September 4, 2006

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The Loop Campus eatery gains healthconscious following, PAGE 4

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Men's soccer takes home Duke Classic title, SPORTSWRAP 3

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Tailgate goes off without hitch Duke still No E.R. visits or step below top schools

on-campus ALE citations reported WOJCIECHOWSKA

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Students were cooperative and well-behaved during prefootball-game events Saturday, said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. He added that no students were sent to the hospital, and no one received citations, to the best of his knowledge.

several Ivies by

Neal SenGupta THE CHRONICLE

Duke has long prided itself on having both a top-notch social

life and elite academics that rival its Ivy League counterparts. Historically considered the best U.S. academic institutions, the eight Ivy League schools, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also represent Duke’s closest undergraduate competition. But are Duke’s undergraduates as good as Harvard students and the rest of the Ivy Leagueers? Yes and no, according to academic indicators .such as SAT scores, popular college rankings,

numbers of National Merit Scholars and graduate placement. According to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Chronicle research, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale effectively comprise the “best of the best” in U.S. academics, and Duke lags behind in almost every category. Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, said data indicates that for the classes of 2008 and 2009, about 85 percent of students accepted to Duke and one of the five institutions that fall in the first group of competing schools—a group for SEE RANKING ON PAGE 8

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Even though the party in the Blue Zone started slowly, students eventually returned to theirold tailgate stomping grounds Saturday.

Students attempt by

Sarah Ball

THE CHRONICLE

A band of tailgate loyalists migrated to the Blue Zone Saturafter-

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quits on a four-year love affair with daytime drinking. “So you think tailgate’s dead, huh?” one shirtless senior shouted to no one in particular,

to

revive old tailgate tradition

notching a hole in the side of a color-block wind suits and decan ofBusch Light. “Ha!” signer sunglasses the size of the buzzards have small televisions. Though been circling the pre-football It was all very Braveheartgame traditionfor months, things meets-Animal House —intrepid revelers, daring to defend their were much the same Saturday. There was the music—classic cause. These were the proud; rock blaring from the stereo of these were the few. The very few. a beat-up white Chrysler convertible. There was the booze Though the comers of the Rubbermaid trash cans packed first two student parking lots with ice and cheap beer. And were packed body-to-body as in there were the crazy get-ups SEE REACTION ON PAGE 5 foam swimming-pool Noodles,

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Students say ALE present off East Thursday through Saturday nights Saturday marked the first home football game without “tailgate”—a previously University-sanctioned event that became notorious for its debauchery and numerous student

hospitalizations. This year the administration did not demarcate a specific student lot and did not provide monitors or food and water carts as in years past, in hopes of decentralizing the event and encouraging students to tailgate in small groups. Though Moneta said he was

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l-AA foe embarrasses Blue Devils by

Sean Moroney THE CHRONICLE

Duke kicked off its 2006 campaign in ominous fashion, losing to Division I-AA Richmond, 13-0, in Wallace Wade Stadium

Saturday.

The Blue Devils’ loss to the

Spiders was their first ever in nine tries against a Division I-AA opponent. It was also the team’s 12th loss in its last 13 games,

with the only victory coming over I-AA Virginia Military Institute last season. Duke’s offense was unable to mount any successful drives in the shutout loss. Whenever the Blue Devils (0-1) threatened to

score, Richmond (1-0) either capitalized on Duke’s mistakes or stuffed the Blue Devils short of the goal line. “We knew what they were,” head coach Ted Roof said of Richmond. “All you have to do is turn on the tape, and it’s very obvious they are a good football team. They played about like what we though they would. They played well. We just didn’t play like we needed to win.” Duke’s trouble began on the second play of the game—a play that served as a foreboding sign of things to come for the Blue SEE RICHMOND ON SW PAGE

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Duke's offense struggled to put together a consistent drive against Richmond Saturday, finishing the game without a point against the Spiders.

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