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The placement of selective living groups may be slightly different when students return to campus next fall. Residence Life and Housing Services recently decided to
place one faculty-in-residence
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BLACKSBURG, Va. The optimism Duke left Winston-Salem with after last week’s close loss to Wake Forest
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On the game’s first play from scrimmage, Virginia Tech completed a 60yard pass down to Duke’s five-yard line. Four plays later, Hokie tailback Branden Ore punched the ball in for Virginia Tech’s first touchdown of the day. The 14th-ranked Hokies (3-0, 2-0 in the ACC) never looked back, physically outmatching Duke (0-3, 0-2) on their way to a 36-0 victory. “You never want to start a game like that,” Duke head coach Ted Roof said. “It wasn’t like we hung our heads or anything like that.But their guys made SEE VA. TECH ON SW PAGE 4
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Thousands of graduate and professional students pulled up their RVs and set up tents this weekend for a chance to secure a spot in Cameron Indoor Stadium for the upcoming men’s basketball season. The event, which is held every year by the Graduate and Professional Student Council, brought 2,159 hopefuls to the Blue Zone parking lot—7oo of whom walked away with season tickets. In a format similar to, but independent from, undergraduate tenting in Krzyzewskiville, students who camped out all weekend and were present for random checks were entered into a lottery to win a chance to buy a $l5O season ticket. The event has taken place for
at least 10 years, said Bill LeFew,
GPSC co-chair of the Basketball Committee and a graduate student in mathematics. Under the system, those students who have camped out in SEE CAMPOUT ON PAGE 6
Graduatestudentsused severalmethods to pass the 36 hours of camping out.