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Tailgates of yesteryear were unabashedly wild.The University announced earlierthis year tailgate would not have any regulations but no designated zone, either.

Alcohol Law Enforcement could show up, administrators say by

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Finding a crazy costume isn’t the only concern on many students’ minds for the first tailgate of the year.

Rumors have been circulating around campus that agents from Alcohol Law Enforcement will be citing students for underage possession at Saturday’s seasonopening football game against Richmond.

University administrators, however,

said they could not confirm or deny whether ALE officials will specifically target tailgate in order to regulate the event’s underage drinking.

Although administrators said they were not aware of any citations for alcohol violations on- or off-campus since the start of the semester, many students have not forgotten last fall’s back-to-school sting operation, when ALE agents cited 194 people for alcohol-related violations

Formula for ranks varies by magazine by

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Number of students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps? Percentage of international faculty? Food quality?

Not one appears in the formula U.S. News and World Report uses to rank colleges, but all factor into at least one other media outlet’s ranking methodology.

Duke came in Bth in this year’s U.S. News ranking, which is probably the most well-known, but differing evaluation SEE

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during orientation week.

With the first kick-off of the season just a day away, students are preparing themselves for tomorrow’s football game against Richmond, in the face of uncertainties surrounding how tailgating changes will play out.

Despite tailgate’s notorious history of debauchery and hospital visits, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said he anticipates that students will behave themselves under the new guidelines.

“I have extremely high expectations of students’ support for the approach to the pre-football-game festivities that we’ve talked about,” he said.

Basing his assessment on conversations with undergraduates and other administrators, Moneta added that he is confident that students understand how embarrassing and SEE TAILGATE ON PAGE 6

Several administrators said that although they were not aware of any ALE plans to target drinking on campus—in dormitories or residential areas—they would not be surprised if a similar crackdown occurred.

“I would anticipate that [ALE agents] would be very interested observers of SEE ALE ON PAGE 10

Tenting for a Chapel wedding by

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Tom Rose doesn’t look like a h mantic.

In fact, with his orange wi “from Home Depot!” —his glinti ring and his man-sized Neoprene tightly to ward off the rain, he \< like a goateed Outward Bound co Rose is indeed on a mission, doesn’t involve dehydrated ratio: The Pratt ’O5 graduate will ma. the woman of his dreams exact! one year from today—and camping out to reserve the ha lowed neo-Gothic Duke Chapel for his wedding is what it takes, “I’m here to be first in line,” Ro in front of his tent, nodding t &

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The 23-year-old employee of the Delta Smart House filled a tent Thursday with provisions, fu tu’id b for his dog Max, braving and student ogling to be September 2007 Chapel urricane’s sorta helping ■I think there’d usually be more people out here,” said, water droplets spat:ring his Duke cap. “But we’ll see.”

And Rose’s stakeout plans extended beyond Chapel lawn. A few of his ;s were simultaneously up outside of the Doris mter, trying to reserve the SEE WEDDING ON PAGE 9

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President George W. Bush called for “consequences to Iran’s defiance,” saying the “world now faces a grave threat from the radical regime in Iran.”

“We must not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon,” Bush said in a speech in Salt Lake City. He said Washington hoped for a diplomatic solution, but insisted “it is time for Iran to make a choice” whether to cooperate with the United Nations.

John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the Security Council would wait to consider possible actions until after the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, met with Ali Larijani, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator,

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TEHRAN, Iran Iran defied a U.N. deadline Thursday to stop enriching uranium, opening the door for sanctions, but U.S. and other officials said no action would be sought before a key European diplomat meets with Tehran’s atomic chief next week to seek a compromise.

Iran’s hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, lashed out at the United States, calling it “tyrannical” and insisting Tehran would not be “bullied” into giving up the right to use nuclear technology.

Other Iranian officials said the country could withstand any punishment.

sometime in the middle, of next week, “We’re certainly ready to proceed here in New York when we’re given the instructions to do so,” Bolton said.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan also was expected to raise the issue during a visit to Tehran this weekend.

Midnight Thursday—the last day of the Security Council deadline—passed with no change in the Iranian position.

The formal trigger for possible sanctions was provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, Austria.

In a report Thursday, the U.N. agency SEE IRAN ON PAGE 11

Lockheed locks lunar lander contract by

likely eight separate spaceships.

Seth Borenstein

TTie last time NASA awarded a manned to Lockheed Martin based in Bethesda, Md.—was in 1996 for a spaceplane that was supposed to replace the space shutde. NASA spent $912 million but die ship, called X-33, never got built because of technical problems.

Lockheed Martin Vice President John Karas said his company will succeed with Orion compared to its failure with X-33, because “we’re not shooting as far... I’d say it [Orion] is within reach.”

While Orion won’t break much new technological ground, Karas said Lock-

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WASHINGTON The National Aeronautics and Space Administration gave a multibillion-dollar contract to build a manned lunar spaceship to Lockheed Martin Corp., the aerospace leader that usually builds unmanned rockets, Thursday.

The nation’s space agency plans to use the Orion crew exploration vehicle to replace the space shuttle fleet, take astronauts to the moon and perhaps to Mars. Unlike Apollo and earlier spacecraft perched atop rockets, it will be reusable. NASA estimated the cost at $7.5 billion through 2019 for

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heed is pleased because of where Orion is going: “For me it’s about exploring; it’s about adventure. It’s great to be with NASA and go out and explore.”

The only other competitor for the contract was a team made up of Northrop Grumman Corp., the world’s largest shipbuilder and third-largest military contractor, and Boeing Co. “We feel we have an achievable design,” said Doug Cooke, a deputy associate administrator, when asked why Lockheed Martin was chosen over the competing

Police recovered the Edvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream" and "Madonna" Thursday, two years after masked gunmen grabbed the national art treasures in front of stunned visitors at an Oslo museum.The condition of the paintings was far better than expected.

Bush predicts terror victory in a speech Thursday, President George W. Bush predicted victory in the war on terror at a time of increasing public anxiety at home, likening the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism with the fight against Nazis and communists.

Attacks kill 47 in east Baghdad A barrage of coordinated bomb and rocket attacks on eastern Baghdad neighborhoods killed at least 47 people and wounded more than 200 within half an hour Thursday, police and hospital officials said.

Sudan refuses U.N. peace force The Sudanese government news agency reported Thursday that the government of President Omar Al-Bashir has rejected a U.N. resolution authorizing an international peacekeeping force in the troubled western Darfur region. The resolution would have required Khartoum's consent.

News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Compass debuts to mixed reviews

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The joke has always been that Duke first-years never had to worry about the “freshman 15,” because the Marketplace food was never good enough to merit

When sophomores Josh Sommer and Christian Pikaart moved into their new room in Edens Quadrangle Aug. 24, they found something unexpected —mold.

“I saw black stuff coming out of the air vent and immediately moved everything out and went searching for a new room,” said Sommer, who has a history of mold allergy.

When the discovery was

overeating.

Students said that fact may change this semester, however.

They are giving Bon Appetit mostly positive reviews for its new East Campus dining service.

At a recent dinner, more than 100 freshmen formed a line stretching out the Marketplace door and onto the quadrangle.

Meanwhile, students inside lingered over grilled sirloin served with garlic and pepper sauce and Hawaiian hazelnut coffee, along with standards such as pasta, hamburgers and salad from Duke’s largest salad bar.

Food is also being served on new modern china, including square white plates and black tri-

angular ones.

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Although students often said the Marketplace was Duke dining’s Achilles’ heel, many now say the Great Hall is the location in need of most improvement.

Students were quick to note that the overall dining experience is superior to last semester, but some said they were disappointed by Chartwells—the Compass Group subsidiary that replaced ARAMARK, Corp. July 1 and is now in charge of the Great Hall, Chick-fil-A and Subway.

Student criticism was aimed at

the long lines, high prices, low quality and poor service.

“There is some room for improvement,” said senior Eric Hung, co-chair of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee. “The presentation is fine, the variety is g00d... but there are some kinks to work out.”

Sophomore Tom Engquist said his request for a burrito with half-chicken and half-camitas was rejected even though both items cost the same amount.

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dence Life and Housing Services, the pair was quickly relocated to Craven Quadrangle.

“I am very satisfied with their response,” Sommer said, adding he only stayed an hour in the room and did not experience any allergic reactions.

Based on air samples collected last week, experts do not think this is a serious threat to students’ health, said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services.

Wayne Thomann, director of the Occupational and Environmental Safety Office, said most of the mold is found in the heating,

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New School of Nursing building opens its doors by

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After nearly a year and a half of construction, the new 59,000-sq. ft. School of Nursing opened its doors this week.

The $lB-million school will now host more than 450 students from its three programs: a bachelor of science in nursing, a master of science in nursing and a newly added Ph.D. program in nursing.

The master’s program allows students to focus on a specialized area of care such as anesthesiology or pediatrics, and the four-year Ph.D. program requires an original research project.

Dr. Catherine Gilliss, dean of the School of Nursing, hopes the centralized building will serve her main goal of building community.

“We’ve never had a space where we could all be together,” she said.

Although the academic year has just begun, some students have found that this goal is already being realized.

“It’s neat being in the same location with master’s students,” said Susan Pierson, an accelerated bachelor of science student from Chapel Hill. “[We’re able] to talk to them about what they do and why they’re here.”

The focal point of the building is the school’s glass-enclosed cafe, with its towering ceiling and wireless Internet capabilities. It has already become a favorite gathering place of students from all programs—which is exactly what Gilliss hoped it would become.

“It is critical for faculty and students to know one another and to have a place outside of the classroom to talk about ideas or to brainstorm about problems,” Gilliss said.

Gilliss said she also hopes the cafe will attract undergraduates and expose them to the possibilities of a career in nursing.

She is working with Dr. Lynn White, assistant dean for pre-major advising, to more actively inform undergraduate students of educational opportunities at the school.

“Duke undergraduates don’t understand what a nurse does today,” Gilliss said.

The new $lB-million School of Nursing building, located near the Medical Center, will now house 3 programs and be open to the School's 450 students.

“People have this stereotypical vision of women in white dresses and hats racing around the hospital doing things.”

Duke’s program, however, is a far cry from that stereotypical vision.

In addition to resources made available to them in Duke’s hospitals, nursing students will also have access to state-of-theart technologies within the school itself.

The school has wireless capabilities throughout the entire building, a distancelearning room with video conferencing for students taking classes online and two large laboratories where students can practice what they’ve learned in the classroom in a real hospital environment.

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Wright takes helm of Graduate School by

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The new dean of the Graduate School hasn’t been resting on her laurels—but if she were resting, it would be on office furniture that is falling apart.

Formerly the vice dean of basic science at the Duke University Medical Center, Jo Rae Wright stepped into her new office July 1.

Two months after her arrival, however, decking out the with workspace new ffirniture still has not fit into her schedule.

“The time has flown by,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Graduate student orientation and convocation were among the first of her commitments

“I was really pleased that so many graduate students attended the graduate and professional student convocation,” she said.

She has also focused her attention on establishing relationships with members of the Graduate School community.

She has met or plans to meet deans, directors of graduate studies, students and faculty.

“Dean Wright is a wonderfully bright, engaging leader with lots of ideas,” Provost

Peter Lange wrote in an e-mail. “She is learning her new job with enthusiasm and intense engagement.”

Lange and Wright—whose position doubles as vice provost—will work in the future to implement the University’s strategic plan.

The current draft, which has not yet been approved by the Board of Trustees, places a strategic priority on the Graduate School and its students.

In the meantime, the two have been working together to address “a variety of issues, some strategic, some more immediate and mundane,” Lange said.

Wright has also met with leaders from the Graduate and Professional Student Council. GPSC President Audrey Ellerbee, a fifth-year graduate student in biomedical engineering, said she is optimistic about the new dean’s commitment to getting to know her constituents.

“She has demonstrated her willingness to engage students,” Ellerbee said. “She’s more out and about.”

Ellerbee said Wright also seems willing to support students’ financial needs—for instance, by following through on lowering health insurance costs, an initiative set up by Lewis Siegel, previous dean of the graduate school.

“It’s on her shoulders to make it happen dollar-wise,” Ellerbee said. “She is going to have a huge role in making a big difference for students just in her first year.”

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New York University also distributes forms to student mailboxes. Yale University hands the sheets out with registration materials.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill runs registration campaigns through student groups and makes an application

Coming soon to a mailbox near you: a North Carolina voter registration form, compliments of the Office of Student Affairs.

Forms will be placed in student mailboxes starting aval Wednesday as the website part of a Univer“People have to at least touch sity effort to betof the registhe forms, even if it’s just to ter comply with trar’s office. the federal In previthrow them in the trash.” ous election Higher EducaChris Simmons years, the tion Act. The law manUniversity Associate VicePresident for Federal Relations dates that instituplaced tions of higher forms education “make high-traffic a good faith effort to distribute a mail locations such as the Bryan Center, and voter registration form” to all students. links to the form were posted on the Associate Vice President for Federal Community Service Center website.

Relations Chris Simmons said a speaker “There’s been some argument that series and “Get Out the Vote” advertisethat wasn’t a good-faith effort,” Simmons ments in student-targeted media will be said, adding that the law’s vague wording allows for a wide range of interpretapart of a concerted push during the election season. tions. Simmons joined the University in The University will not host candidate February and said he was unaware of forums, as it has in the past. where the criticism originated.

Simmons said he expects that forms He met with Elaine Madison, direcwill be distributed on a biennial basis. tor of the Community Service Center, “In July, [Student Affairs] compiled a in late June to discuss compliance with the HEA. survey of what other colleges and universities do vis-a-vis voter registration He said he was informed July 11 that forms,” he said. “I think this is the bestStudent Affairs had decided on mailfaith effortyou could make. People have box distribution as a result of the survey to at least touch the forms, even if it’s just to throw them in the trash.”

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up,” said junior Rob DeHaas, president of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. to be broken

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As a result, he said ATO, along with fraternities, will be hosting barbeother disrespectful to the University itwould.be if and other events in their dormitory the cues disregarded policies. they Under the newly implemented model, sections and quadrangles as alternatives, “The whole point of tailgate was for us to the administration will not sanction a specific student lot, designate monitors or be able to be together as a group,” DeHaas provide food and water carts before the said, adding that holding events in their fratemity section still accomplishes that goal. game as it has done in years past.

For other stuThe Duke Unidents, however, one versity Police Deof the greatest adpartment is revertof tailgate and we are drink, vantages we “lf go to procedures ing , was that it brought followed before tailWe going to get in troub together nearly the gate became a Unistudent body. entire we’re versity-sanctioned underage?” if “It’s just going to tat i event four years ago, Margaret Walters, be a bunch of peosaid Lt. Sara-Jane on their Raines, DUPD adfunior pie drinking own rather than any ministrative services sort of communal executive officer. gathering,” senior “It’s going to be like any other football game and any other Lauren Shohat said. “The sense of commuevent where there is drinking,” she said. nity is going to be gone because there’s nowhere to go.”

“Officers will be looking for safety and secuFraternities and sororities have disrity issues. They will be enforcing University North Carolina law.” cussed the tailgating changes to ensure policy and enforcing Three DUPD officers will be patrolling students follow University guidelines.

“All the [sorority] chapter presidents the Blue Zone parking lot, keeping an eye are very much well-versed in what the poliout for disruptive behavior among stucies will be—at this point it’s just a matter dents and visitors alike. of getting them out to their members,” “Students have the ability to invite ID choose,” said, Moneta said senior Chrissie Gorman, president of checking if they could not what the Panhellenic Association. “It’s a matter specify he added he though of people being responsible for their own kind of behavior would merit police attention. Activities such as playing drinking individual behavior and seeing what hapgames and shotgunning beers, however, pens after Saturday.”

Some students expressed reservations are likely to be under higher scrutiny. would be deemed about attending tailgate because they said Raines said behavior have not been adequately basis. the guidelines case-by-case on a “disruptive” Students have been cautioned by the clarified.

“You’re hesitant —if we go and we administration and student leaders about drink, are we going to get in trouble if the possibility of a large police and Alcohol Law Enforcement presence. we’re underage?” junior Margaret Walters stuStudents Sue Wasiolek told said. “I still am not clear about that.”

Dean of Nevertheless, the Blue Zone will not be dents at the Duke Student Government meeting Wednesday that they should be deserted Saturday as some students intend to tailgate, despite the warnings and presprepared for ALE officers, who cited hundreds of students at off-campus house parence of alternate events.

“I expect it to be slightly toned down, ties at the beginning of last year. Durham officers be but may paPolice Department people still want to have fun at tailgate,” junior Ryan Grace said. trolling the event as well.

Many students intend to play it by ear SatMany students have heeded the warnto and are and anxious of what wary urday and hold out hope that undergraduings ates will take it upon themselves to somehow expect from Saturday’s tailgate.

“I think for this first one everyone’s a restore Tailgate, with a capital “T.” “Damn the man—if enough people go little hesitant and a little skeptical—no one wants to go out and be the first group out, it’ll happen,” Shohat said.

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criteria in other lists lead to variation in Duke’s placement.

Published lists of top colleges each reflect distinctive evaluation systems, designed to condense disparate data on students, professors and endowments into a simple, numerical ranking.

U.S. News scores national universities and liberal arts colleges on seven weighted categories of measurements: peer assessments, student selectivity, faculty resources, graduation and retention rate, financial resources, alumni giving and graduation rate performance, which is the difference between actual and predicted graduation rates.

“The method has been unchanged for the last four years and for three years prior to that,” said Robert Morse, director of data research for U.S. News.

Year-to-year movements in the rankings are, therefore, rarely due to shifts in the magazine’s methodology.

Morse explained that the newsweekly’s analysts choose and weight scoring criteria based on regular discussions with experts in higher education and data analysis.

“We’re not using a scientific system whatever that may mean, exactly—to come up with the rankings,” Morse said.

Scientific or not, scholars say students pay significant attention to the numbers.

An article in the Nov./Dec. 1999 issue of Change magazine showed the impact of colleges’ U.S. News rankings on their selectivity and tuition. According to the article, a jump from 10th place to 6th place corresponds with a 5.5-point increase in average SAT scores.

“People have become obsessed with the U.S. News and World Report rankings,” said Ronald Ehrenberg, director of Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and co-author of the article.

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How the rankings work Data on colleges comes from a variety of sources. Some ofU.S. News’ criteria are based on information from the federal government, and the magazine surveys colleges on other measures it has created, such as the percentages of classes with 50 or more, or fewer than 20 students.

Morse called the current ranking “vastly better” than the methodology the magazine used when it first published college rankings in 1983. He explained that editors meet with a committee of admissions deans and a panel of institutional researchers at least once a year to make sure the scoring reflects current, expert thinking about higher education.

Changes to the methodology, however, are only made when deemed necessary.

Over time, the magazine has shifted the focus from “inputs,” such as entering students’ SAT scores, to “outputs,” such as

graduation rates, Morse explained.

Revisiting the rankings every year is also standard practice at U.S. News’ competitors.

There are innumerable annually published guidebooks, each with their own system.

For example, the Princeton Review’s “The Best 361 Colleges” uses student surveys to rate universities on a variety of nontraditional criteria, such as “Reefer Madness” or “Is it Food?”

Criteria used by Washington Monthly may seem just as unfamiliar. The magazine’s formula includes three, equally weighted components: social mobility, research and community service. The community service score reflects participation in ROTC and the Peace Corps, as well as use offederal work-study grants for service projects.

This formula generates a list quite unlike U.S. News’ top 100. Four University of California schools were among the top 10 in 2006, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology placed first. Duke came in 23rd, beating 28th-ranked Harvard University—a perennial rankings leader in other published lists.

Tom Frank, consulting editor for Washington Monthly, explained that the ranking is unique in focusing solely on how much good colleges are doing for society.

“If colleges feel a need to live up to these rankings... then the effects will be positive for the country,” Frank said. “This guide is probably not going to be your first choice for deciding where to go to school.”

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One group of academics proposed that

rankings should score colleges’ selectivity via “revealed preference,” a system of capturing students’ choices when admitted to competing universities. This measure would discourage colleges from manipulating admissions numbers such as acceptance rates and yield, the researchers argued in

“People have become obsessed with the U.S. News and World Report rankings.”

Ronald Ehrenberg Director, Cornell Higher Ed. Research Institute

a Sept. 2004 working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The scholars said revealed preference data is not generally available, but they surveyed seniors in the high school class of 2000 to construct a preliminary ranking.

Their model ranked Duke 19th, and first place again went to Harvard.

Looking overseas Major media sources also generate research-centered rankings of universities from around the world, not just the. United States.

Newsweek published a list in August of the “Top 100 Global Universities.” The

magazine’s system factored in “openness and diversity,” as measured by the percentages of students and faculty ofinternational origin, in addition to published articles, faculty citations and student-faculty ratios.

In the Newsweek ranking, Duke placed 14th internationally and 12th among U.S. universities, while Harvard scored highest.

A similar ranking published by the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement Oct. 2005 also ranked Harvard first worldwide. Currently in its second, annual edition, the ranking put Duke 11th in the world and eighth in North America.

To rank or not to rank Differences in rankings and the methodologies behind them reflect a lack of expert agreement on how to evaluate university

performance.

Ehrenberg said he would prefer to see the media publicize data on colleges without putting them in numerical order, since

the weightings assigned to specific criteria are arbitrary. “It’s a difficult thing, because having the information out there is very useful to students,” Ehrenberg noted.

“The only real problem is trying to summarize the data in one number.”

Despite such criticisms, U.S. News’ annual rankings capture America’s attention upon their publication every August.

“If our system has so many weaknesses,” Morse said, “why has it become the standard external benchmark for comparative measurement in higher education?”

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“Take it easy!” shouted one employee at a student who requested more than two slices of pizza.

Management is working to encourage better customer service, but those changes will take time, said Michael Aquaro, the executive chef at the Mar-

but she rolls her eyes at me,” he recalled.

Engquist opted for a regular carnitas burrito, and said he found it bland and flavorless “And I’m Mexican, so I know good carnitas,” he said, adding that the only acceptable part of his meal was his bottled water.

Sophomore Christine Siefert expressed similar sentimentsabout the Great Hall.

“I think it’s average—it’s nothing special,” Siefert said, adding that it isn’t superior to the Marketplace, where she dined last year when it was under the management of ARAMARK Several students also lamented the loss of Sitar Indian Cuisine, which used to offer lunch and dinner twice a week in the Great Hall.

“There’s no more Indian food, that’s a travesty,” said sophomore Lauren Oas. Director of Dining Serves Jim Wulforst attributed the problems to “opening jitters” and asked for patience from those who have had disappointing meals.

“Everyone needs to give us a little bit of breathing room,” Wulforst said, adding that the management team has heard some complaints and are working quickly to rectify them.

He cited the imminent transformation of the salad bar to self-serve—which is how it worked last semester—as one improvement There are no quick fixes, however, to some problems, he said.

“That location is very small in the first place... it’s a challenge,” Wulforst added.

He said that he is looking forward to the re-design of the West Union Building, which will double the size of the Great Hall’s serving area.

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“We’re in the process of changing the culture here,” he said.

Aquaro also noted that he has been happy with the vast majority of returning staff.

He highlighted the healthy food being featured at stations such as “Durham Market,” where seafood paella was doing brisk business.

“The driving force of what we do is what’s fresh and what’s in season,” Aquaro said. “Small batches is the core of what we do.”

He noted, however, that much of the seafood is frozen, and most of the entrees are still being served out of the same sized warming trays as previous years.

“The food is alright sometimes, it really depends on what you get,” said freshman

Ashleigh Swingler.

Other changes may not be perceivable to the naked eye, Aquaro explained.

Bon Appetit is making an effort to purchase as much food as possible from the surrounding area, including all-natural beef, herbs and condiments.

“I appreciate the variety of local foods,” said freshman Lucas Bradley.

Hailing from South Carolina, Bradley also said he approves of the Marketplace’s attempt at southern fare.

“It’s as close to authentic as any food in a Yankee state like North Carolina,” he said.

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graduate and professional students’ social issues—such as parenting—as well as academic concerns.

Wright gave Siegel credit for preparing her smooth transition into the deanship. “[He] spent a lot of time orienting me to the job and helping me understand ongoing issues,” she wrote.

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of peer institutions.

The decision to mail forms this year will cost 20 cents per mailing, for a total of nearly $1,250.

The HEA was originally passed in 1965 and governs a wide range of subjects, including federal financial aid.

The voter registration form requirement was added in 1998 as an attempt to combat dropping voter registration rates in the 18-25 age bracket.

The government, however, is prohibited from giving guidance on how to comply with the rule.

“They could fine us, or in its most draconian form, they could come in and take away our Title IV funding, which covers Pell grants and loans,” Simmons said. But he added that he was unaware of any incidents where colleges were fined for non-compliance with the clause.

Senior Douglas Goldmacher said he doesn’t think the effort will increase student voter registration in Durham. Goldmacher plans to vote absentee in his home state of New York.

“Things that affect me [at home] are really more important,” he said. “As a student, I’m only going to live here a few years, but I have to live with my senator for six years and I’ve got my governor up for election this year, too.”

Statistics are not available on how many Duke students are registered to vote in Durham.

However, the two precincts dominated by the University’s campus —precincts No. 2 and s—have5—have only 4,739 registered voters, while approximately 5,500 students live in on-campus housing, according to Residence Life and Housing Services.

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WEDDING from page 1 Sarah P. Duke Gardens for the reception “We’re a team,” Rose said That team includes his future mother-in-law, his fiancee Tracy Lipps and his college roommate, among others—all of whom are rotating shifts and communicating via the walkie-talkie system Rose has in place.

Brides- and bridegrooms-to-be have long coveted the Chapel as an ideal nuptials setting, but landing a Saturday afternoon berth has become more difficult.

Staff recently reduced the number of Saturday wedding slots from four per Saturday to three, wedding coordinator Mollie Keel said.

Those slots are usually filled the second they become available—a year in advance.

“This is common,” Keels said, referring to the extreme measures Rose was taking. “We try not to get involved in [the tenting] process, but it seems to have become a part of the Duke experience.”

Camping out on campus grass, not an unfamiliar practice to Duke basketball fans, is becoming more popular for the enhanced. Couples can reserve the Chapel on the first of every month, one year in advance of the month they’d like to get married.

“A while back we had about six tents out there,” Keels said, referring to earlier months. “And they’d posted a sign out there that said ‘Mollie-ville.’” Sound familiar?

“Coach K has got nothing on us!” Keel joked.

But competition for a Chapel spot pales in comparison to trying to reserve the gardens, Rose said.

“They only allow one wedding reception per Saturday, and Duke has already blacked out a few weekends in September for University stuff,” he said. “There are like six couples gunning for three spots.”

“Could get ugly,” he added.

If he succeeds in reserving both venues, Rose said a Duke wedding is just the finishing flourish on a kneeweakeningly romantic courtship.

“We met in high school,” he said of Lipps, a 2005 graduate of Emory University and a second-year student at the School of Medicine. “I proposed to her on her birthday at the bottom of a volcano in Nicaragua.”

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101FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 liquor license reinstated, after it was briefly revoked when ALE agents caught the establishment serving alcohol to underage campus culture,” said Eddie Hull, dean of students.

“Their operations are undercover,” Waresidence life and executive director of siolek said. “Their whole method of decepfoolish to services. would be “I housing think that Duke isn’t under something of tiveness is defined by their ability to not give warnings.” a microscope.”

Last week, Larry Moneta, vice president dean of stuassociate Stephen Bryan, for student affairs, sent an e-mail to all students and director of judicial affairs, suspects that a back-to-school operation will dents reminding them of University polioccur in Durham. ALE agents routinely cies and North Carolina laws.

During orientation, Resident Assistants visit college campuses around North Carand First-Year Advisory Counselors warned start academic year. olina at the ofevery students about the Durham Police Departofficials said do not release they ALE procedural information, and could not ment’s zero-tolerance policy and the possibility of encountering ALE agents at offconfirm whether there would be operacampus parties. tions on campus thisyear.

RAs informed students that ALE offi“I fear that we’ve passed one weekend cials could also enter residence halls and without citations,” Bryan said. “It’s probably going to fall off students’ radars, and issue citations, but only if students held they’re not going to pay attention to any doors open for them.

Agents are not allowed to enter dormimessages.”

Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president tory rooms unless there are specific complaints or several indications that dangerfor student affairs, said she hopes to remind students about what occurred last ous behavior is occurring inside.

“The only way that [ALE] would get fall, but does not want to make students in, ironically, is if they tailgated,” Wasianxious.

“I think that the possibility of ALE olek said.

Although students remain cautious showing up on campus is alive and well about the possibility of increased on-cameveryday,” she said, explaining that administrators are not informed when ALE pus alcohol enforcement, some say they agents come to Duke. “They could be here will likely still attend tailgate.

“One of the best experiences I had last right now.”

When ALE agents come onto campus, year was the one tailgate I went to,” said they typically go directly to the Armadillo sophomore Cordelia Biddle. “I’d like to be Grill, which has a liquor license, she added. able to go thisyear without the worry of acThe Armadillo Grill recently had their quiring a criminal record.”

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IVIVSL.IS from page 3 ventilation and air conditioning system “This is not uncommon to see,” he said. “I don’t think the conditions are bad in the dorms, but we intend to make them as good as we can.”

Thomann does not believe the rain will affect mold growth; however, he noted that students should keep their windows closed to prevent high humidity in the room.

Hull sent an e-mail to the 117 residents of Edens 3A and 3B Wednesday night through Residence Coordinator Jon Acton informing them of the presence of mold in some rooms and common areas.

RLHS does not know the exact number of rooms affected, Hull said, also noting that no other students have requested to move. ' The e-mail also notified residents

that all rooms in Edens 3B and 3A will b e inS p Sept. 6 and 7, respectively.

“The staff will stay in the building for as long as it takes to get it done that day to limit the inconvenience to students,” Hull said, adding it should not take more than 20 minutes for each room.

In a separate e-mail sent Thursday, Acton informed residents that the air conditioning system will be cleaned Sept.

4 and 5 for Edens 3B and 3A respectively.

OESO has been working closely with RLHS since Aug. 24 to examine the potential hazardous effects of the mold.

Although no mold has been identified in other buildings, RLHS staff will keep their eyes open, Hull said.

“I’m very glad they’re being proactive about the problem instead of waiting and ignoring it,” Sommer said. “I think that they’re doing the right thing but it remains to be seen if they will clean up

properly.”

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confirmed Tehran had not halted uranium enrichment as demanded by the Security Council and said three years of lAEA probing had been unable to confirm “the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program” because of lack of cooperation from Tehran.

Iran denies it is trying to acquire atomic weapons in violation of its commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, with the sole aim of producing electricity with nuclear

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The Security Council voted July 31 to impose the Thursday deadline for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and asked the lAEA to report on Tehran’s compliance, dangling the threat of sanctions if Iran refused.

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Sdll, with permanent council members Russia and China opposed to quick and harsh penalties, the council appeared ready to delay such action. Senior U.N. diplomats told The Associated Press that Iran had agreed to meet with European negotiators to try to find a compromise.

Confirming the plans, Bolton said the Security Council would wait to consider any action until after European Union envoy Javier Solana met with Ali Larijani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, sometime next week.

An official from one nation on the council said the meeting was tentatively set for Tuesday in Berlin. The official said senior officials from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany would meet in the German capital the following day. Those six nations offered rewards to Iran in June if it gave up enrichment but warned of U.N. sanctions if it didn’t.

design that is based on known capabilities. We know that this can be built so there are some differences there, perhaps.”

Although all of NASA’s 10 centers will provide engineering support on Orion, the majority of the work will be at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and final assembly will be completed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Joan Underwood said the Orion project will create about 2,300 new jobs.

In picking Lockheed Martin for Orion, described by NASA’s chief as “Apollo on steroids,” NASA bypassed Apollo throwbacks Northrop Grumman ofLos Angeles and its chief subcontractor, Boeing of Chicago.

Northrop Grumman predecessor built the Apollo lunar lander. Companies bought by Boeing built the Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury capsules, Skylab and the space shuttle.

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with a company that has not been in manned space before, sort of spreading the wealth and making sure they’ve got two contractors that know the manned space business,” said aerospace industry analyst Paul Nisbet, president ofJSA Research.

Lockheed Martin built several unmanned probes, including 1998’sLunar Prospector; 1976 Viking probes of Mars; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which entered the red planet’s orbit earlier thisyear; and the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter, which crashed because of a Lockheed Martin/NASA mismatching ofmetric and English measurement units.

Before the announcement Lockheed Martin released few details about its proposal. Their plan was heavily open-ended, allowing NASA the ultimate decision on reusability ofOrion and landing sites.

Lockheed Martin’s initial proposal was vastly different from what NASA wanted. Its first submission looked more like the since-abandoned X-33 spaceplane and less like a capsule. NASA told Lockheed Martin it wanted an Apollolike capsule, so the company changed its proposal.

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Following a season in which Duke finished 1-10 and failed to win a single game in the ACC, the average football fan might assume that opening 2006 against a Division I-AA team is a good thing.

But looking past Richmond would be extremely dangerous. All indications are the Blue Devils are well aware of the challenge facing them in their season opener Saturday night at Wallace Wade Stadium.

“They’re a good football team that is well-coached,” head coach Ted Roof said.

“Defensively, they don’t give up the big plays. They keep the football in front of them, and they are awfully experienced.”

The Spiders return nine offensive starters from a unit that gained a schoolrecord 4,957 yards of total offense in 2005.

On defense, Richmond starts eight seniors and returns seven starters from last season.

“They’ve got more senior starters than we’ve got on our team,” Roof joked.

For a Division I-AA opponent, the Spiders are not a lightweight, ranking 12th in the Sports Network preseason poll. Richmond also competes in the Atlantic-10, arguably the best conference in I-AA with five teams in the top 25.

Duke, however, has had success in the past competing against I-AA teams. The Blue Devils have never lost to a I-AA squad since the NCAA’s reclassification in 1978 and have accumulated an 8-0 record in such contests, with wins in each of the last three seasons.

Yet, both squads performed similarly last season against a common opponent as both teams handily defeated I-AA Virginia Military Institute. Duke won by a score of 40-14, while the Spiders beat the Keydets,

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The Department of Athletics is determined to kick off the football season with a full house at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday—even if it means handing out freebies.

Duke issued ticket vouchers for the opener against Richmond to alumni, employees and members of the local community in hopes of expanding the team’s fan base.

“We want to try to set a tone for the rest of the year,” saidjon Jackson, Duke’s assistant athletic director of communications.

“The main goal is to get people into the stadium so we have a good crowd and enjoy the game, and hopefully they’ll come back.”

Duke targeted specific groups for the distribution—including local civic groups and businesses, along with Duke staff and alumni in North Carolina, South Carolina and southern Virginia.

Each group received different colorcoded vouchers. The athletics department will determine the most responsive group by tracking the number of redeemed vouchers from each target group.

Attendance for home games has averaged 20,796 since 2000 in Wallace Wade, which seats 33,391.

Jackson declined to disclose how many tickets were distributed but said this was the biggest giveaway in his six years as assistant director.

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Sophomore Marcus Jones will take the helm as the starting quarterback for thefirst time Saturday.

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Even after two impressive wins to open Duke’s season, head coach John Rennie knows his team still has plenty of room to improve.

Although the 14th-ranked Blue Devils (2-0) put on an TT

“The game was kind of too easy—we were ahead by a lot of goals and got mentally inconsistent. It’s really concentrating on [defense] and learning from your mistakes.”

On the plus side, offense has not been a need for Duke. A balanced attack that showcased great timing and relentless energy led to nine goals in the first two games.

Rlup Devils were able to capitalize on their scoring

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Although basketball season is

still months away, another season of near equal importance—recruiting season —is at a critical juncture.

This weekend two high school seniors—Kelly Cain and Karima Christmas—will make official visits to Duke as they try to sift through a number of scholarship offers and decide where to lend their talents for the next four years.

Both scout.com four-star recruits will attend the football game against Richmond, watch a practice with the women’s national team in Cameron Indoor Stadium, meet the current Blue Devils and take tours of campus during their two days in Durham.

Cain is a 6-foot-6 center from Atlanta, where she has twice led St. Pius X Catholic High School to the 4A state championship.

Last year, she also earned 4A state Player of the Year honors while posting 20.1 points, 13.2 rebounds and 6.0 blocks per game.

Over the summer Cain competed with the Under-18 Women’s National Team at the FIBA Americas UlB Championships for Women in Colorado Springs. Although she started just one game, Cain averaged 1.8 blocks per game, the highest

ty,” Vennita Christmas said. “She mark of the tournament.

“She has tremendous timing gets a lot of rebounds.”

Coming out of a system that on blocked shots,” Cain’s high school coach, Stephanie Dunn features four perimeter players, said. “She is very dominating. She Christmas could potentially play closes everything down in the guard or forward, said her coach, Doug Gibson. paint defensively.”

“She brings a lot to the table While Cain’s size is an obvious with her rebounding and with Dunn noted her soft advantage, hands, exceptional timing and in- speed,” Gibson said. “The speed telligence as other strong points. of the game picks up with her in “The best thing I can say about it.”

The Blue Devils are experiher is that she’s very very coachenced and deep at the guard poable,” Dunn said. “She’s very' unselfish. She’s all about the team.” sition. So, Christmas would likely With Mistie Williams now move into a versatile forward pogone and 6-foot-7 Alison Bales set sition to bolster Duke’s depth to graduate in the spring, Cain down low.

Along with Duke, Christmas is would bolster the front court currently considering LSU, school senior should the high Texas, and Texas A&M, Gibson choose to join the Blue Devils.

Along with Duke, LSU and said. He added that Duke apTennessee currently sit atop pears to be her top choice.

“She is a very aggressive playCain’s short list of schools. Duke is the first school to which she will er,” Vennita Christmas said.

“She’s a winner. She doesn’t give make an official visit.

Christmas, a 5-foot-ll guard, up no matter what. She wants to has twice been named a Street play until the end.”

Last year, the Blue Devils and Smith All-America honorable mention in her three years play- added two recruits for the uping varsity at J. Frank Dobie High coming season. Forwards Joy Cheek and Bridgette Mitchell School in Houston.

Also a member of the track made a similar visit to Duke last team, Christmas is a fast player year and later decided to sign with exceptional athletic ability with Duke.

Cheek and Mitchell will likely who enjoys driving to the basket, said her mother, Vennita Christ- see playing time since sophomas. more Carrem Gay is the only ex“She has great jumping abili- perienced Blue Devil forward.

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The Blue Devils have a score to settle with Yale.

Last November, Duke’s season came to an abrupt end when Yale’s Laurel Karnes scored a last-second goal pull out a win for the Bulldogs, 2-1, in the second round of the NCAA

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ln its first road game of this year’s season, No. 12 Duke (2-0) will travel to FRIDAY, 4 p.m. New Haven, Conn, to take Reese Stadium Qn the team that halted last season’s championship drive and ended the careers of several talented seniors sooner than they would have liked.

“We definitely ended our season on a disappointed note,” head coach Robbie Church said. “It’s kind of strange to turn around and go back there, but everyone’s looking forward to the game. I think obviously there’s a little revenge factor, but it’s a chance to play two nationally-ranked teams on the road and it’s a little bit special to go back.”

The Blue Devils’ match with the No. 23 Bulldogs Friday is the first of two games they will play in New Haven this weekend—Duke will also play No. 16 Connecticut (0-1-1) Sunday.

This weekend will mark the second of four which Church said he will use to determine his core combination of players before conference play begins Sept. 21.

The Blue Devils won their first two games over St. Louis and Western Carolina Aug. 25 and 27, respectively, in Durham.

Against the Billikens, two freshman goals set up the 3-1 win. In the second match, Duke outlasted the Catamounts with a lone goal from senior forward Sarah McCabe for the 1-0 victory.

Church, however, had mixed feelings about the results and said the team is still finding its rhythm.

“I thought it was two different games last weekend,” Church said. “In the first game we did a nice job finishing. In the second we did a nice job creating those scoring opportunities, but with finishing we didn’t do a great job. Here we’ll look to do a great job of both.”

In its first time on the road this season, Duke faced some trouble with its travels the team was delayed at RDU Thursday afternoon and was forced to miss its connecting flight in Philadelphia. But Church said the traveling experience is just one more thing his young team needs to learn to deal with mentally as part of its competitive schedule.

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FREE TICKETS from page 13 often,” Jackson said. “We’re going through the exercise to see how it works and what the response is.”

Besides handing out tickets, Duke is decking out Wallace Wade with a NASCAR-themed showcase and a postgame fireworks display to increase attendance.

Fans will be able to take pictures with Dale Jarrett’s No. 88 Ford car and enter drawings for eight NASCAR prize

packages.

“NASCAR is a very popular sport in the state and locally,” Jackson said. “We thought that by adding that angle to the game, we might draw more fans.”

Football head coach Ted Roof said fan presence plays a critical role during games and boosts the team’s performance.

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The Department ofAthletics hopes its free ticket program and NASCAR decorations will promote attendance at WallaceWade Stadium.

“I’m for getting people in the stadium,” Roof said. “It would be great to come out against Richmond and see the place packed in Duke blue.”

Although officials cannot determine the success of the vouchers until Saturday, Jackson said he is optimisdc.

“The feedback has been fairly positive based on my conversations with the ticket office,” he said. “They have been receiving a lot ofcalls about the vouchers.”

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FOOTBALL from page 13 38-3 A major difference between the Division I and I-AA levels is the size and quickness of the players. Nonetheless, Roof admits that Richmond will not back down to the Blue Devil attack.

“They play hard and they’re a physical bunch,” Roof said.

Roofand his staff began game-planning for Richmond following spring practice, a testament to the fact that the Spiders will not be overlooked.

“They are very sound on offense, defense and the kicking game,” Roof said. “They don’t beat themselves.”

When the Spiders enter Wallace Wade Saturday night, the pressure will be on Duke. After a disappointing 2005 and a summer which saw the suspension of starting quarterback Zach Asack and the dismissal of three other players, the Blue Devils can ill afford to lose to a I-AA team to start the 2006 campaign.

A year ago, the Blue Devils suffered a disappointing opening loss to East Carolina. The following week, Virginia Tech pummeled Duke, 45-0. A win Saturday would put last season and the summer in the rear-view as it heads into its ACC opener next week at Wake Forest.

“There’s been a whole attitude adjustment,” senior linebacker Jeramy Edwards said. “We’re going out there to fight and work hard. We had a strong off-season conditioning camp, and then, camp was strong with conditioning, working hard and pushing through adversity.”

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a battle of who has the ball more. If they control the tempo, you end up chasing them.”

Sunday night’s showdown with South Florida (1-1) could be the Blue Devils’ biggest test of the non-conference schedule.

The Bulls finished a surprising 9-2 in their first season in the Big East last year, reaching the conference tide game before falling to Connecticut. South Florida, however, dropped this year’s home openerto Fordham “They have a very talented team with a lot of international players,” Rennie said. “They’re very strong from last year and have an even better group of players this

year.”

Duke will also use this weekend to settle its starting lineup for Sept. B’s conference opener at Wake Forest.

“We’re still putting the team together,” Rennie said.

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Church said. “We need to leam to win on the road, not just at home. We have a young team, and I’m happy we have that opportunity to see how our young players travel.”

But travel difficulties are not the only challenges the Blue Devils need to adjust to on the road. Last season, Duke had some trouble with the field conditions at Yale.

“It’s a different type of grass; it’s not the same type of grass we have here in the South, but I don’t think it will be a problem,” Church said. “It’s the opening game, and the field will be in a lot better shape.”

Aside from the expected improved conditions in New Haven this year, Church said the Blue Devils are mentally prepared for theirre-match with the Bulldogs as well.

“We'haven’t spent a lot of time talking about last season, but you can feel it—they’re ready to play this game,” Church said. “When we get on the field at 4:00, they’ll be ready.”

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But there is one relatively records and other factors in new practice undertaken by determining punishments, Nonetheless, the University the University that isn’t so praiseworthy, and that is its has taken it upon itself to punprecedent of suspending stu- ish students for drinking violadents with DUIs. tions in the greater community, Last fall, the Undergraduciting the “unsafe and irresponsible behavior” and “violation of ate Judicial Board set the precedent of a two-semester the community expectations” suspension for students provisions of the judicial code. _

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Should students’ academic careers be made to suffer, when their actions are already scrutinizedunder the law?

Instead of acting as a strict parent, the University should be a neutral entity

Damn the man—if enough people go out it’ll happen.

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week I promised to bring you specific inwhere Duke is treating Durham residents in ways that may be racist or elitist.

Today’s installment’s topic reflects both.

In March 2006, the Duke University Hospital resumed a controversial “waived consent” clinical trial of a blood substitute called PolyHeme. Under the trial’s guidelines, paramedics will administer PolyHeme—without consent-to patients IUISIcD hlltlpr UUllcr who are “criticallyinjured, losing a large with ail deliberate speed amount of blood and in shock.” These trauma victims will continue to receive PolyHeme at the hospital—again, without having consented—for 12 more hours, despite the fact that real blood, which is the universal standard of care, is available.

PolyHeme, which is made from human blood, may be better than the saline given in the field because it contains oxygen-delivering cells; it is also compatible with all blood types, and it can be easily transported in an ambulance. PolyHeme is experimental, however, and researchers do not yet know if it works as well as real blood.

Indeed, there are two serious problems here.

The first: PolyHeme may not be safe. The second: Duke Hospital’s new ethical model, which considers “community consultation” an acceptable substitute for an individual’s informed consent.

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article questioning why Northfield Laboratories, the maker of PolyHeme, withheld troubling results about the performance of its only product. So how did the blood substitute perform when given to people recovering from heart problems? Of 71 patients who received PolyHeme, 10 had heart attacks and 2 died. Of 81 who got human blood, 0 had heart attacks. If you count other “adverse events” like pneumonia and arrhythmia, the results are even worse: 54 percent of PolyHeme recipients had these problems, versus 28 percent of the control group. Consider, then, the objectivity of this pamphlet from the INOVA Health System, which is also testing PolyHeme, reassuring participants that “PolyHeme has demonstrated no clinically relevant adverse effects.”

Whether or not PolyHeme ultimately proves safe and effective, the manner in which it is being tested is unprecedented. In fact, Duke initially had to suspend the study when it became clear that “community consultation” protocols were illegal under North Carolina law; the study only resumed after Duke had successfully lobbied the North Carolina General Assembly for an amendment to this state’s Patient’s Bill of Rights. stances

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We call on the University to think on the creative and constructive, rather than the penalizing, side of things when it comes to students’ actions and partying off campus.

In short, we take issue with the University extending itself into matters between students and the law. It begs the question, “Where will it stop?” Will the University begin doling out suspensions or other sanctions for any and all things students do illegally—shoplifting, traffic violations, disturbing the peace?

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when it comes to students, DUIs and subsequent legal consequences. If administrators claim that students should be responsible and independent members of the greater community, they should be treated as such not as children in need of further reprimanding.

What’s worse, an article in The American Journal of Bioethics recendy asserted that the PolyHeme study is designed to artificially simulate “the circumstances of combat-wounded soldiers when evacuation to field hospitals is impossible.” This explains why doctors are required to continue administering PolyHeme for 12 hours in the hospital, since “12hour field evacuation delays” represent “well-known military constraints.” Indeed, it is worth noting that the bioethicists writing the article ultimately conclude that the PolyHeme trials “cannot justify a possible departure from ethical principles governing research on non-consenting civilian human subjects.”

Given the legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination in this region—and in this hospital—it is particularly disheartening to consider the racial overtones of a “waived consent” clinical trial. Historically, physicians have shown an appalling disregard for the rights of racial and ethnic minorities, particularly when conducting experimental research. Given the importance of that cultural narrative to a county that is almost 40 percent black, Duke Hospital’s decision to appropriate unconscious patients for use in this study reopens old wounds.

Indeed, PolyHeme’s most serious “adverse effect” of all may be the damage it does to the bond between physician and patient, particularly in communities already inclined to distrust Western medical practice. After all, why should you trust a doctor who asserts his right to experiment on your body without consent, no matter how exceptional the circumstances?

I lived no more than 1,500 feet from an entrance to Duke Hospital for my entire sophomore year, and so I would like to assure bioethicists and administrators alike that my “community” was never “consulted” when this protocol was approved. In fact, I would be shocked if 2 percent ofDuke students had ever heard of PolyHeme before today. Given that the “traumatic injuries” targeted by this study represent the number-one cause of death for our age group, this is completely unacceptable.

Of course, this column is ultimately about much more than a blood substitute, or even the dubious way in which it is being tested. This is also a conversation about institutional authority, and the ways in which we choose to wield it. Keeping in mind that many Durham residents interact with our campus primarily through treatment at the Duke Hospital, this community has a decision to make; if we do not want to be called racists or elitists, then will we address the latent indignities that invite those charges?

Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Friday.

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Gerst’s Aug. 30, 2006 editorial, “Where are the moderate Muslims?”, recycles cliches and myths about the Muslim responses to the atrocities of 9/11. Gerst accuses Muslim moderates of deafening silence as “Islamic clerics, leaders and ‘activists’ are openly fostering sectarian Shiite-Sunni violence.”

Deafening? Muslim silence? Who has Mr. Gerst been listening, or more accurately, not listening to? Muslim OlTlid act Safi11 communities are* en-

guest commentary gaged in vigorous, self-critical debates about gender, violence, pluralism and exclusivism.

What is deafening is not Muslim silence but the refusal of those who purport to speak out of concern for Muslims to listen to the debates and cries ofjustice in the Muslim community.

On the alleged silence of Muslim moderates, I direct readers to University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Charles Kurzman’s website about how leading Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders around the world responded to the atrocities of 9/11, http://www.unc.edu/%7Ekurzman/terror.htm. The website features statements of religious leaders from Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iran and of international organizations including Muslim Brotherhood, League of Arab States, Organization of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. In the United States, the terror acts were quickly condemned by the Muslim American Society, Islamic Circle ofNorth America, Council on American Islamic Relations, Muslim Student Association and Islamic Association for Palestine.

In July 2005, CAIR issued a religious decree {Fatwa) that refuted terrorism by referencing the Qur’an and the deeds of the Prophet Muhammad.

Signed by 344 Muslim Organizations in North America (see http://www.cair-net.org/FatwaJuly2oos.pdf).

I could go on, but surely this suffices to refute charges of silence.

What’s really driving Gerst’s argument? The most cursory of Google searches would have pointed Mr. Gerst to the above information. In parrodng the superficial voices of pundits like Tom Friedman, Gerst’s opinions are driven by two issues; 1) He equates being a “moderate Muslim” with approving of U.S. foreign policy. The response of the overwhelming majority of American Muslims has been clear: they, like the majority of Americans, reject and condemn the terror of 9/11. Also like the majority of Americans, American Muslims have come to resist the current U.S. administration’s triumphalist,

militaristic and arrogant actions in the Middle East that have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of

civilians and thousands of American soldiers and engendered unprecedented hostility toward the United States. If being a “moderate” Muslim means approving whatever disaster the Bush administration has undertaken in Iraq, one-sided support for Israel, neglect of human rights in favor of forming alliances with oilrich states and support for autocratic Arab regimes, then most Muslims are happy to do without that label.

2) Israel. Make no mistake about it, Gerst’s position, like Friedman’s, is less about Muslims than about Israel. Gerst’s diatribe, complete with a cliched conclusion linking contemporary Muslims and the Holocaust, is about acquiescence in the face ofatrocities of the Israeli regime. In the current Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli bombing of civilian areas killed hundreds ofLebanese civilians, causing over $2 billion worth of damage to the infrastructure of Lebanon. The issue is not whether Muslims want to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth; the overwhelming majority of Muslims do not, and that point has been made repeatedly by Muslim states. What Muslims want is a state in which Jews and Arabs have access to equal rights and equal privileges as citizens of a state. Many Americans object to policies of self-styled “Islamic nations” like Iran and Saudi Arabia that offer greater rights to Muslim citizens than to non-Muslims. Why should our response to Israel’s policies that grant greater rights to Jewish citizens than to non-Jews be any different?

Today, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live miserable lives deprived of dignity and human rights, without full access to liberty, ownership or education.

That is the issue. If being a “moderate Muslim” means signing off on every Israeli atrocity against Palestinians or Lebanese, even those of us who struggle and work for peace and pluralism will gladly do without the label.

The challenge for Muslims is this: how do we create a world where every human life—Muslim and nonMuslim, rich or poor, American and non-American, civilian and military, male and female—is treated with God-given dignity? To those who are working to make that world a reality, we join our Arab friends in saying: ahlan wa sahlan: welcome in, be at home, and let’s get to work. To others, may God lead you to beautiful places, but spare us your cliches of Muslim silence in face of terror and the label “moderate.”

May God enable those who around the world who long for peace rooted injustice to find one another and work together heal this fractured planet. Amin. Amen.

Omid Safi holds a 8.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke. He is an associate professor of Islamic studies at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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knew? Here I am, deriving all my self-esteem from my profound reservoir of lethargy and ineffectual indifference, and then I receive a series of solicitous e-mails encouraging me to superior enterprise.

They customarily come in the form “Don’t want to be lazy anymore?”, with follow-up solutions such as “Exercise!”, “Socialize!”, and “Learn English!”

These invitations to fl‘ change befuddled me, however, because I did not understand the tone of the ashwin bhirud question. Why would I be disinclined to laziness? aimless sameness I am a bastion of mature values. My planner is always vacant Actually, I’m lying; I don’t even own a planner.

Writing down all that stuff, those things-to-do, which can so much more easily be remembered—it’s so juvenile.

Recording aforementioned stuff in that practice-makesperfect produced photographic memory, however, is an adult thing to do, plus it takes less effort. And that’s what college is all about: finding insight and discovering yourself in the context of the world.

I discovered myself in the context of my bed when I had the insight that freshman Convocation was occurring concurrently. I never looked back, mostly because craning my neck would take energy I’m too righteous to donate.

I have this system, you see, where I watch a particular TV show according to what duty, responsibility or opportunity I am shirking and most plausibly going to regret not seizing.

Oh, I “slept” through my poll sci class, but that’s okay. I can make it up by watching West Wing.

Those deprived elementary school kids are expecting me to tutor them in 10 minutes, but I think there’s a new episode ofSpongebob Squarepants on the TiVo. Rising from my couch and going to my immunology class would be just a little bit too difficult; but no matter, watching House will suffice.

Finally, this job interview could result in entry-level employment leading to a career, providing the financial foundation for an extended phase of fulfilling fast-lane carousing followed by the founding of a more fulfilling family unit, but true enlightenment occurs only in the present, in the form of watching Entourage.

It’s a solid system, and it keeps me on task. Sometimes I’ll get bored of watching TV though, and aspire to some sort of activity, but I’ll pass out in the planning stages for my 17th power nap of the day.

This is not an exclusive value. I’m only pushing you to realize your own slothful potential. Some people may call it “burning out,” but they make the mistake of attaching a negative connotation to what I call “blossoming into a ripe flower,” albeit an energy-conserving flower. Besides, negativity is for assholes.

Think about it. You begin your college career by working your fear of God into mediocre grades, and by the time you are over halfway finished with that pesky degree, you and I both realize epiphany strikes much more conveniently in bed, and it is much more silent so as not to wake you.

Spiritual awakening does not actually require physical awakening, much less going to class/work/the bathroom.

But by and here and by and there others have confirmed my suspicions. From my mother telling me future chiefs of surgery do not know the meaning of ‘lazy’ (which is strange, since that’s an easy word, and cardiac arrhythmia is pretty tough), to the guy at the laundromat asserting how he would have been a lawyer if not for a familial legacy of indolence, I’m beginning to believe their pro-productivity propaganda.

Indeed, with my father yelling at me for “taking the easy way out,” and the restroom custodian yelling at me for ‘taking the easy way out,’ I find myself spending all my time just trying to find the hard way so I can avoid a beating (being active : rock beating : hard place).

To be idiomatic, “When in dystopically productive society, do as the dystopic producers do.” Even Orwell would be ashamed.

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Every team has a motivator.

This type of player is frequently portrayed as a loud and enthusiastic screaming lunatic. On a football team, this player often comes from the offensive line.

Although Matt Rumsey is from the line, he does not fit the typical mold.

“He gets it—he gets it in his own way,” head coach Ted Roof said. “He’s not a real vocal, outspoken guy, but he leads by example.”

The junior is Duke’s lone returning starter on the offensive line. At center, he is the glue that holds the line together and serves as the first line of defense between quarterback Marcus Jones and 11 swarming defenders.

The Blue Devil offensive line collectively has 12 starting assignments to its name—ll of which are attributed to Rumsey—the fewest of any team in the nadon.

“He’s our most experienced player up there by far,” Roof said. “He’s a guy that we’re counting on to bring the other players along. He knows what to do, he knows the tempo and speed of the game, and he knows how to prepare.”

As a sophomore, Rumsey started all 11 games for Duke and played 711 snaps fourth most of any Blue Devil last season.

“He’s our motivator,” Jones said. “He’s like a senior leader even though he’s not a senior yet. He’s been a lot of help to everybody.”

Although the junior is clearly more experienced than the rest of his teammates on the line, he doesn’t see it as an issue.

“I don’t feel older than them and I don’t feel better than them,” Rumsey said.

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“We are a unit. We can’t think of ourselves as five different people, we have to think of ourselves as one unit.”

Rumsey’s most experienced counterpart up front is redshirt-sophomore left tackle Cameron Goldberg. A season ago, Goldberg saw action in 10 games, earning a start in the final game against North Car-

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“Having Cameron right there next to me helps a lot,” Rumsey said. “Offensive line is one of those positions where you have to pick it up fast —if you’re slow, then stuff behind you starts screwing up and nothing goes right. Having him out there

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Seminoles battle to regain form

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A storm is brewing in South Florida and its name isn’t Ernesto When the No. 11 Florida State Seminoles travel to Miami the first weekend of the season, the only Hurricanes they will be concerned with will be on the field.

The Sept. 4 game against No. 12 Miami is more than just a tumultuous matchup between old rivals. For FSU, it’s a chance to mark their elusive return to former status.

It’s an opportunity to prove to critics and fans alike that the adversities of the past five years will not be the trademark of this season’s Seminoles.

Is this the FSU squad that finished with head coach Bobby Bowden’s worst season (8-5) since 1981? Or are these the Seminoles that batded for over four hours in a triple overtime loss to Penn State in the Orange Bowl?

The team hopes to propel its performance in the latter into success this year.

“I feel like the last two games [of last season] we looked the way we used to look,” Bowden told USA Today. “We looked like the team we used to be, back when Florida State was thought of every year as a national championship contender.”

Whether or not FSU gets back to that level will largely depend on the offensive line, which saw little leadership and an average of just 94 rushing yards per game last year.

The line needs to give more time in the pocket to sophomore quarterback Drew Weatherford, who has emerged this season with a much greater understanding of offensive play and has established himself as the leader of die offense.

“I think we have a little bit of our swagger back,” Weatherford said. “I feel like with my class, the one before that, and the guys we have signed, that we have good chemistry and it will carry over on the field.”

If the offensive line solidifies, the pressure will be on fifth-year senior running back Lorenzo Booker, who has had a solid but unremarkable career, to improve FSU’s rushing average. Back in what he describes as the best

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experienced offensive- lines in college football. In a rare feat in today’s game, Bowden returns all five starters up front, including star guard Roman Fry'.

Earlier this summer, the senior was named to the Outland Trophy Preseason Watch List, which is made up of the top 54 offensive or defensive linemen in the country.

“Having five starters back on the offensive line is a comfort zone I haven’t had since I’ve been here,” Bowden said.

Four of the starters on the offensive line are seniors, and the fifth, Barry Richardson, a junior, has been starting since his freshman year, so the line has a good deal of time most

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Clemson, coached by Tommy Bowden, has not won an ACC Title since 1991,the year before Florida State, coached by his father Bobby, entered the league.

But thanks to an offense stacked with weapons, this year may be as good a chance as any for the son’s program to replace the father’s as perennial league favorite.

The Tigers’ strength starts up front, with one of the

working together.

Good protection will be key for the Tigers, whose starting quarterback does not have a lot of experience.

Will Proctor, a sth-year senior, has started only one game in a career largely spent backing up the now-departed Charlie Whitehurst. In his lone career start—last season against Duke —he threw for 201 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another in a 49-20 victory. Protecting Proctor, who is not fleet afoot, will be an important factor in the success of Clemson this season.

“Our quarterback is the least experienced of our 11 starters on offense,” Bowden said.

Fry and the offensive line will have an easier time blocking for the Clemson ground game because starting tailback James Davis, reigning ACC Rookie of the Year, was one of the top freshman running backs in the country last year.

In 2005, Davis took over for starter Reggie Meriweather halfway through the season and dominated opponents, finishing the season with 879 yards. He is the type of running back who can break a long run on any play —he had 10 runs of 20 yards or more on just 165 carries last season.

If Proctor gets time, he should be able to find targets like first-team All-ACC wideout Chansi Stuckey, who is regarded as one of the top receivers in'the ACC. Stuckey hauled in 54 balls for 770 yards last season and is also a bigplay threat, notching 14receptions of longer than 20 yards.

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ACC teams adapting to EC’s style On defense, the Eagles need a strong season from junior linebacker Brian Toal, one of seven ACC players recently named to the Butkus Award Watch List, an honor given to the nation’s best linebacker. The junior, whose sophomore season was slowed by a shoulder injury late in the year, has also been named to the Chuck Bednarik watch list for outstanding Defensive Player of the Year. He will lead a defense that will attempt to replicate last season’s success, when it held opponents' to a 15.9 points against average.

“We are very optimistic,” Toal said. “We did lose some players, but everyone has been working really hard this summer, and we’ve got a chance to be a really good football team.”

BC opens its season Aug. 31 at Central Michigan, before facing Clemson, its first ACC opponent of the year, at home Sept. 9.

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In their first season in the ACC, the 2005 Boston Colto a 9-3 overall record, and nearly made the conference title game, missing out in a tiebreaker.

This season could be significantly tougher for BC, after the loss of nine starters—five on offense and four on the defensive side—including wide receiver Will Blackmon, 2005 first-team All-American defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka and left tackle Jeremy Trueblood.

In addition to the graduation of a number of starters, the Eagles must also deal with league teams that are just now, in their second year in the league, becoming more familiar with their style of play.

“I don’t think we’re the new kid on the block anymore,” head coach Tom O’BiJen said. “We surprised a lot of people last year, and now they know a little more about us, and have matched up against us. It’s always going to get tougher and tougher the more that people know about you. Maybe they didn’t take us seriously last year, but they will from now on in this conference.”

This season, the team will look to quarterback Matt Ryan, who went 5-0 after taking over for the injured Quintin Porter last season, to lead the offense. The junior showed improvement in one of the team’s preseason scrimmages, going 13-for-27 for 206 yards.

“It’s a great advantage for any program to have their quarterback return, especially as one as talented as Matt,” O’Brien said. “In the offseason and through spring practice, there are things you can look at and work on that now you understand, because you’ve been in a game. The more you play the game, the more it slows down. It’s not as fast as it was a couple of years ago.”

Ryan will be helped by Tony Gonzalez, who returns as the Eagles leading receiver but will be missing out on some protection—a fact he is well aware of.

“It’s tough to replace guys who are first-round draft picks, like Mathias, and then second-round guys like Jeremy Trueblood,” Ryan told cstv.com.

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The green Terrapins of last season are now a group of tested upperclassmen that wants to erase the memories of two consecutive 5-6 seasons. Seven starters return on offense, and the entire defensive line will look the same as last season.

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“We have more depth than we’ve ever had,” Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen told the Baltimore Sun. “For six years I’ve been trying to get it to where we have it right now. It’s just we’ve got to get it done on the field now.”

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After opening with winnable games against William & Mary and Middle Tennessee, Maryland will face a staunch test when it travels to play No. 5 West Virginia. Later contests at Georgia Tech, Clemson and Boston College will make the road to a bowl bid even tougher.

The home schedule offers the Terrapins sqme layups against Florida International and Wake Forest. But games against Florida State and Miami may stuff the postseason goal of the Terrapins, who will compete for a limited number of bowl bids in the hotly-contested ACC. To earn the bid, the Terrapins may have to snatch a victory from one of either their four road or two home tests.

“We’re playing a lot of bowl teams,” Friedgen said.

“We’re playing West Virginia, who a lot of people are picking for the national championship.... I definitely think the conference is tougher now. We have to go out and play every week, and every game we play can be a valuable win for us.”

To pick up the marquee win, the Terrapins hope their defense will return to dominant form. The defensive line was weak against the run last season, giving up 165.7 yards per game. But with all the starters back, they hope to build on experience.

The leader on offense is returning senior quarterback Sam Hollenbach, who averaged 230.8 yards passing a year ago. He has the talent, but the question is whether he has the targets. After losing their top four receivers from 2005, the Terrapins may have to rely on their three- or four-man rotation at running back to move the chains on offense.

The Terrapins’ quest for a bowl bid begins at home against William & Mary Saturday.

“I hope the team is excited about it. I know I am,” Friedgen said. “The team has to be tired of hitting each other, so hopefully we’ll be ready to play on Saturday.”

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Despite seeing his 7-5 team lose three of its defensive stars to the NFL Draft, North Carolina State head coach Chuck Amato sees no reason to refrain from his characteristic optimism.

“I am never going to change my expectations for this great school, this football program that we are building,” Amato said. “I am not going to change my enthusiasm about the game, about this university, about how I feel and about where my expectations are for anybody’s perception, because that’s me. That’s the only way I can be.”

Amato, known across the ACC for his candor off the field and his style on it—he wears Wolfpack red sneakers and sunglasses during every game—has shown an ability to win in diverse ways during his seven years at the helm of N.C. State. Although the Wolfpack has never been able to break through to the national elite, Amato has produced winning seasons with a potent offense and the suffocating defense his team has boasted the past two seasons.

He understands, however, that 2006, in which his Wolf- Unranked in the preseason and coming off a year in which it was under pack was picked to finish fifth in the Atlantic Division, may .500 in theACC, N.C. State is hoping to return to elite status this year. be his biggest challenge yet.

“Last year I thought I knew the offense pretty well, but N.C. State’s eighth-ranked defense from a year ago lost three ofits front seven to the first round of the NFL Draft, I now have a whole year behind me,” the junior said. “I including the No. 1 overall pick, Mario Williams. What was know things that I wouldn’t have thought about knowing last year.” once the team’s defining strength has become a potentialWith N.C. State’s top three receivers from last season weakness, for which to ly glaring Amato admits he has yet gone, the offense will rely heavily on sophomore tailback find a solution.

“We’ve got youthful people on defense,” he said. “Are duo Andre Brown and Toney Baker, who combined for their youth and ambition going to make up for their lack over 1,200 yards in their freshman season.

“We’re not really a drop back and throw it down the of age and experience? We’ll find out. And we’ll find out field team,” center Leroy Harris said. “We’re a play-action in a hurry.”

Amato expects his experienced secondary, returning team. Establishing the run is going to be really key for us.”

In spite of the low expectations and unresolved defenstarters A.J. Davis, Marcus Hudson and Garland Heath, to holes, Amato’s unflagging optimism radiates in sive alleviate the pressure on his front seven.

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Marcus Stone returns at after Offensively, quarterback “Some people don’t like the fact that I enjoy life for mycompiling a 5-1 record as a starter last season. Stone hopes self, my team and this university,” he said. “This is my famto build on the momentum from that finish—which into cluded an upset at eventual ACC champion Florida ily. We expect win every game, every year. And I am not to change how I do it. That’s just part of me.” going State—yet knows that he has much room to improve.

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Heading into his sixth year as the team’s head coach, Jim Grobe hopes to recapture some of the momentum he

had in his first two seasons but has since lost.

After a four-game turnaround for Wake Forest in 2001—Grobe’s first year—followed by a victory in the Seattle Bowl in 2002, the Demon Deacons have finished the last three years under .500.

Still, there are some positive signs for Grebe’s program. The Demon Deacons finished tied for fourth in the ACC’s Atlantic Division in 2005, with a 3-5 league record.

Perhaps more notable has been Grebe’s performance against in-state rivals, leading Wake Forest to a 16-5 record against other North Carolina schools.

The turnaround of the program is due in large part to the Demon Deacons’ improved running game. Since Grobe arrived, the team has rushed for 214.7 yards per game, more than any other team in the ACC. Going into the 2006 season, however, Wake Forest’s running game is on uncertain ground after the graduation of last season’s starter and 2005 ACC Player of the Year, Chris Barclay. In the absence of Barclay, who finished his college career with three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons, the Demon Deacons will look to last year’s sophomore standout Micah Andrews for rushing support.

Also, the role of junior tailback De’Angelo Bryant will increase. How these two fill the big shoes of the departed Barclay will likely determine die fate ofWake Forest’s season.

“That’s a little bit scary on our part,” Grobe said about the loss of Barclay, “We like Andrews. We like De'Angelo Bryant. We’ve got some good depth at running back.”

The running game may be leaned on even more than expected if the Demon Deacons cannot rely on junior quarterback Benjamin Mauck. Mauck lost the starter’s job last season, forcing senior Cory Randolph to abandon an attempted move from quarterback to wide receiver. Despite this history, however, Mauck claims he is not anxious.

“I’m not trying to put pressure on myself,” Mauck said.

“If I can execute and manage the offense, I think we can come out with a win.”

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Grobe said his team is good enough to exceed the expectations and reverse a trend of underperformance.

“In the past we haven’t performed as well as we need to,” Grobe said. ‘We’re just hoping this is a new football season and a new team and we’ll play better than we have in the past. That’s what we have to do to change people’s opinions.”

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Despite all the their troubles, the Hurricanes began preseason practice on Aug. 7, ranked in the top 15. Returning starting quarterback Kyle Wright, who passed for 2,403 yards and 18 touchdowns last season, will lead the offense. On the other side of the ball, All-American candidates and defensive ends Baraka Atkins and Meriweather will anchor the defense.

The Hurricanes open the season against rival No. 11 Florida State Sept. 4 and could erase memories of the disastrous offseason with a win in the pivotal game.

“It’s been a tough offseason,” Coker said. “There are some things that always go on with a major college program that you have to deal with. But the key is to deal with them. That’s what I want to do.”

Miami stayed busy this summer, but unfortunately for the Hurricanes, they spent the majority of their time dealing with trouble off the field.

No. 12 Miami doled out a number of suspensions in the offseason and will be without many key contributors from last year’s team at the start of the season.

Before preseason practices began, head coach Larry Coker announced Aug. 1 that four players were suspended for the Sept. 4 season opener against Florida State for violating team policy.

“The message is pretty clear—we have high standards here,” Coker said, according to the Miami Herald. “We’re a program of quality kids. And these kids are good kids.

They’re not bad kids. But we’ve got to get this message across.”

Two of the players—running back Tyrone Moss and receiver Ryan Moore—were an integral part of Miami’s offensive attack a year ago, accounting for 701 yards rushing and 464 yards receiving, respectively. Linebacker James Bryant and receiver Rashaun Jones were also suspended.

Coker did not elaborate on the specifics, but said Moore’s suspension is related to another suspension he received before last year’s Peach Bowl—a game Miami lost to Louisiana State, 40-3, to finish 9-3 for the second consecutive season.

Coker extended Moore’s suspension indefinitely Aug. 26 after Moore reportedly grabbed a woman by the neck and shoved her to the ground at 2 a.m. of the same day.

The suspensions were part of a long laundry list of summer woes, which included the loss of recruited quarterback Daniel Stegall, who instead signed with the New York Yankees, and linebacker Willie Williams, who transferred to West Los Angeles College.

The summer slump continued when reserve safety Willie Cooper was shot in the buttocks outside his apartment early one morning, and his roommate, free safety CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO Brandon Meriweather, returned fire with a pistol. Meriweather did not receive a suspension because he had a The Hurricanes hope their upcoming season can provide a distraction legal permit for the firearm. from a litany of off-the-field problems.

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Vince Oghobaase was Duke’s best recruit in years One of the top defensive tackles in the country, the five-star recruit graduated high school early to get a head start on his collegiate training at Duke—a school he picked over football powerhouses Miami and Oklahoma.

But Oghobaase’s early start came to an abrupt end just five days into his first week of spring practice in 2005 when he tore apart his right knee.

Now, after a year of rehabilitation, the redshirt freshman has gained a new sense of focus and passion for the game “You can’t always be down on yourself on stuff like that,” Oghobaase said. “Injuries happen in football all the time. So, I just had in my mind that I was going to rehab my knee as hard as I can and get back as soon as I can.”

Standing injured on the sidelines last season for the first time in his football career, Oghobaase painfully watched his teammates, desperately wishing to be-among them.

“I was devastated,” Oghobaase said. “I came to college early, a semester early, to get my football game started early. Unfortunately, the fifth day of spring ball, I got an injury. So, it was real devastating to me.”

He played all his high school games at AliefHastings High School in Houston, Texas, where he recorded 68 tackles and 12 sacks as a senior. For his output, Oghobaase was rated seventh nationally among defensive tackles by scout.com in 2004.

After surgery to repair his TCL and tighten his MCL, Oghobaase underwent a year ofintense physical therapy at Duke. During rehabilitation,

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“I got with the strength-condidoning coach and pounded my upper body,” Oghobaase said. “Also, all the defense taught me how to get my mind stronger and my game more focused.”

Oghobaase returned to practice in the spring of 2006, wearing a brace on his knee. Once two-a-days began, however, he scrapped the brace and embraced a seize-it-all-now attitude.

“I don’t wear my knee brace anymore,” Oghobaase said. “I just have to play without a thought of it in my mind. If I get hurt, that’s all good. I’ve got to play relendess and not be scared.”

With the added physical strength and mental awareness, Oghobaase has impressed the coaching staff in preseason practices. He no longer favors the knee and will be a versatile threat up front in his first game back against Richmond Saturday, head coach Ted Roof said.

“He’s the guy we recruited, plus some,” Roof said. “I think the dme off makes you realize how much you love the game. It changes your perspective. He used it that way to grow and mature as a football player.”

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It’s a numbers game.

In 2004, Duke played 17 true freshmen. In 2005, Duke played 14.

And over the course of those two seasons, the Blue Devils have won exactly one Division I-A game.

Though head coach Ted Roof is hopeful more veterans will step up to lead his team in his third full season at the helm, the depth chart is looking green once again.

For Duke’s opening matchup against Richmond, Roof listed seven freshmen on the two-deep depth chart on offense and five on the other side of the ball.

“I hope this is the last year we’re talking S63SOH about those types of numbers of freshmen playing,” Roof said. “I think it will be.” pffJVi€W Duke could have returned this season with a great deal of upper-class leadership, but a number of last season’s leaders opted to finish their football eligibility elsewhere. Mike Schneider, who began last season as the Blue Devils’ starting quarterback, graduated in the spring and will play his final year at Division I-AA Youngstown State.

Similarly, tight end Ben Patrick—Duke’s leading receiver in 2005—decided to leave Roofs program in favor of I-AA Delaware.

Perhaps even more troubling, however, were the losses on the offensive line. Tyler Krieg and Lavdrim Bauta, both starters from last year, left the program, with Krieg transferring to California and Bauta to Villanova.

Into their places step a group of heralded but untested young players. Among others, five-star defensive tackle recruit Vince Oghobaase will finally make his debut this fall after a redshirt season in 2005.

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Duke’s success on the gridiron this season hinges on a stable.

It’s not the famous AnheuserBusch Clydesdales that scored touchdowns and kicked field goals in so many commercials but rather a trio of thoroughbred running backs.

Juniors Jusdn Boyle and Ronnie Drummer and sophomore Re’quan Boyette comprise the Blue Devils’ best offensive threat.

Like their animal counterparts, they are strong and fast, but, more importandy, they are willing and able to put the weight of the team on their backs.

“We’re going to be carrying most of the load on offense,” Boyle said. “We got to be able to hold on to the ball and wear defenses down.”

Boyle, who coined the nickname, began saying it merely as a joke before realizing how significant a role the running backs would have in Duke’s success, he said. The Georgia native is listed as the starting halfback, but backup Boyette is also expected to have a large impact. Drummer will be featured in the unique “Devil Back” position, which will allow him to udlize his speed at running back and wide receiver.

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style, and all the styles complement each other,” Boyette said.

“That will be pretty bad on the defense. It will be very hard to adjust to three different running backs.”

Boyle is one of the strongest members on the team, ranking first in the power clean and third in the squat lift, and he resorts to a hard-nosed kind of running.

Boyette’s rare combination of speed and toughness allows him to be used in many different ways, Drummer said. Drummer himself is one of the fastest players in blue.

“His speed is his best asset,” junior center Matt Rumsey said about Drummer. “He is one of the fastest people I’ve ever seen with the ball.”

Together the corps hopes to alleviate some of the pressure on all of the young players on the offense.

With sophomore Marcus Jones starting his first game at quarterback this Saturday after switching from receiver, the trio knows that they will be counted on to make Jones’ transition easier.

“If we go in and bang it around on the inside, it will open it up for the pass and [Jones] will have clear throwing lanes,” Boyette said.

The offensive line, which head coach Ted Roof has identified as a potential weakness, has only one returning starter in Rumsey. As much as the Stable is capable of assisting Jones with his job, the three backs all know that it starts with the men up front.

“No matter how well we play as a group, our whole success will be on our offensive line,” Drummer said, “Only thing we can do is just hope that they block for us, and we’ll run for them and we’ll operate as a family.”

Although victories are what Duke looks to accomplish on the field, the idea of the team existing as a family off the field is extremely important to the three offensive leaders. The Stable has taken on the responsibility of leading the charge for the Blue Devils, both on and off the gridiron.

“As a Stable, we all invite each

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Ronnie Drummer, Clifford Harris, Justin Boyle and Re'quan Boyette (from left to right above) will split duties at tailback, with Boyle (right) as the starter of what they have come to call the "Stable." other to watch film together,” Drummer said. “We try to involve everybody. It’s not just on the field, it’s even at the dinner table.

Everybody eats with each other.

Everybody is trying to become more of a family, become closer to each other.”

These three thoroughbreds may bring Duke closer to its goals as well. Roof wants his team to run what Boyette called a “championship operation,” but he’ll need a lot of mileage and horsepower out of the Stable for that to

happen.

“We’re all ready to go out and hit someone and score some touchdowns,” Drummer said.

The stable is open, and the race is on.

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The 2005 season should have been a landmark year for Virginia Tech—the Hokies made their 13th-straight bowl appearance and won 11 games for only the third time in school history. Nevertheless, a disappointing defeat to Florida State in the ACC title game combined with quarterback Marcus Vick’s dismissal from the program put a tremendous damper on an otherwise successful season.

In 2006, the Hokies will try to build on that success, even though they begin the season with many unfamiliar faces. Only nine starters return from a team that finished 11-2 and defeated Louisville in the Gator Bowl.

“We’ve got to develop,” head coach Frank Beamer said. “We’ve got too much youth in some key positions, but yet, we’ve got some good players.”

Coming out of spring practice, the question of who would take over for Vick at quarterback was still unanswered. Beamer wasted no time, however, quickly naming sophomore Sean Glennon the starter at the start of preseason in August.

Glennon redshirted a year ago, but served as Bryan Randall’s backup in 2004. He appeared in four games that season while attempting only 11 passes. Despite his inexperience, Beamer said Glennon offers Virginia Tech the best opportunity to be consistent offensively.

While he is more of a drop-back passer, Glennon’s athleticism will certainly allow offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring to call his number in the running game.

While the Hokies must replace virtually the entire of-

Virginia Tech had no problem tearing through opponents last year, averaging 33.8 points per game while only allowing 12.9.

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But on a team that returns 15 starters from last year’s talented but inconsistent squad, the junior All-American wideout is hardly the only playmaker.

Senior quarterback Reggie Ball is back under center for his fourth season. The athletic play-caller will attempt to build upon his solid junior campaign. Last season, he ranked third in the ACC in total offense, averaging 231.5 yards per game.

Junior Tashard Choice, a transfer from Oklahoma, will replace PJ. Daniels at running back after finishing second on the team in rushing last season. In addition, senior KaMichael Hall is on the preseason watch list for the Butkus Award, given each year to the nation’s top linebacker.

In short, fifth-year head coach Chan Gailey may have his best shot at breaking the seven-win mark since arriving in Atlanta. With a defense sure to remain strong after finishing in the top 25 last year and an offense loaded with options, confidence is running high.

“I expect a lot of this team,” Johnson said. “We have a lot of experience on offense this year, so we should be more productive. Everybody knows that our defense has been very dominant, so we’re looking to make some CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO noise.” offense, to With starters on eight returning GeorgiaTech hopes to break unranked Yellow chance prove The Jackets will get a themselves to the nation in their first game of the season through into the ACC's elite ranks in Chan Gailey's fifth season. when they face No. 2 Notre Dame at home Sept. 2.

Georgia Tech must limit its inconsistencies if it intends “It’s a pretty big stage,” Hall said. “It’s a great opportunity to go out there and show what type of defense we to break over the hump this year. The Yellow Jackets’ suchave, what type of offense, special teams, and our team as cess will hinge on offensive coordinator Patrick Nix, who a whole. This is a great opportunity for this Georgia Tech assumed play-calling responsibilities from Gailey in the offseason. Nix will be able to spread out play distribution team.”

The Ramblin’ Wreck—which finished 7-5 in 2005 —was to alleviate the extra attention on Johnson.

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Auburn and third-ranked Miami on the road. But the Yel“There’s a lot of knock about Reggie, but I love him,” low Jackets also struggled at times, falling to Virginia Choice said. “He’s really confident right now and he un38-10, Utah the Emerald in Tech, 51-7, and losing, to derstands what’s at stake in his senior year.”

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Sometime during the 13 years Virginia head coach A1 Groh spent working under Bill Parcells at several NFL stops, the now-Dallas Cowboys’ coach gave Groh a piece of advice he still has not forgotten.

“Do you really care what people think?” Groh recalled Parcells asking him. “Good, then you have a chance.”

Parcells followed up on their conversation a few days later, giving Groh a locker nameplate with the phrase “Just coach the team” inscribed on it.

Parcells’ advice will ring truer than ever this year for Groh, who, in his sixth year at Virginia, will have to deal with numerous holes created by the graduation of last year’s key contributors. All the while, the school’s notoriously cranky fan base continues to grumble that despite a good deal of success—including four straight bowl games—Virginia is still not considered among the ACC’s elite teams.

“Everybody’s going to have an idea about what you should do—the players, the assistant coaches, the administration or ownership, the coaches’ wives, the fans,” Groh said. “If you start making decisions based on what everybody else thinks, you’re making decisions for the wrong reasons.”

There may be more questions this year than any since Groh’s return from the Jets to his alma mater in 2000.

Though the Cavaliers return six starters on both sides of the ball, several important departures could be difficult for the team to overcome. The core of the offense, including left tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson—drafted

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North Carolina has high hopes as it kicks off its 2006 season in Kenan Stadium Saturday against Rutgers with a double-quarterback strategy.

Starting quarterback Joe Dailey, a junior transfer from Nebraska, will share the the signal-calling post with redshirt freshman Cam Sexton.

Dailey and Sexton competed throughout training camp for the starting position —a spot left empty' after the departure of last year’s starter Matt Baker, who passed for the fourth-highest school total yardage in single-season history'

in 2005.

Although five starters on offense, six on defense and the place-kicker and punter return this year, the Tar Heels had to replace several key positions —including Baker’s post and the top two sack leaders on the defensive end.

Baker, who passed for nine touchdowns and 2,345 yards in 2005, proved the most difficult to replace. Head coach John Bunting did not pick a starting quarterback until Tuesday.

“It’s been exciting to watch [Dailey and Sexton] practice,” Bunting said. “They are like two heavyweight boxers going at it round by round. One dayjoe does a better job, and the next day Cam comes right back and performs well. We will make a decision that we feel is best for the team.”

After much deliberation, Bunting chose Dailey to start against the Scarlet Knights.

“Joe Dailey will start the game for us. He’s earned that right,” Bunting told the Raleigh News and Observer Tuesday. “Cam Sexton will play because he’s earned that right.”

The last time Carolina employed a two-quarterback approach was the 2001 season. Darian Durant and Ronald Curry rotated every two series, helping the Tar Heels win five straight games and beat Auburn in the Peach Bowl.

The Rutgers matchup marks the first of three home games in a row for the Tar Heels—the first time the team will open up with three at home since 1981, when Carolina finished 10-2 and defeatedArkansas in the Gator Bowl.

The Tar Heels are 8-4 over the last two seasons in Kenan and won four of their last five games at home last year.

Among the returning players are two seniors, linebacker Larry Edwards and tailback Ronnie McGill.

Edwards ended last season with a team-high 91 tackles, racking up 10 or more tackles in five games. He will lead UNC’s defense in 2006 as one of the top linebackers in the ACC. Despite missing four games last year, McGill clinched

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condition of his life, he has high expectations for the season.

“If I rtish for 1,200 yards, we’re going to Arizona for the national championship,” Booker said.

Although the offense returns several key players, the Seminoles have lost depth and experience on the defensive side to the NFL draft with four first-round selections.

Returning only four starters, FSU will look to several talented young players, including Myron Rolle, one last year’s top overall high school recruits..

The inexperienced Seminoles do have a favorable schedule on their side. After the Miami opener, Florida State faces most ofits toughest opponents at home in Tallahassee, including matchups with No. 18 Clemson, Boston College and No. 7 Florida.

With this schedule, the Miami game could make or break FSU’s season. The potential of the Seminoles this year may rest in their ability to overcome the mental hur-7 dies of their past problematic play.

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On defense, the Cavaliers must deal with replacing the dynamic linebacker duo ofKai Parham and Ahmad Brooks.

All told, the 11 starters lost from last season had combined to start 385 games during their time at Virginia.

“It’s been challenging for sure,” Groh said of his team’s relative youth. “Given the large number of them all doing it at the same time, for each one it’s had its rough moments.”

Still, not all is lost in Charlottesville, Va Wipeouts Deyon Williams and Fontel Mines, who combined for 1,112 receiving yards and nine touchdowns in 2005, lead a talented group of skill-position athletes for the Cavaliers.

On defense, cornerback Marcus Hamilton, who led the ACC with six 2005 interceptions, returns to lead the young corps. In addition, three-year starter Tony Franklin, whom Groh had suspended during spring practice, rejoins the squad to help make up a formidable secondary for the Cavaliers.

But until the questions at linebacker, quarterback, tailback and offensive line are answered, Groh will continue to feel the heat.

“There’s been some challenging moments, but... that’s the way it was for their predecessors too,” Groh said. “It was that way for D’Brickashaw, it was that way for Wali.

“That’s just the challenge of it and even though it might be a demanding type of fun, that’s the fun of it for us trying to put it together.”

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fensive and defensive lines, the team returns key players with experience at both wide receiver and linebacker.

The top five receivers from last season are all returning, including senior David Clowney, who led the team with 34 receptions for 619 yards. Juniors Josh Morgan and Eddie Royal, who combined for six touchdowns in 2005, are also part of the returning group.

“We have a very talented group, and they all work hard,” wide receiver coach Kevin Sherman said. “They’ve been in the big games, and they know what to expect so we have high expectations for them.”

Juniors XavierAdibi and Vince Hall are both back at linebacker, and combine to form arguably the best duo in the ACC. With Aaron Rouse returning at rover, the back seven will be the strong point of the Hokie defense.

Defense and special teams keep Virginia Tech in contention for the conference title—and often the national title year after year.

Beamerball has become a household name in the college football world, and the ACC has fully been introduced to the Hokie style of play after Virginia Tech’s first two seasons in the conference.

Reamer’s philosophy is no secret: play hard-nosed defense, and keep the miscues to a minimum.

This season, especially with an inexperienced quarterback, the Hokies can ill afford to make mistakes if they wish to return to the ACC title game.

“We are going to have to take care of the football, and we have to score when we get an opportunity,” Reamer said. “That’s the kind of football team we are.”

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“He’s gotten better,” Roof said of Jones, who played primarily at wideout in 2005 and who became the presumptive starter only when Zack Asack was suspended for plagiarism in July.

Throughout the preseason, Roof has tried to take the pressure off Jones.

“He’s come a long way,” Roof said.

“When a guy goes out there as a first time QB, so many times diey think, ‘Oh my gosh I have to put this team on my back and singlehandedly go win the football game.’ That’s not the case. What he has to do is play within the framework of the offense, make good decisions, take care of the football and run the operation.”

The question remains, however, whether Jones will have enough support from his teammates, who, in some case are as inexperienced as he. When Jones lines up under center Saturday evening, the offensive line in front of him will only have 12 career starts among the five members, 11 of which are credited to Rumsey.

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Blue Devils plan to start sophomore Fred Roland at right tackle, and junior Zach Maurides and sophomore Rob Schirmann at the guard positions. The three linemen last season combined for 299 snaps and zero starts.

Nonetheless, Rumsey doesn’t see the inexperience as a huge obstacle.

“Coming from spring and into the fall and through camp, we’ve come a really long way,” Rumsey said. “We’ve got young

line. The Spiders’ defensive depth chart also includes seven seniors on defense, one more than Duke has on both sides of the ball combined.

The theme isn’t limited to just Richmond by any means. Throughout Duke’s conference slate, Roofs squad will face off against teams that may not only be athletically superior but also older and more ex-

perienced.

While Roof continues to build his program from the ground up, young players will likely continue to play until the team begins to win. And with the vast majority of players recruited by the previous regime finally gone from the program, Roof is hoping more players will stick with the program through their eligibility, giving the Blue Devils a greater chance of competing in perhaps the nation’s deepest football conference.

“I don’t care who you are, the first time you run out for a college football game, it’s a learning experience and there’s some growing pains involved with that,” Roof said. “This is what we’ve been building f0r.... We need to have fun and enjoy the

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guys, but everyone’s played in games before—everyone knows the speed and the tempo and what they need to do on the field.”

Despite his humble nature, other members of the offensive line have come to rely upon Rumsey’s leadership—which will be crucial to the Blue Devils’ success this season

“Matt’s been great,” Goldberg said. “He meets with the guys when they need him and he’s always doing extra work. All these young guys are really taking in a lot from him.”

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