceptance and admiration are elusive, for the Why the embarrassment? Because. One, Duke is a most shallow and baseless of reasons. And to be good school. Saying you go here is like saying, “I read loved or hated as a group has little bearing on your Nietzschean aphorisms—for fun.” individual satisfaction. That you’re gonna have to Two, Duke is an expensive school. Saying you go cultivate for yourself. here is like saying, “I’m rolling in it, buddy.”

Aww. And three, the world now thinks Duke is a badass The Duke name will rebound, give it time. Until school—the school that, in a ballroom full of her then, smile. ‘’Cause you picked the right one, baby. white-gloved Ivy League peers, has a hip flask of gin stashed in her garter and a gram in her purse. So saySarah Ball is a Trinity junior and features editorfor The Chronicle. ing you’re a Dukie is like calling for another round, —

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sportswrap Editor: Greg Beaton Managing Editor: Michael Moore Photo Editor: Weiyi Tan Senior Associate Editors: Patrick Byrnes, Lauren Kobylarz, John Taddei Supplements Coordinator; Mike Van Pelt Associate Editors: Rachel Bahman, Tim Britton, Taylor Field, Matt lies, Sam Levy, Sean Moroney, Katie Riera, Meredith Shiner, John Schneider, Anand Sundaram, Lane Towery

The night of April 4,1 was sitting in the media work room beneath the court of TD Banknorth Garden in Boston.

The women’s basketball team had just lost a thriller in the national tide game, played in front of a packed house with the outcome turning on a desperate threepointer with seven seconds left. But while the focus could have been on the game, all anyone wanted to talk about afterward was another one of Duke’s teams 9 re 9 men’s lacrosse.

UCdIUII The reporters around me wanted to know working what it was like in Durham, what I thought about the new developments. I was honest; I told them I didn’t know.

The past few months in the world of Duke athletics have been defined by this uncertainty. Inquiries surrounding the lacrosse case have been extrapolated and caused many to question the very nature and existence of college athletics itself.

Throughout, here at The Chronicle’s sports department we have tried to provide in-depth coverage of stories related to lacrosse while also striking a balance with the other fine sports teams here at Duke.

During the coming year, we will continue to strive to strike that balance. We will follow the return of the men’s lacrosse team under its new coach (who had not been announced as of our press deadline). And we will not forget about the compelling stories elsewhere in Duke athletics.

It’s bound to be an exciting year for the Blue Devils. I welcome you to the 102ndvolume of The Chronicle and the 24th volume of sportswrap.

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Thanks to Chronicle editor Ryan McCartney, managing editor Andrew Yaffe, news editor Saidi Chen, university editor Iza Wojciechowska, photo editor Jianghai Ho and Towerview photo editor Michael Chang. Cover photo by Jianghai Ho.

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Your last best chance to switch allegiances Attention camp counselors, life guards, part-time clothing store cashiers and anyone else who has spent the entire summer with that “man this job sucks, I’m sure happy I’m going to Duke in the fall” look on his or her face.

You’re almost there.

Freshman Orientation —that hormone—j—^— a ex fueled land of drunken hook-ups and awkward first meetings-is almost upon you.

Unless Orientation has changed drastically in three years, you’re going to hear the same diree questions over and over again: What’s your name? Where are you from?

Why did you decide to come to Duke?

(Some people will ask you what you’re thinking of majoring in. Don’t speak to these people; they don’tknow where the free Busch Light is.)

If you’re being honest with yourself, your answer to that last question should be, “I came to Duke for the basketball.”

Other people might look at you funny (unless you’re Gerald Henderson, Jon Scheyer, Brian Zoubek or Lance Thomas), but deep down they’ll know you’re right.

Almost everyone comes to Duke for the basketball. That—or the East to West Campus bus system (You’d be surprised) Those of us who came to Duke for the right reason are aware of one simple truth. You get three chances to pick favorite teams: when you’re born, when a

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new team moves to your city and when you go to college.

No, you can’t add a favorite team (Sorry sweetie) because it’s your significant other’s favorite and you can’t just become some squad’s newest die-hard because they signed your favorite player. That’s weak, and you know it.

Basically, this might be your last shot to add a new (and good) team. There are literally thousand's of people out there wearing Duke apparel that would love a decent reason to be a true Duke fan. But you, you’ve got an excuse, an opportunity.

You’re a 1920’5-era immigrant on the fastpaced steamer to America where the streets are paved with gold. Don’t blow it.

Right now, you have two options. You qan seize the moment and accept the Blue Devils as your own team —good times or football season. You can go to the games, learn the cheers and sing the fight song. You can buy the Duke hat and the Duke shirts and the Duke sweatpants and the officially-licensed Duke logo three-piece bathroom set (featuring a bath mat, pedestal mat and toilet-seat cover for only $45.99 at the Duke store!).

Or you can be that guy. You can be the one that sees the Statue of Liberty from the deck of his steamer and jumps off the boat. The guy that shows up at Duke, the sports fan world at his feet, and says, “Nah, not for me. I think I’ll just be the incessantly negative guy whose friends hate watching games with him.”

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More than 1,000 students typically pack CameronIndoor Stadium'sbleachersfor men's basketball home games. all the other kids. Maybe you think it’s not cool to be a fan ofyour school’s sports teams. Whatever it is, you’re not drinking the Duke Kool-Aid and no one’s going to make you. It’s your choice.

But there are going to be consequencesr'When Duke’s playing on a Saturday afternoon, you’ll have to go to the library. When your classmates tear the goalposts down, or celebrate a basketball victory with a bonfire, you’ll have to sit in your room alone. People will shun you like you’re a leper with bad 8.0. You will have no friends.

But like I said, it’s your choice.

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I’m not saying that you have to go all the way in the tank for Duke sports. You can be a Blue Devil fan and still think that tenting is stupid, or that the guys that paint their whole body for games just do it because they love being on television. And you don’t have to give up your old college team either (even if its Maryland or UNC), because that would be sports fan treason.

But come on. The Promised Land’s in sight. Get off the boat—and on The Train Alex, I thought you retired The Train after Duke lost toLSU....

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Even though Duke bowed out in the Sweet 16 this past season, Cameron Indoor Stadium’s rafters will become a little more crowded next season.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has recommended that JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams both have their jerseys retired during ceremonies next season, a senior Athletics Department official confirmed to The Chronicle.

The recommendation still must be approved by the Athletic Council and President Richard Brodhead. Pending the approval, which is expected, the jerseys will be retired during separate ceremonies next season, the source said.

Redick’s ‘4’ and Williams’ ‘23’ will become Duke’s 12th and 13th retired jerseys, and the first and second ones since Jason Williams was honored Feb. 5, 2003.

Jason Williams was the first player in recent history to have his jersey retired after his time at Duke had ended, a change Krzyzewski said would take pressure off players during their pro careers.

“It’s a little better when they come back and do it,” Krzyzewski said.

Meanwhile, Duke’s two most-recent AllAmericans began their professional careers after being drafted in the NBA lottery June 28 at Madison Square Garden.

Both players agreed to two-year contracts with their respective teams, although the terms were not disclosed.

With the graduation of JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams—as well as Sean Dockery and Lee

Melchionni —plenty of playing time will be up mm Gerald Henderson for grabs this season.

The incoming recruiting class will be expected to contribute from the start, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

"All 4 of those guys should be ready to play Jon Scheyer and one, two or three of them will have the ability to start," he said.

Gerald Henderson, a wing, is the prize of the class. At 6-foot-5, Henderson has the ability Lance Thomas to provide the athleticism the Blue Devils lacked last season.

"Gerald is an exquisite athlete and basketball player," Krzyzewski said.

"We expect a lot from him right away."

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JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams are the sth and 6th Duke players to become lottery picks since 2001.

The Magic, not wanting to take any chances with their investment, asked Redick to rest the pesky back injury that some thought could spell trouble for Redick before the NBA Draft. The No. 11 pick did not play on Orlando’s summer league team and is not participating in the trials for the U.S. Senior National Team.

“I feel I could be out there, but we had to decide if it was worth the risk and not take the chance,” Redick said.

The Magic have reportedly stopped negotiating with free agent shooting guard DeShawn Stevenson, so if healthy, Redick

should be in the mix for the starting spot next season.

Williams played for Atlanta’s summer team but struggled at first. In his first two games for Atlanta at the Rocky Mountain Revue, Williams racked up 10 fouls while scoring only 14 points.

On draft night, Hawks general manager Billy Knight said he expects the fifth overall pick to contribute to the team right away.

“We think he’ll pick things up quickly,” Knight said. “The transition from the NCAA to the NBA should be easier for him. He’s more mature physically.”

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MEN'S BASKETBALL

Coach K begins stint coaching national team

USA Basketball news and notes Kobe Bryant had surgery on his right knee July 15 and will not play for the USA Senior National Team this summer.

He said he still plans on attending the team's training camp in Las Vegas in late July.

J.J. Redick, one of two players named to the team while still in college, will not participate this year as he regains his fitness after a back injury. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Redick's back is "fine right now" but that it was not worth risking an injury crash training.

Paul Pierce and Lamar Odom will not take part in the trials. Odom withdrew for personal reasons after the tragic death of m* his infant son. Pierce plans on having elbow surgery.

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So when Jerry Colangelo, managing director of the USA Senior National Team, asked Krzyzewski if he was up for taking over the floundering national program, the answer was easy. The former West Point cadet was in.

Since Colangelo named him coach Oct. 26, 2005, Krzyzewski has taken charge of the challenge in repairing the image ofUSA basketball after disappointing finishes at the 2002 World Championship and the 2004 Olympics.

“It’s already been a huge time commitment,” KrzyzewsHOLLY CORNELL/THE CHRONICLE ki said. “It’s been on my mind since I was selected and it will be on my mind until I don’t have it.”

Mike Krzyzewski has experience representing his country, first playing The previous teams, composed of an incongruous col- for Army and later as an assistant coach for the 2002 Dream Team. lection of NBA stars who had free time during their sumand that’s it, they know they’re on the team.” mers to participate, struggled against improving internaTeam USA’s had stricter tional competition. competition Krzyzewski won’t be the only Blue Devil representing the training schedules and practiced together more often. United States. His right-hand man, associate head coach America’s more recognizable stars could not overcome the Johnny Dawkins, will serve as the team’s “player representative” for the next three years, coordinating players’ training challenges posed by the international game.

Krzyzewski, along with Colangelo, devised a new plan schedules, among other responsibilities. Duke Director of for the team. Instead of simply piecing together players for Basketball Operations Mike Schrage will also work with the each tournament, Team USA will now function as a more national team for three years, and assistant coaches Chris Collins and Steve Wojciechowski will serve as “court coachcontinuous national program. Twenty-four players were invited to participate in the three-year commitment that es” while die team trains in Las Vegas.

While most of the coaching staff will depart Durham kicks off this summer with a training schedule and the World Championship in Japan and ends in 2008 with the for the latter portion of the summer, both Dawkins and Krzyzewski said their primary responsibility —the Blue Summer Olympics in China.

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On Selection Sunday, George Mason head coach Jim Larranaga waited anxiously to see if his school’s name would be called.

‘You’re sitting on pins and needles and very nervous, and you kind or perspective have a little bit of a cold sweat, worried that you’re not going to make the field,” Larranaga said. “Everybody’s predicting that you won’t, and yet you still feel you’re qualified and deserve a shot. It’s so thrilling to hear your name called.”

The rest, as they say, is history.

Larranaga led the Patriots on a magical run through March Madness, upsetting traditional powerhouses Michigan State, North Carolina and Connecticut on their way to the school’s and the Colonial Athletic Association’s first-ever berth in the Final Four.

George Mason’s stunning success in the NCAA Tournament has sparked a compelling debate: if one of the last teams to make the field can make it all the way to the Final Four, how good are some of the teams that don’t make it? After all, Hofstra, one of the final teams left out of the tournament, beat the Patriots twice in the 10 days leading up to Selection Sunday.

2001, but the concept of major expansion had been dormant for several years, in large part due to a 2001 lawsuit filed by the National Invitational Tournament against the NCAA. The lawsuit was settled last summer, but the topic emerged in the weeks following the 2006 tournament, one of the most unpredictable and compelling tournaments in recent memory.

In addition to George Mason becoming just the second No. 11 seed to advance to the Final Four, none of the four No. 1 seeds made it to college basketball’s promised land, a first since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

The gap between the teams from the six “elite” conferences and the rest of college basketball appears to be as narrow as ever.

Only two first-round games were decided by more than 20 points, compared to seven such blowouts only three years ago. Additionally, of the eight teams receiving No. 1 or No. 2 seeds, only UCLA won its first-round contest by more than 16 points.

“I think it’s just evidence of the fact that there are more quality teams,” said Jim Haney, the director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

In the last few years, there has been more and more discussion to the tournament in

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Greg Paulus and Duke exited early from a 2006 NCAATournament definedby upsets.

The growing parity of college basketball—epitomized by George Mason’s Cinderella ride to Indianapolis—forced the game’s executives to debate whether March Madness has become too exclusive an event.

The NCAA Basketball Committee discussed and ultimately decided against expanding the NCAA Tournament beyond its current setup of 65 teams during its annual meeting in late June. The committee, headed

by Virginia Athletic Director Craig Litdepage, believed that the current landscape of college

basketball did not necessitate a change to its cherished seasonending tournament.

“We discussed what we thought were the pros and cons and decided that at this point in time there wasn’t enough benefit to be accrued through expanding the tournament,” Litdepage said.

“If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”

The NCAA added a 65th team

on the merits of “mid-major” conferences leading up to Selection Sunday. The recent success of schools such as Gonzaga, Kent State and now George Mason have led many to believe that more teams deserve an invite to the Big Dance.

Critics of the expansion idea, however, have said the new openings would likely go to a sixth or seventh team from a BCS conference rather than a second or third from a mid-major league.

“The only reason I think there should be an expansion is because I think there are more good teams,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said.

Larranaga admitted that while trying to determine his team’s chances heading into Selection Sunday, he couldn’t reduce the field beneath 72 teams he felt were deserving of a bid.

“I felt certain that we were qualified and were deserving,” Larranaga said. “But there are so many other teams that probably felt the same way.”

Another impetus for expansion is the increase in schools eligible for the tournament. Since the NCAA’s last major expansion, from 48 teams to 64 in 1985, the membership in Division I has increased dramatically.

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Much to the chagrin of Duke adminisand supporters, for many Americans the word “Duke” is now subconsciously followed by the word “lacrosse.”

The allegations stemming from a March 13 party and the subsequent media storm have extended the incident far beyond the three lacrosse players indicted in the criminal case.

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Athletics Director Joe Alieva hasbeen the subject of some criticism during the past few months.

charges, the ripples of the incident have been more like waves. The Department of Athletics has been charged with a lack of action that was caused by, at best, poor communication, and, at worst, gross negligence. Members of the administration have faced scrutiny for their failure in proactively addressing growing trends with the men’s lacrosse team.

Now a month before the start of the new school year, the athletic department is busy devodng its efforts to repairing the damage to Duke’s reputation and trying to prevent future mishaps.

“Perception is reality” Prior to the March 13 incident and the subsequent media storm, Duke athletics was said by many in the sports world to have a pristine image.

The success of the Duke athletics program on the field—the Blue Devils own eight national championships and have finished in the top 10 of the Director’s Cup standings each of the last two years—and its high academic standards have made it an object ofenvy. Over the years, there has been a great deal of positive media attention focused on the men’s basketball program and its head coach, Mike Krzyzewski.

The image of Duke athletics, however, has taken a significant hit in the national media since the March 13 incident became public, not only because of the alleged events of that night but also because of other facts that have been made public in its aftermath.

Media reports surfaced in early April stating that 15 of the 47 members of the lacrosse team had previously been cited or

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arrested, most for noise or drinking violations. Later, a May 1 report by the committee appointed to investigate men’s lacrosse revealed that some top administrators had not properly addressed an October 2004 written report detailing the escalating behavioral problems of the team.

In the weeks after, senior lacrosse player Matt Wilson was arrested for drunk driving and drug possession and basketball star JJ. Redick was charged with DUI. Although opinions differ on the lasting effect of these blows to the reputation of Duke athletics, many believe the “situation” within the athletic department has been overblown.

“Everything in the media today is exaggerated, both the good and the bad,” sports writer John Feinstein, Trinity ’77, said. “Mike Krzyzewski has been put on a pedestal that no one deserves to be put on by some, and he’s been portrayed so much as a devil by some that it’s laughable. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.

Duke basketball was never the knight in shining armor some wanted it to be, and Duke today is not the complete disaster area people want it to be because of lacrosse. The truth lies in the middle.”

David Plati certainly knows what Duke is going through. Plati, assistant athletic director of communications at the University of Colorado at Boulder, went through a similar scandal when nine women made allegations that they were raped by Colorado football players in 2001, and the Boulder County district attorney launched an investigation into claims that the program had deliberately used sex and alcohol to attract recruits.

Plati believes that even if the coverage

of Duke’s case is extreme, “With a certain percentage of the public, the perception is the reality.”

Will Leitch, editor of the popular sports

blog Deadspin, agreed, saying nationally

this incident will leave a legacy, even if it is immediately noticeable. “Even lacrosse aside, when someone from Duke gets into trouble, it’s much bigger news because it doesn’t happen often,” Leitch said. “[Now] if someone else from Duke gets in trouble, people will be far less shocked than they would have been a year ag0.... It’s kind of sad for them because that lofty image is gone.”

Jon Jackson, Duke’s assistant athletic director of communications, is one of the many officials charged with the responsibility of repairing Duke’s public perception. Jackson said that while the presence of basketball and its academic reputation had been enough to get out a favorable message about Duke nationally, the communications staff may now have to make concerted efforts to ensure the media and public take notice of the positive stories surrounding Duke athletics.

That likely includes trying to garner greater publicity for Duke athletes’ efforts in the community, including the Emily K Center for Family Life and Ted Roofs mandate that each one of the football players complete a community service project.

“We have always done a tremendous amount of community service but we haven’t tooted our own horn, bragged about it,” Duke Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said. “We’re going to work more closely with University people like Michael not

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The athletic department also plans to let its student athletes shape public perception as the media continues to pay close attention to the University.

“This isn’t a place that discourages our kids from talking to the media, because, quite honestly our kids are our best ambassadors,” Jackson said. “Those who were involved with speaking to the media in the spring represented us in an unbelievable manner.”

Communication breakdown The most pointed criticism, both internally and externally, has been directed toward the communication both within the athletics department and the University.

Highlighted by the fact that President Richard Brodhead discovered the incident through reading about it in The Chronicle March 20, the lines of communication between top officials seemed to break down both before and after the events of the March 13 party.

Jackson and Alieva both cited improved communication as the most pressing need, a need that is still being addressed. Despite Jackson’s assertion that student athletes would be free to speak to the media, two men’s soccer players declined to comment for this story, one saying he and a teammate were told by their coaches not to provide comment for this story.

“The biggest change is better communication,” Alieva said. “That better communication will make for better procedures and better awareness about what’s happening. Between the University and athletics,

and between administrators and coaches, and coaches and players, I think the whole communication pattern will be much better and clearer.”

Although Duke’s internal communication suffered breakdowns, many said its public communications during the spring might have helped its image.

While some alumni and parents criticized Brodhead for his delay in responding to the situation, the president has been the University’s most consistent voice throughout the situation. Plati said Duke’s steadfast message might make its effort to repair its image swifter and easier than the one he has been facing at Colorado.

“One advantage for Duke is it has seemed to have pretty much one voice—the president—speaking for the school throughout this process,” Plati said. “In our case, we had the president, the chancellor, provosts and different regents speaking up as well as the athletic director and the football coach, sometimes saying the opposite of each other.”

The planned Centerfor Athletic Excellence is one of many athletics initiatives fueled by fundraising.

Alumni weigh in Throughout the controversy, the athletic department kept in close touch with its financial lifeblood, the alumni. The department sent out regular updates to all athletic donors, usually emphasizing Brodhead’s message of patience. Not all alumni, however, have been accepting of the situation.

Feinstein has been one of the most vocal alumni, calling for the firing of Alieva, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask and Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations John Burness in a May 8 column forAOL sports. He echoed that sentiment in a recent interview with The Chronicle.

“Joe Alieva, even more so Tallman Trask and John Burness, should all be out of work now. It’s extremely disturbing Mike

Pressler was the only fall guy for all of this,” said Feinstein, who was publicly opposed to Alieva’s hiring as athletic director in 1998.

‘You can’t just say coach and players alone were responsible for this, you have to look around and ask who was in charge.”

Feinstein also said in his May 8 column that Brodhead should have been fired if he had not dismissed Trask and Alieva by the May Board of Trustees meeting. Feinstein cited the pair’s disregard of the October 2004 report on the lacrosse team’s behavior as the primary reason Brodhead should have fired Trask and Alieva.

Feinstein was not alone in his criticism.

The Chronicle ran a staffeditorial April 10 calling for Alieva to be fired and Randall Drain, Trinity ’O5 and an African-American Duke men’s lacrosse program alum-

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Alieva made news himself when he received 42 stitches to his head following a boating accident June 23 in which his son, J.D. Alieva, was charged with operating the vehicle while impaired. The 52-year-old, however, has dismissed calls for his firing as lacking the full story, and Burness said in late April that the University’s support for Alieva had not changed.

“I don’t think the public always has all the facts and understands,” Alieva said.

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Carrington wanted to say something, anything. Surrounded on the quad in the middle of Duke’s West Campus, the lacrosse player wanted to convince protesters that neither he nor any of his teammates were rapists. But Carrington couldn’t muster a word.

‘You know what happened that night!” shouted one member of the crowd. “Why aren’t you saying anything?”

They had known who he was right away—that he was one of them, even as he walked across campus without a single piece of Duke lacrosse gear adorning his formidable 6-foot-4, 220pound frame.

Carrington began to speak up in response but the words eluded him. It was maddening, but he was speechless.

“It’s awful because you want people to know the truth, you want people to know what really happened, but they don’t want to hear that,” Carrington explained more than three months after that day on the quad.

During those weeks in early April, Carringand his teammates encountered pictures of themselves plastered around campus like WANTED posters. Posters that, in their minds, ton

conveyed a predetermined judgment: guilty.

“If nobody’s guilty then you can’t tell them who’s guilty,” the junior continued.

The team issued no public statements in the weeks following DNA testing, except a release drafted by the team’s captains that declared their “unequivocal” innocence. As the media and public continued to deliberate, some concluded that the players were standing complicit in their solidarity to protect the guilty parties within their ranks.

“My gut reacdon was let’s get out, let’s tell our side of the story, this is a joke, let’s get out there and make sure people know that this is false,” Tony McDevitt said.

But the lacrosse player followed the strict advice of lawyers and bit his tongue.

“A lot of people said in the beginning, ‘Oh this is like a wall of defense. This team is dght like brothers,’” McDevitt said. “Granted, we are a dght team. I love every one of the guys on my team, but if something like that happened there’s no way everyone would be like that. It’s wrong in every sense.”

Going home again McDevitt, a stocky, tough-looking senior who exudes confidence and guarded thoughtfulness, knows all too well what it feels like to be one of them—to walk around town, go to the local deli, and have people look at you differendy than they did before.

That has been life for the 44 unindicted members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team. The hysteria surrounding a once-smoldering scandal has started to die down, but its embers still periodically spark uncomfortable situations.

Riding in an elevator on his way to an orientation for his internship at a New York-area investment bank, McDevitt heard a fellow intern casually mention the senior played lacrosse for Duke.

“Oh, you’re one of those people,” a young woman who overheard the conversation said.

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“Especially a hot-topic issue like this, people are going to have opinions,” he said. “I know it’s wrong, I know what they’re thinking about us is completely wrong.... It’s a shame that the situation has to produce those types of feelings from people. It’s understandable, but it’s a shame.”

Four months have passed, but many of the players have discovered that, even at home, they are never far from the controversy that has changed each and every one of their lives.

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Now meet Senior also at a New I somebody, interning pushed John weekend—days that were a nightmare fc York-area investment bank this summer, was reasthey want to hear what’s going on with the lacrosse issue.” sured his job was secure and the company would the players and their families.

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Faced with dozens of individuals a do everything to make sure he was comfortable. week looking for first-hand insight into “Everyone’s been so supportive,” Walsh of her life—the whole day she’s sitting thei crying, hugging me and stuff,” Walsh said. what exactly the deal is down in said. “Even seeing teachers going back to The players had anticipated that Matt Zasl McDevitt said he has never but it’s Durham, [high] school—they try to support you, Dan Flannery and Evans, the seniors who live hesitated to answer questions relating to just so different.” the situation. When For others, the situation at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., would be the thre remains players that District Attorney Mike Nifor tenuous, and not a curious intern would eventually indict on rape charges. all of the have felt pokes in and asks players “Half of you wants it to Walsh’s sense of security.

But with no definitive word from th about the newest there was only speculatioi bullet One deprosecution, be you to take the current player developments in the case, McDevitt clined to be interviewed and the players and their families brace for the team. The other themselves for a dreaded phone call. takes a deep breath, on the record because he “[Our lawyers] said, ‘Guys, prepare you felt that his doing so might gathers half wants to stay as for selves, prepare your parents, prepare you have negative repercusthoughts and dives away from it as you can." sions on his employment. selves for the worst-case scenario,’” McDevi right in. said. “Our lawyers don’t know, noboc David Evans, Trinity ’O6, “I don’t want to quiet about the one of the three indicted knows. We’re, like, ‘Who’s it going to be?’ was just going to be a shot in the dark.”

McDevitt lacrosse team members, issue,” “Half of you wants it to be you to tai be his said. “I feel that leads them to more had a job offer rescinded from J.P. Morgan, the bullet for the team,” Carrington sail inclined to think that something suspiconfirmed.

Cheshire, lawyer, Joe “The other half wants to stay as far awa cious is going on.” from it as you can.”

The waiting game Despite die unending carousel of Too far from his home in Dallas, Texas other have also indicted.” to be players “I’m going questions, many travel that Easter weekend, junior Rr embraced an open dialogue about the That was the grim conclusion many of the situation. In turn, the players have replayers came to accept the weekend before the Wellington was one of the few lacrosse pl< ers who spent the days before the indii ceived an outpouring of support from first indictments were announced April 18.

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March 23. Eager for the truth to come out, McDevitt hoped an end to the situation was in sight before things escalated further.

What had started as a March 20 article in The Chronicle that reported a rape at a house just off East Campus exploded into a full-blown media circus within a week.

The investigation Public interest in the developing situaCarrington remained guarded as he sat tion was fueled by Nifong’s comments on opposite two investigators who had shows such as MSNBC’s “The Abrams Reknocked on the door to his Few Quadranport,” where Nifong said he was “positive a gle dorm room just moments earlier. rape has occurred.” As the media descendThen a sophomore, Carrington said he ed upon Duke, reporters swarmed lacrosse had nothing to hide and was eager to dipractices—filming, snapping pictures and, vulge his open and honest account to the all the while, speculating. police about the events surrounding the The team was still practicing, but the night of March 13. But there was someplayers didn’tknow what they were practicthing about the investigators that made ing for. Their season, their program, their Carrington uneasy. futures and their fates were all entirely up “We’re on your side,” he recalled one in the air. investigator saying. “We’re fighting for “I’m saying to myself, ‘Fine, take it, I you guys. Can you tell us what happened don’t care, I know I did nothing wrong, go that night?” ahead, take my DNA,’” McDevitt said.

As the two officers quizzed Carrington, “And there were 46 other guys saying the a polite, soft-spoken Virginian with a slow same thing as me.” drawl, the sophomore began to realize Upon arriving at the police station, the why his lawyer had warned him to be careplayers said they were greeted by friendly ful when speaking to officers who treatthe police. ed the situation “They try to be your routinely and as“He started something friend at first and then sured them that you realize that they’re to get re-elected, and now everything would trying to get you to say blow over. he’s got it, but he’s made something about the were “They case that is not true,” it to make treating the biggest mistake in Carrington said. “There it seem like it was were absolutely some the w0r1d.... He buried nothing,” Walsh law enforcement that said. “I think they himself in a hole.” we felt were deceitful sort of knew that it “If you’re innocent, Walsh was a bigger deal then the Justice system than we did.” should be your friend, Nowhere is the and I don’t know, I players’ frustration don’t really feel like that’s been the case.” about the situation more evident than in The players encountered a similar situatheir comments concerning Nifong and tion after head coach Mike Pressler inhis motivations for prosecuting the case. structed the team to go to the Durham police station for DNA testing after practice SEE LACROSSE ON PAGE 14

Though members of the Duke lacrosse team were stereotyped by many when the case first broke, Tony McDevitt (left) said he isn't afraid to answer the many questions his co-workers at a New York investment bank have about the controversy.

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On Monday, April 17, with the focus of the indictments still completely unknown to all but the players’ lawyers, Wellington recalled the relief he felt as he and juniors Jay fennison and Reade Seligmann, all of whom shared the same lawyer before the first two indictments were handed down, learned that none of the three would be charged.

Or so he thought.

“We were all waiting in a room at our lawyer’s office,” Wellington said. “And our lawyer came in and said, ‘Don’t worry, it ivas none of you guys, it’s okay, you can all Jo now.’”

Wellington and Jennison left, the weight of the looming indictments lifted clear from their shoulders. But the lawyer, Julian Mack, asked Seligmann to hang behind, fulfilling tents

his obligation to attorney-client privilege.

“I thought they were just talking about something random and I had no idea that !t was any of us,” Wellington said. “The lawyer knew who it was and he got all of us out of the room by saying it was no one and then held Reade after and told him it vas him.”

Later that night, Wellington finally got touch with Seligmann and learned that April 5 Brodhead cancels the remainder of the season and head coach Mike Pressler resigns after then-sophomore Ryan McFadyen's email surfaces.

his close friend had indeed been indicted Wellington was shocked. After all, he said he had spent the entire night of the March 13 party with Seligmann. “I never left his side,” Wellington emphatically said of the events that evening.

As he talked to his friend the night before Seligmann and classmate Collin Finnerty turned themselves in to police, Wellington said Seligmann seemed more angry than upset.

While the two spoke, Seligmann and his father drove around Durham attempting to contact individuals and collect information that could potentially corroborate Seligmann’s alibi, Wellington said.

“They just got on the horse right away, getting it ready to go,” Wellington said. “He didn’t seem that upset. He seemed more kind of like, ‘Alright, now it’s on.’”

As the three indicted players await a trial date that could be as far off as next April, their teammates have maintained regular contact with them, offering support and reassurance.

Wellington said he talks to Seligmann once or twice a week and he is “hanging in there.” Wellington confessed that he has heard Finnerty—who was found guilty of an unrelated misdemeanor assault in Washington, D.C., July 11—has been “taking it pretty hard.”

“It’s a tough time, they’re just laying low,” said Walsh, who regularly keeps in touch with Evans.

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Many have wondered why Nifong continues to pursue a trial as mounting exculpatory evidence, released by defense attorneys, continues to suggest that a rape did not occur at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. on the night ofMarch 13.

“That is the $64,000 question,” McDevitt said. “I have a sister two years younger than me, and I know that if I heard something like this supposedly had happened to her, I would want someone to pursue the case as far as they could. Now I’m also level-headed in that if I see all this evidence that goes against what one person is saying has happened, as a district attorney —not as a brother, not as a dad, as a district attorney, someone who has to seek out the truth —I would have to take a step back and say, ‘What am I doing?’

“I can only hope that he is still playing that role, seeking out the truth.”

Not every player was as reserved as McDevitt, and Walsh alleged Nifong could have other motivations.

“He started something to get re-elected, and now he’s got it, but he’s made the biggest mistake in the world,” Walsh said. “He buried himself in a hole, you know.

What’s he going to turn on it now when he publicly stated that ‘I know there was a rape in this house?’ What can he do? He’s got nothing, absolutely nothing.”

Nifong, who granted a litany ofinterviews early on, has not granted interviews since the indictments were handed down, citing ethical restraints. He was unavailable for comment for this story.

Tony McOevitt (right) and the Blue Devils were 6-2 and ranked No. 2 in the nation before their season was canceled by PresidentRichard Brodhead.

“We’ve been through the fire.... There’s not much that’s going to tear us apart now.”

Though they declined to discuss specific events surrounding the case and the March 13 party, the players con-

tinued to express their steadfast belief that, if the case does go to trial, the indicted players’ innocence will surface.

“I think half of us want it to get dropped tonight or today,” Carrington said. “But at the same time, we want everything to be right out on the table and we want people to know what really happened. Half of you wants it to go to trial so that all of the facts do get shown, but at the same time, those guys are having such a hard time right now that you want it to get dropped as soon as possible.”

Both sides of the spectrum “This is a social disaster.”

That was the tagline of a paid advertisement signed by 88 members of the Duke faculty that appeared in the April 6 issue ofThe Chronicle.

“I think that all of us kind ofchecked over our teachers to make sure they weren’t on that list,” Carrington said.

Though none ofhis four spring instructors had signed the advertisement, Carrington still spent hours in contact with his teachers—explaining the situation, feeling out where they stood, asking for help and guidance along the way, begging that they not jump to conclusions and judge him based on what was being said in the media.

Carrington was fortunate. His professors were flexible, supportive and helped him coordinate his work around meetings with attorneys and situations when the team left campus due to safety concerns.

Walsh, however, saw the other side of the spectrum.

After missing an assignment for a class while meeting his lawyers in Maryland, Walsh received a poor grade on the makeup project he had been assigned, and he paid a visit to the teacher to discuss it.

Once in the teacher’s office, Walsh said his professor

Although the team's return for next season remained uncertain until June 5, all theBlue Devil players—including Tony McDevht—remained loyal and did not elect to transfer out from Duke.

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scrutiny and the questions that never stop coming— lashed out about how his team “wasn’t right” and that sophomore Ryan McFadyen was “sick in the mind” for sending McDevitt has remained one of those people.

“I think some things could have been done better, some an e-mail she believed to be entirely inexplicable, in which the sophomore joked about killing and skinning strippers. things they did were just fine. I don’t think I’m in a posiUpset with the teacher’s inability to empathize with his tion to criticize what they did,” the senior said. “There is no personal situation, Walsh recalled that he said, “Well, I’d sort of manual for a situation like this. I’m sure for many just hoped you’d have some sympathy, it’s not the easiest people involved it’s their first time dealing with a crisis situation, and hindsight’s 20/20.” time in the world right now.”

‘Yeah, well if you guys really were innocent, I would feel Going forward sorry for you,” he remembered the teacher telling him.

“I couldn’t look the teacher in the eyes again,” Walsh They only had each other. said. “I never want to see her again.”

Throughout all of it—throughout the DNA testing and senior vice for affairs the Burness, president public impending indictments; throughout the period when John teachers, students and protesters were assuming the worst; and government relations, said, “We did hear rumors early on, reports early on, that some faculty members throughout the accusations on every TV news channel; were permitting a potentially throughout the emotional resignation of their hostile situation within a classhead coach, in which room environment.” and every memPressler, Duke took steps to make sure “There is no sort of manual for a ber of the team, broke all involved—lacrosse players, situation like this. I’m sure for down and wept—only athletes and women and minorithey truly knew what it treated ty groups—were being many people involved it’s their first was like to be one of them fairly. Robert Thompson, dean of time dealing with a crisis situation, throughout all of it, no Trinity College of Arts and Scione else. ences, sent an e-mail to certain and hindsight’s faculty members April 3 urging They were the only caution in the face of a “traumat—Tony McDeviti ones who really know what happened the night ic” situation on campus of March 13, and they Still, the hardest thing for Walsh to grasp was hearing stories only had each other. there certainties for the Duke lacrosse playfrom his friends about situations similar to his involving are If any ers, it’s the conviction that each and every one has 46 teachers that “threw us in the guilt boat right away.”

“They didn’t even give us a chance,” Walsh said. “They brothers for life.

“We’ve been through the fire,” Carrington said. “There just couldn’t see the perspective from our side.” isn’t much that’s going to top this. There’s not much that’s Walsh was left with a similarly sour taste for the administration’s wait-and-see handling of the situation. going to tear us apart now.”

So as the members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team “Right off the bat it just seemed like it was guilty until proven innocent other than the other way around,” Walsh look forward to the next year and the next season, they realize things will be different. But no matter what chalsaid. “They sort of left us out to dry.”

13, the and weeks March when tenIn lenges or obstacles they face, they will experience whatevdays following sions were at their peak on the Duke campus, President er lies ahead together.

“We have one goal next year, one goal only, and that’s Richard Brodhead suspended and eventually cancelled to win a national championship,” McDevitt said. “Anythe lacrosse team’s season April 5.

“This University has cooperated and will continue to thing that could get in the way of that goal needs to be cooperate to the fullest to speed the ongoing investigation flushed down the toilet.”

If reaching that goal requires sacrificing other exby the police, and I pledge that Duke will respond with aptracurricular activities and increasing vigilance toward propriate seriousness when the truth is established,” Brodhead wrote in a letter to the Duke community that day. curbing what some have dubbed “Animal House”-type beMany have criticized Brodhead and the administration havior on the part of the team, then so be it. for their handling of the situation. Some say the school “If there’s one thing that could maybe bring us back as should have been more supportive of its students far as people respecting us, bringing Duke’s name, Duke lacrosse back to where it was, stepping in that direction, it throughout the ongoing investigation. Others feel Brodhead did his best, finding himself in a complete Catch-22 would be to win next year and to get us in the public eye during the weeks following March 13 with no favorable and to show how much we’ve worked,” McDevitt said.

“Things will change, absolutely. I think that things will way for the administration to handle the situation.

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Duke’s athletic department has long been considered among the nation’s best in competition and in the classroom.

For the second consecutive year, Duke finished in the top 10 in the Director’s Cup standings—a measure of overall athletic excellence—and the Blue Devils were among the most well-represented on every All-ACC Academic team.

Still, rape allegations against the men’s lacrosse team that surfaced in March cast a shadow over Duke’s entire athletic program and forced the school’s administration to examine the department and its practices. As a result, the athletic department is drafting a new ethical standards policy that should be finalized by the fall.

The code, which will apply to all members of the athletic program—student-athletes, coaches and administrators—is intended as an umbrella statement of the department’s values centered on integrity and respect, said Senior Associate Athletic Director Chris Kennedy.

“When you get right down to it, our 600-some-oddkids have really been good,” Kennedy said. “I didn’t want to produce something that suggests that we have a huge problem. I’ve wanted to affirm what they’ve accomplished —we never want to stop trying to get better.”

Contrary to what some athletes and coaches originally believed, the new standards are not meant to be a penal code with a list of sins and punishments, Kennedy said. Instead the guidelines give coaches latitude to apply rules as they see fit, while reminding student-athletes that

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President Richard Brodhead (left) announced June 5 the lacrosse team's return under strict supervision. it is a privilege to represent Duke.

“In agreeing to be on one of our teams, they also agree to hold themselves to higher standards,” Kennedy said. “If they do something arid get cited, it’s much more likely to be in the papers and get attention.”

As a condition of its reinstatement, the men’s lacrosse team wrote and agreed to a strict and detailed code of conduct that oudines policies and consequences for breaching them. It stipulates, for example, that student-athletes must report violations to their head

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coach and athletic director within 24 hours or face suspensions, “I think the lacrosse team has to take responsibility for their actions, the key word is responsibility,” Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said of the team’s code.

Not all teams, however, are expected to adopt such stringent policies, Alieva added, and the level of detail can differ greatly among the programs. Women’s golf head coach Dan Brooks has never felt the need to establish a set of rules, but the football team has a 30-page rulebook,

Men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski has never been a proponent of strict rules. Instead, he merely advises his players not to do anything that would embarrass themselves, their families or their university. Such a policy has given him flexibility to handle situations on a case-bycase basis.

For example, when Tommy Amaker was Duke’s senior point guard in 1987, he arrived one minute late for a team bus.

Krzyzewski said he held the bus and never questioned Amaker once he arrived. On a separate occasion, however, two freshmen were late for a bus and Krzyzewski had the bus leave without them.

“Tommy had built up equity, good will—every once in a while you’re going to make a mistake,” Krzyzewski said. “But the freshmen hadn’t built up any equity.

Someone said, ‘Well that’s not fair,’ and I said that’s the way it i5.... You have to be cognizant of the culture your kids are in.”

The newly drafted ethical standards—Alieva said he prefers to refer to them as “values”—which have been supported by coaches and several student-athletes, are intended to be a unifying force among all of Duke’s teams, while also aligning athletic guidelines with those of the rest of the University.

“We have to do our rules in conjunction with [University] rules because our student-athletes are still students,” Alieva said. “First and foremost our students have to come in under the rules of the University, then our rules should be supplemental and additional to those. It has to be done in harmony.”

GregBeaton contributed to this story.

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Success seems to come easily forAmanda Blumenherst, The sophomore is the rare type of person who is good at it all. She’s at the top of her game on the course, a straight-A student in the classroom and all the while maintains a disarming smile that makes it hard not to like her.

“She’s a poster child for good perspective, good attitude, being positive,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “Once she decides it’s time to get ready for something and starts to prepare and does her work for it, she’s someone who knocks it out.”

A summary of her first year at Duke reads like a laundry list of accomplishments.

She won the first college tournament she entered. She set a Duke record with 24 rounds of even or under par, smashing the previous record by five. She won the ACC individual title by seven strokes. She had the second-lowest stroke average in Duke’s storied history. She won multiple National Player of the Year awards.

She also helped the women’s golf program win its fourth NCAA championship.

‘You know, I’ve been playing well recently,” Blumenherst said humbly.

And she hasn’t slowed since the season ended in May. When the 19-year old teed off with the world’s best at the U.S. Women’s Open in early July, she finished in a tie for 10th place, sharing the distinguished title of low amateur with UCLA’s Jane Park.

“I definitely had the first-tee butterflies,” Blumenherst said. “I really wasn’t sure how I was going to finish, so top 10 was definitely exciting.”

With her recent success in professional events and her dominance at the collegiate level—she finished in the top 10 in each of Duke’s 11 tournaments this season—some have questioned whether Blumenherst will follow in the footsteps offormer Blue Devil Brittany Lang, who left Duke after her sophomore season to join the LPGA full-time.

Blumenherst, however, insists she’s staying at Duke for the long haul.

“Really since I was 14 [years old], I always planned on playing college golf for four years and then going professional,” she said. “I always tell coach he’s stuck with me for three more years.”

And Blumenherst seems intent on making the most of her time at Duke—she currendy carries a 3.87 grade point average.

“In her fist semester she was a 4.0 student at Duke and told coach Brooks, you know, ‘Make sure she behaves,’” I said Dave Blumenherst, her father.

Fueled by that intense work ethic and a supportive family that has stressed academics—homework always came first, her father said—Amanda Blumenherst is well on her way to defining a student-athlete as truly equal parts student and athlete.

“She’ll go from class to practice and then back to the dorms to study—that’s what it is everyday,” teammate and fellow sophomore Jennie Lee said. “She works really hard at everything she does.”

Her hard work on and off the course paid off at the National Golf Coaches Association banquet, where she took home five awards. At the ceremony, she became the first Blue Devil in history to claim the Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award, which is given to the All-American with the highest grade point average in Division I women’s golf.

“That’s another reason that Amanda is in for the fouryear plan,” Dave Blumenherst said. “It’s the fact that Amanda’s not a C student, she’s not a B student, you know you can tell she’s an A student. She’s got that kind of mind set and when you’re that type of student you don’t go for one year.”

And so, armed with a golf bag, a backpack and a competitive streak, Blumenherst will continue on the path that she has had set since she was 14—to finish college before taking her talents to the LPGA. “She’s having a lot offun at Duke and that’s what a lot of parents have to realize, the money’s always going to be out there,” Dave Blumenherst said. “Right now this is a very important part of her life and she’d be missing out on a lot if she wasn’t at Duke right now.”

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With his role as head coach of the Senior National Team, head coach Mike Krzyzewski may be Duke’s most prominent link to USA Basketball, but he wasn’t the only Blue Devil donning red, white and blue this summer and leaving his mark on the global stage.

Three future Duke players —Lance Thomas, a cornerstone of the 2006 recruiting class, and Talyor King and Nolan Smith, who both have verbally committed—were members of the prestigious Under-18 National Team that won the gold medal July 2 at the 2006 FIBA Americas UlB Championship in San Antonio, Texas.

A fourth potential future Blue Devil, Kyle Singler—who Duke is actively recruiting and hopes will commit soon to round out the recruiting class of 2007—also played on the team.

After a disappointing third place finish in 2002, the resurgent American squad went undefeated in tournament play, dominating Uruguay, Brazil, Canada and Argentina by an average of 29.7 points per game.

And the future Blue Devils were key contributors to Team USA’s historic success—in records, in games and in attitude.

Statistically, King’s 47.6 three-point field goal percentage was the third highest in U.S. event history. He was also the team’s third-leading scorer with 12 points per contest. Yet, his impact in games extendedfar beyond his ability to shoot, said the head coach of the team, Washington’s Lorenzo Roman “He’s obviously a great shooter, but he

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didn’t just provide instant energy on offense. He rebounded and played great defense,” Romar said. “He helped us in just about every game.”

Smith also etched his name into the American record books, ranking 10th in assists with 3.5 per game.

Romar, who coached recent NBA firstround backcourt picks Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy at Washington, was impressed with Smith’s play at guard.

“Nolan Smith has one of the best attitudes and outlooks of anyone I’ve ever dealt with,” Romar said. “He’s extremely coachable, plays very hard, and he’s a great teammate.”

While Smith and King saw significant playing time, their future teammate Thomas only clocked 4.5 minutes per game behind Kansas State commit Michael Beasley and Washington commit Spencer Hawes.

All of the Duke players held their own in practices and games, Romar said, but because of how the numbers worked out, Thomas had to spend most of his time on the bench.

“When you have 12 players on a team and all of them can play, somebody’s not going to play as much,” Romar said. “It wasn’t a reflection on Lance as much as it was on the other guys.”

Playing time is hard to come by when a team is filled with eight All-Americans and five USA Today Class of 2007 honorees. But, surprisingly, ego was just as hard to find. Smith and King were two of the most liked players on the team and everyone loved playing with them, Romar said.

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Schachner qualifies with hole-in-1 Duke junior Michael Schachner played in the PGA Tour’s Western Open at Cog Hill Golf Course in Lemont, 111. Schachner, who qualified for the event by firing a blunder-par 68 at Village Links, missed the cut after rounds of 75 and 77, finishing at 10-over par.

Schachner’s qualifying 68 included a dramatic hole-inone at the 214-yard 17th hole, allowing him to make the field on the number.

Schachner, an Illinois native, was an honorable mention All-American in his sophomore season.

Duke finishes Bth in Director’s Cup For the second consecutive year, Duke finished in the top 10 of the Director’s Cup, this year coming in Bth. The Cup is awarded annually to the year’s most athletically successful universities. The Blue Devils rode the strength of a

strong spring, highlighted by a national title in women’s golf. Top-five finishes in women’s cross country, field hockey, women’s basketball, women’s tennis and women’s lacrosse also bolstered Duke’s profile.

The Blue Devils also earned a fifth-place finish in 2005.

Stanford won the Cup for the 12th straight year, followed

by UCLA, Texas, North Carolina and Florida. Notre Dame and California finished just ahead of Duke.

Women’s basketball releases part of schedule Head coach Gail Goestenkors has once again arranged for her team to play a tough schedule next season. Highlights of the schedule include home games against Vanderbilt, Penn State and Texas. Duke will also travel to play at Michigan and at Tennessee. The Blue Devils will participate in the Carribean Classic in Cancun, Mexico and in the Blue Sky Restaurant Classic hosted by Dartmouth.

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Duke alumnus and Milwaukee Brewer starting pitcher Chris Capuano, Trinity ’99, was added to the National League All-Star team last week, replacing Tom Glavine of the New York Mets.

Capuano, who did not pitch in the game, is 10-4 on the season with a 3.21 ERA. His first trip to the All-Star game came on the heels of a breakthrough 2005 campaign, in which the southpaw went 18-12 with a 3.99 ERA in 35 starts for Milwaukee.

Cassese takes MVP honors Former Duke lacrosse star and current interim head coach Kevin Cassese earned MVP honors in the Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game. Cassese scored two goals—one of them a two-pointer —and recorded an assist to lead Team USA past a team composed of MLL All-Stars, 18-10.

Cassese was a three-time All-American at Duke from 2000-2003. Rejoined the Duke lacrosse staff in 2005 as an assistant coach and has taken over as the head coach on an interim basis after the resignation ofMike Pressler.

Beard starring in WNBA Former Duke star Alana Beard started in the WNBA All-Star Game July 12, scoring six points in U minutes for the victorious Eastern Conference. Beard, who is averaging 18.5 points per game for the Washington Mystics, made the team for the second consecutive season.

At Duke, Beard was a three-timeAll-American in leading the Blue Devils to two Final Fours. She is the only female to have her number retired at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Currie contributing as rookie Former Duke All-American Monique Currie is thriving in her rookie season in the WNBA. Currie, the third overall pick in the 2006 WNBA Draft by the Charlotte Sting, has started in 18 of her team’s 19 games, averaging 10.3 points per game. She ranks in the top 10 in the league in free-throw percentage and free throws attempted.

Engstrom Tucker fares well at U.S. Women’s Open Duke alumna Kristin Engstrom Tucker finished in a tie for 20th in herfirst U.S. Women’s Open last month. Tucker, a native ofSweden who graduated from Duke in 2003, shot rounds of 72, 74, 74 and 76 to compile a score of 12over par.

Tucker, a member of the Duramed Futures Tour, earned a berth in the 2007 Women’s Open at Southern Pines, N.C. with her performance.

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Open Letter to President Richard Brodhead and the Duke University Board of Trustees Ladies and Gentlemen

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address you as members of the Duke family, brokenhearted at the unfair treatment and portrayal of the Men’s Lacrosse Team—and by Duke University’s acquiescence in this treatment. We believe Duke cowered in the face of media pressure engineered by the unethical and possibly illegal conduct of the Durham County District Attorney’s Office. When these allegations first made national headlines, the lacrosse team captains told you and the Duke community that they were “totally and transparently false.” All publicly released case documents confirm this stance. And according to reports from reliable members of the media, including Dan Abrams ’BB, all evidence in the prosecution’s discovery file supports the team’s unwavering position: no sexual assault occurred. Yet Duke has remained hesitant in its support. In the process, it has sacrificed its own students and values.

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to examine exculpatory evidence. Rule 3.8 of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct forbids prosecutors from intentionally avoiding “pursuit of evidence merely because he or she believes it will damage the prosecutor’s case or aid the accused.” On multiple occasions, defense attorneys offered to provide Mr. Nifong with exculpatory evidence strongly suggesting innocence. Mr. Nifong refused to accept or even look at this evidence.

all will realize now that our enemies are not each other, but those who would profit from the unfair denigration of our university and its members.

Speak up for Duke

Duke University is an exceptional school with an exceptional record. Recent events provide an appropriate occasion to consider the things we need to do better.

However, this soul searching should be designed to make a great university even greater, rather than an attempt to scapegoat certain of our members.

Nicholas Kristof recently observed, “As more facts come out about the Duke lacrosse scandal, it should prompt some deep reflection.” The New York Times columnist compared Nifong’s behavior to the Scottsboro Boys prosecution, an event commonly held up as the standard of a prejudice-based miscarriage of justice.

The campus has suffered through hack journalism that crams events into preexisting templates and exploits preexisting prejudices to create artificial controversies. The result has been portrayals of both Duke and Durham that are filled with inaccuracies. We feel that the university has quietly acquiesced in these false characterizations, rather than actively asserting the truth.

While the university can express no

opinion about the ultimate outcome of pending legal matters, we urge Duke to use all its influence and moral suasion to ensure that these three Duke students receive justice through a fair process.

We also call upon Duke to formally demand that Mr. Nifong immediately correct, to the extent now possible, the grave errors that he has committed to date.

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the accused Duke students deserve justicethrough a fair and regular process. Right now, they are not getting it. Not by a longshot.

We believe that the Duke administration has a positive obligation to ensure that Duke students are not singled out for unjust treatment by local authorities. Would a parent stand by while their child was abused? Not even say anything? We think not. Yet, that is precisely what Duke has done in this case.

We fear that the administration’s

passive response to the district attorney’s behavior will lead future students to think twice before attending Duke. Therefore, we urge a public statement that Duke expects fair administration of criminal justice. All in Durham should be appalled by the following conduct by District Attorney Mike Nifong: •

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Made Prejudicial and False Extrajudicial Comments.

Rules 3.6 and 3.8(f) of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit attorneys from making extrajudicial statements likely to prejudice a pending case. But Mr. Nifong; (1) materially misrepresented the facts by referring to evidence that did not exist; (2) called the accused “hooligans” and attested to their guilt; and (3) invited the inference of guilt from the exercise of the their civil right to representation by counsel. Each of these arguments, if made in court, would be sanctionable and grounds for mistrial.

Be fair to the lacrosse team and encourage others to do so as well.

At this point, no fair-minded person could any longer believe that a rape occurred. However, we are in no way apologists for the acknowledged conduct of the team. But necessary reforms must recognize that many of the team’s problems exist within the larger Duke community.

Therefore, any specific measures taken against the lacrosse team must be consistent with Kantian ethics, including a commitment to proportionate justice and treating the team as the end, not as the means.

So far, the university’s treatment of the team has been reactive rather than proactive. Only after the season was cancelled and Coach Mike Pressler fired did the university appoint a committee to investigate the team’s conduct. This committee, chaired by Professor of Law James Coleman, reported on “a cohesive, hard working, disciplined, and respectful athletic team” whose members exhibited no evidence of racism or sexism. While detailing the team’s faults, all related to excessive drinking, the committee found much to be proud of as well. It concluded, “Between 2001 and 2005, 146 members of the lacrosse team made the Academic Honor Roll, twice as many as the next ACC lacrosse team. The lacrosse team’s academic performance generally is one of the best among all Duke athletic teams.”

The Coleman Report was the most thorough, critical, and unsentimental accounting of the team and its conduct. In announcing its decision to reinstate the team, the university has done little, if anything, to call attention to the larger, more positive, context the committee found. A resolution to look at oneself, warts and all, should not omit the “all.” As a result, Duke has missed an opportunity to show its true values. If we are not fair to ourselves, no one else will be.

Denial ofdue process through a suggestive identification procedure. In order to generate names for his indictments, Mr. Nifong ordered an identification consisting of only photos of lacrosse players, violating guidelines set down

by North Carolina’s Actual Innocence Commission. In j Psychologists tell us that dysfunctional families often single out one member whose problems, real or supposed, become further violation of these standards, the alleged victim a source of unity for the rest, leaving the underlying sources was told that the photographs were of people who of dysfunction unaddressed. Many critics on campus have attended the party. As one noted criminal law scholar has used the lacrosse team’s troubles as an opportunity to call pointed out, this procedure “strongly suggests that the attention to matters of concern to them. We do not wish to of the identification to the purpose give process was pick fights with these critics. We simply ask that their alleged victim an opportunity to pick three members of concerns be evaluated on their own merits, rather than by the lacrosse team who could be charged. Any three exploiting others’ misfortunes. Since the lacrosse team’s students would do; there could be no wrong choice.” shortcomings are not confined to any one group on campus, we should confront them without stigmatizing any one Improper contact with persons represented by counsel.

Mr. Nifong has been quick to claim credit for conducting group. Only then can our family realize the growth that all of us seek. the police investigation. On April 14, police officers went into Duke dormitories to question Duke students who As for those who were quick to prejudge the accused, were known to be represented by counsel. This action violated Rule 4.2 of the North Carolina Rules of particularly the group of 88 professors who signed an earlier Professional Conduct. call to action, we look upon them not with malice. Instead, we ask that they now count themselves among those victimized by this spring’s false accusations. We hope that

Duke students conform to none of the media stereotypes of racial or economic exclusivity. They are 40% minorities, including 12% African American. Forty percent receive financial aid, with the average annual grant totaling $20,000.

Duke students are elite only in the quality of their character and achievements.

Far from aloof, Duke is a

responsible, generous, and engaged citizen of Durham. Here are just a few of the many ways the Duke contributes to the Durham community: •

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The Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership has raised $lO million over the last ten years to improve neighborhoods in Durham.

In fiscal year 2005, Duke University Health Systems spent $28.8 million on charity medical care for low income patients and provided $6.5 million in in-kind service contributions to local health organizations.

Duke pledged $925,000 to provide scholarships for Durham public school teachers to attend Duke’s master of arts in teaching degree program.

Duke spent $3.7 million to convert off-campus houses rented by students into single-family homes in order to improve relations with local residents.

The Duke Community Service Center facilitates all manner of good works in Durham by over 30 student run organizations.

Accept the challenges presented by this crisis.

Adopting the statements and positions outlined above will help restore Duke’s deserved reputation for greatness tempered by fairness. In that some will react angrily to these statements, their making will require your courage.

However, no institution or person can long be considered great if lacking in courage. our university’s finest moments occurred 100 years ago during the Bassett Affair. When a member of the

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university community unfairly came under public attack, the President and Board of Trustees refused to cave into momentary expediency. Instead, Duke’s leaders spoke out for what was right. In the end, rather than suffer for it, Duke’s reputation was greatly enhanced by the courage of the President and Board. Can we now say the same about the Lacrosse Affair?

We appreciate your efforts in managing this difficult and unusual crisis. We ultimately write not to criticize, but to offer our support. We are not afraid to speak out, and will continue to do so. We encourage you to do the same. We want you to know that you have friends behind you, united in our common desire to ensure that all Duke students receive fair treatment, from both the University and local authorities.

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Athletic donor and former trustee John Koskinen, ’6l, said he believes most alumni still support Alieva, whom Koskinen said should learn from this situation.

Koskinen said he has heard some criticism from alumni, but that it has been varied.

‘You’re always going to have a bell-shaped curve,” said Koskinen, whose namesake, Koskinen Stadium, serves as the homefield for the lacrosse team. “But most supporters, like myself, feel the University responded very well to the maelstrom that arose and feel the leaders are doing a good job trying to address these underlying problems.”

Any alumni outrage has yet to show up on the bottom line, as Alieva said fundraising efforts since the incident have been successful, and half of the $l4 million raised for the new Center for Athletic Excellence has been brought in since October.

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said the fiscal year, which ended July 1, was the best ever for the Iron Dukes in total contributions. Coffman noted, however, that any negative effects resulting from the lacrosse incident would likely be felt in the coming year.

“This occurred after most people had made their pledges for the year, so we will know more as things play out in the coming months,” Coffman said. “We have heard from parents who were disappointed in the situation, and it surely has affected their giving, but it’s just too early to tell the total effect of the situation.”

After all the public criticism and a few months that Jackson described as internally and externally “trying and full of raw emotion,” most in the athletic department have finally begun to look forward.

“This department will end up being better in the years to come because of what has transpired this spring,” Alieva said. “This incident has bonded the department together, and everyone is going to work harder and do things to show the country that Duke does do things the right way, and we’re going to continue being one of the best athletic departments in the country.”

Greg Beaton contributed to this story.

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Although no formal proposals were presented to the committee, coaches and executives have informally discussed expanding to anywhere between 68 and 128 teams.

Boeheim discussed adding three to 12 teams whereasLarranaga would like to see at least 80 teams earn bids.

“I would not want to see one or two more additional play-in games,” Larranaga said. “That to me would not be adding quality to the NCAA Tournament.”

Haney mentioned doubling the tournament to include 128 teams, but he admitted that such expansion was, at this point in time, “unrealistic.” The idea of such large expansion has generated concerns about extending the tournament another week, a potential drain on student-athletes as well as a scheduling conflict for CBS, which broadcasts the Masters golf tournament the weekend after the Final Four.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said that he would like to see every conference tournament include all its members before the NCAA Tournament expands. The Big East, in particular, has drawn criticism for allowing only 12 of its 16 teams to play in the conference tournament.

For now, the idea of expanding the tournament has been postponed, mainly because March Madness remains one of the most anticipated and dramatic events of the sports calendar.

“This bracket thing with 64, it’s such a phenomenon,” Krzyzewski said. “We have this thing right now that captures the country for a whole month. I don’t know if you mess with that.”

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“It really hasn’t affected what we do with our team,” Dawkins said. “This time commitment we have is a summer commitment. During the summer we’re not allowed to do anything with our guys anyway.”

The summer is used mostly for recruiting, but two recruits—Nolan Smith and Taylor King —have verbally committed to Duke for 2007 and another top recruit, Kyle Singles is rumored to be close to committing.

Krzyzewski said his team has not missed a beat in recruiting, and he has worked harder during the early summer to make sure everything in Durham is in orderwhen he will return from China in September. In June, he said he has been doing the little things—even thinking about rearranging his office furniture—before leaving for training camp.

Krzyzewski, who has prior experience with Team USA as an assistant coach for the 1979 Pan-American Games under his college coach and current Texas Tech head coach Bob Knight and as an assistant coach for the 1992 Dream Team, said he hopes he will bring honor to his home country and his home team.

“I would hope it would be an honor for the University that one of its members is doing that,” Krzyzewski said.

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Zack Asack started down the stretch last season at quarterback, but his classmate Marcus Jones switched over full-time to the position in the off-season. How is that position battle shaping up?

Marcus is battling Zack Asack for the starting quarterbackjob right now. Marcus is a quarterback and that’s all he is right now. Whenever it sorts itself out, it’ll sort itself out.

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With your depth chart at QB composed of two sophomore quarterbacks and one freshman, are you concerned about depth there?

I’m concerned but at the same time that’s why you recruit. It goes on the offensive line to keep those guys healthy. You look at depth and every coach in the country would be concerned about depth in certain areas.

But is the trend of so many underclassmen playing a problem in your eyes?

This year’s recruiting class is our second full one as a staff—the first one they’re just going to be sophomores this year. The

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We’re never satisfied unless you win them all, but I don’t talk about goals publicly.

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Each May during student move-out, donation trailers are placed in parking lots across campus for donations of clothing, furniture, appliances, loft wood, cinder blocks, and food. This year, we collected over 15 tons of materials. The items were donated to local community charities, including Urban Ministries, Pennies for Change, the Durham Rescue Mission, the Durham Crisis Response Center, Habakkuk Residential Home for Women, St. James Church, the Salvation Army, the Helping Hand Mission in Raleigh, and TROSA. Duke Recycles is proud to be involved in the University’s outreach efforts to the broader Triangle community. Thank you for generously donating your unneeded items, and for helping Duke achieve its goals of being a good environmental citizen and fostering a good social and moral campus community! Next May, be sure to look for our donation trailers across campus.

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Seeing a cadaver in an art exhibition not something people expect to encounter in their museum excursions is

through New York City.

In Bodies: The Exhibition, however, one has the ability to witness not only one body specimen, but 22 —not to mention the additional 260 organs and partial body specimens that are showcased for the public.

In a city as large and modern as New York, it may seem difficult to shock a population that has seen it all. Bodies: The Exhibition proves that with a little effort —and a large assortment ofwell-preserved corpses—the task can be done.

The 30,000-square-foot exhibition, open since November at the South Street Seaport Museum, has attracted half-a-million viewers and generated a generous amount of discussion.

Dr. Roy Glover, a medical educator with more than 30 years of experience, is the residing Chief Medical Director of the exhibit. In a statement released to the public before the exhibition’s opening, he expressed an interest to show visitors “what lies beneath” and the complex systems involved in the activities that are a part of daily life.

“The presentation of the exhibit makes it seem like a real-life biology textbook,” said a woman visiting the exhibit from New Jersey.

Glover said the subject of the exhibit, until now, has been off limits to the public—with cadavers and bodies made available only to doctors and medical students. The phrase “the body doesn’t lie” serves as the mantra for the exhibit, a press release stated.

All bodies used within the exhibit are preserved through a technique called polymer preservation. The process itself is revolutionary, said Press Spokesperson Holly Taylor.

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The biggest music festival in the country was a little different this year. And everybody knew it.

Sure, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was on the same 700-acre farm, in the same tiny city of Manchester, Tenn. As always, festival-goers braved the elements, spending their days under the hot sun and their nights surrounded by an 80,000 person tent city that made K-ville look like a Lego set. And the music lineup featured many of the usual suspects, including Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, My Morning Jacket and moe.

But this year’s Bonnaroo saw noticeably fewer tie-dye shirts, more pairs of darkrimmed glasses and the one band everyone was talking about: Radiohead.

Scheduling the British art-rock hero to headline Bonnaroo was the last step in a process of moving toward a more diverse mix of artists, a process that had already been a few years in the making.

It meant the end of Bonnaroo as a hippie music festival.

Bonnaroo began as a jam band haven, bom and bred for the Phish lovers who pined for the good old days when the love was free, the drugs were plentiful and the music was groovy. “[Bonnaroo] was the first time that someone said, ‘we’re getting every band that these people like to see and getting them all together,’” said Bryan Rodgers of the Home Grown Music Network, a group of music promoters that deals extensively with the jam scene.

Of course the lineup had a variety of jam, bluegrass, folk, funk and other styles from the beginning; but those first few years were decidedly geared toward hippies’ musical tastes.

Now in its fifth year, the festival’s musical offerings—as well as its fans—have slowly become more eclectic. Twentyminute mandolin jams and meandering guitar solos are still around, but they’re sharing the stage with an increasing number of hip-hop beats and emo crooning.

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Rodgers said he personally welcomes the growing diversity, as do many die-hard jam band listeners. But not all of them see it as a good thing.

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mom's house-wide scheme.

However, what at first seems regret- basic functions of sleeping, seating and table becomes obscene when combined storage. At the same time your room with your roommate's clouds and Care should be a retreat from the rigors of Bear posters. campus life and a space for relaxing and By sophomore year, the leopard print recharging.

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Be wary of making big changes to the room, like painting the walls. At the end of the year when you are busy studying for finals and making summer plans, the last thing you’ll want to do is paint your walls back to their original color.

Also, avoid nailing things to the wall, too, as you could face steep damage charges at the end of the year. Instead, look to funky clocks, lamps, curtains and wall art for added personal flair and flavor. If the classic look is your thing, go for that Starry Night poster and this season’s Target floor lamp. But to stand apart from your neighbors, look to the area’s thrift stores to find kitschy, vintage items that will make your space unique.

For those of you with more than three or four pairs of shoes, a hanging shoe rack for the closet saves the frustration and agony of searching the corners of your room for a matching pair every morning.

Easy-to-slide storage containers that fit under your bed are a must for things you don’t use on a day-to-day basis. Try putting your bed on cinderblocks or bed risers to double the storage under your bed while avoiding the inconvenience of lofting.

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International Spy Museum—Let’s face it: the Smithsonian Institution is as boring as watching the grass on the National Mall grow.

For something a little more enticing, make your way to 800 F Street to the privately owned International Spy Museum.

This little treasure, which is nesded among some of the most historic buildings in D.C., is one of the few museums that charges admission. But the 15 bucks is well worth the entry fee.

The ISM gives an extensive run-through of spy history from Japanese ninjas to alleged Confederate-turncoat Mary Todd Lincoln to Cold War double agents.

While the museum may seem a little bit nerdy to some, the freshness of the displays and esoteric nature of the exhibit is enough to keep everyone intrigued.

And, to top off the trip, check out The ISM’s gift shop a technophile’s dream with gadgets straight from the Sharper Image catalogue for CIA operatives.

Memorials At Night—Summers in D.C. are hot, sticky and humid.

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The most popular of the Segway tours, City Segway Tours, provides four hours of high-tech maneuvering through monuments, the White House and the Smithsonian.

The cleverly named Segs In The City offers a tour of the

mall’s landmarks such as the Lincoln, Vietnam and World War II Veterans memorials.

The area is constandy patrolled by police officers, making your evening safer excursion than the walk to Kville; and the quiet, atmosmoonlit phere gives new perspective to these historical sights.

Streets brightened by the natural glow offireflies make this activity the perfect after-dinner date rendezvous. Even if you are by yourself, the view of the Lincoln Memorial from the WWII Veterans memorial is breathtaking enough to make the visit a must.

Georgetown desserts—Chewing down on D.C.’s many ethnic foods can leave a person reaching for die last belt notch, but, no matter how much you gorge yourself on the diverse cuisine D.C. has to offer, there is always room for dessert.

The aged, yet thriving district of Georgetown—known for its upscale shopping and high-end housing—is the perfect place to indulge that sweet tooth.

The swampy summers are no match for the cool refreshing flavors at Max’s Best Ice Cream, which offers 200 homemade flavors. If you are into fudge,

Capitol, Congressional Library,

Thomas Sweet is the place for mouth-melting fudge and blendin ice cream and frozen yogurt that makes Marble Slab and Cold Stone look like McDonald’s soft serve, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Also, exotic hot spots like Dolcezza offer churros, coffee drinks and fine teas in addition to their

Argentinean-style gelato.

For more froufrou fare, delipastries await at Patisserie Poupon, where you can get unpretentiously chic Madeline cookies and fruit tarts. However, few things can beat the peanut-butter brownies from Baked & Wired—the backto-basics bakery will satisfy any hunger pangs with simple, generous goods.

Ifyou’re looking for some cavity inducing delights, Georgetown has enough to offer to keep several dentists busy. cate French

Union Station and other landmarks on Capitol Hill. Riding a Segway prevents all the unnecessary stress of romping around the city, allows you to visit a full day’s worth of cites in a short period of time and gives you the added bonus of looking like a member of the Duke Police Department.

Bystanders may laugh—okay definitely laugh—as you travel in a Segway pack, but you won’t be able to hear them while zipping along on your high-tech scooter.

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Bryant Park

While Bryant Park is not as sprawling as Central Park, it’s just as green, and is a hot spot for arts and entertainment.

The Park showcases classic movie screenings, snippets of Broadway musicals and morning concerts. It is also a pleasant spot for coffee and people watching, making it a great hangout for interns with an array of interests and a common meager budget.

the boutiques of Soho and the Meatpacking district.

However, as mind-boggling as it sounds, there are actually a decent number of free or low-cost events in the city during the summer months.

Keep your eyes open and you won’t go home broke.

air markets and small shops that provide great deals on fun accessories and more.

If you go on a weekend morning, get brunch at a Dim Sum restaurant, or try one of the area’s many noodle shops, restaurants or Chinese bakeries for an affordable treat.

Pier 54

Ifyou’re a fan of the night life, take the subway downtown to Hudson River Park’s Pier 54 for live bands courtesy of the RiverRocks concert series.

Or, get your groove on (or learn what a groove is) with free swing, tango and salsa lessons. If you’re looking for something a little quieter, take advantage of the ambiance and setde in for Hudson RiverFlicks’ classic screenings and free popcorn.

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Marriol Marquis While a 49th floor vista doesn’t sound as impressive as the Empire State Building’s 86th floor observatory, the view from the top of the Marriot Marquis is worth your time.

Located in Times Square at Broadway and 47th Street, the hotel’s recendy renovated high-speed glass elevators allow for a fabulous view of the bright lights. Just act natural when you walk in and no one will know that you aren’t actually a guest at the hotel. And while the Marquis is 37 floors shorter than the Empire State Building, it’s also $lB cheaper.

Chinatown

Discount shopping is everywhere in Chinatown, with knock-off bags, watches and funky costume jewelry. Make your way to Canal Street to find a plethora of open-

go to one of Good Morning America’s summer concerts.

Every Friday at 7 am, a mainstream artist performs live in the park for a crowd while being filmed for the day’s show. This year, some of the highlighted musicians include Pharrell and Kanye West Aug. 4, and Christina Aguilera Aug. 18.

It may be tough to get up earlier than necessary, but the free concerts beat exorbitant stadium ticket prices. Plus there is the added chance of ending up on TV for 15 seconds offame.

The Early Morning Show on CBS also has a similar morning concert series in the city.

Open Bare

Check out myopenbar.com to find drink deals and open bars happening all over the city.

Although not all of the listings are totally free—some have cover charges or onehour limits—there are enough offerings listed to provide a deal for everyone.

Whether you’re looking for a wild girls’ night out or a sophisticated art gallery opening, myopenbar.com can provide you with an entertaining night (or hour) guaranteed to be cheaper than bar-hopping in the Meatpacking district or dancing in a trendy club.

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Already been to the Met and the MoMA? Head over to the Neue Galerie for the new exhibit “Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection ofFerdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer.”

The most famous piece from this collection, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, was recently purchased by Ronald S. Lauder, cosmetics mogul and co-owner of the Neue Galerie for a reported record-breaking $135 million.

The piece is of incredible importance to the Neue Galerie, which showcases German and Austrian art. Lauder told the New York Times, “This is our Mona Lisa. It is a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition.” Until recently, the five paintings had been on display in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere in Vienna.

When a 1998 law required the Austrian government to give back art stolen by the Nazis, Bloch-Bauer’s niece Maria Altman sued for ownership. This January, the Austrian government agreed to return all five paintings, to the benefit of all

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These festivals are packed with a variety of shorts and features. Some never see the light of the silver screen again, while others draw the attention of production companies on the prowl for up and comers.

Even though many of the festivals, like The NewYork Asian Film Festival and The Human Rights Watch International Festival, have already passed, the International Latino Film Festival is another opportunity to jam-pack your summer with a taste of ethnic cinema.

Presented by HBO, the festival will house a wide selection of screenings in addition to cultural events and sultry summer parties. Proving that festivals are the launch pad to bigger things, the winner of the short film contest announced this year has already moved into production.

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Bradley Hammer, an assistant professor at Duke, set out to make a featurelength film with his Writing 20 class two years ago and became all too familiar with

“If a movie is a» produced, you’rt percentile. Only of movie ideas tha to studios are into screen —Mike Macari the time factor.

After a semester of planning, shooting and editing —and almost two-thousand dollars spent from Hammer’s own pocket —the class’s picture was still not quite ready for the Sundance Film Festival they had originally hoped to enter.

“It was literally a logistical nightmare, we said that over and over again,” Hammer said, “It turned out to be really too big of a project for one semester... you can understand why movies take 100-million dollars and two years in the editing room.”

So which do Hollywood producers prefer: the big-budget blockbusters or

film Who has the final say? The studios are the ones providing the big bucks, but the producer has strong creative weight, says Macari. After all, it’s through the constant toil of the producer that a film even gets up and running. When the credits roll, there are the executive producers, associate producers, line producers, all of whom engage in diverse tasks.

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development, financing, budgeting, cast-

ing, scheduling, shooting, editing (the list goes on), they are still sometimes surprised by the public’s reaction.

Silver said he did not expect the public to accept the violent Training Day so readily, especially in light of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Conversely, he had gone into Babysitters knowing that teen flicks were on the rise.

Regardless of how terrible a movie is, Macari gives “props” to any producer who even gets a movie to the screen and says that lots of producers work in Hollywood for 20 years and never make a movie.

So this summer, when you’re chowing down on popcorn and diet coke in the theatre, carping about how Tom Hanks is too old to be Robert Langdon, remember all the painstaking effort it took to get from the story to the script to the silver screen.

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Without producers, the greatest films would be nothing more than stacks of paper marked by lines of dialogue.

But who are these nurturers of the movie industry? And how exacdy do cinematic mammoths and their low-budget counterparts make the voyage to the silver screen?

It’s no small task, but someone has to do it.

Whether it’s Superman Returns or an upand-comer’s low-budget indy, producing a movie is a laborious process divided into a number of different stages, the first of which is called “development.”

“I think people underestimate how much work is done on a script—how much a story and film can change and be shaped by the development process,” said Cecilia Morelli, formerly of Focus Features and now part of the independent Primary Productions. “There are so many differentfactors that come into consideration before a film can be green-lit. The challenge is to have them all aligned successfully.”

Mike Macari, a Duke alumnus who was also executive producer of The Ring and The Ring 2, says the pre-production period of any movie is an inch-by-inch process that is often overlooked by audiences.

“If a movie is actually being produced, you’re in the 99th percentile. Only one percent of movie ideas that are sold to studios are then made into screenplays that actually get made,” said Macari, Trinity ’92. “You could, as a producer, work on a project for ten years and never get it made and for a producer, you don’t get

the low-budget indies?

Well, both—but for different reasons, says Jeffrey Silver, who has produced films such as Training Day and Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.

Silver’s company, Oudaw Productions, was behind the low-budget film Sex, Lies and Videotape. Made for one million dollars and shot in New York City, the project was difficult to say the least.

“Who believes in you? We had no stars at that point. Who in the world gives you money for it? Who trusts a film with a firsttime director and no money to do it!” Silver explained. “I love the big ones because they pay me a lot of money and they’re incredibly challenging. I love little ones because you have to be clever. You have to make up in cleverness what you lack in money.”

Unfortunately, nervous Hollywood studios often substitute cleverness with the security of big-budget films.

The result is boring movies and disappointing sequels, Silver said.

These “tent poles,” named for their intended function of carrying an entire season, are multimillion-dollar decisions designed by committees.

“I sit in rooms where everyone has a great idea—college-educated people —but the problem is that you put ten great ideas in a bag and you come out with a boxing idea...

I’d rather make the mistakes of a visionary then the ‘correct’ decisions of a committee.”

Dreamworks (the studio behind The Ring) initially asked for what Macari calls an “atrocious cast for this piece ofmaterial.”

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Streep plays fashion mogul Miranda Priesdy, the longtime editor of Runway, a magazine similar to the popular Vogue.

Miranda also happens to be one of the most dictatorial bosses seen in recent film history.

Andy (Anne Hathaway) is Melinda’s fashion-senseless new secretary, a wannabe journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. When Andy’s job whisks her away from normality, boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier, HBO’s “Entourage”) begins to cluck about Andy’s devotion to her heartless boss.

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featuring various singers and the man himself. The music, from parties as wide-ranging as U 2 and Rufus Wainwright, is uniformly excellent.

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One fault, however, is the director’s choice of interview subjects, which sometimes seems lacking (how many times do we really need to hear Bono and The Edge gush

about Cohen?). But Lunson makes up for any Bono-centric editing tendencies with the ten minutes of the picture spent talking to Cohen himself.

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Returns, like so many other superhero films, balances the humdrum lifestyle of the superhero’s alter ego (for Superman, Clark Kent) with enough action to keep even the stodgiest of audiences enthralled.

Though Routh’s ability to emote is virtually non-existent, director Bryan Singer ( X-Men)■ surrounds the actor with breathtaking sets and glimmering retro-imagery that work to overshadow the actor’s acting deficiency.

Indeed, Routh seems uncomfortable doing anything beyond aping former superman Christopher Reeve in both voice and mannerisms. It’s possible that the new man of steel is a bit overwhelmed by such a big role.

But the young star’s performance is remarkably unimportant to Returns as a whole. Images carry Singer’s films and in this area, the director truly impresses.

Boldly treading the line between safe and bombastic, between thoughtful but irritating Christ imagery and mind-blowing effects, Superman Returns is ultimately a gorgeous film.

In one scene, Superman floats down to earth, arms spread as if being crucified. But for every holla’ to the Bible, there are numerous breathtaking scenes of the best digital-effects a big budget blockbuster can buy. The first film shot on the brand-new digital film camera Genesis, Superman Returns sets the bar high for future epics.

Ultimately, the film’s virtues surpass its faults. Sure, it’s too long. And yes, the lead actor has the presence of a shoe, but the sheer extravagance ofReturns makes it clear that the individual pieces (as in Kevin Spacey, sporting a trendily shaved head as villain Lex Luthor) aren’t really what it’s all about.

This film is the realized vision of a superhero doing what superheros do best: performing impossible tasks to save ordinary people. And, in that respect, Superman Returns triumphs —more than Sam Raimi’s Spiderman franchise and more than Singer’s own X-Men films —Brian McGinn

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But the film offers one interesting contrast: the moral of the film suggests family and friends are more important than superficial clothes and status. Yet, Andy and Nate live in a curiously large Manhattan apartment for two recent college grads. They eat well, drink well and bear all signs of yuppification In the film’s denouement, Nate tqlls Andy that he is moving to Boston for a job as a sous-chef in an upscale restaurant, showing his own vulnerability to the draw of superficial status-mongering. It’s a mixed message that, while not intended, serves as an interesting statement on what Hollywood thinks will appeal to mainstream America in our current “culture of morals.”

But ignore this social undercurrent and the film is surprisingly fun, chiefly because Streep is an absolute blast to watch. She tuts, moans and demands nearly every second ofher screen time yet manages to humanize her character. Hathaway, in comparison, is downright bland, and doesn’t hold a candle to Streep in acting or charisma. Tertiary characters like Stanley Tucci’s fashion-guru Nigel and snooty Brit first assistant Emily (Emily Blunt) are entertaining and well-developed for their purposes.

The Devil Wears Prada can easily be taken as what it is: a solid piece of traditional Hollywood storytelling. But dig a little deeper and there are flaws that prove that the devil does indeed wear Prada, and in the minds of mainstream America, the devil might be more of a hero than a villain —Brian McGinn

A particularly moving moment, which the film begins to click, comes as the wri the introduction to the Japanese tran book “Beautiful Losers.” It’s not nece: words that are touching, though they but rather the expression on the man’ Cohen exhibits a mix of emotion particularly playful, knowing grin—t man who now believes in his own knows he’s left something here that will live on. It’s a subtle, lovely moment representative of the rest of this music-based film -—Brian McGinn

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Neither manipulative nor timid in its execution of dramatic sequences, the film is an elegant fusion of comedy and drama by up-and-coming writers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.

Dan Dunne (heartthrob Ryan Gosling) is an unkempt but well-loved history teacher and coach at an inner-cityjunior high school. When Drey (newcomer Shareeka Epps) discovers a barely conscious Dunne crouched in a bathroom stall after a girls basketball game, Drey is forced to take care of her incapacitated teacher.

What follows next is the delicate cultivation of a most unusual relationship: a white man and a black girl, a teacher and a student, a coke user and—in a compelling turn of events—a coke dealer.

Having triumphed at the Sundance Film Festival, Half Nelson may share similar triumphs in the more- public sphere when girls get wind that Gosling has the lead.

The attention doesn’t come without merit, since Gosling’s portrayal of the tortured junkie with a flair for history is truly exceptional. Epps also holds her own in this debut role. In one scene, stripped of dialogue and flooded with music, Drey walks into a sexualized, stoner party to deliver an order. What happens next is a moment of recognition that audiences won’t easily forget.

Hardly idealistic, but hinting at hopefulness, Half Nelson offers the possibility that one person might just affect the life of another person, however imperfect either one of those people may be —Janet Wu _

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It iTunet losing the battle for download domination? byAlexFrydman

Tunes has dominated music downloading since its 2001 launch, but now its grip on the mobile music market could be slipping.

Though iTunes looks like it will remain a major player in the near future, Urge and the re-designed Napster could threaten iTunes’ empire and re-defme file sharing in the process.

Last May, MTV Networks and Microsoft jointly launched Urge, which is a subscription service for downloading music and finding new information about artists.

Touted as an “immersive experience,” the program offers pre-created playlists, radio stations, music blogs, artist profiles, interviews and exclusive music programming from MTV, VHI and CMT This is all in addition to a twomillion-track library.

“We designed Urge so consumers would feel compelled to hang out with the service, connect with their favorite artists and discover new ones,” said a spokesperson from MTV Networks.

Registration is free and users can purchase songs for 99 cents apiece or subscribe to one of two monthly subscription services: downloading songs or downloading and burning to a portable music device.

The big catch? The service is not compatible with iPods.

The new Napster, launched in beta version May 1, promises the full music experience when purchasing songs online.

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“In terms of the concept of the free streaming, I think it’s great for music fans and listeners—almost a throwback to the heyday of file-sharing,” said Ethan Schiffres, Trinity ’O5 and a longtime user of the Napster services. “The exception is

your song expires after five listensand that you can’t bum it to a CD or your iPod.” The new version of Napster includes two fresh features—Napsterlinks and the Narchive, which give users the chance to interact with one another and share music.

Napsterlinks allows anyone to add links to free Napster music in e-mails, in-

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fourth member Joe Pisapia to the group and represents a redefinition of the band’s usual sound.

Even so, Ganging Up never truly leaves the pop-rock genre. Catchy hooks and short, pseudo solos remain—but the tracks are embellished with gems that create an engaging musical arrangement.

The album often features warm vocal harmonies, wellcourtesyguster.com defined by outstanding mixing on all tracks. Electric guitar lines keep slow harmonic melodies together.

Turn to “One Man Wrecking Machine” for a standard hook-laden pop-rock tune. Rock out to “The New Underground” with a fast tempo, hard rock drum fills and heldbreath breaks.

“Ruby Falls” is a focal point of the album, ranging from distorted to delicate guitar melodies to the soft patter of congas. Though the track is more than seven minutes long, it never tires because of its dynamic variations. It ends with a slow swing beat and a trumpet solo that might make you wonder what happened to your old Miles Davis

recordings.

“Empire State” is a majestic ballad that carries pleasantly with a steady beat and a humming, soft—but deliberate—bass line.

Once called one of the best regional acts of the ’9o’s by media and fans, Ouster was given a shot at national recognition. Their work in 2003 was strong, but the songwriting and production on “Ganging Up on the Sun” succeeds at an entirely new level.

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messages, blogs and websites. The links can connect to a specific song, album or artist in the catalog.

“Napsterlinks is a great way of integrating music into things like blogs and emails,” said Aileen Atkins, senior vice president of business affairs and general counsel for Napster. “Reaction [to the new stant

features] has been very positive to date.”

The Narchive was conceived as a public music archive, where any registered user can add an entry. Entries can include personal stories, photos and Napsterlinks to specific songs.

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Because iPods can’t be used with either service, both Urge and Napster are automatically cut off from a large share of the downloading market. iPods are currently the most popular portable music device, holding more than 70 percent of the market, according to recent NPD figures.

Another drawback is that once monthly users stop paying the monthly subscription fee, they cannot access any of the previously downloaded music. Customers must continually renew a subscription in order to keep their library (this doesn’t apply to the pay-per-song options).

For the present time, iTunes holds strong to its share of the market.

“Whenever I download a single song, it is off iTunes, simply because it’s the industry standard, the most user-friendly and visible of the music stores,” Schiffres said.

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“iPods are definitely the majority of portable music devices, but there are

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“Wait” begins with a whisper of an acoustic riff and builds to a grand atmospheric Brit-pop coda—the type of song Coldplay wrote before they began playing arenas.

The new version of the album closer “Orange Sky” is just as beautiful as it’s ever been.

The only disappointment of Consequence is the appearance of three-quarters of the debut EP in re-recorded form—each song is improved from its 2002 incarnation, but after four years, it’d be nice to get more than eight new tunes.

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More than just a defiant response to their conservative critics, “Taking the Long Way” shakes things up with a versatile set of 14 songs that mark the girls’ adventurous foray into previously untested genres.

Molded together by übiquitous producer Rick Rubin, the album blends expected doses of country and rock Alexi Murdoch, Trinity ’96, spent most of the past four years perfecting his C debut album “Time Without A. Consequence.”

Murdoch took his time with Consequence, which was recorded live to tape at a Los Angeles studio and followed the success of his first EP “Four Songs.”

Since that album’s release in 2002, the musician’s single “Orange Sky” has appeared on both television and film.

The result: Consequence is a truly polished product, 11 songs of simple beauty that are difficult to find fault with. Opener “All My Days” is the best song, with Murdoch’s elegiac finger-picking and soothing voice laid over strings and a light rhythm section. But the benefits of Murdoch’s obsessive perfectionism are seen throughout the disc.

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Mayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and songwriters Dan Wilson and Linda Perry, to name a few.

Only three years after the group alienated much of their staunchly conservative fan base by dramatically declaring their opposition to President Bush’s policies, this album reasserts their position and explains their response to the public backlash that nearly ended their careers. Defiant yet inviting, the Chicks make no excuses for their choices, making it clear from opening track “The Long Way Around” that taking risks has also been key to their success. The result is a totally sing-able, dance-able concoction that stays true to its country roots with signature attitude and boldness.

—Liz Williams

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just cannot stand Radiohead,” Rodgers said.

Others said they thought the broader demographic attracted by the plethora of better-known names had made the festival less fun.

“It was never a problem with the music,” saidLisa Benefield, a patchouli skirt-wearing 24-year-old who chose not to attend Bonnaroo this year. “It was a problem with the community that showed up. Like all the preppy kids who are just going ’cause it’s the cool thing to do.”

Benefield said she prefers smaller jam band festivals, which take place across the country throughout the summer.

Seth Dennis, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said he didn’t want to go this year because he thought there were too many indie rock bands.

“At indie shows, everybody just stands around,” he said.

“No one gets into it.”

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Perhaps the most surprising complaint: a number of hippies lamented that the drug culture at Bonnaroo had

gotten out of hand.

What?

After a few years, the festival had earned a reputation as the place to be for hard drugs like ecstasy and LSD, said Duke senior Laura Pyatt, who attended Bonnaroo this year. While drugs have always been a part of hippie culture, a growing faction of people started going to Bonnaroo just to experience its Candyland-like drug scene.

“I saw a lot of irresponsible drug use last year,” Benefield said.

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who wanted in on the action To be fair, there were still plenty of dreadlocks at Bonnaroo this year. There were still plenty of bare feet, plenty of unshaven faces and plenty of good vibes plenty of hippies.

But they no longer dominated the festival like they once did. There were also plenty of frat boys, plenty of hipsters and plenty of middle-aged Tom Petty fans.

The hippie jam band festival has become the American music festival, in all its diverse glory. And while some weren’t thrilled with the change, few can deny that Bonnaroo has earned a prominent place in the fabric of American music culture.

“We want to be something that’s around for 30 years, like a Glastonbury or a New Orleans Jazzfest,” Bonnaroo founder Rick Farman told the New York Times. “We want to be an iconic event.”

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Need a break from Organic Biocalculus Here’s what recess is reading this summer TERRORIST

by John Updike

Water For Elephants

In his ambitious new novel, “Terrorist,” John Updike reminds us that there are two sides to every story and nothing is black and white.

Updike gets inside the mind of Ahmad Mulloy, a young, fundamentalist Muslim living in America who is prepared to sacrifice his life for his beliefs. To Ahmad, America is full of “devils” —scantily dressed female classmates, his New Jersey community’s materialism and his single mother's dating habits At the urging of his imam, and despite the efforts of his downtrodden guidance counselor, Ahmad starts working for a local Lebanese family’s company and gets drawn in more than he expected. As always, Updike’s characters and their world are intensely vivid. If the portrayal of Ahmad’s beliefs—and of young, urban culture—seems too studied at times, Updike’s careful consideration only strengthens what is a thoughtful, provocative exploration of post-9/11 America.

—Holley Horrell

by Sara Gruen Sara Gruen’s most recent novel, “Water for Elephants,” explores the fragility of the human mind and the power of memories.

Jacob Jankowski is a 90-something wasting away in an assisted living home. His deteriorating mind slips in and out of recollections of a bizarre period of his life—when the sudden deaths of his parents led him to join a traveling circus as the circus veterinarian. The bulk of the novel describes the next three months of Jankowski’s life, which are alternately weird, violent and passionate.

The central story and characters are fairly compelling, and Gruen's writing is accessible and occasionally beautiful. However, her decision to structure the story as flashbacks is unnecessary as well as aggravating—featuring an old Jankowski abound in cliches with the outworn refrain of “gee, it sucks to grow old and irrelevant.” Otherwise, Gruen’s writing talent is efficiendy employed in developing the plot, making Water for Elephants a pleasant diversion.

—Erin Greer

THE STOLEN CHILD

by Keith Donahue

Take a break from reality with Keith Donohue’s debut novel, “The Stolen Child.”

Based on the legend of the changelings who never grow old, this fantastical book explores eternal questions of youth and human identity.

Hobgoblins steal a seven-year-old boy named Henry Day, rename him Aniday and replace him with a lookalike changeling. As the boy’s imposter goes on to live the life that would have been his, Aniday spends his days in the forest, locked in time, a child forever.

Narrated alternately by Aniday and the imposter living as Henry Day, “The Stolen Child” chronicles the different challenges the two boys face while trying to live in these alternate worlds. Aniday’s mind matures, but his body remains that of a child. At the same time the changeling living as Henry Day struggles to impersonate an aging, growing human.

The interwoven stories of Aniday and Henry Day will capture your attention until you finish the very last page of this imaginative, poignant novel.

—Lauren Fischetti

THE REACH OF A CHEF

by Michael Ruhlman “The Reach of a Chef’ is not your typical summer dramatic romance or mystery adventure read.

Author Michael Ruhlman chooses to explore the world of toques and tongs rather than chronicle the fictional escapades of dashing heroes or empowered heroines.

In this whirlwind tour through many of the top kitchens in the United States, Ruhlman documents the recent cultural phenomenon of the celebrity chef and the growing influence ofAmerican cuisine on the world scale.

The writer looks beyond the mere cooking and into the ideas and philosophies many of these chefs promote Although Reach may not

immediately appeal to most readers, Ruhlman’s fluid writing turns this piecemeal nonfiction work into a genuinely engrossing journey.

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by Andrew Trees A merciless dissection of an exclusive private school in New York City, Andrew Trees’ debut novel, Academy X, fails to impress. The reader meets John Spencer, an English teacher trying to explain Jane Austen to bored, rich second-semester seniors. But throw in crooked guidance counselors, criminally zealous parents and a haplessly romantic school librarian, and the plot becomes a hackneyed collection of exaggerated stories. The characters are nauseadngly stereotypical—the jock, the nerd, the cheerleader—and they soon begin to feel more like cardboard cutouts than people.

In Trees’ defense, the first fifty pages interestingly reveal a frightening world of constant competition where students believe that the difference between an A- and B+ will change the course of their lives. Although the book incites the reader to question high school grade inflation and competition, Academy X turns out to be a mere junior varsity version of I Am Charlotte Simmons—without the literary talents of Tom Wolfe.

—Yoni Riemer

THE GIRLS

by Lori Lanscns Twins Ruby and Rose Darien, the narrators of“The Girls,” are conjoined at the head.

While conjuring the image of their condition may incite a gut “ick factor” reaction from some, the compelling story of two sisters who live simple lives in a small town overrides any disturbed feelings one might otherwise have The novel is written- in an autobiographical format with Rose and Ruby writing alternate chapters. Each chapter takes the reader deeper into the heart-warming trials and tribulations of a shared but separate existence.

While the book starts off slowly, it picks up once the girls themselves come to life as people—not just scientific cases to be studied.

Author Lori Lansens has penned an emotional story, weaving elements ranging from country living to losing one’s virginity to the unbreakable bond between sisters.

“The Girls” is not your typical summer beach read, but Lansen’s story of overcoming obstacles and embracing life is worth toting in your bag on any weekend getaway.

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Rorschach said she felt it would be interesting to show other videos to give the Sussman piece more context, so she jumped at the opportunity to show “Memorials of Identity.”

The exhibit, which will be in Durham from Aug. 3 to Oct. 1, contains nine DVD projections by seven international artists. The videos, from the prestigious Rubell Family Collection, explore the effects of historical change on identity.

“Between Past and Future” will end its critically acclaimed two-year tour with a final stop in Durham from Oct. 26 to Feb. 18. The exhibit includes more than 100 works of video and photography by more than 60 artists.

The works reflect the artists’ reactions to rapid economic, social and cultural change in China.

“This is a topic of great interest,” said Rorschach, who helped coordinate the show when she was director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. “It is an important exhibit for American audiences.”

Rorschach said she hopes the local community will recognize the opportunity all three exhibits present to view some of the best contemporary art in the world.

“I’m really excited about all of them,” she said. “They represent work at the highest quality level and we have brought them here to Duke and Durham for our audiences to experience.”

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Starting this summer, the Nasher Museum ofArt is bringing an international selection of video and photography to Durham.

The three exhibits to be showcased—“The Rape of the Sabine Women,” “Memorials of Identity” and “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China”—complement the overall mission and goals of the University.

“Contemporary international art is a big part of our program,” said Kimberly Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of the Nasher. “And video and new media are important parts of contemporary art.”

Video as an art form originated in the 1960 with artists like Andy Warhol and famous South Korean artist Nam June Paik.

“New technology made it possible for the man on the street to shoot something,” Rorschach said. “Artists became interested in looking at the world in a new, more informal way.”

Durham is the first stop for “The Rape of the Sabine Women” appearing at the Nasher in an un-finished format from July 6 to Sept. 24 while creator Eve Sussman and collaborators from The Rufus Corporation continue the editing process.

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Department of Theater Studies Annual Open HOUS6 All Duke undergraduates are invited to this open house on the first day of class, Monday, August 28, from 5:30—7:00 p.m. in Sheafer Theater in the Bryan Center. Meet the Theater Studies faculty and

the Duke Players Council and reconnect with friends. Information about courses, auditions, backstage opportunities and other news will be available. Food will be served!

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Auditions for House of Desires All Duke undergraduates are invited to audition for fall semester productions on Thursday, August 31

Shop Superviser at kay.webb@duke.edu, Doug Martelon, Theater Operations, at douglas.martelon@duke.edu.

Duke Players Lab Brody Theater, East Campus November 16-19

Arts Info Session

I Am My Own Wife

By Doug Wright Starring Michapl Ayers (T’o7) Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus November 30-December 3

callbacks on Saturday, September 2, from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Auditions will be held in Sheafer

Theater in the Bryan Center.

Sign up in advance for your audition

time in the Duke Players notebook at the Info Desk in the Bryan Center.

For more info about auditions, email Matthew Patrick at matthew.patrick@duke.edu

Duke Players Lab Brody Theater, East Campus February

Come to the First-Year Student Orientation Arts Info Session at the Nasher Museum of Art on Saturday, August 26 at 4:00 p.m. to learn about performing arts opportunities.

About Duke Players

from 7:00-10:00 p.m. or Friday, September 1, 4:00-8:00 p.m. with

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New Play by Martin Zimmerman (TO7) Directed by Michael Botvinick (T’o6) Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus February 8-11

The Great Game

By D. Tucker Smith A Theater Previews at Duke production Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus February 14-March 4 Shadow of Himself

by Neal Bell, Theater Studies faculty Directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus April 5-15

Visit our table at the Student Activities Fair on Friday, September 1!

See theater and learn more about Duke Players when we present Sure Thing by David Ives and The Zoo Story by Edward Albee. Friday, August 25, Saturday August 26, Friday, September 1 and Saturday, September 2 at 8:00 p.m., 209 East Duke, East Campus, FREE TO FRESHMEN, $3 general admission.

Duke Players is the student organization in the Department of Theater Studies. Its members support the Department’s productions by running auditions, working on production crews, promoting participation in theater by all Duke students, and representing the interest of students involved in Theater Studies. All undergraduates are eligible for membership.

Duke University Department of Theater Studies 206 Bivins Building Box 90680 Durham, NC 27708 Info: (919) 660-3343 www.duke.edu/web/theaterstudies •

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Video game giant Nintendo has been on the ropes lately with a decreasing market share of console systems an added public relations crisis with the recent decision to name its third-generation console the head-scratching “Wii.” But now the industry innovators plan to strike back with the release of the Nintendo DS Lite.

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